Happy Hallowe'en!

On the 31st October it is Hallowe'en. To mark this occasion here are some weird and wonderful Hallowe'en titles which can be found in SUNCAT. There are some really fascinating records, especially the one for the first title below!

• Interviews in the realms of death: or, Dialogues of the dead between several great personages deceas’d. ...
• Sabrina’s halloween spoooktacular.
• Gold digger Halloween special.
• Marge’s Lulu and Tubby Halloween fun.
• Batman, legends of the dark knight Halloween special.
• The folklore round table. No.9: Special Halloween issue.
• City slab : urban tales of the grotesque.
• How to haunt your house.
• Modern witch.
• Wacky Witch.
• Wendy’s witch world.
• The witch’s almanac ... : practical magic and spells for every season.
• Witch’s brew.
• The crooked path.
• Llewellyn’s ... witches’ spell-a-day almanac : holiday & lore, spells & recipes, rituals & meditations.
• Ghost voices : the magazine of all things haunted.
• The Haunted House, or the Revelations of Theresa Terence ... Being the Christmas number of the Pearl ... Illustrated with six ... colored plates.
• Hotwire. Requiem for the dead.
• The psychic mirror.
• Uri Geller’s encounter : the world’s most paranormal magazine.
• Pumpkin variety evaluation.
• 2006 2011 World Outlook for Canned Pumpkin and Squash.
• Black sun / PHAT...Pumpkin Hollow Anarchy Tribe.
• Brian Pulido's Lady Death: A Medieval Tale.
• The cauldron : pagan journal of the Old religion.
• Dragons well : newsletter for pagans in Oxfordshire.
• Frostfire.
• Pagan edge lifestyle & passions of the modern pagan.
• Nightveil’s cauldron of horror.

For more spooky titles and other weird and wonderful serials take a look in SUNCAT.

Chocolate Week AND National Cake Week!

From the 8th to 14th October it is both Chocolate Week and National Cake Week. Perfect for those wanting comfort food to help keep away the cold, but not so good for those on a diet! Here are some cake and chocolate weird and wonderful titles.

• Baked & delicious : international classics to make at home.
• The baking sheet. 
• Baking with the American harvest. 
• Squires Kitchen bake school. 
• 2006 2011 World Outlook for Cake Mixes Made from Purchased Flour. 
• Annual review / The Biscuit, Cake, Chocolate & Confectionery Alliance. 
• Brazil cakes and pastries Datamonitor. 
• The “B.B.” Album of Cake Designs. [With plates.] 
• 2006-2011 World Outlook for Seasonal Chocolate Father’s Day Candy. 
• Archives of cocoa research. 
• Chocol8 Inc. 
• Chocolate addiction. 
• Cocoaroma. 
• Hotel Chocolat: Establishing a Market Presence with Super-Premium Chocolate. 
• Nestle & Cadbury Case Study: Adapting to the Growing Demand for Dark Chocolate. 
• Report of the cocoa conference. 
• Unwrapped / Cadbury Ltd. 
• Haribo Case Study: Reinvigorating the Sugar Confectionary Market by Focusing on Health & Comfort.

For more baking and confectionary titles take a look in SUNCAT.

James Bond Day!

Happy 50th Anniversary James Bond! Today (5th October) is James Bond Day , so here is the perfect excuse to bring to you James Bond titles found in SUNCAT. 

• 007 dossiers secrets.
• 007 extra : the newsletter of the James Bond 007 Fan Club.
• 007 spy files.
• Bondage / James Bond 007 Fan Club.
• Double-0-seven magazine.
• Goldeneye : the magazine of the Ian Fleming Foundation.
• The James Bond car collection.
• James Bond’s DB5.
• Shaken not stirred / a publication of the Ian Fleming Foundation.
• James Bond - 007 premiere crossword puzzles.
• James Bond for your eyes only

Your mission, should you accept it, is to search SUNCAT for more weird and wonderful espionage and secret intelligence titles. Report to M for debriefing when you are done, but make an appointment with Miss Moneypenny first!

Celebrate National Poetry Day

Today (4th October) is National Poetry Day. In celebration of this fact here are soem weird and wonderful poetry titles found in SUNCAT.

• Amethyst arsenic : poetry and art.
• Bad poetry quarterly.
• The Bibelot, a Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part From Scarce Editions and Sources Not Generally Known.
• Bumble jacket miscellany : a miscellany for poetry and fiction.
• Coconut poetry magazine.
• Half drunk muse.
• Oddrot : the journal of funny bizarre and subversive poetry.
• Poetry is dead.
• Symtex & grimmer : a magazine of contemporary poetry.
• Waifs and strays. A terminal magazine of Oxford poetry.
• The ballot, a political poem, by a snob.
• Echoes of Gilgamesh the long poem magazine.
• TRUTH -LONDON- POEM-.
• Affection’s keepsake.
• Anarchist angel youth poetry quarterly.
• Brittle star.
• Cabinet of curiosities.
• Deliberately thirsty.
• Grilled flowers. Special issue series
• Hot gun!
• Moodswing.
• PigeonBike.
• Ploplop.
• Poetmeat.
• Poor old tired horse.
• The quiet feather.
• The Stinging fly.
• The ugly tree.
• Unmuzzled ox.
• Verbal abuse.
• Water from the moon.
• A wigman to wind the sun up.
• The Windless orchard.

