2015 Reading List Monthly Update: October

Books read in October of 2015:

"Low Red Moon"  (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 10-1-15
"Exquisite Corpse" (Poppy Z. Brite) 10-6-15 *
"Childhood" (Michael Salerno) 10-9-15
"Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe" (Thomas Ligotti) 10-21-15 *
"The Case Against Satan" (Ray Russell) 10-22-15
"Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes" (Mark Samuels) 10-28-15
"Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu" (Junji Ito) 10-29-15

2015 Reading List Total:

1. "The New Gods" (E.M. Cioran) 1-4-15
2. "The Great Cat: Poems About Cats" (Edited by Emily Fragos) 1-6-15
3. "Les Misérables" (Victor Hugo) 1-12-15
4. "Enigma" (Peter Milligan) 1-13-15
5. "Murphy" (Samuel Beckett) 1-14-15
6. "Zac's Haunted House" (Dennis Cooper) 1-15-15
7. "Fashion in Impressionist Paris" (Debra N. Mancoff) 1-16-15
8. "Endgame & Act Without Words I" (Samuel Beckett) 1-17-15
9. "Là-Bas: A Journey into the Self" (J.K. Huysmans) 1-20-15 *
10. "Heart of Darkness" (Joseph Conrad) 1-23-15
11. "Dawn: Xenogenesis" (Octavia Butler) 1-24-15
12."Sky Saw" (Blake Butler) 1-28-15
13."Angels" (Denis Johnson) 1-28-15
14."Flutes in the Garden" (Chip Richards) 1-31-15
15. "The Temptation to Exist" (E.M. Cioran) 2-4-15
16. "The Sound and the Fury" (William Faulkner) 2-5-15
17. "Train Dreams" (Denis Johnson) 2-6-15
18. "Ice" (Anna Kavan) 2-9-15
19. "How It Is" (Samuel Beckett) 2-9-15
20. "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly" (Denis Johnson) 2-10-15
21. "The Annotated Sandman Volume One" (Neil Gaiman) 2-14-15
22. "Poor Things" (Alasdair Gray) 2-14-15
23. "The Trouble With Being Born" (E.M. Cioran) 2-17-15
24. "I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like" (Justin Isis) 2-19-15
25. "Nobody Move" (Denis Johnson) 2-21-15
26. "Angels in America" (Tony Kushner) 2-26-15
27. "The Goners" (Mark Gluth) 2-26-15
28. "The Annotated Sandman Volume Two" (Neil Gaiman) 2-26-15
29. "Girl in a Band" (Kim Gordon) 3-2-15
30. "The Annotated Sandman Volume 3" (Neil Gaiman) 3-7-15
31. "Concrete Island" (J.G. Ballard) 3-19-15
32. "Tree of Smoke" (Denis Johnson) 3-24-15
33. "Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" (Alison Bechdel) 3-24-15
34. "Burnt Black Stars: a Collection of Weird Tales" (Simon Strantzas) 3-31-15
35. "The Seven Hearts of Abby Leah" (Andrew Champagne) 4-23-15
36. "The Filth: Deluxe Edition" (Grant Morrison) 4-30-15
37. "Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories" (Algernon Blackwood) 5-5-15
38. "Liber Null & Psychonaut: an Introduction to Chaos Magic" (Peter J. Carroll) 5-6-15 *
39. "Autopsy of an Eldritch City: Ten Tales of Strange and Unproductive Thinking" (James Champagne) 5-8-15
40. "Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction" (Ray Brassier) 5-15-15
41. "Selfish" (Kim Kardashian West) 5-16-15
42. "Hospice" (Gregory Howard) 5-20-15
43. "Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews With J.G. Ballard, 1967-2008" (J.G. Ballard) 5-25-15
44. "The Imago Sequence and Other Stories" (Laird Barron) 6-3-15
45. "Disagreeable Tales" (Léon Bloy) 6-5-15
46. "Silk" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 6-17-15
47. "Gyo" (Junji Ito) 6-18-15
48. "Fragments of Horror" (Junji Ito) 6-20-15
49. "Flowers of the Sea: Thirteen Stories and Two Novellas" (Reggie Oliver) 6-22-15
50. "The Void Ratio" (Shane Levane/Karolina Urbaniak) 6-22-15
51. "Joe the Barbarian" (Grant Morrison) 6-25-15
52. "The Batman Adventures Volume 1" (Kelley Puckett/Martin Pasko) 6-26-15 *
53. "Zone" (Mathias Énard) 6-28-15
54. "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" (H.P. Lovecraft) 7-1-15
55. "The Laughing Monsters" (Denis Johnson) 7-2-15
56. "The Batman Adventures Volume 2" (Kelley Puckett) 7-7-15
57. "Defeated Dogs" (Quentin S. Crisp) 7-17-15
58. "The Silver Age: Black & White Photographs From Andy Warhol's Factory" (Billy Name) 7-18-15
59. "Running Wild" (J.G. Ballard) 7-24-15
60. "Religion and the Rebel" (Colin Wilson) 7-29-15
61. "Threshold" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 7-30-15
62. "Mummy Cat" (Marcus Ewert) 7-30-15
63. "Sphinx" (Anne Garréta) 8-6-15
64. "The Unlimited Dream Company" (J.G. Ballard) 8-6-15
65. "The Influence" (Ramsey Campbell) 8-11-15
66. "Annihilator" (Grant Morrison) 8-19-15
67. "Neonomicon" (Alan Moore) 8-19-15
68. "Hello America" (J.G. Ballard) 8-25-15
69. "Outer Dark" (Cormac McCarthy) 9-2-15
70. "The Red Tree" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 9-5-15
71. "The Name of the World" (Denis Johnson) 9-8-15
72. "Zac's Control Panel" (Dennis Cooper) 9-10-15
73. "The Wind from Nowhere" (J.G. Ballard) 9-13-15
74. "The Glass Cage" (Colin Wilson) 9-19-15
75. "Blood Lad Volume 1" (Yuuki Kodama) 9-20-15
76. "Low Red Moon"  (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 10-1-15
77. "Exquisite Corpse" (Poppy Z. Brite) 10-6-15 *
78. "Childhood" (Michael Salerno) 10-9-15
79. "Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe" (Thomas Ligotti) 10-21-15 *
80. "The Case Against Satan" (Ray Russell) 10-22-15
81. "Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes" (Mark Samuels) 10-28-15
82. "Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu" (Junji Ito) 10-29-15

 *= book I have read at least once in the past

Currently Reading:

"Daughter of Hounds" (Caitlín R. Kiernan)

Writing projects update

It's been awhile since I updated this page with an update on my writing projects, so here goes.

My long short story/novella "Chaoskampf" will be appearing in Marked to Die, a tribute anthology to the work of Mark Samuels that will most likely be published in the spring of 2016 by Snuggly Books. This book is edited by Justin Isis and features a large roster of very exciting contributors. More information here:

http://www.snugglybooks.co.uk/marked-to-die/

Aside from writing "Chaoskampf" I've been kind of lax in writing short fiction this year. I'm slowly (very slowly) working on another story entitled "Black Noise" that's inspired by the music of Maurizo Bianchi. No idea when it'll be done. I do have ideas for other short story titles (such as "Alien Existence"), it's just a matter of coming up with appropriate ideas for them (I find I often come up with the titles for stories before the actual story idea).