I'm reading (and watching the pictures :wub: ) Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman's Co-creator Joe Shuster:

http://www.kreegah.net/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=886

reading a book on Northern Mythology and Runes as oracle......cool stuff :)

cool, just what was still missing, a reading thread!

that said, haven't been doing that as much as I'd like lately... too much shit going on... but I'm busy with "the Rebel" a book/essay by Albert Camus at the moment.

Also have the Clark Ashton Smith short story collection "the emperor of dreams" still in my bag, excellent format for reading on a train ;)

Needless to say both are very much recommended!!


... come to think of it, I do most of my reading in English, can't really think of what I last read in Dutch other than a few comicbooks... strange (?)


look like we got ourselfs a reader :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvs2g5Nj0NI

just done with this great zombie book, really cool.......couldnt put in down so i finished it the same day....was reading it till 6 in the morning......and it was thundering out-side!! great when you are reading a zombie novel!

day by day armageddon
http://daybydayarmageddon.com/

for ally ou zombie fans that dont know this book, im 100% sure that you will enjoy this. im not a zombie fan at all...but this really put me in a nice atmosphere.

We still need a "what ya reading in the loo" thread. :lol:

At the moment I'm sorta going back and forth between reading/looking up films in: "The best of Eastern Heroes Magazine", "Asian Trash Cinema", "Mondo Macabro", and "Naked! Screaming! Terror!" #4/5, The Essential Guide To Hong Kong Movies.

In the loo? :blink:

:lol: I might bring ONE of them to the loo. Not all of them at once. ;)

Im reading Salems lot again, read it about 10 years ago last time, so far its a very nice ride.

picked this up at my favorit dvd store in zurich. used to life around the corner of the store. now i life in basel and have to take the train to zurich to buy some desent movies etc :(

great store! check out what the have!!

www.laserzone.ch

so im reading this now

Reading??? I only read subtitles.

I confess I`m addicted to the german pulp-fiction horror novels "John Sinclair" !

A sleazy mix of James Bond , Edgar Wallace and horror movies , with lots of weird characters , hellish hierarchies and seducing secretaries ... Only 60 pages long , it`s always a nice one hour read ... and there are thousands of them !

This series has been around for 30 years , and still every week there`s a new release ...

Right now I`m reading the last part of the "Black Death" trilogy :



BTW , check out their lovely cover artwork ! Some of those paintings were also used for german video covers , such as :

Horror House ( The red queen kills 7 times) :



Woodoo (Night of the sorcerers):



Here`s the complete Sinclair cover art (browse on the left side):

http://www.gruselromane.de/frames/sinclair/romane/romane.htm

I wonder if these are popular outside Germany ???

I'm reading issue #18 of "Screem" mag which among other things has an article on THE SINFUL DWARF by this forum's Mads Jensen in it (actually I got my issue from mr. Jensen :D ).

It's seems to have a pretty big print run and yet layout wise it's very simple like an old issue of "European Trash Cinema" or "Shock Cinema".

O yes they are Bianchi!!! or at least...

I don't think German (horror) pulps have/had worldwide exposure, but they sure were popular over here (Netherlands) back in the day (80's) when I read them. Now they are one of many things I don't have much time for anymore, but I still have a large collection, and hope to read one now and then!


The John Sinclair one in the first pic is a relatively new edition as there was a company that started releasing Dutch translations of them again after years of being completely gone... haven't checked lately but I think they are now gone again :unsure:
As you can see I'm mostly a professor Zamorra nut, but that was to be expected with my fantasy fixation :lol:

I traded a few mags once with the biggest (only?) Dutch fan of these pulps. He made a cool website: http://www.johnsinclair.nl/JShome.htm
It has large gallery's of the Dutch covers (same as the original ones really, but with Dutch text) and this great artwork is indeed a big part of the appeal, check it out!!

It's getting real hard to find these pulps these days btw. In the 80's and (early) 90's you could find boxes full of them at second hand markets and they would go for about 10 (guilder) cents a piece. Now only old bookstores have a few of them going for at least 50 (euro) cents. Maybe still not much, but it is if you want to complete series that have hundreds of entries :D And the paper quality is "pulp" afterall...

Fantastic , petcor !

