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they also own the Zebra imprint, which was the place for 80s horror novels that if nothing else had  covershttp://www.fright.com/edge/ZebraHorror.htm
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Johnstone (and his ghost writers now that he's dead(which makes the "with" author credit pretty hilarious)) was a relatively well known if lovely pulp writer since the seventies.
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so i guess the question is which imprint the trigger book is under, split-infinitively
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grittyreboot posted:
Man, I gotta reread that one, it was pretty legit. The first third was my favorite but that book really knew how to set a tone.
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Liminal States was good, but I thought Reificant was more interesting. That was the prequel that Parsons published here on SA, where you get to follow the alien ant/mantis creature that shows up briefly in Liminal States, and get some more insight into the white goo.
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Got a link? Not sure if I got to read it, and I loved Liminal States. Why hasn’t he written any more books already?
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I think I remember him tweeting about getting burned out on trying to make a living on writing.
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Does anyone have the sex scene excerpts from the Longarm Western books posted earlier? I want to share them with a friend's circle.
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Here's part one: https://www.somethingawful.com/news/reificant-battle-spire/1/
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  Top text: "Hillary Clinton And The White House Feminists Who Now Control America—And Tell The President What To Do" Edit: This guy's Wikipedia page kicks rear end. quote:Additionally, Texe Marrs has promoted a book, The Greatest Lie on Earth: Proof That Our World is Not a Moving Globe, by Edward Hendrie, which alleges that the planet Earth is immobile and flat.[15][16] Marrs also offers Hendrie's book asserting this argument through his ministry,[17] and books by Hendrie alleging that the world is being manipulated by a vast Jewish-Catholic conspiracy.[18] Sham bam bamina! has a new favorite as of 05:53 on Jan 15, 2019 |
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Jenny Nicholson did a video about this that's pretty funny. There's also a shocking twist ending! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMgMr0JcYJ4 If you don't want to watch an hour and a half long breakdown of the book the twist is the author William Johnstone has been dead for 15 years and the coauthor has been hiding said death, pretending that the books are just manuscripts that are being finished. Also said coauthor is a woman (specifically Johnstone's niece.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:Top text: "Hillary Clinton And The White House Feminists Who Now Control America—And Tell The President What To Do" Lots of potential band names in that blurb. Brutally Correct Women Awesome Gestapo Powers Global Marxist Paradise Frightening New Millennium Hilary's Regiment of Hardened Militant Feminists
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Wheat Loaf posted:
Nice gang tag. Speaking of which, I'm impressed by Coolio's gangster's paradise followup "global Marxist paradise"
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This feels like it belongs here. Do yourself a favor and click through to the thread itself. https://twitter.com/erinscafe/status/1088958995677638656
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:This feels like it belongs here. Do yourself a favor and click through to the thread itself. Seconding the recommendation on reading the thread. Turns out the book is free on Unlimited and they start live-tweeting it.
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Zamboni Rodeo posted:This feels like it belongs here. Do yourself a favor and click through to the thread itself. Yes, absolutely read this thread. Ye gods.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Yes, absolutely read this thread. Ye gods. https://twitter.com/erinscafe/status/1089002864507113472 https://twitter.com/erinscafe/status/1089009035284598791
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   Why, yes, this Rich Shapero book is a free copy that was dropped off on a college campus, and it does, in fact, have an accompanying album.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:
PYF terrible book: she was clawing his loins. Christ, it took me way too long to realize that was supposed to be a sex scene. In other news I'm reading Slugs by Shaun Hutson. I bought it after listening to the IDEOTV episode about it. I have zero regrets. This fuckin book owns.   
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Sham bam bamina! posted:
Fuckin’ A! He didn’t learn his lesson with Wild Animus?  “Hey, the last time I did this, I spent a ton of money and became a national laughing stock. Here we go again!”
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AlbieQuirky posted:Fuckin’ A! He didn’t learn his lesson with Wild Animus?
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Fatty Crabcakes posted:I'm not entirely sure this isn't money laundering of some sort. I would admire him more for that than for the ridiculous ego trip it seems to be on the surface.
