Lord Samper's Library

Because yesterday was a bit crazy and didn’t leave me with much time for reading in the evening. A couple of short stories and that was about it. Today looks very likely to go in the same direction (hospital appointment and a lot of work to catch up on all at the same time) so while I have a few minutes spare, let me tell you about last night’s reading. One good and one, erm… not so good, lets do the ‘not so good’ first. Here goes… ‘Embers of Extinction (The Horus Heresy Primarchs)’ – Brandon Easton (Black Library) For many long years, Perturabo has harboured a grudge against his primarch brother Rogal Dorn. With the outset of the Horus Heresy, he has a chance to finally avenge himself against Dorn and his Imperial Fists – but the disastrous Battle of Phall has just embittered him further. Determined to slake his thirst for revenge, Perturabo sets his Iron Warriors on a mission to devastate Dorn's sons… at any cost. I’ve only ever come across Perturabo as a supporting character (wh...

  Page Count: 228 Pages Apologies for the ‘blog silence’ yesterday… Things kind of caught up me (chemotherapy, again) and I’m not going to lie, I spent most of the day moping and feeling all sorry for myself ;o) The day wasn’t a complete write off though, I actually managed to get some reading done. And here’s where I tell you about some of it ;o) It has been an absolute age since I last read James Herbert’s ‘Haunted’ so when I saw an old copy in the Red Cross shop the other day, it felt like someone was telling me it was time I picked it up again. And I tried to buy it but there was no price on the book so the shop couldn’t sell it to me… Yep, it’s taken me a while but I have now officially been refused service by a charity shop :o) I didn’t let that stop me though, just went and ordered myself a copy of ‘Haunted’ from elsewhere. And I finally found the time for it yesterday afternoon.   Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook. Three nights in which David Ash, the...

I'm on call today and today... I got a call :o) It looks like it's all sorted now (fingers crossed) but that's why, a) This post is a little later than normal. b) It's another 'Trailer Post'. Hopefully now things have quietened down, I'll have a little time for reading tonight. Anyway... I'm very partial to movies where heads explode and 'Cold Storage' looks like it will deliver on that front so... Here we are :o) Keep an eye open for this one in 2026.

  Page Count: Fourteen Pages, eight lines and two words (sorry, it has been one of those weeks) I was looking for something short and sweet, to end the week on, and came across ‘Dig Me No Grave’ courtesy of Paperback Warrior’s write-up . Having read it, I can attest to it being short (all of fourteen and a bit pages in ‘The Dead Remember’ collection) but sweet? Not at all and that is meant in the best possible way :o) ‘Dig Me No Grave’ was originally published in the February 1937 of ‘Weird Tales’ and while it has appeared in other collections since then, I read it in ‘The Dead Remember (The Dark Man Omnibus: Volume 2) and also found it in my copy of ‘The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard. If you’re an e-reading type, you can grab yourself ‘Dig Me No Grave’ over at Project Gutenberg. John Kirowan is woken, in the middle of the night, by his friend John Conrad, bearer of bad news and come to beg a favour. The occultist John Grimlan has just died and Conrad asks that Kirowan att...

I had my daughters over, last night, so not a lot of time for reading but just the right amount of time to listen to a couple of short audiobooks after I got back from dropping them off at their place. The ‘Horus Heresy’ is always good to visit in audiobook form, especially in the shorter stories where the accompanying effects are superb, so I picked a couple of tales from David Annandale and away I went. Just quick thoughts this time round as both tales were very quick listens, just what I needed last night ;o) ‘Veritas Ferrum’ – David Annandale Run Time: 11 Minutes. When Horus' treachery was declared, the Iron Hands primarch Ferrus Manus sped to the Isstvan system with his elite forces to confront the traitors...and fell into their trap, losing the battle and his life. The Tenth Legion warship Veritas Ferrum arrives in the Isstvan system in the second wave of Imperial forces. Battered by the foes and forced to retreat, the crew must make a difficult choice when survivors of the...

  In the grim, dark universe of the far future, there is only war; even in the parts of the galaxy where you’d be forgiven for thinking that war hadn’t touched. Even on Holy Terra itself… There is an unseen war being fought for the very soul of the Imperium and no-one is safe. I’m talking, of course, about the fine work done by the Inquisitors; the last line of defence against humanity’s knack of falling prey to Chaos... I haven’t read many ‘Inquisitor Books’ but I’ve enjoyed what I have read (Dan Abnett’s ‘Eisenhorn’ trilogy) and I love Darius Hinks’ Black Library output, in general, so when I saw Hinks’ name on an Inquisitor book, well… That read pretty much chose itself :o) Let me tell you about it. Zealous and uncompromising, Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz is the scourge of cultist and daemon alike, striking fear into the hearts of the Emperor’s foes. As lord inquisitor and High Protector of the Formosa Sector, he wields terrible power, able to purge entire systems of the tai...