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The Library by Zoran Zivkovic

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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Why are books such uncanny objects? In countless strange stories—whether horror or fantasy or absurdist parable—books and libraries serve as talismans of the paranormal. We find them in Borges and Calvino, Lovecraft and Rowling, Bradbury and Eco, Murakami and Nabokov.

In fact, there are enough uncanny books in the stories of these classic authors that yo…

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