September 6, 2012
Personal Reading: Spring/Summer 2012

The books I read during spring and summer break of 2012 (organized by author).

The Damnation Game by Clive Barker
Cabal by Clive Barker
Night-World by Robert Bloch
American Gothic by Robert Bloch
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Winner Take Nothing by Ernest Hemingway
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs
The Long Walk by Stephen King
The Tommyknockers by Stephen King
Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
The Studhorse Man by Robert Kroetsch
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Monoceros by Suzette Mayr
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
As for Me and My House by Sinclair Ross
Feral by Berton Roueché
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Now and on Earth by Jim Thompson
Heed the Thunder by Jim Thompson
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
Recoil by Jim Thompson
The Golden Gizmo by Jim Thompson
A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet by Jim Thompson
The Grifters by Jim Thompson
South of Heaven by Jim Thompson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Double Hook by Sheila Watson
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Valley of Spiders by H.G. Wells
Some Must Watch by Ethel Lina White

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June 1, 2012
"Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare or a Witches’ Sabbath or a portrait of the devil, but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That’s because only a great artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear—the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary moments of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness."

— H.P. Lovecraft, “Pickman’s Model”

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May 1, 2012
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

— H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”

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