The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level                     | Score

Purgatory                 | Very Low

Level 1 - Limbo           | High

Level 2                   | Very High

Level 3                   | Moderate

Level 4                   | Low

Level 5                   | High

Level 6 - The City of Dis | Moderate

Level 7                   | Very High

Level 8- the Malebolge    | High

Level 9 - Cocytus         | Moderate

Level descriptions: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-information.html
Take the test: http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv

Oddly, neither of these is published by Humdrumming, but both are highly recommended.

I am now another convert from the ‘I hate books with dragons on the cover’ camp. Tim Lebbon’s writing is resistant to all but ‘good things important to the story’, and doesn’t rise above the troll and swords genre so much as generally rape it for all that is useful and chuck in the bin anything that’s less than that.

As a result, Mr. Lebbon’s books really aren’t “books with dragons on the cover”, so I suppose I can go on hating the typical Warriors of Gor or Dragonriders of Mystik Valley shite that has no purpose to my mind except providing something for some people to obsess endlessly about.

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Well… I’m not sure what this means exactly, but I’m open to interpretations…

• www.humdrumming.co.uk/whitenoise/blog/2007/10/29/price-insanity/

If England has Ramsey Campbell, and the USA has Stephen King, who does Canada have? Who is Canada’s greatest living horror writer? Has Canada produced any horror writers of note? I know the tendency is to mention Algernon Blackwood, but I don’t think he counts, despite the love he had for the Canadian wilds.

Which got me wondering if the question was valid. After all, do you see the USA jumping up and screaming about the fact that H.P. Lovecraft or Edgar Allan Poe was born in their country? No!

Responding to the question of Mr. Strantzas, Barbara Roden said this, in part: Read the rest of this entry »