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Post by bushwick on May 24, 2008 18:08:21 GMT
Had a right old haul today, Leeds Market and a couple of shops in Harrogate. Here goes:
Herne the Hunter 11: Silver Threads (have not checked but this reads like an LJ effort. Short knowing sentences, nihilstic etc... about halfway through and it's a good 'un)
Edge 24: The Day Democracy Died (have nearly got all the first 25...I love Terry Harknett so much. Please somebody make an Edge film, or at least a computer game...)
Enter The Dragon - Mike Roote (10p...when will i read it?)
Richard Laymon - The Cellar
Night Cruise - Billie Sue Mosiman (looks like a fairly prurient crime/murder effort...bought to make up a '3 books for a quid' deal)
The Festering - Guy N Smith (cracking cover art. is this a good GNS? becoming quite a connoisseur now...)
Michael Linaker - Scorpion (got 'em both now...again, great cover art)
The Terror Of The Seven Crypts - 'Ettiene Aubin'
Star Child - Fred Mustard Stewart (very lurid cover)
The Beast Of Kane - by 80s renaissance man, author, actor, bouncer Cliff 'Pike' Twemlow
John Halkin - Slither and Blood Worm
Savage - 'soul-searing supershocker' by Paul Boorstin (great shrunken heads on cover. anyone read this? Corgi, 1981)
Wheels Of Rage - Kurt Saxon (NEL US written biker business)
Scottish Tales of Terror (Fontana)
Jubal Cade 18: Time Of The Damned (Isn't Jubal the nicest PC hero going? Doing it all for the little blind boy, and correcting him on his grammar. Plus he looks like Keith Moon)
got all that lot for less than 18 quid...not bad going
Plus, recently acquired "Let's Go Play At The Adams'", "Beasts Of Gor" (i don't know if I'll ever read one of these...they do look very painful...should I go for it?), "Slimer" by Harry Adam Knight (looks good), "Tales Of The Unexpected", "The Haunting Of Toby Jugg" by Wheatley (never read owt by him yet either), "Fox: Blood For Breakfast" by 'Adam Hardy'/Ken Bulmer (OK, will read a few more i think, very convoluted writing style and not enough violence for my taste but enjoyable...he's a good character. A woman does get her breast shot off in this book though, which is pretty out of place compared to the rest of the action. Fuck knows what all this nautical terminology means though), and 'The Force' by Gerald Suster (an enjoyable romp, not what i expected at all), amongst other things. Got a big pile to work through but I'm getting there!
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Post by bushwick on May 22, 2008 20:41:19 GMT
I'm assuming these must be rare as hen's teeth now. Did the stories live up to the covers Rog?
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Post by bushwick on May 22, 2008 16:53:52 GMT
Got three George G Gilman 'Undertaker' books (3, 4 and 6) in OK nick for 50p each from a market last week, which i was chuffed about. Have read 3 and it wasn't bad. He's the politest and most well-spoken PC Western antihero I've come across.
Was also excited when I saw "Scorpions: Second Generation" for 50p, snapped up in a chazza shop the other day.
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Post by bushwick on May 21, 2008 16:56:29 GMT
Nothing's really put me off horror, but i get depressed by any sort of late-90s-on future-goth-vampire sort of vibe. Read City Infernal by Edward Lee expecting big things as had read a few passages of The Bighead, and it was pretty terrible I thought. A 'hardcore Buffy' kind of teen goth girl vibe. Quite gory, but the gore read as if it was CGI effects, if you follow me.
Have never read anything that I've found too gross and disturbing really. Saying that, have come across snuff-style writing posted on the internet a few years ago that was horrible and I would not care to read, but this is really violent pronography, designed for very sexually disturbed people. I wouldn't call it horror. Child abuse is very hard to read about. Has anyone heard of Peter Sotos, who used to be in Whitehouse? Very controversial author who deals with his own violent sexual obsessions, over and over again. Again, I wouldn't call it horror...although I could imahine a very persuasive argument to say it actually is. It's very effective, brutal writing, but after a while just becomes incredibly dull and numbing (which is possibly the point).
As for 'proper' horror, nothing has gone too far for me. The pulpy stuff like "The Witches" or "Eat Them Alive" is just funny. Charles Birkin is excellent, sad, funny and tragic but doesn't disturb me. Steven King used to annoy me when I read him as a kid, taking 150 pages before anything bloody horrific happened.
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Post by bushwick on Feb 22, 2008 11:53:59 GMT
Hi folks
I haven't swung by here for ages, not really on the net atm, so just thought I'd say hello.
Rog - thanks so much for sending me my copy over Xmas. The whole thing looks great and I'm well proud to be involved. Standard of the stories and art = very high. Can't wait till the next one.
Justin - glad you enjoyed the story. I guess my work will always lean towards Ramones-style brevity rather than Pink Floyd (or Stephen King!) style length...but these novels I'm working on will address that (see below!)
(I have read MASSES of good and not-so-good books recently by the way, my collection has swollen like an infected wound...when I finally get organised and a bit of time, I'll post some reviews. I am a Picadilly Cowboys obsessive now. I have even grown a moustache in an attempt to resemble Josiah C. Hedges)
I've been quite busy putting together a comic featuring all my own work - strips and art. It's called "Dump Me Load", and as you might expect, it features violence, madness and gallows humour, and characters such as Whiskey Weasel, Jonas Horne and Stabber Duck. It will be out within the next couple of months, with a CD of strange music attached, and I'll let you all know when there's more info to be had.
I've also had my million dollar idea for a series of novels, kind of an updated version of the PC westerns but set in the near future in a dystopian Britain. I'm getting my research done and 'road-mapping' it all at the moment, but I will make a start soon. Might post a little taster in the Workshop when I've got some stuff done.
Looking forward to the next FC Rog. Are you going to use another of my stories in that one mate? 'The Snakes Inside' or 'On The Wall'?
Peace everyone, I'll try and stop by more regularly!
NB
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Post by bushwick on Feb 22, 2008 12:11:21 GMT
Dir: Andrea Bianchi
All I can say is, see this 80s Italo-zombie classic. Picked up a Vipco disc for about two quid (uncut, good transfer) and it's an amazing piece of work. Effects by Lucio Fulci's favourite, Gino de Rossi (of Zombie Flesh Eaters fame), very very rotten zombies, a full grown man with an Emo Phillips wig playing a young boy with an Oedipus complex (no shit), hilarious dialogue ('You look just like a little whore...but I like that!'), nipple biting, exploding heads and more. Can't believe I overlooked this one for so long. Would have loved to have seen this when I was 12...
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