{"id":13885,"date":"2023-05-15T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T05:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=13885"},"modified":"2023-05-15T06:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T05:48:37","slug":"unease-titles-john-burke-and-another-pastiche-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2023\/05\/15\/unease-titles-john-burke-and-another-pastiche-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unease&#8217; Titles, John Burke and Another Pastiche Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Unease11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Unease11-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Unease11-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Unease11.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>This week the John Burke contract is for <a href=\"https:\/\/tikit.net\/2023\/E\/NewUnease.htm\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;New Tales of Unease<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/a>&#8216; which was listed as <em><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8216;Tales of Unease III&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/em> on it. There is also a couple of items of correspondence regarding two of the stories. I think John Burke was not happy with one where there is a wad of letters between him and the writers agent who wants some sort of written statement which John says is not something usually requested hence he is &#8216;cheesed off&#8217; I&#8217;ve also rescanned the earlier two related titles <a href=\"https:\/\/tikit.net\/PAN%202010\/PANX482.htm\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Tales of Unease&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/em> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/tikit.net\/2023\/E\/MoreUnease.htm\">&#8216;<em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">More Tales of Unease&#8217;<\/span><\/strong><\/em> <\/a>, the latter with the really creepy cover!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Burke was a PAN stalwart and wrote under many pen names including J. F. Burke, Jonathan Burke, Jonathan George, Robert Miall, Martin Sands, Owen Burke, Sara Morris, Russ Ames, Roger Rougiere, and Joanna Jones; and co-wrote with his wife&nbsp;Jean Burke under the pen name Harriet Esmond. This is a full page advertisement&nbsp; for his books in a PAN leaflet.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Burke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Burke.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13891\" width=\"477\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Burke.jpg 954w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Burke-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Burke-768x798.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I recently had an email from Colin Larkin, author of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/telos.co.uk\/shop\/other-non-fiction\/art\/cover-me-the-vintage-art-of-pan-books-1950-1965-p-b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8216;<\/span>Cover Me&#8217;<\/span> <\/em><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">who ask about<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>&#8216;Crime Fiction: A Reader&#8217;s Guide&#8217;<\/em><\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">which reminded me of all the other pastiche PAN covers, some for real titles and some with covers than might have been. There are several examples on the website. No idea if this is a recycled cover from a differnt title but I see it is available as a poster from <a href=\"https:\/\/fineartamerica.com\/featured\/woman-helping-injured-man-csa-images.html?product=poster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFB.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"13901\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFB.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?attachment_id=13901\" class=\"wp-image-13901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFB.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFB-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFF.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"13902\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFF.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?attachment_id=13902\" class=\"wp-image-13902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFF.jpg 454w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/CFF-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the John Burke contract is for &#8216;New Tales of Unease&#8216; which was listed as &#8216;Tales of Unease III&#8217; on it. There is also a couple of items of correspondence regarding two of the stories. I think John Burke was not happy with one where there is a wad of letters between him and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}