ENGAGING LOVECRAFT BIO focuses on social and historical context and impact, sidesteps fandom battles.

AMAZING STORY OF THE real-life 1889 race around the world between journalists Nellie Bly, Elizabeth Bisland.

THEATER AND MAGIC HISTORIAN Jim Steinmeyer looks into the inspirations for Bram Stoker’s DRACULA. Spooky fun!

INTRIGUING NOIR PASTICHE stars Dashiell Hammett, on the trail of a real-life Maltese Falcon.  Smartly done.

GLORIOUS, DREAMLIKE SPANISH novel riffs on the life and death of poet García Lorca.  Luminous new translation!

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE of Eslanda Robeson, influential writer, civil rights activist, and wife of Paul Robeson.

WITH A POET’S GRACE of language and her keenly observant eye, this New York memoir stands out from the crowd.

ELOQUENT, COMPASSIONATE WORK by a Polish physician and researcher links medicine with the arts and humanities.

IMPRESSIVE NEW BIOGRAPHY of the Brontës reveals much about father and brother as well as the famous sisters.

FRENCH WRITER AND BOOK collector Jacques Bonnet shares slyly insightful thoughts on his 40,000-volume library.