The episode of Night Gallery that has stayed with me over the years was " The Dead Man".Saw it as a teenager when it first aired & it scared the crap out of me. I remember hating their adaption of H.P. Lovecraft's "Cool Air."
Aww Mike I can't thank you enough for the lovely words about my channel and my Twilight Zone videos - I've loved doing them - there's 25 videos all scheduled up, and I'll be following them with a review of the TZ movie!!! - but yeah, I am so grateful for the shout out and lovely words. Rage is a weird one; I'm curious but I'm not expecting it to be great....so far I've had a lot of luck with King, but I expect that will be one I don't like much....but if I ever find it, i'll read it. Love the Mercy for Animals jacket.
I read Blackwater during most of October (it's a long and wonderful book) and now I'm reading ghost stories by E.F. Benson. Benson wrote some really good ones. I especially enjoyed "The Face."
You got me reading Varney. It’s really enjoyable! Bought both volumes. Hope to finish them one day. Fun to pick up when I’m between reads for a bit of ‘fun’.
We never would have guessed that was the kitchen! It is nice to see that you can rough it. I hope the servants are keeping ...alive at the manor. I guess Roger behaved himself in Europe.
I think that's the same kind of stove and the... thing on top (that I can never remember the name of) that my parents still have. It freaks me out every time, LOL! The only thing out of place is the electric kettle. Change that to one of those old timey, silver, I guess they are called Moka Pots, and it would be my parents' house!
@@Yesica1993 I only recently acquired an electric kettle about a year ago, but I was picking at the LORD OF Stately Vaughn Manor, whom I am sure is unfamiliar with such mundane tasks as food preparation, let alone dishwashing, or even making his own tea.
Great video Michael! I need to read more classics, I have Carmilla on my kindle. Rage is my least favorite of the Bachman Books, sad that Stephen King had to go through that experience. I loved The Long Walk, which is frikken terrifying. Good luck with Batman! I love Gareth's channel, such an awesome shoutout to one of my favorite channels. Hope you are having a great spooky season! 🎃🦇
I'm making my way through Night Gallery. I always preferred it to The Twilight Zone and it's really holding up. I'm also watching The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries from 1977 and having a ball with it.
Googled Batman, pages published: 8436 comic book issues + 23282 appearances (Quora 2018) = 86 + years at one issue a day, every day. Might be time for an extension to the manor - a padded cell.
As always, I enjoyed your video. In regards to your dive into Twilight Zone: I am old enough to have watched it in its original broadcast, and it is - without a doubt - my favorite TV show still. It is impossible to overstate how much it meant to the development of my imagination, as I am certain was true for many a young person. There are a few lesser episodes - no doubt - but overall the quality is superb, given the pressures Serling was working under. The show’s tone has never quite been imitated, and they’ve tried. That’s partly due to the zeitgeist it existed in, and to Serling’s liberal and literary heritage. Good luck with your (new) impossible project. There are merely a billion or so Batman stories, so you might have to go looking for Ponce De Leon’s water feature to finish the project.
The EC ARCHIVES HAUNT OF FEAR, VAULT OF HORROR, and TALES FROM THE CRYPT are just absolutely fun and great reads. Does quite a few stores seem to be about infidelity? Yes, but the twists of the stores are a lot of fun towards the ends Great review. 🤘🏻
I also have that DVD set of _The Twilight Zone_ and am following along rewatching them as Gareth issues his TZ summation videos. I have just watched the first two episodes of season three - “Two” and “The Arrival”. I suspected that you were doing an intense Batman project from hints in your previous videos. Very ambitious. If I were to set off on a complete superhero rereading project, I would more likely choose The Atom for myself - the run was not too long and not too short.
Roger behaving himself?! Oh your innocence is wonderful. Though maybe by technicality you may be correct as he might not have actually finished committing whatever he’s been plotting while you’re away at the rustic lodge 🤔
Great stuff Michael! EC Comics is cream of the crop material. I do want to get the Atlas Era material that Fantagraphics is reprinting. Also getting Fighters of Fear anthology from library, along with Conan comics from Marvel. Have a great week!
Michael, love your taste, thanks for sharing with us. I am kind of surprised, though, given your love for the supernatural, that you don't seem to give much thought to authors like Reggie Oliver or Mark Valentine over at Tartarus Press. Also, given your interest in Lovecraft, the late Mark Samuels is also worth reading.
