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Agnes Grey: Library Editionby Anne Bronte, Barbara Ann SuessISBN 0812967135 (0-8129-6713-5)
Softcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Agnes Grey: Library Edition'Book summary:Concerned for her familys financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Brontës own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses were often forced to endure. As Barbara A. Suess writes in her Introduction, Brontë provides a portrait of the governess that is as sympathetic as her fictional indictment of the shallow, selfish moneyed class is biting. [via]
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Airs Above Groundby Mary StewartISBN 0688010377 (0-688-01037-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 0931771021 (0-931771-02-1)
Softcover, Hill House, Publishers
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Belovedby Toni MorrisonISBN 0701130601 (0-7011-3060-1)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beloved'Book summary:Set in post-Civil War Ohio, this is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked death in order to wrench herself from a living death; who has lost a husband and buried a child; who has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad. [via]
Best Ghost Stories of J S Lefanuby Joseph Sheridan Le FanuISBN 0844624438 (0-8446-2443-8)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Blood Read: The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Cultureby Joan Gordon, Veronica HollingerISBN 0812216288 (0-8122-1628-8)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blood Read: The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture'Book summary:The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways.
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Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age.
Scholars and writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan examine how today's vampire has evolved from that of the last century, consider the vampire as a metaphor for consumption within the context of social concerns, and discuss the vampire figure in terms of contemporary literary theory. In addition, three writers of vampire fictionSuzy McKee Charnas (author of the now-classic Vampire Tapestry), Brian Stableford (writer of the lively and erudite novels Empire of Fear and Young Blood), and Jewelle Gomez (creator of the dazzling Gilda stories)discuss their own uses of the vampire, focusing on race and gender politics, eroticism, and the nature of evil.
The first book to examine a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars, Blood Read offers a variety of styles that will keep readers thoroughly engaged, inviting them to participate in a dialogue between fiction and analysis that shows the vampire to be a cultural necessity of our age. For, contrary to legends in which Dracula has no reflection, we can see reflections of ourselves in the vampire as it stands before us cloaked not in black but in metaphor.More editions of Blood Read: The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture:
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The Book of the Beastby Tanith LeeISBN 0879514175 (0-87951-417-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Beast'Book summary:From the most ancient of days, the Beast has passed through the seed of generations, preying on the unlucky, the unwary and the unchaste, its appetite ravenous and eternal. This tale of fantasy and horror is the second volume in the series. [via]
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The Book of the Madby Tanith LeeISBN 087951440X (0-87951-440-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Carmillaby Sheridan Le FanuISBN 0809510839 (0-8095-1083-9)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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The Castle of Olladaby Francis LathomISBN 0976604825 (0-9766048-2-5)
Softcover, Valancourt Books
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Checkmateby Joseph Sheridan Le FanuISBN 0750914696 (0-7509-1469-6)
Softcover, Sutton Pub Ltd
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Clermont: A Taleby Regina Maria Roche, Natalie SchroederISBN 0976604841 (0-9766048-4-1)
Softcover, Valancourt Books
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The Complete Tales of Mystery and Imagination ; The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; The Raven and Other Poemsby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0706415523 (0-7064-1552-3)
Hardcover, Octopus Books
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The Doubtful Guestby Edward GoreyISBN 0926637029 (0-926637-02-9)
Hardcover, Peter Weed
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Doubtful Guest'Book summary:Originally published in 1957, The Doubtful Guest serves as a prime example of the beauty, eccentricity, and brilliance of Edward Gorey's work. If the book was read aloud without revealing the accompanying black-and-white drawings, you might guess the tale came from the quirky genius of Dr. Seuss. The rhyming couplets and nonsensical verse (about an even more nonsensical creature) feel familiar, but in Gorey's skilled hands, the experience becomes altogether new.
The doubtful guest shows up unannounced and unwelcome, yet its presence is accepted after only a brief interlude of screaming. The staid, pale, Victorian inhabitants of the mansion alternately stare and glare at the doubtful guest as it tears out whole chapters from books, peels the soles of its white canvas shoes, and broods while lying on the floor ("inconveniently close to the drawing-room door"). Strangely, or rather, typically, as this is a Gorey book, the stymied occupants never ask the guest to leave--and in 17 years it has still "shown no intention of going away." Maintaining a matter-of-fact tone in spite of true oddity is pure, delicious Gorey, and his trademark drawings are not to be missed. The ghostly, stark, and undeniably amusing illustrations make The Doubtful Guest an entrancing tale in which reserved, insular lives meet with the unexpected and bizarre. (Ages 5 and older) [via]
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E.T.A. Hoffman: Talesby Victor LangeISBN 0826402542 (0-8264-0254-2)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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E.T.A. Hoffmann: Talesby V. SanderISBN 082640264X (0-8264-0264-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Poems And Talesby Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman, Mark SummersISBN 0760756740 (0-7607-5674-0)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edgar Allan Poe, Selected Poems And Tales'Book summary:Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems and Tales/Deluxe -- FROM THE PUBLISHER: For more than a century-and-a-half, Edgar Allan Poe's poems and tales have thrilled readers with chilling accounts of matters mysterious and macabre. Their somber poetry and rich moods of menace and melancholy have conjured some of the most haunting images in American literature: the accusing echo of the tell-tale heart, the beloved but doomed Annabel Lee, the gloom-shrouded House of Usher, the maddening tortures of the pit and pendulum, the eerie and enigmatic Raven. Dramatic and irreversible, Poe's work invites us to match our darkest imaginings to his vision of the world colored by grief and madness and haunted by specters of guilt and death. This illustrated edition captures Poe's best-known works in all their shadowy splendor through the incomparable art of Mark Summers. His striking full-page color illustrations and ghostly black-and-white pencil sketches reveal the skull beneath the skin of Poe's obsessed and mournful characters and subtly express their heart of emotional darkness that gives them life and purpose. The book also features and introduction by best-selling fantasist and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman, who discusses his personal relationship with Poe's writing and its enduring impact. "Poe", he writes, "for all his short life and unfulfilled potential, remains as much read today, his finest stories as successful, as readable, as contemporary as anyone can desire." This new edition of Poe's unforgettable writing is a colorful and imaginative tribute to this most contemporary of classic writers. [via]
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The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novelsby Walter Scott, David HewittISBN 0748605711 (0-7486-0571-1)
Hardcover, Edinburgh University Press
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The Essential Draculaby Bram Stoker, Raymond T. McNally, Radu FlorescuISBN 0831729937 (0-8317-2993-7)
Hardcover, Mayfield Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Dracula'Book summary:A complete illustrated and annotated edition of Bram Stoker's classic novel by the authors of In Search of Dracula [via]
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The Essential Draculaby Leonard Wolf, Bram Stoker, Christopher H. BingISBN 0743498038 (0-7434-9803-8)
Softcover, ibooks, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Essential Dracula'Book summary:Here is the complete original text of Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, fully annotated with thousands of fascinating facts. Includes: background on Stoker's classic, and the literary history of the vampire novel; commentary by leading contemporary writers; a selected filmography of major vampire films; and dozens of illustrations.
