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	Moby-Dick; or The Whale: Unabridged with Illustrations by Herman Melville, C.G. Coleman (Illustrator ), Hal Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 3.56 avg rating — 607,737 ratings — published 1851 — 7760 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: Twenty Chilling Tales from the Wilderness by Hal Johnson (Goodreads Author), Tom Mead (Illustrator), Phil Conigliaro (Designer) 3.63 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Immortal Lycanthropes by Hal Johnson (Goodreads Author), Teagan White (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.40 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Book of Monsters: The Creepiest Creatures from Classic Literature by Hal Johnson (Goodreads Author), Tim Sievert (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.02 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impossible Histories: The Soviet Republic of Alaska, the United States of Hudsonia, President Charlemagne, and Other Pivotal Moments of History That Never Happened 3.83 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apprentice Academy: Sorcerers: The Unofficial Guide to the Magical Arts by Hal Johnson (Goodreads Author), Cathrin Peterslund (Illustrator) 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State by James Chambers (Goodreads Author) (Editor), April Grey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Masterson (Editor) 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greasers in Greece by Dimitrios Fragiskatos (Goodreads Author), Thomas Griffin (Illustrator), Hal Johnson (Goodreads Author) (Introduction by) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sudden Glory it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apprentice Academy: Knights: The Unofficial Guide to the Heroic Arts by Hal Johnson (Goodreads Author), Cathrin Peterslund (Illustrator) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hal Johnson and 1 other person liked Rick Ray's review of The Office Party: "An old school gag book featuring humorous office-related observations written up by Corey Ford and some delightful illustrations from Whitney Darrow Jr. The humor is perhaps most astute for those who have a perception of office work in the 1950s, but" Read more of this review »
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“A shameful fact about humanity is that some people can be so ugly that no one will be friends with them. It is shameful that humans can be so cruel, and it is shameful that humans can be so ugly.”
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“...beneath the temple of Emesa there is a system of special sewers wherein the human blood rejoins the plasma of certain animals. Through these sewers, coiling into broiling corkscrews whose circles diminish the further they descend to the depths of the earth, the blood of those sacrificed according to the needful rites will find its way back to the geological seams, the congealed cracks of chaos. This pure blood, thinned and refined by the rituals, and rendered acceptable to the god of the underworld, splashes the groaning deities of Erebus, whose breath finally purifies it.”
― Antonin Artaud, Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist

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