Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 12, 2011 23:10:06 GMT
The site is fine the way it is. Its people today who need improvment.
We here are a dying breed. Tell anybody in todays society that your hobby is reading old british horror novels and they will either look at you stunned or roll around on the floor and call you a nerd or something. Then probably go and smoke their next brain destroying joint.
Also I believe we here are a certain age group. I am 38 and I would gather the other members here are in or around that limit when we could recall the books mentioned here actually being recently published.
Today in the days of mobile phones, playstations and the internet the good old book has become rather redundant in peoples lives. And a trip to your local Waterstones will also show you Horror novels are quickly becoming a thing of the past.
We just need more old fashioned folks here thats all. But its finding them .And are there any left ?
38 ain't old, you cheeky young whippersnapper! I hit the big 4-0 in six months time...
The decline of books and the shiteness on display in Waterstones (and the 'ahem' book sections in supermarkets) is more down to the way the publishing industry's been going for the last twenty years...and yet British horror seems to be in for a bit of a renaissance, what with the likes of Gary McMahon and Adam Neville getting published in the mainstream.
But good ol' fashioned British pulp horror...yep, hard to find, which makes the successful trips to charity shops and car boot sales all the more thrilling. But there's plenty new pulpy material available on digital format.
Not ideal, I know - not a replacement for a proper mass-market paperback in your hands. Believe me, I have a Kindle and as much as I love it I still prefer the printed word. But digital material is better than no material...and it seems to be attracting quite a young market.
A lot of the people I see posting positive reviews on British digital horror novels are in their 20s and American. Hope springs again.