The Little Monsters, Edited by Roger Elwood and Vic Ghidalia (1971). Featuring August Derleth, Ray Bradbury, Cynthia Asquith, Henry Kuttner, Greye La Spina, Algernon Blackwood, E.F. Benson and Rudyard Kipling. Published by Macfadden-Bartell Corporation.
- Tabula Rasa (but mostly my horror book collection) -
The Unexpected, Edited by Leo Margulies (1962).
The Unexpected, Edited by Leo Margulies (1962). Featuring Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Robert Bloch, Margaret St Clair, and Fritz Leiber.
The Unexpected, Edited by Leo Margulies. Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Frederik Pohl, Robert Bloch, Margaret St Clair, Fritz Leiber, Pyramid Books
Nightshade and Damnations, by Gerald Kersh
Nightshade and Damnations, by Gerald Kersh (1969). A terrifying journey into the weird, the unspeakable and the bizarre. Special introduction, 'Kersh: the Demon Prince' by Harlan Ellison
Short fiction collection, Hodder Fawcett - Coronet Books, Horror, Harlan Ellison, Gerald Kersh, Vintage, Nightshade and Damnations, by Gerald Kersh, 1969
Welcome
Hi and welcome to my latest blog. By way of introduction, feel free to check out the other blog links on the right-hand sidebar for more info about my writing and art. Here you will find pictures, links, lists, reviews, and other cool stuff, relating to books I really like. Most of the things here will relate to genre fiction, of which Horror, Crime, Thriller, Fantasy and pulp are my favorites. So sit back, have a glass of something naughty, light a pipe and take a look around. Enjoy.
Just so you know what you're likely to encounter here on Tabula Rasa, here is a list of my favorite literary works. The list is not complete and is totally subjective in that the books listed are my personal favorites - the books that I go back to for whatever reason and read again and again. This is NOT a list of books I think have the most literary merit, this IS a list of books I have enjoyed reading the most for whatever reason. My friend and peer, Vincenzo Bilof has done a similar list you may find of interest here, in response to a challenge I made to him. This, of course, being my response to said challenge.
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Just so you know what you're likely to encounter here on Tabula Rasa, here is a list of my favorite literary works. The list is not complete and is totally subjective in that the books listed are my personal favorites - the books that I go back to for whatever reason and read again and again. This is NOT a list of books I think have the most literary merit, this IS a list of books I have enjoyed reading the most for whatever reason. My friend and peer, Vincenzo Bilof has done a similar list you may find of interest here, in response to a challenge I made to him. This, of course, being my response to said challenge.
My Favorite Books (to date)
Fiction (Novels)
Big Sur – Jack Kerouac
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
Infinite jest – David Foster
Wallace
The Killer – Colin Wilson
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and
Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood
Anderson
The Stranger – Albert Camus
Redemption Falls – Joseph
O’Connor
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor
Doystevsky
As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
Bliss – Peter Carey
Killer on the Road – James Ellroy
Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon
– Thomas Harris
David Morrell – First Blood
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
The Walking Drum – Louis L’amour
Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony
Burgess
The Shipping News – Annie Proulx
In My Father’s Den – Maurice Gee
In the Name of the Rose – Umberto
Eco
The Novel – James Michener
The Unpleasant Profession of
Jonathan Hoag – Robert A Heinlein
The Girls He Adored – Jonathan
Nasaw
Ham on Rye – Charles Bukowski
Zombie – Joyce Carol Oates
Dandelion Wine, The October
Country – Ray Bradbury
The End of the Night – John D
Macdonald
Fiction (Horror)
Survivor – J.F. Gonzalez
The Backwoods – Edward Lee
The Face That Must Die – Ramsey
Campbell
Exquisite Corpse – Poppy Z Brite
This Symbiotic Fascination –
Charlee Jacob
Mystery Walk, Baal – Robert
McCammon
The Shining, IT, The Dead Zone,
The Stand – Stephen King
Ghost Story – Peter Straub
Psycho, American Gothic – Robert
Bloch
Rats, Lair, Domain, The Fog –
James Herbert
Slob – Rex Miller
Spawn – Shaun Hutson
Telekiller – John Warwick
The Lost – Jack Ketchum
Children of the Night, Carrion
Comfort – Dan Simmons
Flesh and Blood, Family Portrait
– Graham Masterton
Futile Efforts – Thomas
Piccirilli
The Amityville Horror – Jay Anson
The Exorcist – William Peter
Blatty
Short Story Collections
By Bizarre Hands – Joe R.
Lansdale
The Complete Stories – Flannery
O’Connor
Blue World – Robert McCammon
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
– Edgar Allan Poe
Night Shift – Stephen King
Books of Blood 1-3 – Clive Barker
A Peaceable Kingdom – Jack
Ketchum
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town,
Tales of Ordinary Madness – Charles Bukowski
Collected Stories, The Fat Man in
History – Peter Carey
The Nightmare Chronicles –
Douglas Clegg
Ray Bradbury Stories (Vol 1 and
2) – Ray Bradbury
Red Dreams – Dennis Etchison
Run With the Hunted: A Charles
Bukowski Reader – Charles Bukowski
20th Century Ghosts –
Joe Hill
The Collection – Bentley Little
Anthologies
Cutting Edge – Ed. Dennis
Etchison
Prime Evil – Ed. Douglas E Winter
Psycho-paths – Ed. Robert Bloch
Psychos – Ed. John Skipp
999: New Stories of Horror and
Suspense – Ed. Al Sarrantonio
Poetry
The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell –
William Blake
Selected Poems – Carl Sandburg
Complete Works, Prufrock &
Other Observations, Four Quartets – T.S. Eliot
The Cantos – Ezra Pound
Greed – Ai
The Monkey’s Mask – Dorothy
Porter
Love is a Dog from Hell,
Mockingbird Wish me Luck – Charles Bukowski
The Divine Comedy – Dante
Aligheri
Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
Ring of Bone – Lew Welch
The Theatre and its Double –
Antonin Artaud
A Season in Hell – Arthur Rimbaud
The Flowers of Evil – Charles Baudelaire
Cap and Bells – Francis Webb
And there you have it - my list, not by any means complete or chronological, just what it is. This will evolve.
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