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Devil in the White City_ Murder, Magic & Madness and the Fair That Changed America, The - Erik Larson; Tony Goldwyn
From BooklistStarred Review Larson's ambitious, engrossing tale of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 focuses primarily on two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect who was the... -
At the mountains of madness - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Review“One of the greatest short novels in American literature, and a key text in my own understanding of what that literature can do.”–MICHAEL CHABON “Lovecr... -
Too much happiness_ stories - Alice Munro
Amazon.com ReviewToo Much Happiness. Real life assaults her central characters rather brutally--in the forms of murder and madness, death, divorce, and all manner of deceptions--b.... -
Terror out of Space - Leigh Brackett
It was driving men to madness... they had managed to capture it, but for how long? -
Paladin of Souls - Lois McMaster Bujold; Kate Read
"Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound free... -
No Doors, No Windows - Joe Schreiber
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it?Scott Mast thought he got away–first from a family haunted by a dark fate, then from a dull career writing ... -
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink o... -
Lovecraft's Fiction Volume III, - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror The Electric Executioner (with Adolphe de Castro) The Mound (with Zealia Bishop) MedusaÆs Coil (with Zealia Bishop) The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of... -
Love, Anger, Madness_ A Haitian - Marie Chauvet; Rose-Myriam Rejo
Product DescriptionAvailable in English for the first time, Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s stunning trilogy of novellas is a remarkable literary event. In a brilliant translation by Rose-My... -
Island Madness - Tim Binding
SUMMARY: It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning ...