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Mystery and Mayhem
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Reading has been my passion since childhood, beginning with timeless tales such as Treasure Island and Tom Sawyer. My appetite for books only grew stronger as a teenager, eventually leading me to develop a particular fondness for Mystery, Fantasy, and Western genres while remaining eager to discover more. I'm glad to be a part of such a vibrant and awesome community as booktube!
It's time! Occult Detective October!
It turns out I already read "The Ghost Slayers" according to my Goodreads. I had forgotten about that, and that's why I should be updating my Goodreads as I read. I will replace it with something else.
Prompts:
Week 1 - Pre 1960
Week 2 - Post 1960
Week 3 - Diverse character or author
Week 4 - Anything goes
Featured Hosts:
@fiberartsyreads
@CriminOllyBlog
@M-J
@michaelk.vaughan8617
@occultdetective
@royreadsanything
@bookssongsandothermagic
@art.and.lit.matters
@RaynorReadsStuff
@bighardbooks770
@LiterateTexan
@anotherbibliophilereads
Prompts:
Week 1 - Pre 1960
Week 2 - Post 1960
Week 3 - Diverse character or author
Week 4 - Anything goes
Featured Hosts:
@fiberartsyreads
@CriminOllyBlog
@M-J
@michaelk.vaughan8617
@occultdetective
@royreadsanything
@bookssongsandothermagic
@art.and.lit.matters
@RaynorReadsStuff
@bighardbooks770
@LiterateTexan
@anotherbibliophilereads
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Відео
Cimmerian September!
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My booktube channel about mystery and other fantastic fiction. Today's episode celebrating Cimmerian September created by @michaelk.vaughan8617 Channels mentioned: Books mentioned: Conan series My links: linktr.ee/jimcollinsart Discord: discord.com/invite/FdxURKp6pU Email: braveknight64@gmail.com #booktube #books #reading #cimmerianseptember #conan #robertehoward
All about Batman
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My booktube channel about mystery and other fantastic fiction. Channels mentioned: @michaelk.vaughan8617 My links: linktr.ee/jimcollinsart Discord: discord.com/invite/FdxURKp6pU Email: braveknight64@gmail.com #booktube #books #reading Theme by Neal Hefti
A Garbaugust Reading Update
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My booktube channel about mystery and other fantastic fiction. Garbaugust created by @CriminOllyBlog Books mentioned: The Miss From S.I.S. by Bob Tralins The Executioner: Battle Mask by Don Pendleton Batman: Arkham Knight by Marv Wolfman My links: linktr.ee/jimcollinsart Discord: discord.com/invite/FdxURKp6pU Email: braveknight64@gmail.com #booktube #books #reading #garbaugust Theme by Serge Qu...
A Western-themed Unboxing!
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Yes, it's yet another book haul, but a special one, since I'm sharing the unboxing with YOU, all my subscribers. T-shirt from mitchoconnellart?igsh=MXc5dmRvczVqcmdrNQ My booktube channel about mystery and other fantastic fiction. Books mentioned: Edge series: 2, 8-10, 14-15, 20-31, 33-39, 42-43, 46, 52-54 Adam Steele series: 1-7, 10-17, 19, 23, 25-26, 28-31, 33, 44 Undertaker seri...
The Decaying Sentry: a short story
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I narrate my short story from "Garbolgy: The Garbaugust Anthology of Awesome Trash," edited by @troytradup and presented by @CriminOllyBlog Many thanks to them and to all the wonderful writers and artists whose work appears in this incredible book. Order on Amazon- United States: a.co/d/izYej9R Canada: a.co/d/dcWHUYH United Kingdon: amzn.eu/d/9fXRGEt
It's the bookhaul video that booktube needs but not necessarily the bookhaul video it deserves.
