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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 6h

They have the most awkward pair of cover blurbs for some reason.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 7h

Yesterday's 'featured book' 📖

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 8h

I have never read a Kane story but have heard so much praise for them. I collected these both to read and for the collector's value. Which volume should I read first? Do you have a favorite short story I should start with?

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 8h

I am thankful to the gods of darkness for the recent opportunity to obtain each of the books of this accursed pair for well below the usual asking price.

Reunited at last. ⚔️

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 10h

Why sell a record once when people will buy it 27 times?

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 1d

And here is an early edition of "The King in Yellow", the book that Chambers is most remembered for today:
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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · Apr 12

"The King in Yellow" by Robert W. Chambers, published by Harper and Brothers in 1902.
This is the first illustrated edition of Chambers' infamous collection of eerie short stories centered around a mysterious play that drives its readers to irredeemable madness.
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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 1d

Here is my copy of "In Search of the Unknown" which I shared here a while back. I may take some new better-lit photos of this one some time soon.
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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · Feb 26

"In Search of the Unknown" by Robert W. Chambers, published by Harper's in 1904.
One of Chambers' most acclaimed works of Weird Fiction besides "The King in Yellow", this novel consists of a series of interconnected episodic short stories.
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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 1d

Edgar Allan Poe died at Washington Medical College in Baltimore, Maryland on this day, October 7, 1849. 📖

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 1d

The first three stories are loosely linked, much like the tales in "The King in Yellow".
Two other stories were later revised and incorporated into Chambers' episodic novel "In Search of the Unknown".
A few of the stories lean toward romantic adventure in the style of his later work.
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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 1d

"The Maker of Moons" by Robert W. Chambers, published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1896.
Released a year after his most well-known book, "The King in Yellow" this is Chambers' other major collection of Weird Tales.
This first printing includes a frontispiece by Lancelot Speed. #booksky
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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 1d

Edgar Allan Poe died at Washington Medical College in Baltimore, Maryland on this day, October 7, 1849. 📖

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 5d

"A Night in the Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny, published by AvoNova in 1993.
An homage to early horror, this book blends mystery, comedy and fantasy with elements of pulp horror such as nods to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 2d

It's well done but a bit hilarious that it sort of plays out like a horror version of Forest Gump with this weird slow guy telling everyone what his mother used to say.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 3d

The "wraparound story" is Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bloch discussing Gein while making the Psycho movie, it then flashes back to the dramatisation of the events they are talking about in his life.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 3d

Robert Bloch is a character on "Monster: The Ed Gein Story" on Netflix!

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

The other book I shared yesterday...

Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 5d

A nice find at the church book sale today.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

I've not read it yet and just acquired this copy about a month or two ago. I intended to do the one-chapter-per-day thing but I didn't have the time and I'm already behind. I'll catch up though

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

Yesterday's 'featured book' 🎃

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 4d

I just finally snagged a copy of the sister-volume "The Midnight Sun: The Complete Stories of Kane" which I will be sharing here as soon as it arrives!

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 5d

A nice find at the church book sale today.

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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 5d

This first edition of Zelazny's final book, is also notable for its 33 full-page interior illustrations by Gahan Wilson, whose distinctive style complements the absurd mashup of characters and literary themes.
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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 5d

The book brings together characters who are clear stand-ins for well-known literary figures, along with their animal familiars, to take part in a deadly game which is part of a Halloween ritual to summon a cosmic entity.
Each chapter unfolds on a day of the month of October.
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Weird Friction @weirdfriction.bsky.social · 5d

"A Night in the Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny, published by AvoNova in 1993.
An homage to early horror, this book blends mystery, comedy and fantasy with elements of pulp horror such as nods to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
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Wendigo Speedrun @earthpigjohnson.bsky.social · 5d

October Vintage Horror Paperback Day 3!

THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLAND by William Hope Hodgson.

Absolutely wild classic. Begins as a siege story involving violent pig-men, shuffles over into old-fashioned cosmic horror, then stumbles a bit in the home stretch recreating Wells’ THE TIME MACHINE.

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