The Nubia Red Magic 5Z is a gaming smartphone that was released in March 2020. It is manufactured by Nubia Technology, a Chinese smartphone company. The Red Magic 5Z is designed to provide an immersive gaming experience with its powerful hardware and unique gaming features. One of the key features of the Red Magic 5Z is its display. It has a 6.65-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080x2340 pixels.
Will Errickson Portland , OR, United States I collect vintage horror paperbacks. Co-author, with Grady Hendrix, of the Bram Stoker Award-winning PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: THE TWISTED HISTORY OF '70s AND '80s HORROR FICTION (2017) from Quirk Books View my complete profile
It s quiet, allusive, historical horror here all the way, which was fine, a couple gory touches, but I definitely felt it lacked a certain je ne sais quoi , or maybe I just mean it needed more oomph in narrative, dramatic tension. Sheriff Dan Rhodes claims he can t join the Clearview Community Barbershop Chorus because he s too busy busting crime twenty-four hours a day in Crider s wryly humorous if somewhat sleepy 16th sleuthathon after 2008 039.
65-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080x2340 pixels. The display has a high refresh rate of 144Hz, which makes for smooth and fluid animations and gameplay. It also has a touch sampling rate of 240Hz, ensuring quick and accurate response to touch input.
Dan rhodes occult book
Not much to catch the eye in this classy cover art for Next, After Lucifer (July 1988), but the critical blurbs seem to be impressed! One of those authors about whom I never knew anything but whose paperbacks have been plentiful in used bookstores for years, Daniel Rhodes had two more titles published in the late Eighties through Tor's prolific horror line, Adversary and Kiss of Death, from 1989 and 1990 respectively. In the United Kingdom they were put out by New English Library—adorned with much better cover art—complete with Graham Masterton singing the praises.
Looking into the author, turns out Rhodes is a pen name of thriller author Neil McMahon, who is still hard at work today. I was pleasantly surprised to find Next, After Lucifer to be written in a style not usually found in horror paperbacks, elevated and inspired by the stories of M.R. James—the novel is dedicated to the writer—but with requisite updating (drug use, illicit sex). Actually, it was published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press, which might explain the higher quality prose and all-around cultured nature of the tale within.
Anyway, there's an ancient evil in a quaint French town where American medieval studies scholar John McTell and his indifferent newlywed wife Linden are taking a sabbatical. It's Templar Knight Guilhem de Courdeval from the 14th century, burned at the stake for sorcery and various occult antics, whose spirit is trying to invade McTell, thanks to McTell stumbling across the knight's grimoire in castle ruins in the hills. Come on, dude, you're a medieval studies prof, you know waaay better than to mess with that stuff.
Rhodes is a literate and careful writer, and I was impressed by the depiction of local color, an indulgent priest, the villagers, and especially the snobby, drunken antics of Linden's sister, husband, and a Eurotrash hanger-on who crash the McTells' getaway and liven up the proceedings. It's quiet, allusive, historical horror here all the way, which was fine, a couple gory touches, but I definitely felt it lacked a certain je ne sais quoi, or maybe I just mean it needed more oomph in narrative, dramatic tension. Plus there's a sequel I didn't know about, Adversary, so that means the climax is a touch half-hearted. Worth a read, worth adding to your collection, but remember to watch out for grimoires that write themselves.
4 comments:
highwayknees said.Literally have never heard of him ,or these, and have never seen the books in a used book store.Granted the covers are hardly memorable.
I remember sites like ISFDB and Goodreads used to have Kiss of Death listed as the third in the trilogy, but I guess that was wrong since I could never find any references to those earlier books while flipping through it. Either way, great writeup, Will.
Jack Tripper said.Actually, it appears as though Kiss of Death is at last tangentially related to the previous two (featuring the same big baddie), according to Kirkus Reviews: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/daniel-rhodes/kiss-of-death/
Jay Rothermel said.I explored some Jamesian recapitulations of the novel here: http://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-potboiler-for-curious-next-after.html
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