chastel
Crab On The Rampage
Where wolf? There castle!
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Post by chastel on Apr 3, 2009 18:27:07 GMT
Ta for digging that one out, mr. horror! As they Ripper centenary approached, they were coming thick and fast, that's for sure. Now this one .... i really struggled with it a few years back, abandoned it around halfway, but it's nagged its way onto the to re-read pile .... Colin Wilson - Ritual In The Dark (Pan, 1962) Blurb: "Not since Dickens has a British fiction-writer dealt with murder in a book of such size and
seriousness "— Sunday Express
In this brilliant novel, Colin Wilson, now famous author of The Outsider, has recalled Jack the Ripper.
In the year 1888, that notorious murderer terrorized London's East End — his victims always women.
Transposing these ghastly crimes to our own day, the author has invented a sex-killer every bit as vicious as Jack the Ripper— and has set him loose on contemporary London.
In a novel of classic proportions and biting realism, he has analysed the mind of a maniac — creating a spine-chiller that poses the profoundest of questions. See the guy on the next cover? He sure looks Jack the Ripper-ish, don't he? Despite reading this through, even enjoying it, I still can't remember if he's Dracula, The Ripper, both or a mechanical man. Another on the pile.  Simon Hawke - The Dracula Capers (Headline, 1988) Blurb: A Plague of vampires and werewolves fall on Victorian England in the late 1800's - but there's nothing supernatural about these creatures. They're genetically engineered monsters from the far future, dropped into the past as a devilish tactic in the Time Wars.
It's a mystery more baffling than any penned by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle - a cosmic riddle to stagger the imagination of the great H. G. Wells. Soon the creators of Sherlock Holmes and 'The Time Machine' join forces with the Time Commandos to combat the ageless evil which strains the very fabric of the universe ...The knock was repeated. "Who is it?" Neilson said cautiously. "H. G. Wells" Wells! it could be a trap! Eighth in the "Time Lords" series, this time set in Whitechapel. The dramatis personae also include Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Dr. Moreau and the evil mastermind behind the sinister plot, Nikolia Drakov. From memory, it's very entertaining stuff, although the Commandos themselves are not the most charismatic bunch. There's a Chronological History of the Time Wars to help you catch up if - like me - you skipped the first seven. Sorry for being MIA, demonik! Vampires, werewolves and Ripper in Victorian London - sounds fun! ;D What comes to that much mocked Final Solution book... one thing I can´t understand, why people want to fool themselves that elderly stroke victim can be a serial killer? |
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Post by allthingshorror on May 30, 2009 12:24:27 GMT
Digit (1964) Here's another one for you Dem! C Veheyne was the pen name of Ethel Williamson - responsible for a book called The Journal of Henry Bulver (1921). Horror was originally published in 1962 in hardback by Brown Watson.
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Post by allthingshorror on Sept 27, 2009 15:14:00 GMT
Corgi (1997) The body of Maureen Flanagan who was, the neighbours believed, a respectable woman, naturally stirred memories of Jack the Ripper. His horrific crimes has shocked the neighbourhood only twelve years before, but Chief Inspector Dobbs of the City of London Police was convinced, like most other police officers that the Ripper was dead. But when a second body was found and Bridget Cummings, a local girl with a fiery temper noticed a strange man following her, the neighbourhood was alert to the possibility that the terror had returned...I've gone and brought a bleeding romance into the Vault!  Read this in one sitting, and it is true fluff, but for a book that is supposed to give the heart a gentle tugging, it doesn't scrimp on the gentle grue... It was the last thing she was expecting, the one thing he had in mind. From behind, his left arm whipped round her and his hand clapped hard over her mouth. Her head was jerked back and his right hand, wielding a razor-sharp knife, came swiftly round to effect the act of execution.The blade sliced her throat deeply from ear to ear. She feel forward, dying, her blood gushing.
Damn the scarlet river, he thought.
But at least he himself has escaped the flood and he knew what to do next.
If anyone wants to read this, let me know and I'll send it on... 
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Read this in one sitting, and it is true fluff, but for a book that is supposed to give the heart a gentle tugging, it doesn't scrimp on the gentle grue...