Reading List: 2007-2011

Here’s what I’ve been reading…

2011

1. Michael Cox & R.A. Gilbert (eds): The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
2. Herbert van Thal (ed): The Pan Book of Horror Stories
3. Hans Heinz Ewers: Alraune
4. Algernon Blackwood: Best Ghost Stories of [...]
5. John Fowles: The Collector
6. Robert Aickman: Dark Entries
7. Basil Copper: Here Be Daemons
8. Daphne du Maurier: Don’t Look Now
9. Joseph Conrad & Ford Madox Ford: The Inheritors
10. Tove Jansson:  The Moomins and the Freat Flood
11. Robert Aickman: Powers of Darkness
12. Bruce Sterling (ed): Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
13. David Pinnar: Ritual
14. William Gibson: Virtual Light
15. Robert Aickman: The Attempted Rescue
16. Peter C. Brown: Smallcreep’s Day
17. William Hope Hodgeson: The Dream of X
18. Kurt Vonnegut: Welcome to the Monkey House
19. MP Shiel: The Purple Cloud
20. Maeve Gilmore Peake: Titus Awakes
21. Luigi Pirandello: One, No One & One Hundred Thousand
22. Charles Burns: Black hole
23. Kirsten Lodge (ed): The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse
24. Cormac McCarthy: Child of God
25. P.G. Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves
26. Phil Baker: Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s lost Artist
27. Fedor Sologub: The Kiss of the Unborn and Other Stories
28. Geoff Cox, Martin Rebelski (music) & Rohan Eason (illustration): Anna & the Juniper Dog
29. John Wyndham: The Midwich Cuckoos
30. Arthur Machen: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
31. Stig Sæterbakken: Siamese
32. D.F. Lewis: Nemonymous Two
33. Thomas Ligotti: Grimscribe: His Life and Work
34. Daphne du Maurie: My Cousin Rachel
35. Robert Aikman & Elizabeth Jane Howard: We Are For The Dark
36. Aidan Reynolds & William Chalton: Arthur Machen
37. Thomas Ligotti: The Agonising Resurrection of Victor Frankenstein and Other Gothic tales
38. Arthur Machen: The Hill of Dreams
39. Clark Ashton smith: The Miscellaneous Writings of [...]
40. Ronald Fraser: Flower Phantoms
41. Henry Treece: Red Queen, White Queen
42. M.R. James: Collected Ghost Stories
43. Robert Aickman: the Model
44. Hergé: The Calculus Affair
45. John Evangelist Walsh: Unravelling Piltdown

2010

1. Nicholas Murry: Kafka
2. Robert Aickman: Painted Devils (shorts)
3. Hermann Hesse: Demian
4. Lynd Ward: Mad Man’s Drum
5. Sarah Kane: Complete Plays
6. Thomas Ligotti: My Work is Not Yet Done
7. James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
8. Lawrence Sutin: Divine Invasions: A Life of PKD
9. Kurt Vonnegut: Timequake
10. Cormac McCarthy: No Country for Old Men
11. Philip K Dick: Martian Time-Slip
12. Stefan Aust: The Baader-Meinhof Complex
13. Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
14. Richard Parry: The Bonnot Gang
15. Roberto Bolano: The Savage Detectives
16. Colin Wilson: The Mind Parasites
17. Norman Collins: London Belongs to Me
18. Juli Zeh: Dark Matter
19. Albert Sanchez Pinol: Cold Skin
20. Clark Ashton Smith: The Maze of the Enchanter (Collected Fantasies vol 4)
21. Kurt Vonnegut: Player Piano
22. Alexander Baron: The Lowlife
23. William Hope Hodgeson: The Night Land
24. Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion
25. Horace Walpole, William Beckford & Thomas Love Peacock: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek & Nightmare Abbey (respectively)
26. Thomas Ligotti: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
27. China Mieville: The City and the City
28. Ted Chiang: The Life Cycle of Software Objects
29. Franz Kafka: Amerika or The Missing Person
30. Philippa Pearce: Tom’s Midnight Garden
31. Richard Marsh: The Beetle
32. Max Stirner: The Ego and its Own
33. Robert Aickman: Sub Rosa
34. Ramsey Campbell (ed): Uncanny Banquet
35. Hanns Heinz Ewers: Nacht-Mahr
36. Roland Topor: The Tenant
37. Clark Ashton Smith: The Last Heiroglyph (Collected Fantasies vol 5)
38. Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes
39. Gertrude Atherton: The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
40. Ray Bradbury: The Small Assassin

