Devarsi's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:10:30 -0700 60 Devarsi's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Dark Entries 10552013 (Out of print).

Contents:
"Introduction by Glen Cavaliero, "The School Friend", "Ringing the Changes", "Choice of Weapons", "The Waiting Room", "The View" and "Bind Your Hair".

As Dr Glen Cavaliero states in his introduction to this new edition of Dark Entries, "It is Robert Aickman's peculiar achievement that he should invest the daylight world with all the terrors of the night".

Dark Entries was the first solo collection of "strange stories" by British short story writer, critic, lecturer and novelist, Robert Aickman. First published in 1964 it contains the classic "Ringing the Changes" and perhaps Aickman's best femme fatale in "Choice of Weapons." The version of "The View" is slightly re-written from its first appearance in We are for the Dark.]]> 197 Robert Aickman 1905784325 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.02 1964 Dark Entries
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]]> <![CDATA[Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)]]> 195790851 Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into the stickiest of webs.

Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider once lived. Its silk granted its first worshippers immense faculties of power and awe.

It’s now 1923 and Veronica Brinkley is touching down on the moon for her intake at the Barrowfield Home for Treatment of the Melancholy. A renowned facility, Dr. Barrington Cull’s invasive and highly successful treatments have been lauded by many. And they’re so simple! All it takes is a little spider silk in the amygdala, maybe a strand or two in the prefrontal cortex, and perhaps an inch in the hippocampus for near evisceration of those troublesome thoughts and ideas.

But trouble lurks in many a mind at this facility and although the spider’s been dead for years, its denizens are not. Someone or something is up to no good, and Veronica just might be the cause.]]> 88 Nathan Ballingrud 1250291739 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.96 2024 Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)
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]]> Mean Spirited 204350947
Matt Matheny teaches during the day, drinks at night, and barely hides his functioning alcoholism from his veterinarian ex-wife, Lucy, and his six-year-old son, Mikey. His world spirals out of control when a former student is killed, and he's left with her dog, Conehead. But something isn't right with Conehead. A dark presence follows him, and very soon, people around him die. Matt realizes the only way to protect his son is to sober up and work with Lucy to expose the dog’s mysterious past and face a secret so shocking—an evil so relentless—that it threatens to unleash hell on an entire town.

This horror novel pays homage to Stephen King’s Cujo, and films like It Follows and The Strangers. It is a haunting and suspenseful exploration of the unseen and the supernatural, set against the seemingly tranquil backdrop of rural West Virginia. Nick Roberts masterfully builds tension and atmosphere, creating a sense of impending doom with meticulous detailing and vivid imagery. The psychological exploration elevates the narrative, making Mean Spirited a compelling read for those who seek a blend of horror, mystery, and emotional depth.

Whether you are a seasoned fan of the genre or a curious newcomer, Mean Spirited promises a gripping and thought-provoking journey into the realms of the supernatural.]]> 325 Nick Roberts Devarsi 0 to-read 4.23 2024 Mean Spirited
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]]> Walk The Darkness Down 43817636
Levi is a monstrous man—made of scars and scary as hell, he’s glutted on ghosts and evolving to carry out the dark wishes of the ancient whispers in his head. He’s building a door and what’s on the other side is terrifying.

Jones spent a lot of time living bottle to bottle and trying to erase things. Now he’s looking for the man who killed his mother and maybe a little bit of looking or himself as well.

Keaton is on the run from accusations as well as himself, he suffers alone until he meets Jubal, an orphaned boy with his little sisters in a sling.

Every line is not a straight line and everything must converge. A parable writ in dust and blood on warped barn wood. A journey in the classic sense, populated with dried husks of towns� and people both odd and anything but ordinary. Hornets, reverse-werewolves and one of the most vicious villains you’ll ever know are all part of it.

Pull on your boots and saddle up, we’ll Walk The Darkness Down.]]> 154 John Boden Devarsi 0 to-read 4.16 2019 Walk The Darkness Down
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]]> The Gone World 33413556 Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind...

Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family--and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.

Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself.

Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.]]> 400 Tom Sweterlitsch 0399167501 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.90 2018 The Gone World
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]]> <![CDATA[Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies]]> 60040191
John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten new tales of cosmic horror in Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of 21st century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.

Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by Sarah Langan.]]> 304 John Langan 1956252010 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.07 2022 Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies
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]]> Martyr! 139400713 Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 331 Kaveh Akbar 0593537610 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.23 2024 Martyr!
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]]> In Ascension 197063361
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms � what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings. Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency.

Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.

Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars,In Ascensionis a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how � no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope � we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.]]> 496 Martin MacInnes 0802163467 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.70 2023 In Ascension
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]]> <![CDATA[I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom]]> 203578812 A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.

But there are rules:

He cannot look inside the box.
He cannot ask questions.
He cannot tell anyone.
They must leave immediately.
He must leave all trackable devices behind.

As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.

The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.]]> 400 Jason Pargin 125028595X Devarsi 0 to-read 3.98 2024 I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
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]]> Orbital 123136728 207 Samantha Harvey 0802161545 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.57 2023 Orbital
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]]> <![CDATA[What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)]]> 127306440
Retired soldier Alex Easton returns in a horrifying new adventure.

After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia.

In theory, one can find relaxation in even the coldest and dampest of Gallacian autumns, but when Easton arrives, they find the caretaker dead, the lodge in disarray, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence. The villagers whisper that a breath-stealing monster from folklore has taken up residence in Easton’s home. Easton knows better than to put too much stock in local superstitions, but they can tell that something is not quite right in their home. . . or in their dreams.]]> 151 T. Kingfisher 1250830850 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.78 2024 What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)
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]]> Bury Your Gays 195790870 From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead.

Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for years, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale�"for the algorithm"―Misha discovers that it's not that simple.

As he is haunted by his past, and past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right―before it's too late.]]> 295 Chuck Tingle 1250874653 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.14 2024 Bury Your Gays
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]]> House of Bone and Rain 203163914 In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME, a group of five teenage boys, living in Puerto Rico, seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered; a doomed tale of devotion and the afterlife of violence.

For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas was Gabe’s grandmother’s refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time is different. Bimbo's mom has been shot dead. We’re gonna kill the guys who killed her Bimbo swears. And they all agree.

Feral with grief, Bimbo has become unrecognizable, taking no prisoners in his search for names. Soon, they learn Maria was gunned down by guys working for the drug kingpin of Puerto Rico. No one has ever gone up against him and survived. As the boys strategize, a storm gathers far from the coast. Hurricanes are known to carry evil spirits in their currents and bring them ashore, spirits which impose their own order.

Blurring the boundaries between myth, mysticism, and the grim realities of our world, House of Bone and Rain is a harrowing coming of age story; a doomed tale of devotion, the afterlife of violence, and what rolls in on the tide.]]> 345 Gabino Iglesias 0316427012 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.84 2024 House of Bone and Rain
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]]> The God of the Woods 199700434 When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide.

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.]]> 478 Liz Moore 0593418913 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.10 2024 The God of the Woods
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]]> You Like It Darker 201242757 From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,� writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,� and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

“Two Talented Bastids� explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,� a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,� a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,� a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man� asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.

King’s ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.]]> 512 Stephen King 1668037718 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.16 2024 You Like It Darker
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]]> <![CDATA[My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror]]> 219599
Destined to be a cult classic, this tale of corporate horror and demonic retribution will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been disgruntled at work.

Also contains the stories "I Have A Special Plan For This World" and "The Nightmare Network".]]> 200 Thomas Ligotti 0965943372 Devarsi 5 3.89 2002 My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror
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]]> The Open Curtain 146770


When Rudd, a troubled teenager, embarks on a school project, he runs across a series of articles from the 1902 New York Times chronicling a vicious murder committed by the grandson of Brigham Young. Delving deeply into the Mormon ritual of blood sacrifice used in the murders, Rudd, along with his newly discovered half-brother, Lael, becomes swept up in the psychological and atavistic effects of this violent, antique ritual.


