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ISBN 9780399504334 (0-399-50433-8, 0399504338)

by Edward John Gorey

ISBN 0399504338 (0-399-50433-8)
Softcover, Perigee

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The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross- hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp," describes the writing process of novelist Mr. Clavius Frederick Earbrass: "He must be mad to go on enduring the unexquisite agony of writing when it all turns out drivel." In "The Listing Attic," you'll find a set of quirky limericks such as "A certain young man, it was noted, / Went about in the heat thickly coated; / He said, 'You may scoff, / But I shan't take it off; / Underneath I am horribly bloated.' "

Many of Gorey's tales involve untimely deaths and dreadful mishaps, but much like tragic Irish ballads with their perky rhythms and melodies, they come off as strangely lighthearted. "The Gashlycrumb Tinies," for example, begins like this: "A is for AMY who fell down the stairs, B is for BASIL assaulted by bears," and so on. An eccentric, funny book for either the uninitiated or diehard Gorey fans. [via]

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ISBN 9780156056724 (0-15-605672-0, 0156056720)

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Amphigorey Also

by Edward Gorey

ISBN 0156056720 (0-15-605672-0)
Softcover, Harcourt

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Here is Gorey, doing what Gorey does best--and what only Gorey can do: droll, cracked Victorian pen-and-ink takeoffs on melodramas and primers, bicycles and divas, allegories and crime. [via]

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ISBN 9780399504204 (0-399-50420-6, 0399504206)

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Amphigorey Too

by Edward John Gorey

ISBN 0399504206 (0-399-50420-6)
Softcover, Perigee

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Sept., 1977 G.P. Putnam/Berkley Windhover over-sized softcover, third printing. Humor and illustrations by wonderfully quirky Edward Gorey. [via]

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ISBN 9780517520178 (0-517-52017-6, 0517520176)

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The Annotated Dracula

by Bram Stoker, Leonard Wolf

ISBN 0517520176 (0-517-52017-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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The jacket is a little messed up but the book is great. Pages are all clean, no rips or writing. This is a must have book for Dracula fans, lots of great pictures and it even includes maps and calendars. Copyright 1975 by Leonard Wolf. Ships from GA [via]

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

by Bram Stoker

ISBN 0671009877 (0-671-00987-7)
Softcover, Monarch Notes

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ISBN 9780451175755 (0-451-17575-1, 0451175751)

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

by Fred Saberhagen, James V. Hart

ISBN 0451175751 (0-451-17575-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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A novelisation of the film of the book. This novel is a great deal shorter than the original novel and it is much more direct and erotic. Fred Saberhagen is the author of the "Berserker" books. James Hart is the screenwriter of "Hook". [via]

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ISBN 9780763625085 (0-7636-2508-6, 0763625086)

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

by Jan Needle, Gary Blythe

ISBN 0763625086 (0-7636-2508-6)
Hardcover, Candlewick Pr

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Not for the faint of heart! Award-winning artist Gary Blythe brilliantly captures the eerie mood of Bram Stoker's uneasy tale, expertly edited for today's reader.

Can there be a more terrifying tale than this? The story of the notorious vampire Count Dracula, lord of the undead, who rises from his coffin at night to suck the blood of the living is, undoubtedly, the stuff of nightmares. A lunatic asylum, a bleak Transylvanian castle, an ancient cemetary . . . these are the dark backgrounds to the even darker deeds portrayed in this most bloodcurdling of tales.

Narrated from several viewpoints, DRACULA is a complex story that many know, but few have actually read. Jan Needle's newly edited version makes the gripping events accessible to the twenty-first reader without losing the incomparably chilling atmosphere of Bram Stoker's original novel. [via]

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ISBN 9780681411630 (0-681-41163-5, 0681411635)

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Classics of Horror: Dracula/Frankenstein/2 Books in 1

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker

ISBN 0681411635 (0-681-41163-5)
Hardcover, Longmeadow Pr

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ISBN 9780679417408 (0-679-41740-0, 0679417400)

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The Complete Stories

by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 0679417400 (0-679-41740-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Edgar Allan Poes gift for the macabrehis genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of thingswas so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful representin contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitmanthe other, darker side of the nineteenth-century American sensibility.

