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‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent’ #3 & ‘Conan the Barbarian’ #26

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I’ve got a few bits and pieces to sort out, over the next couple of days, so content here may be a little lighter than normal. And yep, I made a pretty big assumption, about the state of my regular content, in that opening sentence ;o) Anyway… I did a spot of Christmas shopping, the other day, and made a quick detour to pick the shelves (at Forbidden Planet) clean of some comics that I’d been waiting on. Look at me being all efficient, getting two things done in one trip ;o) Here’s some quick thoughts on the first couple of comics from that little haul… ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent #2’ – Ward, Jones, Martin (ID Dark) The ‘Event Horizon’ continues its journey through chaos and most of the crew are now dead. The survivors must deal with Paimon having arrived on board as well as his twisted creations and the secrets of the crew, suddenly brought to awful life… Well, damn… Every time I think that things cannot get worse for the crew of the ‘Event Horizon’, they promptly go and get worse ...
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‘Psycho’ – Robert Bloch (Joffe Books)

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  Page Count: 185 Pages So many books to read and films to watch, not enough time (by far) to get through them all; it’s inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. ‘Psycho’ is both a film that I’ve never managed to watch and a book that until last night, I’d never read. I’m slowly (very slowly…) working my way through Robert Bloch’s work so when I came across ‘Psycho’ in Waterstones, it didn’t take much for me to pick it up. And yesterday afternoon was when I finally got round to reading it, let me tell you about it… She was a fugitive, lost in a storm. That was when she saw the sign: motel - vacancy. The sign was unlit, the motel dark. She switched off the engine, and sat thinking, alone and frightened. She had nobody. The stolen money wouldn't help her, and Sam couldn't either, because she had taken the wrong turning; she was on a strange road. There was nothing she could do now - she had made her grave and she'd have to lie in it. She froze. Where had that come f...
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‘Darkness Eternal – Stories from the 41st Millennium’ – Various (Black Library)

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  I try to vary my reading, as much as I can, but I can never stay away from the Black Library for too long :o) The ‘why’ is probably a post for another time but for now, lets just say that the setting very rarely lets me down when I’m in need of a decent tale. I have a large pile of unread Warhammer books (40K, Age of Sigmar and even some Old World) and over the weekend, ‘Darkness Eternal’ had its turn in the spotlight; mostly because I was after bite sized stories but, being completely honest, I’d already read a few of the tales here and it was a slightly easier route to getting another book under my belt. I’ve got some momentum and I don’t want to lose it ;o) So, blurb? Go on then… In the grim darkness of the far future, the galaxy burns as its disparate races fight for resources, territory, and divine purpose. The Imperium faces threats both alien and heretic, and the touch of the warp is ever a moment from seeping into reality, with deadly consequences. Survival is earned in b...
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Official Trailer: 'Cold Storage' (2026)

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The side affects, of the chemotherapy tablets, seem to be levelling out now (fingers crossed) so I can now go to Tesco's without having to call my kids and ask what I went out for. Well, most days anyway... Things are looking up then but I am still going to be 'bookmarking' this blog with cool looking trailers that I don't want to forget about ;o) So then, while I return to the Warhammer 40K board today, my youngest fancies her chances of another crushing victory (and to be honest, she'll probably manage it), I'll leave you with the official trailer for 'Cold Storage'. Any film that contains rampant mutant fungus, infected humans/animals and exploding heads is a film that I don't want to miss. Hopefully this post will remind me a little nearer the time...  
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‘Victorian Psycho’ – Virginia Feito (4th Estate)

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  Page Count: 192 Pages Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer Winifred spends within the estate’s dreary confines and the more she learns of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family, the more trouble she has sticking to her plan. Whether creeping across the moonlit lawns in her undergarments or gently tormenting the house staff, Winifred struggles at every turn to stifle the horrid compulsions of her past until her chillingly dark imagination breaches the feeble boundary of reality on Christmas morning. Long time readers of this blog have probably worked out, by now, that while I don’t mind a little gothic fiction (every now and then), you will likely never find a books featuring Victorian governesses in my TBR pile. Until now that is :o) When a title and blurb like this ap...
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‘The End of the Line’ – Edited by Jonathan Oliver (Solaris)

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I've had one of the stories from the 'End of the Line' anthology going through my head the last couple of days (James Lovegrove's 'Siding 13', just in case you were wondering) and while I no longer have a copy of the book, I do have an old review that I thought I'd share here. Yep, it was too cold, today, to do anything but shiver; normal service should hopefully resume tomorrow ;o) You can find my original review  Here  but I've included it here in its entirety. Have a read and when you're done, do yourself a favour and grab a copy of 'The End of the Line' if/when you come across it. It's still worth a read... I’ve been living in London for a few years now (sometimes seems like a lifetime...) and use the underground pretty much every day. While the underground is quite possibly the single most annoying thing I’ve ever had to deal with (for reasons perhaps best suited to another blog, if you use the underground you know exactly what I mea...
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More Bits and Pieces…

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I’m now officially into the last week and a half of my sick leave and it has done me a lot of good; I didn’t expect to be off this long but I’m glad that I made that appointment with my GP back in September :o) Just one more meeting with Occupational Health and, fingers crossed, I should be good to go back to work next month. All of which is a round about way of saying that once again, I did very little yesterday; literally just what the doctor ordered. I did watch a couple of movies though, and read a couple of short stories, because well, of course I did ;o) Let me tell you all about it, movies first… ‘Good Boy’ (2025) Not to be confused with the 2022 horror movie of the same name (not a bad movie at all, just a whole different relationship between a man and his ‘dog’…) but to be honest, there’s very little danger of that happening. Everyone (and their dog) has been talking about ‘Good Boy’, this year, and I finally got the chance to watch it yesterday morning. Todd suffers from a ch...
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