As the past and the present become an increasingly tangled knot, Rudd is found at the scene of a multiple murder at a remote campsite with minor injuries and few memories. Lyndi, the daughter of the victims, tries to help Rudd recover his memory and, together, they find a strength unique to survivors of terrible tragedies. But Rudd, desperate to protect Lyndi and unable to let the past be still, tries to manipulate their Mormon wedding ceremony to trick the priests (and God) by giving himself and Lyndi new secret names—names that match the killer and the victim in the one hundred-year-old murder. The nightmare has just begun . . .

]]> 223 Brian Evenson 1566891884 Devarsi 5 3.89 2006 The Open Curtain
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]]> Audition 3392668
Of the thousands who apply, Aoyama only has eyes for Yamasaki Asami, a young, beautiful, delicate and talented ballerina with a turbulent past. But there is more to her than Aoyama, blinded by his infatuation, can see, and by the time he discovers the terrifying truth it may be too late�

Ryu Murakami delivers his most subtle and disturbing novel yet, confirming him as Japan’s master of the psycho-thriller.]]> 208 Ryū Murakami 0747589488 Devarsi 3 3.51 1997 Audition
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average rating: 3.51
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]]> In the Miso Soup 17810
From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psycho-thriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this shocking, hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo’s sex industry.]]> 217 Ryū Murakami 014303569X Devarsi 4 3.63 1997 In the Miso Soup
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average rating: 3.63
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rating: 4
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]]> The Gun 25241930
On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, beside which lies a gun. From the moment Nishikawa decides to take the gun, the world around him blurs. Knowing he possesses the weapon brings an intoxicating sense of purpose to his dull university life. But soon Nishikawa’s personal entanglements become unexpectedly he finds himself romantically involved with two women while his biological father, whom he’s never met, lies dying in a hospital. Through it all, he can’t stop thinking about the gun—and the four bullets loaded in its chamber. As he spirals into obsession, his focus is consumed by one that possessing the gun is no longer enough—he must fire it.]]> 198 Fuminori Nakamura 1616955902 Devarsi 4 3.55 2003 The Gun
author: Fuminori Nakamura
name: Devarsi
average rating: 3.55
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rating: 4
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]]> The Thief 12296546
The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn’t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections.... But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, and offers him a job he can’t refuse. It’s an easy job: tie up an old rich man, steal the contents of the safe. No one gets hurt. Only the day after the job does he learn that the old man was a prominent politician, and that he was brutally killed after the robbery. And now the Thief is caught in a tangle even he might not be able to escape.]]> 211 Fuminori Nakamura 1616950218 Devarsi 4 3.50 2009 The Thief
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]]> My Annihilation 59241078
Turn this page, and you may forfeit your entire life.

With My Annihilation, Fuminori Nakamura, master of literary noir, has constructed a puzzle box of a narrative in the form of a confessional diary that implicates its reader in a heinous crime.

Delving relentlessly into the darkest corners of human consciousness, My Annihilation interrogates the unspeakable thoughts all humans share that can be monstrous when brought to life, revealing with disturbing honesty the psychological motives of a killer.]]> 264 Fuminori Nakamura 1641292725 Devarsi 3 3.34 2016 My Annihilation
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]]> Everybody Knows 61030532 Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.”� As a “black-bag� publicist tasked not with letting the good news out but keeping the bad news in, Mae works for one of LA’s most powerful and sought-after crisis PR firms, at the center of a sprawling web of lawyers, PR flaks, and private security firms she calls “The Beast.� They protect the rich and powerful and depraved by any means necessary.

After her boss is gunned down in front of the Beverly Hills Hotel in a random attack, Mae takes it upon herself to investigate and runs headfirst into The Beast’s lawless machinations and the twisted systems it exists to perpetuate. It takes her on a roving neon joyride through a Los Angeles full of influencers pumped full of pills and fillers; sprawling mansions footsteps away from sprawling homeless encampments; crooked cops and mysterious wrecking crews in the middle of the night.

Edgar Award-winner Jordan Harper’s EVERYBODY KNOWS is addicting and alarming, a “juggernaut of a novel� and “an absolute tour de force.� It is what the crime novel can achieve in the modern age: portray the human lives at the center of vast American landscapes, and make us thrill at their attempts to face impossible odds.]]> 352 Jordan Harper 0316457914 Devarsi 4 3.66 2023 Everybody Knows
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]]> All the Sinners Bleed 61884832 A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.

Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.

Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. Those festering secrets are now out in the open and ready to tear the town apart.

As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history.

Powerful and unforgettable, All the Sinners Bleed confirms S. A. Cosby as “one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction� (The Washington Post).]]> 338 S.A. Cosby 1250831911 Devarsi 3 to-read 4.19 2023 All the Sinners Bleed
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]]> Razorblade Tears 54860585 A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance.

Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid.

The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah’s white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss.

Derek’s father Buddy Lee was almost as ashamed of Derek for being gay as Derek was ashamed his father was a criminal. Buddy Lee still has contacts in the underworld, though, and he wants to know who killed his boy.

Ike and Buddy Lee, two ex-cons with little else in common other than a criminal past and a love for their dead sons, band together in their desperate desire for revenge. In their quest to do better for their sons in death than they did in life, hardened men Ike and Buddy Lee will confront their own prejudices about their sons and each other, as they rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250252708]]> 336 S.A. Cosby Devarsi 4 4.08 2021 Razorblade Tears
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]]> American Rapture 203579244 370 C.J. Leede 1250857929 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.07 2024 American Rapture
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]]> Model Home 205363963
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.

As adults, the siblings could finally get away from the horrors of home, leaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents' death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to Texas with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family’s past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away. It was not a “natural� death for their parents . . . but was it supernatural?

Rivers Solomon turns the haunted-house story on its head, unearthing the dark legacies of segregation and racism in the suburban American South. Unbridled, raw, and daring, Model Home is the story of secret histories uncovered, and of a queer family battling for their right to live, grieve, and heal amid the terrors of contemporary American life.]]> 304 Rivers Solomon 0374607133 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.73 2024 Model Home
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]]> The Night Guest 127306444
Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven't revealed any cause.

When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same � have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.

Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .

What is happening when she’s asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won’t anyone believe her?]]> 197 Hildur Knútsdóttir 1250322049 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.30 2021 The Night Guest
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]]> William 203164421 Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read � a haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI.

Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career � he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William.

No one knows about William. Henry’s agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on his project keeps him up in the attic, away from everyone, including his pregnant wife, Lily.

When Lily’s coworkers show up, wanting to finally meet Henry and see the new house � the smartest of smart homes � Henry decides to introduce them to William, and things go from strange to much worse. Soon Henry and Lily discover the security upgrades intended to keep danger out of the house are even better at locking it in.]]> 224 Mason Coile 0593719603 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.52 2024 William
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]]> <![CDATA[Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)]]> 380558 170 Lawrence Block 0752827499 Devarsi 4 3.82 1976 Time to Murder and Create (Matthew Scudder, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)]]> 39507 The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer—a minister's son—hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's father has come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private investigator in search of terrible truths about a life that was lived and lost in a sordid world of perversion and pleasures.

