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Post by dem on Dec 17, 2021 13:54:02 GMT
That's the Christmas reading sorted; Darrell Buxton [ed.] - The Seventh BHF Book of Horror Stories (BHF, Dec. 2021). Darrell Buxton - Introduction
Richard Freeman - The Gooseberry Wife
Nadia Mook - The Stockport Bedbug Massacre
Frazer Lee - So Much to See
Sam Dawson - Ecocide
Samantha Jayne Crosby - Southend-on-Seals
Franklin Marsh - Brock's Revenge
Christopher Tighe - The Earwigs of Wigan Casino
Jez Conolly - Neither
Paul Newman - Writhe!
Simon J. Ballard - The Weasels take Reading Station
Tony Earnshaw - Bloodlington Pier
Richard A. Halfhide - A Tiger in Dreamland
Christopher Tighe - Seaside Special
Ken Shinn - Underground Resistance
Tim Hicks - Herons
Ian Taylor - Flash McGrath III: The Nature of the Beast
Ian Taylor - Flash McGrath IV: Plagues for Today
Stephen Lang - Kill-Kill Wood
Ken Shinn - The Pernicious Plot of Professor Pelham
Jason D. Brawn - Seaside Massacre
Andrew Llewellyn - The Man Hares Wanted to Kill
Wayne Mook - The Seal of the Cabbage Whites
Andy Allard - The Cats Creep on Cleethorpes Beach
Simon J. Ballard - Like Summer Days
Darrell Buxton - Killer
James Stanger - The Crawley Black Swan Event
Neil Pike - Skegnest
Christopher Tighe - Cruel Garden
John Patrick Higgins - The Night
ContributorsBlurb: Red in Tooth and Claw...
Day-to-day life in a small market town is shattered by a relentless avian attack ...
Could a popular holiday resort really be under threat from mythical horned creatures under the command of their demented trainer?
Beware the gnawing parasitic infestation shredding your flesh while you sleep ...
Panicked presenters in peril capture something creepy on camera during a televised live nature-watch ...
Beasts Go Crazy! The animal kingdom rises up and fights back in this selection of brand-new terror tales. We’ve got the whole ferocious menagerie here, from inherently savage creatures to domestic pets gone feral, as our authors unveil their inner primal selves and bring you a safari of shocks. Be careful opening this book - you never know what might leap out and eat your face off! Don't rattle their cages ... |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 17, 2021 15:50:38 GMT
That's the Christmas reading sorted; Darrell Buxton [ed.] - The Seventh BHF Book of Horror Stories (BHF, Dec. 2021). Darrell Buxton - Introduction
Richard Freeman - The Gooseberry Wife
Nadia Mook - The Stockport Bedbug Massacre
Frazer Lee - So Much to See
Sam Dawson - Ecocide
Samantha Jayne Crosby - Southend-on-Seals
Franklin Marsh - Brock's Revenge
Christopher Tighe - The Earwigs of Wigan Casino
Jez Conolly - Neither
Paul Newman - Writhe!
Simon J. Ballard - The Weasels take Reading Station
Tony Earnshaw - Bloodlington Pier
Richard A. Halfhide - A Tiger in Dreamland
Christopher Tighe - Seaside Special
Ken Shinn - Underground Resistance
Tim Hicks - Herons
Ian Taylor - Flash McGrath III: The Nature of the Beast
Ian Taylor - Flash McGrath IV: Plagues for Today
Stephen Lang - Kill-Kill Wood
Ken Shinn - The Pernicious Plot of Professor Pelham
Jason D. Brawn - Seaside Massacre
Andrew Llewellyn - The Man Hares Wanted to Kill
Wayne Mook - The Seal of the Cabbage Whites
Andy Allard - The Cats Creep on Cleethorpes Beach
John Patrick Higgins - The Night
Simon J. Ballard - Like Summer Days
Darrell Buxton - Killer
James Stanger - The Crawley Black Swan Event
Neil Pike - Skegnest
Christopher Tighe - Cruel Garden
John Patrick Higgins - The Night
ContributorsBlurb: Red in Tooth and Claw...
Day-to-day life in a small market town is shattered by a relentless avian attack ...
Could a popular holiday resort really be under threat from mythical horned creatures under the command of their demented trainer?
Beware the gnawing parasitic infestation shredding your flesh while you sleep ...
Panicked presenters in peril capture something creepy on camera during a televised live nature-watch ...