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Serious Cephalopod posted:Please review
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The book itself isn't really terrible, but there isn't a good book thread outside of the pretty dead book barn, and as a children's book it's saddled with a lot of bad characters, but I just reread Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley, released in 1991 which I haven't read in 17 years. I revisited it because I remembered enjoying it as a kid, and while the first half is a bit lacking due to most of the characters having a lot of bad gimmicks like the teacher who is reduced to tears by the mere mention of Shakespeare, or the main character's mother who when stressed always says "Polly-wolly-doodle-all-the-day" which is annoying as gently caress to read from the start, the main character, Ruskin Splinter, is a stone cold badass. He is a weedy little runt with an almost inaudible voice, but he has the heart of a lion and the balls of a rhinocerous. He is 11. From the start he is standing up to the bully Elvis, who is his age and used to be his closest friend alongside his sidekick Sparky, but grew early and became an rear end in a top hat who the whole town is terrified to cross with Sparky acting as his flunky, (so he gets away with everything, including breaking literally everyone's windows all the time with his football),only acquiescing when completely overpowered. For example when Elvis kicks his ball through Ruskin's window again and demands he clean the marmalade off it, Ruskin tells him that it was his own fault he got marmalade on it and that he stole the ball from him in the first place so gently caress off, only cleaning it when Elvis physically picks him up by his hair to intimidate him. Here are some other things he does over the course of the book, in order: 1) Upon finding out how Krindlekrax, the giant crocodile of the title, came to be such a menace, and triggered by the death of the school janitor, the only person left in town who he considered an actual friend, at the crocs hands, he erupts completely, calling each and every one of the other characters out in their part in creating the problem in the first place, even his own parents after entering his home to run to his bedroom, with the last thing he says in the scene being a declaration of hatred for his community so violent his voice not only carries for the first time, but is never described as reedy again. That's right, he gets so mad his vocal chords go super-saiyan and break right then and there. 2) Pulls the thorn-in-lion's-paw gambit with Krindlekrax to finally tame it after luring it out of the sewers to fight it with the janitor's walking stick - however the thorn in the analogy was a medal the janitor gave to him that he threw into Krindlekrax's throat himself right then, so he basically stabbed the lion's paw and went "OK I'll pull this out if you gently caress right off mate..." Then climbed right into the croc's mouth to retrieve the medal. Krindlekrax never even thinks of eating him because he's pretty much got the point by this point. 3) Uses the pin on the back of the medal after this, grabbing Elvis's football and deflating it in front of him, with the bully being emotionally crippled at the rest of the town cheering this action. 4) When Sparky and Elvis individually (at different points in the story) ask if he wants to be friends again, he simply replies "You always were." Making it clear that them becoming distant from his was their fault and not his. Also during the fight when talking to himself about what he's fighting for, he lists off all his friends in town ending with "And Sparky and Elvis are my friends too, whether they want to be or not!" The kid totally loving owns and I love him. He's the worlds tiniest Anime. Here are some neat illustrations of Krindlekrax and Ruskin's confrontation:   I like how the main character is barely visible because it really highlights just how out of his depth he is against this monstrous crocodile. He's literally overshadowed but his stances are all strong stances. He's not cowering at all, he's laying down a reckoning. Or trying to.
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muscles like this! posted:Jenny Nicholson did a video about this that's pretty funny. There's also a shocking twist ending! this twist was loving mindblowing after hearing all the words in that book. Like, I genuinely can't quite think it's a troll because of all the baggage around it.
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BioEnchanted posted:The book itself isn't really terrible, but there isn't a good book thread outside of the pretty dead book barn, and as a children's book it's saddled with a lot of bad characters, but I just reread Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley, released in 1991 which I haven't read in 17 years. I revisited it because I remembered enjoying it as a kid, and while the first half is a bit lacking due to most of the characters having a lot of bad gimmicks like the teacher who is reduced to tears by the mere mention of Shakespeare, or the main character's mother who when stressed always says "Polly-wolly-doodle-all-the-day" which is annoying as gently caress to read from the start, the main character, Ruskin Splinter, is a stone cold badass. He is a weedy little runt with an almost inaudible voice, but he has the heart of a lion and the balls of a rhinocerous. He is 11.  I know it's not really what the thread is for but it's nice sometimes to see someone enjoying something so much. I enjoyed reading this, thanks friend!
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I remember reading that book but in my head I'd remembered it being about the crocodile/monster was a rumour/urban legend and so the books end where Elvis is beaten was the weedy kid basically having a psychotic break, thinking he was the monster and beating the poo poo out of his bully with the cane. While everyone else watched I guess. Not sure why I thought that would have been a suitable end for a children's book, though the UK cover was a bit more hardcore if I remember correctly.
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THere is a pretty great part that may have given you that impression when Ruskin is in the sewers after accidentally dropping his mentor's cane in when looking through the cover for Krindlekrax. He retrieves the cane from the swarm of rats and realises that he's alone down there, no giant crocodile in sight. So he relaxes. Starts having a realisation: "It's just a story. Ha. A story. Haha. A story!" and as he's laughing to himself partially in relief, partially due to how ridiculous he must have seemed, he stops. Because suddenly he hears a loud thunderous roar really close by. poo poo.
