This Week's Acquisitions
- Akira Yoshimura, Shipwrecks (Harvest, 2000). Japanese historical fiction-cum-gothic set in a medieval seaside village that makes its living by enticing ships to be wrecked on the rocks...
- Robert Olen Butler, Severance (Chronicle, 2006). Collection of short-shorts told in the voices of various decapitated folks.
- Peter Haining, The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (Carrol & Graf, 1998). Anthology of literary ghost stories.
- Francis Hutcheson, Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendiaria: With a Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Liberty Fund, 2007). Latin-English edition of Hutcheson's textbook. For more Hutcheson, see the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- Bernard McGinn, Antichrist : Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil (HarperSan Francisco, 1996). A general survey.