]]> 182 Lawrence Block 0752834525 Devarsi 4 3.87 1976 The Sins of the Fathers (Matthew Scudder, #1)
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]]> The Ax 176811
Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search -- with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild-mannered middle manager to ruthless murderer, he discovers skills ne never knew ne had -- and that come to him far too easily.]]> 352 Donald E. Westlake 0446606081 Devarsi 4 3.92 1997 The Ax
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]]> Terminal Park 55615861 —Tony Burgess, author of Pontypool Changes Everything

“Gary J. Shipley's writing has a way of making every form he works within advance, in an overarching sense, such that the next exciting thing you read, no matter how advanced, is rendered a jalopy.�
—Dennis Cooper, author of The Marbled Swarm

“The world is a void and there are no more prophets left to serve. There is still vision, however, and Shipley's is one we might all surrender to.�
—Travis Jeppesen, author of The Suiciders

“Shipley's writing is important because it's a fearless attempt to advance the art of literature, to force us to breathe something, to drown in something, to bloody our hands. It's an unforgettable experience.�
�3:AM Magazine]]> 208 Gary J. Shipley 173356943X Devarsi 1 DNF. 3.64 2020 Terminal Park
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]]> <![CDATA[You Bright and Risen Angels (Contemporary American Fiction)]]> 45633 You Bright and Risen Angels is the work of an extraordinary imagination. In this free-wheeling novel of epic proportions, William T. Vollmann has crafted a biting, hilarious satire of history, technology, politics, and misguided love.]]> 635 William T. Vollmann 0140110879 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.05 1987 You Bright and Risen Angels (Contemporary American Fiction)
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]]> Bedlam 124942397 —B.R. Yeager, author of Negative Space

"Elsby's easy tone and accessible prose conceals a complex malignant design. The naked mind speaks from an isolated place inside the cruelty of everyday power structures with flat affect, leaving the reader to sort out the relentless inequity, outrage, and pain. Bedlam is exactly the kind of brilliant and unapologetic trauma I crave."
—Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and Convulsive

"In a series of scathing monologues, Bedlam is searching for an exit, craving for escape while stuck detailing the minutiae that keep us in place (the hairdos, the joggers, the dick pics, the doors, the death, the men...), as our new lives wait indefinitely—aging badly, somewhere in the near distance, before they’ve even begun."
—Gary J. Shipley, author of Terminal Park

"Elsby taps into the worst parts of ourselves and presents them as mundane grotesquery. The cruel things people do to one another daily are presented in a chilling, matter of fact way alongside passages of interiority that terrify because one might see them as a mirror. That's the true, wicked power of Bedlam."
—Anthony Dragonetti, author of Confidence Man]]> 132 Charlene Elsby 1954899467 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.24 Bedlam
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]]> Visions 25229837
“Troy James Weaver’s novel unravels the typical coming-of-age story. It erases the distinction between finding and losing your voice, becoming enlightened by a vision and swallowed by darkness. The plot moves at a breathless pace and the unsettling details linger, hovering at the edge of what can be fully understood.� —Jeff Jackson, author of Mira Corpora

“A noir fueled as much by the dread of what might happen as what actually occurs, with a narrator teetering on the edge of something very dark indeed. Beautifully sparse and precise, like someone tapping softly on your skull with a ball-peen hammer trying to feel out the perfect place to crack it open.� —Brian Evenson, author of Windeye and A Collapse of Horses

“Visions moves at a manic pace reminiscent of Hannah’s Ray. The story breathes, bleeds, pulses. It’s fragmented yet fluid, bleak but not without hope. Don’t be fooled by the thin spine - you may blaze through this book in an afternoon but it will burn a hole in your head. Weaver speaks the truth and I hope to hell everybody is listening.� —Nat Baldwin, musician (Dirty Projectors)

“Untimely death, Richard Ramirez, child abuse, violence, poverty, loneliness� somehow Troy James Weaver is able to take all these ugly facets of humanity and combine them into something so beautiful that it feels almost holy.� —Juliet Escoria, author of Black Cloud

“Visions is a coming-of-age, Harmony Korine-style, This Boy’s Life-meets-Wise Blood fever dream that Troy James Weaver carved into some Ouija board he later used to summon the spirits of David Koresh, Jesus Christ, and Richard Ramirez. I can’t even begin to tell you how insane and beautiful this book is.� —Brian Alan Ellis, author of Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty

“Troy James Weaver’s Visions is a smart and disturbing book, told in a voice as haunting as the cultish world it portrays. All those strange voices and visions packed into this slim novella, rendered with an honest complexity make this a remarkable achievement. I’m glad to have read it.� —Brandon Hobson, author of Deep Ellum]]> 134 Troy James Weaver 1940885175 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.24 2015 Visions
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]]> Stag Dance 215362032 In this collection of one novel and three stories, bestselling author Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.

In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a woman, he finds himself caught in a strange rivalry with a pretty young jack, provoking a cascade of obsession, jealousy, and betrayal that will culminate on the big night in an astonishing vision of gender and transition.

Three startling stories surround Stag Dance: “Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones� imagines a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend. In “The Chaser,� a secret romance between roommates at a Quaker boarding school brings out intrigue and cruelty. In the last story, “The Masker,� a party weekend on the Las Vegas strip turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between two guides: a handsome mystery man who objectifies her in thrilling ways, or a cynical veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.

Acidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of George Saunders or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles, and delights.]]> 304 Torrey Peters 0593595645 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.09 2025 Stag Dance
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]]> Libra 400
In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.

A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.]]> 480 Don DeLillo 0140156046 Devarsi 4 great-books
Lee Harvey Oswald, a cautionary tale, such a Fool.

"Limits everywhere. In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness."

A novel like this, or 2666, leaves you with emptiness. You feel like "a zero in the system".

The cosmic nihilism of all plots.

"Plots carry their own logic. There is a tendency of plots to move toward death."

What a brilliant book. A remarkable experience.]]> 4.05 1988 Libra
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A novel this good will spoil you.

Lee Harvey Oswald, a cautionary tale, such a Fool.

"Limits everywhere. In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness."

A novel like this, or 2666, leaves you with emptiness. You feel like "a zero in the system".

The cosmic nihilism of all plots.

"Plots carry their own logic. There is a tendency of plots to move toward death."

What a brilliant book. A remarkable experience.
]]> Amygdalatropolis 34008649
Scott Wilson, author of Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism

Yeager's haphephobic protagonist /1404er/ has got over reality, family or the social and moved on - to a somewhat more tenable amnion of snuff porn, clickbait and casual online scapegoating. Amygdalatropolis inhabits our post-truth heterotopia like some virulent new literary life form, perfectly tooled for the death of worlds.

David Roden, author of Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human]]> 154 B.R. Yeager 1537789112 Devarsi 4 3.69 2017 Amygdalatropolis
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]]> True Detection 23173434 272 Gary J. Shipley 0692277374 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.17 2014 True Detection
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]]> <![CDATA[Serial Killing: A Philosophical Anthology]]> 26050194
� Nick Land, author of Templexity: Disordered Loops through Shanghai Time (Urbanatomy, 2014)


We simultaneously love and hate serial killers: we dread them, and yet we are fascinated by them. Both in reality, and in books and television shows, serial killers seem to stand at the very edge of what is possible, or of what is human. The essays in this volume push to the extremes of philosophy, and of art and literature, in order to speak to our uneasy relationship with what we both desire and abhor.

� Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University, author of The Universe of Things (UMP, 2014)


Serial Killing leaves behind the analysis of the serial killer as a romantic anti-hero, diagnostic category of psychopathology or sociological symptom to offer a collection of essays that infuses the conventional delusions of critical distance with the passionate, homicidal embrace of loving neighborliness. The theoretical, photographic and fictional essays in this volume take the serial killer as an object of both philosophical speculation and spiritual contemplation. In a brilliant cornucopia of styles and obsessions, serial killing becomes, among many other things: the touchstone of common in-humanity, a form of sacrifice and mystical rite, a leisure activity, a kind of bloody ikebana, a kaligraphic and auto-graphic mode of self-portraiture and flesh inscription, the meta-relational emanation of immanent suffering, a form of kleptomancy, an expression of neoliberal love, an ascetic practice of cosmic joy. It is properly mad.

� Scott Wilson, Kingston University, author of Stop Making Sense (Karnac, 2015)


One of the deepest and darkest truths in psychoanalysis is about the serial nature of the object. We pretend that it is unique, irreplaceable, singular, but it isn't, and it always exists as part of a multiple whose secret truth, to our real horror, is the emptiness or nothing at the center of this excess. In this fascinating collection of essays edited by Edia Connole and Gary Shipley we find out about this serial perversion of everyday life.

