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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 10, 2016 15:12:52 GMT
Alan Moore – Providence This is a truly marvelous piece of work. I will never get how Moore does it. Here's Alan Moore talking to John Higgs (author of my favourite non-fiction book of 2015) -
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Post by ohthehorror on Jan 10, 2016 15:34:31 GMT
I read remarkably little this past year compared to previous years if my goodreads account is anything to go by. - 2012 - 43 books read, almost entirely Fantasy & Sci-Fi, no Horror at all
- 2013 - 46 books read, an almost exact 3-way split between Horror, Fantasy & Sci-Fi
- 2014 - 35 books read, pretty much entirely Horror
- 2015 - 19 books read, almost all Horror, and a couple marked as Erotica
Most enjoyed: The Grin of the Dark by Ramsey Campbell, which also holds my personal award of 'Best novel ever written'.
Also enjoyed nearly as much: All 4 of Richard Laymon's novels, particularly Funhouse and After Midnight.
Best short story: Fish by Ann Taborska.
Also enjoyed nearly as much: The Thin People by Brain Lumley, and a good many more that I can't remember but this one particularly stuck out.
Tv show most enjoyed: Scream Queens. I didn't dislike Penny Dreadful or American Horror Story, just wasn't bowled over by them.
Best movie: Zombeavers(if only for the gratuitous boobs!), also Barbarella(yearly re-watch), and Lair of the White Worm(one of my other all-time favourites).
Special mention: The Vault(all year round, not just the Advent Calendar).
Didn't really do any comic or magazine reading, but then as I say, I was rather light on the reading altogether this past year.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 11, 2016 0:55:57 GMT
I'm away on holidays so can't look around to see what I read, but some things I remember:
Books - Didn't buy many new books, but the following stand out:
Robert Weinberg's Horror of the Twentieth Century Stephen Jones' Art of Horror Martin Edwards' Golden Age of Murder (a history of the Detection Club) Read a lot of crime again, including Jo Nesbo for the first time. Really enjoyed Joyce Carol Oates' Mysteries of Winterthurn and Hannah Kent's Burial Rites.
It was a difficult year with Graeme Flanagan passing away early on. I sold much of his collection of Aus pulp on ebay for his family and as a result got to handle and read various Carter Brown and Larry Kent rarities, and much else besides.
Magazines - Had some good magazine discoveries from the 70s and 80s - Xenophile, though defunct for 30-odd years, is a classic book/pulp collecting magazine and still fascinating to browse - wish you could still buy books for those prices. You can't beat Paperback Fanatic and Pulp Horror *long may they continue*.
Comics - Haunted Horror is still going strong. Picked up near complete sets of those EC horror comic reprints from the 1990s.
Films - recently watched Oculus and Mama, both of which had nice moments. It Follows was good. Cockneys v Zombies, with Richard Briers with a Zimmer-frame being pursued by very slow zombies. Mad Max: Fury Road was worth watching.
TV - Ripper Street, Walking Dead, Bosch, Fargo etc etc. Penny Dreadful was excellent. The Enfield Haunting wasn't bad. The Haunting of Radcliffe House was a gem. Streamed And Then There Were None thanks to comments here - very well done I thought.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2016 21:06:18 GMT
Alan Moore – Providence This is a truly marvelous piece of work. I will never get how Moore does it. On the other hand, if you are no Lovecraft fan and are not willing to read the annotations on the net, you never will get the joke and be horrible bored. Christ, yes, this has been a fascinating series so far. The last issue was one of the most uncomfortable and nasty comics I've ever read. His CROSSED miniseries was pretty good too. At times it felt like an extended version of an old 2000AD Future Shock. Other comics worth reading this year: SAGA: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' 'Star Wars for perverts' continues to be an excellent read. SEX CRIMINALS: A frank and funny story about a young couple who find that time literally stands still when they have a mutual climax, a power that they then use to rob banks. It all kicks off from there. MY FRIEND DAHMER: The author and illustrator recalls his 70s schooldays and his soon-to-be-infamous classmate and acquaintance, Jeffrey Dahmer. Although you might think cartoony art would work against such a serious subject, the artist's underground-inspired art brilliantly evokes the period.
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Post by andydecker on Jan 11, 2016 22:19:00 GMT
Alan Moore – Providence This is a truly marvelous piece of work. I will never get how Moore does it. On the other hand, if you are no Lovecraft fan and are not willing to read the annotations on the net, you never will get the joke and be horrible bored. Christ, yes, this has been a fascinating series so far. The last issue was one of the most uncomfortable and nasty comics I've ever read.
Yes! Moore really must be absolutly fearless as a public person to go into this minefield, just because he felt so. And it is not just shock for shock's sake, it is a absolutley sick and horrifying idea which has - as far as I know - never been done before.
Thanks, Dr. Interesting. I am not a Youtuber, never would have seen this!
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