Lord Samper's Library

  I’m doing my absolute best not to be ‘book tempted’ (especially since my run of overtime came to an end just before Christmas…) but every now and then, I can’t help myself, especially when a certain Womble is doing the tempting ;o) Like I said before , I really enjoyed ‘Wake Up And Open Your Eyes’ , and I’m always partial to a collection of horror short stories, so it didn’t take too much persuading for me to grab myself an ‘Acquired Taste’. I’ve been dipping in and out of the book and polished it off over a lazy Sunday afternoon in the comfy chair. Let me tell you about it… They're feeding on you too. A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one. From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns; from the claustrophobia of the Covid-19 pandemi...

  Page Count: 37 Pages Just a quick one today as I’ve got the day to myself and three books (I think) that are a good way along the road to being fully read. I want to see if I can finish at least one of them, lets see how it goes… In the meantime, here’s a tale that found its way onto my Kindle, back in 2024, and then proceeded to languish unread for the next couple of years. Nothing against ‘Faith In Iron’, if you’ve seen my place, you’ll know that it’s very easy for a book to get lost in the crowd; especially if it’s hidden away on my Kindle ;o) Anyway… I was watching a lore video that mentioned ‘Faith In Iron’ the other day; I put two and two together and realised that I needed to get my moneys worth out of the read. And that’s exactly what I did... The tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus eschew the weakness of flesh, preferring to show their faith in the Omnissiah by replacing their organics with machine parts. As well as religious, this is practical – disease can't affect ...