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Post by kooshmeister on Sept 4, 2021 15:04:31 GMT
RELIC (WIP) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child Dr. Julian Whittlesey - An American anthropologist who goes missing in the Amazon while searching for the Kothoga tribe. Turned into the physical manifestation of the monster Mbwun, he becomes the infamous Museum Beast and is killed by a shot through the eye by Pendergast. Carlos - Whittlesey's assistant. Hugo C. Montague - Whittlesey's student at the museum who goes missing. His corpse is later found in the Museum Beast's lair. Dr. Thomas R. Crocker Jr. - A member of Whittlesey's expedition who goes missing. Whittlesey later finds him dead in the jungle, a victim of the original Mbwun. Dr. Edward Maxwell - A hated rival of Whittlesey's. Dies in a plane crash. Old Woman - An elderly Yanomamo tribeswoman who tries to warn Whittlesey and Carlos about the Mbwun. Dr. Jörgensen - A botanist employed at the museum. He tells Margo and Smithback about Whittlesey and Maxwell's failed expedition. Stevenson "Ven" Stevens - A smuggler operating in Brazil. Goes by the nickname Ven. Killed by the Mbwun while snooping in a dockside warehouse. Dock Foreman - A Brazilian dock foreman in Belem who suspects Ven Stevens of being a smuggler. Ricon - Junior assistant to the Belem harbormaster. Juan - A museum guard. William Howard Bridgeman - Nicknamed Billy. A little boy who gets lost in the museum along with his brother and gets killed by the Mbwun. Billy's Brother - Billy's younger brother who also gets killed by the Mbwun. Margo Green - A research assistant studying under Dr. Frock in the anthropology department. Nicknamed Midge. Using Kawakita's Extrapolator program, she is able to determine tbe existence of the Mbwun. Curly - A museum guard. Dr. Gregory Kawakita - Another student of Dr. Frock's who develops the Extrapolator program and serves as assistant curator of the biology department. He is a sometime friendy rival of Margo's. He ends up turning the Mbuan virus into a drug, which he calls "Glaze." Jimmy - A museum guard. Charlie Prine - A conservation expert who discovers the bodies of Billy and his brother and is left traumatized. Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta - An NYPD detective assigned to solve the museum murders. Helps get the museum visitors out through the underground tunnels, actions for which he is promoted to captain. Dr. Frank Freed - The cantankorous icthyology curator. William Smithback Jr. - A reporter hired to write a book about the museum. Dr. Ian Cuthbert - The museum's assistant director. Goes insane after encountering the Museum Beast. Dr. Winston Wright - The museum director. Killed by the Mbwun. Ippolito - The museum's security director. Killed by the Mbwun while trying to help D'Agosta and Bailey evacuate the guests. Lavinia Rickman - The museum's head of public relations and Smithback's boss. The two regularly clash on what is and isn't appropriate to include in his book. Killed by the Museum Beast. Conservator - A museum employee tasked with restoring masks who shares an office with Margo. Dr. Frock - A paleontologist who serves as curator of the museum's biology department. He serves as a mentor to both Margo and Kawakita. Dr. George Moriarty - An assistant curator tasked with handling the Superstition exhibit. He has unrequited feelings for Margo. Goes missing. Smithback later finds his body in the Mbwun's lair. Jonathan Hamm - A dog handler hired to use his hounds to track the Mbwun. Assistant Tracker - Hamm's assistant who helps him with the dogs. Castor - One of Hamm's dogs. Killed by the Mbwun. Pollux - One of Hamm's dogs. Accidentally shot by one of D'Agosta's men. Dr. Mathilda Ziewicz - The medical examiner who autopsies the bodies of Billy and his brother as well as Jolley. Dr. Fred Gross - Ziewicz's assistant. Delbert Smith - A photographer working at the medical examiner's office. Jan - A friend of Margo's. Mr. Green - Margo's father, a businessman who recently passed away. Mrs. Green - Margo's mother, who tries to pressure Margo into coming and taking over her father's company. Fred Jolley - A museum guard. Killed by the Mbwun. Gilborg - A man whose expedition ended disastrously. Eric Norris - A musuem guard. He finds Jolley's body. Special Agent Pendergast - A New Orleans FBI agent who comes to New York to investigate the grisly museum killings. Brilliant and crafty, he works closely with D'Agosta to solve the mystery. Ends up killing the Museum Beast with a shot through the eye. Bailey Smith - The assistant curator of the musuem's herbarium. Dr. Sloane - A scientist working in the animal behavior department. His cats are killed by the Mbwun. Carl Conover - A worker in the museum's metal shop who claims to have seen the Mbwun. Dr. Lewis Turow - A scientist tasked with identifying the DNA in the Mbwun's claw pulled from Billy's corpse. Dr. Buchholtz - Turow's boss. Elevator Man - The operator of the museum's freight elevator. Jost von Oster - An Austrian scientist who runs the museum's osteological preparation department. Dr. Huysmans - A scientist von Oster is preparing bat skeletons for. Officer Fred Beauregard - One of D'Agosta's men. Assigned to guard the Superstition exhibition, he goes into it when he hears a noise. He's killed and his body stuffed into a mummy case. When it's discovered during the exhibition's opening, it causes a huge panic. Boylan - The owner of a bar called the Blarney Stone, known to museum employees as the Bones. Dispatcher - A police officer assigned to the museum's security control room. Officer McNitt - An officer sent as backup for Beauregard when he reports strange noises. Killed when a column falls on him and several guests. Officer Effinger - Beuregard's replacement. Driver - Pendergast's driver. Roger Thrumcamp - The shift supervisor in the museum's systems operations room. "Bucktooth" - A computer programmer with buck teeth. Officer Waters - A police officer assigned to guard the systems operations room. Causes a blackout when his panicky firing hits the power generator. Suffering a nervous breakdown, he hides in the control room with Garcia and others and is saved by Margo and Pendergast. Librarian - The woman in charge of the museum's in-house