2026

So far I’ve read 14 novels/novellas, 107 short stories, 8 poems, 1 non-fiction book, 36 essays, 31 comic books and 79 floppy comics.

Novels and Novellas

• Imzadi, Peter David
• The Litany of Earth, Ruthanna Emrys
• The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, Stephen King
• Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
• Insomnia, Stephen King
• It, Stephen King
• The Mist, Stephen King
• The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
• At the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, H. P. Lovecraft
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft
• The Shadow Out of Time, H. P. Lovecraft
• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

Short Stories

• I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
  • “Robbie”
  • “Runaround”
  • “Reason”
  • “Catch That Rabbit”
  • “Liar!”
  • “Little Lost Robot”
  • “Escape!”
  • “Evidence”
  • “The Evitable Conflict”
• Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales & Memoirs
  • “A Horseman in the Sky”
  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
  • “Chickamauga”
  • “A Son of the Gods”
  • “One of the Missing”
  • “Killed at Resaca”
  • “The Affair at Coulter’s Notch”
  • “The Coup de Grâce”
  • “Packer Adderson, Philosopher”
  • “An Affair of Outposts”
  • “The Story of a Conscience”
  • “One Kind of Officer”
  • “One Officer, One Man”
  • “George Thurston”
  • “The Mocking-Bird”
  • “The Man Out of the Nose”
  • “An Adventure at Brownville”, with Ina Lillian Peterson
  • “The Famous Gilson Bequest”
  • “The Applicant”
  • “The Watcher by the Dead”
  • “The Man and the Snake”
  • “A Holy Terror”
  • “The Suitable Surroundings”
  • “The Boarded Window”
  • “A Lady from Redhorse”
  • “The Eyes of the Panther”
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches
  • “The Hollow of the Three Hills”
  • “An Old Woman’s Tale”
  • “Sights from a Steeple”
  • “The Haunted Quack”
  • “The Wives of the Dead”
• Everything’s Eventual, Stephen King
  • “Autopsy Room Four”
  • “The Man in the Black Suit”
  • “All That You Love Will Be Carried Away”
  • “The Death of Jack Hamilton”
  • “The Deathroom”
  • “Everything’s Eventual”
  • “L.T.’s Theory of Pets”
  • “The Road Virus Heads North”
  • “Lunch at the Gotham Café”
  • “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French”
  • “1408”
  • “Riding the Bullet”
  • “Luckey Quarter”
• Skeleton Crew, Stephen King
  • “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”
  • “The Jaunt”
  • “The Wedding Gig”
  • “The Raft”
  • “Word Processor of the Gods”
  • “The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands”
  • “Beachworld”
  • “The Reaper’s Image”
  • “Nona”
  • “Survivor Type”
  • “Uncle Otto’s Truck”
  • “Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)”
  • “Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2)”
  • “Gramma”
  • “The Reach”
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories, H. P. Lovecraft
  • “Polaris”
  • “The Doom That Came to Sarnath”
  • “The Terrible Old Man”
  • “The Tree”
  • “The Cats of Ulthar”
  • “From Beyond”
  • “The Nameless City”
  • “The Moon-Bog”
  • “The Other Gods”
  • “Hypnos”
  • “The Lurking Fear”
  • “The Unnamable”
  • “The Shunned House”
  • “The Horror at Red Hook”
  • “In the Vault”
  • “The Strange High House in the Mist”
  • “The Silver Key”
  • “Through the Gates of the Silver Key”
  • “The Dreams in the Witch House”
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, H. P. Lovecraft
  • “The Tomb”
  • “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”
  • “The White Ship”
  • “The Temple”
  • “The Quest of Iranon”
  • “The Music of Erich Zann”
  • “Under the Pyramids”
  • “Pickman’s Model”
  • “The Dunwich Horror”
  • “The Thing on the Doorstep”
• Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales
  • “The Folio Society”
  • “Metzengerstein”
  • “The Duc De L’Omelette”
  • “A Tale of Jerusalem”
  • “Loss of Breath”
  • “Ligeia”
  • “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
  • “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”
  • “The Gold-Bug”
  • “The Black Cat”

