Pretty Sinister Books

  Here's an unusual post for Pretty Sinister Books and the second one inspired by a post I read at A Hot Cup of Pleasure , a book blog h...

THE STORY: A little bit of Cinderella, a dash of Kafka, and a whole lot of lampooning the publishing world await you in Wishes Limited (...

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi Penguin Books ISBN: 978-0143128793 281 pp. $16 Publication date: January 23, 2018 For the ...

One of the serendipitous rewards of having created this blog is discovering another side to a writer I am already familiar with. Take the ca...

Quick! Give me the name of a Finnish novelist. Or any  writer from Finland. Aha! I thought so. Somehow Finland gets overlooked in the w...

 Tam Tam Books ed., English translation Currently in its 3rd printing The fantastical world of Boris Vian’s L’Ecume des Jours (1946...

The introduction to Just an Ordinary Day (1997) written by two of Shirley Jackson's grown children tells how they received a box of man...

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...

Work: The Five Jars by M.R. James (Edward Arnold & Co., 1922) Artist: Gilbert James The Five Jars is subtitled "Being More...

Work: The Circus of Dr. Lao by Charles G. Finney Publisher: Ben Abramson, 1945 (a reissue of the 1935 1st) Artist: Boris Artzybasheff (...