Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when you have a record and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in Armpit is Ginny, his ten year old disabled neighbor. Together they're learning to take small steps. Armpit seems to be on the right path until X-Ray, a buddy from Camp G…
When All the King's Men was first published in 1946, Sinclair Lewis pronounced it "massive, impressive...one of our few national galleries of character." Diana Trilling, reviewing it for the Nation, wrote, "For sheer virtuosity, for the sustained drive of its prose, for the speed and the evenness of its pacing, for its precision of language...I doubt indeed whether it can be matched in American…
Di tengah kesibukan Jones Salvage Yard, tiba-tiba terdengar jeritan melengking yang menyeramkan. Ternyata suara menakutkan tersebut berasal dari sebuah beker! Itulah awal dari penyelidikan terbaru Trio Detektif yang seru. Siapa yang membuat jam tersebut? Apa alasannya? Pengusutan awal membawa Trio Detektif pada ruangan penuh jam menjerit serta pesan-pesan membingungkan. Jupiter, Pete, dan Bob y…
Di alam semesta Walking Dead, tidak ada penjahat yang lebih hebat dari Gubernur. Lalim yang menjalankan kota bertembok Woodbury, dia memiliki rasa keadilannya sendiri yang sakit: apakah itu memaksa tahanan untuk melawan zombie di arena untuk hiburan penduduk kota, atau memotong pelengkap orang-orang yang melintasinya. Gubernur terpilih sebagai "Villain of the Year" oleh majalah Wizard pada tahu…
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all times assails me yet. With its strange, imaginative blend of horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W. Chambers The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird fiction. This series of vaguely connected…
Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where Gods once dabled in the affairs of men and the local saint periodically rises from his sarcophagus to cure the mad. Then the tide of World War II rolls onto island's shores in the form o…