Since I am writing and sometimes in my spells of a writer's block I will find a few books and start reading. I just got Ron Dondiego's book The Face & Other Fantasic Tales. Which I have that in there along with a few others that I was sent -- one was for free by Ceara Jaen Baxter, when I got this book it was about the time when I was starting to become sick with that bad case of Bronchitis. Then I had a few others that I have which I am reading on -- some of them took me a while because of visits to the doctor. I had been reading on Cherie Priest's book Four And Twenty Blackbirds and Horror At Snodgrass Hill. The short story is according to her a Cthulhu Mythos and what I read of the book so far I can see where H.P. Lovecraft or some of the other Weird Tales Authors had been an influence on her. The book by Ceara is titled Awaiting Fullness -- both writers are found on livejournal. 

          Another book that I have been reading is the Diary of Ellen Rimbauer:  My Life At Rose Red.    According to Stephen King,  the book was written by a friend of his; but we all know it is Stephen King who wrote this.  Then a book that I had which was by H.P. Lovecraft as the introduction was written by Joyce Caroll Oates,   and her introduction to HPL was one of the stronger ones that I had reed.