Adrian Salmon's drawings plus Ms Danby and Ms Timperley

I have to say how much I love the illustrations of Adrian Salmon. Hope he doesn't mind me reproducing these two from his blog (http://adriansalmonart.blogspot.com/). The one of Baron Frankenstein and his creature could almost come from 'Hell's Belles.' Adrian's illustrated loads of Doctor Who stuff - including a story of mine in the current 'Doctor Who Storybook 2010.' His Terry Sharp comic - about an all-action demon-routing 70s film director is amongst my favourite of his projects, though. I'd love to see him have a go at Brenda and Effie and their friends and foes some day.

Speaking of the ladies of Whitby, Gav at Next Read has just this morning posted a new interview with me about them. http://nextread.co.uk/2009/12/07/interview-paul-magrs-hells-belles-headline-review/

He goes in for a lovely mix of books and genres on his review blog, and I'm glad to be amongst his choices. And he fires off some pretty good questions, too. I'm going to repeat the last one here...

Gav: Finally, are there anybody else’s spooky stories that you really enjoy?

Paul: Lots of people’s. But my favourites might well be Mary Danby’s or Rosemary Timperley’s. Both women’s stories appeared in the Pan Books of Horror and the Fontana Books of Horror back in the sixties and seventies. You can’t seem to get their stuff anywhere now. But they wrote wonderful, nerve-shreddingly scary and disturbing fiction that deserves to be reprinted by someone now.

...because I'd like to know, really - why don't we have lovely spanking reprints of the stories by Ms Danby or Ms Timperley? Who's got the rights? Where are the stories? Can I get someone to bring them back into print? And does anyone else remember these particular tales?