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ISBN 9781851526307 (1-85152-630-7, 1851526307)

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The Complete Illustrated Works of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 1851526307 (1-85152-630-7)
Hardcover, Chancellor Press

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Famous for his horror stories and brooding poetry, Poe is often considered to be the inventor of the modern detective story, as well. Now, this one marvelously illustrated and popularly priced volume makes it possible to appreciate the full genius of this master of the mysterious and brilliant literary talent. Images, reproduced from a variety of sources (including Aubrey Beardsley, Edouard Manet, and Arthur Rackham) enhance the mood of such favorites as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Purloined Letter, A Descent into the Maelström and The Masque of the Red Death. In addition to those "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"--70 chronicles of terror and fantasy that established Poe as the supreme craftsman of the short story--there is The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Poe's only full-length work and a masterful blending of science and romance. Finally, a section devoted to "The Raven and Other Poems" reflects Poe's obsession with the macabre.

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ISBN 9780460872614 (0-460-87261-3, 0460872613)

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Complete Poems and Selected Essays

by Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Gray

ISBN 0460872613 (0-460-87261-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub

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This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author, a plot summary, annotated reading list and critical response. This selection presents all of Poe's poetry, and includes the less well known poems written before he was 20, among them "To Helen", which Poe said was written in boyhood for the woman whose death caused him "with half his heart to inhabit other worlds". The selected essays are illuminating in relation to Poe's life and times. [via]

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ISBN 9780394403243 (0-394-40324-X, 039440324X)

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Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 039440324X (0-394-40324-X)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Compiled here are over 50 of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories and tales in one giant Kindle book. This includes an active table of contents to make finding stories easy.

This edition includes the following stories:
The Angel of the Odd
The Assignation
The Balloon Hoax
Berenice
Bon-Bon
The Black Cat
The Business Man
The Cask of Amontillado
Colloquy of Monos and Una
Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
A Descent Into the Maelström
The Devil in the Belfry
Diddling
The Domain of Arnheim
Duc De L'Omelette
Eleonora
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
The Fall of the House of the Usher
Four Beasts in One
The Gold-Bug
Hop Frog
How to Write a Blackwood Article
The Imp of the Perverse
The Island of the Fay
King Pest
Landor's Cottage
Landscape Garden
Ligeia
Lionizing
Loss of Breath
Maelzel's Chess-Player
Man of the Crowd
Man that was Used Up
The Masque of the Red Death
Mellonta Tauta
Mesmeric Revelation
Metzengerstein
Morella
Ms. Found in a Bottle
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
Mystification
Never Bet the Devil Your Head
Oblong Box
The Oval Portrait
Pit and the Pendulum
The Power of Words
Predicament
The Premature Burial
The Purloined Letter
Shadow -- A Parable
Silence -- A Fable
Some Words with a Mummy
Spectacles
Sphinx
System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
A Tale of Jerusalem
Tale of the Ragged Mountains
The Tell Tale Heart
Thou Art the Man
The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Three Sundays in a Week
The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling
William Wilson
X-ing a Paragrab [via]

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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 1570020000 (1-57002-000-0)
Hardcover, Univ Pub House

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All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms. [via]

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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Tales

by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 0781287561 (0-7812-8756-1)
Hardcover, Reprint Services Corp

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ISBN 9781551111360 (1-55111-136-5, 1551111365)

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Dracula

by Bram Stoker, Glennis Byron

ISBN 1551111365 (1-55111-136-5)
Softcover, Broadview Pr

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Dracula, by Bram Stoker, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
Biographies of the authors
Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
Footnotes and endnotes
Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
Comments by other famous authors
Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
Bibliographies for further reading
Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate

All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.

Count Dracula has inspired countless movies, books, and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to Bram Stoker's original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. Dracula chronicles the vampire's journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power.

Today's critics see Dracula as a virtual textbook on Victorian repression of the erotic and fear of female sexuality. In it, Stoker created a new word for terror, a new myth to feed our nightmares, and a character who will outlive us all.

Brooke Allen is a book critic whose work has appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Criterion, The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, and The Hudson Review. A collection of her essays, Twentieth-Century Attitudes, will be published in 2003.

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Dracula

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker

ISBN 0385095805 (0-385-09580-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday

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ISBN 9780394848280 (0-394-84828-4, 0394848284)

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Dracula

by Stephanie Spinner, Bram Stoker, Jim Spence

ISBN 0394848284 (0-394-84828-4)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books

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String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! the most powerful vampire of all time returns in our stepping stone classic adaption of the original tale by bran stoker. Follow johnathan harker, mina harker, and dr. Abraham van helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy count dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of london... And back again [via]

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Dracula

by Steven P. Jones

ISBN 0944735479 (0-944735-47-9)
Softcover, Heroes World

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ISBN 9781550139006 (1-55013-900-2, 1550139002)

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Dracula

by Tim Wynne-Jones, Bram Stoker, Laszlo Gal

ISBN 1550139002 (1-55013-900-2)
Hardcover, Key Porter Kids

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After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. [via]

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ISBN 9780785814535 (0-7858-1453-1, 0785814531)

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Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 0785814531 (0-7858-1453-1)
Hardcover, Book Sales

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The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes and failures, breakdowns and recoveries, personal gains and hopes dashed through, despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire and Andre Gide, filmmaker D.W. Griffith and modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg.

Best known for his poems and short fiction, Poe perfected the psychological thriller, invented the detective story, and rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernatural realm. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century.

In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in Rue Morgue, The Tell-Tale Heart, Ligeia and Ms. In a Bottle. His complete early and miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are here also, including The Raven, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, Tamerlane, as well as select reviews and narratives.

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ISBN 9780785813507 (0-7858-1350-0, 0785813500)

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Edgar Allen Poe

by Edgar Allen Poe

ISBN 0785813500 (0-7858-1350-0)
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This collection of 73 short stories and 48 poems includes such masterpieces as The Fall of the House of Usher, The Purloined Letter, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and Murders in the Rue Morgue. [via]

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Edgar Allen Poe Complete Tales and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN 1555211976 (1-55521-197-6)
Hardcover, Book Sales

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Edward Gorey - The Gashlycrumb Tinies: 1998 Deluxe Engagement Book

ISBN 076490096X (0-7649-0096-X)
Hardcover, Pomegranate

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ISBN 9780926637016 (0-926637-01-0, 0926637010)

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Gashlycrumb Tinies

by Edward Gorey

ISBN 0926637010 (0-926637-01-0)
Hardcover, Peter Weed

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"A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh..." The rhyming couplets of this grim abecedarian are familiar, of course, to devotees of macabre humor, but the darkly crosshatched drawings are (as Poe put it) "the soul of the plot." Several years went by during which The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Or, After the Outing was not available in a small hardcover edition like this one, which is the true format for Edward Gorey's specialty, the adult picture book. (For those who wish to share the gloom there's a 10-copy assortment with The Curious Sofa.) [via]

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ISBN 9780151003082 (0-15-100308-4, 0151003084)

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The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Or, After the Outing

by Edward Gorey

ISBN 0151003084 (0-15-100308-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt

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"A is for Amy who fell down the stairs. B is for Basil assaulted by bears. C is for Clara who wasted away. D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh..." The rhyming couplets of this grim abecedarian are familiar, of course, to devotees of macabre humor, but the darkly crosshatched drawings are (as Poe put it) "the soul of the plot." Several years went by during which The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Or, After the Outing was not available in a small hardcover edition like this one, which is the true format for Edward Gorey's specialty, the adult picture book. (For those who wish to share the gloom there's a 10-copy assortment with The Curious Sofa.) [via]

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ISBN 9780802018861 (0-8020-1886-6, 0802018866)

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Medieval Structure: The Gothic Vault

by James H. Acland

ISBN 0802018866 (0-8020-1886-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr

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ISBN 9780688156817 (0-688-15681-9, 0688156819)

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Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy

by Tim Burton

ISBN 0688156819 (0-688-15681-9)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co

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This unassuming hardcover in black buckram with a dark lavender title plate is the door into a world of twisted pleasures. Filmmaker Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas) tells 23 winsomely macabre stories about boys and girls who don't fit in. Their bodies are misshapen, their habits are odd, and their parents are appalled by them. But they do try hard to be human, like poor unwanted Mummy Boy, who's "a bundle of gauze": he goes for a walk in the park with his mummy dog. Some kids are having "a birthday party for a Mexican girl." They think Mummy Boy is a piñata: "They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were no candy or prizes, just a few stray beetles of various sizes." For all its simple humor, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a peculiarly disturbing book about the violence that children suffer. It is illustrated in pen and ink, watercolor, and crayon. The themes and imagery are at a young-adult to adult level. [via]

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ISBN 9780393324822 (0-393-32482-6, 0393324826)

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach

ISBN 0393324826 (0-393-32482-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."Entertainment Weekly

Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadaverssome willingly, some unwittinglyhave been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender reassignment surgery, cadavers have been there alongside surgeons, making history in their quiet way.

In this fascinating, ennobling account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuriesfrom the anatomy labs and human-sourced pharmacies of medieval and nineteenth-century Europe to a human decay research facility in Tennessee, to a plastic surgery practice lab, to a Scandinavian funeral directors' conference on human composting. In her droll, inimitable voice, Roach tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them. [via]

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