Book Synopsis
Some men chase treasure. Crabbe Rangoon chases footnotes — and the footnotes are trying to kill him.
It starts, as these things do, with a fire-damaged crate of ten-cent books in a Florida curiosity shop that shouldn't exist. It ends with faked deaths, smuggled monkeys, cosmic cults, a vimana, and a bookseller so ornery he makes customer service look like a threat display. In between: secret societies, questionable scholarship, an entity named WM who is never wrong (except that one time with the geodesic dome), and the kind of prose that treats a used bookstore like sacred ground and a mad man's arsenal in equal measure.
This is bibliomania as blood sport — for readers who think the phrase "rare book dealer" should come with a body count, and who know that the most dangerous thing in any shop is the section marked Weird Shit We Can't Categorize.
Part pulp adventure, part cracked cosmology, entirely unhinged. If you've ever wanted your love of old books to feel like a felony, Dr. Ran
About The Author
Tony Arnold is the cryptonym under which Vernacular Ontologist and Tiki Misanthropologist Dr. Crabbe Rangoon publishes his creative fiction. Serving on renowned explorer Horst von Hesselbrut's last expedition, his subsequent endeavors included procurement journeys into Asia, the South Pacific and The Dark Continent. Distinguished as the Praetor Imprimitor of the Ordinis Orientalium Nasi Templum, he serves as the Intergalactic Attache for the Temple of Scientonomy. He is formally attached to the Ruling Council of The Spear of the Just and is Chancellor of the Ministry of Truth. He holds the Regent Chair of the Knights of the Eightfold Clover, and is an internet influencer. He's a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Slack Key Recessionists, and is also a member of the Dollar Shave Club. Dr. Rangoon resides in a stilt home above the waters near Candor-on-Asperger, where he writes and edits for the White Devil Press, and serves as a consultant to the National Department of Identification in Countercrypto Disinfotainment.