Pigs!

[Mike Brough]

Sept 25, 2015 18:53:21 GMT dem bones said:

Much obliged, Mr. Scratch! Come to think of it, Pig Blood Blues should be promoted to imaginary anthology proper - which, incidentally, still NEEDS A CATCHY TITLE - in place of Feast Day (good story, but the pigs don't do much). House On The Borderland is a veteran of my To read pile which somehow never seems to advance upward. Must do something about that.

Oh, and there's a rasher of bacon in Paul Ernst's The Thing In The Pond (Astounding Stories, June 1934: Mark Ronson [ed.], The Beaver Book Of Horror, 1981. The big game hunter uses it as bait to lure the monster to the surface).

Ham-mer Horror?

Evil Streak-y?

[dem bones]

Oct 11, 2015 6:28:39 GMT Mike Brough said:

Ham-mer Horror?

Evil Streak-y?

.... meanwhile, I believe Doctor Jan Bondeson has located the life model for Oliver Onions' timeless The Bacon-ing Fair One

Fairburn SR

***** How on earth has this thread reached two pages !!!

[andydecker]

Here is another one.

Pigmen of Rio

[mcannon]

Here are a couple more - the first two books in the "Wild Pigs Apocalypse" trilogy: "Super-intelligent pigs on the rampage!"



That second book reminds me that we mustn't forget that fine old euphemism for cannibalism:



Mark

[dem bones]

Oct 11, 2015 16:12:27 GMT andydecker said:

Here is another one.

Pigmen of Rio

My favourite to date. Snoutrageous!

Oct 12, 2015 2:45:55 GMT mcannon said:

Here are a couple more - the first two books in the "Wild Pigs Apocalypse" trilogy: "Super-intelligent pigs on the rampage!"

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Mark

Obviously, I had to find out more.

Tuskers

Blurb:
Barry had created a little piece of paradise in his southern Arizona backyard - until the javelinas came.

His battle to rid his property of the wild pigs soon escalated into war. Too late, he realised these weren't ordinary animals. They were something new, something meaner and smarter. These pigs weren't just at war with him; they were at war with the human race.

AND THE HUMANS WERE LOSING.

TUSKERS is book one in the Wild Pig Apocalypse trilogy by Duncan McGeary. He is also the author of the Vampire Evolution Trilogy - Death of an Immortal, Rule of Vampire, and Blood of Gold - as well as Led to the Slaughter: The Donner Party Werewolves and The Dead Spend No Gold: Bigfoot and the California Gold Rush.

Cover artwork M. S. Corley. Published by Angelic Knight Press (an imprint of Ragnarok Publications), 2015, as is:

Tuskers II: Day of the Long Pig.

Blurb:
Barry and Jenny inherited a fortune, with a single stipulation: that they hunt down and eradicate the Tuskers. They can only hope the Tuskers are gone. They aren't sure they can follow through on the genocide of an entire new species.

Genghis, the smartest and most ruthless of the Tuskers, survives. Deep in the desert, he breeds with the wild pig population. These mutants learn from humans, and quickly surpass them.



His website is Duncan McGeary Com

This has been a public service announcement.

#piggate's not dead.

[severance]

Oct 14, 2015 16:58:05 GMT dem bones said:

Snoutrageous!

Please don't tell me it's taken you three days to come up with that terrible pun!

[dem bones]

Oct 14, 2015 18:17:03 GMT severance said:

Oct 14, 2015 16:58:05 GMT dem bones said:

Snoutrageous!

Please don't tell me it's taken you three days to come up with that terrible pun!

The thread started on Sept 25th, so .... yeah, closer to three weeks.

[dem bones]

Copped this in the Spitalfields Crypt Charity Shop today, looks like it should hit the spot. Anybody here had the pleasure?

Stanley Donwood - Catacombs Of Terror! (Hedonist Books, 2002)

Illustrations by Sophie Harrison-Knibbs

Blurb:
"WE WERE RUNNING, SHOOTING, SCREAMING WITH FEAR. PIGS WERE EVERYWHERE..."

Drugs, sex, hideous flesh-eating pigs, adultery, corrupt CCTV operatives, conspiracies, liquor, foul language, cliche...
Catacombs of Terror! has them all - and more!

Martin Valpolicella is a hardboiled tough-talking Private Investigator, down on his luck and out of pocket.

He doesn't have a clue that he's about to be plunged into a never-ending nightmare that may destroy his very soul... until a mysterious note sends him on a mission so completely fucked-up that he can't believe it.
And neither will you.

"At no point did I think 'I can't be bothered to read this"' - the author's father.

Stanley Donwood's work includes the short story collections 'Slowly Downward' and 'Tachistoscope'; artwork for Radiohead's records; the now-notorious 'NO DATA' exhibition at Bristol's Watershed; the now-forgotten international cyberconference 'Digital Chaos'; and much now-painted-over graffitti in Plymouth. He once lived in Essex, but not any more.

You can visit his website at: Slowly Downward

[dem bones]

Lawrence Gordon Clark - Telling Stories: (Darrell Buxton [ed.], 4th BHF Book of Horror, 2021). Ian, known for telling whoppers, witnesses the aftermath of a murder at a quiet farmhouse. The killers know he knows. It's not looking good for the lad until the late Mr. Cray's big pig inadvertently comes to the rescue.

Andrew Llewellyn – Martha, My Dear: (Darrell Buxton [ed.], 5th BHF Book of Horror, 2021). Luckless Julia Harrison falls foul of a massive Tamworth Sow.

[Dr Strange]

The cover for Adam Nevill's new novel (due out next month) is not unlike the 1981 Sphere Carnacki cover by Terry Oakes shown above -



Blurb:

A compelling folk horror story of deadly rivalry and the oldest magic from the four times winner of The August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel.

No home is heaven with hell next door.

Money's tight and their new home is a fixer-upper. Deep in rural South West England, with an ancient wood at the foot of the garden, Tom and his family are miles from anywhere and anyone familiar. His wife, Fiona, was never convinced that buying the money-pit at auction was a good idea. Not least because the previous owner committed suicide. Though no one can explain why.

Within days of crossing the threshold, when hostilities break out with the elderly couple next door, Tom's dreams of future contentment are threatened by an escalating tit-for-tat campaign of petty damage and disruption.

Increasingly isolated and tormented, Tom risks losing his home, everyone dear to him and his mind. Because, surely, only the mad would suspect that the oddballs across the hedgerow command unearthly powers. A malicious magic even older than the eerie wood and the strange barrow therein. A hallowed realm from where, he suspects, his neighbours draw a hideous power.

[paulfinch]

Here are a few for ya ... apologies if I'm doubling up on any that have already been posted. Also, I can only mention the anthologies or mags I originally saw these stories in. I don't have dates for all of them, and some might be older than mentioned.

Pig's Dinner - Graham Masterton (Mammoth Book of Terror, 1991)
And Eight Rabid Pigs - David Gerrold (Night Screams, 1995)
The Pig That Ate My Father - David Kendall (The Edge #5)
Finding A Pig's Ear In The Pantry - Marc Harris (Nasty Piece Of Work #3)
Pig - Roald Dahl (Best of Roald Dahl)
The Pig – Edward Lee (Sex, Drugs And Power Tools)
Great Pig Mother – Damien Sin (Singapore Horror Stories Vol 1)