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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 2, 2008 15:34:25 GMT
any recommendations, short stories or novels??
i've heard of 'the keep' and seen the film but haven't read the book.
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 2, 2008 16:22:37 GMT
One of the best I've read for ages was Paul Finch's The Retreat in Houses on the Borderland. This is a novella, and full of some truly graphic detail (as you would expect from Finch). I thought highly enough of it to rec it for a Stoker.
David
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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 3, 2008 12:03:30 GMT
^cheers! i've heard nothing but good things regarding 'houses on the borderland' so i might have to ask santa for it. where's 'the retreat' set?
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 3, 2008 12:51:08 GMT
The main characters are the remnants of a German detachment retreating from Stalingrad at the height of winter. Some great descriptions of the places they pass through and the set action pieces with the advancing Russians. You can really feel the cold in the long story. A Sven Hessel horror story.
I certainly enjoyed it tremendously.
David
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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 3, 2008 14:13:29 GMT
^sounds wunderbar!
i remember reading sven hessels 'wheels of terror' when i was at school and being absoloutly hooked. his books arent as easy to get hold of these days. (and when ever i think of his books the two s's in his name are always replaced by SS lightning bolts!!)
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Post by David A. Riley on Dec 3, 2008 16:27:20 GMT
I think they're the kind of books that, being so diffferent to anything you would normally have come across before, you can easily get addicted to, at least for a time. I must have ploughed through at least half a dozen or more in the space of twelve months some years ago (and long after I left school, I must admit!)
David
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Dec 3, 2008 18:33:19 GMT
I haven't seen a Sven Hassel book in about thirty years. They had a certain surrrealism. Very enjoyable and bleak.
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Post by benedictjjones on Dec 16, 2008 10:57:35 GMT
has anyone read 'fiends of the eastern front' either the graphic version in 2000 AD and the collected edition or the novelisation??
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Feb 23, 2009 0:01:04 GMT
has anyone read 'fiends of the eastern front' either the graphic version in 2000 AD and the collected edition or the novelisation?? Funnily enough, when I saw the title WW2 horror, "Fiends of the Eastern Front" was the first thing that sprang to mind. Loved this in 2000AD at the time, though I loved anything with vampires back then. Haven't read the novel (am I right in thinking there's more than one?) though someone who has told me it's very good. I hated the movie of "The Keep". As I understand it, the novel's more traditional vampire fare. There's "The Devil is Not Mocked" by Manly Wade Wellman, where nazi troops choose the wrong castle in Romania to make their base. This was turned into an episode of Rod Serling's "Night Gallery". |
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Post by benedictjjones on Feb 23, 2009 10:17:33 GMT
^yes i think there are now a few 'fiends...' books - i haven't read any of them or the comic strip but have heard good things (there's also at least one graphic novel out there as well)
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