This Week's Acquisitions
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, ed. Leslie S. Klinger, 2 vols. (Norton, 2004). An attempt to supplement/update/replace William S. Baring-Gould's classic Annotated Sherlock Holmes.
- M. R. James, The Haunted Doll's House and Other Ghost Stories, ed. S. T. Joshi (Penguin, 2006). Second volume in Penguin's edition of James' complete stories.
- Stephen Cullen, The Haunted Priory; or, The Fortunes of the House of Rayo (Zittaw, 2005). Gothic novel originally published in 1794. Apparently, Cullen's "life is shrouded in obscurity."
- William-Henry Ireland, The Abbess: A Romance (Zittaw, 2006). Another fictional outing from the famous forger, very much in the Gothic's hardcore anti-Catholic mode.
- Ryuonosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories, trans. Jay Rubin (Penguin, 2006). Includes the stories that inspired the Kurosawa film.
- Jane Hamilton, When Madeline Was Young: A Novel (Doubleday, 2006). Family deals with mother's brain injury.
- Shira Nayman, Awake in the Dark: Stories (Scribner, 2006). Short stories dealing with the aftereffects of the Holocaust.
- The Rev. C. S. Isaacson, Roads from Rome: A Series of Personal Narratives (RTS, 1903). Anthology of new and old Protestant conversion narratives.
- Mrs. Stephen Menzies, How to Mark Your Bible (S. W. Partridge, [1891]). Popular late-Victorian guide to Biblical annotation.