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My booktube channel about mystery and other fantastic fiction. Books mentioned: Shell Scott series by Richard S. Rather Mike Shayne series by Brett Halliday My links: linktr.ee/jimcollinsart Discord: discord.com/invite/FdxURKp6pU Email: braveknight64@gmail.com #booktube #books #reading #mikeshayne #shellscott Theme by Serge Quadrado Music
My Friday book haul!
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My booktube channel about mystery and other fantastic fiction. Authors mentioned: Frank Kane Richard S. Prather Stuart M. Kaminsky Jeremiah Healy Gregory McDonald Carter Brown Lawrence Block Dan J. Marlowe Harold Q. Masur Barry Fantoni Harlan Ellison My links: linktr.ee/jimcollinsart Discord: discord.com/invite/FdxURKp6pU Email: braveknight64@gmail.com #booktube #books #reading Theme by Serge Q...
Garbaugust 3D TBR!
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So far, I only have a link to the Garbology e-book: a.co/d/6h02h5V I'll link the physical book in a later video. #garbaugust #garbaugust3d GARBAUGUST Hosts: @CriminOllyBlog @M-J @ObscureBookAdventures @RaynorReadsStuff @anotherbooktubechannel @anotherbibliophilereads @fiberartsyreads @bookboundweirdo @bookssongsandothermagic @SlimeAndSlashers @royreadsanything @thebookishknitter @michellesmelan...
My ongoing Hard-boiled private eye project!
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My booktube channel about mystery and other fantastic fiction. Books mentioned: Hard Freeze by Dan Simmons Grave Error by Stephen Greenleaf Dirty Work by Rob Kantner The Black Moon ed. by Robert Randisi Mister X by John Lutz My links: linktr.ee/jimcollinsart Discord: discord.com/invite/FdxURKp6pU Email: braveknight64@gmail.com #booktube #books #reading Theme by Serge Quadrado Music
Rocket Summer - Stanley G. Weinbaum
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Here's a fun drinking game: every time I say, "You know," in the video, take a swig of whatever beverage that you have handy. Enjoy! Books mentioned: The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum My links: linktr.ee/jimcollinsart Discord: discord.com/invite/FdxURKp6pU Email: braveknight64@gmail.com #booktube #books #reading #rocketsummer #rocketsummer2024 Theme by Serge Quadrado Music
Tribute to the artist Robert McGinnis.
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My booktube channel about mystery and other fantastic fiction. My links: linktr.ee/jimcollinsart Discord: discord.com/invite/FdxURKp6pU Email: braveknight64@gmail.com #booktube #books #reading #robertmcginnis Music by Edison Lighthouse
A "June on the Range" teaser sequence
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A "June on the Range" teaser sequence
My TBR for Spring Into Adventure and a March Mystery Madness update!
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My TBR for Spring Into Adventure and a March Mystery Madness update!
Well, as I put on the soundtrack of Basil Poledouris and Zoe Poledouris , I listened to it real loud as I reading Conan novels and I will keep reading it after I put heavy metal on it……………sword and sorcery, heavy metal yeahhhhhhhh
Well, I can say the soundtrack was good.
Awesome! I’ve got a book I’ve been holding off on all year for this. Looks like you’ve got some good stuff lined up! Hope they live up to your expectations!
That's cool, Ginger! I'll keep an eye out on your channel for the book you choose. I'll let everyone know how things go as I process through the month. Should be fun!
Great reads - should be a fun month
Thanks, Roy! I'm looking forward to it.
That’s a great looking TBR. Looking forward to it.
Thanks, Bob. I'll probably have to adjust it a little bit as I go.
Really looking forward to this. Loved the hat 😊
Thanks, Debs! I'm looking forward to it as well.
Hi, Jim! Luke here. Occult Detective October sounds really fun. You will be a great host for it! I love both Kolchack and Sherlock so that book looks really intriguing. Darren McGavin was a really good actor. I have seen a few of the episodes of when he played Mike Hammer and they were enjoyable. Thanks for sharing!
