The Colour Out of Space is the GOAT in my opinion.
@charliedogg7683Күн бұрын
"Cabinet Of Curiosities" on Netflix, with Guillermo del Toro introducing each episode, adapted Michael Shea's "The Autopsy" and did a great job of it too.
@gingerbibliophile3 күн бұрын
Vampires, werewolves, and ghosts oh my! That’s close to moving from book to blunt force instrument!
@InfiniteText3 күн бұрын
when I got this in the mail I was instantly intimidated by the 1000+ pages but then I realized a lot of the stories I've read in other anthologies ...I need another mandatory lockdown. Send my love to Roger.
@peybak3 күн бұрын
I think I've read some of these also but I might get a copy at some point.
@starstriker18813 күн бұрын
I missed reading books with two columns pages, reminded me of the days of reading Weird Tales. But boyy, its challenging with my old eyesight!
@tonette65923 күн бұрын
OK, you brought out the writer in me: "The Town Mangler". The person who owns the only wringer in a town of washtubs, but uses the wringer for nefarious purposes. I could run with this. I am surprised Stephen King didn't have this person in the Gunslinger stories.
@peybak3 күн бұрын
"Taint The Meat...It's The Humanity!"
@MustReadMore3 күн бұрын
There are a lot of great stories in The Weird, but the story I think of first is William Sansom's The Long Sheet. It's about prisoners in a steam room who have to wring every drop of moisture out of a huge wet sheet suspended across the room. Also, I really liked Sanitarium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Shulz, Alfred Kubin's The Other Side, and Hagiwara Sakutoro's The Town of Cats.
@AllanSmulling3 күн бұрын
I've had that book sitting on my shelf for a few years now. I think this may be the year that I plow through it. :) Roger is looking particularly dapper this morning.
@kufujitsu3 күн бұрын
I like these chunky doorstopper anthologies. I have a bunch of them - & most of them were consistently entertaining. I haven't got The Weird as yet, but it sounds like my type of book... You can devote several months to this book if you want to read right through it, or you can dip into it every now & then & finish it in a year or two. I've already read most of it's older stories in other publications, but it still has enough obscure stories to get me interested - & I haven't heard of many of the newer entries either. Machen's novella : "The Terror" would have been perfect for this anthology - The Terror hasn't been anthologized like his more famous works, such as The White People, The Great God Pan, or The Shining Pyramid - but it is every bit as good IMO. The Terror moves along like a thriller, & it is very atmospheric & weird, as we've come to expect from Machen.
@rickcroucher3 күн бұрын
No Machen? No Matheson? Weird.
@michaelk.vaughan8617Күн бұрын
@@rickcroucher indeed
@glockensig3 күн бұрын
Guillermo del Toro's House of Curiosities is what you were thinking of.... Was Nictzin Dyalhis in there?
@michaelk.vaughan8617Күн бұрын
@@glockensig unfortunately, no.
@bookMark29673 күн бұрын
One of my favorite books I own, and it introduced me to some of my favorite authors! I agree with your thoughts on the omissions etc.
@dreamakuma3 күн бұрын
This was the first book I read after I got a divorce. It still holds a special place in my heart. It introduced me to "The night wire". Absolutely my favorite book
@inanimatecarbongod3 күн бұрын
High time that I read this myself, I've had an ebook of it for years that I've never got around to. I kind of regret not picking up the print edition, though I have absolutely no room for it.
@LivingDeadEnby3 күн бұрын
I still try to get through The Big Book of Science Fiction by the VanderMeers. I told myself to wait with buying The Weird until I got through the first one. I have read the whole book by Alfred Kubin though, "Die andere Seite", which was really, really good.
@macavitymacavity3 күн бұрын
I'm pretty sure that's how I started reading horror as a kid, via anthology books. The ones I remember most are those "Alfred Hitchcock Presents..." hardcovers. Horror anthology with comics as well, ala "House of Mystery", "House of Secrets", "Witching Hour", etc etc.
