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Rebecca Baumann

@arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social

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rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak.

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · Jul 24

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I have long been threatening to start a blog and it’s finally here! Please subscribe if you would like to follow my journey to collect, preserve, and analyze the queer pulp of yesteryear. I read smut so you don’t have to!

The Palace of Excess

An Introduction to the World of the Nympho Librarian

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 4d

I know, I wish the publisher hadn’t changed the name!

Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

Let’s get back to the #DailyPaperback and celebrate #Gothtober, starting with this paperback cut into the shape of a tombstone.

A Small Book of Grave Humor edited by Fritz Spiegl. Mass market paperback is cut into the shape of a tombstone.

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 8d

October

A man dressed as a vampire with the caption coming up goblin time

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 12d

The Detective among the Magicians.

Columbo at a magician funeral. The magician priest is in black with a black top hat. The other magicians are in white with white top hats. The little guy is peeking out in the lower left corner.

Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 12d

A new entry for my folder of pictures of Columbo holding books

Columbo (wearing glasses oooh yeah) holding up a book called Dyson on Mind Reading. The cover shows a cryptic head kind of unraveling upon a purple starry background

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 13d

I am so honored to be interviewing my friend and new Harlequin author @isabellepopp.bsky.social tonight and showing off some old school romance. First romance novel I’ve been thanked in 😭 It’s a fantastic cozy fall read featuring a fmc with heart and bite—I highly recommend!

Let’s give ‘em pumpkin to talk about by Isabelle Popp

Acknowledgments including thanks to me “for spotlighting romance in the rare book world.

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 13d

Challenging myself to stop buying duplicate books just because they have Elaine Duillo covers (just kidding I will never stop doing this). #DailyPaperback

Three copies of Warrior’s Woman by Johanna Lindsey. Cover is a painting of a white woman with dark hair in flowy lavender dress. She is being embraced by a muscular white man with long blonde hair, no shirt, and black leather pants. The background is pretty purples smattered with stars.

The spines of the three books. The left spine has tons of creases and the other two have slightly fewer

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · Aug 25

I started a newsletter, friends.

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This, Not That

Reccomending some good books, movies, music, and more

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 18d

Hell yes

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 19d

New stickers! willburrows.art/shop

A sticker based on a scene from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Jim, Bones, and Spock have their backs to the viewer and the face of God looms above them in shades of blue and cyan. Spock is shielding his eyes while Jim has his index finger raised to ask God a question. Text in the lower half of the image says "attack and dethrone God."

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

I’ve had 4 die at age 18! It feels like a weird curse

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

I’m sorry but this is the best product name I have ever seen

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

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I have been horrifically busy at work and also got way more obsessed with Richard Geis than I planned. The penultimate entry on The Devil is Gay is here, and the final part should follow soon if I can make myself stop reading one more thing!

The Devil is Gay, Part 3

In which Rebecca gets lost down the Geis-Hole and Ralph and Vern go on the most disastrous double date in pulp history!

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

Our eldest cat, Madame Blavatsky, has also been very cranky about the interloper, but she’s finally decided he can live and even has a bit of a tolerant auntie vibe now. Amazing that you have two over 20!!

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

What a beautiful girl! 🖤

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

I never thought to do this. If my only additions to human knowledge relate to a Mary Shelley story and a quack medical device I am fine with that

Screenshot of two Wikipedia citations. The first is Mary Shelley’s short story “The Dream,” citing my exhibition catalog “Frankenstein 200.” The second is for the quack medical device the Electropoise, citing a Lilly Library blog post.

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

It’s always a good time to revisit the Muppet movies

Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

First thing I saw him in was The Muppets Take Manhattan, which I still love

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

Yes but not for many years. I’ve been thinking about doing an ongoing Falk-a-thon and watching all his movies. The kitty and I are currently rewatching the Columbo canon at bedtime

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

Orange girls are rare! She radiates power

Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

What a great name and a great cat!

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Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

Love it!!

Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

(Head bonk, purrs)

Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social · 19d

He is always in orbit of Thurston and let’s be honest I got my big cat a little cat

Two black cats looking out a window, close-up

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