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08/20/2026

THE COSMIC HORROR OF H. P. LOVECRAFT
‘Dagon’ and Other Macabre Tales
H. P. Lovecraft • Arkham House • 1987
“Searchers after horror haunt strange far places.”

Which Lovecraft are you reading?
This important Arkham House edition presents S. T. Joshi’s corrected text, returning to Lovecraft’s surviving manuscripts and restoring wording and punctuation altered in earlier editions.

A cornerstone collection of cosmic dread, forbidden knowledge, ancient powers—and the stories that helped define modern weird fiction.

Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
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08/20/2026

Remembering H. P. Lovecraft, author of horror tales on his birthday.

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction whose reputation grew dramatically after his death. Working largely outside the literary mainstream and publishing much of his fiction in pulp magazines, he developed a distinctive form of cosmic horror in which humanity confronts ancient forces and a universe vast, indifferent, and largely unknowable.

His best-known story, “The Call of Cthulhu,” became central to what is now known as the Cthulhu Mythos—a loosely connected fictional universe of forbidden knowledge, ancient beings, strange cults, and cosmic dread. Lovecraft's mythology continued to expand after his death as other writers adopted and reinterpreted its characters, creatures, and ideas.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life there and made New England an essential part of his fictional landscape. Despite the lasting power of that imagined world, literary success largely escaped him. He struggled financially, never supported himself comfortably through his writing, and died in 1937 at only forty-six.
His posthumous influence, however, has been extraordinary. Stephen King called Lovecraft “the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale,” while Joyce Carol Oates described his influence on later generations of horror writers as “incalculable.”

From a writer known principally to readers of pulp magazines emerged one of the defining imaginations of twentieth-century supernatural fiction—and a literary mythology that continues to inspire writers, filmmakers, artists, and readers nearly ninety years after his death.

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08/18/2026

Brian Aldiss was one of the major voices of postwar British science fiction, a writer whose career began, appropriately enough, among books. While working as a bookseller in Oxford, he began writing a column about life in the trade; his early literary success soon led him toward the science fiction that would establish his international reputation.

Aldiss emerged as an important figure in the British New Wave, helping push science fiction beyond conventional adventure narratives toward more experimental, psychologically complex, and literary forms. Over a career spanning more than six decades, he wrote novels, short stories, criticism, poetry, and histories of the genre, while also championing science fiction as serious literature.

His fiction ranged widely, from the strange evolutionary world of Hothouse and the generation-starship society of Non-Stop to the immense planetary cycles of the Helliconia trilogy. His imagination was often less concerned with predicting machines
than with examining what technological and social change might do to human beings.

One small story would have an especially long afterlife. “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long,” first published in 1969, explored artificial intelligence, loneliness, and the human need for love. Stanley Kubrick spent years developing it for film before the project eventually became Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Aldiss received the title of SFWA Grand Master in 1999, recognition of a career that helped broaden both the ambitions and the literary possibilities of science fiction.

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08/16/2026

A prolific underground writer who used his poetry and prose to depict the depravity of urban life and the downtrodden in American society.

A cult hero, Bukowski relied on experience, emotion, and imagination in his work, using direct language, often violent and s*xual imagery. While some critics found his style offensive, others claimed that Bukowski satirized the machismo attitude through his routine use of s*x, alcohol abuse, and violence.

Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal. . . [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero.”

His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambiance of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work.

Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, in the LA underground newspaper Open City.

Since his death in 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings, yet his work has received relatively little attention from academic critics.

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08/06/2026

Tennyson excelled at penning short lyrics, such as "Break, Break, Break", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, Idle Tears", and "Crossing the Bar". Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, such as Ulysses.

Tennyson also wrote some notable blank verse including Idylls of the King, "Ulysses", and "Tithonus".

A number of phrases from Tennyson's work have become commonplaces of the English language, including: "'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all"; …."Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die"; …… "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure", …… "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"; …. "Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers"; ….."The old order changeth, yielding place to new"; and ….."Nature, red in tooth and claw" ;

Which is what he is perhaps best know for from numerous High School English classes is “The Charge of the Light Brigade.”

