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More psychedelia of a sort. Anthologist Michel Parry, who died last year, was a familiar name to British readers of fantasy, horror and science fiction for his themed collections: Beware of the Cat<\/em> (1972; horror stories about cats), The Devil’s Children<\/em> (1974; horror stories about children), The Hounds of Hell<\/em> (1974; horror stories about dogs), Jack the Knife<\/em> (1975; Jack the Ripper stories), The Supernatural Solution<\/em> (1976; occult investigators), Sex in the 21st Century<\/em> (1979), and so on.<\/p>\n Parry also compiled multi-volume anthologies throughout the 1970s, two of which have always stood out for me: the Mayflower Books of Black Magic Stories<\/em> ran to six volumes presenting a wide range of occult fiction that included a number of obscure tales from Victorian and Edwardian writers; for Panther Books he compiled three collections of drug-related fantasy and SF stories that are just as varied, and may even be unique for the way they place authors as such as Lord Dunsany and Norman Spinrad together in the same volume. Both series are very much of their time\u2014occult psychedelia!\u2014and are worth seeking out, if you can find them. I emphasise the last point because it’s taken me a while to find a copy of Strange Ecstasies<\/em> that wasn’t being offered for bizarrely inflated prices; my paperback habit has its limits… None of these anthologies have been reprinted so they’ll become increasingly scarce. For more invented drugs, there’s a good list at Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cover art by Bob Haberfield.<\/em><\/p>\n Strange Ecstasies<\/strong> (1973) Cover art by Bob Haberfield.<\/em><\/p>\n Dream Trips<\/strong> (1974) Cover art by Brian Froud.<\/em><\/p>\n Spaced Out<\/strong> (1977) Previously on { feuilleton } More psychedelia of a sort. Anthologist Michel Parry, who died last year, was a familiar name to British readers of fantasy, horror and science fiction for his themed collections: Beware of the Cat (1972; horror stories about cats), The Devil’s Children (1974; horror stories about children), The Hounds of Hell (1974; horror stories about dogs), … Continue reading “More trip texts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,851,21,22,16,17,20],"tags":[197,2238,7336,1279,5009,5770,5418,264,5948,1810,65,7334,3465,7335,1979],"class_list":["post-16817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-drugs","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-occult","category-psychedelia","category-science-fiction","tag-arthur-machen","tag-bob-haberfield","tag-brian-froud","tag-clark-ashton-smith","tag-david-gerrold","tag-frank-belknap-long","tag-fritz-leiber","tag-hg-wells","tag-jack-the-ripper","tag-lord-dunsany","tag-michael-moorcock","tag-michel-parry","tag-norman-spinrad","tag-robert-sheckley","tag-ursula-k-le-guin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4nf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"parry2.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/parry2.jpg\")
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\nThe Plutonian Drug<\/em> (1934) by Clark Ashton Smith
\nThe Dream Pills<\/em> (1920) by FH Davis
\nThe White Powder<\/em> (1895) by Arthur Machen
\nThe New Accelerator<\/em> (1901) by HG Wells
\nThe Big Fix<\/em> (1956) by Richard Wilson
\nThe Secret Songs<\/em> (1962) by Fritz Leiber
\nThe Hounds of Tindalos<\/em> (1929) by Frank Belknap Long
\nSubjectivity<\/em> (1964) by Norman Spinrad
\nWhat to Do Until the Analyst Comes<\/em> (1956) by Frederik Pohl
\nPipe Dream<\/em> (1972) by Chris Miller<\/p>\n![\"parry3.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/parry3.jpg\")
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\nThe Hashish Man<\/em> (1910) by Lord Dunsany
\nAs Dreams Are Made On<\/em> (1973) by Joseph F. Pumilia
\nThe Adventure of the Pipe<\/em> (1898) by Richard Marsh
\nDream-Dust from Mars<\/em> (1938) by Manly Wade Wellman
\nThe Life Serum<\/em> (1926) by Paul S. Powers
\nMorning After<\/em> (1957) by Robert Sheckley
\nUnder the Knife<\/em> (1896) by HG Wells
\nThe Good Trip<\/em> (1970) by Ursula K. Le Guin
\nNo Direction Home<\/em> (1971) by Norman Spinrad
\nThe Phantom Drug<\/em> (1926) by AW Kapfer<\/p>\n![\"parry4.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/parry4.jpg\")
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\nThe Deep Fix<\/em> (1964) by Michael Moorcock
\nAll the Weed in the World<\/em> (1961) by Fritz Leiber
\nThe Roger Bacon Formula<\/em> (1929) by Fletcher Pratt
\nSmoke of the Snake<\/em> (1934) by Carl Jacobi
\nMelodramine<\/em> (1965) by Henry Slesar
\nMy Head’s in a Different Place, Now<\/em> (1972) by Grania Davis
\nSky<\/em> (1971) by RA Lafferty
\nAll of Them Were Empty\u2014<\/em> (1972) by David Gerrold<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Trip texts<\/a>
\n\u2022 Acid albums<\/a>
\n\u2022 Acid covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Lyrical Substance Deliberated<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Art of Tripping, a documentary by Storm Thorgerson<\/a>
\n\u2022 Enter the Void<\/a>
\n\u2022 In the Land of Retinal Delights<\/a>
\n\u2022 Haschisch Hallucinations by HE Gowers<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of LSD<\/a>
\n\u2022 Hep cats<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"