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Also got a couple of old hardbacks without dust jackets: A CHILMARK MISCELLANY by Van Wyck Brooks and VAN LOON'S LIVES by Hendrik Willem van Loon.

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The occult, like horror, makes up that dark strip of ground between science and religion. Great place to take a walk when the mood strikes.

Interesting book cover. Has that been a good primer for the field? I am interested in the topic but it seems to have been taken over by UFO/psychic miscellanea in bookstores in recent decades, which is not really my thing.

The good news is neither UFO nor psychic appear in the index. These guys "are writers, researchers, and lecturers on the paranormal, the occult, and historical and religious mysteries." Probably similiar to that paranormal show Leonard Nimoy used to narrate, In Search Of or something like that. (I always enjoyed it.) I browsed through it before writing the check and it seems very well written. Nice blurb by Colin Wilson on the back cover, and that's usually a good sign. Will probably read it after I finish Asimov's THE STARS LIKE DUST and will let you know how it goes.

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Not new stories written for a fairly new genre but the real stuff from the Victorian age, proto-steampunk I guess, the same way ERB's John Carter is proto-sf.

Also found this. Sometimes you just have to buy a book based solely on its cover:

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Couple of thrift store finds:
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in the last week and 2 days all are hardbacks but #'s 2 & 15
1.100 Malicious Little Mysteries
Mixed
2.100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories
Mixed
3.On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King
4.Three Complete Novels: Cold Fire;
Hideaway; The Key to Midnight
Dean Koontz
5.Pet Sematary
Stephen King
6.Three Complete Novels: The House of Thunder,
Shadowfires, Midnight
Dean Koontz
7.Agatha Christie's Detectives: Five Complete Novels
(The Murder at the Vicarage / Dead Man's Folly
/ Sad Cypress / Towards Zero / N or M?)
Agatha Christie
8.Three Complete Novels: Weep No More, My Lady;
Stillwatch; A Cry in the Night
Mary Higgins Clark
9.Three Complete Novels (Strangers / The Voice of the Night
/ The Mask)
Dean Koontz
10.Three Complete Novels: Where Are The Children;
A Stranger Is Watching; The Cradle Will Fall
Mary Higgins Clark
11.Three Complete Novels, Lightning, The Face Of Fear
,The Vision
Dean Koontz
12.Carrie, a novel of a girl with Frightening Power
Stephen King
13.Five Complete Miss Marple Novels
Agatha Christie
14. Three Complete Novels (Dark Rivers of the Heart
/ Sole Survivor / Intensity)
Dean Koontz
15.Four Complete Novels
Mark Twain
16.Three Complete Novels: Brainchild; Nathaniel;
The God Project
John Saul
17.Five Complete Novels of Murder and Detection
Agatha Christie
18.Three Complete Novels Hellfire; The Unwanted;
Sleepwalk
John Saul
19. Five Complete Hercule Poirot Novels:
Thirteen at Dinner / Murder on the Orient express /
The ABC Murders / Cards on the Table / Death on the Nile
Agatha Christie
20.11/22/63: A Novel
Stephen King
21.Storm Of The Century
Stephen King
22.Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, Book 5)
Stephen King
23.Danse Macabre
Stephen King
24.Horns: A Novel
Joe Hill
25.The Baghman Books
Stephen King
26.Velocity
Dean Koontz
27.The Face
Dean Koontz
28.Dragon tears
Dean Koontz
29.From the Corner of His Eye
Dean Koontz

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Edited by S.T. Joshi, published by Penguin, is there a better way to spend a buck? Found it at the library book sale.

Which one will you read first?