Hey, Luke. Thanks very much! I always think of him as Mike Hammer when I see him in the part of Kolchak. The wardrobe is similar, only shabbier. 😆 Thanks for commenting!
Sherlock and Cthulhu?!?! I'm very much looking forward to your review of this book Jim!
Thanks, Grammaticus! It sure is an interesting combo. 😄🐙
Hi, Jim👋. ❤ both the Kolchak movies & the series. The Holmes book doesn’t release here until 9/10.🇺🇸
Hi Colette! I was a huge Kolchak fan back in the day. There's a few books out there, apparently, and I couldn't resist a Holmes and Kolchak crossover. The James Lovegrove Cthulhu Casebooks are a lot of fun as well. Thanks for the comment! 🤗
I'm very happy to be a part of this eclectic group. Very nice, cool looking anthologies. I'm looking forward to learning from y'all, next month. I remember "The Night Stalker," on 1980s TV (I loved the theam music to it, too) 📺
Thanks, Allen! I'm happy to be involved this year. 😊
I’m so happy the event lines up with an awesome BookTube memory! Glad you are a part of year 2 of ODO! - MJ 🔮✨
It's gonna be awesome, MJ! Thanks for inviting me!
Kolchak!!!!!!
Yes! 🥳
Me too, enjoyed Kolchak. Great opening. Congrats on your one year anniversary 🎉
Thanks very much!
I loved Darren Mcgavin and Kolchak so enjoyed your opening!! Great hat too Jim!
Thanks! 😄 I had to do it.
Oh my. I loved Kolchak!
Me too! Great show!
What de cramp did was barbaric!!!
It was! It got me into Robert E. Howard in a roundabout way, though. 🫤
Lovely books for all their flaws. As a kid none of this bothered me though I could tell that the REH stories were far better. The pastiche Conan will always be a puppet as REH was the only guy able to create the character or have major events.
They are lovely books, and that's the damdest thing, I wouldn't give them up for the world! I still have pleasant and nostalgic memories reading them. And the pastiches do have merit. Thanks, Roy!
I'm getting involved in this too - gonna do a Conan video this weekend.
Nice! I'll keep an eye out for it.
Great video! I completely agree with you, of course.
Thanks, Michael! I was trying to keep my nerd rage in check while filming. 😉
Great video. I don't think De Camp really saw or understood the philosophy behind Conan. If you read his letters to HP Lovecraft there are extensive debates between what Howard called Barbarism and Civilized man. Howard believed that his idea of Barbarism was the truest self, the idea of being totally true to yourself, without the guise of civilized refinement. Conan and Kull and all his Sword and Sorcery stories reflected that sense of honesty and truth. I feel that was lost on a lot of the writers that came after him that wrote Conan or Kull stories, they lack the philosophy that made it resonate with the readers and make the characters relatable. They were always guided by an inherent a priori moral code.
Thank you! Very well said! I've only read a few excerpts from Howard's letters in some of the various paperbacks. That interchange between Howard and Lovecraft is in one of them, but I'd really like to buy the collected letters one of these days. I don't think that anyone will ever be able to write a Conan story like Howard could, though. He himself was in every one. Thanks for the comment!
@@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn I just sold my dad's postcard which was from Howard to Lovecraft. I bought that for him years ago as a Christmas gift. My dad had probably the biggest collection of Howard ever assembled. I grew up surrounded by all those books and pulps.
That's very cool! Howard fans certainly are passionate about the man and his work.
Excellent video giving context to Conan's publication history and pastiche. Thanks for sharing your collection, too.
You're welcome, PeculiarNotions. Thank you!
You finally got a REH Conan video out! Congratulations! I know it took a lot of effort! It was very well done and informative. The Camp books are definitely a double edged sword. On one hand they did keep Conan in the public eye and popular, but it was done in a very backhanded way that muddled REH's legacy. I am excited for Cimmerian Sept though. I'm going to be reading the two most recent Conan pastiche novels Blood of the Serpent and City of the Dead.
