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	The Elder Ice (Harry Stubbs, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 379 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) 4.29 avg rating — 188 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 — 148 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) 4.42 avg rating — 119 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 — 77 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 rated a book really liked it Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn	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 rated a book liked it Marching Sands by Harold Lamb	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
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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David Hambling rated a book it was amazing K-Hole of the Mi-Go! by Philip Hemplow (Goodreads Author)	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
Pure grueson 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 alie ...more
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Pure grueson 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 alie ...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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David Hambling rated a book it was amazing The Magic Books: A History of Enchantment in 20 Medieval Manuscripts by Anne Lawrence-Mathers	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
Detailed, fascinating and gorgeously illustrated history of magical texts in medieval Europe. Packed with wondrous and surprising material, this may totally change your views about the role played by magic in the Medieval world. Great stuff for anyone ...more
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David Hambling rated a book liked it Marching Sands by Harold Lamb	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
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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David Hambling rated a book liked it The Ghost by Robert Harris (Goodreads Author)	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
Quite fun, and a wickedly accurate portrayal of the Blairs (‘any resemblance…’) but the plot is absurd on several levels. The comedy did not work for me but authors need a change sometimes…a light unchallenging read which could have been more excitin ...more
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David Hambling rated a book it was amazing The Crystal Void (Illustrated Version): Sabres against Cthulhu in this epic historical fantasy series! (Mon Dieu Cthulhu! Book 1) by John Houlihan (Goodreads Author)	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
Sit down with a carafe of vin rouge and a wedge of decent Roquefort, and allow yourself to be transported to the Peninsular War in 1810 and the remarkable adventures of that unique cavalryman Gaston Dubois -- bon viveur, fearless warrior, incorrigibl ...more
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David Hambling rated a book liked it Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia by Bernard Ollivier	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
I slowly warmed to the writer during his long trek. Although not an outwardly appealing character, and no great describer of landscape or cities, he has a certain rugged charm which shines through. The underlying mystery of just why he goes through t ...more
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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.”
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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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Among the Living by Tim Lebbon - 283 pgs

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Small Spaces by Katherine Arden - 218 pgs

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House of Shadows by Darcy Coates - 268 pgs

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

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Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi - 335 pgs

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

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Murder at Spindle Manor by Morgan Stang - 249 pgs

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The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty - 385 pgs

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The Dulwich Horror of 1927 by David Hambling - 89 pgs

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