Typos used to be a bad problem with older Wordsworth editions. I think they're better with that sort of thing now, but the older ones could be rough. I suspect that even 34% of Varney is more Varney than most people have read.
When I retired, I watched The Twilight Zone all the way thru. I thought I had probably seen every episode ...and that was mostly the case except for season four, which maybe three-quarters of them I had not seen! I am now working my way thru Alfred Hitchcock Presents....on the last season. Only three episodes I cannot find which were apparently written by Roald Dahl and there is some copyright issues! How is your new DNF philosophy going to work with SK? ...'cause some of his books are 🙄😮💨
I like Ron Frenz art, his Amazing Spider-Man run is great. Holy cow, the Impossible DC Challenge, of all the characters to land on .. that's a franchise in itself without the Bat family spin offs. You are a master of plate spinning, I admire your choices. My last week has been spent reading the super-heroic fun science fiction indie comic from another dimension .. ZOT! - The Complete Black & White Collection - 1987-91.
When I was a kid our local station ran a syndicated show on the evening "Night Gallery" was on so they showed "Night Gallery" on Saturday nights where SNL is now! Great spooky fun! Oh, and the original stories are worth seeking out---there was a collection "Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader." Not hard to find and well worth your time.
I just added that twilight zone set to my Christmas list! Wow that is cool. Did you watch The Outer Limits when you were little? I did, they scared me!
I concentrated on finishing Caitlin R. Kiernan - 'Houses Under the sea' so didn't get much comic reading. I got a start on 'The Complete Cyber Force' vol 1 (Image Comics). Was inspired by the attention Marc Silvestri has gotten lately for his work with X-Men so decided to revisit his initial Image book when he and others left Marvel. I also got back on Stephen King's Dark Tower journey by starting a reread of 'The Drawing of the Three'.
I'm reading Dragon Volant now (in a Dover collection) and yes, you do wonder why the daffy protagonist doesn't see what's going on -- or what exactly is going on? Wonderfully breezy writing style.
I've always found it funny that King was actually giving us a huge clue as to who the author really was on the front cover of the first edition of Rage. That's his face. Yet it took almost a decade before he was finally forced to admit it, due to his name being on file for Bachman's books at the Library of Congess.
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?
I always saw TZ as more sci fi than horror, but it depends on the episode. I read a history book awhile ago called Angels Against the Sun about the only army paratroop unit in the Pacific campaign of WWII. It was Serling's unit. It becomes clear he went through some heavy fighting. My Halloween viewing has mostly been anime. I saw Uzumaki which is based on a manga (comic) of the same name. The manga is one of the few things to ever give me nightmares. The anime suffered from poor production, but the strength of the story shines through, but your better of getting the manga. It's by Junji Ito. The other is another called Dark Gathering. It was apparently made for 12 years and shows a culture difference between the US and Japan. They will apparently let their kids watch anything because it is extremely gory and disturbing. Then suddenly the show will switch to goofy comedy. In seconds. Lot of mood changes in anime and manga.
If I was to do a DC deep-dive (and by that, I mean the early years, not the whole thing) it would probably be Batman, so looking forward to those updates.
I too love "Carmilla". I think Le Fanu was able to be so overt in making the titular character gay because he didn't come out and directly say she is in the text. The Victorians seemed to be willing to accept skirting the edges but would back away from direct references to sex and sexuality. Regarding Roger back at the manor, surely there won't be any bodies to find when you return as Roger would have converted them all to the state of undeath by now. The opening of Night Gallery with Rod Serling always freaked me out as a child and I've never forgotten "The Escape Route", the third story in the pilot episode (which is actually a telemovie of three separate stories) about the Nazi fugitive, the painting he tries to hide in and the one he ends up in. Batman huh? You better talk to Roger about being converted yourself, that's a huge lot of comics to read in one (normal-length) lifetime.
I have all seasons of the twillight zone on the blu ray boxes... does these dvd set has all that many extras which the blu ray has? Like the radioplays and so on
I cut Rage some slack because it was written (I think) when King was still in high school himself. And I appreciate that you can sort of see Stephen King being born in that book. But, yeah, definitely not his best.
