This Week's Acquisitions
- Francis Lathom, The One-Pound Note and Other Tales, ed. Max Fincher (Valancourt, 2013). Reprint of three novellas first published in 1820. Some more of the elusive Lathom's work here. (Amazon)
- Bram Stoker, Lady Athlyne (Valancourt, 2007). Reprint of Stoker's 1908 novel about a man who falls in love with the woman who is pretending to be his wife (confused yet?). (Amazon)
- Harry Karlinsky, The Evolution of Inanimate Objects: The Life and Collected Works of Thomas Darwin (1857-1879) (Insomniac, 2010). A faux biography of a shortlived, possibly insane Victorian figure who is/is not kin to the more familiar Darwin. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Robert Edric, The Book of the Heathen: A Novel of the Congo (St. Martin's, 2002). In the late-19th c. Congo, a man prepares to go on trial for murder. What happened? (Amazon [secondhand])