 We're gonna have to wait for the gunfire to stop Fucks sake. Hello everybody. You here welcome back to top five Friday today We are talking about an author that is near and dear to my heart someone I grew up reading Maybe not grew up, but I certainly came of age reading this author I remember going down to Walden books and looking for his stuff Finally enough running out of his stuff because I had read all of his stuff And I still don't think that he is publishing nowadays I know that like bloodshot books and a couple other places are offering reissues Of his stuff, but I don't think he's still writing and I haven't found too much information about him So jumping into it the first book I want to talk about is one of my favorite vampire novels of all time And I hate vampires. I think they're overdone. I don't like any of the classics and like Dracula and that stuff I like 30 days a night. I like let the right one in and I like Stephen King Salem's lot I like those books, but I don't actually have this one. It's one of the ones that was destroyed So fear me is a terrific book by Stephen Laws It's one of those books that I remember very specifically certain scenes I don't want to give any spoilers in this because I want people to go out and find them It has been a pain in the ass trying to find this book in a good condition I've only come across two good two of his books in good condition and those are the old leisure press ones we'll get to that in a second, but tour the sci-fi fantasy Publisher has published a couple of his things also which brings me to number four, which is ghost train This book is so much fun If you are a fan of any kind of supernatural train thing so much dust. Sorry any kind of supernatural train I know there I spoke to somebody who enjoyed that Bentley littles the burning that kind of thing Sorry that title always makes me giggle, but at number four. We got ghost train I I will I will never forget Stephen Laws introduced me to the over-the-top horror that was not silly and that's one of the things I'm gonna touch on as we keep on going All too often even back when I was a teenager I would read horror and I'd be like well That's just Stupid now. It might be fun. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that 80s horror can't be fun or a slasher or any that stuff Can't be fun. It's a lot of fun But as far as goofy or what's normally seen as cheesy over-the-top horror actually being Unsettling or bothersome that's one of the things that laws did right next we have Spectre Which is an amazing book? It's about the people it's the nightclub I believe is called specter in it But it also has a bit of like back to the future going on because people are disappearing from the photograph In fact, you can see kind of in this one I love the cover of this one because it doesn't fit all that well other than you know the what you know The people that are being killed off in the book kind of deal There is one that has like an old I guess it's supposed to be the club up on a hill I think it's the The one that you can buy today Has that cover that one doesn't fit very well at all. I have seen one cover that fit it And I haven't found it anywhere, but I love this book I gave it five stars on Goodreads, and it's one of the it's like a quintessential 80s horror novel it has all the the weird Events that just don't seem to go together whatsoever and then by the end of the book Somehow the author pulls it up all the good ones the author pulls it all together to one instance This is also some of the inspiration for my it's out of print now But my novel dastardly bastard a lot of the stuff in there was that this book inspired a lot of that book All right at number let's see here. That was number three So at number two number one and number two are going to be a tie So let's just call both of these number one because these are books that have stayed with me ever since I first read them and A lot of what I do today in my own work actually comes from inspiration from Stephen Laws So the first one we're going to talk about is the worm which is hard to pick up on the camera But the worm is a fantastic novel about small-town horror. There's it's Unweight your awakening this long-buried evil and it's some of the coolest coolest action in horror you will come across and that's one of the things that laws does right Even more so I would say he's better at it than Bentley little and Bentley little really really that's his that's his niche That's his thing. He he does supernatural almost action adventure stories Where there's a there's a group of people or an individual going up against this massive entity or this this unstoppable Creature and that's what little does very well But I would say that that laws does it even better to the point where I can reread his stuff Nowadays and still enjoy it where I can't I'm not enjoying the layman's. I'm not enjoying the littles I'm not enjoying those things anymore, but here I am. I still enjoy these books I just reread the worm last year is fantastic. All right, and then number one part two is Darkfall this book is about a skyscraper. There's another book by Dean Coons. Please don't get these two confused There's another book by Dean Coons. It came out roughly around the same time called Darkfall Dean Coons' book is amazing. Also that one's on my top I think my top ten five whatever of Dean Dean Coons' books But this one this one is about a skyscraper The I believe the whole skyscraper becomes possessed or becomes an alternate reality kind of deal I don't know if you guys remember the 80s movie my science project. I think it was called that But that's kind of what this reminds me of but with more violence and more gore and whatnot. I remember So so much about I'm gonna read this one pretty soon I reread the worm first to make sure that I would still enjoy his stuff And I read specter for the first time just a couple years ago But this one is Exceptional that I remember being on the edge of my seat not knowing where this was going what was happening? That's another thing that laws, you know, he constantly throws curveballs for his readers He has other books out there frighteners of Ferocity, I think yeah ferocity. He's got this one. I have almost all of his stuff I don't have the frighteners. I'm not even sure if his the frighteners is the same Is that what the Michael J. Fox movie was based on I've never read that one because I've never been able to find it I know bloodshot books did a Re-release a reissue of it, but I haven't gotten around to grabbing that one mainly because and this is gonna sound terrible But mainly because I want it in this version I want the you know mass market paperback and With you know modern-day presses usually it's either six by nine or five by eight and I want one of these old sons of bitches So if anybody out there has a copy this size, you know Just regular mass market paperback of the frighteners, please let me know I'd be willing to buy it off you for a decent price I would say but we'll talk to send me a message, but until next time I have any you've been you This has been on the top five Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye. I was shocked that uh, I Didn't get any messages yesterday about where Thursday theorist is I appreciate that I've just stopped responding to him at this point. It's not a big deal I'm it'll come back when it comes back, but I'm done promising, you know the people that Thursday theorist Hey, it'll be back next week and me still not being able to have you know catch up what I need to catch up on I have other obligations Reading obligations that I have to get done before you know I can continue on with that and one of the books that I'm reading right now is 700 pages the paperback is 700 and I think 60 pages long So I'm currently trying to work through that I could just toss up like a BS episode of for like a let's say What's the storm is storm of the century, but I actually want to reread that one, too They're short enough that I actually want to get through them and actually do a deep dive into these books Like I did with all the rest of them in the middle of the series I I kind of you know just kind of ran through and quickly ended up having to do two episodes for Bag of Bones because I went through it So quickly I had to do some do some fixes and whatnot, and I'm not too happy with that To this day, you know, there there are episodes of Thursday theorists that I want to refilm So nowadays I am just waiting until I have all the information that I could possibly get Before I do the Thursday theorist so for you guys out there that are bearing with me I appreciate it and the people who you know are upset that there's no Thursday theorist probably aren't watching this video Anyways, but I just want to let you guys know the ones that have been patient that I appreciate you. 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