HERE ARE MY TOP TEN FAVOURITE MOVIES THAT I WATCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN MAY.
- THE CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE (1971)
- FERN BRADY: POWER & CHAOS (2021)
- THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973)
- LOST ANGEL: THE GENIUS OF JUDEE SILL (2022)
- A DEADLY AMERICAN MARRIAGE (2025)
- WATCHMEN: CHAPTER II (2024)
- HELL'S HALF ACRE (1954)
- THE PACKAGE (1989)
- JANIS IAN: BREAKING SILENCE (2024)
- MYSTERY IN THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE (1979)
And here is everything else I watched during the month:
THEN THERE WERE THE BOOKY-BOOKS I READ DURING THE MONTH OF MAY:
Oh yeah . . . and this month was the HORROR MAYHEM: DECADES OF DREAD readathon; to read short horror novels or short stories.
And here is my piss-poor showing:
- THE MONKEY by Stephen King - a 52 page short story which, I think, was originally in SKELETON CREW but I read it in the MAMMOTH BOOK OF SHORT HORROR NOVELS hardcover. I was gonna read the whole hardcover but this is as far as I got!
- BOWLING WITH CORPSES by Mike Mignola & Dave Stewart. The stories in this were a little under-baked but the artwork was pretty good.
- SPICY MYSTERY STORIES - 01/36 -- This reproduction of the pulp from January of 1936 contained a bunch of nice, trashy thirties horror stories: Medusa’s Kiss by Hamlin Daly, Death’s Head by Charles A. Baker, Jr., Cat That Killed by Mort Lansing, Labyrinth of Monsters by Robert Leslie Bellem, Satan’s Daughter by E. Hoffman Price, Dark Night of Doom by Justin Case, Fall of A Fiend by Cary Moran, Portrait of Terror by Jerome Severs Perry, and Design For Death by Colby Quinn. Robert Leslie Bellem has become a favourite of mine over the last couple of years due to his bonkers writing style which is on display here as well as in his detective Dan Turner stories.
- THE OPENER OF THE WAY by Robert Bloch - this collection of 21 short stories was originally published by the legendary Arkham House in 1945 and features his early pulp stories; some in a Lovecraftian vein. This gloriously beautiful edition is one of the new Valancourt Books line of Robert Bloch books and I read this from cover to cover. It contains probably his most well-known short story "YOURS TRULY, JACK THE RIPPER" (which was a re-read for me) as well as the title story, THE SHAMBLER FROM THE STARS and the interesting "ONE WAY TO MARS".
- UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: FRANKENSTEIN by Michael Walsh. I finally got around to reading one of the hardcover "UNIVERSAL MONSTERS" graphic novels (I've got them all to date -- DRACULA, CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and THE MUMMY) and, if this is any indication, the others I have are also going to be awesome sauce! The art is, needless to say, absolutely incredible but the writing was also top notch. I loved this!
Um . . . and I hate to break it to you but . . . next month is YET ANOTHER readathon I will be participating in: JUNE ON THE RANGE!!!! So saddle up, pilgrim!
