Carly

This book is very funny, to me it's like the program Ugly Betty if everyone involved in the fashion industry was a vampire. If you haven't seen this program, it's about a girl with no fashion sense whatsoever, that works for a company that publishes a fashion magazine, where she doesn't fit in.

The first time I read this book, I though it was entertaining, however I myself are no fashion expert, I adore the Gothic/Alternative fashion so that would also make me a misfit in society like Ugly Betty.
I enjoyed reading this book, but I didn't always understand the fashion references, to certain fashion designers or styles of clothing or looks that have created. To be honest, I wish that there was a little less emphasis on that and more emphasis on the characters that the main character could relate to. Kate the main character and James have a least one thing common that they are both anti-fashion, due to all the models or anyone that's involved in the fashion industry looks the same.
They are all skinny, pale, dressed immaculately, and they all live on a liquid diet of human blood (described as red berry juice or a smoothie, since that's how Kate describes it in the book)It's human blood, because everyone she works with is a vampire.
Kate finds out, that there is something weird going on, while she is at work for her internship at Tasty magazine. Someone keeps staring at her, from behind the photocopier, her boss stares at her for long periods of time, all the staff sleep during the day, in their offices in secret. All of the staff seem to drink this red berry juice as is described by Kate in the but, it isn't a smoothie.

The best thing about this book is the humor, since Kate's mother was a fashion designer, it's a big deal to the staff at Tasty magazine. Although Kate doesn't want to be known as Eva's daughter, she wants to work on her own merit, and be recognized for her own work. I like the fact, that at least two of the characters in the book, are
anti-fashion, since not everyone will be a part of the industry, not everyone will fit in, due to the requirements.You have be petite, to be considered pretty, so all the staff members starve themselves, until, a dog is found dead in a supply cupboard. Kate finds out who is responsible and why. If you like reading paranormal romance or just books about vampires with a sense of humor then you will like this book.
I am obsessed with vampires so I will read any books about vampires as long as it's funny, or about the co-habitation of humans and supernatural creatures and the things that go wrong, in their daily lives.
If you like vampires then, I would recommend this book to you.

H.P Lovecraft is a horror/sci-fi writer from the 1920's.
He is among one of the greatest writers in the 20th century, some of my other favourites are Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley.

I have read all the stories in the book, but i'm still reading the information about the Author, because it's really long..

So my favourite stories were:
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Cats of Ulthar
Herbert West-Reanimator
The Music of Erich Zann
The Hound
The Rats in the wall
The Unnamable
Pickman's Model
Call of Cthulhu
The Shunned House
The Dunwich Horror
The Dreams in the Witch-House
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The thing on the doorstep
The case of Charles Dexter Ward
To a Dreamer (Poem)

My Least favourite stories:
Dagon
The Lurking Fear
The Doom that came to Sarnath
The Nameless City
Under the Pyramids
In the Vault
The Outsider
The horror at Red Hook
The Colour out of space
Cool Air
The Silver Key
The Whisperer in the darkness
The Strange High House in the Mist
From Beyond
Through the gates of the Silver Key (With E.Hoffmann Price)
At the mountains of madness
The Shadow out of time
The Haunter of the dark
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath

I really liked all of these stories in particular, because they were entertaining, and creepy.
Most of the time, I read these stories really late at night, when it was quiet.
I couldn't sleep after reading some of these stories. Since H.P. Lovecraft had strange and vivid dreams, that's where he got the inspiration for his stories, but he was possibly mentally ill. He was an intelligent, quiet, shy introvert, some people may of thought of him as a father figure or teacher.
To be honest I much preferred the horror stories more than the sci-fi stories because they were to the point, and creepy.
The sci-fi stories were incredibly detailed, but to the point that it distracted you with laborious details, that I was confused by. If the stories were more about horrible things happening to the protagonist, than going into great detail about an ancient civilization that I've never heard or don't understand how to even pronoun their name, then I would have been happy to read them. However, because there was so much attention to every single detail, or what an ancient long since dead creature would look like, it took me a lot longer to read some of these stories. In the mountains of madness, would be a good example. Due to the attention to detail in the sci-fi stories, I found it incredibly boring to read some of these stories, and was glad once I reached the end of the story.
If you are like me and would like to read the horror stories first, then I recommend that you read the stories that I listed above. You will not be disappointed.
However if you are more of a sci-fi fan, then by all means, read the rest of the stories that I have mentioned as my least favourite above. I would recommend this to horror and sci-fi fans, although I personally didn't like all the stories, due to the attention to detail, it made reading some of the stories to read, very tiring. Some of the stories in my opinion, once I read them were not very memorable, I preferred reading some of the more obvious, creepy and disturbing stories.
This book, might not be for everyone however, since the author wrote these stories in the 19th century, so the language and vocabulary are unlike anything that I am used to, so I had to look up what certain words mean, because I didn't always understand what they meant, or how to pronounce them.
This book is perfect, if you have a lot of spare time, since it will take you months to read it all, this book is not for the faint of heart, some people might be disturbed by the subject matter of the stories.
The Cats of Ulthar is violent, the animals are harmed, so some people might be offended by this for example.
H.P. Lovecraft is considered a controversial person due to the name he gave his black cat, something he will forever be judged for, even though he lived in the 1920's a notoriously racist Era.

This book is about the Norwegian Black Metal music scene at the time, the Norwegian Black Metal band Mayhem, church burnings, the suicide of Dead & the murder of Euronymous (Oystein Aarseth)
I love the front & back covers this book has, it's a unique front/back book covers, that gets your attention.
I have seen the Lords of chaos film, Dead's suicide & the murder of Euronymous (Oystein Aarseth) was brutal, gory to watch.
The film in my opinion made Euronymous look like a weak, poser though, which I didn't really like.
It made Varg Vikernes seem a bit rapey, or abusive to women as well.
Some band members in Satanic Metal bands are a real Satanist but they don't sacrifice animals & people to Satan. it's a inaccurate portrayal of genuine Satanists since most Satanists are atheists, and they believe in demons the demonic divine. but maybe they don't believe in spirituality psychic abilities, spiritualism etc..
I was confused about the churches, if the churches that were brunt were originally a Norse Pagan Stave church, or if they were Christian churches that replaced the original Norse Pagan Stave churches and that's why Varg Vikernes hates Christianity, anything associated with it and burnt the churches. They originally wanted to instill fear in people by creating Norwegian Black Metal.
In my opinion the film, was good, it was entertaining, fun to watch at times, because i'm a metalhead, I always will be.
Mayhem is one of my favourite, Norwegian Black Metal bands.
I really love the aesthetic of Black Metal bands, the corpse paint makeup style that Dead originally created.
A lot of Satanic Black Metal/Black Metal bands in general use animals heads, blood when they are live on stage.
Death is part of their aesthetic, it's a theme in their music, they have the aesthetic look of death, they are the embodiment of death, or a corpse.

I can say with 100% certainty that as a metalhead I have intention to ever be the type of person that would desecrate graves, or to be a grave-robber & i'm not a necrophile.
I have no intention to be a “corpse-violator” just because i'm a metalhead, I love horror films & i'm interested in witchcraft.
For the metalheads that do commit these types of disturbing, horrific & disgusting crimes, their intentions are not always known.
I think a minority of people do it for attention, to seem edgy because they are disobeying the law, for the attention & respect of others.
It's attention-seeking behaviour for shock value, some people do it due to being bored, for others though their intention is more serious and sinister, they may practice black magick, or they might be a Satanist.
It's has a connection to black magick, Satanism in some aspects or Necromancy (Death Magick) a type of witchcraft that involves communication with the dead, summoning the dead for divination purposes, or asking a conjured/summoned spirit(s) to help you with a task.
Any crimes involving a Cemetery, unexplained motivation for the crime(s) is automatically sinister and should be taken seriously, because it's likely to happen again.