#random house

[garadinervi]

James Joyce, (1922), Ulysses, Random House, New York, NY, 1946, Book Club Edition [Between the Covers, Gloucester City, NJ]

[uwmspeccoll]

Decorative Sunday: Adventures in Light and Color

On this, the final Sunday of 2025, we’re highlighting images from 1937 book Adventures in Light and Color: An Introduction to the Stained Glass Craft, by Charles Jay Connick (1875-1945). Published in New York City by Random House, the book is full of mounted color images of stained glass windows, and rendered illustrations of the windows – Connick refers to these as cartoons – to highlight images, patterns, or technical details.

Also a painter and muralist, Connick is best remembered for his work in stained glass – on display throughout the country. Milwaukee is home to Connick’s stained glass in the St. Joan of Arc Chapel, on the Marquette University campus.

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--Amanda, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1732

Big Bird has helped Grover practice hitting a baseball when he first started learning.

Source:

Hautzig, Deborah. Why Are You So Mean to Me? Random House, 1986.

[brokehorrorfan]

Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror will be published on October 3 via Random House. It's curated by filmmaker Jordan Peele, who also provides an introduction and serves as editor with John Joseph Adams.

It features short stories by Erin E. Adams, Violet Allen, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Maurice Broaddus, Chesya Burke, P. Djèlí Clark, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, N.K. Jemisin, Justin C. Key, L.D. Lewis, Nnedi Okorafor, Tochi Onyebuchi, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nicole D. Sconiers, Rion Amilcar Scott, Terence Taylor, and Cadwell Turnbull.

The 400-page book will be available in hardcover, e-book, and audio book. The synopsis is below.

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation. A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele’s anthology of all-new horror stories by Black writers. Featuring an introduction by Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices, Out There Screaming is a master class in horror, and—like his spine-chilling films—its stories prey on everything we think we know about our world... and redefine what it means to be afraid.

Pre-order Out There Screaming.

[stone-cold-groove]

End paper from All About Fish. Random House - 1960.

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Isabella Taves - True Ghost Stories - Random House - 1978 (illustrated by Michael Deas)

[cryptonature]

A man is killed by a city bus. A crow on a “no parking” sign undoes his death and gives him an acorn. After that, things get weirder. Cozy. Creepy. Cryptids. Found family and… moths.

Strange Animals

A contemporary fantasy novel coming in February from Ballantine Books. Preorder Link HERE

[swainathan]

Is this a niche logo to parody? Maybe. Am I happy with how it turned out? Oh absolutely.

Anyways, you can purchase these stickers here!