Dr Terror's House of Horrors by John Burke

I absolutely love this Amicus film. And I absolutely can't believe how long this book has sat, unread, on my bookshelves.

From Beyond the Grave by R Chetwynd-Hayes

As I'm putting together an Amicus shelf, I thought I'd start sharing the items that will make them up. Having started with this and this, here's the movie tie-in book for For Beyond the Grave:

 

The only disappointed with this book is that only one of the stories in the portmanteau film actually appears in this short story collection, which isn't really a novelisation at all :(

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 I have been trying to grow this particular plant for nearly 15 years now. It roots very easily but had never grown more than six leaves without browning and dying.

Finally, I gave up with the very last plant, telling it "If you die, that's it! I'm not taking another cutting to ensure some part of you stays alive. Enough is enough."

Half a year later, the pic below that the very same mother plant is small, but still alive:

Not only that, but look at its babies, which are flourishing:

Sometimes, it seems, fussy plants just need a stern talking to.

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Asylum by William Johnston

 I didn't even know this beast existed until last week and now its been shoved through my letter box. All the way from America, its another Amicus novelisation, and I can't wait to read it:

It also looks rather fetching with its siblings:

Weary

 I am not having as much working on this as should be. I need a holiday to crack on with it.

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