2009

1. James Joyce: Dubliners (shorts)
2. Graham Greene: The End of the Affair
3. Philip K. Dick: Ubik
4. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (audio)
5. Michel Houellebecq: Atomised
6. Tom Muir: The Mermaid Bride and Other Orkney Folk Tales
7. Christopher Priest: Fugue for a Darkening World
8. Roberto Bolaño: 2666
9. Bram Stoker: Dracula (audio)
10. Jack Trevor Story: Live Now, Pay Later
11. Werner Herzog: Screenplays (Aguirre, Caspar Houser & Lessons of Darkness)
12. Kurt Vonnegut: Slapstick or Lonesome or More!
13. Mervyn Peake: Mr Pye
14. Franz Kafka: The Trial
15. Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist (audio)
16. Philip K. Dick: Time Out of Joint
17. John Christopher: The Death of Grass
18. Terry Nation: Survivors
19. Fredrich Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
20. Christopher Priest: Inverted World
21. Herman Hesse: Steppenwolf
22. P.D. James: The Children of Men
23. Mervyn Peake: Boy in Darkness and Other Stories
24. J.G. Ballard: The Drought
25. Nicolas Dickner: Nikolski
26. Kurt Vonnegut: Cat’s Cradle
27. S.T. Joshi: Primal Sources
28. Ambrose Bierce: Terror by Night (shorts)
29. David E. Schultz & S.T. Joshi (eds): The Shadow of the Unattained: The Letters of George Sterling & Clark Ashton Smith
30. Graham Joyce: House of Lost Dreams
31. John Buchan: The 39 Steps
32. Ramsey Campbell: The Nameless
33. Clark Ashton Smith: A Vintage from Atlantis (Collected Fantasies vol 3)
34. Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
35. Mervyn Peake: Letters from a Lost Uncle
36. Daphne du Maurier: The Birds and Other Stories (shorts)
37. John Fowles: The Magus
38. Ramsey Campbell: Demons by Daylight (shorts)
39. Daphne du Maurier: The House on the Strand
40. Keith Johnstone: Impro
41. Ted Chiang: The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate
42. Ted Chiang: Story of Your Life and Others (shorts)
43. Ken Hollings: Welcome to Mars
44. Philip K. Dick: The Penultimate Truth
45. Philip K. Dick: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick
46. John Brunner: The Sheep Look Up
47. Philip K. Dick: The Simulacra
48. Jason Colavito: The Cult of Alien Gods
49. G.K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday
50. Katharine Burdekin: Swastika Night
51. Gustav Meyrink: The Golem
52. Franz Kafka: America
53. Mink Mole & Dr. Adder (KW Jeter): Alligator Alley
54. Kurt Vonnegut: God Bless You, Mr Rosewater
55. Daphne du Maurier: Rule Britannia
56. F. Scot Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
57. Olaf Stapledon: Last and First Men
58. William Golding: The Lord of the Flies
59. Philip K. Dick: Dr Bloodmoney
60. R.D. Laing: The Divided Self
61. William Gibson: Neuromancer
62. Susan Hill: The Woman in Black
63. Paul Davis: How to Build a Time Machine
64. Philip K. Dick: We Can Build You
65. William Gibson: Count Zero
66. Cormac McCarthy: The Road
67. Christopher Priest: The Space Machine
68. Robert Sheckley: Mindswap
69. William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive
70. Franz Kafka: The Castle
71. Robert Sheckley: The Status Civilization
72. Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Poetry of EAP
73. Gerald Kersh: Men Without Bones (shorts)
74. Philip K. Dick: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
75. William Gibson: Burning Chrome (shorts)
76. Flann O’Brien: The Third Policeman
77. Thomas Disch: The Genocides
78. Robert Aickman: Cold Hand in Mine (shorts)
79. Philip K. Dick: Confessions of a Crap Artist
80. Edmund Crispin: The Moving Toyshop
81. Gerald Kersh: Fowler’s End

