Dispatches From Tanganyika

LOST SOULS typewriter auction ends in a little over an hour! Don't forget, it comes with a signed hardcover of the novel.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Poppy-Z-Brites-Typewriter-Which-LOST-SOULS-Written-Documentation-/121230673509?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c39e94665

I've listed some collectible old magazines on eBay: the issue of Sassy I was in (complete with my personal address label) and a lot of eight 1990s horror magazines, mostly Cemetery Dance. As always, these are signed and can be personalized. More coming soon, including nudies (that old issue of Rage)!

I've just listed for auction one of the most collectible items I own: a one-of-a-kind children's creative writing book with handwritten stories by Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan, and others, including yours truly. Some are X-rated, some are funny, and all are unique.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Handwritten-Fiction-Neil-Gaiman-and-Others-/121165756141?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item1c360ab6ed

Signed book auctions ending in a couple of hours: WRONG THINGS (with Caitlín R. Kiernan), THE SEED OF LOST SOULS, STAY AWAKE, CON PARTY AT HOTEL CALIFORNIA, and letter A of the signed/lettered edition of ANTEDILUVIAN TALES.

http://stores.ebay.com/Poppy-Z-Brite-Signed-Books-and-Art

New eBay listings: a lettered edition of my USED STORIES chapbook; hardcovers of WRONG THINGS (with Caitlín R. Kiernan) and D*U*C*K; advance reading copies of PLASTIC JESUS and GUILTY BUT INSANE. Bidding for some of these items starts at just $5. As always, all my books are signed and can be personalized.

http://stores.ebay.com/Poppy-Z-Brite-Signed-Books-and-Art

I'm auctioning a couple of my Victorian mourning jewelry pieces, since I've downsized and have no room to display them. These date from around 1870 and were made with the hair of a deceased loved one as wearable memento mori. Gorgeous, unique little artworks.

http://stores.ebay.com/Poppy-Z-Brite-Signed-Books-and-Art

New signed books on eBay: hardcovers of THE VALUE OF X, GUILTY BUT INSANE (copy #420, for you herbal enthusiasts), and PLASTIC JESUS; also increasingly rare chapbooks THE SEED OF LOST SOULS and CON PARTY AT HOTEL CALIFORNIA.

Sorry for all the sales spam today, but we just spent our last $12 on cat food, and I find that sort of thing always spurs me to work.

eBay auctions for signed copies of GUILTY BUT INSANE, THE SEED OF LOST SOULS, and WRONG THINGS (with Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan) ending in a little over an hour.

http://stores.ebay.com/Poppy-Z-Brite-Signed-Books-and-Art

"I cannot think," he said, "why people should think the names of places in the country more poetical than those in London. Shallow romanticists go away in trains and stop in places called Hugmy-in-the-Hole, or Bumps-on-the-Puddle. And all the time they could, if they liked, go and live at a place with the dim, divine name of St. John’s Wood. I have never been to St. John’s Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of fir trees, afraid to come upon a blood-red cup and the beating of the wings of the Eagle. But all these things can be imagined by remaining reverently in the Harrow train."

G.K. Chesterton was born on this day in 1874, and I love that quote so much that I'm having an Etsy sale in honor of it. Today only, enter the coupon code STJOHNSWOOD at checkout to get 15% off any item in the store. Also, signed book auctions ending this evening on eBay.