Crown of Stars
10 best books like Crown of Stars (James Tiptree Jr.): This Is How You Lose the Time War, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, Tomie, Fragments of Horror, Gyo, Vol. 1, Shiver: Selected Stories, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき, Chronopolis, A Drunken Dream and Other Stories, The Baking Bible
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.
And thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield...
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
| Author | Bill Bryson |
| ISBN | 0380713802 |
Bill Bryson's first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost...
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1421590565 |
Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive them to murder as well, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. While one lover seeks to keep her for himself, another grows terrified of the immortal succubus....
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1421580799 |
A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga. An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the...
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1569319952 |
Series Description: Just when you thought it was safe to get out of the water, fish grow legs! From the mind of acclaimed artist Junji Ito comes this diabolic cross between Resident Evil and The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Yes, it's Gyo, where terror takes the name of horribly mutated fish and...
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1421596938 |
A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.
This volume includes nine of Junji Ito’s best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl’s window… After an idol...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, (3 in 1)うずまき
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 4091858163 |
Wow, what a macabre masterpiece. This was gory and grotesque and very disturbing and at the same time the story is amazing and I could hardly put it down. It was amazing and it had boundless imagination. The story kept getting more and more hopeless until the bitter end. I mean this really is a horror story,...
| Author | J.G. Ballard |
| ISBN | 0425041913 |
This is a collection of the works of J.G. Ballard, who is an author most people either love of hate. He is part of that (now rather old) "New Wave" of sci fi that tried to inject some literary quality into a genre that was dismissed as juvenile. Along with Samuel Delany, Ballard probably came closest to being...
A Drunken Dream and Other Stories
| Author | Moto Hagio |
| ISBN | 1606993771 |
Forty years ago, the legendary manga artist Moto Hagio reinvented the shōjo (girl's comics) genre with an ongoing series of whip-smart, psychologically complex, and tenderly poetic stories. Here now, in English for the very first time, as the debut release in Fantagraphics Books' ambitious manga...
| Author | Rose Levy Beranbaum |
| ISBN | 1118338618 |
The latest and most comprehensive baking book yet from best-selling author and “diva of desserts” Rose Levy Beranbaum and winner of the 2015 IACP Cookbook Award for Baking
Legendary baker Rose Levy Beranbaum is back with her most extensive “bible” yet. With all-new recipes for...
