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10 best books like Waiting Period (Hubert Selby Jr.): The Shadow at the Bottom of the World, The Nature of Balance, Never Come Morning, High Life, Slob, The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1, Collected Poems, Black Butterflies, Some Die Nameless

The Shadow at the Bottom of the World
AuthorThomas Ligotti
ISBN1593600585
A longtime Lovecraft devotee, who has extended the weird tale to the next level via the likes of Borges and Burroughs, Thomas Ligotti is usually published as part of a general anthology of horror writers. But now Ligotti has pulled together a collection of his favorite fiction, both old and new, representing...
The Nature of Balance
AuthorTim Lebbon
ISBN0843949260
One morning, the world does not wake up. People lie dead in their beds, killed by their own nightmares. They're lucky. For the few remaining survivors, the new world is a confusing, terrifying place. Things are different now. The balance of nature has shifted. Mankind is no longer the dominant species...
Never Come Morning
AuthorNelson Algren
ISBN1583222790
"An unusual book and a brilliant book." —The New York Times

"One of the finest works of American literature that I have read." —James T. Farrell

"A knockout." —Saturday Review of Literature

"Never Come Morning depicts the intensity of feeling, the tawdry but potent...
High Life
AuthorMatthew Stokoe
ISBN1888451327
Fiction. Jack had gone to Hollywood with one ambition: to become famous, a star, exactly how he didn't care. He just wanted to be like the people whose lives he followed in gossip magazines...Instead he found a world more seedy than anything he could have imagined, a world of whores and deceit, snuff shows,...
Slob
AuthorRex Miller
ISBN1585861553
Stephen King hails Rex Miller as terrifying and original. Slob is his debut novel, the story of a man who thinks of himself as Death. A man wholikes to feast on human hearts, spilling blood wherever he goes. Jack Eichord is the detective who must hunt this human monster and genius killer. Years of working...
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program
AuthorSenate Select Committee on Intelligence
“The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations.” —Los Angeles Times

Meticulously formatted, this is a highly readable and fully searchable edition of the official summary report of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of...
The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0007242298
First in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of ‘Empire of the Sun’, ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell.


With eighteen novels over four decades – from ‘The Drowned World’ in 1962 to his final novel...
Collected Poems
AuthorStéphane Mallarmé
ISBN0520081889
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) is one of the giants of nineteenth-century French poetry. Leader of the Symbolist movement, he exerted a powerful influence on modern literature and thought, which can be traced in the works of Paul Valéry, W.B. Yeats, and Jacques Derrida. From his early twenties...
Black Butterflies
AuthorJohn Shirley
ISBN0843948442
finally finished this one; ugh what a chore. it was just sitting on my Unfinished shelf, staring me down, and finally i couldn't take it anymore.

Shirley knows how to construct a story, that can't be denied. he has interesting themes, can set a tone immediately, and his characters are diverse...
Some Die Nameless
AuthorWallace Stroby
ISBN0316440205
An ex-mercenary and an embattled journalist find themselves unlikely allies against a corrupt defense contractor.

Ray Devlin is retired, living a simple life off the grid in Florida, when a visit from an old colleague stirs some bad memories--and ends with a gunshot. Soon Devlin is forced...
A Killer in the Wind
AuthorAndrew Klavan
ISBN0802120679
Three years ago, working vice for the NYPD, Dan Champion uncovered a sex slavery ring run by a kingpin known only as the Fat Woman. Obsessed with bringing her down, Champion infiltrated a world of sexual obsession and perversity. He broke the case, but the case also broke him. He started taking drugs and...
Wrong
AuthorDennis Cooper
ISBN0802133673
As is typical for me, I'm more pulled in by longer-form storytelling, so the winding, desperate opener here, "The Herd", was the highlight. Even moreso than Cooper's first novel, Safe, a generous inclusion here that still felt a bit like three separate stories tied together in order to trace a common...
The Peaceful Pill Handbook
AuthorPhilip Nitschke
ISBN0978878817
The Peaceful Pill Handbook is the controversial, ground-breaking new book from Australian end-of-life physician Dr Philip Nitschke. The Peaceful Pill Handbook for the first time offers a comparative analysis of end of life approaches comparing the peacefulness and reliability of methods such...
Amnesia
AuthorDouglas Anthony Cooper
ISBN1562827480
A stranger enters the city archives, corners a librarian, and begins to tell him a story. The librarian is supposed to be married in four hours' time, but the stranger compels him to listen. Many hours later he is still listening, and still unmarried.

The stranger's name is Izzy Darlow, and the...
Bad Guys
AuthorAnthony Bruno
Bad Guys, the first book in the Gibbons and Tozzi thriller series, introduces FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons, odd-couple partners and dedicated mob-busters. Hot-headed Tozzi goes renegade, and Gibbons is pulled out of retirement to stop him. Together they uncover a secret crime family...
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930
AuthorJohn Harley Warner
ISBN0922233349
"Cadavers, camera, action!" (The New York Times Book Review). From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients. Featuring 138 of these historic photographs...
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion)
AuthorNick Land
ISBN0415056071
An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's writings. In no way, though, is Nick Land's book...
South of Heaven
AuthorJim Thompson
ISBN0316403830
Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter...
The Question of the Felonious Friend
AuthorE.J. Copperman
ISBN0738743518
It's been one year, two weeks, and three days since Samuel Hoenig opened the doors of Questions Answered. The personality traits of his Asperger's Syndrome help Samuel maintain objectivity in his work—a critical component for his business's continuing success.

But when Tyler Clayton,...
The Savage
AuthorFrank Bill
ISBN0374534411
In the raucous and action-packed follow-up to Donnybrook, mayhem is still the order of the day-only more so

Frank Bill's America has always been stark and violent. In his new novel, he takes things one step further: the dollar has failed; the grid is wiped out.
Van Dorn is eighteen and running...
The Living Daylights
AuthorIan Fleming
ISBN0886467012
Rating: 3* of five

Again a reminder that the 1987 film is what I'm reviewing, not the Fleming story.

Ye gods and little fishes. That's some uninteresting Bond-age. Fell asleep twice. Bratislava? Vienna? Can anyone tell the difference? The plot's very much as always, and that's not...
Boston Noir 2: The Classics
AuthorDennis Lehane
ISBN1617751367
Classic short fiction reprints from: George Harrar, George V. Higgins, Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert B. Parker, Hannah Tinti, Abraham Verghese, David Foster Wallace, and others.

Dennis Lehane is the author of the Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro mystery series (A Drink Before...
Whispers: The Voices of Paranoia
AuthorRonald K. Siegel
ISBN0684802856
Combining the insights of a gifted research scientist with vivid tales that are usually the realm of the novelist, Dr. Ronald Siegel lets his readers experience the suspicion, terror, and rage that possess the mind of the paranoid. This is the first book to investigate the actual experience of paranoia...
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