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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Does everybody know about the Horror Masters site?
It's a huge archive of public domain horror, pulp and fantasy stories in a very readable .pdf format.
So if, for example, you get the urge to read "The Yellow Wallpaper" or "The Monkey's Paw" or even whole novels like Wm. Beckford's Vathek it's there for you. They've got 2,866 titles. Novels, short stories and poetry. Hawthorne, Machen, ETA Hoffman, Stoker, Shelley, Wilkie Collins... All on the dark side, all free.
That is hilarious!
Must send link to all friends.
Knut just posted this link on Facebook and it cracked me up:
I love it! (I just re-read the book the other week, too.)
That's very funny. But I don't get the icons--I'm guessing it's some Facebook thing?
Yeah, those are the icons Facebook uses.
Oh that's adorable, and I say that as a non-FB fan.
Forry Ackerman died. [link]
I have achieved a personal library goal, Philip Gosse's History of Piracy. Hooray for small presses that reprint interesting books. My copy was done in 1988, and there's a note on the copyright page saying that the copy that the press used to reprint was found by International Booksellers, which makes me think original copies are not so easy to track down.
Wonderful bibliography, if only I read French and Spanish and Dutch and could find copies of 400-year-old books etc. Several pages on my pirate ancestor, Jan Jansen AKA Murat Reis.
I need another bookshelf.