Comments on: Read or Die

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:08:12 +0000

Jason, I believe Shroud ships copies of the magazine to UK subscribers.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:54:18 +0000

Brian, any chance your column will be available to your UK fans?

By: J. F. Gonzalez

J. F. Gonzalez — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:51:55 +0000

Troy and Brian: The list is reprinted here – http://www.violetbooks.com/wagnerlist.html

Along with a personal memoir about Karl by Jessica Amanda Salmonson.

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:43:13 +0000

Found a link, Brian:

http://www.violetbooks.com/wagnerlist.html

Thanks,
Troy

By: geoff guthrie

geoff guthrie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:28:13 +0000

Sounds like a kick ass column. Younger reader’s definitely need to find out some of these older horror books that rock. And I look foreword to learning something new too!

btw, I already subscribe, so I’m set, who hoo!

By: Sir Otter

Sir Otter — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:01:10 +0000

My introduction to horror was an old anthology I found in my school library about 1966, filled with great names like Oliver Onions, Arthur Machen, Wm Hope Hodgson, E.F. Benson, Guy de Maupassant, Lady Asquith. By the end of the decade, I’d accumulated every Whitman or Alfred Hitchcock anthology I could get my hands on and had read most of the classic novels – Frankenstein, Dracula, The Werewolf of Paris, The Phantom of the Opera, Notre Dame de Paris, Jekyll & Hyde, etc., etc., etc. By the time the Goosebumps books came along, I was lightyears beyond them. It’s nice to see that the great stories of yesteryear are not forgotten.

By: Ty Schwamberger

Ty Schwamberger — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:51:27 +0000

Nice! I’m on this like a late night beer run!

By: Craig Cook

Craig Cook — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:33:12 +0000

Actually, I graduated from Goosebumps on to Stephen King, then from King on to Brian.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:09:57 +0000

TROY: Karl Edward Wagner’s list appeared in (I believe) an old issue of The Twilight Zone magazine. I don’t believe it has been reprinted since.

Another great reference (as pointed out earlier in the thread) is King’s Danse Macabre, although it’s now quite a bit dated.

By: Tom Erb

Tom Erb — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:09:36 +0000

Shroud is king and now it’s even Kingy-er with the additon of Brian! Things just keep getting better!!
-Tom

By: noigeloverlord

noigeloverlord — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:24:15 +0000

ordered!

By: Louise

Louise — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:21:47 +0000

I think this means I really must invest in that Shroud subscription after all. I grew up on King, Koontz, Barker, and whatever else I could find in the Castlegar Library or bookstores. (Was reading Goosebumps to my friend’s son, teaching him how to pronounce his ‘th.’ lol ) But there are so many from that time frame I’ve missed, too. This will be a great chance to fill up the holes in my list.

By: Kurt Criscione

Kurt Criscione — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:56:05 +0000

BY next issue do you mean #6 which should be out soon or do you mean with #7… either way I’ll have a subscription I just wondered how instant my gratification would be.

By: Sel Goktekin Engelmann

Sel Goktekin Engelmann — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:23:16 +0000

Lets see if it is possible order Shroud magazine in Amsterdam, The Netherlands…

By: Troy

Troy — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:22:35 +0000

Brian?

You wrote: “Many years ago, an amazing writer/editor named Karl Edward Wagner created a list of what he felt were overlooked or seminal gems within the field of horror fiction. ”

Do you have a link to this list by Wagner?

Thanks,
Troy