Lord Samper's Library

Last night, I turned off my work laptop and settled down in my chair, ready to get stuck into ‘Old Moon Quarterly Vol. 8’ and… The next thing I knew, I’d woken up and it was far too late to read anything, let alone post about it here. I should clarify, it wasn’t ‘Old Moon Quarterly’ that sent me to sleep, it had just been a really long day. I’m getting old... Luckily for today’s post, I’ve got a few more movies under my belt and they weren’t bad ones either. That made for a nice change ;o) ‘Dark Match’ (2024) A small time wrestling company accepts a well paying gig in a backwoods town, only to find that they’ve been hired by a mysterious cult leader with his own plans for their match… The other night, I was having one of those evenings where I really wanted to watch something but it was taking far too long to make my mind up so… I figured I’d give ‘Dark Match’ a go, otherwise I’d watch nothing at all. And… A few days later, I’m still not a hundred percent sure what the point of it was...

I am slowly, but surely, getting rid of books that I’m either never going to read again or should never have bought in the first place (far too easily done at the moment, if you’re me…) It’s making me feel a little happier about myself and it’s also got me in the mood to keep going and read more of the books that are left. Although, having said that, payday tomorrow… Anyway :o) I’ve picked up a few of the books from the ‘British Library Tales of the Weird’ collection but up until now, have only read a couple of stories from ‘The Lure of Atlantis’ . I thought I’d do something about that and check out a couple of tales from ‘Spores of Doom’. I’ve always seen fungus more as background scenery for the main event, lets see what happens when it takes centre stage. Quick thoughts follow then on Mark Samuels’ ‘Cesare Thodol: Some Lines Written On A Wall’ and Aaron Worth’s ‘The Mykophagoi’ (quick thoughts I’m afraid, my medication is giving me a bit of a kicking so I need to pace myself a littl...

Page Count: 191 Pages This is going to be one of those shorter posts and not just because the book isn’t a long read. Work and packing stuff (along with everything else) have combined to really get me down but this book is a good one so I couldn’t not write about it. Here goes… When a brilliant scientist seeking to solve the problem of world hunger tries to create giant mushrooms through genetic manipulation, what could possibly go wrong? The mutated spores escape the lab and spread across all of England. Toadstools grow to twenty feet tall, and a case of athlete's foot can mean a grisly and horrible death. But those who die quickly are the lucky ones. Those who survive infection by the fungus will be transformed into something unthinkably monstrous ... I’ve read enough Jeff Vandermeer (the earlier stuff anyway) and seen enough clips from ‘The Last Of Us’ to know that ‘The Fungus’ would be just the book for me. Actually, thinking about it, ‘The Girl with all the Gifts’ helped make ...