Alice Cooper, The Stranglers, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Stormclouds, Hawkwind, Iggy Pop, Thin Lizzy, Peter Frampton, Yello, Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Portishead, Steve Miller Band, Curved Air, Mott the Hoople, Sparks, T. Rex, Early Human League (Before Dare!), Kissing the Pink, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, New York Dolls, Gentle Giant, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Golden Earring, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Steve Hackett, etc
Movies
Dark City, The Last Man on Earth (Vincent Price), Dark Star, All the Godzilla movies, Phantasm, Quatermass 2, Battle of the Worlds, Fire in the Sky, Alien, The Man Who Fell to Earth, In the Year 2889, Night Skies, The Thing from Another Planet!, Attack of the Mushroom People, Night of the Living Dead (Romero), Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police, All the Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Blade Runner, Creepshow, The Day the Earth Stood Still (Original), Ghosts of Mars, The Werewolf of Washington, The Lost World (Original), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Fog Island, The Undying Monster, Quatermass and the Pit, and many more!
Television
The Prisoner, UFO (Gerry Anderson), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Lost in Space (Original Series), The Avengers, The Champions, David Nixon's Magic Box, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone, Kung Fu (David Carradine), Dad's Army, Pipkins, The Fenn Street Gang, Tales of the Riverbank, The Herbs, Mary Mungo and Midge, Love Thy Neighbour, The Mike Yarwood Show, Mike and Bernie Winters, Here Come the Double Deckers, The Clangers, Roobarb and Custard, Hickory House, Mr Benn, Bagpuss, Noggin the Nog, Banana Splits, Take Hart, Crystal Tipps and Alistair, The Persuaders! Sykes! Fingerbobs, Hong Kong Phooey, John Craven's Newsround, The Wombles, Willow the Wisp, The Tomorrow People, The Changes, Dastardly and Muttley, Catweazle, Captain Pugwash, Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, The Pink Panther Show, Catweazle, Paddington, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, Wacky Races, The Two Ronnies, Trumpton, Camberwick Green, Rentaghost, Michael Bentine's Potty Time, Morecambe and Wise, Survivors, Laurel and Hardy, Willow the Wisp, Callan, Kojak, Cannon, Columbo, Startsky and Hutch, Match of the Day, Z Cars, Hogan's Heroes, Rupert the Bear, The Adventures of Tin Tin, The Incredible Hulk, The Six Million Dollar Man, Stop that Pigeon! Tarzan, Daktari, Bless this House, Hector's House, Please Sir!, The Tommy Cooper Show, The Adventures of Tin Tin, Top Cat, The Munsters, The Dick Emery Show, Tarzan, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Paddington Bear, Danger Mouse, Charlie Says (advert), The Invaders, Issi Noho, James the Cat, Handful of Songs, Puddle Lane, Pardon My Genie, Ace of Wands, Chigley, The Woodentops, Little Blue, Help!It's the Hair Bear Bunch!, Scooby Doo, The Flintsones, Sez Les, One Step Beyond, Radar Men from the Moon, etc
Books
The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, The Purple Cloud by M.P. Shiel, The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson, The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay, Night Boat by Robert R. McCammon, The Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson, Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Lilith by George MacDonald, The Other Side of the Mountain by Michel Bernanos, The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Cold Skin by Alex Sanchez Pinol, The Vort Programme by John Rankine. All the above are novels -- I have too many favourite short stories and short story collections to list here.
Heroes
H.P. Lovecraft
Algernon Blackwood
M.P. Shiel
Robert W. Chambers
William Hope Hodgson
E.F. Benson
Arthur Machen
Bruno Schulz
Joseph Payne Brennan
Jean Ray
Hugh B. Cave
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Guy De Maupassant
Thomas Ligotti
Clark Ashton Smith
H.G. Wells
Brian Lumley
Robert E. Howard
Frank Belknap Long
Lord Dunsany
Edward Lucas White
George MacDonald
Jean Lorrain
Michel Bernanos
Stefan Grabinski
Hans Heinz Ewers
Count Stenbock
David Lindsay
Edgar Allan Poe
Lord Bulwer-Lytton
John Buchan
Ambrose Bierce
Robert Bloch
Joseph Conrad
F. Marion Crawford
Walter de la Mare
Fritz Leiber
Fiendish Ford's Details
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Fiendish Ford is a creature of the night. Posted at 3:45 AM Sep 23 view more
About me:
The creature that would become known as John B. Ford was born sometime in 1963 in a mist shrouded house upon some lonely moor. He grew up as an extremely shy and abnormally quiet boy and spent much of his early childhood in isolation in the gabled attic of his ancestral home. At school he was shunned by the other children and finally left that institution with two ‘O’ Levels in English in 1979. He attempted to live an ordinary life and worked as a probation assistant, a car park attendant and did a ten-year stretch as a factory labourer. You get less for murder he tells me, though how he knows this is unknown. Much of this period of his life is lost in a blur of memory but one cannot help but wonder what atrocities and horrors he might have witnessed (or even caused!) in these convenient blank spaces of his life. On New Year’s Day 1995 he suffered a massive panic attack in a remote area of the Peak District, miles from anywhere or anyone and when he returned to civilisation he had been ‘reborn in his own body’ as John B. Ford. No record exists of his previous name. John B. Ford devoted himself to writing and publishing horror fiction and soon caused quite a stir on the Small Press scene with his macabre and atmospheric fiction. He still suffers anxiety and occasional depression and likes to frequent cemeteries, haunted houses (one wonders if they were haunted before he came along!) and alehouses. He uses alcohol, ether, and morphine to good effect as a means to relax. His fiction is dark in the extreme and mostly focused on the themes of death or madness, but he also possesses the ability to work accurately in the style of deceased authors such as Hodgson, Chambers, Lovecraft, Shiel, etc. He has also collaborated with many modern day authors that are much better known than he is, such as: Simon Clark, Thomas Ligotti, F. Paul Wilson, Paul Kane, Brian Stableford, Tim Lebbon and Ramsey Campbell, to name but a few. Ford’s most famous story is The Illusion of Life. This has been reprinted in many publications since its first appearance in 1996.
In 2001 John and Steve Lines of Rainfall Records started Rainfall Books with the publication of John’s first collection in hardback. CLOUD 005: 'Tales Of Devilry & Doom' by John B. Ford was published on 13th August 2001 to critical acclaim and set the high standard that Rainfall has sustained throughout their publishing ventures.
Rainfall continued to issue a series of high quality paperback collections and anthologies by some of the talented writers within the small press. John and Paul Kane also revived John's old BJM Press publication 'Terror Tales'.
In 2002 John organised the ambitious Terror Scribes weekend in Birmingham held over the weekend of September 6th - 8th. The event was a great success and you can read more about it in the pages of 'Terror Tales #1'.
John is busy preparing the next lot of books for Rainfall publication; writing new weird fiction and working on a novella in collaboration with Steve Lines entitled ‘The Night Eternal’.
A selection of BJM Press chapbook covers:
Some Rainfall chapbooks written or edited by John B. Ford
Who I'd like to meet: Alice Cooper -- he immediately springs to mind. I think most of my other heroes are dead anyway.
The country cult classic, “Psycho”, was composed by Leon Payne, a blind Texas country singer-song writer, after he’d read about fellow Texan Charles Whitman.
In 1966 Whitman had strangled his mother to death, stabbed his wife, and then headed to the top of the University of Texas Library tower and opened fire on an unsuspecting crowd, using his Marine corps sniper rifle, killing sixteen people. Whitman was gunned down by police.
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