_The Long Walk_ is King's response to the Vietnam War, and more specifically the ways the US government was sending its young men to die, and it is definitely a lot better than _Rage._ They are actually making a film version of it right now, with the same director who made _I am Legend_ as well as a bunch of the Hunger Game films, but so much of that story is internal, I am not sure what a film version of it will look like...
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?
85 years of Batman, your set for life man!
@@tonygriego6382 definitely.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617hello my friend, hello I have some books I would like to send you for you to read! Is it possible to send you a package?
The episode of Night Gallery that has stayed with me over the years was " The Dead Man".Saw it as a teenager when it first aired & it scared the crap out of me. I remember hating their adaption of H.P. Lovecraft's "Cool Air."
Aww Mike I can't thank you enough for the lovely words about my channel and my Twilight Zone videos - I've loved doing them - there's 25 videos all scheduled up, and I'll be following them with a review of the TZ movie!!! - but yeah, I am so grateful for the shout out and lovely words. Rage is a weird one; I'm curious but I'm not expecting it to be great....so far I've had a lot of luck with King, but I expect that will be one I don't like much....but if I ever find it, i'll read it. Love the Mercy for Animals jacket.
I read Blackwater during most of October (it's a long and wonderful book) and now I'm reading ghost stories by E.F. Benson. Benson wrote some really good ones. I especially enjoyed "The Face."
You got me reading Varney. It’s really enjoyable! Bought both volumes. Hope to finish them one day. Fun to pick up when I’m between reads for a bit of ‘fun’.
Night Gallery.....the one with Roddy McDowell is my favorite.
@@davidsigler9690 that was a great one.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 and his Twilight Zone episode......he was a great actor.
Yeeaah, the return of Varney! 🧛♂️
Night Gallery, especially the first season, and The Twilight Zone are fantastic but another show that is worth getting is Kolchak the Night Stalker.
@@stretmediq yes! Kolchak is awesome.
We never would have guessed that was the kitchen! It is nice to see that you can rough it. I hope the servants are keeping ...alive at the manor. I guess Roger behaved himself in Europe.
I think that's the same kind of stove and the... thing on top (that I can never remember the name of) that my parents still have. It freaks me out every time, LOL! The only thing out of place is the electric kettle. Change that to one of those old timey, silver, I guess they are called Moka Pots, and it would be my parents' house!
@@Yesica1993 I only recently acquired an electric kettle about a year ago, but I was picking at the LORD OF Stately Vaughn Manor, whom I am sure is unfamiliar with such mundane tasks as food preparation, let alone dishwashing, or even making his own tea.
I am envious of that complete series of The Twilight Zone.
Great video Michael! I need to read more classics, I have Carmilla on my kindle. Rage is my least favorite of the Bachman Books, sad that Stephen King had to go through that experience. I loved The Long Walk, which is frikken terrifying. Good luck with Batman! I love Gareth's channel, such an awesome shoutout to one of my favorite channels. Hope you are having a great spooky season! 🎃🦇
@@CliffsDarkGems I just finished The Long Walk. It’s pretty great.
I'm making my way through Night Gallery. I always preferred it to The Twilight Zone and it's really holding up. I'm also watching The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries from 1977 and having a ball with it.
Googled Batman, pages published: 8436 comic book issues + 23282 appearances (Quora 2018) = 86 + years at one issue a day, every day. Might be time for an extension to the manor - a padded cell.
Thank you so much for this. Keep reading. you rock
Detective, Batman, Worlds Finest,Brave and Bold, Justice League,Batman and the Outsiders, that’s a lot of Batman.
Someday I’ll have to visit the Rustic Vaughan Lodge…
Oh wow it landed on Batman.. good luck with that 🫣
@@bigaldoesbooktube1097 I’ll need it
The long walk 👍
Batman is the best. Lucky your wheel got you there.
Definitely need to read le Fanu. I have the Oxford “Green tea and other stories” book.
I'm interested in the Twilight Zone but have only ever seen one episode. I'm glad the wheel didn't land on Aquaman 🤭
@@DDB168 I really dodged a bullet there.
Great comic book stuff. I love Night Gallery. There were a lot of Twilight Zone books too, adapted from the scripts.
