25 March 2006, 11:27 AM
LordShenSuggestions welcome...
I am not exactly sure where to place this topic. Dandelion, maybe you can help out?
As some of you know, I am a struggling writer. One of my pet projects is an ode to classic SF pulp magazines and EC horror comics called If - E - Zineā¢: The Free Online Magazine of Thrilling Speculative Fiction!. With every issue of If - E - Zine I add in a suggested Reading & Viewing list. Here is the compiled list. I try not to suggest reading or viewing items I've not seen myself. I'm happy to see Bradbury mentioned more than once below. This list was compiled over 3 years. I've read more than this, but I do not suggest readings in my e-zine unless they are applicable to any running theme in whatever current issue I may be publishing.
Can anyone suggest further reading or viewing beyond this list? Let's get to talking about our favorite books and movies. Genre is open, because I am. Discuss.
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
A Graveyard for Lunatics by Ray Bradbury
All Men Are Brothers by Shui Hu Chuan and translated by Pearl S. Buck
The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Chrichton
The Angry Red Planet (Movie)
Atom Age Vampire (Movie)
The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories by John L. Apostolou (Editor) & Martin Harry Greenberg (Editor)
The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Burn, Witch, Burn! (Movie)
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Chicken Skin: True Spooky Stories of Hawai'i (Original)
Choose-Your-Own-Adventures (Series)
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian by Robert E. Howard
Conan the Invincible by Robert Jordan
"The Country of the Blind" (Short Story) by H. G. Wells
Creepshow 1 & 2 (Movies)
Demon Days (Music) by Gorillaz
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Empire Strikes First (Music) by Bad Religion
Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, & Army of Darkness (aka Bruce Campbell vs. The Army of Darkness) (Movies)
Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley
The Gate (Movie)
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury (Movie and Book)
The Haunted Southland by Richard Senate
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
How Long, Great Pumpkin, How Long? by Charles Schultz
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
If Rock and Roll Were a Machine by Terry Davis
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Book) by H.G. Wells
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! by Charles Schultz (TV Special)
Konga (Movie)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Lost on Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Martian Way by Isaac Asimov
Night Gallery TV Series hosted by Rod Serling)
Night of the Living Dead (Original 1968 Movie)
October Dreams ed. by Richard Chizmar
The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway
Onibaba (Japanese Movie)
Outnumbering the Dead by Frederik Pohl
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle
Political Science Fiction: An Introductory Reader by Martin Harry Greenberg and Patricia S. Warrick
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Revolt of the Zombies (Movie)
Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov
Robotech (TV Anime Series)
Scariest Places on Earth (TV Series)
The Science Fiction Encyclopedia ed. by Peter Nicholls
Selected Tales by E.A. Poe
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman
Unsolved Mysteries: Ghosts (TV Series with Robert Stack)
Urban Dead by Kevan Davis (Internet Game) Give it a try at:
http://www.urbandead.com/Vault of Horror (Movie)
Voodoo Jive: The Best of Screamin' Jay Hawkins
The Walking Dead (Graphic Novel Series) by Robert Kirkman
The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
30 March 2006, 07:41 PM
LordShenThanks Mr. Dark.
I have considered the new Solomon Kane book. I've not gotten around to the purchase yet though and doubt I will check it out of the library as I see fit to buy it.
Something Wicked is a good suggestion. Currently I'm reading the collected shorts in A Medicine for Melancholy.
Thanx again. And I love REH