It's called style        Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems31 reviews Edgar Allan Poe Castle Books, 2003 Best Poe Collection + AMAZING Book! + Masterful works + Great book! + Berenice: Poe at his grimmest             The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene1 review Mavis Haut McFarland & Company, 2001 Fascinating overview, but.... I've been fascinated by Tanith Lee's books ever since encountering _Red as Blood_ as a preteen. Since then, I've been acquiring more of them, and have noticed (both consciously and not) a number of the themes that weave throughout her work. _The Hidden Library_ discusses many of these, largely as ...             Apocrypha2 reviews Catherynne, M. Valente Prime, 2005 The sea shrugs and is satisfied + Absolutely wonderful. In language stark and intricate by turns, always unflinching, Catherynne M. Valente peels back the skin of the everyday to reveal the mythscape resonant beneath such disparate actions as crab fishing, cutting a peach, and catching a train. Some mythologies present themselves more readily than ...             Merely Mary Ann1 review Israel Zangwill Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2006 Why I published this book This is a Dybbuk Press book and I published it, so obviously this isn't an unbiased review. But what review ever is? Anyhow, this is a Victorian novella by Israel Zangwill more known for his zionist activities than his literary output these days. His most famous books are Children of the Ghetto ...             Desolation Angels37 reviews Jack Kerouac Riverhead Books, 1995 Timid Before God + I wouldn't trade it for the World + Gives You Much to Think About + the death of sal paradise + Mature and well written             Beloved87 reviews Toni Morrison Vintage, 2004 Raw & Powerful + Oh My God! Are You Kidding Me? Toni's Morrison's Beloved is a hard, frustrating, and emotionally draining piece of literary art. Saying this, her prose is written like something I've never read. She throws you in the middle of the narrative and does not tell you why her characters are saying or acting like they are. It is a ...             Lovedeath13 reviews Dan Simmons Warner Books, 1993 One of the best books I've read in a long time + There is writing ...and then there is WRITING! + These stories felt just right for me. Almost every collection of novellas is met with a preface that says something along the lines of "Novellas are great to write but impossible to sell" which might be a good thing, because when novellas get published they are some of the best work of the particular writer. These five novellas are ...             Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories38 reviews Poppy Z. Brite Dell, 1995 ...rimmed in blood and ash + So Poppy, Poe, and Lovecraft walk into a bar... + Butthead: Uh, he, he, he-Poppy said 'wood'! + Dark, terrifying, wonderful short stories! + Quiet and tight.             Death's Master5 reviews Lee Tanith DAW, 1982 Death's Master + My favorite of the Flat Earth books. + Nothing else compares + This volume is unexpressibly beautiful work of somber art. + The Master of Death faces off with the Demon Lord             House Of Incest11 reviews Anais Nin Swallow Press, 1958 Background research may be necessary + A Wonderful Dream + Nin's powerful language + PERFECT!             The Complete Stories of Truman Capote13 reviews Truman Capote Vintage, 2005 extraordinary small jewels + Terminally brilliant + Not His Best, But. . . Truman Capote was a brilliant, eccentric novelist and author of a shocking at the time of its publication, documentary fiction book "In Cold Blood". And although he is famous for these works, his short stories are equally captivating and original. They are small masterpieces, weird and magnetizing. ...             BADASS HORROR8 reviews Gerard Brennan, Garry Kilworth, ... Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2006 Delicious Horror + Awesome!!! + Badass Horror + Another solid anthology from Dybbuk Press             In Cold Blood429 reviews Truman Capote Modern Library, 2002 Anarachy in the heartland : an American story + Brutal Event in Journalistic Focus + The first true crime book is still the best + In Cold Blood in a new edition + A Commentary on our 21st Century Culture             God Laughs When You Die4 reviews Michael Boatman Dybbuk Press, LLC, 2007 A Wonderful Debut + fast, violent, and unsympathetic + Dark, Skanky, Funky Little Twisted Tales: Performance Art Michael Boatman's debut collection is not one to miss by any means. He blends humor with horror, the strange with the unknown--and I loved it! Reading through the pages, it just slipped right through my fingers, and before I knew it I was done with the book begging for there to be more. This is a ...             The Seven Who Fled2 reviews Frederic Prokosch Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984 A worthy follow-up to _The Asiatics_ + What Harlan Ellison has said about this novel... Frederic Prokosch is the author I would most wish to save from what Gore Vidal has called "time's winged wastebasket." Born in 1908, his career extended from the early 1930's to the 1980's. He combines an extraordinary talent for description and a lush romantic prose style that never crosses the ...             Tropic of Capricorn30 reviews Henry Miller Grove Press, 1994 Among Other Things + Miller's Tour De Force Out of idle curiosity and a desire to reread (third time) Miller's Tropic novels, I checked the consumer reviews of Tropic of CANCER first. I am interested in new generations discovering the stuff that I read going back to the early 60s. I found the reviews surprisingly dense, repeating the old ...             The Secret Books of Paradys1 review Tanith Lee Overlook Hardcover, 2007 Lee at her best I'm very glad the Paradys series has been reprinted in a single book, as newer Tanith Lee fans like myself can find it easier and brand new. All the books are set in the city of Paradys, an alternate, very dark version of Paris. This is one of the best series by Lee, I think it compiles all the ...             Personal Darkness (Blood Opera Sequence, Book 2)3 reviews Lee Tanith Dell, 1994 Vivid and beautifully dark... + My Favorite Book in The Blood Opera Sequence It took me over three months to get ahold of this book, but it was WELL worth the effort. The ending of "Dark Dance" dissapointed me, because I wished for more of the story. "Personal Darkness" picks up right where it left off, which pleased me extremely much. Let's just say that I've never in my ...             Absinthe: History in a Bottle24 reviews Barnaby Conrad Chronicle Books, 1997 Absinthe is Exemplary + book + The liquor called "Absinthe"--- in Art and History! + good book             The Essential Ellison: A 50 Year Retrospective (Revised and Expanded)13 reviews Harlan Ellison Morpheus International, 2005 I Have No Book, And I Must Read + A treat !! + it's ellison and it's the size of a brick! :) + Life without Ellison would be dull + Xenogenesis and so much more              Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Lord of the Rings Weapons and Warfare we recommend Anarachy in the heartland : an American story leave a comment home  impressum - about us