Beasts Go Crazy! The animal kingdom rises up and fights back in this selection of brand-new terror tales. We’ve got the whole ferocious menagerie here, from inherently savage creatures to domestic pets gone feral, as our authors unveil their inner primal selves and bring you a safari of shocks. Be careful opening this book - you never know what might leap out and eat your face off! Don't rattle their cages ...I just realised these are about animals, maybe I subconsciously noticed it and that's why I did that thread. This means as you read it you can add any that fit the subject matter of the Safari thread. Aren't you glad that I noticed this, it's the little things that make life exciting! |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 17, 2021 15:54:52 GMT
That's the Christmas reading sorted; Darrell Buxton [ed.] - The Seventh BHF Book of Horror Stories (BHF, Dec. 2021). Darrell Buxton - Introduction
Richard Freeman - The Gooseberry Wife
Nadia Mook - The Stockport Bedbug Massacre
Frazer Lee - So Much to See
Sam Dawson - Ecocide
Samantha Jayne Crosby - Southend-on-Seals
Franklin Marsh - Brock's Revenge
Christopher Tighe - The Earwigs of Wigan Casino
Jez Conolly - Neither
Paul Newman - Writhe!
Simon J. Ballard - The Weasels take Reading Station
Tony Earnshaw - Bloodlington Pier
Richard A. Halfhide - A Tiger in Dreamland
Christopher Tighe - Seaside Special
Ken Shinn - Underground Resistance
Tim Hicks - Herons
Ian Taylor - Flash McGrath III: The Nature of the Beast
Ian Taylor - Flash McGrath IV: Plagues for Today
Stephen Lang - Kill-Kill Wood
Ken Shinn - The Pernicious Plot of Professor Pelham
Jason D. Brawn - Seaside Massacre
Andrew Llewellyn - The Man Hares Wanted to Kill
Wayne Mook - The Seal of the Cabbage Whites
Andy Allard - The Cats Creep on Cleethorpes Beach
John Patrick Higgins - The Night
Simon J. Ballard - Like Summer Days
Darrell Buxton - Killer
James Stanger - The Crawley Black Swan Event
Neil Pike - Skegnest
Christopher Tighe - Cruel Garden
John Patrick Higgins - The Night
ContributorsBlurb: Red in Tooth and Claw...
Day-to-day life in a small market town is shattered by a relentless avian attack ...
Could a popular holiday resort really be under threat from mythical horned creatures under the command of their demented trainer?
Beware the gnawing parasitic infestation shredding your flesh while you sleep ...
Panicked presenters in peril capture something creepy on camera during a televised live nature-watch ...
Beasts Go Crazy! The animal kingdom rises up and fights back in this selection of brand-new terror tales. We’ve got the whole ferocious menagerie here, from inherently savage creatures to domestic pets gone feral, as our authors unveil their inner primal selves and bring you a safari of shocks. Be careful opening this book - you never know what might leap out and eat your face off! Don't rattle their cages ...I just realised these are about animals, maybe I subconsciously noticed it and that's why I did that thread. This means as you read it you can add any that fit the subject matter of the Safari thread. Aren't you glad that I noticed this, it's the little things that make life exciting! A lot of these seem to have a seaside setting. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 17, 2021 17:22:50 GMT
I just realised these are about animals, maybe I subconsciously noticed it and that's why I did that thread. This means as you read it you can add any that fit the subject matter of the Safari thread. Aren't you glad that I noticed this, it's the little things that make life exciting! A lot of these seem to have a seaside setting. There must be a psychological reason for this. Maybe it's because we associate it with childhood times and happy days, of precious memories of sun, sandcastles, ice cream, donkey rides, candy floss, noisy fairs where even the most basic rides, like dodgems, make you sick. Of glistening sands, and kiss me quick hats, of what the butler saw machines (overdoing it here), of bathing machines (so men don't see female flesh), of smoked kippers (no idea what I'm talking about), of mermaids riding foaming waves in the shape of sea horses that break on rocks beneath lighthouses, shining there bright rays of light into the bible dark and signalling to ships riding the sea like rocking-horses toward distant lands (gone mad)! |
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Post by samdawson on Dec 17, 2021 18:33:48 GMT
There must be a psychological reason for this. Maybe it's because we associate it with childhood times and happy days, of precious memories of sun, sandcastles, ice cream, donkey rides, candy floss, noisy fairs where even the most basic rides, like dodgems, make you sick. Of glistening sands, and kiss me quick hats, of what the butler saw machines (overdoing it here), of bathing machines (so men don't see female flesh), of smoked kippers (no idea what I'm talking about), of mermaids riding foaming waves in the shape of sea horses that break on rocks beneath lighthouses, shining there bright rays of light into the bible dark and signalling to ships riding the sea like rocking-horses toward distant lands (gone mad)! It might be explicable by Darrell's brief of 'animals attack crap towns', which may have resulted in a large number of new town and run down coastal resorts featuring as settings |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 17, 2021 19:11:37 GMT
There must be a psychological reason for this. Maybe it's because we associate it with childhood times and happy days, of precious memories of sun, sandcastles, ice cream, donkey rides, candy floss, noisy fairs where even the most basic rides, like dodgems, make you sick. Of glistening sands, and kiss me quick hats, of what the butler saw machines (overdoing it here), of bathing machines (so men don't see female flesh), of smoked kippers (no idea what I'm talking about), of mermaids riding foaming waves in the shape of sea horses that break on rocks beneath lighthouses, shining there bright rays of light into the bible dark and signalling to ships riding the sea like rocking-horses toward distant lands (gone mad)! It might be explicable by Darrell's brief of 'animals attack crap towns', which may have resulted in a large number of new town and run down coastal resorts featuring as settings I preferred my explanation. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 17, 2021 19:15:04 GMT
It might be explicable by Darrell's brief of 'animals attack crap towns', which may have resulted in a large number of new town and run down coastal resorts featuring as settings I preferred my explanation. And if that is the case I don't think any are going to fit in with my safari thread. |
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Post by jepersonoatcake on Dec 17, 2021 22:15:01 GMT
My two tales take place on the Yorkshire moors and in Peterborough respectively. Sorry to scotch your theory further!
