Tag: Brian Lumley

  • One of Those Entries Where I Write About a Number of Things

    A Creative Endeavor In a day or two, I’m gonna publish a little story I wrote. It’s never been my intent to turn this into an outlet for my creative pursuits, but it’s been a long time since I have written a story. I’ve alluded to this before, but I used to write quite a…

  • “Necroscope II : Vamphiri!”/Feeling Feelings

    “You’ve got to be fuckin’ kidding me” -Palmer, The Thing. I gave in. I don’t know what convinced me to start the second Necroscope book so quickly after finishing the first one, but start it I did. And finish it as well. Let’s face it in the previous entry about the Necroscope series, I kind…

  • Seldom Asked Questions/What I am Reading/Vampires

    A few questions I have gotten from all 15 or so of you who read this blog: “What’s the process for writing an entry?”: I read a thing, and take notes on it. I use a kindle for most of my reading, and take notes on a ‘remarkable’ tablet. This gadget nonsense is an affliction…

  • Finished “The Warriors”/What I am Reading

    I just finished Sol Yurick’s “The Warriors” this week, and it was an interesting ride. I’ll probably be doing a book vs. film comparison on that one, since I love the movie, and, despite the fact that the book is literally mentioned in the credits, have never bothered with it until now. The book included…

  • “Necroscope”/Cannibal Corpse/fuckin’ br00tal as Criticism

    Lying there cold after a torturous deathYour life ended fast you took your last breathDead in a grave, your final placeThe maggots infest your disfigured face -Cannibal Corpse, “A Skull full of Maggots” Let’s talk about “Necroscope”. It’s the first book in an (at present) twenty volume series, which was started in 1986 and the…

  • You Will Never Read it All/”Necroscope”/What I am Reading

    When you’re dead, the amount of things you haven’t seen or watched will far exceed the number of things you have. Every hour, 30,000 hours worth of content are uploaded to YouTube, for example, so even if it was your fondest desire to watch it all,  it would rapidly become impossible to do so. Quick…