Book Hauls!

[j. d. worthington]

I think you will find Witch House a rather odd, but enjoyable, little volume, Nesa. I read it some twenty years ago in the Arkham House edition; it definitely has its charms....

By the way; speaking of odd little books dealing with witches: have you ever read Devil on the Road, by Robert Westall? If not, you should try to find a copy....

[w h pugmire, esq.]

Of course, "buy" is perhaps not the appropriate word for those books "purchased" with my Amazon credit card....
Still, I shall have to pay for them eventually. My latest haul has been Mr. George and Other Odd Persons by August Derleth, Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People by August Derleth, Marginalia by Lovecraft &c, The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Talesby David H. Keller, The Third Grave by David Case and Revelation in Black by Carl Jacobi. I have been tempted to get the Arkham House edition of Clark Ashton Smith's prose poems, but I have heard whispers that a new edition is forthcoming, so I shall wait for that, I think.

[Lobolover]

Why is that , Pugmire ? Is there something......irregular about your credit card ? :P

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

Originally Posted by GOLLUM

The Marias and Rodenbach will be of particular interest to me J.P......

Have you read Marias? I'm not sure if we've chatted about him or not, I think he's one of the best novelists around today.

[Nesacat]

GOLLUM ... the Laird Barron you'll have to thank knivesout for. I got it after reading his review. I am looking forward to reading the SFWA collection. It had been remaindered. I have Fantastic Tales but I could not just leave this one sitting there all alone. It had already been damaged some.

JD ... hey, hey I already have to 'really need' list that is long enough to wrap my home up in. You have to go add some more

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

The Marquise Of O and other stories: Heinrich Von Kleist
The Confessions Of A Justified Sinner: James Hogg

[GOLLUM]

Whoa a Von Kleist!

Things are beginning to get interesting around here....

I have never read Marias but got the book All Souls (Harvill edn. ) on your recommendation. I know about the famous trilogy you're now chasing as we have copies of that here but I'm yet to read anything by him. An author on my "to read" radar for 2010...

[GOLLUM]

Originally Posted by knivesout

The Confessions Of A Justified Sinner: James Hogg

I'm surprised you haven't read that yet...

Is that a Penguin Black?

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

I'm almost as surprised as you. It is a Canongate edition that seems to be the most definitive on the market, although as you know Penguin Black or Oxford World's Classics are usual my first choice for most classics.

[Daisy-Boo]

Yesterday I returned to the discount bookstore I'd meant to stay away from for the rest of the month. But I managed to restrict myself to only three books.

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
City of Fear - Alafair Burke
The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies - John Scalzi

[j. d. worthington]

Originally Posted by w h pugmire, esq.

Of course, "buy" is perhaps not the appropriate word for those books "purchased" with my Amazon credit card....
Still, I shall have to pay for them eventually. My latest haul has been Mr. George and Other Odd Persons by August Derleth, Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People by August Derleth, Marginalia by Lovecraft &c, The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Talesby David H. Keller, The Third Grave by David Case and Revelation in Black by Carl Jacobi. I have been tempted to get the Arkham House edition of Clark Ashton Smith's prose poems, but I have heard whispers that a new edition is forthcoming, so I shall wait for that, I think.

That's an impressive haul there! I'd love to have another copy of Marginalia; though I have nearly all the material in it elsewhere, still there is something about that book (aside from the lovely Virgil Finlay jacket).... Not to mention the lovely photos of HPL's study and the like.... I also have quite a fondness for the two Derleth volumes (or, rather, Derleth and Derleth and Schorer). For some reason, the titles of those (and Ramsey Campbell's The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants) have always appealed to me. Must be something about the combination of hints of genuinely disturbing weird things with a sort of ironic understatement....

[Lobolover]

I am hoping to get The Elixir of Life/The Lady who came to stay soon . Chances are high but lets not get ahead of ourselves just yet .

[ktabic]

I've been really good and working my way through the TBR pile and resisting buying any books. Then I remembered I need to get the books for the BSFA awards and read them soon. And while I was getting them might have order a couple of others.
The Gabble Neal Asher
Africa Zero Neal Asher
Ark Stephen Baxter
Yellow Blue Tibia Adam Roberts
The Push Dave Hutchinson
And God Created Zombies Andrew Hook
More arriving next week.

[Rodders]

Originally Posted by Daisy-Boo

The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies - John Scalzi

I must confess, i have always wonders why there hasn't been any of the "for Dummies" books on SF and F topics.

[dask]

Originally Posted by w h pugmire, esq.

The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Talesby David H. Keller

Don't mean to be nosy but is this book expensive? The last hardback of his stories I saw at a used bookstore in town cost around thirty bucks!