JVK's Reading List

Bad Dreams - Kim Newman

Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

Future Shock - Alvin Toffler

The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice

Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice

The Vampire Tapestry - Suzy McKee Charnas

Live Girls - Ray Garton

Songs They Never Play On the Radio - James Young

Night Monsters - Fritz Leiber

Mr. J. G. Reeder Returns - Edgar Wallace

The Naked Lunch - William Burroughs

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Sea Priestess - Dion Fortune

Leaves of Yggdrasil - Freya Aswynn

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Red Shift - Alan Garner

Future Shock - Alvin Toffler

Vampire World 1 - Brian Lumley

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Angels - Steve Harris

Wulf - Steve Harris

The Hoodoo Man - Steve Harris

All you need to know about The Internet - Davey Winder

Adventureland - Steve Harris

The Count of Eleven - Ramsey Campbell

Warning Whispers - A. M Burrage

The One Safe Place - Ramsey Campbell

Weird Legacies - (ed.) Mike Ashley

Cabal - Clive Barker

The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories-(ed.) Christine Bernard

The Living Demons - Robert Bloch

Atoms and Evil * - Robert Bloch

The Compleat Werewolf * - Anthony Boucher

The Skull of the Marquis de Sade - Robert Bloch

The Opener of the Way - Robert Bloch

Strange Eons - Robert Bloch

Fever Dream - Ray Bradbury & Robert Bloch

The Halloween Tree * - Ray Bradbury

( * Won't be reading these three again - the rest are recommended.)

Demons by Daylight - Ramsey Campbell

The Claw - Ramsey Campbell

Fine Frights - (ed.) Ramsey Campbell

Weird Shadows from Beyond - (ed.) John Carnell

The Underworld - Duncan Campbell

Titter Ye Not! The Life of Frankie Howerd - William Hall

Daemonic - Stephen Laws

The Long Lost - Ramsey Campbell

The Ghost Now Standing on Platform One - (ed.) Richard Peyton

Black and White in Colour - Black People in British TV Since 1936 - Jim Pines

Quatermass - Nigel Kneale

Black Rock - Steve Harris

Indoctrinaire - Christopher Priest

Fugue for a Darkening Island - Christopher Priest

Drawing Blood - Poppy Z. Brite

Gideon - Stephen Laws

House of Pain - Pan Pantziarka
(Velvet Publications ISBN 1 87 1592 57 7.)

Macabre - Stephen Laws

The Space Machine - Christopher Priest

A delightful Wellsian pastiche: but what about a sequel? More!

The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton

Possession - Peter James

Dreamer - Peter James

The Club of Queer Trades - G. K. Chesterton

Tempter - Nancy A. Collins

The Planet Suite - Allen Ashley.
(1996, TTA Press, ISBN 0 9526947 1 9)

  "Astronomy books tell us that Uranus was discovered in 1781 by Sir William Herschel, a German-born British musician. In fact, the old man's planet did not exist before that date and was invented, but subsequently mislaid, by Herschel's great rival Haydn as a necessary element in an unusually dramatic baroque concerto. Careless translations of their correspondence have rendered the exact situation uncertain. Received wisdom claims Herschel discovered Uranus while searching for a comet, although my Schwarz Und Weiss version from 1815 substitutes the word 'crotchet'."

Miskatonic University - (ed.) Martin H. Greenberg & Robert Weinberg

  "I flipped into a one's complement of myself and slid beneath the laboratory door."

Dark Terrors - (ed.) Stephen Jones and David Sutton

Salsa! Havana Beat, Bronx Beat - Hernando Calvo Ospina

Darkfall - Stephen Laws.
(1992, New English Library, ISBN 0 450 58173 X)

The House on Nazareth Hill - Ramsey Campbell.
(1996, Headline Feature, ISBN 0 772 3996 7)

Paingod, and Other Delusions - Harlan Ellison. (1965)

Web - John Wyndham. (1980, Penguin)

Isle of the Dead - Roger Zelazny. (1969)

The Travelling Grave - L. P. Hartley. (1951)

Somewhere South of Midnight - Stephen Laws.
(1996, New English Library, ISBN 0 340 66610 2)