library. B. Depardieu - A museum employee who checked out Whittlesey's journal with Cuthbert's permission. Antony Anastasia - A New Orleans reporter who wrote an article about the Strella de Venezuela. Henry La Plage - A New Orleans helicopter pilot who flew over the Strella de Venezuela and said he saw many corpses littering the deck. Nick Lea - A spokesman for the New Orleans police. Guard - A musuem guard assigned to the secure storage area. Smithback distracts him while Margo sneaks in. Ridley A. Davis - The museum's founder. Executive Secretary - Wright's executive secretary. Special Agent Spencer Coffey - An FBI agent from the New York field office who dislikes Pendergast. Turns out to be colossally stupid and makes decisions that get several people killed, including an entire SWAT team. He's relieved of command and reassigned to desk duty to Waco following the monster's death. Special Agent Slade - An FBI agent who accompanies Coffey. Takes over from him after the governor relieves him of operational command. Chief Horlocker - NYPD chief. Mayor Harper - The Mayor of New York City. Survives the attack by accompanying D'Agosta and others through the old museum tunnels. Martini - A museum guard. Killed during the stampede following the discovery of Beauregard's corpse. Technician - A computer technician in the systems operations room. Waters doesn't know his name and just calls him "the geek." After the blackout, he hides in the security control room with Waters, Garcia and others and survives thanks to Margo and Pendergast. Officer John Bailey - A police officer who survives the initial attack and accompanies D'Agosta and Mayor Harper through the tunnels, and dies heroically fending the pursuing monster off. SWAT Team Commander - The leader of an NYPD SWAT team sent in to kill the Museum Beast and rescue survivors. He fails at both and he and almost all of his men are slaughtered by the beast. Woman - A guest who drowns in the sewer. She's the only member of D'Agosta and Harper's party to get killed besides Bailey. Officer Garcia - A police officer assigned to the security control room. Gets saved from the Mbwun by Margo and Pendergast. Nesbitt - A museum guard who hides in the control room with Waters, Garcia, the "geek" and others and survives. Tom Alan - The designer of the museum's security system. Hides in the control room with Waters, Garcia and the others and survives. Tony - A drug addict who buys "Glaze" from Greg.
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Post by kooshmeister on Aug 6, 2021 10:07:13 GMT
Considering selling my copy of the NEL omnibus of Eat Them Alive and Fleshbait. If interested, either drop be a line here or visit the eBay page. We can discuss price. www.ebay.com/itm/304095907389
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 29, 2021 2:31:02 GMT
Just nabbed a copy of Gila! off of Amazon.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 29, 2021 0:14:30 GMT
I was startled to learn that this was not ghostwritten by Alan Dean Foster. Yeah, I always assumed it was.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 28, 2021 2:33:51 GMT
I also got the novelization of Godzilla vs. Kong.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 27, 2021 14:29:08 GMT
As mentioned previously, I managed to nab The Devil's Kiss by John Hyde off of Amazon. It's already come. I look forward to reading it.
While in Athens, Georgia, I went by a couple of Barnes & Nobles. At the first, I got:
Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix Star Trek: The Motion Picture novelization by Gene Roddenberry
At the other, I nabbed:
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger The Paperbacks from Hell reprint of The Pack by David Fisher The Paperbacks from Hell reprint of The Nest by Gregory A. Douglas
Regarding these reprints, they're kickass, but I wish they'd reprint every book featured by Hendrix in Paperbacks from Hell. As it is, the selection seems a little lackluster in my opinion. Is there a complete list of what books they reprinted under the Paperbacks from Hell label? I'm particularly interested in Gila! and The Little People ("Gestapochauns," indeed!).
And upon returning home I grabbed off of eBay:
Scorpion by Michael R. Linaker The Other Side of the Night by Daniel Allen Butler
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 27, 2021 14:24:05 GMT
Can cross Linkaker's Scorpion off the list.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 10, 2021 22:40:09 GMT
Huh, didn't know about (or forgot about) this thread. Maybe I should've mentioned my getting The Devil's Kiss and the other books here. Oh well.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 10, 2021 22:20:26 GMT
Figured I'd do just a general want-list for books as opposed to doing individual threads for individual books. This way, I can update it periodically as I either acquire books on the list or find others that I want. Locusts by Guy N. Smith Mantis by E.B. Stambaugh Scorpion by Michael R. Linaker Scorpion: Second Generation by Michael R. Linaker Tendrils by Simon Ian Chandler Worm by Simon Ian Chandler Anybody got these and are willing to sell?
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 10, 2021 22:06:57 GMT
Got this one too!
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 10, 2021 22:05:48 GMT
Should've updated this before now. I managed to get another copy of this already.
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 10, 2021 22:04:56 GMT
As should already be evident from my post(s) about the book, I did manage to snag a copy of this thing finally (and Essex's Slime!).
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Post by kooshmeister on Apr 7, 2021 19:29:58 GMT
Recently got The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor (who seems to be kinda the new Cornelius Ryan) and Infantry Aces: The German Soldier in Combat in World War II by Franz Kurowski. But more relevant to the Vault's interests, I nabbed a copy of The Devil's Kiss by John Hyde off of Amazon.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 15, 2021 15:13:02 GMT
As far as I know, no, it actually wasn't one of Fanthorpe's pseudonyms.
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 15, 2021 13:47:46 GMT
RIP, Guy.
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