gdthoms Wrote:Having just finished Midnight Mass I am curious as to whether FPW has any plans to continue on with this little saga.
Nothing planned (but then I had no plans to continue Jack, either), but if I should come up with something that doesn't simply rehash what's gone before, I might give it a shot.
FPW
FAQ
"It means 'Ask the next question.' Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created." Theodore Sturgeon.
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
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
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
That was bad, all right,but for me Paul's most disturbing scene was the torture/murder of the teenage girl in GATEWAYS. I think Paul invented a new crime there--enlisting the 8-year old boy to take part goes WAY beyond "corrupting a minor" or whatever the legal phrase might be.
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:That was bad, all right,but for me Paul's most disturbing scene was the torture/murder of the teenage girl in GATEWAYS. I think Paul invented a new crime there--enlisting the 8-year old boy to take part goes WAY beyond "corrupting a minor" or whatever the legal phrase might be.Oddly, I don't even remember that.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:That was bad, all right,but for me Paul's most disturbing scene was the torture/murder of the teenage girl in GATEWAYS. I think Paul invented a new crime there--enlisting the 8-year old boy to take part goes WAY beyond "corrupting a minor" or whatever the legal phrase might be.
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.
FPW
FAQ
"It means 'Ask the next question.' Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created." Theodore Sturgeon.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
jimbow8 Wrote:OH MY GOD!!!
http://www.indystar.com/library/factfile...ylvia.html
Jack Ketchum's _The Girl Next Door_ is based on this story. It's a book that is so well-written and disturbing you can't put it down. Not recommended for the faint hearted.
jimbow8 Wrote:OH MY GOD!!!
http://www.indystar.com/library/factfile...ylvia.html
Uh, did I mention I'm not a native Hoosier? But seriously, there are a lot of sickos out there. You should see some of the autopsy and crime scene photos I have!
http://www.northernindianacriminaldefense.com
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