The Hundred Headless Woman
10 best books like The Hundred Headless Woman (Max Ernst): The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton, One Thousand and One Ghosts, Scaramouche, The Collected Stories, The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre, The Beckoning Fair One, Impressions of Africa, The Human Figure, Black Wings Has My Angel
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
| Author | Charles Dickens |
| ISBN | 0140439269 |
Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics.
Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age,...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 0684842572 |
These 11 spine-tingling tales of the supernatural bring to light the author's interest in the traditional New England ghost story and her fascination with spirits, hauntings, and other phenomena. Fine line-drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi enhance the mysterious and sometimes chilling mood.
The...
One Thousand and One Ghosts
| Author | Alexandre Dumas |
| ISBN | 1843910829 |
Written at the height of the 1848 revolutions, Alexandre Dumas’ One Thousand and One Ghosts is a macabre collection of supernatural tales, told with unrelenting detail and almost unbearable suspense. Paralyzed with fear, a man confesses to the murder of his wife, and rather than return to the scene...
| Author | Rafael Sabatini |
| ISBN | 0451527976 |
“Last Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he was to move an audience of Guichen to mirth...”
Once he was André-Louis Moreau, a lawyer raised by nobility, unconcerned with the growing discontent among France’s lower class—until...
| Author | Alexander Pushkin |
| ISBN | 0375405496 |
Pushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted,...
| Author | W.W. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0897334418 |
Many people have encountered the story "The Monkey's Paw," anthologized nearly 70 times in horror collections alone. Most do not know, however, that its author, W.W. Jacobs, was an immensely popular writer from the 1890s through the Second World War, selling many tens of thousands of copies of his...
| Author | Oliver Onions |
| ISBN | 0486436470 |
A chilling novella about a writer's move into a flat and his quick descent into lunacy. I can see why this classic is still being recommended today: it set the table for many such stories to come, and yet doesn't feel dated or overly familiar. Onions is a splendid writer: he gets right into his protagonist's...
| Author | Raymond Roussel |
| ISBN | 0714502898 |
The long-awaited new translation of the most dazzling and unclassifiable work of fiction in any language.In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre...
| Author | John H. Vanderpoel |
| ISBN | 0486204324 |
This great classic is still unrivalled for its clear, detailed presentation of thousands of fundamental features of the human figure. Every element of the body (such as the overhang of the upper lip; the puckering at the corners of the mouth; the characteristic proportions of the head, trunk, limbs,...
| Author | Elliott Chaze |
| ISBN | 1596542136 |
Chaze's long-lost noir classic, a legend among noir buffs, is back in print for the first time in nearly half a century. The one book Black Lizard never published, it's the dream-like tale of a man after a jailbreak, who meets up with the woman of his dreams... and his nightmares. Phenomenal work of the...
Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0385278543 |
Death and the Labyrinth in unique, being Foucault's only work on literature. For Foucault this was "by far the book I wrote most easily and with the greatest pleasure". Here, Foucault explores theory, criticism and psychology through the texts of Raymond Roussel, one of the fathers of experimental...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 1442359889 |
Mile 81 meets N. in this e-book collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill.
In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems...
The Colour Out of Space and others
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 0318047101 |
« La ferme tout entière baignait dans cette couleur mêlée, inconnue et hideuse : les arbres, les bâtiments, et mêmle la verdure et l'herbage qui n'avaient pas complètement tourné à la fatale désintégration dans la grisaille. Les branches se tendaient toutes vers le ciel, coiffées...
Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation
The Good:
--Feminist critique and (often neglected) embrace/control of high-technology is desperately needed, given the alarming centralization of technological reach and power under capitalism.
The Bad:
--The delivery needs a complete overhaul if a wider audience is desired....
Codex Seraphinianus. Ein Orbis Pictus des Universums der Phantasie.
| Author | Luigi Serafini |
| ISBN | 3791306510 |
Questo codice miniato fantastico e misterioso, "l'enciclopedia di un visionario" (nella definizione di Italo Calvino), continua da anni ad affascinarci per la sua capacità di rivelazione, che si cela dietro l'enigma di una grafia chiarissima eppure sfuggente. Una nuova edizione, arricchita...
