Pamphlets of Destiny

Monday, 23 March 2026

Kenneth Robeson - The Man of Bronze (1933)

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  I'm not going to make a habit of this because there are millions of these fucking things, but since reading Devil on the Moon I'd...
Monday, 16 March 2026

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962)

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  As will probably be obvious to anyone who saw the 1975 movie adaptation - which must surely be everyone - the mental institution in which...
Monday, 9 March 2026

Philip Wylie - The Gladiator (1930)

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  I gather that much has been made of this novel as a precursor to Siegel and Shuster's Superman , or this is at least the reason for my...
Monday, 2 March 2026

Jay Anson - The Amityville Horror (1977)

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I saw a demon when I was fifteen, maybe sixteen. I was in bed. It was dark outside, and looking to the gap between the curtain and the windo...
Monday, 23 February 2026

Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean - Signal to Noise (1989)

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  What exciting times they were. Neil Gaiman turned up seemingly out of nowhere and everything he wrote was amazing, and there was suddenly ...
Monday, 16 February 2026

Robert Heinlein - Methuselah's Children (1958)

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  I guess Bob had taken to thinking about his own mortality, or at least about his no longer qualifying as a spring chicken, whatever that i...
Monday, 9 February 2026

pStan Batcow - The Sleeping Party (2025)

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  Veterans of the weirdy tape and/or mail art scene may recall former Ceramic Hob pStan Batcow as the prime mover behind Howl in the Typewri...
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Lawrence Burton writes books, paints pictures, and has been involved with all sorts of weirdy music bands of the kind posthumously described as industrial by idiots who weren't there. He grew up in England, specifically on the farm upon which Teletubbies would eventually be filmed, but now lives in San Antonio, Texas with his wife, a number of cats, and a couple of bunnies. His favourite shows are Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Still Game.
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