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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...
“‘Of course,’ said Orfieu, ‘the sort of time-travelling you read about in books—time-travelling in the body—is absolutely impossible.’”
So begins The Dark Tower, a capt...
Strange mysteries abound in a small Maine town. Why did the brilliant, but cruel, Dr. Gideon Wyck perform an unnecessary amputation on one of his patients? Why does that p...
<p>Medusa is a classic novel of cosmic horror originally published in the late 1920s.</p>
Although Paul Bailey’s only suspense novel, Deliver Me From Eva, is a recognized horror classic, he has also written many fine historical novels. Forrest J Ackerman, forme...
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird fiction with a distinctively cosmic and spiritual focus. Inspired by H. ...
George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers...
Halfway between Honolulu and Panama, a man slips and falls from a ship. For crucial hours, as he patiently treads water in hope of rescue, no one on board notices his abse...
A legendary rarity, originally published in 1939, “The Subjugated Beast” is not simply a literary curiosity, but a true masterpiece of the horror genre, years ahead of its...
The Free Corps Movement had its origins in the pre-war youth movement and on the battlefields of the war. The returning soldiers, embittered by defeat, believing themselve...
This text analyses newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Born in Boston in the lat...
A low-level drug runner named Cruz finds himself exiled from sunny Miami to frigid Chicago. He holes up in a decrepit rooming-house, the Kenilworth Arms, in the dead of wi...
New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s first novel—the cult classic dystopian cyberpunk tale—now back in print after twenty years in a special signed, collecti...
“This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as s...
Imagine that you were at an isolated weekend party, and people started to act aberrant, even evil. You begin to suspect that one of the guests of the party is in fact a mo...
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
Kathryn Paige Harden, Кэтрин Пейдж Харден
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(4)A provocative and timely case for how the science of genetics can help create a more just and equal society. In recent years, scientists like Kathryn Paige Harden have sho...