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	The Elder Ice (Harry Stubbs, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Meats (Harry Stubbs, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dulwich Horror of 1927 4.16 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alien Stars (Harry Stubbs, #3) 4.30 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dulwich Horror and Others by David Hambling (Goodreads Author), S.T. Joshi (Foreword) 4.21 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Master of Chaos (Harry Stubbs, #4) 4.43 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swarm Troopers: How small drones will conquer the world 4.14 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thing in the Vault 4.31 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Yig: Revelations of the Serpent: A Cthulhu Mythos Anthology by David Hambling (Goodreads Author), Matthew Davenport (Goodreads Author), Mark Howard Jones 4.12 avg rating — 78 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hide and Seek (Harry Stubbs, #0.5) 4.32 avg rating — 50 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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David Hambling and 5 other people liked libby's review of The Unfinished Harauld Hughes: "potentially the most extra book to ever be written "
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Amusing, but much too close to the things that it is parodying.
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Classic adventure tale, page turner with plenty of thrills and excitement. BBC Sunday evening fare, though a little moralistic it bears up Surprisingly well.
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Pure gruesome fun. Bleeding-edge technology satire meets alien horror in a Vantablack-dark comedy. A self-obsessed trillionaire tech bro (interests include AI, space travel and self-driving cars) faces a momentous decision when an emissary from an ali ...more
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An unusual and impeccably British take on the afterlife.
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Solid 1920 ripping yarn , racist from end to end. The solid ex-military hero treking to find a lost city of white men in the Gobi desert (against the resistance of the evil Chinese) is fairly stock; he can beat any four Asians in a fist fight as a mat ...more
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Pure gruesome fun. Bleeding-edge technology satire meets alien horror in a Vantablack-dark comedy. A self-obsessed trillionaire tech bro (interests include AI, space travel and self-driving cars) faces a momentous decision when an emissary from an ali ...more
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David Hambling answered a question about The Ghost: Were there any weak parts of the plot? Pretty much all of them. Some so bad I wanted to throw the book across the room (the bit where the deceased ghostwriter leaves a pointless 'clue' in chapter heading for no earthly reason)
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“There is a story about a traveller chased by a tiger to the edge of an abyss. The man took hold of a vine and started to climb down when he saw an angry dragon at the bottom of the abyss, and when he looked up, the tiger was lashing its tail above. As he hung on, a mouse started to gnaw away at the vine he was clinging to. The man was ready for death when he noticed a wild strawberry growing next to him, so he plucked it. It was the sweetest he had ever tasted.”
― David Hambling, Broken Meats

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“The guilty flee where none pursues, or so they say.”
― David Hambling, The Elder Ice

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“...magic is madness. That's almost the definition of it. The ordinary mind, the sane mind, revolts at the thought of doing the impossible...”
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1st Quarter 2024 - Horror #1

Small Spaces by Katherine Arden - 218 pgs

4 votes, 33.3%

Good Girls Don’t Die by Christina Henry - 320 pgs

2 votes, 16.7%

Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi - 335 pgs

2 votes, 16.7%

Murder at Spindle Manor by Morgan Stang - 249 pgs

1 vote, 8.3%

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty - 385 pgs

1 vote, 8.3%

The Dulwich Horror of 1927 by David Hambling - 89 pgs

1 vote, 8.3%

House of Shadows by Darcy Coates - 268 pgs

1 vote, 8.3%

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White - 384 pgs

0 votes, 0.0%

Among the Living by Tim Lebbon - 283 pgs

0 votes, 0.0%

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