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Old 10-09-2013   #49
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Re: Recent Reading
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I'd also add Manhunter, the original film version of Red Dragon, to my list. It was better than the book, much better than the remake.
Colin Wilson gets a lot of scorn these days and I'd have to say most of it is deserved. But his fine crime novel, The Glass Cage, about a serial killer obsessed with the works of William Blake, has to be the template for Red Dragon. The protagonist is pretty much a Profiler though that term didn't exist in the sixties when the book was written.
What is this scorn directed at Wilson and why? I've sensed it but don't really understand the reason behind it.
I read his somewhat idiosyncratic and interesting, if dated, survey of the occult and it got me reading him. I really must read The Glass Cage. Have you read The School Girl Murder Case or Ritual in the Dark? He's actually wrote a ton of books now that I think about it. The Mind Parasites will probably be forever somewhere in my top twenty horror books...speaking of which, here it is:


Horror Novels
1. The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
2. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
3. The Croning -- Laird Barron
4. Remember You’re a One-Ball! – Quentin S. Crisp
5. The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft – Thomas M. Disch
6. Uncle Silas – J.S. Le Fanu
7. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward -- H.P. Lovecraft
8. Zombie -- Joyce Carol Oates
9. Echo of a Curse – R.R. Ryan
10. Ghost Story – Peter Straub


Single Author Collections
1. Sub Rosa – Robert Aickman
2. Occultation -- Laird Barron
3. Divinations of the Deep -- Matt Cardin
4. Unpleasant Tales – Brendan Connell
5. Worse Than Myself – Adam Golaski
6. Feesters in the Lake – Bob Leman
7. Teatro Grottesco – Thomas Ligotti
8. Tales of Horror and the Supernatural – Arthur Machen
9. The Man Who Collected Machen – Mark Samuels
10. The Nightfarers – Mark Valentine


SF Horror Novels
1. The Death Guard – Philip George Chadwick
2. The Death of Grass – John Christopher
3. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch -- Philip K. Dick
4. Camp Concentration – Thomas M. Disch
5. Meat – Joseph D’Lacey
6. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley
7. Dr. Adder – K.W. Jeter
8. The Quatermass Experiment -- Nigel Kneale
9. Some of Your Blood – Theodore Sturgeon
10. The Mind Parasites – Colin Wilson

Enjoy and feel free to upbraid, if it's an upbraidin' I be needin'
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