� Jamieson Webster, Eugene Lang College, author of Stay! Illusion (Vintage, 2014)]]> 428 Edia Connole 1515154858 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.14 2015 Serial Killing: A Philosophical Anthology
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Traitor (Alexander Vasin #2)]]> 55835473 An electrifying new thriller set during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, seen from a bone-chilling vantage point: somewhere off the Florida coastline, trapped aboard the claustrophobic confines of an isolated Soviet submarine with open orders to fire its nuclear payload. For fans of Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.

The year is 1962, and KGB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin is chasing a white elephant: the long-rumored existence of an American spy embedded at the highest echelon of Soviet power. In a wild goose chase that has Vasin engaged in high-stakes espionage against a rival State agency, he first hears whispers of an ominous top-secret undertaking: Operation Anadyr.

As tensions flare between Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy over Russian missiles hidden in Cuba, four Soviet submarines are ordered to make a covert run at the American blockade in the Caribbean--each sub carrying tactical ballistic missiles armed with thermonuclear warheads.

Critically acclaimed novelist Owen Matthews has crafted an incredibly taut thriller around one of the most treacherous moments in modern history, where the fate of the world rested with the itchy trigger finger of one lone Soviet naval officer, 100 meters under the sea, out of all contact with his commanders.]]> 336 Owen Matthews 0385543425 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.02 2021 Red Traitor (Alexander Vasin #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Sun (Alexander Vasin #1)]]> 42037331 'One of the best thrillers of recent years . . . a tour-de-force. It drips with authenticity from every page . . . a page-turning, thumping good read' DAVID YOUNG, bestselling author of Stasi Child

'An outstanding first novel . . . Matthews writes superbly' SUNDAY TIMES 'Crime Book of the Month'

1961. Hidden deep within central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn’t appear on any a city called Arzamas-16. Here a community of dedicated scientists and technicians is building the most powerful nuclear device the world will ever see � three thousand times more powerful than Hiroshima.

But days before the bomb is to be tested, a young physicist is found dead. His body contains enough radioactive poison to kill thousands. The Arzamas authorities believe it is suicide � they want the corpse disposed of, the incident filed and forgotten. But Moscow is alarmed by what’s going on in this strange, isolated place.

And so KGB major Alexander Vasin is sent to investigate. What he finds in Arzamas is unlike anything he’s experienced before. His wits will be tested against some of the most brilliant minds in the Soviet Union � eccentrics, patriots and dissidents who, because their work is considered to be of such vital national importance, have been granted the freedom to think and act, live and love as they wish. For in Arzamas, nothing can be allowed to get in the way of the project. Not even murder . . .

Intricately researched, cunningly plotted and brilliantly told, Black Sun is a fast-paced and timely thriller set at the height � and in the heart � of Soviet power.]]> 309 Owen Matthews 0385543409 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.77 2019 Black Sun (Alexander Vasin #1)
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]]> Eumeswil 685063 300 Ernst Jünger 0704302292 Devarsi 0 to-read 0.0 1977 Eumeswil
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]]> <![CDATA[Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy]]> 41793197
In Key Thinkers of the Radical Right , sixteen expert scholars explain sixteen thinkers, providing an introduction to their life and work, a guide to their thought, and an explanation of their work's reception. The chapters focus on thinkers who are widely read across the political right in both Europe and America, such as Julius Evola, Alain de Benoist, and Richard B. Spencer. Featuring classic, modern, and emerging thinkers, this selection provides a good representation of the intellectual right and avoids making political or value judgments. In an increasingly polarized political environment, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right offers a comprehensive and unbiased introduction to the thinkers who form the foundation of the radical right.]]> 352 Mark Sedgwick 0190877596 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.72 Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy
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]]> <![CDATA[The World as a Mathematical Game: John von Neumann and Twentieth Century Science (Science Networks. Historical Studies, 38)]]> 6190831
"]]> 220 Giorgio Israel 3764398957 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.47 2008 The World as a Mathematical Game: John von Neumann and Twentieth Century Science (Science Networks. Historical Studies, 38)
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]]> Public Opinion 920442 288 Walter Lippmann 0684833271 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.97 1922 Public Opinion
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century]]> 1224123 721 John Brewer 0374234582 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.17 1997 The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
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]]> <![CDATA[The World the Game Theorists Made]]> 23167546
The World the Game Theorists Made seeks to explain the ascendency of game theory, focusing on the poorly understood period between the publication of John von Neumann and Oscar Morgenstern’s seminal Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944 and the theory’s revival in economics in the 1980s. Drawing on a diverse collection of institutional archives, personal correspondence and papers, and interviews, Paul Erickson shows how game theory offered social scientists, biologists, military strategists, and others a common, flexible language that could facilitate wide-ranging thought and debate on some of the most critical issues of the day.]]> 384 Paul Erickson 022609703X Devarsi 0 to-read 4.33 2015 The World the Game Theorists Made
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]]> <![CDATA[Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future]]> 34146147
Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and economic outcomes of this? Where is the overheating world heading?

To further the struggle for climate justice, we need to have some idea how the existing global order is likely to adjust to a rapidly changing environment. Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform the world’s political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The result will be a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying eventuality that makes the construction of viable, radical alternatives truly imperative.]]> 224 Joel Wainwright 1786634295 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.63 2018 Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History]]> 53163683
Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was a radical political organization that stood in defiant contrast to the mainstream civil rights movement. This gripping illustrated history explores the impact and significance of the Panthers, from their social, educational, and healthcare programs that were designed to uplift the Black community to their battle against police brutality through citizen patrols and frequent clashes with the FBI, which targeted the Party from its outset.

Using dramatic comic book-style retellings and illustrated profiles of key figures, The Black Panther Party captures the major events, people, and actions of the party, as well as their cultural and political influence and enduring legacy.]]> 183 David F. Walker 1984857703 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.44 2021 The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fierce and Beautiful World]]> 113229
In December 2007 The Fierce and Beautiful World will be superseded by Soul (978-159017-254-4) , a new translation of eight of Platonov's stories.]]> 264 Andrei Platonov 0940322331 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.31 1970 The Fierce and Beautiful World
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]]> The Wisdom of Life 21182 In The Wisdom of Life, an essay from Schopenhauer's final work, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), the philosopher favors individual strength of will and independent, reasoned deliberation over the tendency to act on irrational impulses.

He examines the ways in which life can be arranged to derive the highest degree of pleasure and success, presents guidelines to achieving this full and rich manner of living, and advises that even a life well lived must always aspire to grander heights. Abounding in subjects of enduring relevance, Schopenhauer's highly readable work appears here in an excellent translation.]]> 77 Arthur Schopenhauer 0486435504 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.18 1851 The Wisdom of Life
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]]> <![CDATA[Avant-Garde Film (23) (Avant-garde Critical Studies)]]> 3185371 416 Alexander Graf 9042023058 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.67 2007 Avant-Garde Film (23) (Avant-garde Critical Studies)
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]]> <![CDATA[Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print]]> 8739579
In this completely revised and updated second edition, Renni Browne and Dave King teach you, the writer, how to apply the editing techniques they have developed to your own work. Chapters on dialogue, exposition, point of view, interior monologue, and other techniques take you through the same processes an expert editor would go through to perfect your manuscript. Each point is illustrated with examples, many drawn from the hundreds of books Browne and King have edited.]]> 292 Renni Browne 0062012908 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.34 1993 Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print
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]]> <![CDATA[Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind]]> 61871754
“Jay is a leading expert on the history of Western drug use, and Psychonauts is the latest in a series of excellent studies in which he has investigated the roots of a kind of psychoactive exploration that we tend to associate with the nineteen-fifties and sixties.”—Clare Bucknell, New Yorker

“Captivating. . . . A welcome reconsideration of the role drugs play in life, medicine, and science.”� Publishers Weekly

Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by experimenting on themselves. Vivid descriptions of drug experiences sparked insights across the mind sciences, pharmacology, medicine, and philosophy. Accounts in journals and literary fiction inspired a fascinated public to make their own experiments—in scientific demonstrations, on exotic travels, at literary salons, and in occult rituals.