Poetry

• Skeleton Crew, Stephen King
  • “Paranoid: A Chant”
  • “For Owen”
• Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales
  • “O, Tempora! O, Mores!”
  • “To Margaret”
  • ““To Octavia””
  • “Hymn”
  • “To My Mother”
  • “Annabel Lee”

Non-Fiction

• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Essays

• James Baldwin: Collected Essays
  • “Smaller Than Life”
  • “History as Nightmare”
  • “The Image of the Negro”
  • “Lockridge: ‘The American Myth’”
  • “Preservation of Innocence”
  • “The Negro at Home and Abroad”
  • “The Crusade of Indignation”
  • “Sermons and Blues”
  • “On Catfish Row”
  • “They Can’t Turn Back”
  • “Color”
  • “A Talk to Teachers”
  • “‘This Nettle, Danger…’”
  • “Nothing Personal”
  • “Words of a Native Son”
  • “The American Dream and the American Negro”
  • “On the Painter Beauford Delaney”
  • “The White Man’s Guilt”
  • “A Report from Occupied Territory”
  • “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White”
  • “White Racism or World Community?”
  • “Sweet Lorraine”
  • “How One Black Man Came To Be an American”
  • “An Open Letter to Mr. Carter”
  • “Last of the Great Masters”
  • “Every Good-bye Ain‘t Gone”
  • “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me What Is?”
  • “Open Letter to the Born Again”
  • “Dark Days”
  • “Notes on the House of Bondage”
  • “Introduction to Notes of a Native Son, 1984”
  • “Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood”
  • “The Price of the Ticket”
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches
  • “Sir William Phips”
  • “Mrs. Hutchinson”
  • “Dr. Bullivant”

