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Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

by Richard Brautigan

Three unforgettable Brautigan masterpieces reissued in a one-volume omnibus edition. REVENGE OF THE LAWN: Originally published in 1971, these bizarre flashes of insight and humor cover everything from "A High Building in Singapore" to the "Perfect California Day." This is Brautigan's only collection of stories and includes "The Lost Chapters of TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA." THE ABORTION: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE... (more)

A Confederate General from Big Sur; Dreaming of Babylon; the Hawkline Monster

A Confederate General from Big Sur; Dreaming of Babylon; the Hawkline Monster

by Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan was the author of ten novels, including a contemporary classic, Trout Fishing in America, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of stories.Here are three Brautigan novels--A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon and The Hawkline Monster--reissues in a one-volume omnibus edition.

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing In America, The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster; And In Watermelon Sugar

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing In America, The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster; And In Watermelon Sugar

by Richard Brautigan

A Brautigan omnibus, reissued in paperback in celebration of its twentieth anniversary, this one-volume edition includes three contemporary classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.

Poesies / Une Saison En Enfer / Illuminations

Poesies / Une Saison En Enfer / Illuminations

by Arthur Rimbaud

To Charles Fort, with Love

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Starred Review. Kiernan ranks as one of today's finest practitioners of "the art of disquiet," as Ramsey Campbell notes in his perspicacious afterword to this remarkable collection. Her enigmatic short stories are written in lyrical prose that sweeps the reader completely into strange dark worlds where characters choose to embrace madness over the mundane and nightmares offer guidance as well as fear. Even when... (more)

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

by David Wojnarowicz

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation --... (more)

Platero Y Yo/ Platero And I (Clasicos Edebe)

Platero Y Yo/ Platero And I (Clasicos Edebe)

by Juan Ramon Jimenez

Alabaster

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched backroads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel - or perhaps only voices in her head - searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. Caitli-n R. Kiernan first introduced Dancy in the pages of her award-winning second novel, Threshold (2001), then went on to write several more short... (more)

Daughter Of Hounds

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

They're known as the Children of the Cuckoo. Stolen from their cribs and raised by ghouls, the changelings serve the creatures who rule the world Below and despise the world Above. Any human contact is strictly forbidden and punishment is swift and severe for those who disobey. Eight years ago, Emmie Silvey was born on Halloween while a full moon rose in the sky. Raised in Providence by her widower father,... (more)

Threshold

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Chance Matthews is drawn into a battle between angels and monsters because of something in her possession-a fossil of a creature that couldn't possibly have ever existed. But it did. And still does.

Low Red Moon

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Several years after the events in Threshold, Chance and Deacon have married. They're looking ahead to the future, trying to put the past behind them. But new nightmares await them as a woman with a need for violence enters their lives. And something even worse has followed her...

Murder of Angels

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Ten years ago, Niki Ky and Daria Parker saw something unspeakable in an old house in Birmingham, Alabama. Daria has denied it, escaping into a frantic music career and various addictions. But Niki has not had so many distractions. Diagnosed schizophrenic, she's lost years in a haze of therapy and anti-psychotics. But now, Niki's dead lover, Spyder Baxter, is calling to her from another world-an alien,... (more)

The Five of Cups

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

Tales of Pain and Wonder

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

This collection of twenty-two short stories by the author of Daughter of Hounds and Alabaster, originally published in 2000, firmly established CaitlÃn R. Kiernan as one of the preeminent voices in dark fantasy today. Through a cycle of interconnected narratives, Kiernan unflinchingly explores a surreal world where the fantastic and the mundane are never separated by more than the insubstantial thickness of a... (more)

Silk

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

"An extraordinary achievement" (Clive Barker) from the author of the acclaimed novel Threshold -this is the fiction debut that won the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.

From Weird and Distant ShoresCaitlin R. Kiernan, Poppy Z. Brite

From Weird and Distant Shores

by Caitlin R. Kiernan, Poppy Z. Brite

From Weird and Distant Shores: This collection of thirteen short stories by the award-winning author of Silk and Tales of Pain and Wonder establishes Caitlin R. Kiernan as one of today's most versatile fantasists. Spanning and transcending the fields of fantasy, dark fantasy, and science fiction, these stories include some of Kiernan's early and hard-to-find work, and explore the limits of that ubiquitous bane of... (more)

Tales of Pain & Wonder

by Caitlin R. Kiernan, Richard Kirk

The Consolation of Philosophyboethius

The Consolation of Philosophy

by boethius

Singing Innocence And Experience

by Sonya Taaffe

The Devil's School lies down this way. Lot's wife knows your name. Hearts hang in the scales, flesh and clay are one and the same, and the severed head of Orpheus sings in winter waves. In award-winning poet Sonya Taaffe's first collection of short fiction, the boundaries between worlds dissolve to reveal unmasked harlequins and women made of stars, serpentine plagues and New England storm gods, and many other... (more)

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by Richard Brautigan

by Richard Brautigan

by Richard Brautigan

by Arthur Rimbaud

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

by David Wojnarowicz

by Juan Ramon Jimenez

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

by Caitlin R. Kiernan

by Caitlin R. Kiernan, Poppy Z. Brite

by Caitlin R. Kiernan, Richard Kirk

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by Sonya Taaffe