Pork Pie Hat

10 best books like Pork Pie Hat (Peter Straub): The Innswich Horror, In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan, Technics and Civilization, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012, Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season, The Dropper, The Exorcist & Legion: Two Screenplays, A Separate War and Other Stories

The Innswich Horror

Author

Edward Lee

The sickest writer in horror takes on the Cthulhu Mythos In July, 1939, antiquarian and H.P. Lovecraft aficionado, Foster Morley, takes a scenic bus tour through the wilds of northern Massachusetts. He wants to go where Lovecraft went, and to see what Lovecraft saw, to further distill his understanding...

In Ghostly Japan: Spooky Stories with the Folklore, Superstitions and Traditions of Old Japan

Author	Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN	0804836612

The Japanese have two kinds of ghosts in their folklore—the spirits of the dead, and the spirits of the living. This classic of Japanese literature invites you to take your choice if you dare.

In Ghostly Japan collects twelve ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts...

Technics and Civilization

Author

Lewis Mumford

Writing in the early 1930's Lewis Mumford offers a sweeping viewing of technological development over the past thousand years of human history. But Mumford is far from a simple chronicler of technological achievement and failure. As Langdon Winner observes in his introduction to the book, Mumford...

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2012

Author	Paula Guran
ISBN	1607013452

Take a journey into darkness. Visit places where one might expect to find the dark — in a house where love was shared and lost, a milky-white pool in an Australian cave, the trenches of World War I, the deep woods. You would not be surprised to find the dark in a cheap apartment on the wrong side of town, down...

Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination

Author	Benedict Anderson
ISBN	1844670376

In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities, his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siecle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea.

A jewelled...

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization

Author	Heinrich Robert Zimmer
ISBN	0691017786

This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legends, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make...

Johnny Halloween: Tales of the Dark Season

Author	Norman Partridge
ISBN	1587672235

Norman Partridge's Halloween novel, Dark Harvest, was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly's 100 Best Books of 2006. A Bram Stoker Award winner and World Fantasy nominee, Partridge's rapid-fire tale of a small town trapped by its own shadows welcomed a wholly original creation, the October Boy, earning...

The Dropper

Author	Ron McLarty
ISBN	1587672758

Some say it's Death, Some say it's darkness, I say it's a game of light...

Gutsy 17-year-old Albert "Shoe" Horn is an apprentice plumber and part-time boxer in England in 1922, but when his mother dies, he finds himself responsible for an abusive, alcoholic father and a younger brother with...

The Exorcist & Legion: Two Screenplays

Author

William Peter Blatty

I found it fascinating. Not as scary as the film because without the visuals.... well, my imagination can't go that far, I guess, but it was very disturbing and unpleasant at time, although at the same time I absolutely couldn't put it down, curious about what was going to happen next.
I believe this...

A Separate War and Other Stories

Author	Joe Haldeman
ISBN	0441014070

Here are fifteen stories-never before collected- spanning 36 years of Joe Haldeman's award-winning writing...tales that tread upon familiar Haldeman territory, as well as explore the outer reaches of his phenomenal imagination.

From the first short story Haldeman ever sold, "Out of...

Taguan-Pung: Koleksyon ng Dagling Kathang Di Pambata at Manwal ng Mga Napapagal: Kopi Teybol Dedbol Buk

Author	Eros S. Atalia
ISBN	9715063691

Hinanap ni Atalia ang mga nawawalang sarili at tagpo sa ating mga karanasan na pilit nating inililibing sa ating isip. Nguni't bumaho ang mga bangkay ng gunitang ito at ngayon ay patuloy tayong minumulto. Hindi pala sapat ipagtirik ng kandila, alayan ng bulaklak at ipagdasal ang mga nakakasugat na...

Weird New England

Author	Joseph A. Citro
ISBN	1402733305

I want to start by saying, I READ THE WHOLE BOOK. I emphasize this becauase I wanted to quit so, so many times, but I wouldn't because it's one of the books I actually paid money for, so I was determined not to abandon it. I had to get my money's worth, you know?

I purchased this at an independent bookstore...

