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Post by dem bones on Jun 11, 2008 22:46:59 GMT
Derek Hyde-Chambers - The Orgy Of Bubastis (Nel, 1974) I can't remember a thing about the book other than the cover. Maybe we should start a new thread for this one so that you could remind me about it? I've no idea where my copy might be or if it still exists. Then, you folks could get back to talking about your bug things on this thread ...  From the old board, dated Dec 1st, 2006 (so he's probably on p. 64 by now ....) KillercrabI'm 60 pages into THE ORGY OF BUBASTIS - 4 actors enter a French clinic and find a well endowed dwarf , some Egyptian hocus pocus , drugs , more drugs and uhm lots of smoking. What was Derek Hyde Chambers smoking himself when he penned NEL Horror no.6 ? I dunno - but it's keeping me occupied anyway.
adeBack to bugwatch ....
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Post by carolinec on Jun 11, 2008 22:55:12 GMT
Thanks Dem! Do you know, I still can't remember a thing about the book. I'm beginning to wonder what I was smoking too when I read it! I think the most likely explanation is that I started it, thought it was rubbish, and never finished it.  |
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Post by killercrab on Jun 12, 2008 2:58:37 GMT
From the old board, dated Dec 1st, 2006 (so he's probably on p. 64 by now ....) >>
Indeed. BUBASTIS however scores highly on the *hipness* counter - any book involving a reincarnated Egyptian princess , citroens , hallucinogenic drugs and a menacing black cat can't be all bad right?
"It's a dwarf."I said again. " A midget is a tiny person , everything in proportion , but very small. This - this - thing, is a dwarf."
Thanks for that Derek.
Basically 4 actors , smoking alot of pot end up at a french clinic after an accident on the road caused by a black cat. Dr Frantzius looks after them - but he's experimenting with some LSD derivative.The dwarf turns up , one of the girls gets possessed by the Egyptian princess , there's lots of smoking and ... that's all I remember before waking with a literate hangover.
'Mareta was quite naked , now , and I saw that she was strapped down at her throat , waist and ankles.'
Ah memories...
KC
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Post by killercrab on May 9, 2009 21:50:02 GMT
I recall that the Egyptian princess is seen carrying a dismembered member - now if that doesn't elevate this book into the realms of true trash connoisseur country - then I don't know what does !
KC
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Post by dem bones on Mar 19, 2014 11:45:58 GMT
Derek Hyde-Chambers - The Orgy Of Bubastis (NEL, 1974) Blurb The Ancient Egyptians were among the first practitioners of the Black Arts. Obsessed with death and its trappings, so much still survives from those days: the images of Egyptian animal gods, mummies, and burial chambers.
Bubastis was one of the important gods. Its form was that of a black cat with powerful jaws and claws, and a small group of actors in southern France find that the legends of Bubastis' power are not fantasy. The ancient evil is not yet dead, and can still reach a finger into today, possessing many with dark secrets.There's been so much terrific stuff come this way in past fortnight that I'm reading it faster than I can hack out anything vaguely resembling a 'review.'A case in point, this preposterous drugs-fuelled adventure, featuring a four-strong group of hapless actors who sign up for a fortnight at a French health farm. Mad Doctor (German) has big Egyptology thing going on, laces everyone's cigs with LSD and leaves them to the mercy of a mystery dwarf who smells like bad meat and may or may not exist. One of the troupe, Mareta, poses around with a severed penis which, possibly, isn't actually real either. There's also some business with an imaginary werewolf. The author's style reeks of James Moffat - it even features a psychic named Etienne Dumas. Sample exciting bit. And then there was nothing, not even the pain of sound.
Nothing, except the sensation of falling.
Falling. And then nothing at all
Nothing, except the great void that is the termination of existence.
Nothing.Rev. Lionel Fanthorpe should sue for intellectual property theft. It's no good, will have to reread it purely to establish that I wasn't hallucinating.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 3, 2016 15:29:42 GMT
What an absolutely topping thread! I love this Vault.
A non-real severed penis--where I come from that's called a dildo--presumably imbued with sinister cat-goddess evil magic powers and demonic dildority. Or whatever.
LOL!
H.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 3, 2016 17:58:26 GMT
What an absolutely topping thread! I love this Vault. A non-real severed penis--where I come from that's called a dildo--presumably imbued with sinister cat-goddess evil magic powers and demonic dildority. Or whatever. LOL! H. No dildo involved. From (very hazy) memory, the non-real severed penis belonged to the imaginary giant dwarf. I hope that clears things up for you. Honest, even by NEL standards, this is one mighty strange novel. |
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Post by andydecker on May 23, 2023 12:56:46 GMT
Hard to believe, but this got sold and translated. Published with the title "The Cruel Game" in 1975. Graced by a cover by Karel Thole, which had nothing to do with the content, this I actually read for a review a few years ago. Didn't know if to laugh or to cry, as the story absolutly made no sense, and not in a good way. Would have made a fine Jess Franco movie with Klaus Kinski in the role of Dr. Frantzius, one of the most inept villains ever. (Not that the heroes were any better.) Sometimes one wonders why the NEL editors spend money for material like this.
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Post by helrunar on May 23, 2023 17:28:51 GMT
Interesting to see that German edition. I can't help being intrigued that somebody would even come up with that title; it's a reference to a famous passage in the History of Herodotus. After reading this thread a few years back, I realized attempting to peruse the actual book would be a rather flat disappointment.
Great line from Dem from an earlier post about this schlock effusion: Rev. Lionel Fanthorpe should sue for intellectual property theft.
H.
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Post by andydecker on May 23, 2023 18:21:14 GMT
Interesting to see that German edition. H. To my everlasting shame I have a few shameful ones more. Will post some if I find them. |
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Post by dem bones on May 24, 2023 7:46:33 GMT
Interesting to see that German edition. H. To my everlasting shame I have a few shameful ones more. Will post some if I find them. Please do, Andreas. Please, please do! |
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