tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.comments2023-09-13T10:48:58.940-07:00The Forbidden Books Group Presents, Necronomipod: The Lair of the Bookish WormNecronomipod@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18334862493870239161noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-66750876408019053922023-09-13T10:48:58.940-07:002023-09-13T10:48:58.940-07:00Thanks for all the great book talk, guys. It was ...Thanks for all the great book talk, guys. It was wonderful.Paul Chadwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01185294142750163408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-61618098427368870132022-10-18T20:19:11.752-07:002022-10-18T20:19:11.752-07:00For what it's worth, I've been listening t...For what it's worth, I've been listening to this podcast for a couple years now, worked through the back catalogue (>1ce) and am really sorry to hear that it's coming to and end. I get why, I think, but I'm still bummed. It's the only horror/'weird fiction' podcast I've ever found that doesn't merely not make me grind my teeth, but actually look forward to whatever is coming up next. Thank you, deeply, for all the hours of entertainment and drinking!<br />-KimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-16548311498313340122022-05-29T13:31:43.703-07:002022-05-29T13:31:43.703-07:00Hi thanks for postiing thisHi thanks for postiing thisPierre Mercerhttps://www.pierremercer.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-70912460116191282182021-12-19T19:28:50.709-08:002021-12-19T19:28:50.709-08:00Hey Mikes,
Thanks for the kind words on Nightbloo...Hey Mikes,<br /><br />Thanks for the kind words on Nightblood, I'm glad you had a good time with it. It's nice to see it being read again after all these years.<br /><br />Did you read the Paperbacks from Hell edition by any chance? Because it has a foreword by Grady Hendrix that tells the history of the book, why it never made it to a series, etc. Kinda wish it had been an AFTERword, though, since it spoiled a few aspects of the story beforehand. If anyone else decides to give it a try, I suggest you read the book first, then go back for the opening...<br /><br />Since you guys mentioned Where the Chill Waits, I thought I'd let you know that the ebook only came up for sale last week (on the 16th). There will be a print edition available too, probably a week or two after that.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />T. Chris Martindale<br />(tchrismartindale@outlook.com)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-30598806434032251882021-10-17T22:36:39.890-07:002021-10-17T22:36:39.890-07:00Still loving you guys. Nice episode. The puzzle o...Still loving you guys. Nice episode. The puzzle of the author and screenwriter names is freaky.<br /><br />Technical problem though. Microphone gain mismatch. Mike S. was kind of quiet and Mike M. VERY LOUD. Must be a way in Audacity, or Garage Band, or whatever you're using to compress or dampen dynamic range. I'd turn volume up for MS comments then be blasted by MM.<br /><br />-EmphyrioEmphyriohttps://www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-85879454189108730582021-05-02T13:40:52.317-07:002021-05-02T13:40:52.317-07:00Another great episode.
