This is not an ordinary book: it's a BookCrossing book! BookCrossing books are world travelers - they like to have adventures and make new friends...and with your help, they can even write home to say what they've been doing! (You may remain anonymous if you wish.)

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Hardcover with dust jacket; this has been languishing on my shelf for years so it will be happy to travel.

Wonderfully illustrated by Gahan Wilson, with a front cover by James Warhola.

Here's another copy on my BookCrossing shelf.

Reserved as a wishlist tag.

Saturday, April 18, 2020: headed for New York via media mail.

USPS tracking 9549 0104 3302 0109 6049 61
ETA 5/9/20

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I'm so glad you've found this book! Won't you make a journal entry so the previous readers know that it's safe with you?

How and where did you find the book? What did you think of it? What are you going to do with it next?

This is now your book, for you to do with as you please: keep it as long as you wish, pass it to a friend, or maybe even leave it where someone else can find it!

If you've ever wondered where your books go after they leave your hands, join BookCrossing and you may find out: you'll be able to follow your books as new readers make journal entries - sometimes from surprisingly far-flung locations.

BookCrossing: making the whole world a library!

This arrived today, thank you!

This was an interesting book, but one I found myself unusually ambivalent about. It was fine; engaging enough that I had no trouble finishing it, but largely forgettable. I had no emotional involvement with the characters, who all remained quite flat. The writing style was unique. I think I would describe it as whimsical, which is a bit odd for a story centered around a stealthy battle of wills and knowledge before the attempted summoning of a world-ending monster.

Overall, an interesting experience, but probably not a book I’d re-read.

One of the starting books for the Otherworldly Shrinking Bookbox

Taking from bookbox.

Something about the summary reminded me of Buffy the Vampire Slayer so, of course, I must read this one. LOL