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Comics |
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Call Number:
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US HORROR SAL1993 |
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Title:
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Black Cat Crossing |
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Personal name:
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Sala, Richard |
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015406 |
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Additional Bibliographic Information:
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element:
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Horror |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780878162376 |
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc.:
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Kitchen Sink Press |
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Date of publication, distribution, etc.:
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1993 |
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Other physical details:
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softcover, thin format |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"Sala's stories combine all the key elements of classic crime fiction--down-at-the-heel detectives, strange murders, mad geniuses, beautiful women, sudden disappearances, psychotic murderers--in tongue-in-cheek yarns more likely to amuse than to disturb. The stories exude a cartoonish aura of menace and amiable dementia. In the first story, nebbish Avery Finch, author of How to Be Polite in an Impolite World , is offered $10,000 to find a kidnapped cat and becomes enmeshed with a murderous cult whose members stalk about in silly cat masks. In another tale, a successful painter and cartoonist is hypnotized and left without memory by an unscrupulous art dealer out to steal the rights to the artist's inane but potentially valuable comic strip. In a third story, a once successful detective tries to reclaim his former stature by tracking down a beautiful woman whose disappearance seems related to the notorious pillow killer, a strange urban menace who goes around suffocating unwary commuters at the bus stops. Sala's stylish black-and-white drawings are a stitch, serving as deft visual send-ups of his comically macabre plots." |
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pulp, satire, mystery, fantasy, detective, surreal, absurd, short stories, dreamlike, adventure, thriller, USA, American, America, United States, 1930s |
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Source of acquisition:
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Rotem Anna Diamant |
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Donation |
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Date of acquisition:
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August, 2018 |
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