I'm glad the book arrived safe and sound! 😄 I love that old Macabre Reader paperback. I'm currently reading "The Night Boat" by Robert R. McCammon for Horror Mayhem and enjoying it as much as I did back in 1980 when I bought it. Thanks for the shout-out! I'm excited for June on the Range this year. Should be a lot of fun! 👋🤠

Ah yes, Hugh B. Cave -- he wrote a ton of weird menace/shudder pulp stories for Terror Tales, Horror Stories and Dime Mystery. Some of the purplest prose, if I remember correctly.

All great picks! I love Dark Gods. I haven't gotten around to Hugh B Cave yet, but I just finished Karl Edward Wagner's Manly Wade Wellman collection. Karl was certainly a man of taste.

Good weekend reading report wrap up! And that is a great piece of Cowboy art!

That cowboy illustration 👌 🤠

We have our local annual used book sale this weekend....a large event! Took an hour just to get in the door. I bought a handful of things. Maybe even one or two MKV approved/inspired things.....

Pulpy horror, excellent, lovely cover to the Macabre Reader. Mm Simonson Thor .. to quote the bullpen bard, "nuff said". My report .. brace yourself, I've almost finished Michael Moorcock - Tale of The Eternal Champion volume 13 : Earl Aubec and Other Stories, after six weeks or so, this book is done. Next its something for Horror Mayhem, I've got a muck encrusted treat .. the fancy pants Swamp Thing hardback comicbook, DC Library Classics Roots of the Swamp Thing .. don't worry, I've got Swamp Thing The Bronze Age volumes 2 & 3 too. Thats my horror plan for the following week.

The Vaughan Lodge must be where Michael reads his dog-eared Necronomicon - easier to manage the undead without the neighbors interfering with the rituals. Good progress Michael!

Cave’s MURGUNSTRUMM AND OTHERS is a fantastic collection, definitely Cave’s best. Glad you’re reading it, and hope you continue to enjoy it.

If you like T.E.D. Klein, you might like Michael Shea. MS wrote inspired by Lovecraft and Jack Vance, but he was his own writer and stylist. There is a new reprint by Valancourt of his story collection, Polyphemus. Hippocamp Press also carry some of his books, and there is Demiurge, Dark Regions Press, that has his Cthulhu mythos stories. These are quality stories, not fan fiction. Finally, you might like The Rim Of Morning by William Sloane, NYRB, two tales of cosmic horror. Happy reading.

T.E.D. Klein is terrific. I really enjoyed "The Children of the Kingdom" when I read it in DARK FORCES, a superb anthology. I also loved his "The Events of Poroth Farm" which I read in THE YEARS BEST HORROR STORIES: SERIES II and "S.F." which appeared in the third of the series. Haven't read "Nadelman's God" or "Black Man With A Horn" yet, but I'm sure I'll love 'em.

Love the cowboy. We enjoy you being good at reading books, btw.

I recall the other video as you mentioned that Wollheim published Bore of the Rings in paperback against Tolkien's wishes. What a champ. Interesting WRP and artwork.

Isolation: The Horror Anthology is a great way to check off a whole lot of Horror Mayhem boxes. So is Garth Ennis’ graphic novel A Walk Through Hell (and unlike some of his work, this is a humane and angry story with a lot of depth, not a juvenile gorefest for the sake of gore).

Uh-oh, Roger is on the loose.

When they finally get around to making the live-action adaptation of "Andy Capp", you'll be a shoe-in for the lead role.

I'm rereading the Penguin Book of Horror Stories 😱

"I did some of it." Ha ha! So cute. Also, random - whoa, that looks like my parents' stove! And the thing on the top that I can never remember what it's called. Kinda freaky! Congrats on the challenge progress. See? It's coming along!

Can I visit the Vaughn Lodge? Looks like a cool place to get away.😊

I hope you'll be proud of me. I read a time travel novel for the first time. I think that counts as science fiction, which means that means that I think I read science fiction for the first time as an adult. Not only that, it was part of a series and I gobbled down the first four books in the series.

Great video as always Michael! I might have to check out Death Stalks the Night. Its just too cool a title not to read lol. Also, I second the Mystery and Mayhem channel being awesome! Jim's stuff is always great! I did not know he was an artist too. But that is one great looking cowboy!

I'm going to try to get my hands on The Macabre Reader. I hope it hasn't jumped in price. You've sold me. I wish T.E.D. Klein would have written/write more. I really enjoy going through old issues of Twilight Zone Magazine (which he edited). There's a lot of great stuff in there; and if you're into nostalgia, I recommend it. May I also recommend a channel? ComicTropes. It's a comics channel. You might like it. Cheers.

Ah, Baldur, thy name is mirth.

Dark Gods is great. I didn't like Petey but every other story is fantastic. I think Needleman's God is the best Hugh B. Cave was still publishing when I had a subscription to FSF back in the 90/early 2000s.

Love Dark Gods as well! Petey is my least favorite of the four, too.

Another booktube channel, Liminal Spaces, introduced me to a previously unknown short story by H.P. Lovecraft, that he wrote in collaboration with another person AND takes place on the planet Venus! it's called "In the Walls of Eryx' - it's H.P.'s only science fiction story. Have you read it? I look forward to reading it myself - Liminal Spaces says it's his favorite Lovecraft story.

"Rustic" yet you have your sporty cap! I Love good horror. I will have to check into more of these. OMG, You don't keep books at the Lodge? I am shocked, seriously. "OLD FOLKS HOMES"? They go from 'assisted living' to 'nursing homes' and although there can bad situations, what would happen without them? Some are great and thank God for them.

In futively going through my books for a wife induced unhaul, found a Leisure paperback of Hugh B. Caves The Dawning. Remember liking it back in 2000. Gonna read it again to see if that still stands. Have you ever read it? Bring on June on the Range!

Hugh B. Cave deserves to be much better known and appreciated. His longevity as an author is quite amazing. You left Roger at home unsupervised? Michael, what few domestic staff you have left may not be there when you return ..... at least, not in a form which you can call human.

Looking 👀 very handsome in your thumbnail.

The character's name was "Karen." Ha ha. Also that is a really great drawing! P.S. When you make it back to civilization, take Roger to see Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. I'm curious for your thoughts. I've seen it twice in IMAX now and I think it's my second favorite after the 1968 original.

I wonder what mischief Roger will get up to when you are away at the Rusty Lodge! 😱

How on earth do you keep any staff if you leave Roger unsupervised?😮

If you don't mind my asking, did you read the Oxford Classics M R James?

Your pronunciation of "horror" is dangerously close to another word having little to do with literary matters.