SteveBlack Wrote:I just finished MM a few minutes ago. Excellent - on a par with McCammon's -They Thirst'.

I would love to read more stories from 'Bloodworld'!!

Paul - I think you've managed to raise the bar with this book. Previously, the most awful thing you'd written was the scene in Reprisal when Bill finds Danny. In MM the hunting and subsequent fate of the pregnant woman and her 7 year old son really upset me. It was even more unsettling that you didn't write about it and that you left me to fill in the blanks............thanks (I think) :p

Steve

fpw Wrote:I thought I'd answered this before but I guess I forgot to hit the SUBMIT button.

Sadly, that scene comes from real life. The victim was Sylvia Likens, in 1965. Google it if you dare.

No matter what imaginitive horror I come up with, it invariably pales before what people have done to each other down the ages.

jimbow8 Wrote:Oddly, I don't even remember that.

Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:I just googled it...Jesus, Mary, and strong Joseph, father of Jesus and husband of Mary. I'm at a loss to compare that with anything. Maybe David Ng. (Oh yes, still alive in solitary confinement--your tax dollars at work.)

Biggles Wrote:I haven't read MM yet, but some of the more Gory crime scene photos I've seen (GROSS-OUT ALERT) were of a pregnant girl who had essentially been gutted in her apartment. I'll leave the rest to your imaginations. The boys in the County crime lab had photos like these all along their hallways. I think they enjoyed grossing out the young prosecutors who came over to meet with them. Some other interesting photos on cases I handled were of char-broiled corpses (charred on the outside, rare on the inside--ever since, I have endeavored to duplicate this effect on the barby, with BEEF, BEEF I tell you). Autopsy photos are always interesting too, especially ones where "critters" like insects or pets got to the corpses before they were discovered. BTW, I would like to think that if I dropped dead from a grabber while the rest of my family was at Disney World, my dogs would wait WAY longer to start nibbling away at my corpse than cats would.

(Let's see if that gets you catlovers started).

Biggles Wrote:I haven't read MM yet, but some of the more Gory crime scene photos I've seen (GROSS-OUT ALERT) were of a pregnant girl who had essentially been gutted in her apartment. I'll leave the rest to your imaginations. The boys in the County crime lab had photos like these all along their hallways. I think they enjoyed grossing out the young prosecutors who came over to meet with them. Some other interesting photos on cases I handled were of char-broiled corpses (charred on the outside, rare on the inside--ever since, I have endeavored to duplicate this effect on the barby, with BEEF, BEEF I tell you). Autopsy photos are always interesting too, especially ones where "critters" like insects or pets got to the corpses before they were discovered. BTW, I would like to think that if I dropped dead from a grabber while the rest of my family was at Disney World, my dogs would wait WAY longer to start nibbling away at my corpse than cats would.

(Let's see if that gets you catlovers started).

jimbow8 Wrote:OH MY GOD!!!

http://www.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/history/likens_sylvia/sylvia.html

InfinityLtd Wrote:I haven't read GATEWAYS yet, but I followed this link and read the story. Oh, man! :mad: I wonder what happened to--with?--the girls' parents?

The question now is: do I still want to read GATEWAYS? Well, yes, but I might have to skip this scene if/when I see it coming--we'll have to see when I get there.

I think, given the opportunity and the same circumstances, that cats and dogs would dig in at the same time.

(cat lover, dog liker)

InfinityLtd Wrote:I haven't read GATEWAYS yet, but I followed this link and read the story. Oh, man! :mad: I wonder what happened to--with?--the girls' parents?

The question now is: do I still want to read GATEWAYS? Well, yes, but I might have to skip this scene if/when I see it coming--we'll have to see when I get there.

I think, given the opportunity and the same circumstances, that cats and dogs would dig in at the same time.

(cat lover, dog liker)

jimbow8 Wrote:There is a link on that page called Suitcase of Sorrow that is about the mother, but it doesn't go into the whole situation and what the mother went through.