I knew they were released elsewhere in Europe ! These are so outdated , but I grew up with this stuff and loved them eversince ! There had been pulp-only bookstores everywhere until the 90ties , but most of them are gone now. I`m fortunate to live near one of those last stores in town (only open twice a week for three hours !!! ) where I get three copies for 1 Euro :)

Cool to see another fan here in the forum ! :cheers:

Great stuff these Spookthrillers and John Sinclairs. Used to buy dozens of them at fleamarkets and comic stores. Love the artwork and the magic in them. Amulets etc. :)
I even wrote a letter to the company when they stopped releasing them in Holland. later on there was a new run of Sinclairs for a while and a few 2 in1 I believe.

Went to the attic wher I have stored them in dust nad moist free cases. Few piccas:









Very nice mentioning this up, OB!

John Sinclair pulp novels are called “Yöjuttu” in Finland. "yö" = night and "juttu" = tale, story etc... You can check out cover artwork of Finnish issues here:

http://clik.to/yojuttu

Go to "Yöjuttu lehdet" and clik "etukansi"...

Still the most popular pulp in Finland is Jerry Cotton, also originally from Germany... Jerry Cottons first adventure was published 1961 in here, and it was a hit from the beginning. Over 15 million sold copys is impressive amount for a pulp fiction in Finland. There is even cool Jerry Cotton tribute song made by Finnish rock band Kontra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNn-6vzgTYM
Everybody knows this song…

one of us - one of us - one of us :)

Ooh, very nice collection there!! wish we had posted about this earlier :o

I still search for a lot of Zamorra numbers, will trade you two against one with non-Zamorra Spook-Thrillers you might need, if you're intrested!

Trading is possible. But I have to admit that it's some time I looked into it. Coming weekend we can trade some if you like. Have to sort them out.
I can even get many more.....had a lot of them double but sold them to a mate of mine but I know he wanna depart from 'm. Still got plenty of 'm double.

very cool news! we'll talk further in PM and I'll mail you my list

;) :cheers:

this is also very cool!!!

I mailed the link of the website to the "Dutch John Sinclair guy", I'm sure he will be very pleased to discover this and maybe the two websites can get into contact.

Interesting artwork, mostly different from the German designs from what I've quickly glanced so far.

Jerry Cotton was also way bigger over here, and the Western pulps were even more of a prescence... but I never read those... except maybe sneakily look at a "sexy west" once or twice :P

There were also these maffia novels. Dunno how they were exactly called but Maffia could be it B)
Had these and read them over and over. About a guy killing these maffia members all because they did something to him or his family :unsure: ..way back for me!
This guy was smoking, drinking booze and screwing all day long..oh yeah and killing maffia members.
It had such an impact on me as a youngster that I wanted to be like him :P

damn me for selling them back then on fleamarkets :angry:

Sinclair fans all over the world ... this is incredible !

Here`s a nice picture of their author Jason Dark :



I think he also invented Proffessor Zamorra ...

BTW, most of these pulp stories are still available at all newspaper-stores in Germany , every week a new issue + back issues of the first 500 Sinclairs !

It has been a while since I realy delved into this subject but weren't there also John Sinclair radio-plays and tv-movies made in Germany? It never got that crazy overhere for sure!! But I would love it if Spielberg&Jackson could do a Zamorra movie after Tintin :D ...well maybe not Spielberg...

I just looked up YouTube for the mid-90ties TV Series but , thanks Asmodis , I didn`t find a clip ... these episodes were lousy and cheap Endemol productions with a very bad cast . Really sad , they could have made many great horror-movies from these stories !

The audio-tapes were , in contrary , absolutely genious !!!
They were produced in the early 80ties and strictly adopted from the novels , very atmospheric and sleazy, too . The Production Studios released 107 tapes in a short period , they ended up in the Guinessbook of Records with that !

correct, but the person who made the series into the thing I love about it was W.K. Giesa RIP http://www.wk-giesa.de/

I downloaded a few once... but because of the language (or maybe a lack of patience on my part, always busy busy) I didn't really get into those... Still very cool info about that Guiness Record :)

John Sinclair rules!!! Here are 3 of the ridiculously entertaining tapes (I def. need more!!):

Awesome stuff there mate! :o :wub:

How are you guys about Tony Ballard? http://www.tony-ballard.de/

Haha, you gotta listen to them...they're indeed awesome!! :D

And never heard about Tony Ballard...but I guess I should? :o

Just finished a shitty day at work and found this waiting for me in a big package :D Truly, a sight for sore eyes.

