Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Top Ten Favorite H.P. Lovecraft Stories

Top Ten Favorite H.P. Lovecraft Stories (in no order):

The Picture in the House
The Outsider
The Festival
The Call of Cthulhu
Pickman's Model
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Dunwich Horror

Honorable mentions:

The Cats of Ulthar
The Haunter of the Dark

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

2017 Reading List Monthly Update: October

Books read in October of 2017:
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"Second Person" (Gabi Losoncy) 10-7-17
"Slabs from Paradise" (Jason Williamson) 10-7-17
"Creepshots" (Simon Morris) 10-8-17
"This Day All Gods Die" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 10-9-17 *
"Talisman Angelical" (Samantha Davies/Matthew Bower) 10-10-17
"Captagon" (Philip Best) 10-12-17
"District" (Tony Duvert) 10-13-17
"Odd Jobs" (Tony Duvert) 10-14-17
"The Dark Domain" (Stefan Grabinski) 10-19-17
"Out of the Deep and Other Supernatural Tales" (Walter De La Mere) 10-20-17
"Super Sons Volume 1: When I Grow Up" (Peter J. Tomasi) 10-20-17
"Born To The Dark" (Ramsey Campbell) 10-26-17
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2017 Reading List Total:
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1. "Strange Eons" (Robert Bloch) 1-3-17
2. "Les Diaboliques"  (Barbey D'Aurevilly) 1-4-17
3. "Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ" (Friedrich Nietzsche) 1-7-17
4. "Star Wars: Heir to the Empire" (Timothy Zahn) 1-21-17 *
5. "The One Tree" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 1-24-17
6. "Peru" (Gordon Lish) 1-24-17
7. "Monsieur de Bougrelon" (Jean Lorrain) 1-26-17
8. "A Pilgrim Stranger" (Mark Samuels) 1-27-17
9. "Star Wars: Dark Force Rising" (Timothy Zahn) 2-6-17 *
10. "White Gold Wielder" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 2-9-17
11. "Ontological Graffiti" (Michael P. Bertiaux) 2-19-17
12. "In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume 1" (Samuel R. Delany) 3-2-17
13. "Forbidden Colors" (Yukio Mishima) 3-4-17
14. "Agents of Dreamland" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 3-4-17
15. "October" (Quentin S. Crisp) 3-8-17
16. "Star Wars: The Last Command" (Timothy Zahn) 3-14-17 *
17. "The Secret Glory" (Arthur Machen) 3-15-17
18. "All Gall is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast" (E.M. Cioran) 3-16-17
19. "Holidays From Hell: Fourteen Stories" (Reggie Oliver) 3-29-17
20. "The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian" (Robert E. Howard) 3-31-17
21. "Kiddiepunk Collected 2011-2015" (Editor: Michael Salerno) 4-1-17
22. "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" (Louis Sachar) 4-5-17 *
23. "The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington" (Leonora Carrington) 4-6-17
24. "A Cat Named Swan" (Holly Hobbie) 4-7-17
25. "Ecce Homo" (Friedrich Nietzsche) 4-9-17
26. "The Night Land" (William Hope Hodgson) 4-16-17
27. "Stranger Than Fanfiction" (Chris Colfer) 4-21-17
28. "Dear Sweet Filthy World" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 4-28-17
29. "Tropic of Capricorn" (Henry Miller) 5-3-17
30. "The Autobiography of Arthur Machen: Far Off Things/Things Near & Far" (Arthur Machen) 5-6-17
31. "The Cutest Girl in Class" (Quentin S. Crisp/Justin Isis/Brendan Connell) 5-11-17
32. "Down Below" (Leonora Carrington) 5-13-17
33. "Art Sex Music" (Cosey Fanni Tutti) 5-17-17
34. "Moriah" (Daniel Mills) 5-20-17
35. "Sarabande" (Andrew Champagne) 5-29-17
36. "CCRU Writings 1997-2003" (Various/Nick Land) 6-2-17
37. "Masks in the Tapestry" (Jean Lorrain) 6-6-17
38. "France: Fin de Siècle" (Eugen Weber) 6-8-17
39. "Doom Patrol Volume 1: Brick by Brick" (Gerard Way) 6-11-17
40. "This Is Memorial Device" (David Keenan) 6-16-17
41. "Memories, Dreams, Reflections" (C.G. Jung) 6-19-17
42. "Tony Greene Era" (Kevin Killian) 6-20-17
43. "Providence Act 2" (Alan Moore) 6-22-17
44. "Resuscitation of a Hanged Man" (Denis Johnson) 6-29-17
45. "The Red Laugh" (Leonid Andreyev) 7-6-17
46. "Star Wars: Specter of the Past" (Timothy Zahn) 7-13-17
47. "The Little Angel" (Leonid Andreyev) 7-14-17
48. "History and Utopia" (E.M. Cioran) 7-19-17
49. "My Education: A Book of Dreams" (William S. Burroughs) 7-26-17
50. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (Lewis Carroll) 7-28-17 *
51. "Star Wars: Vision of the Future" (Timothy Zahn) 8-2-17
52. "Visions: Stories and Photographs" (Leonid Andreyev) 8-5-17
53. "The Disintegrations" (Alistair McCartney) 8-12-17
54. "Timequake" (Kurt Vonnegut) 8-17-17
55. "The Desire Line: Memory & Impermanence" (Sven Davisson) 8-19-17
56. "The Hasish-Eater" (Clark Ashton Smith) 8-22-17
57. "Fungi from Yuggoth: An Annotated Edition" (H.P. Lovecraft) 8-29-17
58. "Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings" (Carson McCullers) 9-2-17
59. "The Ballad of the Sad Café" (Carson McCullers) 9-3-17
60. "The Real Story" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 9-6-17 *
61. "Unpleasant Tales" (Brendan Connell) 9-8-17
62. "Forbidden Knowledge" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 9-13-17 *
63. "Pleasant Tales" (Brendan Connell) 9-14-17
64. "Providence Act 3" (Alan Moore) 9-15-17
65. "A Dark and Hungry God Arises" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 9-21-17 *
66. "Chaos and Order" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 9-30-17 *
67. "Second Person" (Gabi Losoncy) 10-7-17
68. "Slabs from Paradise" (Jason Williamson) 10-7-17
69. "Creepshots" (Simon Morris) 10-8-17
70. "This Day All Gods Die" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 10-9-17 *
71. "Talisman Angelical" (Samantha Davies/Matthew Bower) 10-10-17
72. "Captagon" (Philip Best) 10-12-17
73. "District" (Tony Duvert) 10-13-17
74. "Odd Jobs" (Tony Duvert) 10-14-17
75. "The Dark Domain" (Stefan Grabinski) 10-19-17
76. "Out of the Deep and Other Supernatural Tales" (Walter De La Mere) 10-20-17
77. "Super Sons Volume 1: When I Grow Up" (Peter J. Tomasi) 10-20-17
78. "Born To The Dark" (Ramsey Campbell) 10-26-17

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

Currently Reading:

"The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions" (H.P. Lovecraft and others)
"Special Friendships" (Roger Peyrefitte)