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(TOMORROW! Noon–5, Creepy Pop-Up Market, The Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave., Shelton, CT! This is a righteous event, and I will be there and will you??!one!?)

BOOKS! THE KIND PEOPLE LIKE!

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Wendy Pini!

A garland of quotations CXXXIX

(Upcoming appearances: September 27, 12–5, Creepy Pop-Up Market, The Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave., Shelton, CT | October 16, 4–5, Mid-Hudson Reading Council, an undisclosed location in Poughkeepsie, NY | October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here) | November 15, 11–2, Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

Read these books before The Unraveling*

*(entropic collapse)

Yeh, yeh—If I did no...

The Ten Best Movies of 1973

(Upcoming appearances: September 27, 12–5, Creepy Pop-Up Market, The Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave., Shelton, CT | October 16, 4–5, Mid-Hudson Reading Council, an undisclosed location in Poughkeepsie, NY | October 24, 7–9, All-Hallows Emo Night, Badsons Beer Co., 251 Roosevelt Dr., Derby CT (tickets here) | November 15, 11–2, Hagemann Memorial Author Showcase, East Haven Senior Center, 91 Taylor Avenue, East Haven, CT)

Tryyyyyyyyyy one

1. Lady Snowblood

I have a theory, too long to be contained in ...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

TOMORROW! I’ll be signing books and doing sketches from 8:30 to noon-thirty at the Downtown Farmers Market at Wasson Field, 70 W. River St., Milford CT! Come on by!

BOOKS

FOR

KIDS!

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Sekowsky/Giordano!

A garland of quotations CXXXVIII

(September appearances: Sept. 20, 8:30–noon, Downtown Farmers Market, Wasson Field, 70 W. River St., Milford CT | Sept. 27, noon–5, Creepy Pop-Up Market, the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton CT | and don’t forget to check me out the Death Coven Podcast!)

Alternate histories! Makes a great gift!

To denote an imperfect man, they delineate a FROG, because it is generated from the slime of the river, whence it occasionally happens that it is seen with one part of a frog, and the remainder formed ...

The Ten Best Movies of 1985

(September appearances: Sept. 20, 8:30–noon, Downtown Farmers Market, Wasson Field, 70 W. River St., Milford CT | Sept. 27, noon–5, Creepy Pop-Up Market, the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton CT | and don’t forget to check me out the Death Coven Podcast!)

Read these books before The Unraveling*

*(entropic collapse)

As you know, I have been occasionally swiping Joe Surkiewicz’s idea (and formatting) and cooking up retrospective best-of movie lists. 1985 was a time when they still made fun mainst...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

(September appearances: Sept. 20, 8:30–noon, Downtown Farmers Market, Wasson Field, 70 W. River St., Milford CT | Sept. 27, noon–5, Creepy Pop-Up Market, the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton CT | and don’t forget to check me out the Death Coven Podcast!)

I write books & aim to please!

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Win Mortimer w/ Mike Esposito & Tony Mortellaro!

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(September appearances: Sept. 20, 8:30–noon, Downtown Farmers Market, Wasson Field, 70 W. River St., Milford CT | Sept. 27, noon–5, Creepy Pop-Up Market, the Conti Building, 415 Howe Ave, Shelton CT | and don’t forget to check me out the Death Coven Podcast!)

Immortal Lycanthropes: only 99¢!

Sudden Glory: only 99¢!

LAST DAY!

Never yet on earth has a human being laughed as he laughed! O my brothers, I heard a laughter that was no human laughter; and now a thirst gnaws at me, a longing that never grow...

The Ten Best Movies of 1994

(I have two books on sale—99¢ for an ebook! Please give one a try! ALSO: I am on the Death Coven podcast and will be appearing at the Creepy Pop-Up Market! Check ‘em out both!)

A paranoid YA thriller: 99¢!

In my never-ending attempt to cash in on other people’s ideas to achieve illicit virality, I have decided to copy Joe Surkiewicz’s idea of listing best movies, with the slight modification that I’ll be doing one year at a time. Today’s year is the second-greatest year for movies (by my lights): ...

Truly Wordless Comic Panels

(Say! I’m on the Death Coven Podcast!)

Theoretically, one can "buy me a coffee"

Or grab a 99¢ book!

(This one's also 99¢. Good stuff!)

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