sara
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by sara on Apr 29, 2012 21:08:03 GMT
 SHADOW OF A WITCH Ben Camden and his pretty wife Beverely had routed the spirit of Increase Sewall. Now they were ready to rest and relax. But the devil never sleeps, especially in New England in the fall. This time, with the help of a perverted family, the devil planned to degrade a helpless young girl. It was up to Ben and Bev and the seductive wife of a muddled professor to rescue the girl from Evil. Written by Heinrich Graat. A Belmont book, September 1970.
The Devil & Ben Camden is a fast paced read with minimal description - the dialogue especially is brutally honed to the point of becoming unintelligible at times. Then you reach chapter 13 and ... wow, the climactic sex & death struggle between demon Janus and she-devil Beezrah is a short scene but a gloriously written, no-holds barred one. In fact, this whole book reads as if the first ¾ or so was hastily scribbled on the back of an envelope while riding the bus home from work then, once back indoors, the author poured himself a nice stiff drink before getting stuck into writing that one final scene which truly inspired him. ;D
It’s a short book too. 150 pages split into thirteen chapters, each one preceded by a blank page followed by another page with just the chapter number on it. I really enjoyed it though and would recommend it. The Jeff Jones cover is an additional bonus. |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 30, 2012 18:01:02 GMT
I posted the german cover of this somewhere on the vault, one of those quintessential Thole covers. The title here was Satansmesse. SPOILERI also did a short review of this for the german edition. I don´t remember much, but according to my notes I thought it sometimes borderline incomprehensible - no doubt due to the cuts - , with characters doing one WTF thing after the other and the hero a real 70s asshole. If this was for real in the 70s it was a law that every manly college prof had to sleep with every woman he met.  And the dimwitted but nubile redneck victim was called Barbie?  As sara didn´t spoil the end ... and I did ... The end was really a riot with the heroes geting naked, painting themselves with red paint and taking drugs. It had a novel touch.  |
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sara
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by sara on May 1, 2012 16:42:29 GMT
Hi Andy, I had a look for your review after reading your post last night but couldn’t find it (the custom search doesn’t seem to be working), I’m curious about the cover now! And you’re right, he wasn’t a very nice man at all! |
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Post by andydecker on May 1, 2012 19:17:54 GMT
Hi Andy, I had a look for your review after reading your post last night but couldn’t find it (the custom search doesn’t seem to be working), I’m curious about the cover now! No, you couldn´t find it. The review I mentioned isn´t in the Vault, the name of the thread the cover is on I don´t remember. So here it is again in all it´s glory. Thanks to the original scanner. |
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sara
Crab On The Rampage
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Post by sara on May 2, 2012 16:52:33 GMT
Oh my, that's some cover  Thanks! |
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And the dimwitted but nubile redneck victim was called Barbie? 
