Random books from Dead_Dreamer's library
Journal For The Academic Study Of Magic Issue 1 by Dave Evans (editor)
Winter of Frozen Dreams: A True Story of Passion, Greed, and Murder by Karl Harter
The Lost District by Joel Lane
Autumn Equinox: The Enchantment of Mabon by Ellen Dugan
Hidden Headlines of Texas: Strange, Unusual, & Bizarre Newspaper Stories 1860-1910 by Nick Redfern
The Complete Symphonies of Adolf Hitler and Other Strange Stories by Reggie Oliver
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Members with Dead_Dreamer's books
Member connections
Friends: 666777, ajourneyroundmyskull, arnzen, bgruagach, dr_zirk, joshuaash, LadyLovecraft, lindagodfrey, OrionZangara, Orthaevelve, shivian, Smethers, strantzas, S_Meyerson, tandu, teriel, theoldman, yellowish_haze
Interesting libraries: frater_vep, mariamontgomery, MayorWhitebelly, richardm123uk
LibraryThing authors: Brian Keene (BrianKeene), David Rankine (DavidRankine), Louis Maistros (LouisMaistros), Michael Arnzen (arnzen), Isaac Bonewits (ibonewits), Joe Hill (joehill), Joe Hill (joehill), Simon Strantzas (strantzas)
RSS feeds
Recently-added books
Dead_Dreamer's reviews
Reviews of Dead_Dreamer's books, not including Dead_Dreamer's
Helper badges
Member: Dead_Dreamer
CollectionsYour library (1,047)
Reviews3 reviews
TagsHorror (316), Occult (307), Collection (234), Novel (117), Folklore (111), Anthology (99), Witchcraft (97), History (85), Decadent (77), Poetry (75) — see all tags
Cloudstag cloud, author cloud
GroupsCthulhu Mythos, The Chapel of the Abyss, The Witches of LibraryThing, Western Mysteries
Favorite authorsRobert Aickman, Paolo Bacigalupi, George Bacovia, David Park Barnitz, Laird Barron, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Poppy Z. Brite, William S. Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, Albert Camus, Matt Cardin, Robert W. Chambers, Andrew D Chumbley, E. M. Cioran, Quentin S. Crisp, Aleister Crowley, Mark Z. Danielewski, August Derleth, Ernest Dowson, Lord Dunsany, Brian Evenson, Stefan Grabinski, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joe Hill, Phil Hine, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Franz Kafka, T. E. D. Klein, Joel Lane, Lautréamont, Fritz Leiber, Paul Leppin, Thomas Ligotti, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Jean Lorrain, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Stéphane Mallarmé, Guy de Maupassant, Cormac McCarthy, Gustav Meyrink, Michael Cisco, China Mieville, Reggie Oliver, Fernando Pessoa, Edgar Allan Poe, W. H. Pugmire, Jean Ray, Arthur Rimbaud, Georges Rodenbach, Mark Samuels, Arthur Schopenhauer, Daniel Alvin Schulke, Bruno Schulz, Clark Ashton Smith, Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock, Thomas Wiloch, Hunter S. Thompson, Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Verlaine, Oscar Wilde, Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Shared favorites)
About meMotto: He who dies with the most books, dies in good company.
About my libraryAreas of focus are: Horror & Weird fiction, the occult, the paranormal, folklore, Decadent literature and fine liquor.
Membership
LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway
Real nameKevin
LocationMadison, WI
Account typepublic, lifetime
Connection NewsConnection News
URLs
http://www.librarything.com/profile/Dead_Dreamer (profile)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/Dead_Dreamer (library)
Common KnowledgeSeries (61), Awards (100), Characters (505), Places (200)
Member sinceJun 9, 2008
Leave a comment
Sign up or sign in to leave a comment.
By Catherine Pulsifer
Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go.
One notable person who demonstrated this attitude was Washington Roebling. He and his father had a dream of building a suspension bridge. Not long after starting construction, his father died. Washington carried on but was struck with the paralyzing caisson disease. It was impossible for him to go to the site. But possessed with a dream, a strong desire, and with the help of his wife, Emily, he was able to complete the Brooklyn Bridge.
This story has many themes in it: determination; your dreams; and choice.
Here was a man who suffered the death of his father and became paralyzed, yet, because he was determined he did not give up on his dreams!
In every situation we have a choice. We can either choose the negative or we can choose the positive — the choice is ours. In Washington's situation he could have felt sorry for himself and gave up on his project. He chose, however, to continue with the help of others.
In situations you are confronted with, which do you choose. . . the positive or the negative?
posted by theoldman at 8:22 am (EST) on Nov 2, 2009
I see you are interested in all things Lovecraftian. Have you read "H.P Lovecraft - Against the World, Against Life" by Michel Houellebeqc. Good Stuff!
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fh'tagn!!!
posted by unorna at 6:54 pm (EST) on May 7, 2009
posted by slickdpdx at 4:32 pm (EST) on Apr 27, 2009
posted by teriel at 7:41 pm (EST) on Nov 15, 2008
posted by zanthera at 8:50 am (EST) on Aug 25, 2008
Thanks to your recent activity here, I have finally decided to upgraded my account. I was planning to do so ever since I created my account here, but got stuck at 195 books and kept postponing the upgrade. Now I added more titles to my library, including 3 mags (manually) with stories by TL - I'm sure you will want to add them to your catalogue too (and this way go beyond the number of 45 books we share!)
posted by yellowish_haze at 7:19 am (EST) on Jun 13, 2008
posted by yellowish_haze at 4:49 pm (EST) on Jun 10, 2008