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Post by dem bones on May 13, 2019 15:08:39 GMT
 Nigel Taylor Golem IIGot stuck into Nigel's latest compilation of skewed sci/horror-fantasies over the weekend, and consider my life much enriched for the experience. 'Doc' Clancy - Cult Of The Shark God: Rehoboth Beach beach, 1962. Mutants masquerading as a hip surf band abduct three jitterbugging bikini girls for sacrificial purposes. El Sereno, the famous masked Mexican wrestler, is onto the caper, but how can a square hope to scupper Los Sharkataques' ghastly designs? Maharg Swerdna - The Mummy From Blood's Tomb: Moneybags "Doctor" Leon Valery, overnight Egyptologist and violator of tombs, learns rather more than he'd have wished about the embalming process .... Graham Andrews - Shell Suit: "Tell me, Mr. Lucas - do you believe that a dead person's property becomes invested with the spirit of that dead person?" It doesn't pay to get shirty with Won Hung Lo, tailor to the late He-who-I-dare-not-name, formidable leader of a Dragon Tong. Very Frederic Brown in Nasty mood. [Nigel Taylor] - Borderland: In the twenty-second century, time travel is punishable by death, but Novak is prepared to risk all in pursuit of immortality! Difficult to synopsise the 'Micronicles' without giving too much away, but to give some idea; The Stranger - Golem II: A little boy's heroic attempt to permanently incapacitate Frankenstein's monster. 'Doc' Clancy - This Bender Earth: Three-fingered extra-terrestrial enjoys jolly night out in New Mexico. The Stranger - Through Other Eyes: Professor Kensington travels the globe seeking archaeological traces of Cyclops. To be continued: |
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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2019 7:34:42 GMT
Ferrell Rosser - Black Lagoon: An epic 32 pager, accounting for 47.058823529412% (approx) of entire issue. Saga of the Gill-man retold as a borderline Spicy Romance. Summer, 1949. Ambitious young scientist Jane Stone blags a place on Dr. John Fairland's crack team for an expedition up the Amazon. A week into the expedition and Jane catches her first glimpse of an aquatic something pursuing their steam-boat. Over the coming days, an unlikely romance blossoms between big-boned Jane and the scandalously well-endowed green, scaly Gill-man (or 'mega-amphibian, as she classifies him). Alas, the course of true love-lust never did run smooth and there are those among the party - notably sleazy geologist Dr. Ed Winson and woman-hating botanist Dr. Joseph Lang - who would do them both harm, primarily to cover up their string of increasingly violent crimes. Also: The Invisible Made Visible: A celebration of Richard Gordon's work on Fiend Without A Face and the wonders of stop-motion animation in general. An enthused review of Graham Andrews' novel The Stopgap Spaceman (FeedARead, 2018) - you can read a 2 page extract here. Homage to Harryhausen: That rarest of abominations - a pretty poem even dems can understand/ appreciate/ read without throwing up, etc. Reminder to Advent Calendar gang - WOS WELCOMES SUBMISSIONS! contact nigeltaylor131 AToutlook.com (substitute AT with @ ) Very recommended!
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