This Week's Acquisitions

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, ed. Leslie S. Klinger, 2 vols. (Norton, 2004).  An attempt to supplement/update/replace William S. Baring-Gould's classic Annotated Sherlock Holmes.
• M. R. James, The Haunted Doll's House and Other Ghost Stories, ed. S. T. Joshi (Penguin, 2006).  Second volume in Penguin's edition of James' complete stories. 
• Stephen Cullen, The Haunted Priory; or, The Fortunes of the House of Rayo (Zittaw, 2005).  Gothic novel originally published in 1794.  Apparently, Cullen's "life is shrouded in obscurity."
• William-Henry Ireland, The Abbess: A Romance (Zittaw, 2006).  Another fictional outing from the famous forger, very much in the Gothic's hardcore anti-Catholic mode.
• Ryuonosuke Akutagawa, Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories, trans. Jay Rubin (Penguin, 2006).   Includes the stories that inspired the Kurosawa film.
• Jane Hamilton, When Madeline Was Young: A Novel (Doubleday, 2006).  Family deals with mother's brain injury.
• Shira Nayman, Awake in the Dark: Stories (Scribner, 2006).  Short stories dealing with the aftereffects of the Holocaust.
• The Rev. C. S. Isaacson, Roads from Rome: A Series of Personal Narratives (RTS, 1903).  Anthology of new and old Protestant conversion narratives. 
• Mrs. Stephen  Menzies, How to Mark Your Bible (S. W. Partridge, [1891]).  Popular late-Victorian guide to Biblical annotation. 

Comments

[bob burke]

I found your site after reading your librarything profile. I just finished reading Maturin's Fatal Revenge and was in the mood for some more. Noticed you had William Ireland listed and went to amazon and bought three of his books. Now i have to wait for them to arrived. So i'm passing time reading Oliphant's Hester.
I like your taste in books.