Comic Books

• Simplicity, Mattie Lubchansky
• World Heist, Linnea Sterte
• The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott, Zoe Thorogood
• Neonomicon
  Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows, Juanmar, Anthony Johnston
  • The Courtyard #1–2
  • Neonomicon #1–4
• Nameless
  Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham, Nathan Fairbairn, Simon Bowland
  • Nameless #1–6
• Adam Warlock Omnibus
  Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Mike Friedrich, Jim Starlin, Mark Gruenwald, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, Bob Brown, Herb Trimpe, Jerry Binghman, et al.
  • The Fantastic Four vol. 1 #66–67
  • The Mighty Thor vol. 1 #165–166
  • Marvel Premiere #1–2
  • Warlock vol. 1 #1–15
  • Strange Tales vol. 1 #178–181
  • The Incredible Hulk vol. 1 #176–178
  • The Incredible Hulk Annual vol. 1 #6
  • Marvel Team-Up vol. 1 #55
  • The Avengers Annual vol. 1 #7
  • Marvel Two-In-One #61–63
  • Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2
• The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 4
  Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, Neal Adams, Sal Buscema, Bob Brown, et al.
  • Avengers vol. 1 #89–119
  • Daredevil vol. 1 #99
  • The Defenders vol. 1 #8–11
• The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 5
  Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema, George Tuska, George Pérez, et al.
  • The Avengers vol. 1 #120–149
  • Captain Marvel vol. 1 #33
  • The Fantastic Four vol. 1 #150
• Captain Mar-Vell Omnibus
  Roy Thomas, Arnold Drake, Gene Colan, Don Heck, Gil Kane, Jim Starlin, et al.
  • Marvel Super-Heroes vol. 1 #12–13
  • Captain Marvel vol. 1 #1–33
  • The Invincible Iron Man vol. 1 #55
• The Death of Captain Marvel Omnibus
  Jim Starlin, Steve Englehart, Scott Edelman, Al Milgron, Dough Moench, Pat Broderick, et al.
  • Captain Marvel vol. 1 #34–62
  • The Avengers Annual vol. 1 #7
  • Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2
  • Marvel Spotlight vol. 2 #1–4, #8
  • Marvel Super-Heroes vol. 2 #3
  • The Death of Captain Marvel
  • What If...? #14
  • material from Logan’s Run #6
  • material from What If? #17
• The Defenders Omnibus Vol. 1
  Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, Len Wein, Sal Buscema, Ross Andru, et al.
  • Doctor Strange vol. 1 #183
  • The Sub-Mariner vol. 2 #22, #34–35
  • The Incredible Hulk vol. 1 #126
  • Marvel Feature vol. 1 #1–3
  • The Defenders vol. 1 #1–19
  • Giant-Size Defenders #1–2
  • The Avengers vol. 1 #115–118
• The Defenders Omnibus Vol. 2
  Steve Gerber, Sal Buscema, et al.
  • The Defenders vol. 1 #20–41
  • Giant-Size Defenders #3–5
  • The Defenders Annual #1
  • Marvel Two-In-One #6–7
  • Marvel Treasury Edition #12
  • Marvel Super-Heroes vol. 1 #18
  • material from Mystery Tales #21
  • material from World of Fantasy #11
  • material from Tales of Suspense vol. 1 #9
• Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts Omnibus Vol. 1
  Steve Englehart, Frank Brunner, Gene Colan, et al.
  • Marvel Premiere #3–14
  • Dctor Strange vol. 2 #1–22
  • Doctor Strange Annual vol. 1 #1
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #44
• Fantastic Four (2025) Vol. 1: Save Everyone
  Ryan North, Humberto Ramos, Victor Olazaba, Edgar Delgado, Travis Lanham, Joe Caramagna
  • Fantastic Four vol. 8 #1–5
  • material from Free Comic Book Day 2025: Fantastic Four/Giant-Size X-Men
• Incredible Hulk (2023): Vol. 6: Monster Road
  Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein, Kev Walker, Adam Gorham, Cam Smith, Matthew Wilson, et al.
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 6 #26–30
• Marvelman Classic Vol. 1
  Mick Anglo, James Bleach, et al.
  • Marvelman #25, 27–34
• The Mighty Thor Omnibus Vol. 4
  Gerry Conway, John Buscema, et al.
  • The Mighty Thor vol. 1 #195–228
• The Mighty Thor Omnibus Vol. 5
  Gerry Conway, Len Wein, John Buscema, Walter Simonson, et al.
  • The Mighty Thor vol. 1 #229–266
  • The Mighty Thor Annual vol. 1 #5–6
  • Marvel Spotlight vol. 1 #30
  • Marvel Premiere #26
• Omega the Unknown Classic
  Steve Gerber, Mary Skrenes, Steven Grant, Jim Mooney, Herb Trimpe, et al.
  • Omega the Unknown vol. 1 #1–10
  • Defenders vol. 1 #76–77
• Planet Hulk Prelude
  J. Michael Straczynski, Daniel Way, Mike McCone, Keu Cha, Juan Santacruz, Andy Lanning, Simon Coleby, Cam Smith, Paul Mounts, Jason Keith, William Murai, Rus Wooten, Randy Gentile
  • Fantastic Four vol. 3 #533–535
