Lord Samper's Library

I’ve spent the week trying to cheer up a depressed cat (Cat 1) while trying to keep a hyperactive kitten (Cat 2) from wrecking my ex-wife’s place. Lets just say it’s easier said than done and my reading has taken a bit of a knock, just at the time when I wanted to finally finish some ‘long unfinished’ stuff before the year wraps up. Also, while I’m in a much better place than I was a couple of months ago, this year has still been one hell of a slog and I’m really (really) tired and still forgetting all sorts. Like, reading books for example :o) Oh well… I did manage to read a little yesterday and listened to a quick audio-book, both Warhammer 40K (to absolutely no-one’s surprise) Let me tell you all about it… ‘The Wrath of Kharn’ – William King (Black Library) Page Count: 15 Pages Of all the enemies that the Berzerkers of Khorne wage war against in the 41st Millennium, none are so hated by their blood-soaked god as the servants of his rival, Slaanesh. As Khârn, champion of the Blood Go...

I was going to say that I wasn’t sure how it happened but… I know exactly what happened :o) I returned to work, a few weeks ago, and then I had to sort myself out for Christmas. Nothing that I couldn’t handle but there was only room in my brain for so much so I totally forgot to keep on with my streak of buying single issue comics. Not the worst thing in the world and it ended up not really mattering anyway; I went to Forbidden Planet and found everything I needed anyway (still forgot to pick up ‘Conan the Barbarian #27’ though, stupid brain fog...) Sometimes it pays not to follow the ‘usual series’ too closely ;o) Anyway, a slightly different post from normal… With a couple of the titles, I’ll be doing ‘two issues in one’ (as it were). I’m still up to date with ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent’ so, lets start there first… ‘Event Horizon: Dark Descent #4’ – Ward, Jones, Martin (ID Dark) ‘Event Horizon’ is a movie that just loves to get right in your face and shock; one of those moments (t...

Page Count: 139 Pages Ah… We meet again, that ‘strange time between Christmas and New Year’ :o) Those weird days where if you’re at work, no-one else is and if you’re not at work, you’re starting to grow weary of mince pies. Or if you’re me, you’re looking after the cats while your ex-wife and daughters are away. Luckily, Cat 1 hates Cat 2 more than me, at the moment so the best way to describe things is ‘an uneasy truce’ :o) I do Cat 1 a favour and get out for a couple of hours, each day, which is how I eventually found myself in Marchpane Books (the other day) and when I left, you guessed it… I had my own copy of ‘Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils’. That is what Christmas money is for, collecting old books that I used to read when I was a lot younger :o) Funnily enough, I can’t actually remember reading ‘The Sea Devils’, as a boy, but the law of averages would suggest that I more than likely did. Either way, I have read Malcolm Hulke’s ‘The Cave Monsters’ (and seen the TV serial, kind of...

Morning all :o) Sorry for the radio silence these last couple of days, things have been particularly busy, we all know what that's like at the moment. Anyway... I hope you had a good one yesterday and that today is more of the same. Personally, I'm a big fan of Boxing Day, it's the day where there's no pressure, just plenty of time to make serious inroads into the Christmas leftovers; I see a chicken and stuffing sandwich in my very near future, possibly with a Yorkshire Pudding and a couple of roast potatoes :o) If you're me, Boxing Day is also the time to maybe dip into a couple of books that you were given the day before. I suspect that today will be about reading comic books (I'm also a good way into 'Oaths of Damnation') but lets see what else was under the tree :o) My old copy of 'Scourge of the Betrayer' suffered a very strange (but definitely final) ending so this new copy is a welcome arrival, and it's a slim read too (which might j...

There is nothing better in life (sorry Conan, it’s true…) than waking up late, and not having to jump straight out of bed, because it’s the first day of your Christmas Break. The rest of the day didn’t quite hit those heights but I’m a little bit closer to being sorted, for Christmas, so I’m taking it as a win :o) While I wasn’t out and about, doing Christmas stuff/picking up more tablets/eating a really nice burger, I took some time out to make a dent in my mini ‘ComicBook TBR Pile’ . Two books down now, one all apocalyptic and the other set in a franchise that I don’t normally read at all… ‘Crossed: Volume 1’ – Ennis, Burrows (Avatar) A world like this, it finds a way to damn us all… In the blink of an eye, humanity is lost. The Crossed are upon us. Men, women and children alike fall victim to the mystery infection that makes killers out of parents and rapists out of lovers. Ruthless, beserk and evil beyond measure, these cackling demons spread their plague across the Earth – until o...

  Page Count: 117 Pages We’ve all been there… You order a few Christmas presents, online, and because you’re feeling pleased with yourself for finally getting round to it, you order yourself a little something as well. It would be rude not to, you deserve it ;o) That was me the other day, after finally figuring out some tricky purchases. While I’d been doing that, I’d also been reading through Jim McLeod’s ‘Favourite Horror Books of 2025’ and the inevitable happened. Jim knows his horror and you’d be daft not to listen to his recommendations; that’s how a copy of ‘The Hamlet’ ended up on my doorstep yesterday. I had my daughters over so I wasn’t able to finish ‘The Hamlet’ in one sitting, there was never any doubt that I wouldn’t finish it before the day was out though, thanks Jim ;o) Screens go blank, radios go silent, and the government advises everyone to stay indoors. The residents of a rural Scottish community abandon their picnics and return home. Everyone can sense that som...