Non-fiction
The World of Charles Addams by Charles Addams - A retrospective of the cartoons and covers Addams did for the New Yorker over the course of his 32 year career, including a number of drawings involving the ever popular Addams family.
Decadence and Catholicism by Ellis Hanson - A look at the role the Catholic church played in the Decadent movement of the late Victorian era, with a special look at homoeroticism and aesthetics. (That word again!)
Bats by M. Brock Fenton and Merlin Tuttle (designer) - A very attractive coffee-table book on our fellow-creatures of the night.
H.R. Giger's Necronomicon by H.R. Giger, designed by Clive Barker - Art from the father of the Alien, with notes and an artist's bio.
In Search of Dracula by Raymond T. McNally and Radu Florescu - A new, revised edition of the 1972 classic that details the historical Vlad Dracul, his stomping grounds, and the legends that arose around him both during his bloodthirsty life and after his death. Lively reading and good scholarship in one volume.
The Necessity of Atheism by Percy Bysshe Shelley - Not exactly Gothic, but of historical interest as this is the essay that got Shelley expelled from Oxford in 1811. Big bad brooding rebel that he was....
America's Neighborhood Bats by Merlin D. Tuttle - Includes basic bat biology, ecology, and behavior information, as well as (best of all!) funny stories of how idiots over-react to bats out of fear and misinformation.
Dark Thoughts:On Writing edited by Stanley Wiater - Horror and dark fantasy writers from King to Barker to Rice to Craven share the background secrets behind their work.
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde - Wilde's letter from prison to the lover who sent him there. Very moving but at times self-aggrandizing. Then again, given the situation, the man was entitled to some self-aggrandizing.
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