Since last October, I've been concentrating on horror/dark fantasy. I'm aiming to read a mix of newer and older works, and to read a selection outside American and British work.
So far I've read Ghost Stories by Walter de la Mare, Bag of Bones by Stephen King, Holiday, a story collection by M. Rickert (I may also read her first collection Map of Dreams before the year's over because Holiday was excellent),Tamsin by Peter Beagle, Lost by Gregory Macguire, Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow, The Snowman's Children and American Morons (story collection) by Glen Hirshberg, The Dead Letters and Headstone City by Tom Piccirilli.
Right now I'm reading To Charles Fort, With Love a story collection by Caitlin Kiernan with the intent of following it with her new novel, The Drowning Girl. Her last novel, The Red Tree was terrific, so I have high hopes for this one.
Over the rest of the year I'm looking to choose from The Sacred Book of Werewolves by Victor Pelevin, A Dark Matter by Peter Straub, The Passage by Justin Cronin, Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand, The Loving Dead by Amelia Beamer, Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson, The Man with the Barbed Wire Fists by Norman Partridge, The Grin of the Dark and at least one full story-collection by Ramsey Campbell, at least one of three or four novels I have by Kathe Koja, The Accursed by Claude Seignolle, Signs of Life by M. John Harrison, a collection by Edogowa Rampo, the title of which escapes me, continuing to read through the Night Shade collections of Clark Ashton Smith, and probably a couple of dozen others. I have a lot to choose from and no clue right now what I'll eventually choose.
Randy M.
