37th - 42nd Day

THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY (Nov. 6)

“The Most Deadly Weapon” (5/1 – 6/10, 1939); “Superman and the Runaway” (6/12 – 7/22, 1939) – Superman comic strip.

Journey, “Infinity” (cassette)

Unsolved Mysteries, “Grace’s Ghost,” “Voice from the Grave,” “Ghosts Go to Court,” “The Entity,” “Ghost Boy”

Silent Invasion, Stan Gordon (fortean) – Waited thirty-seven years for this one, so read it even though it’s a bit advanced for Cubby. A major flap of UFOs, hairy monsters, mystery men, and various weird occurrences from the wild year of 1973.


FORTIETH DAY (Nov. 9)

“The Crowd,” “The Long Rain,” “The Sound of Summer Running,” Ray Bradbury.

“Call of Cthulhu,” H. P. Lovecraft – pretty scary, that vast shifting corpulence, Cthulhu!

The Family Circus By Request, Bil Keane (comic strips)

Tales of the Green Hornet no. 1 (Jan. 1992) and no. 2 (Feb. 1992) – The story of how newspaper publisher Britt Reid became the masked crime-fighter, the Green Hornet. Say! He has the same last name as the Lone Ranger!

Red Skelton, “The Iceman Goeth”; Twilight Zone, “One for the Angels” – Death comes after you? No fair!

“Another Whitechapel Murder,” from the London Times, Nov. 10, 1888, p. 7 – The Ripper strikes.

“The Whitechapel Murder,” the Times, Nov. 12, 1888.

“Supposed Murder at the East End,” the Times, 11/14/88 – Body found floating in the Thames. Nothing to do with ol’ Jack, just an interesting Victorian item.

“A Detective’s Diary a la Mode” plus Review of the play Uncles and Aunts, from Punch, or the London Charivari (Sept. 22, 1888). “Detective” is a satire on the search for Jack the Ripper. The review happened to be on the same page. I wonder if anyone else on earth today has read this 123-year-old review, or ever heard of this play?

Excerpts from Jack the Ripper by Daniel Farson (1972) – telling of the Ripper’s effect on people beyond London. Read these items today because November 9 is the anniversary of the Kelly murder.

Thirty-six books = 3/400 of the way done.


FORTY-SECOND DAY (Nov. 11)

The Shadow and Doc Savage no. 1 (July 1995) and no. 2 (August 1995) – “The Case of the Shrieking Skeletons” brings back Doc, whom we saw in The Man of Bronze, plus a new mysterious character called – The Shadow!

“The Cask of Amontillado,” “The City in the Sea,” “Annabelle Lee,” Edgar Allan Poe.

Wild Life in the Alps, Gerth Rokitansky – a small volume translated from German, with the occasional “ob” and “und” left in. Ibexes, marmots, ptarmigans, and the golden eagle – we’re learning more about nature.

Favorite Tales of Monsters and Trolls, George Jonsen – pamphlet of Troll tales, including “The Three Billy Goats Gruff.”

All Creatures Great and Small, “Dog Days” – brother Tristan appears.

Victory at Sea, “Midway is East”; NASA, “Gemini VIII”

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, “What a Night for a Knight”

Gilligan’s Island, “Two on a Raft” plus pilot episode with different actors.

Unknown World (1951 sf) – Explorers seek an underground haven to escape an atomic war. No dinosaurs, mole men, or lost civilizations, and very cheap, but not too bad.