The Crock of Gold (Revised Edition)

10 best books like The Crock of Gold (Revised Edition) (James Stephens): A Night in the Lonesome October, Remainder, Bad Monkeys, The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life, Assassin's Apprentice / Royal Assassin, The Cannibal, Pushkin Hills, Dark Entries, Защита от темных искусств. Путеводитель по миру паранормальных явлений, Murder as a Fine Art

A Night in the Lonesome October

Author	Roger Zelazny
ISBN	0380771411

Review updated yet again (and again) on November 1, 2018

A group read with some of my greatest friends: OhWell, Sarah, and Tadiana.

First a disclaimer: I lost count to the number of times I read the book. Seriously. I still find something new with each reread. I would also like to welcome...

Remainder

Author	Tom McCarthy
ISBN	0307278352

A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.

Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can’t quite place.

How he goes about bringing his visions to life–and...

Bad Monkeys

Author	Matt Ruff
ISBN	0061240419

Jane Charlotte has been arrested for murder.

She tells police that she is a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil; her division is called the Department for the Final Disposition of Irredeemable Persons—"Bad Monkeys" for short.

This confession earns Jane a...

The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story about the Hard Life

Author	Flann O'Brien
ISBN	1564780910

The Poor Mouth relates the story of one Bonaparte O'Coonassa, born in a cabin in a fictitious village called Corkadoragha in western Ireland equally renowned for its beauty and the abject poverty of its residents. Potatoes constitute the basis of his family's daily fare, and they share both bed and...

Assassin's Apprentice / Royal Assassin

Author

Robin Hobb

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature.

I read The Farseer Saga years ago and have since considered it one of my favorite fantasy epics. It's one (along with The Lord of the Rings and Memory, Sorrow and Thorn) that I often suggest to new fantasy readers. But after more than a decade of reading...

The Cannibal

Author	John Hawkes
ISBN	0811200639

"No synopsis conveys the quality of this now famous novel about an hallucinated Germany in collapse after World War II. John Hawkes, in his search for a means to transcend outworn modes of fictional realism, has discovered a highly original technique for objectifying the perennial degradation of...

Pushkin Hills

Author

Sergei Dovlatov

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to...

Dark Entries

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...

Защита от темных искусств. Путеводитель по миру паранормальных явлений

Author

Александр Панчин

Наука и мистика. Чего и почему мы боимся и как в наших домах завелись домовые.

Новая книга от автора бестселлера "Сумма биотехнологии", получившего...

Murder as a Fine Art

Author	David Morrell
ISBN	0316216798

Gaslit London is brought to its knees in David Morrell's brilliant historical thriller.

Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater', is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years...