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‘Black Dawn’ & ‘The Wolf and the Rat’ – C.L. Werner (Black Library)

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This should have been yesterday’s post but we all know what happened there… Right, lets have another go at writing this post… :o) Just a couple of short stories for you today (because that’s all I was good for the other day). I’m trying to make inroads into some of the ‘non-Warhammer’ fiction on my shelves but I missed the good stuff and decided to compromise by dipping a toe into the setting. Not literally of course, dip a toe into some of those battlefields and you stand a good chance of losing your whole leg, and that’s if you’re lucky ;o) C.L. Werner is always a safe bet for a good ‘Warhammer Fantasy’ or ‘Age of Sigmar’ read and this time, I thought I’d go for a ‘Warhammer 40K’ read of his as well. One ended up being a lot more enjoyable than the other; it’s not too hard to work out which one was which… ;o) ‘Black Dawn’ (Victories of the Space Marines) Page Count: 31 Pages An artefact from the Great Crusade - a bolt pistol used by Roboute Guilliman himself - is unearthed on the pla...
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Official Trailer: 'Backrooms' (2026)

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This was meant to be a book post, then it became a comic book post and then it was going to be a post about a couple of short stories that I had on the go. And then... I fell asleep last night and I'll be honest, I'm struggling to stay awake today. Bloody chemo tablets... :o) Anyway... All the book stuff has been pushed back a day or two and what we have instead is another trailer for 'Backrooms'. I'm up for this, how about you? Normal service to resume tomorrow (fingers crossed)
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‘The Final Girl Support Group’ – Grady Hendrix (Titan Books)

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  Page Count: 393 Pages Now here is a book that I originally bought back in October 2022 (thanks for the reminder Amazon) with every aim of reading and… Didn’t. Don’t judge me. I am at the mercy of my reading whims, always have been and always will be. Anyway, I ended up giving that copy to my eldest daughter and she really enjoyed it. All’s well that ends well ;o) Fast forward to about a week ago, I was in the office and that days ‘commute read’ wasn’t working’ at all; I needed something to get me home and there’s a Waterstones just round the corner from the office so… In I went :o) You can see where this is going, can’t you? Almost four years after I let my original copy of ‘The Final Girl Support Group’ fly the nest, I found myself with another copy and a bus ride home to crack it open. It took me a little while to get into it but this weekend, just gone, ended up being the best time to sit down and polish off ‘The Final Girl Support Group’. Let me tell you about it :o) In horr...
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‘Crawlspace’ – Adam Christopher (Tor Nightfire)

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  Page Count: Nightfire picked the weirdest font for the page numbers, I couldn’t even read it with my glasses on (damn, I’m old). Oh well, I’ll have to take Amazon’s word for it and go with 240 Pages. I’m staring down the barrel of a week with one less day to get work done (Bank Holiday on Friday) and trying to mediate between an over enthusiastic kitten and an older cat that just wants to be left alone. I’ll tell you how it all went next weekend. Having said that, I’m headed into that week off the back of a weekend where I pretty much spent the whole time reading (with small breaks for ‘sporadic cat mediation’) so I’m in a good place :o) Lets see if I can stay there... Regular visitors here will know that I love the movie ‘Event Horizon’ and honestly, just seeing those two words on the back of ‘Crawlspace’ was all it took for me to grab a copy and make time for it over the weekend. Well played Tor Nightfire, well played ;o) ‘Crawlspace’ definitely plays to the ‘Event Horizon’ fan...
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Game Trailer: 'Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon'

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Today sees me looking after my ex-wife's cats while her and my daughters are away. The kitten thinks I'm brilliant and has just been my little shadow since I've been here. The older cat, well... She absolutely hates me albeit with very good reason. Lets just say that I called the emergency vet out a couple of years ago, for something that ended up not being an emergency at all, and the cat has a very long memory, Anyway... That's all I've got on today so I'm going to hunker down and read, just read :o) I'm a couple of books ahead of myself and I want to see if I can keep that streak going, Also, I had an MRI scan on Friday (nothing serious, it just didn't help that I'm pretty claustrophobic) so I'm owed a little downtime. In the meantime, as far as the blog goes... As someone who watched the Warhammer 40K 'Ultramarines' movie back in the day (and was... underwhelmed), It's always a little bit of a treat, for me, to watch the latest tr...
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A ‘Did Not Finish’… ‘Honour of the Grave’ – Robin D. Laws (Black Library)

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  It doesn’t happen often but, it happens. As much as I want to finish everything I read, it doesn’t happen every time. Well, most of the time it does but every so often… And I’ll tell you what happens even less often. You can normally count on me finishing a book if it’s a ‘Black Library’ book. This time round though… Here we are. As the Empire’s mighty armies clash against the rampaging hordes of evil, they leave in their wake the detritus of war, including the dead and the dying. Resourceful Angelika Fleischer ekes a living by looting the bloody battlefields, searching for the trinkets and gold carried by soldiers of all sides. But an encounter with the mysterious Kopf brothers leaves Angelika desperate to discover the dark truth behind their quest to find their missing brother before the sweeping tide of battle overtakes them all. What I love about the Warhammer Fantasy books set in the Old World is that you really feel like you’re there. The best writers here, get that setting...
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‘Trees – Volume 1: In Shadow’ – Warren Ellis, Jason Howard (Image Comics)

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  Page Count: 160 Pages Apologies for the ‘blogging silence’ yesterday; I was trying to sort stuff out at work and sort the flat out, for an inspection, at the same time… I did it though! Well, I sorted the flat out, work might take a little longer to tame ;o) Anyway… I was looking at copies of Warren Ellis’ ‘Black Gas’ and while I balked at the price, Volume 1. of ‘Trees’ was a lot more affordable so I figured ‘what the hell’ and took a chance. I’ve never said that my reading choices are based on any kind of decision process other than impulse or, at the very most, whatever catches my eye (which, now I think about it, is the same thing) Anyway… One day, I’ll find an affordable copy of ‘Black Gas’ but for now, I’m very glad I took a chance on ‘Trees’. Let me tell you all about it. Ten years after they landed. All over the world. And they did nothing, standing on the surface of the Earth like trees, exerting their silent pressure on the world, as if there were no-one here and nothin...
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