Over on the patreon page, the Halloween poll is live and the patrons are already making their opinions known on what we will cover for the October Halloween Special.
First up (and currently in the lead) we have the first installment of Guy N Smith’s Sabat series. OK, technically it’s called Sabat: The Graveyard Vultures and it’s about SABAT…
Mark Sabat, ex-priest, SAS-trained killer, and exorcist, is a man with a harrowing mission. Haunted by his past and driven by an unrelenting need for vengeance, he must seek out and destroy his mortal enemy—a brother who has chosen the Left Hand Path and embodies the eternal principle of Evil.
And he has a ‘tache too! INSTAWIN.
Your next option is SLIMER! Another returning author for this year’s poll in the form of Harry Adam Knight (AKA John Brosnan flying solo this time). We had such a good time with The Fungus, Slimer was an obvious choice for this year.
I mean it’s a The Thing knock-off set on a North Sea oil rig in the 70s. With a horrific thingified dong scene. It’s crackers, out of order and therefore eminently suitable.
Recently, I’ve also been shitting my pants playing a PC game called Still Wakes the Deep that is also a The Thing knock-off set on a North Sea oil rig so this feels sort of topical.
Third on the list for this year is an all new author, but the cover is ace and it sounds lurid and violent so we have SLITHER by John Halkin, first book in the ‘Slither-Slime-Squelch’ trilogy.
It’s about worms eating people. Bring it on!
And finally, for perhaps the third year running, 2024 is the last chance for… SLUGS by Shaun Hutson. I haven’t read it since I was at school, the film is hilarious and amazing and Hutson himself reckons he’s the Pope of Horror Town.
We’ll be the judges of that damn it.
As per last year, we’ll probably do more than one horror themed show in October and, as it hasn’t ever been voted top, I’ve already arranged with Allister T to look at William Hope Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland. Allister is a massive Hope Hodgson lover, as am I, so I’m looking forward to that one but where would we be here at Derry & Toms without some low, violent and dirty killer critter/moist triangle/SAS trained vicar action?
Somewhere. Probably. But nowhere I’d want to be. And certainly not in October.
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