A review of Lord Horror #7 (Hard Core Horror #5) and Lord Horror #8 (Reverbstorm #1)

Written by Seregil of Rhiminee (Saturday, 18 May 2013 4:33 pm)

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Lord Horror #7 (Hard Core Horror #5) was published in 1990 and Lord Horror #8 (Reverbstorm #1) was published in 1994 by Savoy Books.

Information about Lord Horror #7 (Hard Core Horror #5):

'Art, like the God of the Jews, thrives on holocausts...And after each letting of the blood the flesh will weigh less.'

- Gustave Flaubert, The Temptation Of St. Anthony

The end of the line: more full page drawings present the malevolent architecture of the Death Camps in finely detailed character. A landmark portrait of human evil, intended as a contemporary equivalent of Piranesi's 'Prisons'. Coulthart spent a year producing these 26 drawings only to be told by a magistrate that they had no artistic value. Fit subject for a comic book? Savoy thinks readers should be given the chance to make up their own minds. Also contains a supplement of truly harrowing photographs.

Also includes text story by David Britton: Jewlung.

Information about Lord Horror #8 (Reverbstorm #1):

'In fiction as in history, it is the shudder that tells.'

- Edgar Everston Saltus

A new series in a new world: Lord Horror escapes the camps and his old life for a new stamping ground, the nightmare necropolis of Torenbürgen, unholy offspring of New York City and Auschwitz-Birkenau. More policemen are sliced, Jessie Matthews performs Sondheim with Prince and Horror sings Teddy Boy Boogie. The Soul of the Virgin Mary goes on the rampage and the air is choked with black and unheimlich vapours.

First thousand copies with free CD single of Jessie Matthews sings Reverbstorm, Paul Temple's tempestuous slice of Wagnerian Northern Soul.

A REVIEW OF LORD HORROR #7 (HARD CORE HORROR #5) AND LORD HORROR #8 (REVERBSTORM #1)

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A review of Kenny Soward's Rough Magic

Written by Seregil of Rhiminee (Tuesday, 07 May 2013 12:26 pm)

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Kenny Soward's debut fantasy book, Rough Magic (Book I of the GnomeSaga), was published in March 2013.

Information about the author:

Kenny Soward grew up in Crescent Park, Kentucky, a small suburb just south of Cincinnati, Ohio, listening to AC/DC, Quiet Riot, and Iron Maiden. In those quiet 1970's streets, he jumped bikes, played Nerf football, and acquired many a childhood scar.

At the age of sixteen, he learned to play drums, and did so with a passion. Kenny bashed skins for many groups over the next twenty years, and his musical tastes grew to include folk, alternative, bluegrass, and new age.

By day, Kenny works as a Unix professional, and at night he writes and sips bourbon.

Rough Magic is Kenny's first high fantasy novel, Book I of the GnomeSaga.

Kenny lives in Independence, Kentucky, with three cats and a gal who thinks she's a cat.

Click here to visit the author's Facebook page.

Information about Rough Magic:

Niksabella the gnome has tinkered in the shadows for years, developing an invention that might change the world, even if she doesn't know it yet. She has few friends and even fewer allies in the city of Hightower, where social and academic status is quite important.

Her brother, Nikselpik, is a cantankerous wizard who drinks too much, sings dirty songs, and makes rude passes at gnomestresses. A dark addiction consumes him, a habit called bugging, which gives him increased power and feelings of euphoria while pushing him closer to death.

Dark creatures from the ultraworlds have come calling. Niksabella must fight to protect her life and her invention, while Nikselpik engages the enemy as an unlikely guest of Hightower's military elite.

Niksabella and Nikselpik must find their true powers together, or perish apart. Will they heal the wounds of their childhood before it's too late?

A REVIEW OF KENNY SOWARD'S ROUGH MAGIC

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GUEST POST (AND GIVEAWAY): Life (almost) imitating art by Sean Benham, author of Blope

Written by Seregil of Rhiminee (Thursday, 02 May 2013 8:43 am)

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Risinghadow has the honour of publishing a guest post article by Sean Benham, the author of Blope.

Information about Sean Benham:

Sean Benham is a Toronto-based entertainment industry professional who has worked as an art director, graphic animator, writer and producer on everything from Emmy award-winning children’s television programming to heavy metal music videos.

Blope is Sean Benham’s debut novel.

Click here to visit Sean Benham official website and click here to visit the official book website.

