Two books, one a small press signed/limited edition that I’ll have in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, the other anthology I just missed picking up when it came out:
Library Addition: Two Joe R. Lansdale Firsts
October 11th, 2019Halloween Horrors: (More) Scary Nurse Stories
October 10th, 2019Remember those scary nurse stories I mentioned a few years ago?
Well, here’s thirteen more.
A sample:
I was working in an icu. had a patient who would only repeat what was said to her and was with her all night. One time I went in the room and she started telling me all the ways she died. “I died because of a narcotic overdose, I died because I took too much insulin, I died on a sunny Sunday afternoon,” etc. Then later she looked up at the ceiling and said “they’re all still there.” I ran out of that room as fast as I could.
Library Addition: Signed/Limited Edition of Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue
October 8th, 2019Another Chabon I was missing:
Chabon, Michael. Telegraph Avenue. Harper, 2012. First edition hardback, a Near Fine copy with a bump at head and a pinhead red remainder mark at heel, in a Fine- dust jacket with wrinkling along that bump, with Chabon’s signature sheet bound in. ISBN is the same as the trade edition. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a presigned edition remaindered by a major publisher before. Maybe it got mixed in with the regular titles, or maybe it was due to the bump. Bought from Half Price Books for $12 (marked down from $15).
Halloween Horrors: Japanese Hell Temple
October 2nd, 2019If you find yourself in east Osaka, Japan, you can visit Senkoji Temple, a shrine dedicated to giving you a glimpse of Hell, including hearing the voices of the damned:
Halloween Horrors: Watch Nightmare Bob Ross Unpaint the Centipede Tree
October 1st, 2019Welcome to the Halloween Season!
Someone unleashed Deep Dream on reversed Bob Ross and the result is Grade A Nightmare Fuel:
Library Addition: Charnel House Edition of Dean R. Koontz’s Beastchild
September 24th, 2019Picked up another Charnel House cheap:
Koontz, Dean R. Beastchild. Charnel House, 1992. First hardback edition, #612 of 750 signed, numbered copies, a Fine copy, sans dust jacket, as issued, in a Very Good only slipcase with a couple of quarter-sized dampstains to back. Reprint of a 1970 PBO, dedicated to Lisa Tuttle (among three others). Bought off eBay for $65.00.
Library Addition: Gahan Wilson’s A Little Purple Book of Phantasies
September 21st, 2019Picked up another in the Little Library series:
Wilson, Gahan. A Little Purple Book of Phantasies. Borderlands Press, 2019. First edition hardback, #88 of 500 numbered copies signed by editor Stuart David Schiff, a Fine copy in decorated boards (a Wilson illustration, natch), sans dust jacket, as issued. Short story collection, something of a best of collection, with a smattering of cartoons. Out of print before publication. I’ll have copies for sale in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog, due out in November.
Looks like it’s past time to pick up another cheap scanner at Sam’s…
Adventures in Bad Bathroom Design
September 19th, 2019Maybe you should consider not mounting the bathroom mirror so that the faucet handle hits the edge every time you use it…
Library Addition: Signed First of Ray Bradbury’s The Other Foot
September 16th, 2019Picked up another signed Ray Bradbury chapbook:
Bradbury, Ray. The Other Foot. Perfection Form Company, 1982. First edition chapbook (presumed; no additional printings listed), a Fine copy, signed by Bradbury. As with The Veldt, this is a short story reader with questions for classrooms and reading comprehension questions in the back. Not in The Undead, which includes a number of other Bradbury chapbooks. Bought off eBay for $35.
Library Additions: Three TPOs
September 11th, 2019Two of these I picked up at Armadillocon, one at Half Price Books: