Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1890)

In full.
Audiobook.

Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini (1981)

Source.

A Mathematicians Miscellany by J. E. Littlewood (1953)

Source.

"Charles Darwin had a theory that once in a while one should perform a damn-fool experiment. It almost always fails, but when it does come off is terrific. 

"Darwin played the trombone to his tulips. The result of this particular experiment was negative."

Poems of Shel Silverstein

1 Where the Sidewalk Ends
2 Weird-Bird
3 The Toucan
4 Smart
5 Sick
6 Rain
7 One Inch Tall
8 It's Dark In Here
9 Forgotten Language
10 Danny O'Dare
11 Boa Constrictor

Adult
1 The Devil and Billy Markham

c/f Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree: The Animated Film Narrated by Shel Himself (1973)

Brazil

Brazil script by Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard & Charles McKeown

Christmas Evil (1980)

c/f Interview with Lewis Jackson, Director of 'Christmas Evil' (AKA 'You Better Watch Out') | Brutal As Hell

The Book of the Damned - Charles Hoy Fort (1919)

In full.

Some context for this manual and field guide for skeptics.

Edward Gorey - Poems, Stories Online and Miscellania

• Poems by Edward Gorey
• The Disrespectful Summons (In full, with Illustrations)
• The Doubtful Guest (In full, with Illustrations)
• The Raging Tide (In full, with Illustrations)
• The Wuggly Ump (In full, with Illustrations)
• The Insect God
• Gashlycrumb Tinies (Text only)
• * Same, with original Illustrations
• Limericks
• "There was a young curate whose brain/ Was deranged from the use of cocaine;"
• Scans from "The Recently Deflowered Girl."
• When Edward Gorey Illustrated Dracula: Two Masters of the Macabre, Together
• T. S. Eliot’s Iconic Vintage Verses About Cats, Illustrated and Signed by Edward Gorey

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Flip Through Gorey Titles Cheaply and as Loudly as You Wish on Amazon

• Amphigorey (Perigee)
• The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
• The Doubtful Guest
• The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion
• The Epiplectic Bicycle
• The Blue Aspic
• The West Wing
• The Other Statue

  

  Gorey Costume Design 
  for Jonathan Harker, Dracula

• The Hapless Child
• The Remembered Visit: A Story Taken from Life
• The Black Doll: A Silent Screenplay
• The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary
• Edward Gorey's Dracula: A Toy Theatre: Die Cut, Scored and Perforated Foldups and Foldouts
• The Haunted Looking Glass (New York Review Books Classics)
• The Willowdale Handcar: or the Return of the Black Doll
• The Glorious Nosebleed
• The Eclectic Abecedarium
• Cautionary Tales for Children
• The Gilded Bat
• The Utter Zoo: An Alphabet by Edward Gorey
• The Headless Bust: A Melancholy Meditation for the False Millennium
• The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas
• The Unstrung Harp
• The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley
• The War of the Worlds
• The Wuggly Ump
• The Dong with a Luminous Nose

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Miscellania

• PBS Interview
• Quotes
• Fantod Deck (Online Tarot Deck, Gorey's Illustrations)
• Edward Gorey’s Letters and Illustrated Envelopes
• The Betrayed Confidence: Edward Gorey’s Weird and Whimsical Vintage Illustrated Postcards

Mervyn Peake, Poetry

Linger now with me, thou Beauty
Simple, Seldom and Sad
The Frivolous Cake

More poems.
Nonsense poetry.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

In full, with original illustrations, at project Gutenberg.

I Down the Rabbit-Hole
II The Pool of Tears
III A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
IV The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
V Advice from a Caterpillar
VI Pig and Pepper
VII A Mad Tea-Party
VIII The Queen's Croquet-Ground
IX The Mock Turtle's Story
X The Lobster Quadrille
XI Who Stole the Tarts?
XII Alice's Evidence





c/f 1903 film version . . . . 

Ogden Nash

A fairly extensive catalog of poems online here.

Daffy, vocabulary drunk, middle-aged witty, these are dippy, doughy, dumpy exemplars of the last centuries' middle-of-the-road cocktail verse. The nearest thing the 20C had to a popular verse, without the rhymes being set to music.

A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty

Unwillingly Miranda wakes,

Aubrey Beadsley - Venus

Feels the sun with terror,

One unwilling step she takes,

Shuddering to the mirror.

Miranda in Miranda's sight

Is old and gray and dirty;

Twenty-nine she was last night;

This morning she is thirty.

Shining like the morning star,

Like the twilight shining,

Haunted by a calendar,

Miranda is a-pining.

Silly girl, silver girl,

Draw the mirror toward you;

Time who makes the years to whirl

Adorned as he adored you.

Time is timelessness for you;
Calendars for the human;
What's a year, or thirty, to
Loveliness made woman?

Oh, Night will not see thirty again,
Yet soft her wing, Miranda;
Pick up your glass and tell me, then--
How old is Spring, Miranda?

Punch and Judy 1832 Book

This is a scan of a 1832 Punch and Judy script.

Predating vaudeville, Punch and Judy--with its giddy violence, its cast of stock characters, its bits and jokes and gags, its irredeemable misogyny, its clowning, its anticipation of nonsense and absurdity and mumbling as aesthetic pleasures--is also the phantom haunting the format and internal dynamics of every television sitcom. It does it first. It does it better. There is also a lurking horror within which I doubt is just a product of its times, that "we know better" now.  Its urge to offend is almost theological in scale, undoubtedly compulsive.

If the dynamics at base in Punch and Judy's relationship (Man and Woman as the comedic Straight Man vs. Clown duo, Auguste vs. Joey framework, manipulator vs. victim sketch, a level of implied and/or actual violence perpetually close to lighting up the sparkers) are the spiritual ancestor of The Honeymooners, The Honeymooners goes on to be the spiritual ancestor of all other situation comedies. If one wanted to make the case that there is a level of self-critique going on in regards to Punch's sociopathic hatred of women, it would be that Men (and here the concept Men is expressly, specifically gendered Male) are monsters.

The irredeemable tone and frequency of Punch's violent outbursts makes this very modern-seeming text curiously resistant to domestication, to colonization into a moral text or a sentimental one.

More scripts.