This Week's Acquisitions
- Jeremy Page, The Collector of Lost Things (Pegasus, 2013). A man on an expedition to the Arctic in the 1840s struggles, among other things, with the captain's insistence on destroying auks. (Amazon)
- Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, The Watch (Hogarth, 2012). Resets Antigone in Afghanistan, as soldiers try to make sense of a woman's insistence on properly interring her brother's corpse. (free books table)
- David Skal, Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen, rev. ed. (Faber & Faber, 2004). Updated version of Skal's history of Dracula adaptations. (Amazon [secondhand])