This Week's Acquisitions
- Mrs. [Georgiana] Francis Maude, Montresor Abbey: A Tale (Nisbet, 1854). Anti-Catholic novel, featuring Jesuits, nuns, conversion, Tractarians, possible murder--the usual. (eBay)
- Mark Dunn, American Decameron (MP, 2012). One hundred short stories spanning every year of the twentieth century. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (Mysterious Press, 2011). Seven Gothic short stories/novellas. (Lift Bridge)
- Penelope Lively, How It All Began (Penguin, 2011). A chain of accidents affecting an otherwise disparate group of Londoners. (Lift Bridge)