Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
9 best books like Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Jess Nevins): The Threepenny Opera, Nutcracker, At the Mountains of Madness, The Fisherman, Nemo: The Roses of Berlin, The Fir Tree, Carnacki, the Ghost Finder, Nemo: River of Ghosts, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century
| Author | Bertolt Brecht |
| ISBN | 1559702524 |
The Threepenny Opera was Brecht's first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his best-loved and most-performed plays. Based on John Gay's eighteenth-century Beggar's Opera, the play is set in Victorian England's Soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the Weimar Republic...
The tale of Nutcracker, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, has fascinated and inspired artists, composers, and audiences for almost two hundred years. It has retained its freshness because it appeals to the sense of wonder we all share.
Maurice Sendak designed brilliant sets and costumes...
At the Mountains of Madness
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0812974417 |
Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of...
| Author | John Langan |
| ISBN | 1939905214 |
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s...
From The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen…
Sixteen years ago, notorious science-brigand Janni Nemo journeyed into the frozen reaches of Antarctica to resolve her father's weighty legacy in a storm of madness and loss, barely escaping with her Nautilus and her life.
Now it is...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| ISBN | 0060200774 |
I think I am going to have to stop reading anything by Hans Christian Andersen, and go on to something more light-hearted and optimistic, such as Russian literature perhaps (insert icon for irony here). But here goes ...
The Fir Tree is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1844,...
| Author | William Hope Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1406905747 |
Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author William Hope Hodgson. It was first published in 1913 by the English publisher Eveleigh Nash. In 1947, a new edition of 3,050 copies was published by Mycroft & Moran and included three additional stories....
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 0861662334 |
The rip-roaring Nemo trilogy (Heart of Ice, Roses of Berlin) reaches a stunning conclusion!
In a world where all the fictions ever written coalesce into a rich mosaic, it’s 1975. Janni Dakkar, pirate queen of Lincoln Island and head of the fabled Nemo family, is eighty years old and beginning...
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 8865431121 |
In tre capitoli, ambientati rispettivamente nel 1910, nel 1969 e nel 2009, Alan Moore e Kevin O'Neill raccontano la terza avventura del gruppo di eroi letterari vittoriani che indagano, questa volta, sul tentativo di creazione di un anticristo destinato a distruggere l'ordine naturale delle cose...
