if only Machen had helped LOvecraft with his prose!!!!

Yeah, as a writer Machen leaves him for dust. But I don't think Lovecraft created a character as utterly evil as Helen, either. Love how everyone who meets describes her as utterly beautiful but strangely repulsive. One of horror's great femme fatales.

coolness. I will check out Austin Osman Spare. thanks

and I got The White People downloaded. Thanks as well.

BTW, it is odd that the Penguin classics collection has Pan on the cover but not the novella!!!!!

someone is selling all sorts of choice MACHEN http://www.ebay.com/itm/arthur-mache...em234abb 682d

LUCKY! My wife bought it for me for Valentine's Day! It should arrive any day now!

i keep seeing feb 24 as a release date for harback/audio/etc

i'm getting impatient

thanks for the recommendations everyone. i usually read two or three books a month because that's what my mental state can handle. i get depressed after heavy isolation and ignoring friends and family.

some people are idiots because they dont' have the time. ever tried to raise a 5 year old? HOLY SHEIT!!!!!


sacrificing everthing you externality love against internity love has always been a dilemma to me.

THE LAUGHING MONSTERS by Denis Johnson

About halfway through. A little slower going than I expected but entertaining nevertheless.

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

Another classic horror short story. So short, in fact, you can read it in about ten minutes. But guaranteed it'll play on your mind far longer.

Here's a pdf:

http://sites.middlebury.edu/individu...on_lottery.pdf

Truly disturbing. Apparently when it was first published in the New Yorker readers sent Jackson hate-mail for writing something so horrible.


I'm curious to read his short story collection, Jesus' Son. Have you read it? Any good?

shirley jackson is one of my all time faves.

reading libra by don delillo

I've ended Edgar Hilsenrath's Fuck America.
I like how lively his style is.

Re-reading Martin Amis' The Information, some 18 years later, to see if I still like it (I have to admit that I can't recall much, except that at the time it made me read two of his other books - I can't read the whole body of work of an author I like though, once I spot similarities, I leave it to later days that sometimes don't even come)

Just checked out the Codex Seraphinianus from the Library I work at.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus

Yep. It's excellent.

I finished Science & Sanity - Korzybski. I will have to re-read that shit in a decade!

Finished The White People by Arthur Machen.

About 100 pages into Masks of God: Occidental Mythology

the last thing he wanted by didion

This was as inspiring a book as it was depressing.

this week im reading online pdfs about hoophouse construction

and i'm reading a lot of websites about growing potatoes-- from crazy survivalist sites to the USDA