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred………

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08/06/2026

Come join Blind Horse Books and other Antiquarian Dealers for the First Thursday’s Virtual Fair.

Here is a link: https://getmansvirtual.com/ Opens today 12:00 est.

We have items from $65 to $1800 and the majority are new to the market.

Here are some of the highlights we are offering:

THE SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL ASSURANCE
Perkins, William (1558–1602) ; Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge
A Treatise Tending Vnto a Declaration Whether a Man Be in the Estate of Damnation, or in the Estate of Grace [1591]

THE BIOGRAPHER WHO KNEW HIM BEST
Paine, Albert Bigelow (1861–1937)
MARK TWAIN: A Biography; The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, [Three Volumes - Complete]

CHICAGO BEFORE THE EXPRESSWAY ERA
Original Photograph by Gustaf W. Cronquist (1878–1967)
Chicago River and Michigan Avenue Bridge District, 1947

FROM HOWL TO HARMONIUM
Ginsberg, Allen with Arthur Russell
First Blues [1975 Limited Edition] [Signed & Numbered #88/100] [Arthur Russell Collaboration]

FROM SCREENING TO STARDOM—THE PRESS GOT THIS FIRST
Castle Rock Entertainment (Publisher / Studio)
City Slickers Original Studio Press Kit [Complete Studio Folder, Six Original Publicity Stills, WBCN Preview Pass & Promotional Material]

08/01/2026

BOOK OF THE DAY — A FAIRY TALE CLASSIC
The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

1930 John C. Winston Edition

“Andrew Lang’s beloved fairy tales, brought to life through the imaginative illustrations of Frederick Richardson.”

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08/01/2026

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period, best known for "Typee" (1846), a romantic account of his experiences in Polynesian life, and his whaling novel "Moby-Dick" (1851).

Fun Fact: Much of Melville’s later work, which is now considered his most highly regarded fiction, was neither critically nor commercially successful during his lifetime. For instance, between 1863 and 1887, an average of only 23 copies of "Moby-Dick" were sold annually. Today, "Moby-Dick" sells more copies each year than were sold in the entire nineteenth century and is recognized as a classic. Interestingly, its influence extends into the modern world of coffee and capitalism: the founders of the Starbucks chain took the name from a character in Melville’s novel.

During the last thirty years of his life, his work was nearly forgotten. Melville's writing draws from his experiences as a common sailor, his exploration of literature and philosophy, and his engagement with the contradictions of American society during a time of rapid change.

He developed a complex, baroque style characterized by rich and original vocabulary, a strong sense of rhythm in his elaborate sentences, and imagery that is often mystical or ironic. His writing is abundant with allusions to Scripture, myth, philosophy, literature, and the visual arts.

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07/31/2026

BOOK OF THE DAY—BACCHUS MEETS HIPPOCRATES
Meditations on Gout
1897 First Edition

"A medical book that recommends civilization before medication."

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07/31/2026

On her website she wrote that she had always known she would be a book author. "As soon as I knew what writers were, I wanted to be one. I've got the perfect temperament for a writer; perfectly happy alone in a room, making things up."

Rowling, now Britain's 13th wealthiest woman—wealthier than even the Queen—does not plan to write any more books in the series, but has not entirely ruled out the possibility.

"My books are largely about death," she told the Telegraph in 2006, referencing not only the death of Harry's parents, but also the villain Voldemort's obsession with immortality. "I so understand why Voldemort wants to conquer death. We're all frightened of it."

After receiving "loads" of rejections from book publishers when she first sent out the manuscript, Bloomsbury, a publishing house in London, gave "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" the green light in 1997. She added the "K" to her pen name (for Kathleen, her paternal grandmother) at the publisher's request, since women's names were found to be less appealing to the target audience of young boys.

According to the book "Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books," three days after the Harry Potter book was published in the UK, Scholastic bid $100,000 for the American publishing rights, an unprecedented amount for a children's book at the time.