Pretty Sinister Books

Work: Prince Izon by James Paul Kelly (A. C. McClurg, 1910) Listed in 333 , a bibliography of lost race, fantasy, super-natural and sci...

My write-up a few weeks ago of Dennis Wheatley's The Man Who Missed the War mentioned in passing that it shares something with books...

Looking at the table of contents and reading the chapter titles I learned that Vanishing Men (1927) promised five disappearances and a la...

Have I ever talked about a fascinating bibliographic work that has been a reading guide of mine for several years? It's called 333 and ...

There is more than a touch of Sax Rohmer's malevolent masters of the occult (notably Antony Ferrar and Trepniak) than the usual brand of...

October is here and although is seems like mid July with our unseasonably warm weather out here in the Windy City it is still, as we all kno...

Originally published in England in 1922. The US edition was published in 1936 no doubt with intent to capitalize on the monster movie mania ...

Written under the pseudonym "Christopher Blayre" and presented as a series of manuscripts and documents submitted by the academics...