Recently finished Baltimore or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden as well as Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City by Jonathan Mahler.
Currently reading Shades Of Glory Lawrence D. Hogan.

hey!

I'm looking for some spooky fiction. I can't get enough for my late night reading.

I loved House of Leaves in spite of the pretention, the Exorcist was solid, Lovecraft and Poe are usually good, King's short stories and the Shining are really good. it's a shame about his other crap.

Richard Matheson is incredible. I Am Legend and the Duel collection were both great. Rosemary's Baby is just ok. I keep stopping, though.

I've been reading the Town That Forgot How to Breathe by kenneth something or the other, which, after a slow start, is actually quite good. I bought it on the strength of the cover.

any other recommendations?


please and thank you.

Black Water: The Book Of Fantastic Literature



http://www.amazon.com/Black-Water-Book- ... 0517552698

It's a collection of fantastic short stories by a myriad of great authors. Most of these tales are very creepy and spooky and every single one is unbelievably good.

HIGHLY recommend it.

Slavoj Zizek - How To Read Lacan : basic stuff but still entertaining, especially seeing how he takes a pop Rawls and David Cameron.

AJP Taylor - History of England : high school classic. Haven't read it in years.

Faulkner - Light in August : awesome as usual.

kerble wrote:hey!

I'm looking for some spooky fiction. I can't get enough for my late night reading.

Perhaps not what you're looking for necessarily, but the first story in 'Fantastic Stories' by Abram Tertz creeps me the fuck out.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:What Ever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? is a quick, fun read. The short "fictions" collected in Pricksongs and Descants are a blast. Maybe that's all I've read by him. Gerald's Party is on my book shelf, but I can't remember anything about it. I've always wanted to read A Public Burning, too, which I think is a novelization of the Watergate scandal.

I just finished 'Gloomy Gus' by Robert Coover last night. Thankyou for the recommendation! It is truely a quick, fun read. I smiled a lot as the absurdity unfolded.

I've begun rereading 'I Am Thinking Of My Darling' by Vincent McHugh. I think it might be my favourite book.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:
What Ever Happened to Gloomy Gus of the Chicago Bears? is a quick, fun read.

'A night at the movies' is another good one by coover. Less daunting than Brunists.

Lord Charnwood's biography of Lincoln is excellent.

A Roving Commission, Churchill

kerble wrote:hey!

I'm looking for some spooky fiction. I can't get enough for my late night reading.

I loved House of Leaves in spite of the pretention, the Exorcist was solid, Lovecraft and Poe are usually good, King's short stories and the Shining are really good. it's a shame about his other crap.

Richard Matheson is incredible. I Am Legend and the Duel collection were both great. Rosemary's Baby is just ok. I keep stopping, though.

I've been reading the Town That Forgot How to Breathe by kenneth something or the other, which, after a slow start, is actually quite good. I bought it on the strength of the cover.

any other recommendations?


please and thank you.

Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns is suitably spooky and an enjoyable read. He's a poet first, so the writing is pretty excellent, particularly for a thriller. There's a sequel to it, too, something like Boy in the Lake, but I haven't read it.

Just finished The God Delusion. Interesting stuff.

I will start reading one of the four Douglas Adams books I bought recently today. Salmon of Doubt, I think.