2008

1. Clark Ashton Smith: The Door to Saturn (Collected Fantasies vol. 2)
2. Patrick Hamilton: The Gorse Trilogy
3. Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
4. Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five
5. John Banville: Kepler
6. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (again)
7. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
8. Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
9. Art Spiegelman: Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (vol 1 & 2)
10. Graham Greene: Brighton Rock
11. Lewis Carol: Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
12. H.P. Lovecraft: The Haunter of the Dark (Omnibus 3)
13. Ansis Nin: The Spy in the House of Love
14. Alfred Bester: The Light Fantastic (shorts)
15. Michael Moorcock: A Cure for Cancer
16. Fredrich Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy
17. Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales (shorts)
18. James Tiptree Jr.: Tales of Quintana Roo (shorts)
19. Michael Moorcock: The Condition of Musack
20. Patrick Hamilton: Hangover Square
21. Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulation
22. Ferenc Karinthy: Metropole
23. Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun: Sword and Citadel (vol 2)
24. Michael Moorcock: The Entropy Tango
25. Gerald Keresh: The Night and the City
26. James Tiptree, Jr.: Star Songs of an Old Primate (shorts)
27. Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber (shorts)
28. Michael Moorcock: The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle
29. Patrick Hamilton: Craven House
30. Jean-Paul Sartre: No Exit
31. Misha: Red Spider White Web
32. Fritz Lieber: Conjure Wife
33. Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz
34. William Burroughs: Naked Lunch
35. K.W. Jeter: Morlock Night
36. John Ajvide Lindqvist: Let the Right One In
37. Walter M. Miller, Jr.: The Drafsteller and Other Stories
38. Patrick Hamilton: The Slaves of Solitude
39. Michael Chabon: Gentlemen of the Road
40. Henry Treece: The Road to Miklagard
41. Henry Treece: Viking’s Sunset
42. Henry Treece: The Dark Island
43. Mervyn Peake: The Gormenghast Trilogy
44. Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
45. Patrick Hamilton: Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Trilogy
46. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from the Underground
47. Kurt Vonnegut: A Man Without a Country
48. Arthur Byron Cover: The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists (shorts)
49. George Orwell: Down and Out in Paris and London
50. M.R. James: Ghost Stories of M.R. James (shorts)
51. Kurt Vonnegut: Mother Night

2007

1. H.P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness (Omnibus 1)
2. Clark Ashton Smith: Zothique
3. Nigel Kneale: Quatermass Experiment (script)
4. Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5. Ray Bradbury: The Silver Locusts (aka. The Martian Chronicles)
6. Peter Saxon: The Curse of Rathlaw
7. Thomas Ligotti: In a Foreign Town, In a Foreign Land (with background music by Current93)
8. Fritz Leiber: Swords and Deviltry (book one of the swords series)
9. Brian Aldiss: A Chinese Perspective
10. Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars
11. Philip K. Dick: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (collected stories – vol 5)
12. Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan
13. Jack Vance: The Dying Earth
14. Fritz Leiber: Our Lady of Darkness
15. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
16. Clark Ashton Smith: The End of the Story (Collected Fantasies vol. 1)
17. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
18. Steven Hall: The Raw Shark Texts
19. Fritz Leiber: Swords Against Death
20. James Tiptree Jr: Warm Worlds and Otherwise (shorts)
21. Stanislaw Lem: The Cyberiad
22. Michael Moorcock: The Chinese Agent
23. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
24. J.G. Ballard: The Terminal Beach
25. Ray Bradbury: Dandelion Wine
26. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
27. Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun: Shadow and Claw (vol 1)
28. Philip Jose Farmer: The Green Odyssey (audio book) >>CLICKY<
29. John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar
30. Philip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle (audio)
31. Philip José Farmer: Flesh
32. Robert Silverberg: The World Inside
33. Thomas M. Disch: Camp Concentration
34. Ursula K. Le Guin: The Word for the World is Forest
35. Henry Kuttner: Fury
36. Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!
37. Charles Beaumont: The Hunger and Other Stories (shorts)
38. Michael Moorcock: Breakfast in the Ruins
39. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
40. Stanislaw Lem: The Futurological Congress
41. Thomas Ligotti: The Nightmare Factory – Songs of a Dead Dreamer (shorts)
42. Ray Bradbury: The Illistrated Man (shorts)
43. Brian Aldiss: The Hand-reared Boy
44. Stanislaw Lem: The Star Diaries
45. Robert E. Howard: Shadow Kingdoms (The Weird Works of…) (shorts)
46. Henry Kuttner: Mutant
47. Philip K. Dick: A Scanner Darkly
48. Alfred Bester: The Dark Side of the Earth (shorts)
49. Ernest Hemingway: To Have and Have Not
50. Michael Moorcock: The English Assassin
51. S.T. Joshi: H.P. Lovecraft: A Life