This Week's Acquisitions
- James Malcolm Rymer, Varney the Vampyre (Wordsworth, 2010). One of the Victorian period's most famous penny dreadfuls, along with The String of Pearls. Yes, it's the Whole Thing--1166 pages of rather small print. You can see some of the original illustrations here. (PostScript Books)
- John Banim, The Anglo-Irish of the Nineteenth Century (Woodstock, 1997). Facsimile reprint of one of Banim's best-known novels, following the adventures of Gerald Blount, an Irishman raised in England who is forced to sojourn in Ireland. More on the Banim writing team at the Catholic Encyclopedia. (PostScript Books)
- Sarah Moss, Cold Earth (Counterpoint, 2010). Apocalyptoplaguefic involving archaeologists in Greenland. (Lift Bridge)
- Steve Fellner, All Screwed Up (Benu, 2009). A prize-winning memoir by one of my colleagues. (Gift)