Lord Samper's Library

I’m still that person who forgets he has Shudder and then goes on a mad watching spree to somehow try and justify the expense… I’d like to say that I’ll sort myself out but I’m a regular creature of habit so that’s not going to happen ;o) Halloween got me in the mood for some horror but after the bleak horror of ‘Lockdown Tower’, I needed something a little more light-hearted so when I realised that Season 4 of ‘Creepshow’ was on ‘Shudder’ and I had no other plans for Sunday, my afternoon and evening pretty much took care of itself. Just under six hours later… ‘Creepshow’ was just what I needed to get me over the bleakness of ‘Lockdown Tower’. It was a good mix of laughs, unsettling moments, full on scary bits and some particularly unlikeable people getting what they deserved. Not all of the episodes worked for me but enough did to make the Season a success, for me overall. Episodes are below followed by some quick thoughts on each… Episode 1 – ‘Twenty Minutes with Cassandra’ & ‘S...

Saturday was going to be the day that I let the estate agent in, to show people around my flat, and once they’d gone, I’d settle down with any one of a number of books that I really should have finished by now. What I had totally forgotten though was that most of Saturday was meant to be about something else entirely and by the time that was done, it was Sunday afternoon and I wasn’t in the mood for reading at all so… It was time to try and make another dent in my watchlist on Prime. I managed to polish off Season 4 of ‘Creepshow’ but that’s a post for tomorrow. Lets take a look at the movies I watched over Saturday evening and most of Sunday… ‘Lockdown Tower’ (2022) The inhabitants of a tower wake up one morning to find that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows - a strange dark matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it. Trapped, the residents try to organize themselves, but to ensure their survival, they gradually succumb to their...

Every so often I'll see a book, think 'ooh that could be good for my eldest/youngest daughter', buy it for them and see what happens. I've got a pretty good success rate and I added another book to the 'success column' when my eldest finally got round to reading 'The Girl with all the Gifts'. She loved it and now wants to see the film so you can guess what at least some of tomorrow's post will be about ;o) In the meantime, watching 'The Girl with all the Gifts' reminded me that I'd actually reviewed the book a long time ago, on another blog entirely. I was going to take today off, from blogging, so it felt like just the right time to bring that review back and let it have its time here. So, let me take you back to 2014, a far simpler time ;o) And as a bonus, you get to laugh at my bold prediction that there would be no sequel, shows what I know... ;o) Here goes... Every time I reach my absolute limit with zombie fiction another book arri...

Page Count: 186 pages. As happy as I was to see ‘Doctor Who’ finally return to the BBC, what I was really excited about (along with many others I suspect) was seeing the Daleks back on the telly. Even if it was just one Dalek to be honest; when you’ve spent years without any Daleks at all, even just the one will do very nicely thank you :o) I’m not going to go into the TV episode too much. Suffice it to say that if you haven’t watched ‘Dalek’ then you really should do something about that. And if you have seen, you know full well that you’re way past due a rewatch. You know I’m right. Nope, what I’m all about here is Robert Shearman’s novelisation of ‘Dalek’ and how yesterday, it became pretty much the perfect ‘bus read’ for my trip into work. I didn’t get my phone out once, just read ‘Dalek’ all the way to work and all the way back again. And it was great, let me tell you about it. And I know it’s becoming a bit of a habit here but we’re talking quick thoughts again. I got about th...

I originally bought this copy of ‘The Singing Citadel’ as I’d never read the short story ‘The Greater Conqueror’ and at the time of writing… I still haven’t :o) I’ll probably pick the book up again, over the next week, but as I was settling down for a read yesterday, it struck me that I’d never read ‘To Rescue Tanelorn’ and having a soft spot for Rackhir the Red, I figured that I should really do something about that… And here I am. The edition I’m reading from has ‘To Rescue Tanelorn’ weighing in at a slender thirty four pages so don’t expect anything too deep from this post then. More like quick thoughts on a quick read, you know how it goes… ;o) The Lords of Chaos grow tired of their human servants renouncing Chaos and finding peace in the fabled city of Tanelorn. The time has come for the city to burn and the Chaos Lord Narjhan raises an army to do just that. In it’s way stand the defenders of Tanelorn but they are far too few to do anything other than delay the inevitable. It fal...

Another book that I’d pre-ordered and completely forgotten about. It was a nice surprise when it came through the door but it has left me wondering what else I’ve forgotten that I ordered. I guess I’ll find out over the next few months… ;o) But that’s for another time. Angron is surprisingly high up my list of ‘Favourite Primarchs’ and I was really glad when the news first came out that he was headed back to the Warhammer 40K universe. All that rage backed up by a tragic backstory (what the hell, Emperor of Mankind…), what’s not to look forward to in ‘The Red Angel’? Well, let me tell you about that... In the darkness of Imperium Nihilus, across half a million worlds cut off from the dim light of Holy Terra, a beacon is lit. The Red Angel returns to an unsteady galaxy and his scattered sons heed the call to slaughter. Aboard the World Eaters’ flagship, Kossolax the Foresworn, self-appointed lord regent of the XII, fights to keep the old dreams of the Legion alive, but finds the retu...

Page Count: 160 pages. I came across this book during my ‘Birthday book shopping’ trip and was immediately intrigued. The cover art by itself would have been enough for me to pick the book up, definitely another ‘sword and sorcery’ book that rode the crest of a ‘fantasy boom’ and then slowly sunk over time, eventually ending up in a secondhand book shop in Brockley. I love the thought that books are printed and then each one goes off on a journey that will more than likely outlast many of its owners, but anyway… The title also caught my eye. Those snow castles have got to be pretty impressive if they’re the whole title, don’t they…? And wouldn’t our barbarian friend on the cover just be really cold all the time? I finally finished ‘Snowcastles’ a couple of days ago, about a month after picking it up. I’m not the slowest reader so a month to read 160 pages should tell you all you need to know about this book. If you want a bit more though, here goes... Prince Greylock, the last su...