This Week's Acquisitions

(The University of Chicago Press forced me to buy their books.  It was a sale! It's all their fault! Etc.)

• Vossian, Young and Fair: A Tale to While Away a Waste Hour, For Juveniles (Burns and Oates, 1884).  Catholic tale featuring abduction and pirates, as one might expect.  (eBay)
• Alexis Easley and Shannon Scott, eds., Terrifying Transformations: An Anthology of Victorian Werewolf Fiction, 1838-1896 (Valancourt, 2012).  New anthology featuring the talents of Stoker, Marryat, Reynolds, Kipling, and Doyle, amongst many others.  (Amazon)
• Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove: A Novel (FSG, 2012).  Neo-Gothic murder mystery featuring urban blight and supposed werewolves.  (Lift Bridge)
• Lee Siegel, City of Dreadful Night: A Tale of Horror and the Macabre  in India (Chicago, 1995).  Novel about how Siegel's interest in Indian ghost stories turns into the pursuit of a storyteller across the continent.  (Chicago)
• Pierre Birnbaum, The Anti-Semitic Moment: A Tour of France in 1898 (Chicago, 2011).  Studies attitudes to Jews in France during the Dreyfus case.  (Chicago)
• Anne L. Poulet, Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment (Chicago, 2005).  Catalog of the exhibition (which I saw) devoted to the great French sculptor.  (Chicago)
• Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits (Chicago, 2005).  Catalog and study of Rembrandt's representations of Christ and other key Christian figures.  (Chicago)