Sunday, 30 December 2018
Can it last?
Well, until some time in January, 2019. The reasons are simple.
Firstly, if people are not going to buy when prices have been cut this drastically then they are never going to buy.
Secondly, the prices have been cut to the absolute minimum and where you do not see price reductions then those books are already at that point. The printer and POD company have to have their cut and when you consider that I then have to pay taxes on sales I am quite honestly giving the books away. See it as a promotion if you will but the price cuts cannot last and you will not find these books on Amazon or Ebay or any other book service -if you do then you will be paying up to 3 times the actual cover price.
With all of the books -prose, comic albums or graphic novels- I have strived for the best quality in content, production and printing as well as making them as economical as possible. That's about all I can do and there are enough genres and styles to please real comic fans.
Saturday, 29 December 2018
Preview of Books IS Available
Please remember that the online store allows you to Preview a book the same as Amazon does.
The Purple Hood Collection
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It was the Swinging Sixties! Britain was hip as hip could be -The Beatles ruled Pop! And everyone was looking toward a bright future…if there wasn’t a nuclear war! Middle Eastern threats,Eastern European fascists,flying saucer flying megalomaniacs and super mole machines and others threatened our little island.
But we had the ultimate answer to these:The Purple Hood -International crime-smasher! Michael Jay’s Purple Hood now collected into over a hundred pages of action and text back-up. This is THE ultimate collection!
The Adventures Of Mark Tyme Collection
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Only two issues were published of The Adventures of Mark Tyme. As with the companion title,The Purple Hood,the artist was Michael Jay who has since faded into obscurity. Join Mark Tyme on his time travelling adventures to Roman Britain,the Stone Age,a pirate island,9th century Britain,outer space and other destinations.
The Collected Ben R. Dilworth
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Collecting together the best selling illustrated prose of Ben Dilworth.
In Osaka Brutal, the Haiku Gold Belt holder presents his own personal Haiku.
In Aesop's Fables the childhood favourites become rather darker and threatening.
In Western and Japanese Yokai, Dilworth looks at a mixture of strange, sinister and deadly demons and spirits each story illustrated.
Looking for an Established and Paying Publisher -Red Paper 1: Foxes, Wolves, Coyotes & Jackals in the UK
202 Pages
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The Red Paper: Canids Up-dated edition includes section on sarcoptic mange
in foxes and treatment plus a list of wildlife sanctuaries and rescue centres
in the UK .
By the 1700s the British fox was on the verge of extinction
and about to follow the bear and wolf having been hunted for sport for
centuries. The answer was to import thousands of foxes per year for sport. But
foxes kept dying out so jackals were tried. Some were caught, some escaped.
Even wolves and coyote were released for hunting.
The summation of over 30 years research reveals the damnable
lie of "pest control" hunting but also reveals the cruelty the
animals were subject to and how private menageries as well as travelling shows
helped provide the British and Irish countryside with some incredible events.
Looking for an Established and Paying Publisher :UFO Contact? Unidentified-Identified and Contact!
530 pages
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Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are
evidence of aliens visiting the Earth.
Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings
were talked about but not taken seriously.
In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a
"slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon
and claims made by researchers such as Budd Hopkins, Prof. John Mack and Dr
David Jacobs and Whitley Streiber.
But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what
about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted?
Are these people all hoaxers, psychotic or suffering from
some other mental illness as some claim?
Are those people who were exposed by Ufologists against
their wishes, people who wanted to report what happened and then just get back
to their everyday lives -thrust into the media glare against their will?
And if US authorities were so interested that in one case at
least they broke into the home of two abductees and this was later proven -why?
Why did a hard core of these people never want publicity or
to make money from what happened to them?
Above all, why did a major UFO landing incident take place
on a US Inbterstate road in front of a large number of observers (all willing
to talk to investigators) never get investigated? If it were not for a radio
presenter interviewing and taking notes we would know nothing of the case -it
would be labelled "insubstantial".
