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Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic for The Washington Post and the author of several collections of essays, including Classics for Pleasure and Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books.
Algernon Blackwood: The Master of the Supernatural
The Face of the Earth and Other Imaginings
by Algernon Blackwood, edited and with an introduction by Mike Ashley
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories The Listener and Other Stories
by Algernon Blackwood, with an introduction by Storm Constantine
Pan’s Garden Incredible Adventures
by Algernon Blackwood, with introductions by Mike Ashley and Tim Lebbon
The Lost Valley The Wolves of God
by Algernon Blackwood, with an introduction by Simon Clark
Julius LeVallon The Bright Messenger
by Algernon Blackwood, with an introduction by Mike Ashley
The Complete John Silence Stories
by Algernon Blackwood, edited and with an introduction by S.T. Joshi
Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
selected and with an introduction by E.F. Bleiler
December 22, 2016 issue
The Cool and Funny Words of Frank B.
Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book
by Richard Ford
December 18, 2014 issue
The Comédie Humaine of Joyce Carol Oates
The Accursed
by Joyce Carol Oates
Carthage
by Joyce Carol Oates
May 8, 2014 issue
Funny, But Serious Too
Traveling Sprinkler
by Nicholson Baker
The Way the World Works: Essays
by Nicholson Baker
House of Holes: A Book of Raunch
by Nicholson Baker
November 21, 2013 issue
‘The Glory of Certain Moments in Life’
All That Is
by James Salter
Memorable Days: The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps
edited by John McIntyre
Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days
by James and Kay Salter
There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter
by James Salter
June 6, 2013 issue
Not So Elementary, Watson
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
a film directed by Guy Ritchie
Sherlock
a television series on the BBC created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat
Elementary
a television series on CBS created by Robert Doherty
The Perils of Sherlock Holmes
by Loren D. Estleman
The House of Silk
by Anthony Horowitz
Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles
by Kim Newman
Garment of Shadows
by Laurie R. King
A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon
edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
The Game's Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays)
a play by Ken Ludwig, directed by Aaron Posner
As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality
by Michael Saler
The Autobiography of Sherlock Holmes
by Sherlock Holmes, edited by Don Libey
The Grand Game: A Celebration of Sherlockian Scholarship
edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger
Bohemian Souls: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of "A Scandal in Bohemia"
edited by Otto Penzler
The “Illustrated” Speckled Band: The Original 1910 Stage Production in Script and Photographs
by Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Leslie S. Klinger
The Narrative of John Smith
by Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, and Rachell Foss
“Dangerous Work”: Diary of an Arctic Adventure
by Arthur Conan Doyle, edited by Jon Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower
May 9, 2013 issue
One of America’s Best
Ambrose Bierce had no use for the refined eeriness of the English-style ghost stories of Henry James and Edith Wharton, instead setting his haunting descriptions of fateful coincidence and horrific revelation in uncut forests and abandoned mining towns.
The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
by Ambrose Bierce, edited by S.T. Joshi
May 10, 2012 issue
White and Black Banville
The Infinities
by John Banville
Elegy for April
by Benjamin Black
November 25, 2010 issue
Messing About with ‘The Wind in the Willows’
The Annotated Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame, edited with a preface and notes by Annie Gauger
The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition
by Kenneth Grahame, edited by Seth Lerer
August 13, 2009 issue
This Woman Is Dangerous
The Complete Ripley Novels: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, Ripley Under Water
by Patricia Highsmith
July 2, 2009 issue
Spellbound
Man in the Dark
by Paul Auster
Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster
The Brooklyn Follies
by Paul Auster
Oracle Night
by Paul Auster
The Book of Illusions
by Paul Auster
The Red Notebook: True Stories
by Paul Auster
I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
by Paul Auster
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
by Paul Auster
Timbuktu
by Paul Auster
Mr. Vertigo
by Paul Auster
Leviathan
by Paul Auster
The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews
by Paul Auster
The Music of Chance
by Paul Auster
Moon Palace
by Paul Auster
In the Country of Last Things
by Paul Auster
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
by Paul Auster with an introduction by Luc Sante
The Invention of Solitude
by Paul Auster
Squeeze Play
by Paul Auster, published under the pseudonym Paul Benjamin
December 4, 2008 issue
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