I've come across other...Another great episode.<br /><br />I've come across other Disch works that would also be called "Sardonic." "Attack of the Stupid Dinosaurs" comes to mind.<br /><br />Always been curious about "The Genocides," where aliens come and start farming giant plants. Humans are the vermin scuttling amid the crops, who must be eradicated like aphids. Also "Fun with Your New Head." <br /><br />If you come across the short story, "Descending" -- in which a distracted shopper at a NY department store takes the down escalators while absorbed in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," only to realize he's fifty pages in and untold stories underground -- give it a read.<br /><br />Would like to renew my request that you read a passage and comment on prose style.<br /><br />Hope you someday do Ligotti's masterpiece, "My Work is Not Yet Done." Not sure if an affordable edition is out there, though.<br /><br />Keep going, you're still doing wonderfully entertaining podcasts.Emphyriohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00lblq9?at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom2=twitter&at_custom3=@BBCRadio4&at_campaign=64&at_medium=custom7&at_custom4=D32C3BAE-7D15-11EB-8BCB-32DE96E8478Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-58980958495691760772021-02-14T18:12:35.788-08:002021-02-14T18:12:35.788-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.alego723https://www.blogger.com/profile/07915816836853730867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-43861522662683645582019-12-05T21:17:45.275-08:002019-12-05T21:17:45.275-08:00I believe the obscure author reference was T.E.D. ...I believe the obscure author reference was T.E.D. Klein who wrote a story titled "Growing Things."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-25411868822682350302018-03-27T12:13:38.462-07:002018-03-27T12:13:38.462-07:00Thanks guys. I guess I'm somewhere between th...Thanks guys. I guess I'm somewhere between the two of you in my happiness with this book. As I read more about their lives, the more the lack of fleshing out of biographies needles me. <br /><br />By happenstance, I came upon Lita Judge's newly published <i>Mary's Monster</i>, an illustrated biography, in free verse, of Mary Shelley. These were just kids! Shelley was 20 and Mary 16 when they ran away (with Claire) across a devastated-by-war Europe. Mary was pregnant from the tryst they had near her mother Mary Wollstonecraft's grave.<br /><br />By 24 Mary was a widow. Byron died at 36. No wonder they were so awful with money management.<br /><br />Shelley would have been forgotten if Mary hadn't edited and published his works over the next 28 years. He'd had no success with his poems during his life. He was reviled as an atheist and despoiler of girls. <br /><br />It's a quick read, in the YA section. It's fascinating, surprising and tragic. Sample poem:<br /><br /> I AM HELPLESS<br /><br />JULY 1822<br /><br />I fear we will not escape<br />the destiny I gave my unloved Creature.<br /><br />Shelley's demons turn his thoughts murderous. <br />At night he wakes me from sleep, <br />screaming that he dreamed his hands were gripping my neck,<br />strangling me.<br /><br />His poetry is filled with images of the dead.<br />He hallucinates nightmarish visions<br />of bloodied people standing atop the sea,<br />their eyes hollow,<br />their bones showing through their skin.<br /><br />I can do nothing but watch<br />as he becomes completely disillusioned.<br />Life and love are only mirages to him.<br />It is death alone that holds his fascination.<br /><br />I must turn toward living and keeping our son safe.<br />I no longer beg Shelley to stay when he sails <br />with Edward into another restless sea,<br />even tho0ugh I know he dares the wind<br />to show him the mysteries that haunt him<br />about what lies beyond the grave.<br /><br />Day after day<br />I wait.<br /><br />But he does not return.<br /><br />--<br /><br />The next poem is about his drowning and cremation, of course. And his heart wasn't wrapped in butcher paper, but in a manuscript page from Adonais, the elegy for Keats, and kept in Mary's desk!<br /><br />Powers missed the mark when he didn't delve into these peoples' lives and relationships more. Dreaming of strangling your wife!Emphyriohttp://calnewport.com/blog/2018/03/03/tim-wu-on-the-tyranny-of-convenience/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-68779932389680535632018-03-11T22:54:29.057-07:002018-03-11T22:54:29.057-07:00More characters:
