6/30/2023 0 Comments Haunted by James Herbert![]() ![]() ![]() I had a Nurgle army, which I’d painted beautifully and they won loads of battles against my friends. My Dad gave me his copy of The Rats because I was a keen Games Workshop fan. I went to Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where I didn’t really fit in because I was neither rich nor a rugby player. “I was 11 or 12 years old when I made this, in the first year of High School. With the notable exception of the proud father of Stephen James Buckley, who actually passed his copy of James Herbert’s The Ratsonto his young son! Presumably unaware that this unprecedented act of parenting would lead to Stephen, in his school pottery class, producing an extraordinary clay sculpture of a helpless man being – frankly – eaten alive by giant rodents. By James Herbert and Stephen King, and later Clive Barker and Shaun Hutson, they made up a grimly fascinating procession: a motley parade of rats and slugs, vampires and rabid dogs, killer cars and psychosis-inducing fog.Īnd, in doing so, they captured the imagination of generation of boggle-eyed adolescents who gleefully passed them around the school playground, the illicit spoils of daring retail raids, away from the glare of blissfully uncorrupted parents. ![]() ![]() Their lurid covers leered from the groaning carousel racks of bookshops and newsagents alike those quintessentially 1970s and 1980s horror novels, the size of house bricks. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments 1901 kipling novel![]() ![]() The next day, on the street, Kim notices an oddly dressed priest and, curious, asks him about his background. Unknown to Kim, Laluli is plotting with Hassan Bey and other Russian-backed rebels who have been trying to foment war with the British-run Indian government, and plans to steal a document from Red Beard, which shows the five points at which the rebels plan to attack the English Army. Through Kim, the womanizing Red Beard asks Laluli to meet him the following evening and she gladly accepts. One night, Kim delivers a message to the beautiful Laluli from Mahbub Ali, or "Red Beard," a spy for the British Secret Service who is posing as a horse trader. In 1885, in Lahour, India, Kim, a young, white street orphan, survives by begging and stealing while dressed like a native. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments SEAL Team 666 by Weston Ochse![]() ![]() This is the supernatural thriller at its most dynamic. Anderson, #1 international bestselling author of Death Warmed Over "A wild blend of nail-biting thriller action and out-of-the shadows horror. ![]() I raced through this novel and when it ended, I wanted more." -Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author of In the Night Room " SEAL Team 666 is like X-Files and Torchwood written by Tom Clancy: ingenious, creepy, and entertaining."-Kevin J. Here, every story-line is as taut as a gunfighter's nerves, and individual scenes pop like firecrackers. Lansdale "Weston Ochse has always been a wised-up, clued-in, completely trustworthy writer of high-action fiction that deserved a wider audience, and SEAL Team 666 is his breakthrough book. ![]() Thank goodness we have our defenders - SEAL Team 666." -Joe R. Praise for SEAL Team 666 : "SEAL Team 6, the real-life elite team that killed Osama bin Laden, has never seen the kinds of things that confront its fictional counterpart." - Kirkus Reviews "Even the supernatural has its own division of terrorist. ![]() |