My 500 Book TBR: The Horror

My 500 Book TBR
The horror I will be reading for the 500 Book Challenge.
I mentioned:
Plagued by Visions
/ @plaguedbyvisions
David Wiley
/ @davidwiley7
Book Time With Ryan
/ @booktimewithryan
Regina’s Haunted Library
/ @reginashauntedlibrary
Coffee, Cats , and King
/ coffeecatsandking

[@snowysnowyriver]

The expression on Roger's face when you said he would not be buying any books! 🤣 Poor Roger......

[@ItsTooLatetoApologize]

I'm really interested to hear about the other fiction Mary Shelly wrote. I was unaware she wrote much else. You can do this 500 challenge!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I can! It will just take forever!

[@dancaine4056]

I appreciate how much you just added to my TBR… THANK YOU!! Great vid as always

[@wbbartlett]

I like these older vids as, in addition to the always interesting points made by Roger, I try and spot what has changed on the bookcases behind you

[@jeremyfee]

Congratulations on finishing 5 books in the challenge. Good luck with the other 99%. It's neat to think your book hauls for the next year or so may be gifts. Code Red is amazing. I hope you enjoy Lurking in the Dark as well.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks Jeremy!

[@thespaminator]

All kidding aside. Carrion Comfort is freaking awesome and you should push it to the top of the pile. And Off Season should be right behind it.

[@MasterMalrubius]

I like how Roger was explicitly stated as not buying books. No loopholes this time!

[@theramblingreviewer5150]

I'm wanting to read more Dan Simmons in the new year. I've got a copy of Carrion Comfort to read.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Some great books there. Blackwater is SIX BOOKS! Juan’s book may well be more disturbing than any of Ketchum’s books

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

The effect that book has had on The Lady of the Manor is hilarious.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 You won't be laughing when you get her therapist's bill

[@troytradup]

Blackwater -- yay! And you'll whip through those Jack Ketchum books super fast. They'll make an easy dent in the 500 count.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Yeah, I’ll finish this challenge any day now.

[@crawdad19141]

Hey Michael, great stuff as always! Please reconsider though and allow purchases of new books (but not reading them) during this lengthy process of reading 500. Books these days, especially comic omnibuses quickly go out of print..you might miss some good stuff!! Oh, and Roger..Michael being so humble and cultured won't remind viewers to like his videos,so we rely on you for the reminder. We appreciate your masters efforts and want to see his channel grow. Thanks buddy!

[@mediumjohnsilver]

I believe Michael had initially carved out an exception for comic book reprint volumes when he started this as the Read What You Own Challenge - such collections count neither as purchases nor as books read.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Comics don’t count in the challenge. You are absolutely right about how those omnibuses go out of print so fast.

[@inanimatecarbongod]

Lots of stuff here that looks interesting. Those Hartwell anthologies are great, but OY they're huge. The sheer size is what's put me off finishing them so far.

[@stephenwalker2924]

So many books, so little time (as they say). You have the exact same taste in literature (both high and low) as I. Which makes us both cool, I reckon. Good luck, my friend, good luck to you.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks! I’ll need all the luck I can get.

[@stews9]

This is a ten- to twenty-year project and to refrain from buying books for that long is unthinkable. You need to set up a parallel challenge. 500 TBR one one side, 500 Book Haul on the other ... for each book you read, you can buy one. Or two. Maybe three or four or five. Who knows?

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Ha! I’m not sure that would really work. Thanks though!

[@BookBlather]

That’s a lot of horror. A lot of cool looking stuff, though. When you read the girl next door, try not to think about the fact that it’s based on a true story, which makes the experience all that much more harrowing.

[@ellesse3862]

Monsters Unleashed, what a great cover, its like a movie poster. If youre planning to devour the Anno Dracula books then treat yourself to Anno Dracula 1895 : Seven Days in Mayhem .. you can buy it, its not a novel its a comic book collecting the mini series written by Kim Newman and part of the Anno Dracula series.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[@salty-walt]

It's amazing, as you go through these books I recognize so many obscure covers from late night shopping adventures, and I thought yeah, someday, maybe. . . But you've just got them! Often in shiny hardcover editions no less!

