Tag Archives: Dark

The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes

Rating: (129 reviews)
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Vertigo

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“Wake up, sir. We’re here.” It’s a simple enough opening line–althoughnot many would have guessed back in 1991 thatthis would lead to one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comics of the second half of the century.In Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman weaves the story of a [...]

Dream Country (The Sandman, Vol. 3)

Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: Neil Gaiman, Malcolm Jones III, Charles Vess, Steve Erickson
Publisher: Vertigo

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The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. What’s remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book–the Sandman, King of [...]

The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll’s House

Rating: (51 reviews)
Author: Neil Gaiman, Malcolm Jones III, Mike Dringenberg, Michael Zulli, Clive Barker
Publisher: Vertigo

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This volume of Neil Gaiman’s THE SANDMAN book series features the first appearance of Death, the Sandman’s older sister. As Clive Barker says in his Introduction, “. . . there is a wonderful willful quality to this mix . [...]

Sunshine

Rating: (306 reviews)
Author: Robin McKinley
Publisher: Jove

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There hadn’t been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind. Until they found her.

The Complete Chronicles of Narnia CD Box Set

Rating: (38 reviews)
Author: C. S. Lewis
Publisher: HarperAudio

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Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil — what more could any reader ask for? The lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis, had all this and more. But Lewis did not [...]

The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 3

Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Vertigo

Book Description
The third volume collecting Neil Gaiman’s seminal, award-winning series starring the Dream King in deluxe format.
ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 3 presents several key SANDMAN tales in a slipcased hardcover edition, including “Brief Lives,” in which the Sandman’s sister Delirium prevails upon her older brother to help her find their missing sibling, Destruction. [...]

Fahrenheit 451

Rating: (1237 reviews)
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Del Rey

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In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don’t put out fires–they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury’s vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal–a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are [...]

Ender’s Game Boxed Set: Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Books

Book Description
Boxed Set contains Mass Market Editions of Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, and Shadow of the Hegemon
Ender’s Game
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. [...]

Children of the Mind (Ender, Book 4)

Rating: (199 reviews)
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction

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Children of the Mind, fourth in the Ender series, is the conclusion of the story begun in the third book, Xenocide. The author unravels Ender’s life and reweaves the threads into unexpected new patterns, including an apparent reincarnation of his threatening older brother, Peter, not to [...]

The Man in the High Castle

Rating: (158 reviews) Author: Philip K. Dick Publisher: Vintage Book Description It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost [...]

Death Note, Volume 1

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Tsugumi Ohba
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

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Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects – and bored out of his mind! But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, and notebook dropped by a rougue shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and [...]

The Absolute Sandman, Vol. 1

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Vertigo

Book Description
THE SANDMAN, written by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, was the most acclaimed comic book title of the 1990s. A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven, THE SANDMAN is also widely considered one [...]