Thanks very much, Daniel! It took awhile. 😄 I agree about the double-edged sword. The Lancer\Ace books served their purpose, though. I'll have to pick up those new pastiche Conans sometime. Let me know what you thought of them.
I ordered my first Conan book. I am 64 and femalebut I is never too late to try something new. I actually was/am looking for a biography on Robert E Howard. Can you recommend one? Great video!
Hi Debora, That's awesome! I recommend "Blood & Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard" by Mark Finn. Thanks very much!
"Arm chair psychiatry"....oh boy. Good stuff and great overview Jim!
Thanks, Grammaticus! I appreciate that. DeCamp did a lot of harm with that book.
Worth the wait! Good job. I"ve never heard anything good about that DeCamp biography, but I should read it some day, I suppose.
I felt obligated to read it when I got it years ago. For a more balanced and authentic biography, you should read Blood & Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard by Mark Finn.
Great job, Jim! I'm starting Cimmerian September by reading all the new Conan e-novellas that Heroic Signatures is publishing, then going back to by Ace editions. I think most folks are doing the Lance/Ace books, so I thought I'd do a different take. Like so many, those books, while greatly flawed, got me into REH. I'm grateful for that.
That's the redeeming element for me, as well. I've started rereading them, and we'll see how far I get this month.
Great video, Jim. I agree with you on all points, my friend.
Thanks, Bob! It's difficult to stay objective regarding REH.
Just finished Summer of Smoke by Luke short from 1958. A very satisfying read.
Luke Short is great! Thanks, Sid.
You have a fantastic Batman book collection. I'm not sure whether I have more Batman books or Green Lantern books. Probably Batman, but it would be close. The first comic I owned was Batman. I can't remember which one it was. Aparo is probably my iconic Batman artist. I really enjoyed this!
Thanks very much! Aparo is probably my favourite Batman artist. He did some great work!
The dream team is back together! I'm so sorry to have missed this live but I'll watch on replay.
It was nice to hang out with my friends. It's certainly been a while. Thanks, Arianne!
I also just read Battle Mask and really enjoyed it!
Thanks! I had fun reading it.
Thanks for sharing! Yours and Michael's videos were fun to watch. Those Neal Adams collections are nice. The modern Adams collections retouched the color and very much lowered the quality of the pencil art in my opinion.
You're welcome, Daniel. I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Grear collection!
Thanks, StormReads!
The first book you showed, I also got in the 70's as a gift from my mother!! Still in my bookcase along with a matching Superman book!!
That's awesome! She didn't know what she started by buying me that book. 😆 Thanks!
Upvoted the minute I heard the theme song from the original 60’s Batman TV show! Great job!
Thank you, Phil. I appreciate that very much!
I'm not a DC guy, but of their stable of heroes Batman is absolutely my favorite. Great video Jim! (Batman 3D - if only you could get the 3d to come across on UA-cam!) (That Wagner art looks amazing)
Thanks, Gramaticus! I might have to read that one again with some 3-D glasses. It's been a while. Don't tell MKV that Batman is your favourite. 😏
What a great idea! 😂 Fantastic video!
Thanks, Michael. I'm quite proud of myself. 😉 Seriously, your video was great!
This was great fun!
Thank you, Mark!
I know this is out of step, but I loved the series with Adam West. When I was a little girl, that was it, and they had great guest stars. I even have comics from that time, and autographed pics of Adam West as Batman and Yvonne Craig as Batgirl.
Hi Sherri, I loved the series. I used to take it so seriously as a kid and couldn't figure out what people were laughing about at the time. 😆
@@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn I wanted to be Batgirl, I begged my parents for a dressing table like hers. (I did get one as an adult, but it isn't attached to a secret room.) It's funny, Catwoman was my favorite villain and everyone loved her (I loved all three actresses who played her,) but I wanted to be Batgirl, I even got a costume for Halloween. Didn't you laugh when famous actors started to talk to dynamic duo as the climbed up past their apartments? My favorite was Sammy Davis Jr, he was so funny, even though it was a cameo, I have never forgotten it.
