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Author	Mike Mignola
ISBN	1401258069

Twenty Three Skidoo! It’s Batman in the Roaring ‘20’s!

On occasion, comic creators like to take favorite characters and drop them into different time periods for some non-continuity escapades. Here it’s Bats up against H.P. Lovecraft’s Lurker at the Threshold. The Threshold...

Author

Thomas Ligotti

His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it...

Author	Joris-Karl Huysmans
ISBN	0140447636

With a title translated either as Against Nature or as Against The Grain, this wildly original fin-de-siècle novel follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous...

Author	Joris-Karl Huysmans
ISBN	0486228371

La-bas (English Down There)--with its explicit account of child sex-murders and its detailed description of a black mass—may benefit from its transgressive reputation but also suffers from it too. Readers who come to it seeking thrills and horrors will be alternately bored and disappointed,...

Author	Ivan Turgenev
ISBN	1425469272

Mumu (Russian: «Муму») is a short story by Ivan Turgenev, a Russian novelist and story writer, written in 1854.

The story of Gerasim, a deaf and mute serf whose life of poverty is brought into sharp relief by his connection with Mumu, a dog he rescued, brought greater national attention...

Author	Ernst Jünger
ISBN	8845907589

Nei primi anni del dopoguerra, mentre si andava delineando quella integrazione planetaria nel nome della tecnica che oggi è sotto gli occhi di tutti, Ernst Jünger elaborò questo testo, apparso nel 1951, oggi più affilato che mai. La figura del Ribelle jüngeriano corrisponde a quella dell'anarca,...

Author	Natsume Sōseki
ISBN	1552123952

The First Night
'The sun rises. And the sun sets. And the sun rises and sets... When the red sun rises in the east and sets in the west, then I will... Will you wait for me?'
The Second Night
'I cannot reach the state of nothingness.' Whenever I felt I was about to reach it, the pain seemed to...

Author	Plato
ISBN	1576467627

Plato (428/427 BC-348/347 BC), whose original name was Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks - succeeding Socrates and preceding Aristotle - who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician,...