Awesome video! I have been watching your Dungeon Dive channel for quite some time, but somehow missed that you have a book channel as well. I too have started picking up novelizations. It's mostly driven by nostalgia, picking up ones for movies made in the late 70's and 80's when I was a kid. Nostalgia is a powerful thing. I remember Buckaroo Bonzai. I watched it many times because my brother had it on laser disc. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
I have to agree with you about horror--it's both the most literary and innovative of the genres. I particularly like cosmic horror (I just published a novel in the genre). The thing with horror, it can be fused with just about every genre. I just read Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Breathtaking. If that's not horror, I don't know what is. Thomas Ligotti--I've been reading him since the early 90s--another "horror" writer, but transcends the genre. I love SF, but it seems anemic nowadays when compared with the past, to have fizzled out after Simmons's Hyperion, around that time. There are still a handful of modern SF I follow. The first real horror I read that got to me on a level I wasn't expecting was Heart of Darkness. I'd read it for school, and thought I was going to hate it. Same with Lord of the Flies--a great, yes, in my opinion, horror novel. My apologies for the long-winded comment. Horror will always be with us as long as there is death.
I had to switch over to Kindle reading for quite a few years, but I just had some built-in book shelves crafted for me and I'm really looking forward to stocking them with honest-to-goodness real books. There is nothing like sitting in a room filled with books! That's quite a haul regardless - thanks for sharing.
I had a reply to you, but it might have vanished! I've read the first 6 or so Horseclan books back when I was younger. I remember liking them, and I've been thinking about revisiting them at some point.
There is a recent history to Sword & Sorcery by Brian Murphy called Flame and Crimson, obviously not a success story like Paperbacks From Hell, which I think done a lot of good because a fair amount of those books got reprinted (mostly by Valancourt), it boosted or revived some writers (Ken Greenhall and Elizabeth Engstrom in particular). I wouldn't mind more sword & sorcery reprints because some of the classics (Shea's Nifft, Saunders' Imaro and Wagner's Kane) are badly in need of reprints, they're rare and sought after as it is (I think this is partly to do with Imaro and Kane being in the works for screen versions). There has been enough of a resurgence of the genre that some are saying we're in a glut period. That version of Broken Sword is the rewritten version which Moorcock thought ruined the book, so when Gollancz Masterworks reprinted it, they reverted to the original text. I'm skeptical about what you're saying about science fiction, there's still a lot of interesting stuff few people read, I rejoice when I meet a fan of Somtow's Inquestor series and I've been reading the very eccentric Doris Piserchia recently; while Brian Stableford is quite well known his bibliography is so monumental that most of his fans haven't even read a quarter of it. Outside a few big names most of the pre-pulp writers rarely get read and Blackcoat Press has a huge number of french books from that era translated by Stableford (he has written extensive histories of pre-pulp SF in english and french, along with decadence and fantasy). I'm very intrigued by Phyllis Gotlieb, Richard Calder, Ricardo Pinto, Jo Clayton, Ada Palmer, Indra Das, Tom Toner, Defontenay and many others. I've also been seeking out sword & sorcery books of Mark E. Rogers, because he was a talented painter who did very good covers for his own books and they had a reputation for extremity, many of them are scarce because a lot of them are deleted print on demand copies (including the uncensored version of Nightmare Of God), I've been so far avoiding his comedy books and collecting the Zorachus/Zancharthus/Lilitu series and the Blood Of The Lamb series.
Nice! I've skimmed a copy of Flame and Crimson, seems pretty cool. I just don't know enough about the author to know why I should trust him as an expert, so I need to look more into him and the book! Sounds like you have some great stuff to hunt down and read, and that you really know your shit! That's awesome. I've been reading for nearly 40 years, and I still feel like I don't really know anything about anything, because there's just so much to learn. LOL. The Valencourt reprints are way too expensive, and also not in mass market size, which they should be. Part of the joy of these books is, for me, the old MM size and paper quality of the older publications. I also wish they didn't say Paperbacks from Hell on the covers - I really don't like that, because that's not what they are. That's just a thing Hendrix made up, and now it's being used as a marketing term. Just go to eBay now and look at all vintage MM horror - all the listings say PAPER BACK FROM HELL, just used as a search term. I think it's kind of gross. I kind of actively reject that kind of stuff because I don't like feeling like a victim of marketing. Just picky stuff for me as a book collector :). I used to be able to get these supermarket horror books for a few bucks. Now those old copies are like $10-20, and the new Valencourt's are $10-20. It also removed some of that thrill of the hunt. So yes, I look at this topic from a purely selfish POV. I'll be the first to admit that fact, and I'm totally OK with that. :) I read all of Mark E. Rogers Samurai Cat books back when I was young! Those were so much fun. Some of my most cherished book reading memories.
