Reading List
This is just where I’m plopping down the names of books (and stuff) which have caught my fancy, or that people have recommended to me. Hey, recommend me a book that you’ve enjoyed! I’m always keen to get more reading material ideas, and you know I’d read the back of a cereal packet if that’s all there was around! This is strictly new stuff, no re-reads.
Babel-17 (Samuel R. Delany)Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)- The Key (Junichiro Tanizaki)
King Rat (China Miéville)- The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman)
The Hellbound Heart (Clive Barker)Early Works 1970 – 1979 (Patti Smith)Let the Right One In (John Ajvide Lindquist)- Cobralingis (Jeff Noon)
The Laugh of the Medusa (Hélène Cixous)- Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë)
- Mechanique: a tale of the Circus Tresaulti (Genevieve Valentine)
West of No East (Bobby Nayyar)The Minipins (Roald Dahl)- The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevski)
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Charles Bukowski)Filth (Irvine Welsh)The Half-Men of O (Maurice Gee)– and all the New Zealanders are going “You didn’t read this? What’s wrong with you?”… I’m getting to it, right?! It’s on the bloody list!The Boys (Garth Ennis/Darick Robertson)Metro 2033 (Dmitry Glukhovsky)- Rivers of London (Ben Aaronovitch)
- The Devil Rides Out (Dennis Wheatley)
American Vampire (Scott Snyder/Stephen King)Grotesque (Natsuo Kirino)I am Legend(Richard Mattheson)- 1Q84(Haruki Murakami)
Handling the Undead (John Ajvide Lindquist)
Wanna suggest you Dennis wheatley’s “The Devil Rides Out” in case you haven’t read it.. may be a bit cheap, but the ultimate story on black magic..classic example of an unputdownable
Right now I’m looking for The Necromancers (can’t find a copy..guess I’m out of luck) edited by Peter Haining’s…looks like a smash hit…do take a look
http://vaultofevil.wordpress.com/2007/09/09/peter-haining-the-necromancers/
And hey, I have joined your book club..hope you don’t mind
Looking forward to your next review…..
Excellent! Do you know, I didn’t even know that this was a book. I’ve seen the movie (which is kind of hilarious, in Hammer kind of way), but that was a while ago.
That Haining book has a section written by P.T. Barnum… is that the same Barnum who was a circus and entertainment maestro, do you think? I’ll have to look into that one. Thank you very much for the recommendations!
And of course I don’t mind, it’s nice to have someone along for the ride.