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David Hambling So glad you liked it! My collection 'The Dulwich Horror and Others' should be out as a hardback in August, I'm chasing the publishers over the paperba…moreSo glad you liked it! My collection 'The Dulwich Horror and Others' should be out as a hardback in August, I'm chasing the publishers over the paperback and e-book editions -- those are non-Stubbs but some of them have the same setting you may recognise a character or two. I'm working on another collection at present, afterwards -- if other people like him too -- I will aim for another Stubbs by early 2016.(less)
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Alien Stars (Harry Stubbs, #3)

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The Dulwich Horror of 1927

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Ma foi! Gaston Dubois, John Houlihan’s irrepressible hussar, continues his Peninsular War adventures , always ready to swash a buckle, do violence to the English language, and battle eldritch horrors, sometimes all three at once.

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An interesting and complex book which reads very differently in 2026 to how it would then it was published -- on in the period when it was set in the 1930s. Grooming and flirting with fasicsm were not the hot-button issues they are now, and one has t
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OK you expect a degree of absurdity in this type of fantasy spy fiction , but this was awesomely bad! Amazing collection of cliches, cringey attempts to latch on to news stories, and some of the dumbest characters ever seen -- they need to keep doing
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How can an entire town disappear, not just physically but also with every trace of it having existed wiped out of the records?

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"'Don’t worry, princess.'

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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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“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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