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I'm quite ashamed to admit it, but I have never read a single Pan Book Of Horror. I have certainly heard of them, and have occasionally seen a rather dog eared and stained volume adorning the shelf of a second hand bookshop, but have never actually given one a chance. Johnny Mains enthusiasm, however, may have just swayed me. His passion for the series is both endearing and infectious, and he manages to cram a great deal of information into such a slim book. And what a handsome book it is too.I
First off, this is a beautiful looking book. The cover features a painting of Van Thal, the original of which can be seen hanging on the back cover, behind author Johnny Mains on the wall of his study. Inside, the frontispiece contains another image of Van Thal, above the signatures of author and artist (Les Edwards, incidentally), and a note of which number of the limited run of 100 copies you currently hold (mine is 11). Even the paper the publishers have used feels richer than the norm, and -...
A slim, beautifully designed and produced hardcover, this is the biography of Herbert ‘Bertie’ van Thal, who - amongst many other things - created and steered the Pan Book Of Horror series from its inception in 1959 through to his death in 1983 (the series ended in 1989, with the thirtieth edition). Johnny Mains has taken it upon himself to keep the Pan series - and its leading lights - in the public eye (he recently won the British Fantasy Society Award for ‘Back From The Dead: The Legacy Of Th...
The book itself is a very nicely done slim hardback and looks good on any bookshelf. The content is interesting but I felt a little overwritten and at times confusing, with a stream of full names and their shortened versions thrown at you with frightening rapidity. That aside this is a book that anyone who grew up reading the Pan Book of Horror series, as I did, should own as a memory of those anthologies.