Life (almost) imitating art

By Sean Benham, author of Blope

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A review of D.E.M. Emrys' From Man to Man

Written by Seregil of Rhiminee (Tuesday, 30 April 2013 3:10 pm)

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D.E.M. Emrys' short story, From Man to Man, was published in October 2012.

Information about the author:

D. E. M. Emrys is the author of the Wroge Elements fantasy series.

Click here to visit his blog.

Information about From Man to Man:

'I've traded my old enemies for just this one...' The axe thundered home. 'I miss the old ones.'

Every man has a past, none more so than Draven Reinhardt. Abandoning his old life to settle down as a villager, he struggles to fit in, let alone hold down a job. When opportunity offers the much needed coin, Draven is torn between a promise and a purpose.

But, what's one last job if you've already got blood on your hands?

'From Man to Man' is the story of how one man can change – or not – for the best. Prequel to the upcoming novel 'It Began With Ashes', the short (6400 words) introduces the reader to a world of suspense, intrigue, and action.

A REVIEW OF D.E.M. EMRYS' FROM MAN TO MAN

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A review of Lord Horror: Reverbstorm (script by David Britton, art by John Coulthart)

Written by Seregil of Rhiminee (Monday, 29 April 2013 5:48 pm)

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David Britton and John Coulthart's graphic novel, Lord Horror: Reverbstorm, was published by Savoy Books in February 2013.

Information about David Britton:

David Britton is a British author, artist, and publisher. In the 1970s he founded Weird Fantasy and Crucified Toad, a series of small press magazines of the speculative fiction and horror genres. In 1976 Britton co-founded (with Michael Butterworth) the controversial publishing house Savoy Books.

Click here to read more about David Britton.

Information about John Coulthart:

John Coulthart (born March 15, 1962) is a British graphic artist, illustrator, author and designer who has produced book covers and illustrations, CD covers and posters. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed Lovecraft-inspired book The Haunter of the Dark and Other Grotesque Visions which contains a collaboration with Alan Moore entitled The Great Old Ones that is unique to this book and also has an introduction by Alan Moore.

He has been updating a daily blog entitled feuilleton cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms since February 2006 and also uses twitter.

He was nominated for a British Fantasy Award, for Best Artist, in 2005. In 2012 he won the Artist of the Year award at the World Fantasy Awards.

Click here to visit John Coulthart's official website.

Information about Lord Horror: Reverbstorm:

"Surfin' bird Bbbbbbbbbbrbrbrbrbrb...awawawawawawawaaaaaah! A-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa- Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow Papa-oom-mow-mow!"

- The Trashmen, 'Surfin' Bird'

Welcome to the nightmare metropolis of Torenbürgen, where New York's Art Deco architecture has fused with the termination machinery of Auschwitz. In this urban inferno Jessie Matthews is singing Sondheim, James Joyce is at work on a new novel and Lord Horror, ex-Nazi propaganda broadcaster and Torenbürgen's model citizen, is stalking the streets in search of fresh victims for his razors. Murderous apes infest the alleyways, Ononoes feast on the living and the dead, while above the rooftops the Soul of the Virgin Mary drifts like a swollen Lovecraftian dirigible, picking at bodies destined for the charnel furnaces.

Lord Horror: Reverbstorm is a unique graphic collaboration between writer David Britton, the author of four Lord Horror novels, and artist John Coulthart, whose book of Lovecraft-derived comic strips and illustrations, The Haunter of the Dark, featured a collaboration with Alan Moore. Reverbstorm was originally published in serial form and is now being presented in a single volume for the very first time. Britton's debut novel, Lord Horror (1990), was the last work of fiction to be banned in the UK; an earlier Lord Horror comic series, Hard Core Horror, was also banned by a British court in 1995. Coulthart's death-camp artwork from the final issue in that series appears in Reverbstorm as a prelude to the main narrative. There's never been a comic like this surreal collision between Modernist art and pulp aesthetics, a world where Finnegans Wake is drenched in Alligator Wine and Picasso's 'Guernica' is invaded by Tarzan's simian hordes. Ambitious, transgressive and meticulously rendered, Reverbstorm is one answer to the eternal question posed by those cultural philosophers, The Cramps: "How far can too far go?"

"Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronn-
tuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!"

- James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

A REVIEW OF LORD HORROR: REVERBSTORM (SCRIPT BY DAVID BRITTON, ART BY JOHN COULTHART)

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