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Post by fullbreakfast on Oct 25, 2008 10:40:44 GMT
Well here's the book Incense Of The Damned is supposed to be based upon. Not quite up to Moffat's standards, perhaps, and nowhere near as scary as the Black Magic ritual in Boot Boys, but not bad for all that. Simon Raven - Doctor's Wear Scarlet (Berkley Medallion edition, 1967: originally 1960) Blurb: BEWARE: This is a novel of horror — about a man's passion for a dazzlingly beautiful Greek girl—a passion which begins innocently, but slowly turns into a fiendish nightmare. All who knew of her shuddered at the mere mention of her name. Priestess of an ancient cult, she preyed upon the souls and bodies of her victims, so that little by little they were destroyed in order to satisfy her grotesquely loathsome lust.
Here is a chilling novel of modern day vampirism, that is horrifyingly vivid.
"This is story-telling as it ought to be, the bright shaft of dream piercing the everyday. It is not, however, for the squeamish." - BOOKS AND BOOKMANBeen meaning to read this for ages. Raven was an interesting man, if exceedingly louche (as he put it, he was "too intelligent not to be a rotter" and ended up as a writer because it was the only profession he couldn't be expelled from). A good writer too in my estimation and he certainly loved Greece, though when it came to passion his primary but not exclusive interest was men. Doctors Wear Scarlet was his only horror outing I believe.
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