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     Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Or should it be "melyn"?  In any case, I have just escaped from Lord P's Catacombs of Fear, having been deliciously detained there for a few nights. In the story notes our author says he hopes his "Dance to the Music of Insanity" is the first-ever Welsh giallo. But so many of his stories have that manic-wicked-mayhem giallo flavour it's hard to single this one out. Perhaps it's the author himself who is the first Welsh giallo. Or writer thereof. Ah, semantics bloody semantics. I'm not a reviewer, so I won't do a story breakdown. But I loved Faculty of Terror and Coffin Nails, so I had high expectations of this one. And I wasn't disappointed. There's a gleeful sadism behind that reassuring authorial voice that's slightly worrying. And the bloody bits are described with a disconcerting familiarity, as though this isn't all make-believe. Wonderful stuff, Lord P! I eagerly await the next one! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.159.111 |
Good, isn't it? Nearing the end myself... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
In more ways than one, once you finish that book, Mr P will appear soon to perform some impromptu surgery... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Glad folk are liking this. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.139.99 |
Glad folk are liking this. You would be, Professor Gary "Rupert Murdoch" Fry. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Aye, capitalist scum!  | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
I'm expecting both of Lord P's collections in the post this week along with Passport to Purgatory. Hopefully in time for some Easter reading in the country. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
Speaking of the devil: I literally typed this and the postman arrived with the books... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Hurrah! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Capitalism triumphs again. I'm going to invest all the profits from the sale in dodgy third world enterprises. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
Heh! Gary I got the first of the two packages- so still one to go! Thanks alot. :-) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
Was it the Probert package? If so, that's cool. The other was sent by me airmail, so should be there asap. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
I got the other one first with Purgatory and the chapbook- so the other one should be here soon. Thank you very much for the scribbles in the Impelled. :-) | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.20.31.211 |
OK! No naked ladies, tho. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
HA!- just wanted something to frighten the unsuspecting reader should he randomly pick up a signed volume from the shelves and start strumming through the pages.I asked for little scary animals on the Strantzas, and I got deathheads and nightmares and threats of infection, so I figured I'd better ask for strange naked people on the Fry- just to get some kind of a balance going. My MMS is filled with drawings of cats- so in the end it all works out somehow. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.175 |
In the story notes our author says he hopes his "Dance to the Music of Insanity" is the first-ever Welsh giallo. But so many of his stories have that manic-wicked-mayhem giallo flavour it's hard to single this one out. Perhaps it's the author himself who is the first Welsh giallo. Or writer thereof. Thank you very much Miss Flynn - that's lovely, and you may be right! Certainly the Wales I grew up in was a weird, violent yet glamorous place where Italian movies soundtracks played constantly. Of course the world outside my head was a little duller but it must have been that outside world that provided inspiration for all the mayhem. Mustn't it? Oh - and I'm delighted you spotted the 'gleeful sadism'. I must confess that I do on occasion find it rather fun to be rather nasty ;-> |