Category Archives: Books

  My friend Karl from the antiques store called me up to ask me if I was interested in looking at some books in a house he was going to do an estate sale for. I’m always interested in estate … Continue reading →

  Man, I’m a little freaked out by the proliferation of “lightning source,” a.k.a. print on demand (POD) or what used to be known as vanity press books. There are more and more every month, and there are probably more … Continue reading →

  I’m sure every book addict has felt it – that sudden craving, that fierce irrational (irrational? a book lover?) itch for a certain book – the overwhelming urge TO HAVE IT. I must admit that it wasn’t really love … Continue reading →

  One of the reasons I didn’t post yesterday was that I’ve been dealing with a lot of vintage and semi-vintage paperbacks from several sources: I think this is my favorite cover:    

  Well, we did it again, but there was no oops about it, just a lot of hard work by a lot of people. When I woke up on Sunday at 6:30 and heard the rain, I got an instant … Continue reading →

  The following is from Cults That Kill: Probing the Underworld of Occult Crime by Larry Kahaner, a pure product of the great Occult scare of the 80’s. Once again the material has been arranged, edited and personally UBU selected … Continue reading →

  It’s P.O.D. (Print On Demand) time again, celebrating the titles from those so special teeny tiny publishers and self-publishers who fly in the face of commercial fiction to make us ask the big questions – like HUH? WHAT THE … Continue reading →

  Is it just me or do some of these Print On Demand (formerly known as Vanity Press) titles I’ve picked out sound, well, SERIOUSLY WEIRD?   Angelic Cravings by Crymsyn R. Hart (Cacoethes Publishing House) The Angel of Death … Continue reading →

  Having finished the first book in Knut Hamsun’s Segelfoss series, Children of the Age, I naturally wanted to move on to the second, Segelfoss Town. I was one click away from buying it for a pretty penny on ABE … Continue reading →

  Honestly, I’m not trying to be willfully obscure or elitist or anything like that when I rave about a writer like Hubert Crackanthorpe (1870-1896), it’s just that I think the guy is really, really good. If remembered at all … Continue reading →