But after 1900 drugs were increasingly viewed as a social problem, and the long tradition of self-experimentation began to disappear.

From Sigmund Freud’s experiments with cocaine to William James’s epiphany on nitrous oxide, Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism. Today, as we embrace novel cognitive enhancers and psychedelics, the experiments of the original psychonauts reveal the deep influence of mind-altering drugs on Western science, philosophy, and culture.]]> 376 Mike Jay 0300257945 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.83 Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
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]]> <![CDATA[The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (The Early Modern Americas)]]> 45214544
Focusing on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen examines the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed. He then turns his attention to the British Empire, arguing that it owed much of its success in this period to its usurpation of the Portuguese drug networks. From the sickly sweet tobacco that helped finance the Atlantic slave trade to the cannabis that an East Indies merchant sold to the natural philosopher Robert Hooke in one of the earliest European coffeehouses, Breen shows how drugs have been entangled with science and empire from the very beginning.

Featuring numerous illuminating anecdotes and a cast of characters that includes merchants, slaves, shamans, prophets, inquisitors, and alchemists, The Age of Intoxication rethinks a history of drugs and the early drug trade that has too often been framed as opposites—between medicinal and recreational, legal and illegal, good and evil. Breen argues that, in order to guide drug policy toward a fairer and more informed course, we first need to understand who and what set the global drug trade in motion.]]> 304 Benjamin Breen 0812251784 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.77 The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (The Early Modern Americas)
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]]> <![CDATA[Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science]]> 145624768
"It was not the Baby Boomerswho ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressedtraditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated.American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists—and star-crossed lovers—Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster, Mead and Bateson made it their life’s missionto reshape humanitythrough a new science of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure. Mead and Bateson's partnership unlocksan untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, andthe founders of the Information Age.

As we follow Mead and Bateson’s fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guineato the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the Cold War, a new origin story forpsychedelic science emerges.]]> 384 Benjamin Breen 1538722372 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.84 2024 Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
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]]> The Devil Takes You Home 58978299
Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won’t return the same.

The Devil Takes You Home is a panoramic odyssey for fans of S.A. Cosby’s southern noir, Blacktop Wasteland, by way of the boundary-defying storytelling of Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Chicago Tribune, Vulture, Oprah Daily, CrimeReads, The Millions, and many more!

An Edgar Award Finalist � A Bram Stoker Award Winner � A Shirley Jackson Award Winner � A Book of the Month Club Pick � An August Indie Next List Selection � An ABA Indie Bestseller]]> 320 Gabino Iglesias 0316426911 Devarsi 5 great-books 3.65 2022 The Devil Takes You Home
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average rating: 3.65
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]]> Gun, With Occasional Music 16718
Metcalf has been shadowing Celeste, the wife of an affluent doctor. Perhaps he's falling a little in love with her at the same time. When the doctor turns up dead, our amiable investigator finds himself caught in a crossfire between the boys from the Inquisitor's Office and gangsters who operate out of the back room of a bar called the Fickle Muse.

Mixing elements of sci-fi, noir, and mystery, this clever first novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn is a wry, funny, and satiric look at all that the future may hold.]]> 271 Jonathan Lethem 0156028972 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.77 1994 Gun, With Occasional Music
author: Jonathan Lethem
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]]> <![CDATA[Conversations with Don DeLillo]]> 20800 White Noise, and he began to confront the historical record of our times in books such as Libra, DeLillo felt compelled to make himself available to his readers. Despite claims by interviewers about his elusiveness, he now hides in plain sight.

In Conversations with Don DeLillo, the renowned author makes clear his distinctions between historical fact and his own creative leaps, especially in his masterwork, Underworld. There it seems the true events are unbelievable and imaginary ones not. Throughout long profiles and conversations ranging from 1982 to 2001 and published in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and Rolling Stone, DeLillo parries personal inquiries. He counters with the details of his work habits, his understanding of the novelist's role in the world, and his sense of our media-saturated culture. A number of interviews detail DeLillo's less-heralded work in the theater, from The Day Room to a recent production of Valparaiso, itself a stinging satire on the interviewing process.

DeLillo also finds time to comment on his nonliterary passions, primarily the movies and baseball. Lee Harvey Oswald also inspires much extraliterary discussion, not just as the subject of Libra, but as a figure who, like the terrorists always lurking in DeLillo's fictions, captures our attention in ways novelists cannot. For DeLillo, a writer who eschews celebrity, the ultimate response might be the one he offered in his very first interview, paraphrasing Joyce: "Silence, exile, cunning, and so on. It's my nature to keep quiet about most things." Fortunately for his many readers and fans, he proves himself here to be a talker.]]> 208 Don DeLillo 1578067049 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.11 2005 Conversations with Don DeLillo
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]]> Mao II 402 The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover—and Bill's.]]> 241 Don DeLillo 0140152741 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.69 1991 Mao II
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]]> Warlock (Legends West, #1) 183199 Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction.]]> 488 Oakley Hall 1590171616 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.29 1958 Warlock (Legends West, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cold Six Thousand (Underworld USA #2)]]> 4191
In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a Las Vegas cop with family ties to the lunatic right; Ward J. Littell, a defrocked FBI man turned underworld mouthpiece; and Pete Bondurant, a dope-runner and hit-man who serves as the mob’s emissary to the anti-Castro underground.

It goes bad from there. For the next five years these night-riders run a whirlwind of plots and Howard Hughes’s takeover of Vegas, J. Edgar Hoover’s war against the civil rights movement, the heroin trade in Vietnam, and the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Wilder than L. A. Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists.]]> 688 James Ellroy 037572740X Devarsi 0 to-read 4.03 2001 The Cold Six Thousand (Underworld USA #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh]]> 23281022 Aberration in the Heartland, Painting explores Cold War popular culture, all-American apocalyptic fervor, organized racism, contentious politics, militarism, warfare, conspiracy theories, bioethical controversies, mind control, the media's construction of villains and demons, and institutional secrecy and cover-ups. All these stories are examined, compared, and tested in Aberration in the Heartland of the Real, making this book a much closer examination into the personality and life of Timothy McVeigh than has been provided by any other biographical work about him.]]> 720 Wendy S. Painting 1634240030 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.56 2015 Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh
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]]> <![CDATA[The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF]]> 222806857
This book features a mix of original English short stories and works in translation, as well as a few comics/graphic narratives. Some are by well-known superstars of Dalit and Bahujan literature, others by emerging or newly-emerged authors. The list of writers includes:

Bama, Dalit feminist icon and author of the groundbreaking novel Karukku (1992). Her brand new story "Kurali" is about a group of villagers who put on a sound & light show for some ravenous ghosts. (Translated from the Tamil by Meena Kandasamy.)

Mimi Mondal, whose fiction has twice been nominated for the Nebula Award, who co-edited a Hugo-nominated and Locus Award-winning anthology on the work of Octavia Butler, and who has written adventures for Dungeons & Dragons. (She also interned at Blaft, once upon a long, long time ago...!)

Gautamiputra Kamble, Marathi-language author of Parivrajak, a fable about two wanderers on a journey to a forbidden mountain. (In translation by Sirus Libeiro.)

Gogu Shyamala, Telugu-language author of Father May Be an Elephant and Mother Only a Small Basket, But.... (2012). Her new story is "The Mysterious Ladder." (In Translation by Divya Kalavala.)

P. A. Uthaman (1961-2008), Malayalam-language author of Chaoli, for which he posthumously won the Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for best novel in 2008. We'll be including his story "The River Didn't Know, Either", about a magical family heirloom. (In translation by Mridula Makkuni.)

Neerav Patel (1950-2019), founder of the Gujarati Dalit literary magazine Kalo Suraj ("Black Sun"). His story deals with caste oppression among the robots. (In translation by Gopika Jadeja.)