Santo Sprito and Emile, would-be...More characters:<br /><br />Santo Sprito and Emile, would-be killers of Josephine<br />Teresa Guiccioli, Byron's Caboneri-connected Pisan lover<br />Fletcher, Byron's servant<br />Jane and Edward Williams, guests of Byron in Pisa<br />Percy Florence, the Shellys' fourth child<br />Captain Daniel Roberts of the Bolivar<br />Charles Vivian, young crewman of the Don Juan<br />The Siliconari, the opposition to the Carboneri<br />Francois Villion, poet (aka Des Loges)<br />Antonia, a servant at Casa Magni<br />Tita, Byron's servant who aids in Crawford's rescue from the neffer pub under the bridge<br />Guiseppe, Byron's disgusted servant who tends the wounded Crawford<br />Niretim Byron's bulldog who eats Crawford's fingertip<br />Thomas Mersin, gossipy Pisan friend of Byron<br />della Torri, Carboneri who aids Crawford and Josephine's mission to Venice<br />Sputo, the boatman <br /><br />Grumble: The vivid, climactic Venice mission, and to a lesser extent the battle with the nephilin on the beach, point out the long, flagging sections of the novel which preceded them, characters idly hanging out without any plan or effort to vanquish or escape the nephilin who shadow their lives. Having characters want something, and try things to accomplish their desire, beats passivity any day.<br /><br />That said, the showdown in Venice is a kick, particularly how he handled Crawford and Byron handing off control of the same body.<br /><br />My other gripes: <br /><br />Not enough biography of Byron and Percy and Mary Shelly. I feel like their pasts should have been illuminated. Mary, particularly, is underused and under characterized. She wrote freakin' Frankenstein! And The Last Man! There should have been passionate discussions of philosophy, the aims of poetry, religion and atheism, and their past hurts and indiscretions. As written, they just weren't very interesting company. I'm not even sure I believe their personalities were much like those described in this book. <br /><br />Needed a scene of Byron reciting poetry to his monkeys and other pets. Why else would he keep them around?<br /><br />Crawford's just too passive, when he's not in danger of losing his life. His late awakening to save his unborn child and Josephine from subjugation was too darn late.<br /><br />I don't believe somebody would bite off their own finger to flummox a child.<br /><br />Did someone once advise Powers to put characters in physical distress to create sympathy and tension? The maiming, cutting, amputating, shootings, fevers, nausea (garlic!) verged on being repetitious.<br /><br />And again, the dialogue is too modern to my ear. And unpoetic, considering this crew. He ought to have lifted some shimmering lines from Shelly and Byron and put them in their mouths. <br /><br />My likes:<br /><br />When the action ramps up, Powers is gloriously bizarre.<br /><br />Nice sense of symbolic magic. He's worked out complicated rules and our heroes work out clever ways to employ them -- for example, using salt water to escape the surveillance of nephelim. I see in this kind of thinking a parallel to the uses of symbolism in fiction. <br /><br />This is a time, and a world, which feels different from just about any other popular culture I've consumed.<br /><br />Weird magic ideas. The "eye" being a spot of vivid clarity as it shoots around: pores and cracks on the marble, brighter stars in the sky behind it. A stone nephelim surgically implanted in Werner to awaken the race. Their captivity in the stone of the Alps. Drinking Byron's blood (remember the vinegar to avoid clotting!) to create body-sharing. Using Shelly's barbecued heart as a catcher's mitt for the eye.<br /><br />Over to you.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Emphyriohttp://www.zambo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-19888255168913768852018-02-23T20:15:10.380-08:002018-02-23T20:15:10.380-08:00Guys, I’m only on P.208, but here’s a character li...Guys, I’m only on P.208, but here’s a character list so far.