#weird books

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I’ve really come to appreciate weird books. Not particularly horror, or thriller, but like modern queer gothic or sci-fi action fantasy with necromancers or post apocalyptic Americana, just weird-ish stories. Stuff I wouldn’t have read in high school cause I was wimp.

It’s nice because I can’t read it all in one go. I have to take breaks, cause I start to feel like I’m vibrating at a frequency only dogs can hear when they get a little more intense. I think slowing my reading down is helping me appreciate the story more, letting me mull it over and think about it.

I don’t know why but contemporary stuff just doesn’t do that for me, there’s a lot of books I can just read in one shot, and while i enjoy them, sometimes they’re nothing burgers in terms of thinking about them afterwards.

It’s nice, like savoring a sweet coffee with a friend.

[rosieandthemoon]

guys have I shown you my favorite evil book yet?

random numbers are missing from every page

I found this at the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur, which tends to carry a lot of obscure indie books along with reprints of classics. This was sitting on the piano (?) all by itself, no other copies and nothing else like it. The chaos glut in me couldn’t resist the siren call of a cursed object lol.

[unspeakablearchives]

According to a disreputable source, James Williamson, the underground publishing magnate and visionary avant-garde pornographer behind Creation Books, tragically passed away in his Bangkok hovel last month.

Williamson died from complications arising from a perforated colon after spending the night with Mistress Nong Champain, lead performer at the illustrious Club 27cm. The attending physician Dr. Benway (who unsurprisingly was left unpaid) is quoted as saying "He died like he lived: full of shit."

Drawing of Williamson, provided by a police sketch artist

[pme7]

[pme7]

With childish defiance I would say to her, ‘I am not going to leave you for another woman in particular, but for all the women in the world.’

[she-was-a-teenage-zombie]

[chaos-triangle]

An adendum (I know that's not the correct spelling) to a previous post

That weird fairytale book that I mentioned in a previous post might be called either Paper Kingdom(s), The Paper Kingdom or Paper Crown(s)! Oddly there're several things that match those titles but they don' have the correct description or are way too new! To recap the previous post 'bout this book (series?) is 'bout fairytale characters that know that they live in a fairytale world! They have an awareness that their story plays out from the beginning every time that someone reads the book from the beginning an' they're desperately trying to escape from the book to go to the real world! It's also worth noting that their book was passed down from generation to generation! That's something that's implied to have happened for a while! Looking this up is difficult as I dunno what the actual title is nor do I remember the name o' the author! Have any o' ya heard o' such a book? It's not Inkheart, it's also not Story Thieves nor is it The Sisters Grimm, 'cause none o' those really match the plot description above!

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Yet another weird book (possibly a comic?)

This one involved an animal loving witch who enlisted two kids (who initially didn' like animals) to help her fight against evil animal control agents! Her magic was infused into brownies, the first bite made the one eating it like animals, the second communication wit' animals an' then finally transformation into an animal! I honestly dunno at all if this one's real! As the only thing this sounds like to me is Animorphs but it notably definitely is not!

plain text: Yet another weird book (possibly a comic?)

This one involved an animal loving witch who enlisted two kids (who initially didn' like animals) to help her fight against evil animal control agents! Her magic was infused into brownies, the first bite made the one eating it like animals, the second communication wit' animals an' then finally transformation into an animal! I honestly dunno at all if this one's real! As the only thing it sounds like to me is Animorphs but it notably is not!