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Forum: General Discussion 03-19-2020
Replies: 92
Views: 35,147
Posted By Caliban
Re: Notes on a Pandemic

Working from home from today in UK. I am on losartan and ramprill and steroids for my kidney condition and I have a weak/spongy heart. None of these factors will do me any good when I get this. I am...
Forum: General Discussion 09-22-2019
Replies: 649
Views: 346,137
Posted By Caliban
Re: Robert Aickman

I’m still journeying through Aickman’s stories. What’s everyone’s favourite story.

So far mine is The Wine Dark Sea
Forum: General Discussion 08-15-2019
Replies: 649
Views: 346,137
Posted By Caliban
Re: Robert Aickman

Reading Aickman stories published order for the first time. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about The Trains for days.
Forum: General Discussion 08-04-2019
Replies: 2
Views: 2,997
Posted By Caliban
Dennis Etchison

I can’t see anywhere here to discuss his works.

Recently Ramsey Campbell mentioned on twitter that his author friend had died and it was Dennis. I’d never heard of him but an endorsement from...
Forum: General Discussion 08-03-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

Recently I’ve been amassing many collections by the same author and then putting the stories in published order and reading them one a day start to finish. Mainly because I’m a mental Aspergers guy...
Forum: Ligotti News 04-29-2019
Replies: 8
Views: 7,411
Posted By Caliban
Re: Ligotti symposium to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University

I’m gonna go to this. I’m a useless human being but like Cyril if people want to meet up then I’m happy to do that.
Forum: General Discussion 04-07-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

To bring it back on topic I just finished the short story The Long Retreating Day by John Gaskin.

It’s probably the worst weird/horror story I’ve ever read and the last page was laughably bad...
Forum: General Discussion 04-07-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

I don’t need to. I can get to work on public transport but I get a lot of pressure to from family who think it’s a necessity in modern life.

We do live in a rural area but I don’t go out at all...
Forum: General Discussion 04-06-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

Just an update on me in case anyone cares. I recently achieved my goal of attaining a full time job but with that and the fact that I need to catch a bus there because I’m a loser who still can’t...
Forum: General Discussion 04-01-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

I’m now reading the collection The Long Retreating Day by John Gaskin and from Tartarus Press.

Alongside this my current novel is The Shining by Stephen King. I’ve never seen the film and don’t...
Forum: General Discussion 03-28-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

Hope this helps James

1946
Forum: General Discussion 03-19-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

I’ve been reading more slowly recently cos I’ve had a god awful few days. I just want a little shack in a forest or coast somewhere where I can sit by the fire and read with a cup of tea forever....
Forum: Ligotti News 03-14-2019
Replies: 8
Views: 7,411
Posted By Caliban
Re: Ligotti symposium to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University

I think I’ll make a promise to myself that if I have managed to get a job by then and my heart problems are stable I’ll try to make this.

It would be nice to talk to people with similar interests...
Forum: General Discussion 03-06-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

I’m still on The Jungle by Sinclair for my novel read (very depressing) but I’ve just finished the Shirley Jackson collection and I’m now onto Simon Strantzas recent collection Nothing is Everything.
Forum: General Discussion 03-03-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Dean Koontz

Thomas Pynchon can get away with that kind of thing, but almost any other author... not so much...[/QUOTE]

Yep. Pynchon along with Don DeLillo and Toni Morrison are America’s best living writers...
Forum: General Discussion 03-02-2019
Replies: 25
Views: 22,337
Posted By Caliban
Re: Favorite Movies

Oh no I already posted here didn’t realise.

File under idiot poster.
Forum: General Discussion 02-25-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

Yeah I didn’t enjoy it that much really to be honest. I’ve been slowly going through his novels chronologically for years whenever I feel like reading him but I preferred Eye in the Sky

I just...
Forum: General Discussion 02-11-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

Having finished the plays of Kit Marlowe I really enjoyed them. Edward II was my favourite by far. I find Stephen King a bit hit and miss to be honest but there was enough to enjoy in Just After...
Forum: Caitlin R. Kiernan 02-10-2019
Replies: 28
Views: 17,936
Posted By Caliban
Re: Caitlin R Kiernan collections in new editions

Haven’t read any Kiernan but been meaning to for a while! For those who have is getting this best of Collection a good start? Or is it better for me to shell out on the individual previously...
Forum: Art 01-30-2019
Replies: 38
Views: 26,924
Posted By Caliban
Re: Clive Barker

I know it’s probably best to take everything he says with a pinch of salt but he’s been talking about the novel he’s working on recently here:...
Forum: Thomas Ligotti 01-27-2019
Replies: 5
Views: 5,658
Posted By Caliban
Re: Essays by and on Ligotti?

I can’t actually find the book to check (it’s in my room somewhere) but in Ramsey Campbell, Probably his essay collection I’m sure there’s one about Ligotti
Forum: Christopher Slatsky 01-21-2019
Replies: 30
Views: 23,726
Posted By Caliban
Re: Christopher Slatsky

Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/Jon__Padgett/status/1087456736934592512)

News!

I have read a few of Chris’s stories scattered around in various anthologies but I’ll definitely pick this up...
Forum: Other News 01-21-2019
Replies: 397
Views: 225,456
Posted By Caliban
Re: Egaeus Press

When I have money I’ll splurge on some titles. I only ever bought Murder Ballads but it’s gorgeous and I was very impressed with my order.
Forum: General Discussion 01-20-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

Taking a bit of a weird fiction break with one story per evening from the collection Just After Sunset by Stephen King being read alongside The Pearl by John Steinbeck

Edit: I finished The Pearl...
Forum: General Discussion 01-13-2019
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,871
Posted By Caliban
Re: Recent Reading

If I’m right Camoes is mainly known for epic poetry more akin to The Fairie Queene or The Odyssey. So I imagine even the English translation would be really difficult to read.

I say that as...
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