Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End Contains Major Spoilers Well now, twice in one week; wonder what that means. Ten or so days ago I found myself left with a feeling of bleak sadness on rereading Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. It was a sort of ‘localised’ sadness: just this recognition of time passing and even ending for those who I love or have loved through the years. Of the Veil pulling back and Oz the Great and Terrible...
Pet Sematary (Novel)
Older and Wiser: Going Back to the… Pet Sematary It’s funny, isn’t it, how something you read so many years ago can have a completely different feel when you return to it. This has been true of most of those early Stephen King novels that I’ve been revisiting of late…but none more so than with his 1988 Pet Sematary. I was in my twenties when I first stumbled across that clearing in the Maine woods. That odd patch of ground where...
The Black Monday Murders Vol. 1
The Black Monday Murders Vol. 1: All Hail, God Mammon “If you are going to earn more…if you’re going to earn real money, accumulate real power… then that is done on the backs of others. Call them workers, call them proles, even call them slaves, I do not care. Just know it is they who you will sacrifice for your gain. “We finance culture. We buy entire nations. But even that is just manifestation…it’s not real power. It...
Clive Barker’s Coldheart Canyon
Hollywood Hokum & Snail Masturbation; Welcome to… Clive Barker’s Coldheart Canyon Dear oh dear, what a sordid and depressing 2001 novel this one is. From the pen of horror writer Clive Barker, it should be pressing all the right buttons for me. In particular, I’m a sucker for tales of Old Hollywood — and Coldheart Canyon is even advertised as a ‘Hollywood ghost story’. Yet so much of it is wrong, wrong, wrong; not...
The Sign of the Four
Cocaine and Criminal Capers: The Sign of the Four By Arthur Conan Doyle Despite the moans of some, I think that A Study in Scarlet, the debut teaming of Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson is just a little gem of perfect structure. I really enjoyed it a great deal. A little less than three years later, Arthur Conan Doyle brought the duo back with a very different outing, in the 1890 short novel The Sign of the Four. At least...
Oh No, I’m a Racist Asshole! Passing by The Dark Tower
Oh No, I’m a Racist Asshole! Passing by The Dark Tower I’ve just finished reading The Waste Lands, Stephen King’s third volume in his The Dark Tower series. So, I guess that will tell you I’m not all that into it. I am a fan of King, just not of this beloved fantasy series. I’ve somehow never gotten it, despite many attempts over the years. Therefore the film adaptation shouldn’t really bother me all that much. Before I came...
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