04-07-2007, 10:26 AM
07-13-2007, 08:36 AM
I finally got around to reading Lin Carter's Anton Zarnak Supernatural Sleuth edited by Robert M. Price (Marietta Publishing, June 2002), despite it being of the To Be Read stack for a year or so. Zarnak is an occult guardian as well as investigator. Pretty good, if uneven in tone, collection of all the stories by Carter about the character and others like C. J. Henderson, Robert M. Price, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Pierre Comtois, John L. French, James Chambers, James Ambuehl, and Simon Bucher-Jones. A lot of Lovecraftian stuff.
I can also report that Hard-Boiled Cthulhu (Elder Signs Press, 2007) is often too much Lovecraft and not enough hard-boiled detective in nature, tho interesting.
I can also report that Hard-Boiled Cthulhu (Elder Signs Press, 2007) is often too much Lovecraft and not enough hard-boiled detective in nature, tho interesting.
11-10-2007, 05:20 AM
I just finished reading The Man With The Golden Torc by Simon R. Green, the first in a new series about Shaman Bond AKA Edwin Drood, field agent for the Drood family, secret protectors or rulers of the world. The titles are all references to James Bond books; the upcoming second novel is Daemons Are Forever (*sigh*). I enjoyed this first book which had plenty of action, magical byzantine plotting, and a dread millennias-old Hidden Secret.
11-18-2007, 05:26 AM
I hope it won't be considered tawdry of me to bring this up, but I've got a new occult detective series premiering January 8th, with the release of my novel Black Magic Woman. It's published by Solaris books and will be available in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. Trade paperback.
The book has two different plot threads. In one, occult investigator Quincey Morris (a descendant of the Texan who died in the original [/i]Dracula[/i] and his partner, "white" witch Libby Chastain, are hired to save a family from a deadly curse that dates back to the Salem witch trials. Once they begin their search (which takes them through the occult undergrounds of Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York) their quarry, a "black" witch of immense power, finds out, and vows to destroy them first.
In the other plot thread, a member of the South African Police's Occult Crimes Unit (which really exists, BTW) is brought to the US to help track down a ritual murderer who is abducting children and killing them for their organs. As Van Dreenan (a white South African) and FBI Agent Fenton (an African-American) develop an uneasy partnership, they gradually come to realize that they are in pursuit of something far worse than a mere serial killer.
The two disparate storylines finally come together, with a [/i]bang[/i] loud enough to wake the dead. And who knows? Maybe it will....
Forgive me for going on and on, but I'm pretty proud of this little literary effort, and really happy to learn that [/i]Black Magic Woman[/i] is going to be January's featured SF/Fantasy title in Waterstone's, the big British book chain. Gonna have its own display, and everything. 367 freakin' stores, dude![size=large][/font]
I've taken enough of your time. If you want more info about the book, try my website (http://www.justingustainis.com) or the Solaris books page devoted to it (at http://www.solarisbooks.com/books/blackm...cwoman.asp
BTW, Jim Butcher ([/i]The Dresden Files[/i] liked it, and gave me a nice quote for the cover.
Thanks for putting up with this exercise in blatant self-promotion.
Justin
The book has two different plot threads. In one, occult investigator Quincey Morris (a descendant of the Texan who died in the original [/i]Dracula[/i] and his partner, "white" witch Libby Chastain, are hired to save a family from a deadly curse that dates back to the Salem witch trials. Once they begin their search (which takes them through the occult undergrounds of Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York) their quarry, a "black" witch of immense power, finds out, and vows to destroy them first.
In the other plot thread, a member of the South African Police's Occult Crimes Unit (which really exists, BTW) is brought to the US to help track down a ritual murderer who is abducting children and killing them for their organs. As Van Dreenan (a white South African) and FBI Agent Fenton (an African-American) develop an uneasy partnership, they gradually come to realize that they are in pursuit of something far worse than a mere serial killer.
The two disparate storylines finally come together, with a [/i]bang[/i] loud enough to wake the dead. And who knows? Maybe it will....
Forgive me for going on and on, but I'm pretty proud of this little literary effort, and really happy to learn that [/i]Black Magic Woman[/i] is going to be January's featured SF/Fantasy title in Waterstone's, the big British book chain. Gonna have its own display, and everything. 367 freakin' stores, dude![size=large][/font]
I've taken enough of your time. If you want more info about the book, try my website (http://www.justingustainis.com) or the Solaris books page devoted to it (at http://www.solarisbooks.com/books/blackm...cwoman.asp
BTW, Jim Butcher ([/i]The Dresden Files[/i] liked it, and gave me a nice quote for the cover.
Thanks for putting up with this exercise in blatant self-promotion.
Justin
11-27-2007, 03:41 AM
Sounds cool!
Stu
Stu
12-01-2007, 08:40 AM
JustinScribe Wrote:
I hope it won't be considered tawdry of me to bring this up, but I've got a new occult detective series premiering January 8th, with the release of my novel Black Magic Woman. It's published by Solaris books and will be available in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. Trade paperback.
I checked out the listing over on Solaris' website. It certainly does sound lots of fun. I'll have to put it on my short list!
Stu
03-26-2008, 10:28 AM
I've finally gotten this from the Seattle Public Library so that I can check it out!
Carnacki Wrote:
JustinScribe Wrote:
I hope it won't be considered tawdry of me to bring this up, but I've got a new occult detective series premiering January 8th, with the release of my novel Black Magic Woman. It's published by Solaris books and will be available in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. Trade paperback.
I checked out the listing over on Solaris' website. It certainly does sound lots of fun. I'll have to put it on my short list!
Stu
05-21-2008, 06:30 AM
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I've finally gotten this from the Seattle Public Library so that I can check it out!
Hey Carnacki, what did you eventually think of this?
06-21-2008, 08:15 AM
Hey, this was very good. I'm looking forward to the sequel now.
Right now I'm reading C. J. Henderson's TO BATTLE BEYOND, a neo-pulp adventure set in 1941, which teams up pulp characters the Domino Lady, the Black Bat with Lovecraft's Inspector Lagrasse to confront a distinctly Lovecraftian horror.
Right now I'm reading C. J. Henderson's TO BATTLE BEYOND, a neo-pulp adventure set in 1941, which teams up pulp characters the Domino Lady, the Black Bat with Lovecraft's Inspector Lagrasse to confront a distinctly Lovecraftian horror.
idkidd Wrote:
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I've finally gotten this from the Seattle Public Library so that I can check it out!
Hey Carnacki, what did you eventually think of this?
06-27-2008, 11:13 PM
Well, I finally got around to ordering this book. Thanks for the good words Carnacki. I saw at Amazon that the next book, Evil Ways, is due out in December.
While on the subject, how many of you have read Arcanum by Tom Wheeler? It's rather good, I nearly finished it in one sitting. The cast includes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marie Laveau, Harry Houdini and HP Lovecraft taking on Alistair Crowley. Highly recommended.
Ticktock
While on the subject, how many of you have read Arcanum by Tom Wheeler? It's rather good, I nearly finished it in one sitting. The cast includes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marie Laveau, Harry Houdini and HP Lovecraft taking on Alistair Crowley. Highly recommended.
Ticktock