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I've been reading a Lovecraft anthology, and wow the guy is really poorly paced. A lot of stories seem to go on forever, although Mountain of Madness has a really cool setting in the city beyond the peak. There is a cute parallel in Mountain of Madness though - the scientists break through to a cavern in the antarctic and take a few specimens they find of The Old Ones to study along with some unusual artifacts. Then the Old Ones that are still living there decide to visit them during a massive windstorm (although I think the implication is that the complete specimens may not have actually been dead and just woken up and panicked). After the wind dies down, they find a lot of them missing or dead, the dogs all gone and their equipment has been hosed with too, with a lot of their books and things missing. They also kind of freak out that some of the incomplete corpses were buried. It's like dude, you broke into their home, stole from their mortuary along with nicking some artifacts of theirs that probably have meaning to them because you saw a footprint and got curious - It seems they just returned the favour. It's also hilarious that they're all "Burying their dead and marking the site with an emblem that's meaningful to them? How unprecedented!" when that's the most common human burial rite. They're both just groups of Bad Scientists who have proven to be really bad at dissecting each other.
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BioEnchanted posted:I've been reading a Lovecraft anthology, and wow the guy is really poorly paced. A lot of stories seem to go on forever, although Mountain of Madness has a really cool setting in the city beyond the peak. There is a cute parallel in Mountain of Madness though - the scientists break through to a cavern in the antarctic and take a few specimens they find of The Old Ones to study along with some unusual artifacts. Then the Old Ones that are still living there decide to visit them during a massive windstorm (although I think the implication is that the complete specimens may not have actually been dead and just woken up and panicked). After the wind dies down, they find a lot of them missing or dead, the dogs all gone and their equipment has been hosed with too, with a lot of their books and things missing. They also kind of freak out that some of the incomplete corpses were buried. Honestly, "the humans and the elder races are all kind of stupid" sounds like a fun neo-Lovecraftian take.
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quote:They had not been even savages—for what indeed had they done? That awful awakening in the cold of an unknown epoch—perhaps an attack by the furry, frantically barking quadrupeds, and a dazed defence against them and the equally frantic white simians with the queer wrappings and paraphernalia . . . poor Lake, poor Gedney . . . and poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last—what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star-spawn—whatever they had been, they were men! In the next paragraph the narrator flips out about the giant penguins again which is one of my favorite silly bits from At the Mountains of Madness, kind of like how one of the old vampire movies featured armadillos all over the vampire's castle.
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BioEnchanted posted:I've been reading a Lovecraft anthology, and wow the guy is really poorly paced. A lot of stories seem to go on forever, although Mountain of Madness has a really cool setting in the city beyond the peak. There is a cute parallel in Mountain of Madness though - the scientists break through to a cavern in the antarctic and take a few specimens they find of The Old Ones to study along with some unusual artifacts. Then the Old Ones that are still living there decide to visit them during a massive windstorm (although I think the implication is that the complete specimens may not have actually been dead and just woken up and panicked). After the wind dies down, they find a lot of them missing or dead, the dogs all gone and their equipment has been hosed with too, with a lot of their books and things missing. They also kind of freak out that some of the incomplete corpses were buried. I really like that section quote:And now, when Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new unknown odour whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage—clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly re-sculptured wall in a series of grouped dots—we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost depths. It was not fear of those four missing others—for all too well did we suspect they would do no harm again. Poor devils! After all, they were not evil things of their kind. They were the men of another age and another order of being. Nature had played a hellish jest on them—as it will on any others that human madness, callousness, or cruelty may hereafter drag up in that hideously dead or sleeping polar waste—and this was their tragic homecoming.
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And then it turns out that they're looking at the aftermath of a slave rebellion. Shoggoths of the world, unite - you have nothing to lose but your shapes!
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At the Mountains of Madness is an interesting one, given it also goes into more iconic Lovecraftian fare in that there's Weird poo poo that the Old Ones knew next to nothing about and were terrified of.
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As a bit of a update, The F Plus did a episode about Morgan Blayde: https://thefpl.us/episode/299
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C.M. Kruger posted:As a bit of a update, The F Plus did a episode about Morgan Blayde: I'd repressed my memories of this dude. He's just staggeringly awful.
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https://twitter.com/Merc_Rustad/status/1128332468678008832 Well worth the read. The twitter thread, that is, not the guy's book. Apparently he also went full diva on some book review site because they reviewed his book honestly. Gotta love it.
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Nothing but respect for someone that fully admits their religion fic book was inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark and not any actual holy text https://twitter.com/Merc_Rustad/status/1128336580043841536
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