 For more poetry titles and other weird and wonderful serials take a look at SUNCAT.

(Serial) match of the day – part 6

Here is the sixth and final post in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Can you match the fanzine with the home nation?

• Two left feet. 
• Que sera sera. 
• The dragon has landed. 
• Haggis supper. 
• The Italian job. 
• There’s a wee spot in Europe. 

Here are some other football titles:

• Miss-kick.
• My favourite shirt. 
• Dial M for Merthyr. 
• Five jam parts. 
• The cage to the jungle. 
• Tomato soup and lentils. 
• Wonderful wedding venues in England and Wales : from castles to football clubs. 
• Off the ball. 
• United front. 
• Four Four Two: The Bobbing And Weaving Football Magazine. 
• Migrating Football Players, Transfer Fees & Migration Controls. 
• The Gladwish Land Sales ultimate book of non-league players. 
• Balls! : the alternative football annual. 
• Nothing to write home about : the magazine of the London Clarets. 
• Offensive line coaches handbook. 
• Where’s the bar? : an alternative guide to non-league football. 
• The effects of television on college football attendance. (Published 1950) 
• The duffle. 
• Football punk. 
• When the ball moves : the Burnley fanzine. 
• One minute to go. 
• League of their own : a guide to the mid-Wilts youth and minor football league.

More information on these titles can be found by searching SUNCAT. Also take a look at SUNCAT for more football serials  and other weird and wonderful titles.

(Serial) match of the day – part 5

Here is the fifth in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Match the football club with the fanzine! All the answers can be found in SUNCAT. 

Fanzines:

• The Gibbering clairvoyant.
• One f.
• In the loft.
• Heroes and villains.
• The water in Majorca.
• Not the wee green book.
• Purple reign.
• Raging Bull.
• One step beyond.
• Give ’em beans.
• No more plastic pitches.
• The tricky tree.
• Kicker conspiracy.
• The square ball.
• Pyramuddle.
• The greasy chip buttie.
• Winning isn’t everything.
• Love shaq.
• The giant awakes.
• WALOC : What a load of cobblers!
• Deranged ferret.

Football clubs:

Newcastle United; Queens Park Rangers; Leeds United; Nottingham Forrest; Newport; Burnley; West Ham United; Sheffield United; Manchester City; Northampton Town; Cork City; Lincoln City; Welling United; Barrow; Motherwell; Dumbarton; Aston Villa; Oxford United; Falkirk; Celtic; Norwich City.

For more football serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT football blog posts. 

(Serial) match of the day – part 4

Here is the fourth in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Match the football club with the fanzine! All the answers can be found by searching SUNCAT.

Fanzines:

• Faithful through and through.
• O bluebird of happiness.
• Well red.
• Waiting for the great leap forward.
• A lot 2 answer 4.
• Le de’ja-vu.
• Always look on the bright side.
• Where’s the vaseline?
• Mad as a hatter!
• Cockney rebel.
• The Derry rumba.
• No idle talk.
• Revenge of the killer penguin II.
• FOULmouth.
• Hey big spender.
• City down under.
• Loadsamoney.
• 38 hours from Vilnius.
• War of the monster trucks.
• Mr. Bismarck's electric pickelhaube.

Football clubs:

Derby County; Swansea City; Heart of Midlothian; Barry Town; Meadowbank Thistle;  Celtic; Manchester City; Chelsea; Charlton Athletic; Oxford United; Motherwell; Sheffield Wednesday; Billericay Town; Mansfield Town; Blackburn Rovers; Dundee; Bath City;  Luton Town; Liverpool; Cardiff City. 

Just as an aside, which of the football teams mentioned abovre re-located and changed its name to 'Livingston F.C.', and what year did this happen? 

For more football serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT football blog posts.

(Serial) match of the day – part 3

Here is the third in the series of weird and wonderful football titles. Match the football club with the fanzine! All the answers can be found by searching SUNCAT.

Fanzines:

• Don’t run... trott!
• When skies are grey.
• Rave on!
• Voice of the beehive.
• Marlon’s gloves.
• Remember, remember the 5th of December.
• Windmill wonderland.
• “Eh Mind O’ Gillie”.
• City ’til I cry.
• The oatcake.
• Can you hear us on the box?
• Hibees here, Hibees there.
• The silence of the bann-she’s.
• The East End bounce.
• The clean sheet.
• Hanging on the telephone.
• The Jam piece.
• Warboys is still God.

Football clubs:

Dundee; Charlton Athletic; Arsenal; Aberdeen Bon Accord; Manchester City; Dunfermline Athletic; Stirling Albion; Hibernian; Stoke City; Doncaster Rovers; Huddersfield; Leamington Spa; Heart of Midlothian; Burnley; Brentford; Glenavon; Everton; Stevenage Borough.

Just for fun, which of these football teams suffered a very heavy 36-0 defeat at the hands of Arbroath in 1885? This is the second largest margin of victory ever in professional football.

For more football serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT football blog posts.