In this monumental history of World War I, Germany's leading historian of the twentieth century's first great catastrophe explains the war's origins, course, and consequen...
In 1929, Dr. Frederick Ritter and Dore Strauch fled the social and economic turmoil of post-World War I Germany, choosing to abandon the chaos of modern civilization, as w...
Banned for over 30 years — Frank Walford’s classic work of horror is available again. “Twisted Clay is a gruesome study of progressive insanity, but the study is obviously...
Considered by many to be one of the most unique, avant-garde works published by the Lost Generation, The Eater of Darkness is hailed as the first Dada novel published by a...
<p>To Florence Hackett and her daughters Elinor and Louisa, Richard Baurie, a handsome young bookstore clerk and aspiring poet, seems a little odd but harmless enough. Wit...
To Walk the Night unfolds like a mystery novel. Bark Jones has gone home to visit Dr. Lister, the father of his friend Jerry, and together they hope to lay the mystery tha...
It starts with a strange glowing fog that arrives at the height of a snowstorm.
A terror from the past has returned, bringing with it death and destruction that threate...
In 1898 reformist intellectuals in China persuaded the young emperor that it was time to transform his sclerotic empire into a prosperous modern state. The Hundred Days’ R...
Now in a new translation, Temptation is a rediscovered masterwork of twentieth-century fiction, a Dickensian tale of a young man coming of age in Budapest between the wars...
These are the records of a psychoanalyst who kept a diary of patient dreams in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. The book traces the ways in which the rising tid...
Unemployed, lonesome, abandoned by his lover, an obscure artist on the verge of despair begins to question the worth of his craft-until, without warning, he lands the oppo...
Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted no...
Something is rotten in Okinawa... The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene... So begins Tadashi and Kaori...
"Brilliant." ―3:AM Magazine
"Intelligent... thrilling." ―Michael Silverblatt, 'Bookworm' on KCRW
Carl Stagg, a writer researching imperial power struggles in 17th ce...
In this outrageously farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community in this brillian...
THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY examines the classic monster as a biological, rather than supernatural, predator who awakens from hibernation every few decades needing to relearn hum...
An astounding revelation of one child's nightmare world.
Blurbed as "perhaps the most remarkable novel ever written by a child," this "astounding revelation of one chil...
From the Saturday Review of Literature, May 14, 1927:
MURRAY SHEEHAN'S "Half-Gods" gives a depressing answer to the question, What Price Centaurs in Missouri? It is no ...
Novel set in Southern California in the 1920s, and a lost classic. One modern-day commentator has observed that the book was "killed by neglect".
“Here a fine novelist ...
Novel with rather a weird premise: during World War I, while serving in France with the Canadian Army (as did the author), the protagonist of this tale has occasion to app...