James and Coral Lorensen -the Scopolamine Kids; using a very
notorious "truth drug" on alleged UFO witnesses and selling stories
to newspapers. An investigator (a
veteran) showing a witness images of "aliens" encountered in other
cases before any memories were retrieved.
Worst of all, the constant "pissing competition" and breaches
of trust between UFO investigators.
2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the
faults within Ufology.
Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.
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Second Book in the series
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The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO
Contact?"
The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the
investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and
alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the
latter, apparently, involving none.
Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are
looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post
Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters.
A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs
Some of the contents:
The Nottinghamshire
UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988
The Llandrillo
‘Saucer’ and Berwyn
Mountains
Strange Pennsylvania Entity
Encounter
UFO Abductees and
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
The UFO That Landed
On A US Highway
My Encounters With
The Men In Black
A Previously Un-noted
Alien Entity Type
Early 20th Century UK Close
Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounter with
a Boggart
Some Odd and Unusual
Cases
Rosa Lotti and the
Happy Entities
The Strange Case of
the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians
What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?
The ‘Lost’ Belgian
UFO Landing Case
Strange Aliens from
Outer Space?
Encounter with Black
Aliens and Landed UFO
Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien
Entity Catalogue
Third Book in the Series
These cover everything from UFOs and Close Encounters of the Third Kind to encounters with unidentified humanoid creatures, ghosts, poltergeists, mysterious and unidentified creatures at sea, on land as well as bizarre carcasses washed ashore. Loch Ness, Sasquatch, previously thought lost photographs of a city in the sky and others.
And if you want to concentrate solely on alleged alien abductions or encounters then UFO Contact? (receiving some praise from the Centre for UFO Studies) and the follow up, Unidentified-Identified are the books you need
Contact! Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities?
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Contact! Encounters With Extra Terrestrial Entities?
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The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.
The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.
Once the mass of reports of
Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.
Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.
Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?
Looking for an Established and Paying Publisher: Mysterious & Strange Beasts/Strange & Mysterious Beasts
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IGNORE the "only ships from North
America " as that is just a site message error
The Monster of the Forest of Mouliere
The Beast of Lyonnais
The Beast of Cevennes ,
Gard and Vivarais
The Beast of Sarlat
The Beast of Gevaudan
British Man Beasts
Bigfoot and Werewolves in the West
Midlands
The Strange Creature in Repton Woods
Bigfoot Returns – To Kent !
Werewolf!
The Curious and Frightening Case of the Hull Werewolf
The Gnome of Girona
The Caponi Close Encounters and Photographs
Return of the Shark Killing Thing –a Possible
Identification
The Dingellchough Mystery Creature
The Unidentified Corfu
Sea
Strange Sea Creature Found In Persian
Gulf
The Devil of Gatagon
The Supernatural Invasion: Slender-man and Black Eyed Kids
The Sheep Killer of Niali
Mystery Creature of the Bay of Flamanville
Things Caught on Camera –Fact and Fiction
The Bat Creatures
The Owl-man
The British Pig-man and Snake-man
The Pictish Beast
Shunka Warak'in –A Hyena Too Far?
The Chupacabra
Looking for an Established and Paying Publisher: Some More Things Strange & Sinister
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Follow-up to Some Things Strange & Sinister. For those interested in Ufology,
cryptozoology, hominology, unusual natural history, ghosts and mysteries in
general.
The secret history of gorillas -before they were officially
'discovered' along with exclusive lost photographs. Wild men of Europe, the UK and US; from
the bizarre to blood chilling. Hominology.
Giant snakes. Amazons.
The Giant serpent of Carthage .
Girt Dog of Ennerdale. The Beast of
Gevaudan. Crocodiles in the UK .
Silent City
of Alaska .
And much more.
Updated with extra pages and photographs.