Without a doubt, this is the most comprehensive single-volume English-language overview of world film poster art. Nothing can match its breadth, depth, or presentational aplomb. This large, 500+ page hardcover is a real beauty, bursting with over 1500 posters from all over the world. It is the perfect gift for the budding cinephile in your life. Can't wait to dive in B)

More here: Art of the Modern Movie Poster

*So far, my only (minor) complaints are:
-No Index of films
-Not enough horror/cult films (duh!), although I do watch and love all genres of films!
-In this age of photoshop and clone stamping, it's an unnecessary eyesore to see pinholes and fold lines on posters when they can be removed. Just look at Donna Lucas's work on Tim's massive Mario Bava book!
-This isn't a complaint about the book in question, but about the poster book industry in general: isn't it time the subject of video sleeves is explored (hint, hint)? This publisher, Chronicle Books, would be a perfect candidate for a cinehound video sleeve coffee table art book. My mind reels at seeing our beloved sleeves presented so reverently!

Still no Filmbooks in my shelves :lol:



I `ve been revisiting my favourite Clive Baker stories in the last days: Pig Blood Blues , Dread , Rawhead Rex and Midnight Meat Train :)

I'm almost through the "millenium trilogy" of crime novels. Not really my genre but still a very compelling read! Now I've been buying a lot of books the last two months or so, a few classics I need to catch up on and some other stuff that sounded interesting...

Alasdair Gray - 1982, Janine
Andre Breton - Nadja
Bruno Schultz - The Fictions of Bruno Schulz
Comte Lautreamont - Maldoror and Poems
Georges Bataille - Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-39
Georges Bataille - Story of the Eye
James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
John Ajvide Lindqvist - Let the Right One in
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro - The Unconsoled
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Roberto Bolano - 2666
Roland Topor - The Tenant
Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
Samuel Beckett - Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition. Volume II: Novels
Thomas Ligotti - Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
Will Self - Cock and Bull
Will Self - My Idea of Fun

... so, where to start next?
comments on this little list, further suggestions and more of the like would be very much appreciated!

Just read "Child 44" - a crime novel set in Stalinist Russia

Quite original and entertaining!

Reading this essential ( well... for me ) work for the moment. Read a lot of articles lately so this one came at the second place but today I started reading in it again.

what do you think is essential about it?

Well, perhaps I should have stated it as essential for me instead as generalizing it.

What most people think is that this book is full of mockery, black mass, rituals, sacrifices and blasphemy.
In contrary it tries to open your eyes and make you differ against the establishment and the Church who wanna keep us down as slaves so they can do their grabbing and dictatorial reign.
It encourages you to rebel and think for yourself on what is best for your life to enjoy it instead of what others think of to be best for your life.
no Satan, no God but you as the middle of the universe. Life your life to the max and harm no others by doing it is the goal in a Satanist life.
Almost sounds divine....

Wouldn't call myself a Satanist though but I read the bible and wanted to read this one as well and think it moved my thinking into a more better direction for me to live my life.

that is a very good explanaition actually!

I always think Satanism is a bit silly (or at least flawed) because it's not a real alternative. Without Christianity there would also be no Satanism. It's like when Nietsche declares God dead; when he would mean that statement seriously he must believe in the existence of such a being a priori, so he is actually acknowledging the existence of it. If I felt oppressed by Christianity and wanted to rebel against it, I would expose all the obvious flaws in it's theory and practise (like Spinoza and others started to do in the 17th century leading to our enlightened and secular way of life) instead of twisting and adopting them.

If live life to the max without harming others is something that speaks to you, maybe you should also read something about Epicurus (if you haven't already), he said basically the same things already in about 300 BC and was no doubt also of great influence on this Satanist line of tought.

Without God there would be no Devil and without Christianity there would be no Satanism.
But what if there are none of both?
What if Christians have created Satanism and Hell and damnation to keep their flock quiet and to condemn the ones that don't follow their laws to these damnation?
Satanism is no religion but a way of life and this way of life has been condemned by the church throughout the ages. Hench all the wars, the witches executions and all the other killings in the name of God.

It's this oppression throughout the ages that explains the rebellion against the church. But Satanism clearly stands for denying the existence of upper beings. The Church is seen as an institution that has corrupted mankind throughout it's existence. All in the name of a higher being and under the threat of eternal damnation.

So Satanism does not rebel against a religion or a God but just to the institution 'Church'.

And we all know how corrupt they are.

Thanks for the tip on Epicurus! ;)