<br /><br />George Gordon Lord Byron, poet<br />Percy Shelly, poet<br />Mary Godwin, author<br />William, their baby<br />Claire Clairmont, Byron’s pregnant lover and MG’s stepsister<br />Polidori, Byron’s doctor<br />Lucy and Louise, barmaids<br />Michael Crawford, aka Michael Aickman, obstetrician<br />Appleton and Jack Boyd, Crawford’s friends<br />Caroline, Crawford’s faithless wife, dead in a fire<br />Julia Carmody, Michael’s doomed fiancee, then wife<br />Mr. Carmody, Julia’s father<br />Josephine Carmody, Julia’s twin sister<br />John Keats, medical student, poet<br />Henry Stephens, medical student<br />Dr. Lucas, their instructor<br />Pete Barker, prop. Galetea pub<br />Francois des Loges, hut-dwelling poet<br />Brizeux, law clerk<br />Lisa, the rainbow girl in Geneva<br />Lord Grey de Ruthyn, Byron’s vampire-lover<br />Lady Caroline Lamb, neffer<br />Augusta, Byron’s sister<br />John Cam Hobhouse, Byron’s school friend<br />The Curate, who tried to poison Byron and Crawford<br />The Sphinx on the mountaintop<br />Hookham, Shelly’s publisher<br />Leigh Hunt, poet & editor<br />Allegra, Claire & Byron’s daughter<br />Clara, Percy and Mary’s doomed infant daughter<br />Fletcher, Byron’s valet<br />The aged man with a cane who set the fire at the pillars<br />Margarita Cogni, Byron’s Venetian lover<br />Werner Von Aargau, the "young" Austrian<br />The Carbonari, a secret society<br />Severn, Keats’ friend<br />Dr. John Clark, Keats’ doctor<br /><br />Sheesh, I’m only halfway through! Powers isn’t shy about a complicated plot, though the narrative drive flags once Crawford/Aickman’s flight from justice lands him in Geneva. (Aickman – a tribute to Robert, the British weird tale writer?)<br /><br />I feel these early 19th century people should have God and Satan much more on their minds, their natural frame for these supernatural events. Shelly’s and Byron’s atheism particularly seems due to be shaken. And they speak in rather conventionally modern terms. Were I Powers’ editor, I would have asked him to pick 100 archaic expressions and salt them throughout the dialogue in the book. Patrick O’Brian he ain’t. But I am enjoying the freewheeling invention. <br /><br />Oy, that dead baby marionette sequence. Wild. And the mountaintop scene.Emphyriohttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-horror-podcast-for-readers-writers-creators/id599755380?mt=2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-34033681450037831262018-02-08T13:34:56.407-08:002018-02-08T13:34:56.407-08:00Great segment, and that passage sourMike read was ...Great segment, and that passage sourMike read was truly beautiful. Liked his bringing up generativity, which seemed the touchstone of how to think about <i>The Road.</i> Yeah, that 's the only reason to go on. Maybe curiosity, too...and blind faith, conceivably. Maybe things are sort of okay in Tierra del Fuego? Or Pitcairn island? You never know.<br /><br /><br />It's only taken three years, but I've worn you down! Though I wonder if <i>Stress of Her Regard</i> is the best place to start. I set it aside after thirty pages! But I still have it, and will try to have comments when you post. Hope <i>Three Days to Never</i> is on your reading list. Maybe <i>Last Call</i> would be a good choice, too. <br /><br />Here's a bit on Powers' injecting-supernatural-into-history process from <a href="http://www.theworksoftimpowers.com/exclusive-author-interview/exclusive-author-interview-6/" rel="nofollow">an interview:</a><br /><br /> JB: So is the methodology of putting something like that together a matter of you piecing together a historical skeleton of the period? Of the lives of the people you're writing about and using as characters, the actual historical figures – and then you're wrapping a fiction around it – fleshing it?<br /><br /> TP: Right. I'm trying to put a secret motivation behind their overt, and in effect, actual, motivations. <br /><br /> Like with <i>The Stress of Her Regard</i>, the period when Byron and Shelley were in Italy is very well recorded and so I was able to put together calendars – giant oversized calendars where every day is a foot by a foot – and I was able to write in ink all the events that history simply insists did occur. <br /><br /> And I had a lot of sources – Byron's letters, Trelawny's journals, Shelley sources. I was even given actual conversations they had. Shelley wrote a long poem called Julian and Maddalo which is a long account of a conversation he has with Byron in Venice. <br /><br /> And so I not only had to adhere absolutely to the events and travels and times of day that history stuck me with, but I was also stuck with actual conversations which I couldn't leave out. <br /><br /> So I had to look at the conversations and then say "In what way was this actually a reference to my secret supernatural business? They appear to be talking about this, but in what way can I make it be the case that 'oh, as any fool can plainly see, they were actually talking about this magical junk!'" and it was kind of fun.