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Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
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Weird Tales of a Bangalorean
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A Volume of Sleep
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My Saints are Down
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Nightmare Magazine 49: October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue
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Mighty in Sorrow: A Tribute to David Tibet & Current 93
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Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis
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The Starry Wisdom Library: The Catalogue of the Greatest Occult Book Auction of All Time
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Axes of Evil
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Dark World: Ghost Stories
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Urban Cthulhu: Nightmare Cities (Hplmythos.com, #2)
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Rum, the highway and freedom
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i am culled from the cubicle farm; uncle gustav watches from up above, on a cloud, sounding various harps and tambourines
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It's been a long time since I have read a mainstream comic with a legitimately tragic end and Ennis does deliver on that. Partly it is tragic because the conflict of scales: corrupt American politics, degeneration of boomer id..." Read more of this review » |
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| This challenging, thought provoking book traces the changes we have made to our environment and lifestyle ever since homo sapiens first emerged as a kind of grassland ape. The author convincingly shows how everything from growing levels of depression ...more | |
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| A thrilling tale of vampirism and adventure featuring Bram Stoker and his siblings. Genuinely creepy and packed with incident, this had the feel of a Hammer horror but without that lag in the second act endemic to Hammer productions. The editing is n ...more | |
"A competent and affordable introduction to the life, work and impact of the artist, the inventor of the Pointillist style of painting. it's slightly irritating that the text is often discussing a painting reproduced several pages away, but - y'kno..."
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"In a recent NY Times Book Review article, Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma told a story about how when he was frequently ill as a child, his father would tell him wild stories. Puzzled as to why this stopped, he asked his father for an explanation,..."
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| Although the stories are of uneven quality, this collection earns high marks for reprinting some often very obscure 19th and early 20th century tales that reflect the evolution of the fictional vampire, from an early shilling shocker to a creature cr ...more | |
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| Runcie manages to convey the character of a deeply devout man with conviction, sensitivity and no whiff of proselytisation, which places these excellent mysteries a notch above Father Brown in my estimation. Blasphemy, I know, but I plead agnosticism ...more | |
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I actually read this in an English translation that isn't listed here. This is a gripping, gently but effectively told story of a girl and her friends uncovering the secrets of a creepy old house she has moved into. There are nice little character tou ...more |
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“I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world.”
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“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.”
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“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”
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“Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different. ”
― Family Matters
― Family Matters
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
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Sorry I've fallen so far behind in keeping up with people's reviews. I went through a period of 'pointed stick time' (these are times when I'm convinced that any technology more complex than a pointed stick is too prone to breakdown to be reliable). Through all of September, my computer was in the shop. I'm getting caught up on my backlog, but it'll likely be some time before I get caught up. So I, as well as my correspondents, will likely have to school ourselves to patience for some time yet.
Oouh I was so surprised when I finally entered to yr prof page!!I was about to comment on the picture I show on yr avatar & now.. Anyway I am sure we'll get along, from following Ya for the whole time I show an genuine match on our tastes
Take care Jay ( such a loong name at first I thought u were pulling my leg or that u were wearing a Hindu nickname, Like Sam in Zelazny's work on "lord of Light" )
I will be sure to add U on my future recommendations :D
Thanks for the acceptance. Quite a nice list of books you've read there.
Hey welcome to Goodreads.Heh i didnt know you rated Jack Vance that highly.
Cheers, Ivonne