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Post by dem bones on Dec 31, 2013 9:07:53 GMT
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Lumley's Uzzi in an issue of FEAR magazine ? Think that's where I recall reading it. You're right, erebus - it was! Yep, the second issue, from Sept-Oct 1988. Think it's the one with the James Herbert interview. Kim Newman - Where the Bodies Are Buried 3: Black and White And Red All Over: As a little girl growing up in the West Country, Elizabeth Yatman set her heart on becoming a 'Comet Knock-out', but sadly her boobs never achieved balloon-size proportions, so her journey to fame has taken a very different route. As a pretty and popular children's' nurse, Elizabeth never lacks the raw materials to achieve her goal, and, nine murders in, suffers herself to be caught with the corpse of her latest victim. Local reporter Scobie seizes opportunity by the throat and so begins his meteoric rise to national celebrity as the Daily Comet's chief crime reporter. Elizabeth favours Scobie with her only prison interview. She cheerfully admits to committing her crimes purely to make the front page of The Comet, but that will never do, so Scobie deflects blame to the latest Rob Hackwill slasher flick Where the Bodies Are Buried 3 which, of course, Elizabeth has never seen. The Comet duly launch the latest in a long line of its popular moral crusades, this one versus the horror industry in video and print. Authors are despised as perverts. James Herbert and Shaun Hutson novels are banned from sale to under eighteens. The back catalogues of Stephen King and Clive Barker are repackaged as by "the master of dark suspense" and "the prince of fiction-majique" respectively. Meanwhile, a real Hackwill clone embarks on a Ripper-style Reign of Terror, and one which implicates a high profile employee of Leech International. Without doubt my favourite of the Bodies series to date (have yet to read the fourth and fifth instalments). Karl Edward Wagner - I’ve Come to Talk With You Again: The "fortuitous" purchase of a copy of The King In Yellow "stuffed with pages from some older book" transforms fantasy author Jon Holsten author into the Grim Reaper of the Horror lit community. His annual visit to London spells doom for a half dozen veterans of the field. Not my favourite KEW, but really miserable, so a good one on which to see out the year.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 5, 2014 8:54:58 GMT
Charles A. Gramlich - Splatter Of Black: Kyle Dupree versus the flesh-eating shape-shifters in claustrophobic trad pulp shoot 'em up. The tiny, eel-like aliens have taken to reanimating those they devour. Kyle's reunion with Marsha, recently abducted love of his life, does not go entirely to plan. Great fun, proper nasty ending, too. Ramsey Campbell - The Puppets: Humiliatingly, can't seem to improve on my wretched first attempt at synopsis, but found the story of Jim's doomed pursuit of Rebecca even more affecting second time around, notably the episode where Jim chances upon Mr. Ince, the ostracised Punch & Judy man, rehearing an 'act' that isn't. The Puppets which had already appeared in Dark Companions, is over thirty years old, but, depressing, reads like it might have been written to see in 2014. Richard Christian Matheson - Bleed: Master of the elliptical short-short on best form. Baby's first Halloween coincides with Daddy's death. Mummy already has a new man. Mummy didn't really like Daddy and her love of Baby is a pretence. Prospects for Baby surviving to see a second October 31st not good.
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