ArchiveJuly 2005

The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King One of King’s earlier novels, this story is more of a fantasy than the horror he is best known for. The book’s setting is in the kingdom of Delain, where King Roland reigns. Quote: Roland the king was neither the best nor the worst king ever to rule the land. He tried very hard not to do anyone great evil and mostly succeeded. He also tried very...

The Father-Thing by Philip K Dick This is the third out of five volumes of PKD’s collected short stories. The 25 stories written in the period somewhat over a year before the author’s first published novel. My favourite in the collection would have to be ‘The Hanging Stranger‘, in which a man on his way to work notices a corpse handing in plain view. His disturbance at the...