The Panic Hand: Stories

6 best books like The Panic Hand: Stories (Jonathan Carroll): A Dirty Job, A Head Full of Ghosts, Lady Oracle, The Halloween Tree, Hot Water Music, Etiquette Guide to Japan: Know the Rules That Make the Difference!

A Dirty Job

Author	Christopher Moore
ISBN	0060590270

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers...

A Head Full of Ghosts

Author	Paul Tremblay
ISBN	0062363239

The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.

To her parents' despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie's descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house...

Lady Oracle

Author	Margaret Atwood
ISBN	0385491085

Joan Foster is the bored wife of a myopic ban-the-bomber. She takes off overnight as Canada's new superpoet, pens lurid gothics on the sly, attracts a blackmailing reporter, skids cheerfully in and out of menacing plots, hair-raising traps, and passionate trysts, and lands dead and well in Terremoto,...

The Halloween Tree

Author	Ray Bradbury
ISBN	0375803017

"A fast-moving, eerie...tale set on Halloween night. Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the...

Hot Water Music

Author	Charles Bukowski
ISBN	0876855966

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.

The stories in Hot Water Music dash around...

Etiquette Guide to Japan: Know the Rules That Make the Difference!

Author	Boyé Lafayette de Mente
ISBN	0804834172

I am so glad I read this little book before I visited Japan, I can’t tell you. It’s actually more for people there on business, but for me, travelling for pleasure, it gave me a brilliant insight into the Japanese culture and saved me the world of embarrassment too.
I learned how to know when to...