August 2025 Top Ten List

 HERE ARE MY 10 FAVOURITE FIRST TIME WATCHES IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2025:

1. SANDS OF THE KALAHARI  (1965) 
2. THE DRIVER  (1978) 
3. MYSTERE  (1983)  aka DAGGER EYES
4. THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB  (2025) 
5. DINOSAURUS!  (1960) 
6. NOSFERATU  (2024) 
7. DEVO  (2024) 
8. CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD  (2025) 
9. COBRA  (1983) 
10. DROP ZONE  (1994) 

And here is everything I watched during the month.

And now, the books I read:

August Earworms

 

AUGUST 1st - TEQUILA by The Champs

August 2nd - AMERICAN PIE by Don McLean

August 5th - A WOMAN IN LOVE by Barbra Streisand

August 6th - BELIEVE by Elton John 

August 7th  -  AFTER YOU'VE GONE by Al Jolson

August 8th - RHINESTONE COWBOY by Glen Campbell

August 9th - VOLARE by Domenico Modugno

August 15th - I CAN'T TURN YOU LOOSE by Otis Redding 

August 16th - STUFF AND NONSENSE by Split Enz 

August 19th - ELMER'S TUNE by Glenn Miller

August 20th - WOULD I LIE TO YOU? by Eurythmics 

August 21st - CAPTAIN OF HER HEART by Double 

August 22nd - THE PENALTY BOX by Dave Schultz

August 23rd - DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH by Michael Jackson

August 26th - HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER by Ini Kamoze

August 28th - THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT by The Tokens

ROLLIN' SHORTIES READATHON BOOKS IN PLAY

 HERE IS THE SPOT WHERE I'LL POST MY PROGRESS ON THE ROLLIN' SHORTIES CHALLENGE.  As I said before, I'm cheating and reading "THE HERO WHO RETURNED".  Since the first book read was bespoke, I've done spun the wheel and rolled the die for the second story.  So here's what my progress will look like;  stories have not been read by me until they are marked as read.  Ya git me?

1. 
   "The Hero Who Returned" by Gerald W. Page from ISAAC ASIMOV'S MAGICAL WORLD OF FANTASY 4:  SPELLS / Read
   
   
   
2. "The Shifting Growth" by Edgar Jepson & John Gawsworth from THE THIRD PAN BOOK OF HORROR STORIES / READ 
   
   
   
3. "Grisly Rites of Hitler's Monster Flesh Stripper" by Jim McDonald  from WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH edited by Robert Deis & Wyatt Doyle.  READ. 
   
   
   
4. "The Choking Chalice" by Frank Gruber from IT'S RAINING MORE CORPSES IN CHINATOWN.  READ
   
   
   
5. "Soapsuds" by J.E. Grinstead from WESTERN STORIES SELECTED BY GENE AUTRY.  READ
   
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6. "The Naked & the Deadly" by Lawrence Block from THE NAKED AND THE DEADLY by Lawrence Block.  READ.
7. 
   "Hungarian Rhapsody" by Robert Bloch from PLEASANT DREAMS by Robert Bloch.   READ.
8. 

   "Bayamo's Night of Terror" by Don Hogan from CUBA:  SUGAR, SEX AND SLAUGHTER   READ.
9. 

   "Strange Journey" by Robert Leslie Bellem  from THE SURGEON OF SOULS by Robert Leslie Bellem  READ.
10. 
    "Crucifixus etiam" by Walter M. Miller Jr.  from A CENTURY OF SCIENCE FICTION 1950-1959.   READ.
11. 
    "Coffins Are For Corpses" by Robert Silverberg from MONSTERS AND THINGS by Robert Silverberg.  READ.
    
12. "My Sister is a Werewolf" by Jack Prelutsky from BEWARE by R.L. Stine.  READ.  But now, here's the controversy.  This is only a 1 page poem.  Who'da thunk R.L. Stine would throw a monkey toe into the whole shebang.  Now, do I leave it here and move on to the next story or. . . ONLY read stories so read the next following story in RL Stine's BEWARE???  UPDATE:  Well, the consensus (meaning Cheeks) is that if the die roll picked a poem, then a poem it shall be.  Moving on.

    
13. "The Noseless Horror" by Robert E. Howard from THE HORROR STORIES OF ROBERT E. HOWARD.  READ.
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STORIES ON DECK

"The Man Who Liked Dogs" by Raymond Chandler from KILLER IN THE RAIN by Raymond Chandler.  Still To Be Read.

"The Glance" by Stefan Grabinski from THE DARK DOMAIN by Stefan Grabinski.  Still To Be Read.

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne from CLASSIC HORROR TALES from Canterbury Classics.  Still To Be Read.

"The Man From Alcatraz" by John K. Butler from AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT by John K. Butler.  Still To Be Read.