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GHOSTS AND MONSTERS BOOK SALE

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Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again Shigeru Kayama 2023 Fall: The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla
Noah’s Arkive Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates 2023 Spring: A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose
By the Fire Sami Folktales and Legends Emilie Demant Hatt 2022 Fall: The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century
Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth The Gothic Anthropocene Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund and Johan Höglund, Editors 2022 Spring: An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era
Troll Magic Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway Theodor Kittelsen 2022 Spring: A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll
Rafferty’s Last Case A Minnesota Mystery Featuring Sherlock Holmes Larry Millett 2022 Spring: The ninth and final Minnesota mystery, in which Shadwell Rafferty, with the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, may have solved his own murder
Our Grateful Dead Stories of Those Left Behind Vinciane Despret 2021 Fall: An award-winning exploration of the presence of the dead in the lives of the living
The Death of Things Ephemera and the American Novel Sarah Wasserman 2020 Fall: A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century literature—and its relevance to the twenty-first century
Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall: A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring: An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
The Monster Theory Reader Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editor 2020 Spring: A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions
Jack and the Ghost Chan Poling 2019 Fall: A gothic, lyrical evocation of a shipwreck, ghosts, and lost—and found—love in a North Shore town
The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjørnsen and Moe Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe 2019 Fall: A new, definitive English translation of the celebrated story collection regarded as a landmark of Norwegian literature and culture
The Devil’s Wedding Ring Vidar Sundstøl 2019 Spring: A mysterious disappearance at a 13th-century church in his native Norway draws detective Max Fjellanger into an old case—and a world of ancient ritual, superstition, and present-day danger
Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma Larry Millett 2019 Spring: A murderer who eluded him in Munich draws an aging Sherlock Holmes into a monstrous mystery in small-town Minnesota in 1920
None of This Is Normal The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer Benjamin J. Robertson 2018 Fall: How the otherworldly worlds created by the author of the Southern Reach Trilogy speak to—and even affect—our own
Hybrid Child A Novel Mariko Ōhara 2018 Spring: A classic of Japanese speculative fiction that blurs the line between consumption and creation when a cyborg assumes the form and spirit of a murdered child
After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring: A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring: Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
Zombie Theory A Reader Sarah Juliet Lauro, Editor 2017 Fall: An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on zombies as the embodiment of anxieties, critiques, and desires
The Sacred Era A Novel Yoshio Aramaki 2017 Spring: A brilliant work of speculative fiction, blending science and metaphysics, by a Japanese master of the 1970s New Wave
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring: Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
The Book of the Dead Shinobu Orikuchi 2016 Fall: The first complete English translation of a Japanese literary masterpiece
The Age of Lovecraft Carl H. Sederholm and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Editors 2016 Spring: The first sustained look at Lovecraft in relation to twenty-first-century critical theory and culture
The Ravens Vidar Sundstøl 2016 Spring: The final installment of the award-winning Minnesota Trilogy by the celebrated Norwegian mystery writer
Only the Dead Vidar Sundstøl 2015 Fall: A psychological thriller that deepens the mystery begun in the prize-winning first volume of Vidar Sundstøl’s internationally best-selling Minnesota Trilogy
Biko’s Ghost The Iconography of Black Consciousness Shannen L. Hill 2015 Spring: Traces the profound visual legacy of the life and politics of South African activist Stephen Biko
The Land of Dreams Vidar Sundstøl 2014 Fall: Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel of the year—the first novel in the internationally best-selling Minnesota Trilogy
Consoling Ghosts Stories of Medicine and Mourning from Southeast Asians in Exile Jean M. Langford 2013 Fall: The ghosts—and varying ideas about death, dying, and the aftereffects of violence—emerging from the stories of emigrants from Laos and Cambodia
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec 2012 Fall: Pondering the human condition while examining the vampire squid from hell
Utopia’s Ghost Architecture and Postmodernism, Again Reinhold Martin 2010 Spring: Unpacking architecture’s important—and continuing—role in postmodern thought
The Sub A Study in Witchcraft Thomas M. Disch 2010 Fall: A black comedy tour-de-force now in paperback
The Businessman A Tale of Terror Thomas M. Disch 2010 Fall: The wicked first book in Thomas M. Disch’s Supernatural Minnesota series
The Priest A Gothic Romance Thomas M. Disch 2010 Fall: The third—and most controversial—installment in Thomas M. Disch’s Supernatural Minnesota series
The M.D. A Horror Story Thomas M. Disch 2010 Fall: A chilling allegory for the field of modern medicine
The Strange Case of William Mumler, Spirit Photographer Louis Kaplan 2008 Fall: The story of the birth of spirit photography and the controversy surrounding its discovery
The Devil Notebooks Laurence A. Rickels 2008 Fall: This sequel to The Vampire Lectures takes on the Devil
Ghostly Matters Haunting and the Sociological Imagination Avery F. Gordon 2008 Spring: A new edition of this widely influential and innovative work of social theory—with a new introduction and foreword
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. and Takayuki Tatsumi, Editors 2007 Fall: Connecting Japan’s vibrant science fiction tradition to the global phenomenon of anime
Ghosts Death’s Double and the Phenomena of Theatre Alice Rayner 2006 Spring: A new view of how the stage is home to ghosts
James Whale A New World of Gods and Monsters James Curtis 2003 Fall: The definitive biography of this innovative and influential director
The Vampire Lectures Laurence A. Rickels 1999 Fall: A wild and wide-ranging “psycho-history” of the vampire.
Of Giants Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 1999 Spring: Considers what monsters tell us about identity in the medieval period.
Monster Theory Reading Culture Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Editor 1996 Fall: Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park.