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Exquisite Corpseby Poppy Z. BriteISBN 0684836270 (0-684-83627-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exquisite Corpse'Book summary:You've probably heard that this love story about two cannibalistic serial killers (loosely modeled after Dennis Nilsen and Jeffrey Dahmer) is over the top. You've been warned about the lovingly meticulous descriptions of murder and necrophilia. But the novel also features a keen look at the AIDS plague, in a setting almost worth dying for: Brite's doomed aesthetes dance in a sweet, heady New Orleans of milky coffee and beignets, alligators, Billy Holiday tunes, scented candles, pirate radio, swamp French, andouille sausage and one bar for every 175 people. And the structure is the tightest of Brite's books so far. [via]
First Love: A Gothic Taleby Joyce Carol Oates, Barry MoserISBN 0880014571 (0-88001-457-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Flannery O'Connor Collected Worksby Flannery O'ConnorISBN 0940450372 (0-940450-37-2)
Hardcover, Library of America
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flannery O'Connor Collected Works'Book summary:Flannery O'Connor, a unique and important figure in the Southern literary tradition, was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century. This volume, containing her two novels, short stories, essays and letters, is the only complete collection of her works. [via]
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Gaston De Blondeville, or The Court of Henry III Keeping Festival In Ardenneby Ann Ward Radcliffe, Frances ChiuISBN 097778410X (0-9777841-0-X)
Softcover, Valancourt Books
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Whartonby Edith Wharton, Laszlo KubinyiISBN 0684842572 (0-684-84257-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton'Book summary:"'No, I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm afraid of them,' is much more than the cheap paradox it seems to many. To 'believe,' in that sense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warm darkness of the prenatal fluid far below our conscious reason that the faculty dwells with which we apprehend ghosts." Edith Wharton, known for her keen observations of an emotionally stifling upper-class social world, was so afraid of ghosts that for many years she couldn't even sleep in a room with a book containing a ghost story. As horror scholar Jack Sullivan writes, "It is this sharply felt sensation of supernatural dread filtered through a skeptical sensibility that made Wharton a master of the ghost story." This collection contains 11 of her elegant, chilling tales, including "Afterword," "The Triumph of Night," and "Pomegranate Seed," plus Wharton's 1937 preface and an autobiographical postscript. [via]
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Gloom Cookieby Serena Valentino, John GebbiaISBN 0943151619 (0-943151-61-9)
Softcover, Slave Labor Books
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witchby Terry Pratchett, Neil GaimanISBN 0894808532 (0-89480-853-2)
Hardcover, Workman Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch'Book summary:Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humor; the result is a humanist delight to be savored and reread again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mixup when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time... [via]
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Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook 1700-1820by E. J. Clery, Robert MilesISBN 0719040272 (0-7190-4027-2)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Talesby Deborah NoyesISBN 0763627372 (0-7636-2737-2)
Softcover, Candlewick Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales'Book summary:Drawing on dark fantasy as well as horror and wild humor, ten contemporary authors pay homage to the gothic tale in original stories of the supernatural and the surreal.
A lovesick count and the ghost of his brutalized servant . . . a serial killer who defies death . . . a house with a violent mind of its own and another that holds within its peeling walls a grotesque secret. Here are witches who feast on faces, changeling rites of passage, a venerable vampire contemplating his end, and a fanged brat who drains the patience of a bumbling teenage boy. Here too are a flamboyant young novelist in search of a subject more compelling than his own eerie existence, and the daughter of a sorcerer fighting to free her lover and her will from sinister bonds. Enter the world of GOTHIC!, a celebration of the literary form made famous by such writers as Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe.
With scary stories by:
Joan Aiken
M. T. Anderson
Neil Gaiman
Caitlín R. Kiernan
Gregory Maguire
Garth Nix
Celia Rees
Janni Lee Simner
Vivian Vande Velde
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Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0743467469 (0-7434-6746-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:Born to an unfortunate heritage, orphaned, unsympathetically raised, and then abandoned, Edgar Allan Poe struggled for greatness in an adverse social and economic climate -- a setting not improved by his fiery temperament and caustic criticism of others. Poe's melancholy brilliance, his passionate lyricism, and his tormented soul would make him one of the most widely read and original writers in American literature. Here, in one volume, are his classic short works: masterpieces of horror, terror, humor, and adventure -- and the finest lyric and narrative poetry of this ill-fated genius whose influence on both prose and verse continues to this day.
Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Great Tales And Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe contains the original Pocket Books introduction, first published in 1951, along with an updated selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further readings. [via]
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The Headless Bustby Edward GoreyISBN 0747550395 (0-7475-5039-5)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Headless Bust'Book summary:With The Headless Bust, Edmund Gravel and the Bahum Bug from Gorey's "Dispirited and Distasteful" Christmas tale, The Haunted Tea-Cosy, have returned to usher in the New Year. The story, told in verse, takes up just after Edmund's riotous party. He and the Bug are whisked off to a faraway village for another round of strange and vaguely eerie encounters. Fans of Gorey's distinctive ink drawings, tending toward the well-dressed and slightly mad, will not be disappointed--they make for an engrossing book with or without the accompanying deliciously odd text. ("Reversing at a tango tea/ In Snogg's Casino-not-on-Sea/ L-- tripped and cried, 'I am afraid/ They tampered with the marmalade.'") There is also plenty to be had for aficionados of the mysterious little rituals, mentioned nonchalantly, that seem so logical to the inhabitants of Gorey's bizarre world--the Bandage Folder's Ball being a head-cocking highlight. The Headless Bust is perfect for a winter's read by the fireplace, just before drifting off into fruitcake-induced dreams. --Ali Davis [via]
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Hotel Transylvaniaby Chelsea Quinn YarbroISBN 0812558502 (0-8125-5850-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hotel Transylvania'Book summary:Beautiful Madelaine de Montalia falls violently in love with le Comte de Saint Germain, unaware that the charming nobleman is a vampire. [via]
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The Hound of the Baskervillesby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 068983571X (0-689-83571-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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- The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0794505740 (0-7945-0574-0)
Softcover, Edc Pub - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0812966066 (0-8129-6606-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 082220536X (0-8222-0536-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 088301727X (0-88301-727-X)
Softcover, Xs Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0977769429 (0-9777694-2-9)
Softcover, Neptune Media Group - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0763630640 (0-7636-3064-0)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0848812867 (0-8488-1286-7)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0899662293 (0-89966-229-3)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0804900620 (0-8049-0062-0)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0805236023 (0-8052-3602-3)
Softcover, Schocken Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0865472645 (0-86547-264-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0874066980 (0-87406-698-0)
Softcover, Lerner Pub Group - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0883012642 (0-88301-264-2)
Softcover, Ags Pub - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0893754102 (0-89375-410-2)
Softcover, Troll Communications Llc - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0719529484 (0-7195-2948-4)
Hardcover, J. Murray : Cape - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0831745851 (0-8317-4585-1)
Hardcover, Gallery Books - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0865472637 (0-86547-263-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 0964878836 (0-9648788-3-6)
Hardcover, Baker Street Irregulars in cooperation with the New York Public Libaray-Berg Collection - The Hound of the Baskervilles: ISBN 068983571X (0-689-83571-X)
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The Hound Of The Baskervillesby Arthur Doyle ConanISBN 0974607878 (0-9746078-7-8)
Softcover, Melville Pub House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles'Book summary:We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs?
Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo [via]
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The House on the Strandby Daphne Du MaurierISBN 0812217268 (0-8122-1726-8)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House on the Strand'Book summary:In this haunting tale, Daphne du Maurier takes a fresh approach to time travel. A secret experimental concoction, once imbibed, allows you to return to the fourteenth century. There is only one catch: if you happen to touch anyone while traveling in the past you will be thrust instantaneously to the present.
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Magnus Lane, a University of London chemical researcher, asks his friend Richard Young and Young's family to stay at Kilmarth, an ancient house set in the wilds near the Cornish coast. Here, Richard drinks a potion created by Magnus and finds himself at the same spot where he was moments earlierthough it is now the fourteenth century. The effects of the drink wear off after several hours, but it is wildly addictive, and Richard cannot resist traveling back and forth in time. Gradually growing more involved in the lives of the early Cornish manor lords and their ladies, he finds the presence of his wife and stepsons a hindrance to his new-found experience. Richard eventually finds emotional refuge with a beautiful woman of the past trapped in a loveless marriage, but when he attempts to intervene on her behalf the results are brutally terrifying for the present.
