So, watcha' reading?

Started by Bogey, December 23, 2008, 12:30:05 PM

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typhooforme

LOVECRAFT AT LAST is nonfiction--it's a book about HPL's youngest, final correspondant, Willis Conover, who created a fanzine when he was 15 and wrote many letters to Lovecraft right at the end of HPL's life--the book, via the letters, gives a great view of Lovecraft's opinions on life, history, art and most of all, on writing.  Excellent read!
Robert in Ohio

"I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."   Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Count_Zirock

"Cthulhu 2000" was a pretty good collection.
"That's either a very ugly woman or a very pretty monster." - Lou Costello

Bonomo

Quote from: typhooforme on March 05, 2013, 10:36:26 PM
LOVECRAFT AT LAST is nonfiction--it's a book about HPL's youngest, final correspondant, Willis Conover, who created a fanzine when he was 15 and wrote many letters to Lovecraft right at the end of HPL's life--the book, via the letters, gives a great view of Lovecraft's opinions on life, history, art and most of all, on writing.  Excellent read!
That does sound cool

typhooforme

Quote from: Count_Zirock on March 05, 2013, 10:47:59 PM
"Cthulhu 2000" was a pretty good collection.

I haven't read every story yet, but I've enjoyed most of what I've read.  One story, THE ADDER, I thought gave a very creative idea of what a copy of the (handwritten) Necronomicon might look like.  The mental pictures it gave were excellent!
Robert in Ohio

"I don't care what they do, so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses."   Mrs. Patrick Campbell

slayergriffith

I just finished Fear and loathing in las vegas by Hunter S Thompson. But now I'm reading this very good doors book. It goes in detail about the doors story by the actual members by the doors.


I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Street Worm

Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler


RICKH

Just finished Nevermore by Harold Schechter. Very entertaining, it is a novel pairing E. A. Poe with Davy Crockett as they seek to solve a series of grisly murders in Baltimore.
I'm starting Humbug the second in this series pairing Poe with P. T. Barnum.
You can't kill the boogeyman.  Halloween (1978)

long live kong


Typhooforme - I'll try to look that up. I'm currently reading 'The Taint', a collection of 'Cthulhu Mythos' novellas by Brian Lumley.
Monster lovers never grow old....

Paladin

Batman: Night of the Owls (The new 52) Graphic Novel
"Traveler of both time and space..."

McDougals House of Horror

I'm finally getting around to reading a book in which I'm prominently featured -- Jeff Rovin's "Return of the Wolfman". After reading just the first 30 pages, it's very interesting in that it picks up from where the film "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" leaves off. I can't wait to see if there are some answers to my 65-year-old question -- where the hell are my missing exhibits??!!   

Mr. J. K. McDougal
"Do you know what I've got in those crates?"

Illoman

Quote from: McDougals House of Horror on May 03, 2013, 09:34:23 PM
I'm finally getting around to reading a book in which I'm prominently featured -- Jeff Rovin's "Return of the Wolfman". After reading just the first 30 pages, it's very interesting in that it picks up from where the film "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" leaves off. I can't wait to see if there are some answers to my 65-year-old question -- where the hell are my missing exhibits??!!   

Mr. J. K. McDougal

That's a very good book. My brother found me a copy a few years back.

I just finished Tony Iommi's autobiography. Lots of funny stories in there.

Wich2

Recently finished two classics:

- Endore's WEREWOLF OF PARIS (so much more there than in the Hammer film, tying the internal horrors of the characters into the external horrors of France in that era)

- Leiber's CONJURE WIFE (simply terrific book, basis of three films, blending Old cosmos with New)

-Craig

Elisabeth

GENRE:  KARLOFF AND LUGOSI: THE EXPANDED STORY OF A HAUNTING COLLABORATION

NON-GENRE:  A First Edition of KITTY FOYLE and THE SCRIPTS OF DOWNTON ABBEY, SEASON 1

"E" ededed
"....I do hope he won't upset Henry..."

Bonomo

Quote from: Wich2 on May 04, 2013, 10:03:08 AM
Recently finished two classics:

- Endore's WEREWOLF OF PARIS (so much more there than in the Hammer film, tying the internal horrors of the characters into the external horrors of France in that era)

- Leiber's CONJURE WIFE (simply terrific book, basis of three films, blending Old cosmos with New)

-Craig
I've read Werewolf Of Paris. Pretty heavy material in there.

Street Worm