@@allfictionisfantasy It's strange: almost everyone seems to love the mass market paperback format but hardly anyone still does them. I think Baen still does them regularly, I occasionally see a few sel-published authors doing them. There's a literary fiction publisher called Corona Samizdat that does books that are even shorter and I find that delightful somehow
J. Christopher Tarpey (The Godblade author) is the lead singer of the band Eternal Champion. I think he goes by Jason Tarpey as a musician. Check out their videos for "I Am the Hammer". Great metal!
So true, paperbacks from hell ruined the supermarket horror market! I remember looking at all those zebra paperbacks and they were 0.01 in amazon and thinking nah, it’s going to stink, not even worth just paying postage… I still think the same but I would buy them now😂 for a reasonable price… just for the covers! I’ve read relic (? Or something like that) and spawn by Hutson, they both stunk, Bentley Little has never disappointed me though! I kinda doubt the same thing would happen with s&s, there’s faaaar fewer of it, and most of it stinks, even worse than the zebras!
@@allfictionisfantasyoh spawn was def the best of the two I read, but relics was just so bad and stupid it really pissed me off… and spawn was more of a missed opportunity. I mean why even write a book about psychic abortion babies if you won’t make it wacky and fun, it was more a character piece than anything, and I didn’t like any of the characters😅 I have shadows and slugs in my tbr next, hope they’re better!
Of these only a few. I have ~300 books on my to read shelves. Buying / collecting books and reading books are two totally different and separate hobbies.
@@allfictionisfantasy I had also heard good things, and this led to disappointment. It reads very much like a first draft, and after hearing how it was written - as a longer work where the beginning was simply cut out because it didn't work - it makes sense.
Never seen that version of Tark! It was actually much better than I expected based on how obscure it is!
Awesome video! I have been watching your Dungeon Dive channel for quite some time, but somehow missed that you have a book channel as well. I too have started picking up novelizations. It's mostly driven by nostalgia, picking up ones for movies made in the late 70's and 80's when I was a kid. Nostalgia is a powerful thing. I remember Buckaroo Bonzai. I watched it many times because my brother had it on laser disc. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
I have to agree with you about horror--it's both the most literary and innovative of the genres. I particularly like cosmic horror (I just published a novel in the genre). The thing with horror, it can be fused with just about every genre. I just read Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. Breathtaking. If that's not horror, I don't know what is. Thomas Ligotti--I've been reading him since the early 90s--another "horror" writer, but transcends the genre. I love SF, but it seems anemic nowadays when compared with the past, to have fizzled out after Simmons's Hyperion, around that time. There are still a handful of modern SF I follow. The first real horror I read that got to me on a level I wasn't expecting was Heart of Darkness. I'd read it for school, and thought I was going to hate it. Same with Lord of the Flies--a great, yes, in my opinion, horror novel. My apologies for the long-winded comment. Horror will always be with us as long as there is death.
It's a very complex genre, with many sub-genres. There is a lot of room for exploration and experimentation in the genre.
I got the Book of IOD that you showed. I picked it up at a comic shop a few years ago. Great stories in that one!
I had to switch over to Kindle reading for quite a few years, but I just had some built-in book shelves crafted for me and I'm really looking forward to stocking them with honest-to-goodness real books. There is nothing like sitting in a room filled with books! That's quite a haul regardless - thanks for sharing.
You might like Robert Adams if you like sword and sorcery. His horseman series
I had a reply to you, but it might have vanished! I've read the first 6 or so Horseclan books back when I was younger. I remember liking them, and I've been thinking about revisiting them at some point.
Dude I watched V in my mid-20s and that reptilian revelation still worked! Amazing effects and so uncanny!
I have both of the mini-series on DVD to watch. My wife has never seen them before, so I'm hoping she will dig them.
@@allfictionisfantasyI can’t imagine anyone not liking it! Gloriously 80s in the best way!
There is a recent history to Sword & Sorcery by Brian Murphy called Flame and Crimson, obviously not a success story like Paperbacks From Hell, which I think done a lot of good because a fair amount of those books got reprinted (mostly by Valancourt), it boosted or revived some writers (Ken Greenhall and Elizabeth Engstrom in particular). I wouldn't mind more sword & sorcery reprints because some of the classics (Shea's Nifft, Saunders' Imaro and Wagner's Kane) are badly in need of reprints, they're rare and sought after as it is (I think this is partly to do with Imaro and Kane being in the works for screen versions). There has been enough of a resurgence of the genre that some are saying we're in a glut period.
That version of Broken Sword is the rewritten version which Moorcock thought ruined the book, so when Gollancz Masterworks reprinted it, they reverted to the original text.
I'm skeptical about what you're saying about science fiction, there's still a lot of interesting stuff few people read, I rejoice when I meet a fan of Somtow's Inquestor series and I've been reading the very eccentric Doris Piserchia recently; while Brian Stableford is quite well known his bibliography is so monumental that most of his fans haven't even read a quarter of it. Outside a few big names most of the pre-pulp writers rarely get read and Blackcoat Press has a huge number of french books from that era translated by Stableford (he has written extensive histories of pre-pulp SF in english and french, along with decadence and fantasy). I'm very intrigued by Phyllis Gotlieb, Richard Calder, Ricardo Pinto, Jo Clayton, Ada Palmer, Indra Das, Tom Toner, Defontenay and many others.
