2023 Reading List Monthly Update: September

Books read in September of 2023:

"Wuthering Heights" (Emily Brontë) 9-17-23

"Zothique: The Final Cycle" (Clark Ashton Smith)  9-19-23

"A Shameful Life" (Osamu Dazai) 9-25-23 +

"Parade" (Hiromi Kawakami) 9-25-23

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2023 Reading List Total:

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1. "The Medieval Underworld" (Andrew McCall) 1-11-23

2. "Impure Thoughts" (Golnoosh Nour) 1-12-23

3. "Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire" (Judith Herrin) 1-15-23

4. "The Baron's Coffin and Other Disquieting Tales" (Ada Buisson) 1-17-23

5. "Amy Winehouse: Beyond Black" (Naomi Parry + Various) 1-21-23

6. "Convenience Store Woman" (Sayaka Murata) 1-25-23

7. "Do You Like Big Girls? Vol. 1" (Goro Aizome) 1-27-23

8. "Strange Weather in Tokyo" (Hiromi Kawakami) 1-31-23

9. "The Shards" (Bret Easton Ellis) 2-4-23

10. "Lie With Me" (Philippe Besson) 2-7-23

11. "The Lover" (Marguerite Duras) 2-9-23

12. "Tokyo Ueno Station" (Yu Miri) 2-12-23

13. "Boycrush" (James Nulick) 2-16-23

14. "This Side of Paradise" (F. Scott Fitzgerald) 2-17-23

15. "The Adventure Zone Vol. 5: The Eleventh Hour" (The McElroys/Carey Pietsch) 2-19-23

16. "Octopus Pie: The Other Side" (Meredith Gran) 2-22-23

17. "Octopus Pie Eternal" (Meredith Gran) 2-23-22

18. "The Book of Imaginary Beings" (Jorge Luis Borges) 2-25-23 

19. "Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art" (Susan L. Aberth) 3-4-23

20. "Pictures of Apocalypse" (Thomas Ligotti) 3-11-23

21. "Vermilion Sands" (J.G. Ballard) 3-17-23

22. "Berserk Deluxe Edition 13" (Kentaro Miura) 3-23-23

23. "Tombs" (Junji Ito) 3-30-23

24. "The Flowers of Buffoonery" (Osamu Dazai) 4-4-23

25. "A History of the Middle Ages" (Joseph Dahmus) 4-5-23

26. "Winter in Sokcho" (Elisa Shua Dusapin) 4-7-23

27. "The Guest Cat" (Takashi Hiraide) 4-13-23

28. "The Great Empires of the Ancient World" (Various/Edited by Thomas Harrison) 4-16-23

29. "The Turkish Lady and Other Writings" (Jean Lorrain) 4-17-23

30. "Raun" (Ruggero Vasari) 4-20-23

31. "I Will Not Come" (Arnaud Rykner) 4-22-23

32. "The Secrets of Cabalism" (Ana Jane Vardill) 4-26-23

33. "Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages" (Richard Barber & Juliet Barker) 4-29-23

34. "Neo-Decadence Evangelion" (Various/Edited by Justin Isis) 5-6-23

35. "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Kings & Queens of Britain" (Charles Phillips) 5-18-23

36. "The Black Death" (Philip Ziegler) 5-18-23

37. "Cats in Spring Rain: A Celebration of Feline Charm in Japanese Art and Haiku" (Various) 5-19-23

38. "Are You All Crazy?" (René Crevel) 5-26-23

39. "The Others Lived As Me" (Ange Dargent) 5-28-23

40. "Lord of the World" (Robert Hugh Benson) 5-30-23

41. "Your Dreams" (Thomas Moore) 5-30-23

42. "Antichrist in the Middle Ages: A Study of Medieval Apocalypticism, Art, and Literature" (Richard Kenneth Emmerson) 6-7-23

43. "Sabbat" (Hélène Picard) 6-17-23

44. "Fish Turn Colors Then Break in my Hands" (Colby Smith + Josh Bayer) 6-21-23

45. "The Best of Trim" (Aaron Lange) 6-21-23

46. "The Rise and Fall of Alexandria: Birthplace of the Modern Mind" (Justin Pollard & Howard Reid) 6-21-23

47. "Spells" (Brendan Connell) 6-25-23

48. "The Blood of the Gods" (Jean Lorrain) 6-28-23

49. "Venomous Feathers Split #1: Dive Careful Down/Stupendemys" (Fergus Nm + Churchdoor Lounger) 6-30-23

50. "Paradise Lost" (John Milton/Illustrated by William Blake) 7-3-23

51. "The Pachinko Parlor" (Elisa Shua Dusapin) 7-11-23

52. "De Profundis" (Oscar Wilde) 7-15-23

53. "Soichi" (Junji Ito) 7-19-23

54. "Hit Parade of Tears" (Izumi Suzuki) 7-22-23

55. "The Higher Genius: Magical Tales of New York City" (Kyler James) 7-23-23

56. "Beautiful Star" (Yukio Mishima) 8-3-23
57. "Doom Guy: Life in First Person" (John Romero) 8-13-23

58. "Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages" (Jack Hartnell) 8-23-23

59. "The World of the Crusades: An Illustrated History" (Christopher Tyerman) 8-24-23

60. "The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas- Original Edition" (Dylan Thomas) 8-29-23

61. "Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps" (Chet Van Duzer) 8-30-23

62. "Wuthering Heights" (Emily Brontë) 9-17-23

63. "Zothique: The Final Cycle" (Clark Ashton Smith)  9-19-23

64. "A Shameful Life" (Osamu Dazai) 9-25-23 +

65. "Parade" (Hiromi Kawakami) 9-25-23

*= book I have read at least once in the past
+= book I have read before, but not this reprint/edition/translation

Currently Reading: 

"Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (Edogawa Rampo)

"Goth: A History" (Lol Tolhurst) 

New Chapbook Available: "CAW: Colossal Abandoned World" (Zagava)

This month Zagava has put up for order a new story of mine entitled "CAW: Colossal Abandoned World" as part of their ongoing Infra-Noir chapbook series. This story was kind of a throwback to my older Ligotti-inspired pessimistic earlier short fiction (which might please some of my older fans), though it was also heavily influenced by (among other things) various reoccurring dreams I've had throughout my life, and also the unoccupied RNG rooms and endless corridors of the Kowloon high rises in SHENMUE II (which I think are actually some of the most unsettling environments I've encountered in a video game). Anyway you can get it here:

https://zagava.de/shop/caw-colossal-abandoned-world

Incidentally, this is my first solo publication since the HARLEM SMOKE novel/THE MAN WHO MURDERED HIS MUSE chapbook double whammy of 2019... the last few years since have been pretty fallow ha ha