As always, I enjoyed your video. In regards to your dive into Twilight Zone: I am old enough to have watched it in its original broadcast, and it is - without a doubt - my favorite TV show still. It is impossible to overstate how much it meant to the development of my imagination, as I am certain was true for many a young person. There are a few lesser episodes - no doubt - but overall the quality is superb, given the pressures Serling was working under. The show’s tone has never quite been imitated, and they’ve tried. That’s partly due to the zeitgeist it existed in, and to Serling’s liberal and literary heritage.
Good luck with your (new) impossible project. There are merely a billion or so Batman stories, so you might have to go looking for Ponce De Leon’s water feature to finish the project.
@@dalehoustman4737 yeah, I definitely need to find some form of immortality.
Congratulations on 23K subscribers!!
@@glockensig oh, look at that! Thanks.
The EC ARCHIVES HAUNT OF FEAR, VAULT OF HORROR, and TALES FROM THE CRYPT are just absolutely fun and great reads.
Does quite a few stores seem to be about infidelity? Yes, but the twists of the stores are a lot of fun towards the ends
Great review. 🤘🏻
I also have that DVD set of _The Twilight Zone_ and am following along rewatching them as Gareth issues his TZ summation videos. I have just watched the first two episodes of season three - “Two” and “The Arrival”.
I suspected that you were doing an intense Batman project from hints in your previous videos. Very ambitious. If I were to set off on a complete superhero rereading project, I would more likely choose The Atom for myself - the run was not too long and not too short.
@@mediumjohnsilver I wish I had more Atom.
Roger behaving himself?! Oh your innocence is wonderful. Though maybe by technicality you may be correct as he might not have actually finished committing whatever he’s been plotting while you’re away at the rustic lodge 🤔
@@gingerbibliophile I never learn. It will take forever to get all the blood out of the carpets.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 good luck! Remember to soak the stains. Hope it didn’t get on any of your books!
Great stuff Michael! EC Comics is cream of the crop material. I do want to get the Atlas Era material that Fantagraphics is reprinting. Also getting Fighters of Fear anthology from library, along with Conan comics from Marvel. Have a great week!
You have so much to read, that you better not die!
@@jamesbarberousse8396 seriously!
Michael, love your taste, thanks for sharing with us. I am kind of surprised, though, given your love for the supernatural, that you don't seem to give much thought to authors like Reggie Oliver or Mark Valentine over at Tartarus Press. Also, given your interest in Lovecraft, the late Mark Samuels is also worth reading.
Typos used to be a bad problem with older Wordsworth editions. I think they're better with that sort of thing now, but the older ones could be rough.
I suspect that even 34% of Varney is more Varney than most people have read.
When I retired, I watched The Twilight Zone all the way thru. I thought I had probably seen every episode ...and that was mostly the case except for season four, which maybe three-quarters of them I had not seen!
I am now working my way thru Alfred Hitchcock Presents....on the last season. Only three episodes I cannot find which were apparently written by Roald Dahl and there is some copyright issues!
How is your new DNF philosophy going to work with SK? ...'cause some of his books are 🙄😮💨
I like Ron Frenz art, his Amazing Spider-Man run is great. Holy cow, the Impossible DC Challenge, of all the characters to land on .. that's a franchise in itself without the Bat family spin offs. You are a master of plate spinning, I admire your choices.
My last week has been spent reading the super-heroic fun science fiction indie comic from another dimension .. ZOT! - The Complete Black & White Collection - 1987-91.
When I was a kid our local station ran a syndicated show on the evening "Night Gallery" was on so they showed "Night Gallery" on Saturday nights where SNL is now! Great spooky fun! Oh, and the original stories are worth seeking out---there was a collection "Rod Serling's Night Gallery Reader." Not hard to find and well worth your time.
I just added that twilight zone set to my Christmas list! Wow that is cool.
Did you watch The Outer Limits when you were little? I did, they scared me!
Seriously? Reading ALL the Batmans?! You’ll need Roger’s longevity for that😂
Typos take me out of the story. I have to make note of them, as if some day I will correct them or notify the publisher. I really can't stand them.
I concentrated on finishing Caitlin R. Kiernan - 'Houses Under the sea' so didn't get much comic reading.
