The House on the Borderland, by William Hope Hodgson

The Road;Cormac McCarthy

I still have to read Hodgson. I hear so many things about his relevance to the genre.

Everything is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-Ups
Robert Anton Wilson

City of Ashes, and I'm loving it. :]

The Ruins, by Scott Smith - Intense, queasy, non-stop. This could be a textbook for an ethics class: there are impossible choices for the characters every few pages and it’s hard to argue with the Mayan’s decision that dooms the characters.

Sam

A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present by Andrew Gordon. Hopefully this will help me understand some of the classic Japanese flicks a bit more. Ashe.
derek

The Hidden World No. 1 The Dero! The Tero! The Battle Between Good & Evil Mutants Underground
by Richard Shaver

Hitchhiker's Guide- Douglas Adams

Current book.
 

Don Quixote by Cervantes.
I've got just over a hundred pages to go!

Stephen King- The Stand

Dracula - Bram Stoker

I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I thought the movie was awful. You're right about exploring ethics... It's more than just your average horror best seller.

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Currently reading Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer. :o I'm working my way through the Twilight series. Sometimes a girl just needs a silly diversion.

The Making of the Middle Ages (1953) by R.W. Southern. Pretty good hisory of the early Middle Ages from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. Ashe.
derek

Now I'm re-reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood in preparation of her The Year of the Flood, its follow-up. Highly recommended.

Friend just lent me this:
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Chapter titles include: "And You'd Better Look Good, The 'Nice Personality' Myth", ""How Barb reshaped Her Tastes", "How Smart Should You Seem?" and various other chapters about changing yourself in order to get your crush to like you.

Is there a book on how I can accquire a teenage girl? I hear they eat nothing but lettuce and will put out for a wine cooler.

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War ll by Iris Chang. This is purported to be the first complete account of the Japanese atrocity in China at the end of 1937, where some 250,000 to 350,000 unarmed Chinese citizens were tortured, humiliated, experimented upon, and then slaughtered in horrific fashion by Japanese soldiers, all within about a 6 week period in the city of Nanking. It is also estimated during this same time-frame that between 30,000 and 80,000 women were raped, many of which were then disemboweled or otherwise horrifically disfigured. This is still a contentious issue as the official opinion of the Japanese is that the affair was either horribly exaggerated or even fabricated in totum. So far so good. Ashe.
derek

Uta Hagen's A Challenge for the Actor. Fascinating stuff.

:DThe Halloween movie was that the original or the one Rob Zombie did?

top 10 horror movies
 

The Halloween movie is that the original or the one that Rob Zombie did? Trying to find all the Halloween movies to add to my movie collection. Along with the other Phantasm movies that were made,which is damn near impossible to find. Most of the horror movies I'd like to get are impossible to find any where.Would like any information as to where I can get some of the old horror movies.

India: A History (2001) by John Keay threatens to be a pretty comprehensive tome of the history of India, starting around 2000bc. Late.
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The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God, by Etgar Keret – A collection of very short, humorous/absurdist short stories. These aren’t quite as compelling as some of the other stories by him that I’ve encountered, but they’re good fun.

Sam

Blogging for Dummings. Literally a how to book to be a geek. Late
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Lords of Chaos currently. Excellent read thus far.

120 Days of Sodom

It's funny with Sade that it's not the pornography that's offputting but his utter inability to write.

lol yeah, he's a god awful writer, his word usage is SO repetive, every other word is "cunt" and "Ball juice", I had to read it after seeing the movie though.

After seeing Quills, I started reading his stuff. He's the Ed Wood of surreal pornography.

I just saw quills not too long ago, I first saw Salo after someone told me about it on another Forum, such a fucking foul disturbing movie, then I read the book.

If you like Salo and whatnot, you might dig some Bizarro stuff. I'm a little biased, being a Bizarro writer myself, but I think for fans of extreme horror, sex and weirdness, it's hard to beat. Check this out: http://www.bizarrocentral.com/books.html

right on man, I live for extreme horror, sex and weirdness!

I wholeheartedly recommend Apeshit by Carlton Mellick III and Fistful of Feet by Jordan Krall. They're two of the nicest guys you'll ever meet who've both created perverted, gory worlds of insanity. Apeshit is sort of what dead teenager movies would be like if they were as subversive and nasty as the assholes who say horror is ruining society say they are. Fistful of Feet is a Bizarro spaghetti Western with Cthulhuite indians, a crooked frontier town that serves as a den of fetishistic debuche and a taciturn Clint Eastwood style hero.

I've already found a ton of stuff on there that I have to read, I can't believe I didn't know about this shit!

just placed orders for Apeshit and Super Fetus!

In spite of massive DIY promotions, blurbs from authors like Piers Anthony, John Skipp, Edward Lee and Alan Moore, people always end up stumbling into Bizarro by either super weird coincidences or meeting one of us at a con or something. Half the time, somebody's story about discovering Bizarro sounds like the beginning of an A Team episode. "I was at a strip club, when this weird kid in a denim jacket with dreads said he liked my Green Lantern shirt and was thinking maybe he'd get a lavender mohawk too. We get to talking about Grant Morrison for like three hours, then we ended up hanging out at this bar where a little dude with glasses was tossin' squid. Then he handed me a card that said "Bizarrocentral.com"." Keep me posted on what you think about Apeshit and Super Fetus. I haven't read Super Fetus or met Adam Pepper yet, but it seems like good high concept Bizarro. A title you can't ignore, a premise so different you HAVE to see if it works, the whole schmeer.

they're on the way to my house right now, also ordered "Help! A Bear is Eating Me!"

Rereading The Talisman by Stephen King

some offbeat zombie books,

zombies for zombies
the zombie survival guide
world war z

Trick or Treachery ...Donald Bain

Experiments At 3 Billion A.M.
 

I just read Experiments At 3 Billion A.M. by Alexander Zelenyj - huge collection of scary and really really really weird stories that mix horror with every other genre you can imagine. I recommend!!

Now I think I'll go re-read something by Thomas Ligotti...