Horror Roundtable - Week Five
Name the first horror-related item you see in your vicinity immediately after reading this question.
Sean T. Collins - Attentiondeficitdisorderly Too Flat
I looked up and at exactly the same time saw my copies of Black Hole by Charles Burns and From Hell by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell, which are seated right next to each other on my bookshelf.
A stuffed falcon on my desk given to me by Gaetan Plante. Norman Bates 666.
My awesome-n-hideous Freddy Kruger candle…which only burns in the fires of my heart. Behold!
I turned right around and the first thing I saw in my office was my bookshelf containing:
Shockmasters by Loris Curci
John Carpenter: Prince of Darkness by Gilles Boulenger
Poverty Row Horrors! by Tom Weaver
As well as dozens of others…
Mark - Exclamation Mark’s Vintage Sci-Fi/Horror Review
Well, I have several horror related books on my desk, including The Vampire Book (The Encyclopedia of the Undead) and a book of interviews by Tom Weaver entitled, Return of the B Science Fiction and Horror Heroes. But the very first horror-related item I saw was the cover of Marty Baumann’s The Astounding B Monster, with a cover illustration featuring a goofy-looking Frankenstein monster (by Jack Davis).
David Z. - Tomb It May Concern
First item is my new trade hardback of MONDO ZOMBIE, the long promised and finally and thankfully and gratefully delivered anthology edited by John Skipp. It is huge, it is beautifully produced and every story so far has been excellent.
Peep more here.
Naturally, it’s a stack of horror novels I have yet to review, including INTO THE FIRE by Richard Laymon, DROWNED NIGHT by Chris Blaine, RAPTURE by Thomas Tessier, LIVE GIRLS by Ray Garton, THE BURNING by Bentley Little and WORLD WAR Z: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ZOMBIE WAR by Max Brooks. And they mock me.
I have a big 30-count box of our own SMALL GAUGE TRAUMA DVD sitting right at my feet! Horror at it’s finest, certainly!
Good gawd, this WOULD have to happen. I’d love to say a boxcutter but I suppose that wouldn’t technically count. Specifically horror? White Wolf Games’ Orpheus handbook. The horror roleplaying game. Not that I’m a dork or anything, of course.
Steven - The Horror Blog
Nothing on or near my desk, but I can see into my kitchen at my Texas Chain Saw Massacre poster from here.
I hope this isn’t too late to enter. The first thing I saw was my Pet Sematary 2 movie poster I picked up from a video store after they took it down when the movie first came out on video, and my pirate skull bank.
Thanks again to everyone who participated. See you next week.
July 28th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Lots of nifty items, I just started Live Girls this morning and think it is great. I missed this and Lot Lizards, I’d love to see that one reprinted as well.
Bill, is the Curci book worth hunting down?
July 28th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Stephen King’s Dark Tower 1 “The Gunslinger”, that I just borrowed from a coworker….
I’ve never read it before, figure I might as well get started…
July 28th, 2006 at 5:55 pm
I have a Silent Hill movie poster on my cubicle wall^_^