Horror fiction binge-a-thon, week two

A little more than a week, actually:

13. By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain - Joe Hill
14. Twittering from the Circus of the Dead - Joe Hill
15. The Sepulchre - Joyce Carol Oates
16. Death Astride Bicycle - Joyce Carol Oates
17. The Collector of Hearts - Joyce Carol Oates
18. In the Hills, the Cities - Clive Barker
19. Rawhead Rex - Clive Barker
20. The Yattering and Jack - Clive Barker
21. The Willows -  Algernon Blackwood
22. The Occupant of the Room - Algernon Blackwood
23. The Judge's House - Bram Stoker
24. The Cold Embrace - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
25. The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce
26. Sardonicus - Ray Russell
27. Sagittarius - Ray Russell
28. Sanguinarius - Ray Russell
29. Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu
30. The Imago Sequence - Laird Barron
31. Shiva, Open Your Eye - Laird Barron

Lots of amazing stuff.  I tried to read a bunch of more modern stuff this week.  First time I've read anything by Joyce Carol Oates - her stories were great and I'm looking forward to more by her.  The selections I read from Clive Barker's "Books of Blood" were incredible and I really wanted to keep reading them, but I'm trying to get a wide variety of authors in this month, so I stopped at three (for now).  Joe Hill is great, and I was surprised how creepy a story told entirely through tweets could be.  Laird Barron is interesting, I'm not familiar with him but the two things I read are reminiscent of both Barker and Lovecraft.  "The Imago Sequence" was a really excellent novella.

I also read a few more classics.  "Carmilla" is a famous vampire novella that I've been meaning to read for a long time, and it didn't disappoint, nor did the assortment of other gothic stories I read.  Algernon Blackwood is another pre-Lovecraft "weird fiction" author, and both stories were excellent.  The "trilogy" of modern gothic stories by Ray Russell were fantastic, he's an author I hadn't even heard of until seeking out horror for this month that I'm glad to have discovered.

I'm really enjoying all this.  I used to read a lot of Lovecraft, Poe, and other horror authors when I was younger, and I forgot how much I enjoyed this style of short fiction.