I got a start on 'The Complete Cyber Force' vol 1 (Image Comics). Was inspired by the attention Marc Silvestri has gotten lately for his work with X-Men so decided to revisit his initial Image book when he and others left Marvel.
I also got back on Stephen King's Dark Tower journey by starting a reread of 'The Drawing of the Three'.
I downloaded Through the Glass Darkly V 1/3, so I only read the first 3 stories.
I'm reading Dragon Volant now (in a Dover collection) and yes, you do wonder why the daffy protagonist doesn't see what's going on -- or what exactly is going on? Wonderfully breezy writing style.
Call me Ishmael. Excellent video Michael. Roger seema to be elsewhere? I am listening carefully. Thank you for this Excellent Video
Happy Halloween, Michael!!
I've always found it funny that King was actually giving us a huge clue as to who the author really was on the front cover of the first edition of Rage. That's his face. Yet it took almost a decade before he was finally forced to admit it, due to his name being on file for Bachman's books at the Library of Congess.
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?
I always saw TZ as more sci fi than horror, but it depends on the episode. I read a history book awhile ago called Angels Against the Sun about the only army paratroop unit in the Pacific campaign of WWII. It was Serling's unit. It becomes clear he went through some heavy fighting.
My Halloween viewing has mostly been anime. I saw Uzumaki which is based on a manga (comic) of the same name. The manga is one of the few things to ever give me nightmares. The anime suffered from poor production, but the strength of the story shines through, but your better of getting the manga. It's by Junji Ito.
The other is another called Dark Gathering. It was apparently made for 12 years and shows a culture difference between the US and Japan. They will apparently let their kids watch anything because it is extremely gory and disturbing. Then suddenly the show will switch to goofy comedy. In seconds. Lot of mood changes in anime and manga.
If I was to do a DC deep-dive (and by that, I mean the early years, not the whole thing) it would probably be Batman, so looking forward to those updates.
I too love "Carmilla". I think Le Fanu was able to be so overt in making the titular character gay because he didn't come out and directly say she is in the text. The Victorians seemed to be willing to accept skirting the edges but would back away from direct references to sex and sexuality.
Regarding Roger back at the manor, surely there won't be any bodies to find when you return as Roger would have converted them all to the state of undeath by now.
The opening of Night Gallery with Rod Serling always freaked me out as a child and I've never forgotten "The Escape Route", the third story in the pilot episode (which is actually a telemovie of three separate stories) about the Nazi fugitive, the painting he tries to hide in and the one he ends up in.
Batman huh? You better talk to Roger about being converted yourself, that's a huge lot of comics to read in one (normal-length) lifetime.
Have you ever watched the Fast Show? Maybe the outfit is just a coincidence. Brilliant!
😊
I love people consider Carmilla a lesbian story when it's clear to me it was basically just fetish porn on Fanu's part. Always got a giggle out of me
I have all seasons of the twillight zone on the blu ray boxes... does these dvd set has all that many extras which the blu ray has? Like the radioplays and so on
I cut Rage some slack because it was written (I think) when King was still in high school himself. And I appreciate that you can sort of see Stephen King being born in that book. But, yeah, definitely not his best.
I remember reading it in 8th grade and loving it but even though I have like three copies of the Bachman books with it in it I never reread it.
Let catcher in the rye go out of print then?
What edition of The Twilight Zone is that and where did you get it
_The Long Walk_ is King's response to the Vietnam War, and more specifically the ways the US government was sending its young men to die, and it is definitely a lot better than _Rage._ They are actually making a film version of it right now, with the same director who made _I am Legend_ as well as a bunch of the Hunger Game films, but so much of that story is internal, I am not sure what a film version of it will look like...
Can I send you books to read?
Rage is a very disturbing book. I felt very uneasy reading it.
Agree to disagree on Stephen King being a "Fine Person".
Why? Is it all the anti-Trump baiting on X? It is, isn't it?
I remember when Stephen king was good. Now he just spends his time being obsessed with Trump on twitter
@@TristanHogue-d4y I don’t blame him. Trump is awful.
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?
I ended up getting through a lot of Varney by listening to the Librivox recordings during commutes. That really helped. But the text I'm using is the same Kindle version as yours. I'm at Chapter 176, and I still don't think I'll finish it by Halloween. Oh well. Have you guys thought of investing in a wood burning stove for the lodge?