Books from Other Publishers Reviewed by the Staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House

 

Two Graphical Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft in 2023
The Shadow over Innsmouth - Gou Tanabe (Dark Horse, 2023)
The bibliophiles at the Poison Pie Publishing House call attention to the latest books published in two series of starkly different graphical adaptations of the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The fourth volume of Lovecraft illustrated by François Baranger features the story, "The Dunwich Horror". "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is the most recent manga adaptation by Gou Tanabe. Both are masterful takes on visual guides to imagining the cosmic horror of Lovecraft.
Review Date: December 10, 2023
Reviewer: staff
Link to Review: link

 

Gas Giant: Poems by Marie Poonawala (self-released, 2020)
Gas Giant
The staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House paid a visit to the Portable Library in hopes of discovering a copy of the elusive collection of poetry, Gas Giant. Our efforts proved successful and we report on our findings in the review below.
Review Date: April 19, 2020
Reviewer: staff
Link to Review: link

 

Bestiaries of 2019
The Untamed Beastiary: A Field Guide to Marvelous Monsters (Untamed Beasts, 2019)
The bibliophiles at the Poison Pie Publishing House have continued their investigation of bestiaries new and old, posting on every Saturday of 2019 a new entry in their on-going survey. In this review, they make a few comments about six bestiaries published in 2019.
Review Date: December 21, 2019
Reviewer: staff
Link to Review: link

 

Bestiaries of 2018
Atlas Animalia (Metal Weave Games, 2018)
The bibliophiles at the Poison Pie Publishing House have continued their investigation of bestiaries, posting on every Saturday of 2018 a new entry in their on-going survey. In this review, they make a few comments about those bestiaries published in 2018.
Review Date: December 15, 2018
Reviewer: staff
Link to Review: link

 

Bestiaries of 2017
A ghru from the Ninth World Bestiary 2 of Numenéra.
In this review, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House discuss several bestiaries published in the calendar year 2017, then deviate from their assignment and discuss two related books, which they thoroughly enjoyed: Underworld Races & Classes (Adventure-A-Week Games) and Cerulean Seas: Beasts of the Boundless Blue (Alluria Publishing).
Review Date: December 2, 2017
Reviewer: David Keffer
Link to Review: link

 

Bumperboy Gets Angry!
The seventh and final volume of the graphic novel Bumperboy Gets Angry! by Debbie Huey was published this month, providing a climactic conclusion to the epic that began with the publication of volume 1 in 2012. Over the past five years, the staff at the Poison Pie Publishing House have celebrated the arrival of each volume in the mail. In this review, we provide a few thoughts and share more than a few scans of the books and various associated ephemera.
Review Date: July 24, 2017
Reviewer: Poison Pie Publishing House Staff
Link to Review: link

 

Bestiaries of 2016
In this review, the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House discuss several bestiaries published in the calendar year 2016, with particular emphasis on Imbelnhi's Bestiary (Flying NightBear Games) and S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors (Chaosium Inc.).
Review Date: December 3, 2016
Reviewer: David Keffer
Link to Review: link

 

Improvising Freely: The ABC's of an Experience
Title: Improvising Freely: The ABC's of an Experience
Author: Lê Quan Ninh
Publisher: PS Guelph
Publication Date: 2014
Review Date: November 6, 2014
Reviewer: David Keffer
Link to Review: link

 

Dreadmire
Title: Dreadmire: The Only Swamp Sourcebook You Will Ever Need
Author: Randy Richards
Publisher: Spellbinder Games
Publication Date: 2006
Review Date: November 8, 2014
Reviewer: David Keffer
Link to Review: link

 

Three Kingdoms
Title: Three Kingdoms
Author: attributed to Luo Guanzhong (ca. 1330-ca. 1400)
Translator: Moss Roberts
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press (Beijing)
Publication Date: 1991
Review Date: February, 2005
Reviewer: David Keffer
Link to Review: link

 

Creation of the Gods
Title: Creation of the Gods
Author: unknown author(s) during the Ming Dynasty (c. 1368-1644 A.D.)
Translator: Gu Zhizhong
Publisher: New World Press (Beijing)
Publication Date: 1992
Review Date: January, 2002
Reviewer: David Keffer
Link to Review: link

 

Outlaws of the Marsh
Title: Outlaws of the Marsh
Authors: Shi Nai'an (ca. 1290-ca. 1365) and Luo Guanzhong (ca. 1330-ca. 1400)
Translator: Sidney Shapiro
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press (Beijing)
Publication Date: 1980
Review Date: October, 2001
Reviewer: David Keffer
Link to Review: link

 

Translated Fiction of Primo Levi
Description: Primo Levi: Mapping Post Modern Fiction Onto the Periodic Table
A critical analysis of the fiction of the Italian chemist and Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi, written with Allan B. Ruch, which introduces Levi to new readers and focuses on six volumes of fictional work with post-modern relevance. Originally published in the Scriptorium of The Modern Word website.
Review Date: 2001
Reviewer: David Keffer w/ Allan B. Ruch
Link to Review: link

 

Translated Fiction of Kobo Abé
Description: Kobo Abé: The Clinical Eye of the Physician
A critical analysis of the fiction of the Japanese existentialist and absurdist, Kobo Abé, which investigates eight novels and uniquely evaluates the writing of Kobo Abé through the criteria for literature proposed by Italo Calvino in Six Memos for the Next Millenium. Originally published in the Scriptorium of The Modern Word website.
Review Date: 2000
Reviewer: David Keffer
Link to Review: link