Echoing the great fantastic stories of H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, The House on the Strand is a masterful yarn of history, romance, horror, and suspense that will grip the reader until the last surprising twist.More editions of The House on the Strand:
Houses of Stoneby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0816159378 (0-8161-5937-8)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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I Am Legendby Richard MathesonISBN 0812523008 (0-8125-2300-8)
Softcover, Tom Doherty Assoc Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Am Legend'Book summary:One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, the story takes place in a future 1976). A terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive have been transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Except, that is, for Robert Neville. He alone appears to be immune to this disease, but the grim irony is that now he is the outsider. He is the legendary monster who must be destroyed because he is different from everyone else. Employing a stark, almost documentary style, Richard Matheson was one of the first writers to convince us that the undead can lurk in a local supermarket freezer as well as a remote Gothic castle. His influence on a generation of bestselling authors--including Stephen King and Dean Koontz--who first read him in their youth is, well, legendary. --Stanley Wiater [via]
If There Be Thornsby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0743467248 (0-7434-6724-8)
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Lady Audley's Secretby Mary E. Braddon, Christina TumminelloISBN 0971336342 (0-9713363-4-2)
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Legend in Green Velvetby Elizabeth PetersISBN 0792706897 (0-7927-0689-7)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Madame Crowl's Ghost, and Other Tales of Mysteryby M. R. James, Joseph S. Le FanuISBN 0836939859 (0-8369-3985-9)
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My Brother Michaelby Mary StewartISBN 0688021409 (0-688-02140-9)
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The Pillars of the Earthby Ken FollettISBN 0688046592 (0-688-04659-2)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pillars of the Earth'Book summary:Dust jacket notes: "Ken Follett is known worldwide as the master of split-second suspense, but his most beloved and bestselling book tells the magnificent tale of a twelfth-century monk driven to do the seemingly impossible: build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has ever known. Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time - the twelfth century; the place - feudal England; and the subject - the building of a glorious cathedral. The author has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters - into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life. The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king. At once a sensuous and endearing love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age, The Pillars of the Earth is without a doubt Ken Follett's masterpiece." [via]
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The Professorby Charlotte BronteISBN 0809589877 (0-8095-8987-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor'Book summary:The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Brontë completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontë's death. Like Villette (1853), The Professor is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842. Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator that she used, the work formulated a new aesthetic that questioned many of the presuppositions of Victorian society. Brontë's hero escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher, who is perhaps the author's most realistic feminist heroine. The Professor endures today as both a harbinger of Brontë's later novels and a compelling read in its own right.
"The middle and latter portion of The Professor is as good as I can write," proclaimed Brontë. "It contains more pith, more substance, more reality, in my judgment, than much of Jane Eyre."
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. [via] 
The Sea King's Daughterby Barbara MichaelsISBN 079271301X (0-7927-1301-X)
Softcover, Chivers North Amer
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Selected Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0804900086 (0-8049-0008-6)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Sheby H. Rider HaggardISBN 089190705X (0-89190-705-X)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd
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Sir Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0706415663 (0-7064-1566-3)
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The Sound and the Furyby William FaulknerISBN 0679732241 (0-679-73224-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sound and the Fury'Book summary:The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the "idiot" man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the family's former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddy's lost virginity and his own failure to recover the family's honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family.
If Benjy's section is the most daringly experimental, Jason's is the most harrowing. "Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say," he begins, lacing into Caddy's illegitimate daughter, and then proceeds to hurl mud at blacks, Jews, his sacred Compson ancestors, his glamorous, promiscuous sister, his doomed brother Quentin, his ailing mother, and the long-suffering black servant Dilsey who holds the family together by sheer force of character.
Notoriously "difficult," The Sound and the Fury is actually one of Faulkner's more accessible works once you get past the abrupt, unannounced time shifts--and certainly the most powerful emotionally. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. Here, for instance, Quentin recalls an autumnal encounter back home with the old black possum hunter Uncle Louis:
And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dogs and to the echo of Louis' voice dying away. He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. When he called the dogs in he sounded just like the horn he carried slung on his shoulder and never used, but clearer, mellower, as though his voice were a part of darkness and silence, coiling out of it, coiling into it again. WhoOoooo. WhoOoooo. WhoOooooooooooooooo.
What Faulkner has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods and the primal family events resonate like myths. It is The Sound and the Fury that secures his place in what Edmund Wilson called "the full-dressed post-Flaubert group of Conrad, Joyce, and Proust." --David Laskin [via]More editions of The Sound and the Fury:
Stitches in Timeby Barbara MichaelsISBN 0783813562 (0-7838-1356-2)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Supernatural Horror in Literatureby Howard Phillips LovecraftISBN 0844647799 (0-8446-4779-9)
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Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undeadby J. Gordon MeltonISBN 0810322951 (0-8103-2295-1)
Softcover, Mint Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead'Book summary:J. Gordon Melton has the credentials: he's a religious historian, author of 25 books about religion and vampires, president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula (founded in Bucharest, Romania), and chairman of the committee that put on Dracula '97: A Centennial Celebration in Los Angeles. The Vampire Book is meticulously researched and well organized. Included are an article on the cultural history of the vampire; a historical timeline; addresses of vampire societies all over the world; a 55-page filmography; vampires in plays, opera, and ballet; a 13-page list of vampire novels; and an extensive index. The A to Z entries, each with a short bibliography, include vampire lore in more than 30 different geographic regions and a comprehensive "who's who," and cover topics ranging from fingernails to sexuality, the Camarilla to Szekelys. [via]
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Victoria HoltISBN 090571251X (0-905712-51-X)
Hardcover, Book Sales
Find This BookBook summary:Bride of Pendorric-Swept into marriage by the dashing young heir of Pendorric, Favel was dazed with happiness - until she realized someone wanted her to join the other legendary "Brides of Pendorric," who had all died so mysteriously, and so tragically. The Shadow of the Lynx-To be hated by Lynx would be terrifying and to be loved by him perhaps even more so. He loved Nora, his English ward, and he hated those who had caused him to arrive in Australia as a convict. Now rich and powerful, he seeks revenge and Nora becomes unwillingly involved. King of the Castle-Dallas found there was more, much more, to be restored in the Chateau Gaillard than a mere collection of pictures. The strange household and its inhabitants fascinated Dallas so much that she could not leave, despite the Comte de la Talle's wild and undisciplined daughter denouncing him as her mother's murderer. Mistress of Mellyn-To become a governess was the only course open to a lonely Victorian girl but tempestuous, attractive Martha hated the idea. Only the growing love for her first charge and an unwilling attraction for the father made her stay and try to solve the mysteries which shrouded their lives in tragedy. [via]
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Wedgiesby Roman DirgeISBN 0943151317 (0-943151-31-7)
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A Whisper in the Darkby Louisa May Alcott, Stefan R. DziemianowiczISBN 0760708843 (0-7607-0884-3)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Wide Sargasso Seaby Jean Rhys, Francis WyndhamISBN 0786200731 (0-7862-0073-1)
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Wieland & "Memoirs of Carwinby Charles Brockden Brown, S.W. Reid, Sydney J. KrauseISBN 087338220X (0-87338-220-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wieland & "Memoirs of Carwin'Book summary:This first volume in Kent State University's Bicentennial Edition of the Novels and Related Works of Charles Brockden Brown presents critical texts of Brown's first published novel, Wieland, and of the fragment, "Carwin," which he began in 1798 as a companion-piece to his novel. The texts are based on the first printings: the book edition of Wieland printed by T. and J. Swords in New York and published there by Hocquet Caritat in 1798, and the installments of "Carwin" that appeared in the Literary Magazine in Philadelphia in 1803, 1804, and 1805.
The Historical Essay by Alexander Cowie, which follows the texts, discusses the facts surrounding the composition, publication, and reception of both works and their place in America's literary history, and the Textual Essay by S.W. Reid discusses the copy-texts for the present edition, the transmission of the texts, and the editorial decisions that have been based on these considerations. Also appended are photographs of the notebook pages containing Brown's "Outline" of Wieland, along with our transcription of it. Moreover, as the first in a series of volumes, this volume offers, as well, a note on the principles and procedures guiding the editing of all works in the Bicentennial Edition. [via]
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Wildfire at Midnightby Mary StewartISBN 0688027709 (0-688-02770-9)
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