Lord Samper's Library

Page Count: 162 Pages Life really isn’t about finishing as many books as you can but after the week I’ve had at work… It’s really nice to be able to finish something that I’ve started. I’m celebrating this one ;o) ‘The Great White Space’ has been sat on various TBR piles for far too long and after a couple of ‘Paperbacks from Hell’ that really hit the spot, I figured that it was time to finally sit down and see what ‘The Great White Space’ was all about. What I wasn’t expecting was to finish it as quickly as I did. Seriously… I was so into the plot that I even skipped my regular ‘nap on the bus home’ to get a few more pages read. That should tell you all you need to know but stick around for a little longer, I’m going to keep going ;o) Frederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton Scarsdale to accompany his research team in search of "The Great White Space," described in ancient and arcane texts as a portal leading to the ex...

I’ve got a couple of Basil Copper’s books waiting to be read (‘The Great White Space’ and ‘Necropolis’, in case you were wondering), but I saw ‘The Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories’, in Crofton Books, and ‘The Spider’ is Copper’s first published work so where better a place to start reading…? Nope, me neither, the decision pretty much made itself ;o) Monsieur Pinet has had a good days business, but a long one, and decides to break up his journey home with a night in a nearby hotel. When Pinet encounters his greatest fear, in his hotel room, the night will be a long one and he may not live to see the sun rise in the morning… ‘The Spider’ is only seven pages long so was just the right length of tale to cap off a Wednesday that could have gone a lot better than it did. I’m not a huge fan of spiders (not a fan at all in fact…) so I knew, before I picked the book up, that ‘The Spider’ would do it’s job on me. I guess I just wasn’t expecting it to do that job as well as it did, I was well an...