<br /><br /> In a number of cases I was able to put together the secret motivation behind some really well documented conversation between Byron and Shelley.<br /><br />End quote. Anyway, thanks for this fan service. -- EmphyrioEmphyriohttps://books.google.com/books?id=M-63RTvyw9oC&pg=PT18&lpg=PT18&dq=Emphyrio&source=bl&ots=CD4o_E-UTt&sig=bXXr8v3KVBMwqc8sXbAVjUeyoAc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiupfbAoZfZAhVBSGMKHadAAro4ChDoAQgyMAM#v=onepage&q=Emphyrio&f=falsenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-25487558437856330032018-01-02T23:43:50.162-08:002018-01-02T23:43:50.162-08:00Oops, I blew that link. Copy
https://en.wikipedi...Oops, I blew that link. Copy<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_to_Never<br /><br />or maybe I can get it right this time:<br /><br /><a rel="nofollow">Three Days to Never</a>Emphyriohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_to_Nevernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-27579177738210016072018-01-02T23:40:25.408-08:002018-01-02T23:40:25.408-08:00Thank you! For the call-out and especially for re...Thank you! For the call-out and especially for reading a passage. And it did spur good comment, you must admit.<br /><br />You guys have been firing on all cylinders lately, great podcasts. <br /><br />Surprised The Painted Bird didn't come up. Jerzy and Cormac would make a great couple of dinner companions, eh?<br /><br />I nominate Tim Powers as a three-book subject, starting with <a href="Three%20Days%20to%20Never." rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_to_Never</a>Emphyriohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Days_to_Nevernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-80161815018288909572017-11-27T11:15:59.566-08:002017-11-27T11:15:59.566-08:00A+ episode, guys. You get better and better.
I&#...A+ episode, guys. You get better and better.<br /><br />I'm going to try to read Blood Meridian before you next post.<br /><br />Curious: what were some of the ten-dollar words? My eternal request: read a passage.Emphyriohttps://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/bf6f3e15-275d-4b88-9d1d-a61d0117f497/749762d7-7995-4fd8-f8cf-465a7946bd60/original.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-84162837970444845742017-06-27T00:13:07.145-07:002017-06-27T00:13:07.145-07:00Glad you guys found something of interest. Seems ...Glad you guys found something of interest. Seems like a lot of disappointments in recent months.<br /><br />Not a drinker, but High Tea sounds borderline poisonous. Eat something first!<br /><br />Hey! You read an excerpt! "Well spoken" is a good term. <br /><br />And my perennial request. Now come on: one buck!<br /><br />https://www.amazon.com/Three-Days-Never-Tim-Powers/dp/0062221396<br /><br />Also: Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows." Included in<br /><br />https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Descent-Evolution-Horror/dp/B000ZLPBM6/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1498547541&sr=1-3&keywords=the+dark+descentEmphyriohttps://www.amazon.com/Three-Days-Never-Tim-Powers/dp/0062221396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-8716046301271093842017-06-18T20:40:21.548-07:002017-06-18T20:40:21.548-07:00You guys on hiatus? We miss you.You guys on hiatus? We miss you.Emphyriohttp://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-29495445851370927462017-03-17T23:33:36.505-07:002017-03-17T23:33:36.505-07:00Love that elevator music version of Tubular Bells....Love that elevator music version of Tubular Bells.<br /><br />The connection between Sardonicus, Sagittarius and Sanquinarius (IIRC) is that they're all as gothic as hell. You might discuss why gothic horror was such a fad in the sixties -- all the Corman Poe movies, for that matter the whole Vincent Price oevre...Witchfinder General, Dr. Phibes, etc. Was it an echo of seeing the Frankenstein movies as kids a couple of decades before, now reverberating throughout the pop culture creative class? <br /><br />Kind of like superhero movies today. The thousand sons of Stan Lee, ruling the pop culture world.<br /><br />The grin makeup job in the very shadowy Mr. Sardonicus film was preposterous -- google it -- but the kind of thing if you saw it when you were ten or eleven (and it was basically the one shock in an otherwise slow, dread-filled film) would scar you for life. I saw it as an adult and still got laugh-shivers.