Tamilmagan, Tamil-language author of the science fiction novel Operation Nova and the collection Amila Devathaigal ("Acid Angels"). His story in this anthology is about a far-future Indian city where something very strange has happened to the agrarian class. (In translation by Nirmal Rajagopalan.)

Sumit Kumar, founder of the independent comics publisher Bakarmax, and creator of the graphic novels Amar Bari Tomar Bari Naxalbari and Kashmir ki Kahani.

Archita Mittra, whose work has been published or is forthcoming in Lightspeed, Locus Magazine, Reactor, and Strange Horizons, among other venues. She is an Ignyte Award finalist for Best Critic while her fiction and poetry have been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes.

Goutam Mandal, a Bengali science fiction novelist and thriller writer who has also translated Japanese yokai stories into Bengali. (In translation by Ipsa S. and Pratiti Ketoki.)

V. Chandrashekar Rao
Sahej Rahal
Rahee Punyashloka
Kunal Lokhande
Subash Thebe Limbu
Nabi Haider Ali
Esther Larisa David
Snehashish Das
Hameedha Khan
Aswathy K. Raj
Gouri
Gitanjali Joshua
Prachi Singh
Shivani Kshirsagar
Yukti Narang
Sudarshan Devadoss & M.K. Abhilash
Yeswanth Mocharla]]> 450 R.T. Samuel 9380636733 Devarsi 4
Standout stories: Meen Matters, The Last Radio Play, Hallucination Stream, The R.V. Society for Promotion of Underground Sci-Fi Writings, So It Was Foretold, Happily Ever After, The House is Never Clean, Parivrajak.]]> 4.22 2024 The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
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Whole greater than sum of its parts.

Standout stories: Meen Matters, The Last Radio Play, Hallucination Stream, The R.V. Society for Promotion of Underground Sci-Fi Writings, So It Was Foretold, Happily Ever After, The House is Never Clean, Parivrajak.
]]> Last Days 4309446 Last Days is a down-the-rabbit-hole detective novel set in an underground religious cult. The story follows Kline, a brutally dismembered detective forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside the cult. As Kline becomes more deeply involved with the group, he begins to realize the stakes are higher than he previously thought. Attempting to find his way through a maze of lies, threats, and misinformation, Kline discovers that his survival depends on an act of sheer will.

Last Days was first published in 2003 as a limited edition novella titled The Brotherhood of Mutilation. Its success led Evenson to expand the story into a full-length novel. In doing so, he has created a work that’s disturbing, deeply satisfying, and completely original.]]> 201 Brian Evenson 0980226007 Devarsi 4 3.71 2009 Last Days
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Re-read for the third time. Genius.
]]> Fluids 75523735
The content within this book will shock you and it is not for the faint of heart or stomach.]]> 191 May Leitz Devarsi 0 to-read 3.42 2022 Fluids
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]]> Scanlines 57687640
Or so the story goes. In truth, no one has ever seen the supposed Duncan Tape, presumably because it doesn’t exist. It’s a ghost story perpetuated on the forums and chat rooms of the internet, another handful of bytes scattered across the Information Superhighway at blistering 56K modem speeds.

For Robby and his friends, an urban legend is the last thing on their minds when a boring Friday night presents a chance to download porn. But the short clip they watch turns out to be something far more graphic and disturbing, and in the coming days, they’ll learn even the most outlandish urban legends possess a shred of truth…]]> 83 Todd Keisling Devarsi 0 to-read 3.67 2020 Scanlines
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]]> The Last Days of Jack Sparks 28765598
It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed.

Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account.

Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed - until now.]]> 336 Jason Arnopp 0356507181 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.83 2016 The Last Days of Jack Sparks
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]]> Maggie's Grave 55276075
Forty-seven residents are all that remain.

There's nothing to do there, nothing to see, except for a solitary grave near the top of the mountain.

MAGGIE WALL BURIED HERE AS A WITCH reads the faded inscription.

But sometimes the dead don't stay buried. Especially when they have unfinished business.

A relentless folk-horror nightmare from the author of The Forgotten Island, Maggie's Grave will disturb and shock in equal measure.]]> 268 David Sodergren Devarsi 0 to-read 4.04 2020 Maggie's Grave
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]]> চায়ের কাপে সাঁতার 101167204 469 Enamul Reza 9849665912 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.71 2023 চায়ের কাপে সাঁতার
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]]> <![CDATA[Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions]]> 433567 [sic � ed.], a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. "Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination." � Mathematics Teacher.]]> 96 Edwin A. Abbott 048627263X Devarsi 0 to-read 3.82 1884 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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]]> <![CDATA[Nightmare Magazine, Issue 89 (February 2020)]]> 50927111
Welcome to issue eighty-nine of NIGHTMARE! Who would have thought reading survey results could be so terrifying? Of course Adam-Troy Castro finds a way--you'll have to check out his latest original short ("Today's Question of the Day in Waverly, Ohio") to find out just how he does it. If you're a parent, 'Pemi Aguda's new short ("Things Boys Do"), will tap into some of your most uncomfortable, late night feelings. And don't worry: if you're not a parent, you'll still be creeped out! We also have reprints by Eden Royce ("Sweetgrass Blood") and Orrin Grey ("No Exit"). Writer Nino Cipri talks about hauntings and their connection to trauma in the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word." Plus we have author spotlights with our authors and a feature interview with Nicole Cushing.]]> 85 John Joseph Adams Devarsi 4 3.92 Nightmare Magazine, Issue 89 (February 2020)
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The story by 'pemi aguda was 5/5.
]]> <![CDATA[Nightmare Magazine, Issue 136 (January 2024)]]> 204618722
Welcome to issue #135 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from R.A. Busby ("Ten Thousand Crawling Children") and Andrew Snover ("The Forgetter"). Our Horror Lab originals include a creative essay ("Chase Scene") from Megan Kiekel Anderson and a poem ("In Our Bodies, There Is Heat") from Somto Ihezue. We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H Word," plus author spotlights with our authors, and a feature interview with author V. Castro.]]> 84 Nightmare Magazine Devarsi 4 4.00 Nightmare Magazine, Issue 136 (January 2024)
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The Andrew Snover story was delightful.
]]> Whispers from the Abyss 18712643
“All about that moment I love, the moment where something approaches. The moment where you close your eyes and hope it goes away. It will. But there’ll be another story right behind it. And another. And another.� -Alasdair Stuart, host of the PSEUDOPOD podcast.]]> 282 Kat Rocha Devarsi 0 to-read 3.56 2013 Whispers from the Abyss
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]]> <![CDATA[Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis]]> 30221708 When all is madness... there is no madness.

Is there wisdom in insanity? Enlightenment in blackest despair? Higher consciousness in the depths of chaos? These are the stories of the men and women who choose to cast off from the shores of our placid island of ignorance and sail the black seas of infinity beyond. Those who would dive into primeval consciousness in search of dark treasures. Thos who would risk the Deadly Light for one reason: it is still light.

Martian Migraine Press presents fifteen diverse tales of enlightenment and horror from some of the best new voices working in Weird Fiction today. Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis features poetry from Bryan Thao Worra, stories by Gord Sellar, Kristi DeMeester, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, and the groundbreaking Mythos novella from Ruthanna Emrys, The Litany of Earth. With cover art by Alix Branwyn, interior illustrations by Michael Lee Macdonald, and an introduction by editor Scott R Jones (author of When The Stars Are Right: Towards An Authentic R'lyehian Spirituality), Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis will plunge readers into a seriously entertaining contemplation of the mysticism and magic inherent to Lovecraft's fantastical world of cosmic horror and dread. Take the Cthulhusattva Vow! Enter the Black Gnosis!

