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A boozy ex-military captain trapped in a mysterious vessel searches for his runaway son, an aging superhero settles into academia, and a professional "e;dystopianist"e; receives a visit from a suicidal sheep. Men and Cartoonscontains eleven fantastical, amusing, and moving stories written in a dizzying array of styles that shows the...

Like The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, this is a fascinating voyage into a strange and wonderful land, a provocative meditation on communication, biology, adaptation, and culture.In Seeing Voices, Oliver Sacks turns his attention to the subject of deafness, and the result is a deeply felt portrait of a minority struggling for recognition and...

THE BIG BOOK OF GHOST STORIES is a spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of hauntedand hauntingtales.The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen...

A NovelNo writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In...

A NovelThe scientist Roithamer has dedicated the last six years of his life to ';the Cone,' an edifice of mathematically exact construction that he has erected in the center of his family's estate in honor of his beloved sister. Not long after its completion, he takes his own life. As an unnamed friend pieces togetherliterally, from...

StoriesA collection of short stories from the early years of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville's career, Long Lankin explores the passionate emotionsfear, jealousy, desirethat course beneath the surface of everyday life. From a couple at risk of being torn apart by the allure of wealth to an old man's descent into nature, the...