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 17, 2021 22:50:49 GMT
I'm making a list of authors least favourite towns.
Here is the first entry:
Ken Shinn - Peterborough.
Won't it be exciting as we read the reviews of our dictator dem bones to discover new additions to the above somewhat short list? Who knows, maybe your town will be on it. Mine won't, naturally, but you could be lucky!
Just think, maybe on Christmas Day itself, as you rush to your computer, bypassing your presents, eager to read dem's Christmas review, you could discover the fellow citizens of your happy little town have been eaten by a plague of giant rats, or its majestic architecture has been demolished by a giant chihuahua. How good would that be as a Christmas present?
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 17, 2021 23:16:08 GMT
My two tales take place on the Yorkshire moors and in Peterborough respectively. Sorry to scotch your theory further! Please confirm that your dislike for Peterborough is due to consuming a dodgy sausage roll that you bought in a local Greggs there. I can state with near certainty, after some detective work (phoning the shop), that the reason the sausage roll in question "tasted a bit off" was not because they were selling substandard food delectables, but that it was actually one of the newfangled vegan sausage rolls, that were being rolled out in selected stores around the country at that time, and had been set on the wrong shelf. You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, a bit like Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton, despite everything that happened, has been man enough not to blame Peterborough for his harrowing defeat, it is time for you to learn from his example and drop this obsession with that city of shining spires. Move on! |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 18, 2021 0:17:58 GMT
My two tales take place on the Yorkshire moors and in Peterborough respectively. Sorry to scotch your theory further! I just thought that Ken Shinn might be vegan, in which case see below: Please confirm that your dislike for Peterborough is due to consuming a dodgy vegan sausage roll that you bought in a local Greggs there. I can state with near certainty, after some detective work (phoning the shop), that the reason the vegan sausage roll in question "tasted a bit off" was not because they were selling substandard food delectables, but that it was actually one of the newfangled sausage rolls, that were being rolled out in selected stores around the country at that time, and had been set on the wrong shelf. Blah, blah, blah, Lewis Hamilton. Blah, blah, blah, Peterborough blah, blah, blah, Move on! |
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Post by jepersonoatcake on Dec 18, 2021 12:31:58 GMT
Nah, I'll eat absolutely anything.
And I don't hate Peterborough. I've had some very good nights out there over the years. And, whenever I've had to travel by coach over the years to the North-West, the service often stops there long enough for me to grab a pasty or three and pick up a bit of reading material from the Queensgate shopping centre.
In fact, it was largely the Queensgate that inspired me to set the story there. Shopping centres/malls/precincts are always good places to set a bit of horrific carnage from Dawn Of The Dead through to The Day Kilroy Lost His Mind, aren't they?
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 18, 2021 13:48:35 GMT
Nah, I'll eat absolutely anything. And I don't hate Peterborough. I've had some very good nights out there over the years. And, whenever I've had to travel by coach over the years to the North-West, the service often stops there long enough for me to grab a pasty or three and pick up a bit of reading material from the Queensgate shopping centre. In fact, it was largely the Queensgate that inspired me to set the story there. Shopping centres/malls/precincts are always good places to set a bit of horrific carnage from Dawn Of The Dead through to The Day Kilroy Lost His Mind, aren't they?
I've no idea, never having seen either. And if you don't dislike Peterbrough then you didn't follow the book guidlines, see Sam Dawson's post about Darrell Buxoms guidelines of 'animals attack crap towns'. I'm afraid it's no use complaining that I misunderstood your use of Peterborough, I was simply making a logical leap based on this, as I am a great believer in using the scientific method for "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."  I thought of a terrible Carry On joke for this photo, but I daren't say it as I was educated by nuns. But I'm sure you can guess. |
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Post by jepersonoatcake on Dec 18, 2021 17:31:19 GMT
Crap is entirely subjective, so the Buddha tells us. Someone considers Peterborough to be crap: this is enough.
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Dec 18, 2021 17:44:43 GMT
Crap is entirely subjective, so the Buddha tells us. Someone considers Peterborough to be crap: this is enough. Northanger Abbey (The Austen Project #2) by Val McDermid is worse than Peterborough. |
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