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I must re-read it. An excellent book!
I'm not partisan with my reading, in fact I've just re-read Knut Hamsun's Hunger; Hamsun, still a reference for many extreme right-wingers who have read a book rather than burned it, ...
...most specifically @Spookdaddy ! You're famous, man!...
That wasn't me - the busdriver hit the breaks suddenly, and I merely grabbed the lady in question in order to prevent myself from falling over. The fact that I had neglected to put on any trousers that morning was merely an oversight on my part.
(But, seriously - I'm intrigued!)
Edit: Ah, hold on - could it be the scaring the shite out of a poltergeist story?
I'm re-reading Thomas Mann, Death in Venice as a German audiobook. The reading is excellent and enhances the atmosphere.
https://www.audible.de/pd/Der-Tod-in-Venedig-Hoerbuch/B00D7IG5UG
What surprised me is that it can be read as a horror book! I know it's a deeply psychological novella filled with philosophy and melancholy, and that's how I read it many years ago. But in the meantime I've become a fan of horror fiction (Lovecraft, Ligotti, Aickman, MR James etc.) and this book fits the genre like a glove. Especially all the signs of impending doom in the early parts of the novel, The main protagonist ignores them all and I cringe ...
Then there's Ian McEwan (or Ian Macabre as he used to be dubbed). If you want a great non-supernatural Horror-suspense novel do read The Comfort of Strangers.
Collections of short stories are my thing, too.
When I was a teenager I really did read indiscriminately (oh, for that free-time today...), consuming whatever floated by from relative's shelves, boot-fairs, charity shops and bargain bins. One phase I went through, around the time that I also discovered Dennis Wheatley and Wodehouse, was reading random old penguin editions of 'Golden Age of Detective Fiction'--lots of short story compilations.
I'm fairly up on the Agatha Christie catalogue (just ordering a copy of the Murder of Roger Ackroyd--can't remember a blind thing about it!), but is anybody qualified to recommend starting points...
It is also free on Amazon US.Well in the UK at least. As discussed on Knock Once for Yes earlier this week.
You know, I do not like this.Just finished this 1990 Marvel graphic novel.View attachment 18596
Killing Daleks with a sword?
Nationwide always terrified me in the '70s. Especially Richard Stilgoe.No, in fact I got the wrong chapter last night, you're quoted in the Hexham Heads one, where you related how the Nationwide report terrified you, especially when someone hammered on your front door at the finale. It's not a big quote, but an anonymous poster is quoted too, their name lost to the mists of time...
It's all in the service of pointing out how mad it was this stuff was considered perfect material for a news bulletin in the 1970s. Mind you, The One Show is not averse to the odd bit of Forteana, though that's more a factual entertainment programme.