[@MarshOakDojoTimPruitt]

thanks

[@bookfantastic]

You have missed out. Ketchum is one of my favorites and Off Season is a gripping page-turner. So is Red. It has something in common with Psycho, which you will figure out. It is one of those relentless juggernaut of justice stories like Les Miserables or Taken (the move with Liam Neeson). The movie version of Red is pretty good. I finally picked up The Beetle today. I had Richard Marsh's The Haunted Chair (Ash Tree Press), but no more. Blackwater is another favorite. I have the earlier paperback edition of Witch House, which I read recently. Monarch Books, 1962. First paperback. Today, I also I picked up a copy of the complete Imaro stories, thanks to your recommendation. Dr. Cyclops by the inimitable (?) Will Garth, The Greatest adventure by John Taine, and that copy of Roger Ackroyd I have been wanting to read! Thanks for another great preview.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Thanks for letting me know about that earlier paperback of Witch House.

[@christopherwurtz650]

Thanks for a bunch of horror suggestions. There are a lot of books on your list that I never heard of.

[@JeffMPalermo]

By the time you finish the 500 book challenge, you're going to look like Roger!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I can only hope.

[@mediumjohnsilver]

Quite a list. Some of those books like _Blackwater_ and _Panzer Spirit_ are very familiar to longtime viewers. Will you be making a list of the pulp novels you plan to read?

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I should.

[@konstantinos-6-6-6-8]

Jack Ketchum is such a feel-good writer….you’ll have lots of fun reading him. Especially the girl next door, good wholesome entertainment for the entire family😂

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

That’s what I figured.

[@nigelbate]

Can't buy any books until you've read 500?! That is terrifying.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

It is.

[@stretmediq]

Yeah I just spent a couple of hours Christmas shopping at Barnes and Noble and I really have to question your timing for this project 🤔 🎄 🎅

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Don’t question too closely!

[@stews9]

The Seen and the Unseen by Richard Marsh is excellent, as is its companion collection, Both Sides of the Veil.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

That’s good to know.

[@LivingDeadEnby]

I've only read the first story of Juan Valencia's Poking Holes yet, but I can fully understand why the lady of the manor had to gasp 😬 Amazing TBR! I didn't like the Poppy Z. Brite book you showed but I loved Exquisite Corpse.

[@briteskin]

I have actually read a number of those (I can rarely say that when it comes to BookTube) that's what I get since was such a horror fiend for decades and decades. I am a bit over it, unfortunately, as many of the newer/modern books I have tried in the genre haven't been my thing. Some you pulled out I have read multiple times and hope you enjoy the reads.

[@ITCamefromthePage]

So many great reads here!

[@Monsterblood]

I'm currently reading Peaceable Kingdom! Some of the stories in it are really good Code Red was highly entertaining!

[@DDB168]

The Parasite ! It's a pretty good Korean movie too 😉Good to see K.E.W in there and I'd like to see you prioritise Panzer Spirit - that looks the pick of the bunch 🙃

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Yes, Panzer Spirit must be a masterpiece.

[@benriley6716]

I have to ask. Where did you get Roger? He's one of the best looking full size mummies I've seen!

[@MriInterocitor]

They met in an alley three blocks from the New York Museum of History and Art, not long after midnight, just before blue flames engulfed the museum and it began to fade from human memory. The rest is Our Gracious Host's to tell or not as he deems wise.

[@benriley6716]

@@MriInterocitor Hah!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Wait…were you there too?!

[@MriInterocitor]

@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I, uh, I heard about it. I was absolutely not taking anything else from the museum and definitely not giving Tim Powers any ideas. I was somewhere else with an alibi available on short notice.

[@pbofan]

As someone who’s read at least some of your horror TBR, I’d suggest pushing BLACKWATER and a few of those Ketchum titles to the front…great stuff.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Okay! Thanks!

[@rickcroucher]

I looked for WHY NOT YOU AND I after seeing this. It is well out of my price range. Enjoyed your post.

