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Post by dem bones on Nov 25, 2013 9:23:01 GMT
November spawned monsters .... Anthologies Charles Black (ed) - Tenth Black Book Of Horror. Sample feats of greatness include, but are not restricted to: Angela Blake - Stiff: Features nuns, nymphomania, and necrophilia. No more need be said. Kate Farrell - Dad Dancing: Ageing Travolta casualty is in for a nasty shock. John Llewellyn Probert - The Best Christmas Ever: Pieces Of Mary revisited and doused in evil-reeking aftershave. Thana Niveau - Guinea Pig Girl: See where wanking over Japanese torture porn DVD's gets you? David Williamson - The Boy: William Sansom's The Vertical Ladder just took a turn for the nasty. Gary Power - Deeper Than Dark Water: Sadistic brain surgeon performs lobotomies for laughs. The Government stump up the funds. You can't really go wrong, can you? Paul Finch (ed.) - Terror Tales Of The Seaside. Superior crabs-bait provided by the likes of ; Reggie Oliver - Holiday From Hell: Welcome to the Bellevue Hotel, Brightsea, more ghost house than guest house. Stephen Volk - The Magician Kelso Dennett: " ♪♪ ..... Ah ha ha ha, buried alive, buried alive .... ♪♪" Kate Farrell - The Sands Are Magic: Thoroughly, wonderfully miserable. Robert Spalding - Men With False Faces: Look mummy, clowns! Ramsey Campbell - The Entertainment: "Are you the entertainment?" Christopher Harman - Broken Summer: Spot 'Miss Seaside', win your passage out of Funland. Single author collections Anna Taborska - For Those Who Dream Monsters. Two to read, six to provide notes for but Dirty Dybbuk and the extended version of Bagpuss will have to be spectacularly awful to prevent ... Monsters from claiming the coveted dem 'best début collection of 2013" award. David A. Riley - The Lurkers In The Abyss & Other Tales Of Terror. There is "long-awaited" and there is forty bloody years but finally, thanks to David A. Sutton's happily revived Shadow Publications, Mr. R.'s career-spanning problem-beset 'début' collection sees the light of day, and it does not disappoint. Novella Susan Hill - Dolly: A Ghost Story. Despite some minor reservations about the finale. TV Already missing Whitechapel, thank God for Ripper Street. This post dedicated to the above bench and the ghosts of 75 with undying ♥
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Post by dem bones on Dec 19, 2013 17:10:06 GMT
Anthology: New (to me)Marvin Kaye & John Gregory Betancourt (eds.) - Best Of Weird Tales 1923. Anthologies revisitedDavid A. Sutton & Stephen Jones (eds) - Dark Voices 5. Not finished it yet, but for me, the outstanding stories to date would include; Michael Marshall Smith – More Bitter Than Death Graham Joyce – The Ventriloquial Art Daniel Fox – How She Dances Les Daniels – Loser Nicholas Royle – The Editor Peter Valentine Timlett – The Disobedience of Mary Thompson Kim Newman – Where the Bodies Are Buried David A. Sutton & Stephen Jones (eds) - Dark Voices 6. As with the above,. Personal highlights so far are; David Case – The Cannibal Feast Sherry Coldsmith – The Accomplice Hugh B. Cave – Just Another H.P.L. Horror Story Peter Valentine Timlett – Flies Geoff Smith – The Punch-Line Lisa Morton – Sane Reaction The 4th Vault Advent Calendar. These are always, exciting/ nerve-shredding/ traumatic affairs to compile, extremely rewarding and brilliant fun. This year, everything seems turned up to eleven. TVIf Our Betrayal does turn out to be the very last episode, then at least Ripper Street went out at the top of it's game, and on an appropriately downbeat note, too. What a remarkable two series'! Don't think I've got caught up in a show quite so much since The Wire. Those We Have LovedLewis Collins Joel Lane Nelson Mandela Barry Jackson Peter O'Toole
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Post by dem bones on Dec 26, 2013 19:36:05 GMT
Final gripping instalment ? NovelPaul Finch - Sacrifice: (Avon, 2013). " ... this will be the greatest experiment in history. The Stanford Prison debacle will have nothing on this. That zealous belief can be drawn from the incoherent ramblings of a hack horror writer ...." D. S. 'Heck' Heckenburg on the trail of a maniacal, anti-chav culture 'traditionalist' and his deluded guinea pigs. A shudder pulp for the 21st century, screaming out to be filmed. Anthology revisitedDavid A. Sutton & Stephen Jones (eds.) - Dark Terrors. The Gollacz Book of Horror. (1995) Contains at least two all-time dem faves - Michael Marshall Smith's More Tomorrow and Kim Newman's prophetic media satire, Where The Bodies Are Buried III: Black & White & Red All Over. Not every story worked for me the first time around, and, a decade on that is still the case, but those that do would include; Terry Lamsley - Screens: A truly bizarre phantom visits destruction upon a sleepy Derbyshire hamlet. Don't murder your serial-killer husband! Nicholas Royle - The Lagoon: Don't step on a stone-fish, and never sunbathe topless on sacred Aboriginal land! Graham Masterton - The Hungry Moon: The 'Moon Brand Wheat Flakes' logo shares its deadly secret. Don't get caught in a man-trap! Get your 'best of's ready for Vault's end-of-year round-up - coming soon.
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