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	The Elder Ice (Harry Stubbs, #1) 3.90 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Broken Meats (Harry Stubbs, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dulwich Horror of 1927 4.16 avg rating — 166 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alien Stars (Harry Stubbs, #3) 4.32 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dulwich Horror and Others by David Hambling (Goodreads Author), S.T. Joshi (Foreword) 4.21 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Master of Chaos (Harry Stubbs, #4) 4.43 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swarm Troopers: How small drones will conquer the world 4.14 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thing in the Vault 4.30 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Yig: Revelations of the Serpent: A Cthulhu Mythos Anthology by David Hambling (Goodreads Author), Matthew Davenport (Goodreads Author), Mark Howard Jones 4.16 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hide and Seek (Harry Stubbs, #0.5) 4.32 avg rating — 53 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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David Hambling and 3 other people liked Forrest Shearer's review of Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity: "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20... this book could have been an email"
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David Hambling made a comment on A_Place_In The_Orchard’s review of The Case Book of Harry Stubbs: Four Cthulhu Mythos Adventures " Would be very interested why you found the stories disappointing and what the breaking point was with the third? "
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David Hambling and 4 other people liked C.T. Phipps's review of The Case Book of Harry Stubbs: Four Cthulhu Mythos Adventures: "THE CASE BOOK OF HARRY STUBBS is a collection (not an anthology) of stories for the character of Harry Stubbs, creation of Cthulhu Mythos writer, David Hambling. David Hambling created the Harry Stubbs character as a way of criticizing a lot of Lovec" Read more of this review »
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David Hambling and 1 other person liked BERNARD ANDREWS's review of The Case Book of Harry Stubbs: Four Cthulhu Mythos Adventures: "Really excellent occult detective stories Harry Stubbs is an great character for Lovecraft adjacent mystery stories. The ex boxer with a sharp strong mind neatly balances the cosmic horror, otherworldly creatures and the flawed adversaries who are dr" Read more of this review »
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Engaging and well written if somewhat rambling account of the lives of four West African women around the time of the Covid pandemic. Three are fairly unsympathetic privileged, super-wealthy Nigerians, the fourth is a Guinean working at restaurants a ...more
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Amusing, but much too close to the things that it is parodying.
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Classic adventure tale, page turner with plenty of thrills and excitement. BBC Sunday evening fare, though a little moralistic it bears up Surprisingly well.
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“There is a story about a traveller chased by a tiger to the edge of an abyss. The man took hold of a vine and started to climb down when he saw an angry dragon at the bottom of the abyss, and when he looked up, the tiger was lashing its tail above. As he hung on, a mouse started to gnaw away at the vine he was clinging to. The man was ready for death when he noticed a wild strawberry growing next to him, so he plucked it. It was the sweetest he had ever tasted.”
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“The guilty flee where none pursues, or so they say.”
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“...magic is madness. That's almost the definition of it. The ordinary mind, the sane mind, revolts at the thought of doing the impossible...”
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