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Make Them Die Slowly · #**791** 20th January 2015, 11:24 PM

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Do you break the egg on your genitals MTDS? Do you do this in the presence of whoever you are trying to end said bad relationship with??

Nothing so exotic, you can just break it in the loo then flush it away though I imagine rolling it on your genitals in front of your soon to be ex partner should do the trick by itself unless they have this as an undisclosed fetish, in which case I'd say they were a keeper.

Demoncrat · #**792** 21st January 2015, 11:32 AM

Reading Gustav Meyrink's The Golem (1915). Daedelus Press PB.
Another Xmas present etc. A contemporary of Kafka, you can certainly see the influence, in that the protagonist is "hemmed in" by his situation. About halfway through, I got the strangest deja vu and felt I was reading The Castle again. Never had this whilst reading before......(cue TZ theme haha)

The film was based on this book, so anyone who hasn't had the chance to see Weneger's remaining print of this eerie proto horror tale should do so before I finish it haha. Or I learn to use the spoiler mode properly.....

demonknight · #**793** 30th January 2015, 03:46 PM

Currently reading "Chain Saw Confidential": How We Made The World's Most Notorious Horror Movie; by Gunnar Hansen.

Demoncrat · #**794** 20th February 2015, 09:56 AM

Finished both Celine's Journey To The End Of Night and Ligotti's Teatro Grottesco. I feel quite grim.

Now reading The Gobbler by Adrian Edmonson as way of some respite, though Doesteovsky's House Of The Dead is winking at me from the pile (now there's a laugh riot...much like Gogol's Dead Souls hahahahahha ahem)

The Ligotti collection is unlike any "horror" fiction that I've read really. More akin to a fatalistic Raymond Carver in places, am intrigued to read more...and since me local Waterstones is stocking My Work Is Not Yet Done (And both David Wong books!!!), there is a good chance that I will. Haven't bought a full price book in years ahem.

Prince_Vajda · #**795** 23rd February 2015, 08:34 AM

I need some advice. Which are Clive Barker's finest books? I've only read The Hellbound Heart so far and I very much enjoyed it. It is one of my pet books that I read at least once a year.

Nosferatu@Cult Labs · #**796** 23rd February 2015, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

I need some advice. Which are Clive Barker's finest books? I've only read The Hellbound Heart so far and I very much enjoyed it. It is one of my pet books that I read at least once a year.

I really like the Books of Blood short story/novella collections. I haven't read all of his novels, but probably prefer the short stories to full-length novels.

demonknight · #**797** 23rd February 2015, 10:53 AM

Stephen King's "Doctor Sleep".

J Harker · #**798** 23rd February 2015, 10:59 AM

Has anyone read Barkers The Great and Secret Show?

Rik · #**799** 23rd February 2015, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

I need some advice. Which are Clive Barker's finest books? I've only read The Hellbound Heart so far and I very much enjoyed it. It is one of my pet books that I read at least once a year.

Like Nos says, the Books of Blood are very good, also Cabal is one I read often (along with The Hellbound Heart)

In answer to J Harker, I enjoyed it, but it's been years since I read it, so I'm not sure if I'd enjoy it if I read it again as an adult, if that makes sense

Make Them Die Slowly · #**800** 23rd February 2015, 08:42 PM

ASH by James Herbert. First thing I've read by him since I was at school in the early 80s!