Table of Contents

The Pearl in the Shadows -- Bryan Thao Worra
Keys in Stranger Deserts -- Vrai Kaiser
Mr Johnson and the Old Ones -- Jamie Mason
Antinomia -- Erica Ruppert
Heiros Gamos -- Gord Sellar
Mother's Nature -- Stefanie Elrick
At the Left Hand of Nothing -- Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
The Litany of Earth -- Ruthanna Emrys
Emperor Eternal -- Konstantine Paradias
The Wicked Shall Come Upon Him -- Kristi DeMeester
Messages -- John Linwood Grant
That Most Foreign of Veils -- Luke R J Maynard
We Three Kings -- Don Raymond
Feeding the Abyss -- Rhoads Brazos
After Randolph Carter -- Noah Wareness

Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis
edited by Scott R Jones
5.58.5� trade paperback and electronic book formats
ISBN 978-1-927673-16-4
Publication date: May 23, 2016
Distributed to the trade by Ingram]]> 206 Scott R. Jones 192767316X Devarsi 0 to-read 3.83 2016 Cthulhusattva: Tales of the Black Gnosis
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]]> A Season in Carcosa 16062930
In haunted and splintered minds� Minds shackled to lonely places�
In the unbound shadows infesting hearts of beautiful woman with frantic sensations�
In an old house where biblical thrived�
In threadbare truths, disturbed by despair, cobwebbed with illusions�
In far cold Carcosa�
Lies madness.


In A Season In Carcosa readers will find the strange and mysterious places of heart and mind that spring from madness, and those minds and the places touched by it are the realms that are mined. Chambers' legacy of the worms and soft decay that spring from reading the King In Yellow play stir both new and established talents in the world of weird fiction and horror to contribute all new tales that pay homage to these eerie nightmares. In Carcosa twilight comes and minds lost in the mirrors of lust and fear, are awash in legacies of shadows, not mercy�

Table of Contents
“My Voice is Dead� by Joel Lane
“Beyond the Banks of the River Seine� by Simon Strantzas
“Movie Night at Phil's� by Don Webb
“MS Found in a Chicago Hotel Room� by Daniel Mills
“it sees me when I’m not looking� by Gary McMahon
“Finale, Act Two� by Ann K. Schwader
“Yellow Bird Strings� by Cate Gardner
“The Theatre & Its Double� by Edward Morris
“The Hymn of the Hyades� by Richard Gavin
“Slick Black Bones and Soft Black Stars� by Gemma Files
“Not Enough Hope� by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
“Whose Hearts are Pure Gold� by Kristin Prevallet
“April Dawn� by Richard A. Lupoff
“King Wolf� by Anna Tambour
“The White-Face at Dawn� by Michael Kelly
“Wishing Well� by Cody Goodfellow
“Sweetums� by John Langan
“The King is Yellow� by Pearce Hansen
“D T� by Laird Barron
“Salvation in Yellow� by Robin Spriggs
“The Beat Hotel� by Allyson Bird]]> 292 Joseph S. Pulver Sr. 1937408000 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.63 2012 A Season in Carcosa
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]]> The Immaculate Void 34381059
When she was six, Daphne was taken into a neighbor's toolshed, and came within seconds of never coming out alive. Most of the scars healed. Except for the one that went all the way through.

"You wouldn't think that the serial murders of children, and the one who got away, would have any connection with the strange fate of one of Jupiter's moons."

Two decades later, when Daphne goes missing again, it's nothing new. As her exes might agree, running is what she does best � so her brother Tanner sets out one more time to find her. Whether in the mountains, or in his own family, search—and—rescue is what he does best.

"But it does. It's all connected. Everything's connected."

Down two different paths, along two different timelines, Daphne and Tanner both find themselves trapped in a savage hunt for the rarest people on earth, by those who would slaughter them on behalf of ravenous entities that lurk outside of time.

"So when things start to unravel, it all starts to unravel."

But in ominous signs that have traveled light—years to be seen by human eyes, and that plummet from the sky, the ultimate truth is revealed:

There are some things in the cosmos that terrify even the gods.]]> 232 Brian Hodge 1771484373 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.92 2018 The Immaculate Void
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]]> <![CDATA[Altmann's Tongue: Stories and a Novella]]> 146772 The Sanza Affair, present a chilling collection of tales in which social institutions and human relationships dissolve without warning and with mayhem. A first collection.

Brian Evenson has added an O. Henry Award–winning short story, "Two Brothers," to this controversial book and a new afterword, in which he describes the troubling aftermath of the book's publication in 1994.]]> 278 Brian Evenson 0803267444 Devarsi 0 currently-reading 4.09 1994 Altmann's Tongue: Stories and a Novella
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]]> <![CDATA[Mountain R (French Literature)]]> 216545 Mountain R relates the rise and fall of this insane project through the eyes of those involved over several decades: the President whose double-talk sets the plan in motion, a worker who, years later, tells his daughter about the disastrous consequences of the never-completed mountain, and an author commissioned to write a novel about the project. An incisive satire about the dangers of half-witted government officials who use political rhetoric to manipulate the patriotism of their constituents, Mountain R is a humorous yet disturbing allegory quite appropriate to our times.

Elected to the Oulipo in 1983, Jacques Jouet is the author of more than sixty texts in a variety of genres- novels, poetry, plays, literary criticism, and short fiction. Mountain R is part of Jouet's La République roman, a cycle of novels that also includes Fins (Ends), Une réunion pour le nettoiement (A Meeting for Cleansing), and La République de Mek-Ouyes (The Republic of Myass).]]> 143 Jacques Jouet 1564783308 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.53 1996 Mountain R (French Literature)
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]]> Electric Flesh: A Novel 146775 144 Christophe Claro 1933368233 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.80 2006 Electric Flesh: A Novel
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]]> The Future 123163147 The bestselling, award-winning author ofThe Power deliversa dazzling tour de forcewherea handful of friendsplota daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now she’s surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her father’s fox and rabbit sermon—once a parable to her—are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?

Across the world, in a mall in Singapore, Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, flees from an assassin. She’s cornered, desperate and—worst of all—might die without ever knowing what's going on. Suddenly, a remarkable piece of software appears on her phone telling her exactly how to escape. Who made it? What is it really for? And if those behind it can save her from danger, what do they want from her, and what else do they know about the future?

Martha and Zhen’s worlds are about to collide. An explosive chain of events is set in motion. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha’s relentless drive and Zhen’s insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.]]> 432 Naomi Alderman 166802568X Devarsi 0 to-read 3.82 2023 The Future
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]]> The Dimensions of a Cave 65215103 A virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption, by an electrifying debut novelist.

When the investigative reporter Quentin Jones's story about covert military interrogation practices in the Desert War is buried, he is spurred to dig deeper, and he unravels a trail that leads to VIRTUE: cutting-edge technology that simulates reality during interrogation.

As the shadowy labyrinths of governmental corruption unfurl and tighten around him, unnerving links to his protégé Bruce--who, like Joseph Conrad's Kurtz, disappeared into the war several years earlier--keep emerging.

Greg Jackson's The Dimensions of a Cave is a virtuoso journey into networks of power, our embroilment with new technologies, and the dangers of corruption. It explores our drive toward war, violence, and venality, placing humanity and idealism under the spotlight.]]> 480 Greg Jackson 0374298491 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.42 The Dimensions of a Cave
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]]> Peru 888787 191 Gordon Lish 1568580851 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.82 1986 Peru
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]]> The Ballad of Black Tom 26883558
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?]]> 149 Victor LaValle 0765387867 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.81 2016 The Ballad of Black Tom
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]]> <![CDATA[Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters]]> 3264608 256 John Langan 0809572494 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.85 2008 Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
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]]> The Sea of Ash 23433636 103 Scott Thomas Devarsi 0 to-read 4.12 2009 The Sea of Ash
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]]> They Don't Come Home Anymore 32994792 “Find a safe place to die. And make sure it is away from the people and away from the sky.�

Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author T.E. Grau delivers a tale of obsession, alienation, and a teenage girl in search of something beyond the reach of death.

