Beware of the Creature Lurking in the Bottemless Lake
Beware the creature lurking in the bottomless lake with this curated reading list. Explore haunting poetry and fiction, including Hart Crane’s *Complete Poems* and Lee Siegel’s *City of Dreadful Night*, for literary tales of mystery and dread.
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City of Dreadful Night
by Lee Siegel
A novel of horror and the macabre in India, featuring an American scholar. With the help of a vagrant storyteller he discovers reincarnation, magical transformation, flesh-eating demons and vampires. Lots of stories within stories. By the author of Net of Magic.
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Complete Poems of Hart Crane
by Hart Crane
Featuring a new introduction by Harold Bloom, this volume chronicles the life works of a poet who has suffered much misunderstanding and neglect despite displaying a superb poetic style, idiosyncratic, yet central to American tradition.
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Paroles
by Jacques Prevert
In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prevert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 by Les Editions de Minuit, a press with its origins in the Underground...