[@stephenwalker2924]

Same here.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Yeah, that book is crazy expensive now. Somebody needs to reprint that book.

[@kenward1310]

I'm interested in the Karl Edward Wagner title. Didn't realize he wrote outside of Sword & Sorcery. I bet it's good.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

It is, from what I remember.

[@davebrzeski]

See, I might have told you that you'd get more read if you stopped wasting time telling us what you're going to read. But had you not done that, you wouldn't have shown Occult Detective Magazine #8, The Angry Dead, & A Solemn Curfew, and I am very grateful that you did. I'm very much looking forward to hearing your opinions when you do read them. Interestingly, another publisher was looking at our issues of Occult Detective Magazine at Chillercon in May, & he told us, "These aren't magazines, these are books!" so I definitely think they count. 🙂 The disadvantage of sending books through Amazon/KDP (the advantage being that it's much cheaper for us to send them that way) is that we can't include useful information sheets. So here's some additional information. Rosemary Pardoe is a well known M.R. James scholar, and was the editor & publisher of Ghosts & Scholars magazine for a very long time. The magazine is still running, and she still contributes, but she stepped down as editor a few years back, I believe. In the 80s, she had a whim to try her hand at writing fiction, & the 12 stories that comprise The Angry Dead were the result. It was published under the pen name Mary Ann Allen, and sold out of its limited printing of 750 copies. Ro Was constantly being asked where people could find a copy at a sensible price, and eventually I offered to reprint it as an ODM special. Ro revised all of the stories for this new edition, but she refuses to write any new ones, claiming she'd got that out of her system, & was happy to stick with non-fiction from now on. Bev Allen is a very dear friend, whose writing career has been severely curtailed by I'll health, and her habit of immediately killing off any publisher who dares to put out one of her books. We think her peculiarly British take on the weird (I'm tempted to spell it 'wyrd') is wonderful, so we decided to brave the curse. ODM itself started out life as Occult Detective Quarterly, and was published by the late Sam Gafford's Ulthar Press until he was taken from us by a massive heart atack. John Linwood Grant & I didn't want to let the magazine die, and my partner, Jilly Paddock pointed out that Ulthar Press had already accepted a bunch of stories for the next issue (#6) & we were publishing her books under our own Cathaven Press... You're an HPL fan, so I hardly need to explain that to you. 🙂 I did insist on dropping the 'Quarterly' from the title, which was prescient, as the pandemic hit pretty much as soon as we got going. Since then, another heart atack (John this time, but thankfully not fatal, has served to slow us down even more, but we hope to have #9 out soon. & we'll be sure to send you a copy.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Very interesting! I wish all the best for Cathaven. I appreciate you sending these.

[@binglamb2176]

If you read 10 books a week, it will only take you a year so how's that for optimism!

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

😫

[@Creek54]

Whenever I think I have a lot of books, I watch your videos and I think 'Wow, I am a minor leaguer'. I know you keep a lot of them in the lower reaches of your manor but do you keep a lot of them on shelves such as the one in the background?

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I do have other bookshelves. Not enough of them though.

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

Ray Russell’s Incubus is as trashy as they come. Just wait until you learn about the “murder weapon” and have to keep a straight face on camera, You can Blackwater as six books. Read it as a serial one book per month. But either way it’s awesome.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

Oh man, I can’t wait to find out about the murder weapon!

[@CliffsDarkGems]

You are seriously missing out on Clive Barker. I suppose he is like a gateway drug to Ketchum. Read Barker's Books of Blood first and you might survive stronger stuff.

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

I’ve read a lot of Clive Barker. He’s great!

[@mizukarate]

500 seems too high

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

It does.

[@supernova1969]

Hello Michael Hello! In how many languages can one undertake the challenge ? Suppose you know three languages, can you do books in three languages or only in English? Thanks

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

If you can read the book it counts!

[@supernova1969]

Thank you Michael. I read stuff in my first language and in my second language and my third language much faster than in English, which is the first foreign language to me. I can do reading in Arabic, Kurdish, Persian, and Turkish faster than English, which I acquired only from school and private tutors. Thanks for your time and effort