<br /><br />Another vibe in Russell's work -- that postwar, nascent sexual revolution, just-before-feminism treatment of women, reminiscent of John D. MacDonald.<br /><br />Still hoping you guys try Tim Powers' Three Days to Never, and write list of character names before the discussion, and read an excerpt as a prompt at some point (preferably ten minutes in) in each podcast. When you did that it always sparked thoughts.<br /><br />Love ya.<br />Emphyriohttps://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/518970/dark-matter-animated/?utm_source=atltwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-91580124576951343762017-02-03T04:54:51.203-08:002017-02-03T04:54:51.203-08:00Should be working now, Emphyrio. -- The MikesShould be working now, Emphyrio. -- The MikesNecronomipod@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18334862493870239161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-27520229320020506002017-01-24T12:32:43.692-08:002017-01-24T12:32:43.692-08:00Oh, no! This episode doesn't seem to load any...Oh, no! This episode doesn't seem to load any more.Emphyriohttp://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/how-stigma-sows-seeds-of-its-own-defeat/509273/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-51718291631169487262016-10-10T05:55:08.229-07:002016-10-10T05:55:08.229-07:00To be fair to me I've never read The Shadow ov...To be fair to me I've never read The Shadow over Innsmouth or any Ramsey Campbell though I have seen The Wicker Man. And Madeleine doesn't warn the Greers because what she wants principally is revenge for the deaths of herself and her parents. The sacrifice has to fail - not to be prevented from occurring by a warning from her too early on. <br />I like the cocktail here better than the revolting gin and oyster Waiting Room concoction and have my fingers crossed that The Colony will impress you more than Bay did. Brigadoon it's not, by the way. Francis Cottamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-8237887481898645842016-09-26T23:14:47.759-07:002016-09-26T23:14:47.759-07:00On the whole you were very kind about this novel, ...On the whole you were very kind about this novel, which is almost wholly an Edwardian homage. The first encounter between Creed and Stride is a nod to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story openings. The Great War stuff was inspired by Housman's A Shropshire Lad. The contrapuntal ending is how I imagine Chesterton or H.G. Wells would have ended the story (if that doesn't sound too conceited). <br /><br />Beyond that there's the Gothic element and you were bang on about Patrick Ross and Frankenstein's creation. Then there's the flapping amputees, a sight I experienced first-hand at a veterans' hostel as a very young child and have never forgotten.<br /><br />Thanks for discussing the book. However I'll pass on the cocktail...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-60917593970742872182016-08-15T21:40:21.650-07:002016-08-15T21:40:21.650-07:00The Waiting Room just came in on Inter-Library Loa...The Waiting Room just came in on Inter-Library Loan. Maybe I'll finally read one of your books before the podcast.Emphyriohttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpXHO0UXYAYvWiy.jpgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-73600914599329731682016-05-02T10:22:47.659-07:002016-05-02T10:22:47.659-07:00A good article about THE RIM OF MORNING - http://w...A good article about THE RIM OF MORNING - http://wwwbillblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-kind-of-face-you-slash-thinking.html<br /><br />and THE DEVIL COMMANDS:<br />http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3g18xwlrobhubbardhttp://mimezine.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2606699906808150572.post-40347744322881606322016-04-06T22:29:33.624-07:002016-04-06T22:29:33.624-07:00Recommend you guys follow up with the rest of the ...Recommend you guys follow up with the rest of the Laundry Series...<br /><br />The William Sloane books are a great choice - although the 'cosmic horror' referenced is only tenuously connected to that of Lovecraft.<br /><br />Arcane trivia - THE EDGE OF RUNNING WATER was adapted (very loosely) to film under the title THE DEVIL COMMANDS, with Boris Karloff. lrobhubbardhttp://mimezine.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com