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Yep, it’s another ‘Bits & Pieces’ style post but that’s just what happens when what should have been a couple of hours job-hunting becomes a lot longer; thanks to my laptop deciding to play by its own rules and ‘take breaks’… You may see me actually finish a book this week, maybe… Oh well, fingers crossed for a better experience today ;o) Yesterday didn’t leave me with a lot of time for reading then but I did manage to read me some more ‘Conan’ and finally watch ‘Backrooms’ as well. And you know what? I’ll take that :o) ‘Backrooms’ (2026) When investigating powercuts in his store, struggling furniture salesman Clark finds an entrance into the Backrooms, a seemingly endless series of rooms and passages. Most of these are empty, others are less so… Now therapist Mary must find her way into the Backrooms and locate Clark, he doesn’t want to leave… My eldest daughter loves the lore around the ‘Backrooms’ and the plan was to go and see the movie at the cinema. We all know what happens t...

Another ‘I blinked and missed it’ kind of weekend… I’m not sure if it was something I ate, or my medication getting the better of me, but I felt pretty rough for most of Saturday (when I was awake, that is). Sunday… Sunday was mostly about my spending time with my kids but I did find some time, here and there, to have a little moan about the continued lack of a comfy chair in my living room. I really need to do something about that. Anyway… I did manage to get a little reading under my belt as well; not much but enough to feel like I hadn’t slacked off too much ;o) Let me tell you about some of that. Just a couple of comics for today but they’re both worth a look and definitely added to the ‘scary vibe’ that I’m aiming for this month… ‘Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees: Halloween Special’ – Various (ID Dark) Before I go any further… If you haven’t read the ‘Rites of Spring’ mini-series (collected or otherwise), you should definitely do that before reading this ‘One-Shot’ Halloween Sp...

What with one thing and another, and then another, this week hasn’t been the best week for reading. Not every week is, it happens :o) I just need to get through today and then I’ve got all my fingers crossed for either Saturday or Sunday (I’m not fussy) being a good day to read something. Lets see… In the meantime, I did manage to read a few short stories yesterday. Well, my laptop froze ‘mid job hunt’ and I thought that if ‘I don’t read something now… So that’s what I did :o) A little ‘Age of Sigmar’ and a couple of ghost stories… ‘Past Returns’ – Hal Wilson (Black Library) Page Count: 28 Pages I was looking at the Warhammer Community pages and saw mention of a new ‘Age of Sigmar’ novel, by Hal Wilson , about the Freeguilds. I have a bit of a soft spot for Freeguild soldiers but had never read anything by Hal Wilson so… I went looking for a copy of ‘The Wanderer’ (a prequel to this new novel) but couldn’t find it so went for ‘Past Returns’ instead. I really should have paid closer att...

It’s that time of year again. You know the time… You don’t? Well… It’s the time when I realise that we’re a week into October and this prompts me to make loads of bold statements about making it an October where I really make a dent in all the horror that I need to watch and read. Then it gets to the beginning of November, I look back and… you guessed it. Well, we’re a week into October. Lets see how much of a dent I can make in all the horror, lurking about the place, that I still need to watch or read ;o) We’ll start off with an easy post. Reading hasn’t come easy, this week, but I’ve had a little more luck watching movies so… lets talk about those. ‘Pet Sematary 2’ (1992) Some movies don’t need a whole blurb included here… :o) If you’ve seen, or read, ‘Pet Sematary’ then you’ll know what ‘Pet Sematary 2’ is all about. And that was kind of the problem here; the names (and pets) may have been changed but it felt like an awful lot of trouble was taken to basically tell the same story ...

  Just a quick post today because, well… I’m not sure what happened to be honest. I started off in good form, getting stuff done left, right and centre. The next thing I knew, it was almost the end of the day and there was still loads to do. I won’t embarrass myself by dwelling on the backlog; lets just say that there wasn’t a lot of time left to read anything. You know me though, I’ve got reading matter, to hand, for the shortest intervals and so of course I had a copy of the latest ‘Savage Sword of Conan’ to hand. It’s like ‘Past Me’ is keeping an eye open for ‘Present Me’, I’m very grateful ;o) Since Robert E. Howard’s work found its way to Titan & Heroic Signatures, we’ve had a couple of cross-over events; namely the ‘Battle of the Black Stone’ and ‘The Scourge of the Serpent’. Well, I’m not sure how these events are timed but apparently, it’s time to start getting ready for the return of an old enemy in ‘Tides of the Tyrant King’. And it looks like it’s all kicking off in ...

  Page Count: 120 Pages (taken from the ‘Legends of the Waaagh!’ Collection, where the print size is tiny, my poor eyes…) I wasn’t a big reader of ‘Black Library’ books back in 2015 (when ‘I Am Slaughter’ was first published) so I pretty much missed all of the ‘Beast Arises’ series, both as individual volumes and again when it was reprinted in omnibus editions (a couple of years later). To be fair, those years weren’t good for reading anything at all, that’s another story though. As far as things stand then (and given the price these books go for second-hand), it looks like I’ll be getting my history of ‘The War of the Beast’ via the likes of Lexicanum. That’s part of the reason I picked up ‘Legends of the Waaagh!’ The inclusion of ‘I Am Slaughter’ means that even if I don’t get to read the rest of the series, at least I got to see how it all kicked off. And… It is the thirty-second millennium and the Imperium is at peace. The Traitor Legions of Chaos are but a distant memory and t...