I've also been seeking out sword & sorcery books of Mark E. Rogers, because he was a talented painter who did very good covers for his own books and they had a reputation for extremity, many of them are scarce because a lot of them are deleted print on demand copies (including the uncensored version of Nightmare Of God), I've been so far avoiding his comedy books and collecting the Zorachus/Zancharthus/Lilitu series and the Blood Of The Lamb series.
Nice! I've skimmed a copy of Flame and Crimson, seems pretty cool. I just don't know enough about the author to know why I should trust him as an expert, so I need to look more into him and the book!
Sounds like you have some great stuff to hunt down and read, and that you really know your shit! That's awesome. I've been reading for nearly 40 years, and I still feel like I don't really know anything about anything, because there's just so much to learn. LOL.
The Valencourt reprints are way too expensive, and also not in mass market size, which they should be. Part of the joy of these books is, for me, the old MM size and paper quality of the older publications. I also wish they didn't say Paperbacks from Hell on the covers - I really don't like that, because that's not what they are. That's just a thing Hendrix made up, and now it's being used as a marketing term. Just go to eBay now and look at all vintage MM horror - all the listings say PAPER BACK FROM HELL, just used as a search term. I think it's kind of gross. I kind of actively reject that kind of stuff because I don't like feeling like a victim of marketing.
Just picky stuff for me as a book collector :). I used to be able to get these supermarket horror books for a few bucks. Now those old copies are like $10-20, and the new Valencourt's are $10-20. It also removed some of that thrill of the hunt. So yes, I look at this topic from a purely selfish POV. I'll be the first to admit that fact, and I'm totally OK with that. :)
I read all of Mark E. Rogers Samurai Cat books back when I was young! Those were so much fun. Some of my most cherished book reading memories.
@@allfictionisfantasy It's strange: almost everyone seems to love the mass market paperback format but hardly anyone still does them. I think Baen still does them regularly, I occasionally see a few sel-published authors doing them. There's a literary fiction publisher called Corona Samizdat that does books that are even shorter and I find that delightful somehow
@@robertadamgilmour3375I’ve actually heard that there aren’t very many places left that even print in that size anymore.
The Mountains of Madness manga in particular is gorgeous. I love staring at the scenery in that.
It's so good. I love the expressions on all the characters' faces.
That Total Recall kinda went meta…
Right?
Damn I also love prince raynor and that book looks AWESOME!!
I wish he would have written more Raynor stores.
You may know this, but Kilgore Trout was a Kurt Vonnegut character... Philip Jose Farmer then used the name as a pseudonym for that book!
Yep! Love that.
J. Christopher Tarpey (The Godblade author) is the lead singer of the band Eternal Champion. I think he goes by Jason Tarpey as a musician. Check out their videos for "I Am the Hammer". Great metal!
Thanks!
Another great haul Dan. I always look forward to seeing these and what you find.
Thanks! Glad you enjoy them. Maybe the next time I'm in Fresno we can head to the Book Barn together! :)
@@allfictionisfantasy definitely! Love that spot!
What! You never read Gemmel?! He is great, haven’t read Jerusalem man, the last stone of power diology was really good!
So true, paperbacks from hell ruined the supermarket horror market! I remember looking at all those zebra paperbacks and they were 0.01 in amazon and thinking nah, it’s going to stink, not even worth just paying postage… I still think the same but I would buy them now😂 for a reasonable price… just for the covers!
I’ve read relic (? Or something like that) and spawn by Hutson, they both stunk, Bentley Little has never disappointed me though!
I kinda doubt the same thing would happen with s&s, there’s faaaar fewer of it, and most of it stinks, even worse than the zebras!
Oh man, I loved Spawn when I was younger. :) The Skull is good - it would make a good movie.
@@allfictionisfantasyoh spawn was def the best of the two I read, but relics was just so bad and stupid it really pissed me off… and spawn was more of a missed opportunity. I mean why even write a book about psychic abortion babies if you won’t make it wacky and fun, it was more a character piece than anything, and I didn’t like any of the characters😅 I have shadows and slugs in my tbr next, hope they’re better!
me watching elephant man as a kid..."He just wanted to lay down!"...wails..."like a normal man!"
Oh god. Don't remind me! :( That movie just kills me.
The real question is: how many of them have you actually read? :P
P.S.: I haven't watched the video yet
Of these only a few. I have ~300 books on my to read shelves. Buying / collecting books and reading books are two totally different and separate hobbies.
The Worm and His Kings is really bad
I’ve heard otherwise. But we will have to see.
@@allfictionisfantasy I had also heard good things, and this led to disappointment. It reads very much like a first draft, and after hearing how it was written - as a longer work where the beginning was simply cut out because it didn't work - it makes sense.
@@mitchymancer Interesting! Looking forward to checking it out.