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Post by Dr Strange on Oct 29, 2021 21:38:58 GMT
John Connolly's Charlie Parker puts most others, old or new, to shame - and there is no arguing that he isn't a detective fighting against the occult. He would also kick the Winchester brothers' asses (actually, he would probably just shoot them). No, Louis would shoot them first  Someday I have to read up on this series. I stopped buying them years ago, now there are 19 novels in the series and a couple of thousand pages. The occult aspect has been seriously ramped up over the last few, which has been a welcome development for me - though I have heard less good things about the most recent one (apparently Parker barely figures in it at all, as it focuses mostly on Louis and Angel). I don't think there will be many more - the characters are obviously ageing in real time, and are carrying a lot of accumulated damage from their previous exploits. |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 10, 2022 19:27:16 GMT
Has anyone seen the full table of contents for this? British Library seems to have followed their usual pattern of publishing an appealing-looking anthology without making it easy for anyone to find out what's in it. Just for you, friend Brewer (hush!): Kate and Hesketh Prichard - The Story of the Moor Road
Algernon Blackwod - A Psychical Invasion
William Hope Hodgson - The Searcher of the End House
Claude and Alice Askew - The Fear
Bertram Atkey - The Valley of the Veils of Death
Dion Fortune - The Death Hound
Moray Dalton - The Case of the Fortunate Youth
Gordon Hillman - Forgotten Harbour
Joseph Payne Brennan - In Death as in Life includes four stories previously unfamiliar to me: the ones by Atkey (terror and treasure in the Australian outback), Dalton (a particularly nasty possession), Hillman (standard-issue lighthouse horror), and Brennan (Lucius Leffing exorcises an evil spirit while the narrator--Brennan himself--rails against modern architecture in New Haven, CT). None of them are particularly memorable, and a few haven't aged well, but they're all at least readable. |
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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 11, 2022 4:33:34 GMT
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 11, 2022 14:15:25 GMT
I thought that one might interest you! |
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Someday I have to read up on this series. I stopped buying them years ago, now there are 19 novels in the series and a couple of thousand pages.