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #88–91
• Planet Hulk
  Greg Pak, Carlo Pagulayan, Michael Avon Oeming, Alex Niño, Marshall Rogers, Aaron Lopresti, Gary Frank, Takeshi Miyazawa, Jeffrey Huet, Mike Allred, Alex Niño, Tom Palmer, Danny Miki, Sandu Florea, John Sibal, Chris Sotomayor, Laura Martin, Lovern Kindzierski, Christina Lanphear, Randy Gentile, Nathan Cosby
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #92–105
  • material from Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #15
  • material from Giant-Size Hulk vol. 2 #1
• Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection Vol. 2
  Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, Chris Claremont, Gary Friedrich, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Tony Isabella, Gene Colan, Mike Ploog, Ross Andru, Don Heck, John Buscema, Dick Giordano, et al.
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #16–24
  • Werewolf by Night vol. 1 #15
  • Giant-Size Spider-Man vol. 1 #1
  • Giant-Size Chillers #1
  • Giant-Size Dracula #1
  • Frankenstein #7–9
  • Dracula Lives! vol. 2 #5
  • Dracula Lives! vol. 1 #6–7
• Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection Vol. 3
  Marv Wolfman, Chris Claremont, Doug Moench, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Steve Gerber, David Anthony Kraft, Gene Colan, Don Heck, Tony DeZuniga, Dick Giordano, Bob Brown, Virgilio Redondo, Tom Palmer, Frank Springer, Pablo Marcos, Dan Adkins, Linda Lessman, Petra Goldberg, Don Warfield, John Costanza, Ray Holloway, Artie Simek, Marcos Pelayo, et al.
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #25–35
  • Giant-Size Dracula #3–5
  • Dracula Lives! vol. 1 #8–11
• Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection Vol. 4
  Doug Moench, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Steve Englehart, Steven Gan, Tom Sutton, Gene Colan, Tom Palmer, Joe Rosen, John Costanza, et al.
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #36–54
  • Doctor Strange vol. 2 #14
  • Dracula Lives! vol. 1 #12–13
  • material from Legion of Monsters vol. 1 #1
• Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection Vol. 5
  Marv Wolfman, Doug Moench, Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Sonny Trinidad, Dick Giordano, Tom Palmer, Michele Wolfman, Glynis Wein, Marie Severin, Françoise Mouly, Carl Gafford, John Costanza, Gaspar Saladino, Joe Rosen, Denise Wohl, Jim Novak, Cory Petit, Rus Wooten, et al.
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #55–70
  • Stoker’s Dracula #2–4
  • material from Marvel Preview #12
  • material from Savage Sword of Conan vol. 1 #26
• Werewolf by Night Omnibus
  Doug Moench, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Don Perlin, Mike Ploog, et al.
  • Marvel Spotlight vol. 1 #2–4
  • Werewolf by Night vol. 1 #1–43
  • Marvel Team-Up vol. 1 #12
  • Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #18
  • Giant-Size Creatures #1
  • Giant-Size Werewolf #2–4
  • Marvel Premiere #28
  • material from Monsters Unleashed vol. 1 #6–7
• World War Hulk
  Greg Pak, John Romita Jr., Klaus Janson, Christina Strain, Chris Eliopoulos
  • World War Hulk #1–5
• World War Hulk: Front Line
  Paul Jenkins, Peter David, Ramon Bachs, Shawn Martinbrough, Chris Moreno, Al Rio, Lee Weeks, Sean Phillips, Scott Hanna, Tom Palmer, Matt Milla, William Murai, Dave Sharpe, Joe Caramagna
  • World War Hulk Prologue: World Breaker
  • World War Hulk: Front Line #1–6
• World War Hulk: The Incredible Hercules
  Greg Pak, Jeff Parker, Gary Frank, Leonard Kirk, Carlo Pagulayan, Jon Sibal, Scott Hanna, Jeffrey Huet, Chris Sotomayor, Joe Caramagna
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #106–111
• World War Hulk: Warbound
  Greg Pak, Leonard Kirk, Gary Martin, Rafa Sandoval, Roger Bonet, Val Staples, Martegod Gracia, Moose Baumann, Joe Caramagna
  • World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound #1–5
• X-Men Epic Collection Vol. 4: It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn
  Steve Englehart, Len Wein, Sal Buscema, Tom Sutton, Herb Trimpe, Gil Kane, Vince Colletta, Mike Esposito, Jack Abel, Glynis Wein, Art Simek, John Costanza, Charlotte Jetter
  • Amazing Adventures vol. 2 #11–17
  • Amazing Spider-Man vol. 1 #92
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 1 #150, #161, #172, #180–182
  • Marvel Team-Up vol. 1 #4, #23
  • Avengers vol. 1 #110–111
  • Captain America vol. 1 #172–175
  • Defenders vol. 1 #15–16
  • Giant-Size Fantastic Four vol. 1 #4

