2026 May Reading Wrap-Up

#booktube #bookcollection #monthlyreading It's that time again...time to talk about all the stuff I read throughout the month of May. Horror Mayhem-related video reviews mentioned:    • Horror Mayhem 2026 - Week 1 Reading Update      • 2026 Horror Mayhem Week 2 Update      • I Am Legend - Book vs. Movies   Tim ‪@secretfirebooks7894‬ 's Lord of the Rings Read-along announcement video:    • Tolkien Read-along 2026 Announcement   Tim's coverage of The Hobbit :    • The Hobbit - Tolkien's Illustrated Edition...      • Riddles in the Dark - The Greatest Chapter...   Chris ‪@LiminalSpaces03‬ 's review of The Hobbit:    • The Greatest Adventure! Why is Tolkien's "...   Other channels mentioned: ‪@TheBookGraveyard‬ Horror Mayhem is a reading event created by ‪@thebookishbryants‬ In memory of Scott Bryant Co-hosts for this event include: ‪@BookBlather‬ ‪@bookssongsandothermagic‬ ‪@anotherbibliophilereads‬ ‪@michaelk.vaughan8617‬ ‪@M-J‬ ‪@LiterateTexan‬ Books read this month : Hellboy: Seed of Destruction (1994) by Mike Mignola At the Mountains of Madness (1931) by H.P. Lovecraft The Hobbit (1937) by J.R.R. Tolkien The Chinese Lake Murders (1960) by Robert Van Gulik Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, Volume 1 (1972-1973) by Jack Kirby I Am Legend (1954) by Richard Matheson Doc Savage: The Mystery on the Snow (1934) Short Stories / Novelettes read this month : "Trapped by a Man-Eating Tree" by Robert Moore “The Werewolf and the Cowboy” by Stuart Evans “Strange Cult of the Vampire Tarantulas” by Rick Manners “The Valley of Spiders” by H.G. Wells “The Red Room” by H.G. Wells “A Tropical Horror” by William Hope Hodgson “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell (as Don A. Stuart) “The Kill” by Peter Fleming “Doomsday Deferred” by Will F. Jenkins (a.k.a. Murray Leinster) Music Credits: "Interstellar Agogos" by OTE (Otto Niklasson Elmeras) and "River Walk" by Philip Ayers Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:33 Hellboy: Seed of Destruction 1:05 At the Mountains of Madness 2:14 Stories from Atomic Werewolves and Man-Eating Plants 3:02 The Hobbit 7:17 "Who Goes There?" 8:32 More horror short stories 9:28 Judge Dee: The Chinese Lake Murders 17:59 Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth 21:04 Even more horror short stories 29:05 I Am Legend 30:22 Doc Savage: Mystery on the Snow