But sometimes, when they journey too far, They Don’t Come Home Anymore.]]> 102 T.E. Grau 1910471038 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.86 2016 They Don't Come Home Anymore
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]]> The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky 39735942 They had escaped their country, but they couldn’t escape the past

Having lost both her home and family to a brutal dictatorship, Isabel has fled to Spain, where she watches young, bronzed beauties and tries to forget the horrors that lie in her homeland.

Shadowing her always, attired in rumpled linen suits and an eyepatch, is “The Eye,� a fellow ex-pat and poet with a notorious reputation. An unlikely friendship blossoms, a kinship of shared grief. Then The Eye receives a mysterious note and suddenly returns home, his fate uncertain.

Left with the keys to The Eye’s apartment, Isabel finds two of his secret manuscripts: a halting translation of an ancient, profane work, and an evocative testament of his capture during the revolution. Both texts bear disturbing images of blood and torture, and the more Isabel reads the more she feels the inexplicable compulsion to go home.

It means a journey deep into a country torn by war, still ruled by a violent regime, but the idea of finding The Eye becomes ineluctable. Isabel feels the manuscripts pushing her to go. Her country is lost, and now her only friend is lost, too. What must she give to get them back? In the end, she has only herself left to sacrifice.

THE SEA DREAMS IT IS THE SKY asks:

How does someone simply give up their home...especially when their home won’t let them?]]> 0 John Hornor Jacobs 0062880810 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.01 2018 The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky
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]]> <![CDATA[Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales]]> 25979991 193 Christopher Slatsky Devarsi 0 to-read 3.89 2015 Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales
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]]> <![CDATA[Agents of Dreamland (Tinfoil Dossier, #1)]]> 31189177
In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible � the Children of the Next Level � and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in.

A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from ‘other� sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact.

And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity.]]> 128 Caitlín R. Kiernan Devarsi 0 to-read 3.59 2017 Agents of Dreamland (Tinfoil Dossier, #1)
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]]> Termination Shock 57094295 A visionary technothriller about climate change.

Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.

One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as "elemental." But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?

Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming. Ultimately, it asks the question: Might the cure be worse than the disease?]]> 708 Neal Stephenson 0063028050 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.68 2021 Termination Shock
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]]> Vigil Harbor 58834839
A decade in the future, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there’s been a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set; a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world; a spurned wife is bent on revenge; and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes to withstand the escalating fury of coastal storms. Brecht, Austin’s stepson, has dropped out of college and retreated home from New York after narrowly escaping one of the domestic terrorist acts that, like hurricanes, are becoming all too common.

When two outsiders come to town—one a woman determined to solve the disappearance of a long-lost lover who links her to Austin, the other a man with subversive charms—the fates of Vigil Harbor’s residents become intertwined on one remarkable day and a long-held secret involving a selkie comes to light.

In a Time of Tempests reveals Julia Glass in all of her virtuosity, braiding together multiple voices and several dazzling strands of plot in a story that mingles mortal longings and fears with immortal mysteries of the deep as well as the heart.]]> 416 Julia Glass 1101870389 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.58 2022 Vigil Harbor
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]]> How High We Go in the Dark 57850265
Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from the plague, gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects-a pig-develops human speech; a man who, after recovering from his own coma, plans a block party for his neighbours who have also woken up to find that they alone have survived their families; and a widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.

From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humanity endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world. This is a story of unshakable hope that crosses literary lines to give us a world rebuilding itself through an endless capacity for love, resilience and reinvention. Wonderful and disquieting, dreamlike and all too possible.]]> 293 Sequoia Nagamatsu 0063072645 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.81 2022 How High We Go in the Dark
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]]> Mechanize My Hands to War 202104262
Deep in the hills of Appalachia, anti-android sentiment is building. Charismatic demagogue Eli Whitaker has used anger toward new labor policies that replace factory workers with androids to build a militia–and now he is recruiting child soldiers.

Part of a governmental task force, Adrian and Trey are determined to put a stop to Whitaker’s efforts. Their mission is complicated by their own shared childhood experiences with Whitaker. After an automated soldier shoots a child during a raid to protect Trey, both grapple with the role of androids and their use in combat.

Interrelated with the hunt for Whitaker, farmers Shay and Ernst struggle after they discover their GMO crop seeds have failed and caused a deadly illness in Shay. To help manage, they hire android employees: Sarah as hospice, and AG-15 to work the now-toxic fields. The couple’s relationship to the androids evolve as both humans get progressively more sick.

Timely and chilling, Wagner's nonlinear debut shares intimate narratives of loss, trauma, and survival as the emergence of artificial life intersects with state violence and political extremism in rural Appalachia.]]> 320 Erin K. Wagner 0756419344 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.75 2024 Mechanize My Hands to War
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]]> <![CDATA[Strange Worlds! Strange Times!]]> 42964933
What if machines meant to help humans took over their owners? Or if unending traffic jams forced Swedish detectives to levitate around the Indian city of Bluru? How did the deadly cyclone in the Bay of Bengal that had everyone on tenterhooks suddenly calm down? What does one do when killer zombies launch an attack in Chennai or when eager-to-please musical creatures refuse to go back into their pods? And did the giant Tetrahedron appear on the streets of New Delhi to help people see beyond their present reality?

Alternate worlds and futures—or pasts—have never seemed as full of potential or as visionary as in these stories by some of the best storytellers in the country, including Manjula Padmanabhan, Jerry Pinto, Vandana Singh, Srinath Perur, Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, J.C. Bose, Indra Das, Shalini Srinivasan, Zac O’Yeah, Sunando C. and Vinayak Varma. Satirical, humorous and thought-provoking, these mindboggling stories will amaze you with their depth of imagination and are a must-read for all sci-fi lovers!]]> 200 Vinayak Varma 9388326296 Devarsi 0 to-read 3.59 2018 Strange Worlds! Strange Times!
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]]> <![CDATA[Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion]]> 42359679 Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious, and subcultural frontiers, exploring a concept that is often described as 'the drone'. Harry Sword traces the line from neolithic Indo-European traditions to the modern underground by way of mid-20th Century New York, navigating a beguiling topography of archeoacoustics, ringing feedback, chest plate sub bass, avant-garde eccentricity, and fervent spiritualism.

From ancient beginnings to bawdy medieval troubadours, Sufi mystics to Indian raga masters, North Mississippi bluesmen to cone-shattering South London dub reggae sound systems, Hawkwind's Ladbroke Grove to the outer reaches of Faust, Ash Ra Temple and sonic architects like La Monte Young, Brian Eno, and John Cale, the opium-fueled fug of The Theatre of Eternal Music to the caveman doom of Saint Vitus, the cough syrup reverse hardcore of Swans to the seedy VHS hinterland of Electric Wizard, ritual amp worship of Earth and Sunn O))) and the many touch points in between, Monolithic Undertow probes the power of the drone: something capable of affording womb-like warmth or evoking cavernous dread alike.

This story does not start in the twentieth century underground: the monolithic undertow has bewitched us for millennia. The book takes the drone not as codified genre but as an audio carrier vessel deployed for purposes of ritual, personal catharsis, or sensory obliteration, revealing also a naturally occurring auditory phenomenon spanning continents and manifesting in fascinatingly unexpected places.

Monolithic Undertow will be a book about music and the very human need for transcendence and intoxication through sound. It seeks to reveal the drone as a tool of personal liberation that exists far outside the brittle confines of commodity culture.]]> 320 Harry Sword 0571349048 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.02 2020 Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
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]]> <![CDATA[The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't: The Story Of The Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band To Ever Come out Of The Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees]]> 199373172 204 Barrett Martin 1088296599 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.12 The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn't: The Story Of The Roughest, Toughest, Most Hell-Raising Band To Ever Come out Of The Pacific Northwest, The Screaming Trees
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]]> Faith, Hope and Carnage 59851730
Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.

The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years.

Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true visionary.]]> 294 Nick Cave 0374607370 Devarsi 0 to-read 4.41 2022 Faith, Hope and Carnage
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