Welcome! Curiouser House Publishing is a one-man-band-independent-small-business-publishing person bringing you new editions of classic literature and books that deserve to be considered classics, however forgotten they may be. I strive also to include any appropriate supplementary materials such as essays or illustrations to enhance the text and bring context to the author and their story.
For now, most books are only available through Amazon, but I intend publishing them through Ingram so that they will be more widely available to bookstores, libraries, and also Bookshop.org. As it is: all editorial research, graphic design, layout, marketing, etc, is all down to me. In an ideal world this passion project would be my full time gig and I would be able to release new editions regularly. Until then, I present our current selection:
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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by OSCAR WILDE
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
More about this book: photos, behind-the-scenes editorial and design decisions.
Paperback. 5x8 inches. 376 pages.
ISBN: 9780984309351
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LUD-IN-THE-MIST by HOPE MIRRLEES
The story she relates, fantastic and dreamlike, takes place in a land unknown long ago and describes how a nation of solid burghers were in danger from their neighbours the fairies. No pretty sprites these, but agitating creatures who set matter-of-fact citizens dreaming, pervert an academy full of young ladies and tempt worthy hucksters to dally with beauty. Fairy fruit which sends men mad is being smuggled into Dorimare.
—The Spectator, November 27, 1926Also avilable as an ebook (Kindle).
Paperback. 5x8 inches. 366 pages.
ISBN: 9781954319011
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THE VAMPYRE by JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI
'Remember your oath!'—upon her neck and breast was blood, and upon her throat were the marks of teeth having opened the vein:—to this the men pointed, crying, simultaneously struck with horror, 'A Vampyre! a Vampyre!'
Paperback. 5x8 inches. 94 pages. ISBN: 9781954319028
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FLOWER PHANTOMS by RONALD FRASER
Told with delicate imagery and fine perceptions, a minor rococoism of art deco literature.
—Everett F. BleilerPaperback. 5x8 inches. 132 pages. ISBN: 9781954319035
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MOBY DICK; OR, THE WHALE by HERMAN MELVILLE
One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world, closing up its mystery and its tortured symbolism. It is an epic of the sea such as no man has equaled; and it is a book of exoteric symbolism of profound significance.
—D.H. LawrenceHardcover. 6x9 inches. 534 pages. ISBN: 9780984309375
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VENUS IN FURS by LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating alone's nerves, and making one's pulse beat faster. ... Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.
Translated by Fernanda Savage
Paperback. 5x8 inches. 192 pages. ISBN: 978-0984309344
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THE MADMAN, THE FORERUNNER, AND THE PROPHET
by KAHLIL GIBRAN
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Paperback. 5x8 inches. 208 pages. ISBN: 9780984309368