The Secret Life of Puppets
9 best books like The Secret Life of Puppets (Victoria Nelson): Something Wicked This Way Comes, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals, The Willows, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Commitments, The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600, Berserk, Vol. 3, Berserk, Vol. 2, The Whisperer in Darkness
Something Wicked This Way Comes
| Author | Ray Bradbury |
| ISBN | 0380729407 |
A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show...
| Author | John N. Gray |
| ISBN | 1862075964 |
This smallish book is one of the most depressing and pessimistic 200 pages I have read in a long time. John Gray has been getting darker and darker in his vision of the world and Straw Dogs finally brings him round to bleak nihilism.
The book has many virtues. It is written in an admirably simple...
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 1587156520 |
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character. Most ominous are the masses of dense, desultory, menacing willows,...
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1450562795 |
”One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed--as those...
| Author | Roddy Doyle |
| ISBN | 0749391685 |
I was going to attempt to write this review in the working class Dublin slang that Roddy Doyle’s colourful characters use, but, ya know, Jaysis, I’d come o’ looking like a fuckin’ eejit.
I’m one of the few people on the planet who’s never seen the Alan Parker movie, and when I was in...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521639905 |
The Measure of Reality discusses the epochal shift from qualitative to quantitative perception in Western Europe during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. This shift made modern science, technology, business practice, and bureaucracy possible. It affected not only the obvious - such as measurements...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593070225 |
Guts, the feared Black Swordsman, finishes his desperate battle with the monstrous Count, cutting and blasting him to gory scraps when the presence of the Count's daughter makes the monster hesitate. But Guts won't even have the time to clean his gigantic sword when the Count's dying pleas activate...
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 1593070217 |
The evil Count uses his dark powers to transform a defeated guard captain into an inhuman horror to combat Guts, the Black Swordsman. Meanwhile, Guts' pint-sized elf sidekick, Puck, is captured and given as a gift to the Count's daughter, a sweet girl in a gilded cage, imprisoned by her father in her own...
The Whisperer in Darkness
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1541183053 |
The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings,...
