Rebecca Baumann Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters. nonbinary. she/they
Gormenghast: Volume 2
Mervyn PeakeRebecca Baumann@bonnerbooks The old PS2 game Ico, which is based on a novel by Miyuki Miyabe. Arguably some similarities to Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney. Maybe the old Paradys books by Tanith Lee. M. John Harrison’s Viraconium. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake. Mordew by Alex Phelby.
Paperback, 2007
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The Three Imposters
Arthur MachenRebecca BaumannJust last night (possibly not fully in my right mind) I was pontificating on how Arthur Machen’s unacknowledged influence undergirds a lot of popular culture. And apparently this reality show I’ve never heard of centers around the occult theme of “the three imposters” holy shit https://t.co/KePgEkUyjH
Paperback, 2012
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Death Claims
Joseph HansenRebecca BaumannA thread on my current reading & collecting obsession, Joseph Hansen. If nothing else, I want my rare book friends to know that his second novel about gay insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter (Death Claims, 1973) is a fantastic look at LA bookselling and collecting in the 70s https://t.co/WpuegWMyVp
Paperback, 2022
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The Space Merchants
Frederik PohlRebecca BaumannFrederik Pohl appreciation post. I’m on a real science fiction kick at the moment and he was one of the best. Read The Space Merchants for a blistering critique of capitalist advertising culture. Gateway for existential space horror that comes more from within than without. https://t.co/COfFOUVrG5
Paperback, 2011
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Doom Patrol: The Bronze Age Omnibus
Paul KupperbergRebecca BaumannSuch sad news. Read Godmother Night, Burning Sky, her run on Doom Patrol, and my favorite book on the tarot ever, 78 Degrees of Wisdom. A phenomenal writer and wise woman. 🖤 https://t.co/BCiYmFnXBt
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Nightmare Alley
William Lindsay GreshamRebecca Baumann#BookMail 1) New volume from the excellent British Library series of weird fiction that I am most excited about. 2) Less interested in her marriage to C.S. Lewis and extremely interested in the letters to her first husband, William Lindsay Gresham, author of Nightmare Alley. https://t.co/W9Rw6nkga4
Paperback, 2010
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Tales of the Unexpected
Roald DahlRebecca BaumannPSA: BBC Radio’s audio versions of Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected (both volumes) are available on Internet Archive. Some stories are read by Joanna Lumley, who is the perfect Dahl heroine. https://t.co/sLXgeQrtbk https://t.co/MtAg9oTy1Z
Paperback, 1990
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Goblin Market: An Illustrated Poem
Christina RossettiRebecca Baumann“Hug me, kiss me, suck my juices Squeez’d from goblin fruits for you, Goblin pulp and goblin dew. Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me” Kinuko Y. Craft’s illustrations of Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” (1862) for Playboy’s “Ribald Classics,” September 1973 https://t.co/8y3o7THOOs
Hardcover, 2021
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A Severed Head
Iris MurdochRebecca BaumannA Severed Head (1970) is the only film adaptation of an Iris Murdoch novel. It is incredibly exactly what I would have imagined a film adaptation of Murdoch to be. It feels like a parody of what it actually is https://t.co/130A3SzxeG
Paperback, 1976
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Revival
Stephen KingRebecca Baumann@queenofbithynia I just remembered that Stephen King’s Revival was also a Machen tribute
Paperback, 2015
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