Garden
10 best books like Garden (Yuichi Yokoyama): Black Hole, Coyote Doggirl, The Golem, Pascali's Island, The Frank Book, The Acme Novelty Library #20, Beverly, Dark Entries, The Maimed, Wonder Woman, Volume 3: The Truth
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it,...
| Author | Lisa Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 1770463257 |
Coyote Doggirl is Hanawalt’s homage to and lampoon of Westerns like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, featuring a fiercely independent female protagonist who sews her own crop tops and has no patience for etiquette. A gifted equestrian, Coyote Doggirl is half dog, half coyote, and a whole lot of...
| Author | Gustav Meyrink |
| ISBN | 1873982917 |
First published in serial form as Der Golem in the periodical Die weissen Blätter in 1913–14, The Golem is a haunting Gothic tale of stolen identity and persecution, set in a strange underworld peopled by fantastical characters. The red-headed prostitute Rosina; the junk-dealer Aaron Wassertrum;...
| Author | Barry Unsworth |
| ISBN | 0393317218 |
The year is 1908, the place, a small Greek island in the declining days of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. For twenty years Basil Pascali has spied on the people of his small community and secretly reported on their activities to the authorities in Constantinople. Although his reports are never acknowledged,...
| Author | Jim Woodring |
| ISBN | 1560975342 |
by Jim Woodring
Since 1991, these lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled comics readers the world over. All the Frank stories in one massive and deluxe tome. Between its handsome cloth covers are 344 pages of Frank comics, drawings and oddities. A fancy dust jacket, swoon-inducing...
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 1770460209 |
Jordan Wellington Lint, fifty-one, is chief executive officer of Lint Financial Products, a company he began serving in 1985 as assistant and adviser before working his way up its corporate ladder to record-setting innovation in the fields of finance and high-yield investment. In his seven years...
| Author | Nick Drnaso |
| ISBN | 1770462252 |
Nick Drnaso's comics mercilessly reveal the sterile sameness of the suburbs. Connected by a series of gossipy teens, the modern lost souls of Beverly struggle with sexual anxieties that are just barely repressed and social insecurities that undermine every word they speak.
A group of teenagers...
| Author | Robert Aickman |
| ISBN | 1905784325 |
Sewn signatures, printed on 110gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Biddles in bergundy wibalin cloth stamped in gilt and silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands. 350 copies.
(Out of print).
Contents:
"Introduction by Glen Cavaliero, "The School Friend", "Ringing...
| Author | Hermann Ungar |
| ISBN | 8086264130 |
Set in Prague, The Maimed relates the story of a highly neurotic, socially inept bank clerk who is eventually impelled by his widowed landlady into servicing her sexual appetites. At the same time he must witness the steady physical and mental deterioration of his lifelong friend who is suffering from...
Wonder Woman, Volume 3: The Truth
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1401271413 |
A part of DC Universe Rebirth!
New York Times best-selling writer Greg Rucka continues his return to WONDER WOMAN! Rucka is joined by fan favorite artist Liam Sharp as Diana's life is unraveling around her. Diana’s search for the truth about herself, her history, and her home Themyscira,...
Wonder Woman, Volume 2: Year One
| Author | Greg Rucka |
| ISBN | 1401268803 |
A part of DC Universe: Rebirth!
New York Times best-selling writer Greg Rucka continues his return to Wonder Woman! The team of Rucka and artist Nicola Scott weave the definitive and shocking tale of Diana's first year as Earth's protector.
Paradise has been breached, Ares stirs,...
