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The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories

10 best books like The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories (Nicholas Gurewitch): Hark! A Vagrant, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence, The Gates, Poe's Children: The New Horror, The Arctic Marauder, The Last Dragon, You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, Flight, Vol. 6, A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction, Zombies vs. Robots Complete

Hark! A Vagrant
AuthorKate Beaton
ISBN1770460608
Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics-sensation Kate Beaton. No era or tome emerges unscathbed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western world's revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and...
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
AuthorMichele Filgate
ISBN1982107340
*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*

Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.

As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started...
The Gates
AuthorJohn Connolly
ISBN0340995793
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they...
Poe's Children: The New Horror
AuthorPeter Straub
ISBN0385522835
From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today’s most talented voices in the genre.

Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New...
The Arctic Marauder
AuthorJacques Tardi
ISBN1606994352
In its ongoing quest to showcase the wide range of Jacques Tardi’s bibliography, Fantagraphics reaches all the way back to one of his earliest, and most distinctive graphic novels: A satirical, Jules Vernes-esque “retro-sci-fi” yarn executed on scratchboard in a stunningly detailed faux-woodcut...
The Last Dragon
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN1595827986
This is a lovely fable told by the gloriously talented Jane Yolen and drawn with a wonderfully romantic old world fairy tale style by Rebecca Guay.

Once dragons ruled the world. Wrecking terrible havoc on man and beast they killed at will and ate what they pleased until at last they were beaten...
You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack
AuthorTom Gauld
ISBN1770461043
“Precise and wryly hilarious...Gauld's both a literature nerd and a science-fiction nerd whose deadpan mashups belong on the same shelf as R. Sikoryak, Michael Kupperman, and Kate Beaton.”—NPR, Best Books of 2013

A new collection from the Guardian and New York Times Magazine cartoonist

The...
Flight, Vol. 6
AuthorKazu Kibuishi
ISBN0345505905
Wonderful in the absolute sense of the word. (Full. Of. Wonder.).
This was/is my introduction into the ecclectic volumes of comics edited by Kazu Kibuishi.
Essentially short stories with astoundingly fantabulous art.

Reading this was nothing short of magic. And I can't think of...
A Curious Invitation: The Forty Greatest Parties in Fiction
AuthorSuzette Field
ISBN0062271830
Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers.

People love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion where...
Zombies vs. Robots Complete
AuthorChris Ryall
ISBN1600101844
It started with a simple idea - mindless robots fighting rabid zombies, over the fate of the last living human baby. Then the war spread, and now it's a three-way rumble as an island of surviving Amazons get tossed into the mix Collecting the entire Zombies vs. Robots and Zombies vs. Robots vs. Amazons...
Frost
AuthorM.P. Kozlowsky
ISBN0545831911
Being human is her greatest strength.

Sixteen-year-old Frost understands why she’s spent her entire life in an abandoned apartment building. The ruined streets below are hunting grounds for rogue robots and Eaters.

She understands why she’s never met a human besides her father....
Blert
AuthorJordan Scott
ISBN1552451992
The bright, taut, explosive poems in Jordan Scott’s Blert represent a spelunk into the mouth of the stutterer. Through the unique symptoms of the stutter (Scott, like fifty million others, has always stuttered), language becomes a rolling gait of words hidden within words, leading to different...
Silt
AuthorJordan Scott
ISBN1554200121
Poetry. With his debut collection of poetry, Jordan Scott traces his own history from Vancouver to Lodz, Poland. Informed by a lifelong stutter, his family's association with the Fraser River and his grandparents' hardships in WWII Poland, SILT's poetics move from Scott's own story to the geography...
Zombies Vs Robots: Undercity
AuthorChris Ryall
ISBN1613770731
For the first time in nearly fifteen years of reading graphic novels, I finally DNF’d my very first one. I could not stand this book. This is now the third book I’ve read in the whole zombies vs robots series, and not one has impressed or even been slightly competent in the writing department, and this...
Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism: A Novella
AuthorMike Mignola
ISBN0312644744
From the creator of Hellboy, an illustrated novella that brings Twilight Zone originality to the written page...

In the aftermath of a critical World War II battle, Father Gaetano is assigned as the sole priest at the Church of San Domenico in the small, seaside Sicilian village of Tringale. ...
1920s Agatha Christie, Volume One
AuthorAgatha Christie
Eeeeeeehhhhhhh.....
I’m a fan of Agatha Christie, make no mistake. And Then There Were None is one of my favorite books I’ve ever read, and I really like Hercule Poirot as a character. As such, I thought this collection of Christie’s first three novels would be quite exemplary, especially...
Flight, Vol. 2
AuthorKazu Kibuishi
I enjoyed this anthology. I actually preferred this second volume to the first. The art was better and so were the stories. I think there were only two where I wasn't thrilled about the art and only a few stories where I was left wanting. Considering how many are in this, that's quite impressive. There were...
Zombies Vs Robots Aventure
AuthorChris Ryall
ISBN1600107176
Zombies? Robots? I love them both and the idea of humans employing robots to battle the hordes of zombies is wonderful...so, why doesn't this book work? I'm going to have to go with plain old bad writing. Three different stories, each employing a different artist, all based on the same theme, yet none...
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