From the Book - First edition.
The bloodied nightgown : Dracula --
Waugh stories : Alexander, Arthur, Evelyn, Auberon, and Alexander Waugh --
Prophet motive : Kahlil Gibran --
Queen of crime : Agatha Christie --
A dog's life : J. R. Ackerley --
The English wars : prescriptive and descriptive dictionaries --
Once upon a time : Grimms' fairy tales --
Why me? : the Book of Job --
Grendel hates music : J.R.R. Tolkien and Beowulf --
Lonesome Road : Marilynne Robinson --
Flamethrower : Richard Pryor --
Art wins : Elena Ferrante --
All villains have mothers : Elmore Leonard --
Metamorphoses : Angela Carter --
Ladies' choice : Little Women --
Funny peculiar : Edward Gorey --
Brave face : Natalia Ginzburg --
Beyond the waters of death : Gilgamesh --
The day the Earth exploded : Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger --
Bigger things to hide behind : Andy Warhol --
A theory of the fantastic : Gianni Rodari --
Original sinner : Graham Greene --
Art made flesh : Francis Bacon.
