Weekly wrap up 14th Sept: Gangsters, zombies, poetry

Check out the Serious Lights High Definition Light here: try.seriousrea...
Use code OLLY24 for £100 off High Definition (HD) Lights and free UK delivery.
Find links to every place you can connect with me here: linktr.ee/crim...
Patreon community www.patreon.co...
KZbin channel memberships / @criminollyblog
Discord community / discord
TikTok www.tiktok.com...
Instagram www.instagram....
Goodreads / 5760727.oliver_clarke
Facebook www.facebook.c...
Threads www.threads.ne...
UK bookshop: uk.bookshop.or...
US bookshop: bookshop.org/s...
Authors/publishers: I am currently accepting crime, pulp and horror books for review. Submission guidelines here: criminolly.com...
_____
Books discussed:
Nightmares and Geezenstacks by Fredric Brown
Jack Carter's Law by Ted Lewis
Zombies Over London by Stephen Mertz
Headhunters by Luis Paredes
Permanent Verb by Gareth Howells
A Dark and Subtle Light by Mark Hodder
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
________
Music: Who's Afraid of Halloween by Alfred Grupstra from Pixabay

[@elliyo4286]

Oh no, extra videos, how horrible! * gets tea and cuddles into bed * whatever shall I do?

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Ha! Hope you enjoy them

[@Bookchara]

No need to apologize for extra Olly!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Ha, thank you!

[@krisprepolec5616]

I saw Get Carter for the first time when I was at university in the early 90’s. The thing that stuck with me the most was when he slammed a guy in a car door during a fight and the glass turned to shards when his head went through it. It had never occurred to me what the world was like before tempered glass and power steering :-)

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Yeah cars definitely used to be more dangerous! I'm old enough to remember seatbelt laws coming in

[@michaelhaggett1016]

My two favorite Ted Lewis books are Jack's Return Home and his final book, GBH. Agree about Jack Carter's Law.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

GBH keeps on being recommended - hope to get to it soon

[@GaryMartinDobbs]

Ted lewis...we're getting into seriously cool fiction here

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I'm definitely keen to read more

[@jethrowegener]

A great week for you, I see! Really diverse list of pretty cool titles.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Cheers, Jethro

[@Antoine-k5m]

Hi, Olly. I just started reading Malice aforethought by Francis Iles. It had been on my TBR list for quite a while. I think it's a highly regarded classic and so far I'm really enjoying it. The plot is elegant and the prose is impeccable.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

That sounds good!

[@LuisParedesWrites]

Thank you so much!!!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

You're welcome!

[@duanespurlock5879]

I've been reading Octavia Butler's PARABLE OF THE SOWER; first book by her I've read. Also Edge # 41, THE KILLING CLAIM and Barry Hannah's BOOMERANG. Variety!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

That’s a nicely varied bunch!

[@LoneRanger-et7gq]

The Geezenstacks reminds me of an episode of *Tales from the Darkside* (an U.S. anthology horror series). Apparently, the writer for this particular episode pulled the name from Brown's work. The story is centered around a little peculiar family named the Geezenstacks. For TFDS fans, it is probably one of the creepiest and most unnerving episodes of the series. Hope you get the opportunity to check it out.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

That sounds interesting! Thank you

[@carolinec3951]

Reading “Hell Diver” by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Post apocalyptic.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Great title!

[@leelalo6625]

My current reads are: Gyo Geek Love Dead Inside Horrorstor

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Nice! I really liked Horrorstor and Dead Inside

[@danhamilton7990]

Cult detectives Books by John Connolly about Charlie Parker

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Great choice!

[@BobAg_]

Have you ever read The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight? I found it absolutely disgusting 😂

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I think I might have owned a copy back in the 90s, but I don't think I ever read it