AS IF I DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH READATHON / WATCHATHON STUFF GOING ON, I'M ALSO ADDING YET ANOTHER ONE!
This one I also stole lock, stock and barrel from youtuber Jake of PULP MORTEM. He calls this one ROLLIN' SHORTIES (and no, it doesn't mean THAT)! In an attempt to get some short stories read from ALL the short story collections he (and, of course, I) have in a TBR pile. So Jake's idea, which I stole outright, is to use a 20-sided die (the exact one you see up there and the exact same one Jake is using - yes, I boughted it offa Devilzon and I ain't ashamed - and roll it to generate a random number. Then, looking at the contents page of a particular book, you read that story i.e. if the number rolled is 6, you read the 6th story in the book. Now, I don't think Jake has a particular method of choosing which book in the first place from which he's going to choose a story. Therefore, I am going to use the Wheel of Names to randomly choose which book I'm going to then roll the die to pick a random story.
Got that? I hope I do. So as you can see from the wheel, I've picked a bunch of short story collections to choose from. These be them:
CLASSIC HORROR TALES by Canterbury Classics
Spells: Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy 4
The Best of C.L. Moore
High Adventure #200
The Dark Domain by Stefan Grabinski
The Surgeon of Souls and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Leslie Bellem
It's Always Raining Corpses in Chinatown
Footprints On A Brain:The Inspector Allhoff Stories by D. L. Champion
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Pleasant Dreams by Robert Bloch
At the Stroke of Midnight by John K. Butler
Midnight Pleasures by Robert Bloch
The Angry Dead by Rosemary Pardoe
Strange Tales 10/32
The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard
Martians Go Home by Fredric Brown
Hostesses In Hell and Other Stories by Russell Grey
My Touch Brings Death and Other Stories by Russell Grey
Pulp Adventures #47: C. Auguste Dupin
Hitchcock's Suspense Stories
The Third Pan Book of Horror Stories
Cuba: Sugar, Sex & Slaughter
Occultation by Laird Barron
My Dreadful Dreams by Hokunani Sorci
Dead and Done For: Complete Cases of Cellini Smith
Ellery Queen Calendar of Crime
Beware by R.L. Stine
Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer
Miss Darkness: The Great Short Crime Fiction of Fredric Brown
Weasels Ripped My Flesh by Robert Deis
Weird Tales #1 Facsimile
Mr George & Other Odd Persons by August Derleth
Shot in the Dark by Judith Merrill ed.
Marple: 12 New Mysteries
Criminolly Presents Garbology
A Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle
It's Raining More Corpses in Chinatown
Fear & Trembling selected by Alfred Hitchcock
Western Stories selected by Gene Autry
Monsters Galore by Bernhardt J. Hurwood, ed.
Devilish Tales: A Collection of Droll, Teasing and Very Wicked Fantasies by Jerome Bixby
Masters of Horror, Vol. 5: Thorp McClusky, Weird Tales Nobility
Dr. Gangrene's Tales From Parts Unknown
Pulp Adventures #45
My Touch Brings Death and Other Stories by Russell Grey
The Third GALAXY Reader by H.L. Gold, ed.
As in the case of my previous post about MY MARVEL MONSTER PLAN, I will bump this post up to the top every time I have a new addition to this readathon.
To kick this off, though, I am going to cheat unreservedly. The second story Jake randomly read on his ROLLIN' SHORTIES was "THE HERO WHO RETURNED" by Gerald W. Page and I'm going to start with that story because Jake raved about it so much and it inspired me to try out this wacky readathon thang so I'm choosing that story to read first! After that, though, I will play by the rules and let the spin of the wheel and the roll of the die decide for me.
4 comments:
What is this "book" thing you speak of?
You know . . . those chunky paper things with the marks on them they make from movies.
They made a book outta that movie?
They made a book out of EVERY movie every made. Except FORREST GUMP. Because that isn't a movie OR a book. It's just garbage
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