It was such a great show, Sherri! I don't blame you for wanting to be Batgirl. Yvonne Craig was awesome and gorgeous.
@@MysteryandMayhem-gr7nn I met her, she was still beautiful and down to earth and sweet.
That's very cool, Sherri! I had a chance to meet Adam West and Julie Newmar a few years ago at FanExpo Toronto, but I decided not to get in line. I kind of regret it now.
What a feast of a video!
Thanks, Steve! I really enjoyed doing this one. Sorry for the bad quality. I'm not too sure what happened.
Now the picture looks fine. It was blurry all day yesterday. Must have been a Wi-Fi issue on my end.
Nice collection. I like Matt Wagner, his Grendel and Mage books are particularly dear to me, but haven't seen his Batman work until now. I have rarely liked side kicks ( I couldn't stand "boy" in the Tarzan films) so whenever Robin was with Batman it upset me. I tried voting to kill off Jason Todd. I got a busy signal. An artist edition of Batman Year One came out this month. Frank Miller was at his peak in creativity then with Daredevil, Ronin, Dark Knight, Batman Year One, DD Born Again, Elektra Assassin...all within 7 year period. One of my favorite panels in comics is when Batman holds Talia in his arms and they share a kiss. Neal Adams drew sexy men and women. Don Newton came close. Do you have the DC treasury edition that collects the Ra's Al Ghul storyline? It's fantastic! Didn't see The Killing Joke or Arkham Asylum. Two of my favorite Batman stories. Interesting video.
I do have The Killing Joke and many others, but they were buried somewhere. I did the phone in for the "Death in the Family" story, voting to kill Robin, and actually got through. Thanks, Libro!
Awesome video as always Jim. I am a huge Batman fan myself I own quiet a collection of Graphic novels, like The Dark knight returns by Frank Miller. And The Killing joke by Alan Moore. I recently bought the complete Batman 1960s tv show on bluray. I love the crazy humour of the original series And the Darker side we see now in films like The outstanding Christopher nolan Batman trilogy.
Thanks, John. It all works! 😊
Great soft of reads! I've got an Arkham Knight book with the Riddler that I might read for the square. Nearly half a century since I read Battle Mask 😅 Yeah hard to get time for all the stuff of life.
It sure is, Roy, and I'm not good at organizing my time at all. I think the Arkham Knight book with the Riddler is a prequel to the one I have. I'll have to pick it up. The last Executioner book I read before this one had to have been at least 30 years ago. 😳 Thanks!
Kamala is our "Miss from Sis." She'll take care of that guy who wants to be king...
😆 I was thinking it and didn't want to say it. That whole premise certainly seems familiar. Thanks for the smile, Katjack!
Love that cover from 'The Miss from Sis'. Great stuff Jim! And one of these days I'll have to pick up an Executioner for some fun summer fare!
Thanks, Grammaticus! They're a pretty good read.
Sorry to hear of your lack of reading time Jim. 😢 As you said, I like to read the Pendleton stories. (with many re-reads) I've read a scattering of the later stories, but I don't find them as entertaining.
Yeah, the Pendleton stories are definitely better than the later ones. It's not that I have no time, it's just that I'm not managing the time that I do have properly. My own fault. Thanks for commenting, Steve.
Great Update Jim! Freezing cold in South Africa, glad you are enjoying the sunshine. I need to try out an Executioner novel one day. Will try and start reading Garbology before the end of the month, glad you are having fun!
Hey, Cliff! Thank you! I'm sorry to hear it's cold there. It has been nice here, and I want to enjoy it while I can. I'm excited to hear your thoughts on the Garbology anthology when you get around to reading it. Take care!