Comic Books (Floppies)

• Absolute Batman #16–20
  Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Eric Canete, Frank Martin, Clayton Cowles
• Absolute Batman: Ark M (2026)
  Scott Snyder, Frank Tieri, Joshua Hixson, Roman Stevens, Clayton Cowles
• Absolute Green Arrow #1
  Pornsak Pichetshote, Rafael Albuquerque, Marcelo Maiolo, Jeff Powell
• Absolute Martian Manhunter (2025) #8–11
  Deniz Camp, Javier Rodríguez, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
• Absolute Wonder Woman (2024) #16–20
  Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Jordie Bellaire, Becca Carey
• Absolute Wonder Woman 2026 Annual
  Kelly Thompson, Mattia De Iulis, Becca Carey
• Amazing Spider-Man vol. 7 (2025) #19–22
  Joe Kelly, Pepe Larraz, John Romita Jr., Paco Diaz, Todd Nauck, Scott Hanna, Marcio Menyz, Erick Arciniega, Marte Gracia, Joe Caramagna
• Black Panther: Intergalactic #1–4
  Victor LaValle, Stefano Nesi, Bryan Valenza, Ariana Maher
• Cyclops vol. 4 (2026) #1–4
  Alex Paknadel, Rogê Antônio, Fer Sifuentes-Suju, Joe Caramagna
• Defenders vol. 1 #73–75
  Ed Hannigan, Herb Trimpe, Mike Esposito, Steve Mitchell, Ben Sean, George Roussos, Carl Gafford, John Costanza, Clem Robins, Irving Watanabe
• Generation X-23 (2026) #1–2
  Jody Houser, Jacopo Camagni, Erick Arciniega, Ariana Maher
• Infernal Hulk (2025) #1–7
  Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein, Kev Walker, Adam Gorham, Cam Smith, Matthew Wilson, Cory Petit
• Magik and Colossus (2026) #1–4
  Ashley Allen, Germán Peralta, Arthur Hesli, Ariana Maher
• Moonstar (2026) #1–3
  Ashley Allen, Edoardo Audino, Arthur Hesli, Clayton Cowles
• The Mortal Thor (2025) #6–10
  Al Ewing, Pasqual Ferry, Juann Cabal, Matt Milla, Jesus Aburtov, Joe Sabino
• Nova: Centurion (2025) #3–6
  Jed MacKay, Álvaro López, Matteo Della Fonte, Mattia Iacono, Joe Caramagna
• Odin #1
  James Tynion IV, Marguerite Bennett, Letizia Cadonici, Jordan Bellaire, Tom Napolitano
• The Power Fantasy (2024) #15–16
  Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, Clayton Cowles, Rian Hughes
• Swamp Thing 1989 #1
  Rick Veitch, Michael Zulli, Vince Locke, Trish Mulvihill
• Uncanny X-Men vol. 6 (2024) #22–28
  Gail Simone, David Marquez, Luciano Vecchio, Matthew Wilson, Clayton Cowles
• Uncanny X-Men Annual (2026)
  Gail Simone, Mikki Kendall, Francesco Mortarino, Elisabetta D’Amico, Mattia Iacono, Clayton Cowles
• X-Men vol. 7 (2024) #23–30
  Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz, Tony Daniel, Sean Parsons, Mark Morales, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo, Clayton Cowles
• X-Men Annual (2026)
  Ryan Stegman, Steve Scroce, Sanford Greene, Arthur Hesli, Clayton Cowles
• X-Men United #1
  Eve L. Ewing, Tiago Palma, Brian Reber, Joe Sabino