7th Armada Ghost Book

Another book cover I am not overly fond of, especially for a book anthology of ghost stories:

Despite it's rather lacklustre cover, the anthology boasts a few interesting titles...

...and the tome received a more powerfully visual cover for its 1983 reincarnation! 

It's in the trees!

I give myself a kick up the bum this morning and finally headed out to the trees I have been meaning to photgraph all months. Whilst I was diappointment that the woods had received a bit of a clear with a few of the trees having been chopped into logs, there were still a couple of the trees I was looking forward to finally photograph them.

These tree outgrew their iron girdles (designed, I think, to stop farm animals eating them as saplings)  many years ago. 

My aim achieved, Me and Mrs E settled ourselves in the snug of the nearby Gower Inn pint for a cheeky pint.

With the early afternoon weather being unusually clement, we worked off our pint by taking a walk through the woods behind the pub car park.

This is the site of Trinity Wells, the first Baptist Church in Wales:

The Killy-Willy stream leads to another great Gower Hamlet, Ilston and past a fantastic ancient Yew in a medieval graveyard. But not for us today.

The Killy Willy Stream

Shelf Work

Today was a quiet day. My biggestcachievent was starting to tidy my bookshelves:

My Seth's Crimbo Ghost Stories

I finally disassembed by Lego M.R. James too:

Return of the Werewolf by Guy N Smith

The latest Guy N. Smith reissue was just pushed through my letterbox this evening.

For reasons I am not going to go in to, just yet, I am especially looking forward to the next book in this series being republished 🙂

6th Armada Ghost Book

The 6th Armada Ghost Book has my least favourite cover in the anthology series. It looks more like a juvenile adventure/mystery book to my weary eyes rather than suggesting the ghostly terrors awaiting readers within its pages. Again, the artist doesn't receive a credit in the book.

The book was released in 1975, for the price of 25p, making the cost of each tale within the book just a little of 2p a story, which has to be a bargain.

Along with disappointing cover art the story illustrations in the book hardly pump up the fear factor either:

All in all, this was a rather quiet entry in the series. That said, it sold well enough for Armada to start immediate work on a successor...

The later updated artwork for the book's re-release addressed the lack of scares in the original art with this:

Just look at the state of that cat!

GNS2 Back On

With a sudden flurry of interest these past few days, the send issue of the the Guy N Smith zine is very much back on the cards. So much so that I have had to up my game to today to get stuck back into my Guy N Smith ghost story: 

When I finally got home, these two beauties had been pushed through my letterbox: