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Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual For Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It
Martin Olson - 2011
A masterpiece expressing Satan's hatred for humanity and himself, the Encyclopaedia includes "Techniques of Stalking and Eating Humans," "Methods of Canning Human Pus," and "Dicing and Slicing Orphaned Children."
Why the invasion? During the last century in particular, Hell has become seriously overcrowded. Satan needs more land mass for the damned and to use the human livestock to feed his hungry demon invaders.
Since this book is the 666th commemorative edition, this Encyclopaedia contains special commemorative material.
Martin Olson's savage wit provides the firepower for a preposterous literary feat unaccomplished since Mark Twain passedchanneling the real voice of Satan. Over the past fifteen years, Olson has written and produced nine comedy specials, inflicted on the populace via CBS, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and A&E.
The Curse of the Appropriate Man
Lynn Freed - 2004
In spare, elegant prose, Freed delivers surprise after surprise as she shakes the truth from life. Whether it's her portrayal of a mother mired in senile dementia in "Ma," a young girl experiencing her first sexual encounter with an itinerant knife-sharpener in "Under the House," or a young woman incapable of loving conventionally in "An Error of Desire," Freed portrays the absurdity, the delusions, the dramas, and the dignity of her characters' lives. These masterful stories reinforce her reputation as one of our most fearless and sophisticated explorers of sexual and filial love.
2001: An Odyssey in Words
Ian WhatesIan McDonald - 2018
Clarke Award and 13 authors who have been shortlisted, as well as non-fiction from thrice-winner China Miéville and former judge Neil Gaiman. Contents: Introduction Golgotha – Dave Hutchinson The Monoliths of Mars – Paul McAuley Murmuration – Jane Rogers Ouroboros – Ian R MacLeod The Escape Hatch – Matthew De Abaitua Childhood’s Friend – Rachel Pollack Takes from the White Hart – Bruce Sterling Your Death, Your Way, 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! – Emma Newman Distraction – Gwyneth Jones Dancers – Allen Stroud Entropy War – Yoon Ha Lee The Ontologist – Liz Williams Waiting in the Sky – Tom Hunter The Collectors – Adrian Tchaikovsky I Saw Three Ships – Phillip Mann Before They Left – Colin Greenland Drawn From the Eye – Jeff Noon Roads of Silver, Paths of Gold – Emmi Itäranta The Fugue – Stephanie Holman Memories of a Table – Chris Beckett Child of Ours – Claire North Would-Be A.I., Tell Us a Tale! #241: Sell ’em Back in Time! by Hali Hallison – Ian Watson Last Contact – Becky Chambers The Final Fable – Ian Whates Ten Landscapes of Nili Fossae – Ian McDonald Child – Adam Roberts Providence – Alastair Reynolds 2001: A Space Prosthesis – The Extensions of Man – Andrew M. Butler (non-fiction) On Judging The Clarke Award – Neil Gaiman (non-fiction) Once More on the 3rd Law – China Miéville (non-fiction)
Robert Bloch's That Hellbound Train
Joe R. Lansdale - 2011
On the verge of giving up hope, our young protagonist is visited by a monstrous train, one whose conductor might just have a ticket to fame and riches... if Martin is willing to pay the price! Scribes Joe and John Lansdale (30 Days of Night: Night, Again) and artist Dave Wachter bring this unique tale of American folklore to life!
The Forever Endeavor
Chuck Wendig - 2016
Well, Dale has a lot of problems. Addiction. Rent. A girlfriend he let slip away.But Dale has a solution. It's a Box. And it will let him go back 10 minutes in time. Enough to fix his new mistakes as they happen. And give him an edge to fix the old ones that haunt him.Oh, and one other problem: Where did these other Dales come from?Walter Bard has a problem. Well, Walter has twenty problems. Each of them a body buried in a pumpkin patch. And... they're all the same. Down to the teeth. But Walter has a solution. It's his job. Solutions. He's a detective, after all.
Boysgirls
Katie Farris - 2011
A boy with one wing seeks the secret to flight. A girl with a mirror for a face, adored by all, longs to simply eat. A pregnant girl reflects on the effects of metamorphoses. The stories of boysgirls are modern myths: tales that exist within our present time but also outside it, in a place as eternal as Shangri-La or Middle Earth. An unforgettable book of Ovidian imagination, boysgirls testifies that Katie Farris is one of the most talented prose stylists of a new generation. "boysgirls is one for the classic fairy-tale shelves, joining Borges/Lispector, Calvino/Carter, Andersen/d'Aulnoy with its spectral powers. Katie Farris's spare and lyrical language levitates here--she is a haunting and new revelation"--Kate Bernheimer.
Guardian of the Mountain
David Dalglish - 2010
Forging an uneasy alliance with the newcomers, Jerek agrees to share the wealth. But a creature guards the mountain’s treasures, aided by an elderly elf. This creature of night wants more than blood; it wants Mira, a little girl with blackest eyes and a terrible power lurking in her veins.GUARDIAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, a novella by David Dalglish.Nature has given claws to the darkness…
The Best of 2.13.61
Henry Rollins - 1998
Culling over 300 pages of some of today's most thrilling writers, The Best of 2.13.61 Publications hallmarks our company's ten year existence. Excerpts include new material from Henry Rollins and Hubert Selby, Jr, as well as excerpts from Henry Miller's love letters, Nick Zedd's hilarious nihilistic New York urban spelunkings, Ian Shoales' undeniably witty social commentaries and so much more.
Deathconsciousness
Have a Nice Life - 2008
Whosoever lives, so shall they die; and may they die a drowning death, with all of Life inside their mouths, and naught but stones inside their lungs, like David with the skull, dwelling upon it in every second, the impossible trials of ceasing, stopping, ending..."Have a Nice Life's album Deathconsciousness is accompanied by a 75-page booklet detailing the dark and forgotten history of the Antiochean cult. Blurring the lines between novella, liner notes, and academic text, the zine itself presents an engrossing narrative.- This is Deathconsciousness -and it begs the question - "What is the point?"