THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN
One of those Euro-flavored oddities of which I can’t seem to get enough
THE OTHER SIDE
A stunning exercise in subconscious dementia that preceded Kafka and the surrealists by nearly two decades
VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Book)
A real curiosity: a surrealist novel masquerading as a gothic thriller that never entirely satisfies as either. Rather, it’s a rare book that exists in its own indefinable category
RAT-CATCHING
A book published in 1896 that appears to have been a dull-as-dirt educational treatise (on the capture and disposal of plague-carrying rodents), twisted by the demented Crispin Glover into an exercise in surreal distortion
The Strangest Book in the World!
The strangest book in the world is the mind-bending CODEX SERAPHINIANUS by Luigi Serafini.