Looking for an Established and Paying Publisher: Some Things Strange & Sinister
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After more than 30+ years as an investigator and more than
forty as a naturalist,the author has opened some of the many files he has
accumulated dealing with such things as..
The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn,The Ghosts Of All
Saints Church,Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island,captured bigfoot like
creatures in India
-all exclusively presented for the first time and with newadded research
previously unseen. PLUS a vastly expanded section on Spring-heeled Jack!
Photographs,maps,line drawings and up-dated to make 358
pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister. Cryptozoologist,Ghost
Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean: this book has something for everyone -including
the just plain inquisitive!
Looking for an Established and Paying Publisher: Pursuing The Strange & Weird A Naturalist's Viewpoint
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UP DATE -From Dead Aquatic (Humanoid) Creatures, the giant
squid and yet undiscovered sea creatures; submarine and ships crews
encountering true leviathans. This is a fully expanded section which also
refers to the so-called ‘Ningen’ sightings and video footage.
Extinct animals at sea that have been re-discovered.
The subject of Sasquatch and other mystery Hominids around
the world is dealt with including a look at the “Sasquatch-killer”, Justin
Smeja. Dr. Bryan Sykes and his DNA test results for TVs The Bigfoot Files as
well as the controversial Erickson Project and Dr. Melba Ketchum’s even more
controversial Sasquatch DNA test results.
Also included are two early French UFO entity cases that
still baffle.
Ghosts, strange creatures and the Star-Child hoax. All dealt
with by the naturalist and pursuer of the strange and weird
The Girt Dog Of Ennerdale
The Girt Dog Of Ennerdale
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Over 200 years ago, in 1810, sheep were being killed in the
Ennerdale area of Cumbria . The sheep were allegedly hardly eaten yet
their blood had been drained and the killer responsible thwarted the efforts of
organised hunts and terrified hounds.
What was the “Girt Dog” of Ennerdale? Many theories abound from a paranormal
creature called a “Mauler” to an escaped hyena , Tiger or even a Thylacine.
Perhaps an unknown species of native British big cat?
The truth of what the “Girt Dog” was lies within the
original accounts of the time. Documents
that modern writers appear to have never consulted.
The Bizarre Legend, Crimes & Truth About Spring Heeled Jack
Terry Hooper-Scharf
The terror and mystery created by “Jack The Ripper” has been the subject of countless books, magazine articles as well as movies and TV documentaries. Ask anyone if they have ever heard of Jack The Ripper and it is doubtful anyone would respond with a “no idea.”
By that same token, ask people who “Spring-heeled Jack” was and you would be lucky to find anyone who had ever heard of him.
Spring-heeled Jack was the subject (loosely) of a film The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) and Dominic Keating also appeared as Spring Heeled Jack in the 2010 film Sherlock Holmes by The Asylum film company. The character has also featured in both American and British comic books and a number of books, for both children and adults.
But the fact that the Springald held the country –not just London– in a grip of terror much longer that the Ripper did is all but forgotten except for some half-truths and fanciful theories.
Now be prepared to read the full story of Spring Heeled Jack
Terry Hooper-Scharf
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The terror and mystery created by “Jack The Ripper” has been the subject of countless books, magazine articles as well as movies and TV documentaries. Ask anyone if they have ever heard of Jack The Ripper and it is doubtful anyone would respond with a “no idea.”
By that same token, ask people who “Spring-heeled Jack” was and you would be lucky to find anyone who had ever heard of him.
Spring-heeled Jack was the subject (loosely) of a film The Curse of the Wraydons (1946) and Dominic Keating also appeared as Spring Heeled Jack in the 2010 film Sherlock Holmes by The Asylum film company. The character has also featured in both American and British comic books and a number of books, for both children and adults.
But the fact that the Springald held the country –not just London– in a grip of terror much longer that the Ripper did is all but forgotten except for some half-truths and fanciful theories.
Now be prepared to read the full story of Spring Heeled Jack
Looking for an Established and Paying Publisher: The Hooper Interviews!
