Recent Reading

[njhorror]

Still reading: THE NOONDAY CEMETERY and OTHER STORIES by Gustaw Herling

This is an excellent collection. Some very somber stories written in a reflective, and not necessarily depressing manner.

I'm guessing that the translator did a great job, as well.

[Patrick G.P]

Working my way through the Weird Fiction Megapack on my kindle, lots of really excellent stories in here. Already Steve Rasnic Tem's Boy Blue and To Become a Sorcerer by Darrell Schweitzer have been well worth the read, really amazing and memorable stories.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

Conversion via Twitter | The New Yorker

Really incredible article, I knew some Westboro Baptist Church members were leaving but I didn't know all this.

[ToALonelyPeace]

I perused The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe recently. My old favorites--The Mask of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, Cask of Amontillado--remain potent. Out of my new favorites, William Wilson stands out for its ending and wonderful tension. The three landscape pieces The Island of the Fay, The Domain of Arnheim and Landor's Cottage convince me that if Poe is alive today he might be the Attenborough of landscape gardening. Maybe I'll check out some landscape garden books in the future in search of his visions...

[In A Dark Light]

Quote Originally Posted by In A Dark Light

Honestly, 'The Sound of his Horn', 'Ringstones', and 'The Dollmaker', all sounded really interesting. I plumped for 'The Sound of his Horn' just now, but if I enjoy it then I fully expect to check out the others as well.

It took an age for the book to arrive, but tonight I shall, at last, begin reading 'The Sound of His Horn'.

The Latin Orgy by Félicien Champsaur, published by Snuggly Books. A historical novel about the exploits of the Empress Messalina and early Christians, it is a very raucous and delightful read.

I am reading Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs J. H. Riddell

[Frater_Tsalal]

Right now I'm reading the new annotated edition of Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth (I've never read this cycle of poems before) and Carson McCullers' Stories, Plays & Other Writings.

[In A Dark Light]

I'm pleased to report that I thoroughly enjoyed Sarban's 'The Sound of his Horn'. I shall definitely be seeking out more of his work in the future.

Right now I'm reading one of Tanith Lee's 'Secret Books of Paradys', which is serving as something of a stopgap while I await the arrival of my copy of Lucius Shepards' 'The Golden'.

I am also listening to an hour of Hodgson's The Night Land every night before sleep. A comfortable old favourite is what I need right now, and the benefit of audio is that I don't have to be confounded by Hodgson's abundance of strange commas.