Lord Horror
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"HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE WAR, Hitler would have done well. Which is like saying that if it had not been fin* the Jews, Hitler would have been redundant. Almost without reservation, Lord Horror approved of the man."--incipit Lord Horror (1990) by David Britton and Michael Butterworth "Later in the same month I attended with Varese the Berlin premiere of Pierrot Lunair'. When we arrived, the salon was crowded. We made our way to the end of the room where Schoenberg was standing with a Stein in his hand, near his players."--Lord Horror (1990) by David Britton and Michael Butterworth Of all the philosophical arguments, Shatterhand favoured Spinoza’s, whose answer to the riddle of existence was that, “All things exist; exist necessarily in thoroughgoing interdependence”.--Lord Horror (1990) by David Britton and Michael Butterworth "That old granny was a dry as a moles arse."--Lord Horror (1990) by David Britton and Michael Butterworth "I think that, as an exercise in Surrealism, Lord Horror compares with some of the best work that came out of France and Germany between the wars, for example Georges Bataille. The book has some brilliantly funny passages, particularly about Old Shatterhand. Britton is undoubtedly brilliant, but when I came to the bit about Horror hollowing out a Jewess's foot and putting it over his penis, I started skipping. With the best will in the world, I couldn't give his brilliant passages the attention they deserve because I kept being put off by this note of violence and sadism. No doubt it is because I belong to an older generation that is still basically a bit Victorian." --Colin Wilson "Lord Horror was so unique and radical, I expected to go to prison for it. I always thought that if you wrote a truly dangerous book -- something dangerous would happen to you. Which is one reason there are so few really dangerous books around. Publishers play at promoting dangerous books, whether they're Serpent's Tail or Penguin. All you get is a book vetted by committee, never anything radically imaginative or offensive that will take your fucking head off. Ironically, I think it would do other authors a power of good if they had to account for their books by going to prison -- there are far too many bad books being published!"--David Britton has said [1] |
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Lord Horror (1990) is a book and graphic novel by David Britton and Michael Butterworth noted for being charged with obscenity in the United Kingdom.
In 1989, Britton wrote Lord Horror published by Savoy Books, a dystopian horror with a central character based on Nazi collaborator William Joyce, also known as Lord Haw-Haw. This became the last publication to be banned under the United Kingdom's Obscene Publications Act in 1992, with Britton serving a jail term at HM Prison Manchester. The charge was later overturned on appeal after a defence led by human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson.
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