dreams & nightmares
Explore the surreal and unsettling world of dreams & nightmares with our curated book list, featuring *Lives of the Monster Dogs*, *Mumbo Jumbo*, and *Geek Love*. Discover gripping fiction that blurs reality, from Kirsten Bakis to Katherine Dunn—perfect for fans of dark, imaginative storytelling and literary horror.
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Lives of the Monster Dogs
by Kirsten Bakis
When a group of elegant, anthropomorphic dogs arrives in New York from isolation in the Canadian wilderness, bringing with them the nineteenth-century Germanic culture of their distant creators, they force humanity to reassess its values. Reprint.
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results
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Mumbo Jumbo
by Ishmael Reed
The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of our preeminent African-American authors, mixes portraits of historical figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture.