Fragments of a Hologram Rose

Author

William Gibson

"Fragments of a Hologram Rose" is a science fiction short story by William Gibson. It was Gibson's first published work, originally appearing in 1977 in Unearth 3, a short-lived science fiction collection magazine which retailed for $1.00; Gibson was paid $27 for the story.[1] It tells the story of...

The Shuttered Room And Other Tales Of Horror

Author

H.P. Lovecraft

Contents:

3 · The Shuttered Room · nv The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces, Arkham House, 1959
49 · Witches’ Hollow · ss Dark Mind, Dark Heart, ed. August Derleth, Arkham, 1962
69 · The Horror from the Middle Span · ss Travellers By Night, ed. August Derleth, Arkham, 1967
97...

The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age

Author	Sadie Plant
ISBN	0415062225

This book is the first major study of the Situationist International. Tracing the history, ideas and influences of this radical and inspiring movement from dada to postmodernism, it argues that situationist ideas of art, revolution, everyday life and the spectacle continue to inform a variety of...

I'm Not Sam

Author	Jack Ketchum
ISBN	1587673533

Now I'm way beyond confusion.

Now I'm scared.

I've slid down the rabbit-hole and what's down there is dark and serious. This is not play-acting or some waking bad dream she's having. She's changed, somehow overnight. I don't know how I know this but I sense it as surely as I sense my own...

Invisible Fences

Author	Norman Prentiss
ISBN	1587671840

Invisible Fences (Cemetery Dance Novella Series #19)
by Norman Prentiss
About the Book:
Do you see the point of the story, Nathan? We all cut parts of ourselves away, but we never lose them. Things stay with us—souvenirs with memories attached. We can't always choose what to keep, what...

Hell's Bounty

Author	Joe R. Lansdale
ISBN	1596067454

We're pleased to announce a weird western novel by the brothers Lansdale, one with a killer cover by Timothy Truman.

If the Western town of Falling Rock isn’t dangerous enough due to drunks, fast guns and greedy miners, it gets a real dose of ugly when a soulless, dynamite-loving bounty hunter...

Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life

Author	Gaby Wood
ISBN	1400031583

During the eighteenth century, the inventor Jacques de Vaucanson created a mechanical duck that seemingly could digest and excrete its food. A few decades later, Europeans fell in love with "the Turk," a celebrated chess-playing machine built in 1769. Thomas Edison was obsessed for years with making...

The Secretary of Dreams, Volume Two

Author	Stephen King
ISBN	1587671859

World Fantasy Award winner Cemetery Dance Publications, critically acclaimed artist Glenn Chadbourne, and New York Times bestselling author Stephen King are proud to announce The Secretary of Dreams (Volume Two). This second venture into the world of Stephen King's stories contains even more...

Vaporetto 13

Author	Robert Girardi
ISBN	0385319479

Wilson Squire is a currency trader sent by his company to Venice, Italy, to gauge the political climate and its potential effect on the lira. Haunted by recent events in his life and uneasy in the foreign environment, he finds it impossible to sleep, so he takes to walking the damp Venetian streets at midnight....

Welcome to Romero Park

Author	Amber Michelle Cook
ISBN	1947015028

Downton Abbey meets Night of the Living Dead in this gothic tale of secrets, romance, and suspense delicately laced with sly humor.

In the 19th century England, the auspicious Edward Dorchester invites several families for a party to his estate to celebrate his goddaughter’s engagement....

How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic

Author	Ariel Dorfman
ISBN	0884770230

En este mundo nada escapa a la ideologia. Nada escapa, por lo tanto, a la lucha de clases. Este libro intenta develar los mecanismos especificos por los que la ideologia burguesa se reproduce a traves de los personajes de Walt Disney; indagar, asimismo, en la estructura de las historietas para mostrar...

Come To Dust

Author

Bracken MacLeod

Ever since her mother abandoned her, five-year-old Sophie has had to depend on her uncle Mitch for everything. But he’s struggling. Restarting a life interrupted by time in prison is hard enough without having to balance work and single parenthood. Mitch is determined to make it work though, striving...

The Mountain King

Author	Rick Hautala
ISBN	0843948876

In the halls... of the Mountain King...

There are many legends and ancient tales concerning Mount Agiochook, the second tallest mountain in Maine. Some of these tales speak of a demon that resides on the rocky slopes near the mountain's snow-crested summit. Legend has it that a force of supernatural...