A must-have for anyone interested in comic history?
From a huge selection of interviews covering the Small
Press, Independent and mainstream Comics from the UK ,
Europe and US. Here are a few of the best
interviews from 30 years.
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Someone referred to
it as “Comics 101” –background info on creators, how they got started, what
tools and even paper/board they use.
Damn near damaged my wrist because it is a BIG book. And Who exactly is
interviewed in this book?
Karen Rubins -The Dark,
The Witch and other books
Alan Class -the
man behind the Class Comics series
Kate Glasheen -the incredibly talented artist on Hybrid
Bastards, Bandages and other works
Tom Pinchuck -writer of Hybrid Bastards
Dave Ryan -the
artist/writer behind War of The Independents
Jon Haward -UK artist who
worked of Tales of the Buddha, Dan Dare and more
Ron Fortier -the
man behind Mr Jig-Saw and Airstrip 27 books
Michael Cho -creator
of Max Finder Mysteries and some really cool art
Then there are a bunch of interviews related to The Black
Coat that was published by Ape Entertainment -Francavilla may be a name
familiar to DC and Marvel comic fans these days:
Jeremy Colwell
Ben Lichius
Adam Cadogan
Franco Frankavilla
The comic character Gumby also returned to comics and that
created another series of interviews titled: The Gumby Interviews (Gumby,
himself, was never interviewed)
Mel Smith
Paul H. Birch
Rick Geary
Joe Martino -from Ripperman to Shadow Flame
Yishan Li
-Seriously, do I have to explain who Yishan Li is? DCs Blue Beetle, the
Buffy comic and much more!
Pekka Manninen -As far as I am concerned, Finland 's top
comic creator and I'm not saying that because I am the UKs top Kapteeni Kuolio
(Captain Gangrene) fan!
Lauren Watton -Pink Apple Jam and Sweatdrop Studios
Willie Hewes
-Amaranth and Itch! Publishing
Emma Vieceli -come
on. Star of stage and musicals not to mention one of the UKs top Manga artists
-Manga Shakespeare, Dragon Heir and more.
Sonia Leong
-another noted UK Manga artist whose credits include Romeo and Juliet
for Manga Shakespeare.
Nick Defina -the man behind Septagon Studios and Scorn
Donna Barr -The
Desert Peach and so much more that you can check up on at her Midnight Library
blog. She's a comic book Goddess.
Roberta Gregory -The other comic book Goddess and pioneering
female creator.
Roberta created Bitchy Bitch and many other characters.
Jeff Brooks -the man
behind the UK
editions of Classics Illustrated
Matt (D'Israeli) Brooker -from zines to "proper
comics" including Deadline in the 1980s
Tania Del Rio
-Sabrina the teenage Witch and more for Archie Comics
Holly Golightly -Broadsword Comics, Archie, Schoolbites and
much more
Vanessa Wells -superb creator of a comic I loved titled
Shrouded and much more these days -http://www.vanessa.withbits.com
Marv Wolfman -Yes. The Marv Wolfman.
Morag Lewis -another UK Manga artist who worked with
Sweatdrop Studios
The Etherington Brothers -if you've ever been to a good UK event you
will have seen the duo behind Malcolm Magic, The 8th Moon Sketchbook, Moon and more.
Nicole Damon -CBOs favourite fantasy art model. Nicole has
worked with Ben Uriegas, Loprenzo Sperlonga, Greg Hildebrandt and others.
Olivier Cadic -the man who brought Franco-Belgian comics to
the English language readers via Cinebook The 9th Art! Everything you need to know.
Mike Western -"The Guv'nor" of British comics with
strips such as The Wild Wonders, The Leopard From Lime Street and so many more
to his name they would need a book to list.
John Cooper -Again, a creator who worked on many UK comic
strips from Judge Dredd, One-Eyed Jack, Johnny Red and many others.