Mad Amos
10 best books like Mad Amos (Alan Dean Foster): Razored Saddles, Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, Archy and Mehitabel, 100 Malicious Little Mysteries, Greyhaven, The Pinkish, Purplish, Bluish Egg, In Paul Klee's Enchanted Garden, Calvin and Hobbes 1: Thereby Hangs a Tale, Apocalypse 2012: A Novel, Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Great Wits and Wordsmiths
| Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
| ISBN | 0380711680 |
This anthology contains: Black Boots by Robert R. McCammon; Thirteen Days of Glory by Scott Cupp; Gold by Lewis Shiner; The Tenth Toe by F. Paul Wilson; Sedalia by David J. Schow; Trapline by Ardath Mayhar; Trail of the Chromium Bandits by Al Sarrantonio; Dinker's Pond by Richard Laymon; Stampede by...
| Author | James Thurber |
| ISBN | 0809590042 |
Τρίτο βιβλιαράκι του Τζέιμς Θέρμπερ που διαβάζω, μετά το πολύ ωραίο παραμύθι φαντασίας "Το άσπρο ελάφι" που διάβασα τον Μάρτιο του 2016 και το ιδιαίτερα ευχάριστο...
| Author | Don Marquis |
| ISBN | 0385094787 |
When newspapers were the dominant medium, were fun, and didn't take themselves so goddam seriously, there were great columnists.
Don Marquis was one. archy was his alter ego, a cockroach with the soul of a poet who threw himself on the typewriter keys to express his thoughts. Hence no caps--you...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 1402711018 |
Charmingly insidious and satisfyingly devious, these 100 baffling little mysteries—selected by such prominent authors as Isaac Asimov—are just the thing to suit your most malevolent mood. These tales come from the pen of many well-known writers in the field, including Michael Gilbert, Edward...
| Author | Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| ISBN | 0879978155 |
Somewhere in Northern California there is a house where all the dimensions of time and space and distant worlds come together: This house, whose exact location is known to a very special few, is called Greyhaven..it is the spiritual home of an ever-growing 'family' of imaginative writers. Diana Paxson,...
| Author | Bill Peet |
| ISBN | 0395361729 |
For those who have read Peet's work "Zella, Zack and Zodiac" this is almost the same type of story and follows about the same plot but with a change of events as well as the predominant characters. Unlike the former book, this one doesn't follow a young character who takes over parenting but instead one...
| Author | Audun Eckhoff |
| ISBN | 3775721010 |
Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism...
| Author | Bill Watterson |
| ISBN | 0751505080 |
If you have read the first Calvin and Hobbes directory that was published in the 80's, then you have read this one.
It is a paperback version of half the first book. With classic strips.
Was inspired to read it after watching "Dear Mr. Watterson" documentary on Netflix.
I missed...
| Author | Robert Gleason |
| ISBN | 0765322595 |
In ancient Mexico, the “End-Time Codex”--prophesizing the world’s end in 2012--is entombed. A young Aztec-Mayan slave tells us its story.
Gifted in math and astronomy, Coyotl rises to king’s counselor in Tula, a golden city of milk and honey ruled by the brilliant god-king, Quetzalcoatl,...
| Author | Mardy Grothe |
| ISBN | 0060789484 |
For most of us, that perfect retort or witty reply often escapes us when we need it most, only to come to mind with perfect clarity when it's too late to be useful. The twentieth-century writer Heywood Broun described this all-too-common phenomenon when he wrote "Repartee is what we wish we'd said."
In...
The subtitle of this heavenly concoction is: A celebration of American pop culture at its most joyfully outrageous.
This is not so much a book as an aspirin to banish gloom. Of course, America marches on and this book needs a major update to include such modern phenomena as Celebrity Rehab and...
| Author | The New Yorker |
| ISBN | 1400061407 |
From the pages of America’s most influential magazine come eight decades of holiday cheer—plus the occasional comical coal in the stocking—in one incomparable collection. Sublime and ridiculous, sentimental and searing, Christmas at The New Yorker is a gift of great writing and drawing...
The "Thieves' World" fantasy anthologies were some of my favorites when I was growing up, both the actual anthologies and the spin-off publications set in the same world. They are very hard to find now - I'm guessing that part of the problem is that the rights to the work are complicated, especially now...
| Author | Fred Saberhagen |
| ISBN | 0441843174 |
BERSERKERS
The death machines are capable of any treachery, able to assume any disguise, motivated only by their prime directive: to seek out and destroy life wherever it may hide.
MAN
The fragile life-form that hides within its puny frame a curiously unquenchable something ......
| Author | Kenneth C. Flint |
| ISBN | 0553276549 |
Here’s the sequel to Riders of the Sidhe, that fantasy novel that I gave a surprisingly rave review for yesterday. Pretty much all the praise I gave for the earlier novel applies to this one, so I’ll only make a note of a few things.
Now that Lugh has accepted his destiny as a national liberator,...
| Author | Keith Laumer |
| ISBN | 0671655450 |
Okay, first off this book is really two separate stories, and you can start by just totally throwing the second one away. It reads like one of Ray Bradbury's weird "good old boys on Mars" stories from The Martian Chronicles, full of yokelisms like "gubment" and "a quiet, respecful feller" and "the sheriff's...
Dead Man's Hand: Five Tales of the Weird West
| Author | Nancy A. Collins |
| ISBN | 1588468755 |
Black Hats & Black Hearts
Enter the Old West as interpreted by acclaimed horror author Nancy A. Collins. Dead Man's Hand collects the novellas "Walking Wolf" and "Lynch," the short stories "Calaverada" and "The Tortuga Hill Gang's Last Ride," and completes the five-card draw with the all-new...
Merkabah Rider: High Planes Drifter
A Hasidic gunslinger tracks the renegade teacher who betrayed his mystic Jewish order of astral travelers across the demon haunted American Southwest of 1879.
In this acclaimed first volume, four sequential novellas and one bonus short story chronicle the weird adventures of THE MERKABAH...