@LiminalSpaces033 күн бұрын
That one looks fun, going to keep my eye out for it! Thanks for a great video!
@szaggasdКүн бұрын
never worry about read time, my friend. Weirdly, you are one of the most consistent youtubers I follow, lean back a little, you're good
@fiberartsyreads3 күн бұрын
I have been very slowly making my way through this book and enjoying it!
@Zulda72313 күн бұрын
I just ordered a copy. Great recommendation!
@GrammaticusBooks3 күн бұрын
Very much enjoying the Book of the Week videos! Another good one! ....but no Richard Matheson????
@michaelk.vaughan8617Күн бұрын
@@GrammaticusBooks madness!
@stephenmorton80173 күн бұрын
I'm currently making my way through one of the best short story anthologies I've ever read. It's called " the world of the short story " selected and edited by Clifton Fadiman. Published by Haughton Mifflin. From 1986. Very hard-hitting short stories. Also contains one from Kafka. Whoda thunk it?
@dreamakuma3 күн бұрын
MY FAVORITE BOOK
@vilstef69883 күн бұрын
Great tenticular cover!
@AmalijaKomar3 күн бұрын
Impressive book.
@vilstef69883 күн бұрын
When you namechecked Michael Chabon, I thought I heard a different Michael!
@w.adammandelbaum18053 күн бұрын
Zon has it, just ordered it.
@freelivefree72213 күн бұрын
I checked this book out from the library multiple times. It's a very good but not perfect anthology. The biggest mistake is not including a Robert E. Howard story. Or a Machen story. They included two Jean Ray stories, "The Mainz Psalter" and "The Shadow Street." I am a big booster of Ray. He is considered the Francophone equivalent of Poe or Lovecraft. He's as good as either at their best when he is at his best. When he's not at his best it is a different story... I liked both stories in the Weird, but I do wonder if they should of only included one and make room for another author like Howard. I have a Robert Barbour Johnson anthology I need to read.
@vilstef69883 күн бұрын
Martin's Sandkings is also in The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by the Vandermeers.
@michaelk.vaughan8617Күн бұрын
@@vilstef6988 they must really like that story.
@vilstef69883 күн бұрын
If it were me, for Bradbury I would've chosen The Lake, The Scythe or Once There Was an Old Woman.
@jannetteberends87302 күн бұрын
Ok, you convinced me. Just bought the ebook. (So, it’s easily to get) And I’m glad it’s in ebook format, cause now I’m older I can’t handle heavy books anymore. And in ebooks it’s easy to adapt the fonts, so I can read without needing reading glasses. 😀 Also downloaded The House of Souls by Machen on the Gutenberg website. Thanks for this video.
@fredflintstone14853 күн бұрын
Book of the week is better than the Weakest Book ; oh my :)
@glockensig3 күн бұрын
That's Soo Weird......
@glenmcculla68433 күн бұрын
Some of the glaring authorial omissions are Machen me angry. Lovely looking book, mind.
@PaulSaether2 күн бұрын
Mervyn Peake (My favourite writer) - Got to be 'A Boy in Darkness' (Titus Groan)?
@alpastor63593 күн бұрын
Hey, outta curiosity, is there any good collection with the post-Poe/pre-Lovecraft weird horror guys as a sort of sampler for them?
@michaelk.vaughan8617Күн бұрын
@@alpastor6359 I can’t think of an anthology specific to that period. Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in Literature is certainly a good resource for those authors.
@10538overture13 сағат бұрын
Anyone who enjoyed this should also try the two Black Water anthologies by Alberto Manguel from the 1980s.
@alanginger2823 күн бұрын
Any Tanith Lee?
@nedmerrill57053 күн бұрын
I'm half-way through H. P. Lovecraft's _The Dunwich Horror._ He's a really good writer; my vocabulary is expanding by leaps and bounds. But I'm wondering exactly _what_ that awful (offal?) odor is he keeps talking about. Better not ask, I guess ...
@vilstef69883 күн бұрын
Read Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. That will be a vocab builder too!