Obsessive Twitterer (seriously, calm down Neil), brilliant award-winning author, and all-around kick-ass guy Neil Gaiman has posted photos of his home library. Holy shit. I suppose any author worth their salt should have a large library, but his is enormous. View several more large photos (with a kitty on a chair!) at Shelfari.

Neil Gaiman’s Library [via Shelfari]

This is an awesome concept.

I’ve read Dracula a couple of times. It’s not the greatest novel ever written and it certainly drags on more than most books should, but as far as seminal horror novels go there exists none more important. So having just found out about The New Annotated Dracula, I’m pretty excited to see what it’s about.

The book is beautifully bound, full of illustrations, photographs, and explanations of key locations, and is also loaded with ruminations on Stoker’s inspirations, allegories, and personal relationships with those who inspired the characters and story. It’s written in the style I feel all annotated books should be: one column for the original text (The 1897 edition in this case), and one column of slightly smaller print for the annotations. Head over to the Barnes and Noble page to see photos; it will make an awesome gift to yourself in this dreadfully horrorless time of year.

I can’t believe I missed this book last year. And it was Christmas time. The perfect gift!

One of my favorite new horror fiction authors, Jonathon Maberry, has a story featured in this collection.

It’s never too early to start buying belated Halloween gifts (known in some circles as Christmas presents).

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