Shoggoth's Old Peculiar
10 best books like Shoggoth's Old Peculiar (Neil Gaiman): St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business, The Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003, Lesser Demons, Who Killed Amanda Palmer?: A Collection of Photographic Evidence, Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, Gunnerkrigg Court Vol. 5: Refine, The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy, Vertigo: Winter's Edge, Hanging Out with the Dream King, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business
| Author | Ronald Searle |
| ISBN | 1585679585 |
St. Trinian's, the gloriously anarchic boarding school for young ladies, became synonymous with outrageous behavior when Ronald Searle's drawings first appeared in Britain's Lilliput magazine in the 1940s. Searle said about his creations: "A St. Trinian's girl would be sadistic, cunning, dissolute,...
The Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0575071052 |
RULES OF THE UBERWALD LEAGUE OF TEMPERANCE ANKH-MORPORK:
MISSION OBJECT
To further the cause of temperance and of total abstinence from drinking human blood (The Old Practice), to provide recreation and means of social intercourse for its members and to encourage by meetings, lectures,...
| Author | Norman Partridge |
| ISBN | 1596062940 |
Tales of hardboiled horror and Twilight Zone noir. Cross-genre blowtorches with bad guys and worse guys. Love stories both dark and bittersweet. A brand new novella and extensive story notes. You’ll find this and more in the fifth collection from three-time Bram Stoker award-winner Norman Partridge,...
| Author | Amanda Palmer |
| ISBN | 0615234399 |
I'm a fan of Neil Gaiman: I read his books, read his blog, and follow his Twitter feed. So when he starts mentioning this Amanda Palmer chick, links to her music videos, and extols both her talents as a musician and her creative nature in general, I decided I should pay attention. I did a little research of...
| 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 | Thomas Siddell |
| ISBN | 1608866912 |
The fifth volume in the ever-popular Gunnerkrigg Court series, based on Tom Siddell's hit webcomic!
Return to Gunnerkrigg Court with Antimony Carver and her friends as they delve deeper into the mysteries of their school and the first that surrounds it. Filled with magical creatures and...
Mike Ashley is back with an all-new edition of one of the bestselling Mammoth Books ever, from the funniest writers in the field, including Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, and Terry Jones. The thirty- five off-the-wall comic fantasies featured in Ashley's new collection are a mix of specially written stories...
These are probably the most fucked up, though immensely redemptive Christmas stories you're ever going to read. They're dark though hopeful, witty yet crass, and profound in their subtle moral deliberations on filial piety.
Oh, and what a great cast or writers: Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Garth...
| Author | Joseph McCabe |
| ISBN | 1560976179 |
This book gives me triple treats. Oh, wait, or is it quadruple treats? Let's see:
1. I like the size: It's in an A5 format, easy to hold and read everywhere. As a commuter I always bring a book to read in the train: it should fit into my already-full backpack, it should be compact enough so I don't have to...
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
| Author | Jeff VanderMeer |
| ISBN | 1892389541 |
From Delusions of Universal Grandeur to Twentieth Century Chronoshock, this amusing pocket guide to concocted diseases - designed and illustrated by John Coulthart - features an anthology of slightly morbid, darkly humorous ailments and prognosis srved up by such renowned luminaries as Neil Gaiman,...
| Author | Joe Sanders |
| ISBN | 1560977485 |
This is a book I really wanted to enjoy and recommend but am rather ambivalent about. (I first read "The Sandman Companion" by Hy Bender which I thought an excellent book but also thought it a missed opportunity to go into the detail that The Sandman deserves.) In contrast, my reservation here with "The...
| Author | Spike Milligan |
| ISBN | 0722160798 |
This is essentially a collection of original Goon Show radio scripts embellished with some of the scribblings and doodlings of Milligan and the other stars (Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe). While these stand on their own merits, if one has also heard the relevant shows one can put the funny voices and...
| Author | Darrell Schweitzer |
| ISBN | 0809556375 |
Neil Gaiman's talent is so vast that any exploration of his work can only be described as a beginning. Here is one such beginning, an examination of the creative genius being The Sandman, American Gods, Coraline and so much more. His prose fiction has achieved enormous acclaim and popularity. Now leading...
| Author | John Dos Passos |
| ISBN | 1603120068 |
I hadn't heard of John Dos Passos until I started reading about expatriate writers in 1920s Paris. Like Ernest Hemingway, Dos Passos served as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I. Whereas Hemingway’s experiences during the war helped develop his macho persona, Dos Passos’ exposure...
Fry's English Delight: Series 1
| Author | Stephen Fry |
| ISBN | 1408409607 |
Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4.
Current Puns
Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who, or what, is the Thief of Bad Gags?
Metaphor
The English language is chock-full of maritime...
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| ISBN | 9998589886 |
I think you have all read the wrong book, it has nothing to do with Vietnam!
It is set in 1913 and the story begins when the narrator visits a friend on the Island of Capri in Italy. There, he is introduced to the character of Thomas Wilson, who came to the island for a holiday 16 years ago. Since then,...
| Author | James Goss |
| ISBN | 1408426803 |
At the bottom of the sea, in the wreck of a floating radio station, a lost recording has been discovered. After careful restoration, it is played for the first time - to reveal something incredible. It is the voice of the Doctor, broadcasting from Radio Bravo in 1966. He has travelled to Earth in search...
Alchemy of MirrorMask, The
| Author | Dave McKean |
| ISBN | 0060823798 |
An oversized, lavishly produced book, The Alchemy of MirrorMask takes readers inside the making of the feature film and allows them to experience the creative process. Animated by Dave McKean and written by Neil Gaiman, MirrorMask combines animation and live action with a compelling storyline to...
“People simply will not accept the fact that there is such a thing as a homicidal mind,” Truman Capote once said, “that there are people who would kill as easily as they would write a bad check, and that they achieve satisfaction from it.” Paul Alexander’s new Kindle Single Homicidal takes...
Leviathan Wept and Other Stories
| Author | Daniel Abraham |
| ISBN | 1596062657 |
What if you had a holocaust and nobody came?
Imagine a father who has sent his child's soul voyaging and seen it go astray. Or a backyard tale from the 1001 American Nights. Macbeth re-imagined as a screwball comedy. Three extraordinary economic tasks performed by a small expert in currency...
40 million people in the US have tried Internet dating, which means 40 million people have probably gone on some pretty crappy dates. Not a Match: My True Tales of Online Dating Disasters is about one guy who experienced more than his fair share. Brian Donovan, a writer and comedian whose work has appeared...
