City of Saints and Madmen

Mill Library Press.

Aldrich,Clyde, Squid? Distant Bells Press.

Allans, John, The Hoegbotton Guide to Nymphomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Alsop,Seymour, Ammonia Among Old Beaks: Essays and Idylls of a Squid Lover, Dyfold Press.

(Precise in its data yet utterly false in its conclusions.)

Anon, The Hoegbotton Book of Absurd Synonyms, Hoegbotton & Sons.

Anon, The Hoegbotton Book of Obscure Insults, Hoegbotton & Sons.

Anon, The Hoegbotton Guide to Psychological Terminology, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Babbit, Cynthia, A Child’s Coloring Book of Squid, Featuring Three Imaginary Ones, Libyrinth Press.

Bamardot, Allison, The Squidularch and His Watery World, Nicea Publishers.

(An interesting argument for a crude form of squid government.) Batton, Sarah, ed., Squid Sightings Magazine, Vols. 1–23, Renegade Mollusk Press.

Bender, Voss, “A Refutation of the Claim that Certain of My Operas Have Been Aided by Squid-Written Arias,” Ambergris Drama Digest, Vol. 234, No. 12, Front Row Publications.

(Would that they had been.)

Bender, Voss, Bender for RiversideReading, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

Bender, Voss, Libretto with Squid, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

Bentinck, Bargin, The Library of Robert Quill: An Instance of Squidophilia, Borges Bookstore Publishing.

(Bentinck’s library far exceeded that of my parents, especially in the area of squid-related books. It is one of the great tragedies of my life that I have been unable to visit it. If I ever do, it will blissfully eclipse memories of my own red-spined volumes.)

Blade, Jeremy, The Hoegbotton Guide to Oikomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Blei, Frank, “Invasive Foreign Squid: The Visitors That Never Leave,” The Morrow Wildlife Quarterly, Vol. 400, No. 4, Mandible & Crossclaw.

Bordman, Ann K., Squidopolis, Buzz Press.

(A novel, this book is, in fictional form, the twin to my nonfiction and, lacking my purpling prose, my better half.)

Brecht, Richard, Jr ., Jackaclock Squidulous: The Life of a Squid Boxer, Savor Press.

Breitenbach, Joseph A., ed., The Hoegbotton Guide to Common Cephalopod Mannerisms (chapbook), Hoegbotton & Sons.

Breitenbach, Joseph A., “Caudal Fin Exercises You Can Do at Home,” published in The Amateur Squidologist, Vol. 19, Issue 7, Ambergris Squidology Society.

(Quite useful — these exercises do indeed strengthen the arms.)

Breitenbach, Joseph A., ed., Hoegbotton & Sons Parts Catalog for Squid-Grade Freshwater Filters, Hoegbotton & Sons.

Breitenbach, Joseph A., Mating Rituals of the Freshwater Squid (Illustrated Edition), Hoegbotton & Sons.

(As debauched a book as one is likely to own. Salacious and steamy — complete with hard-to-follow diagrams.)

Breitenbach, Joseph A., The Book of Squid Sense, Alfar Publishing Consortium.

Breitenbach, Joseph A., The Hoegbotton Pricing Guide to CollectibleCeramic Squid (chapbook), Hoegbotton & Sons.

Brek, George, The Squid and the Shade-Head: Philosophical Loci of the New Art, Tarzia Publishers.

(I much prefer the views on the New Art set out inRogers ’ Torture Squid books.) Brisk, Susan, A Compendium of Squid Sounds and Squid-RelatedSounds, Southern Cities Press.

(What, you might ask, is a “squid-related” sound? The unexpected gush of a water funnel. The wet slap of a tentacle against a railing. Suckers clamping down on skin.) Brisk, Susan, The Illustrated Book of Squid, Hoegbotton & Sons.

Brod, Maxwell, Classic Fallacies in the Work of Jonathan Madnok, Debunked Press.

(I include this misshapen and monstrous text only to provide a balanced bibliography. Not a word of this book, except for some conjunctions and prepositions, contains any truth.) Burden, Rosetta, The Cephalopod’s Colophon, House & Garden.

Burke, K. Craddock, The Short Lives of Squid Cults: An nalsof a Long Legacy, Hoegbotton & Sons.

(Squid cults have afflicted us since before the rise of the Dogghe Tribes. This fascinating book traces their development and frequent demise. The most interesting chapter explains the intricacies of the Squid Head Cult that arose during the civil unrest caused by the Reds and the Greens.) Burlveener, William Barnett, Encyclopedia Cephalopodia, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

Burlveener, William Barnett, The Compleat Squider, Outdoor Adventure Publishing.

Burlveener, William Barnett, The Inkmaker’s Reference Guide, Borges Bookstore Publishing.

(Most relevant for the whimsical aside on Hellatose the performing squid.) Butterhead, R.G., The Double Cephalopod Folio: The Story of Da fed’s “Squids of Ambergris,”

Hoegbotton & Sons.

Butterhead, R.G., The Squidqueller’s Handbook, Fisherman’s Hook Publications.

Cane, Albert, Squidanthropy: Causes and Appropriate Reactions, Modern Psychiatrics Press.

(One of the few doctors to grasp the true nature of this tragically misunderstood phenomenon.) Chisler, John, The Hoegbotton Guide to Anthomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Chisler, John, The Hoegbotton Guide to Paramania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Clark, Machen, The Squid on Our Backs, the Tentacles in Our Brains: An Account of a Descent into Madness, Grievance Press.

Cram, Louis, A List and Description of Ambergris Squid Clubs, Blackmarket Publications.

(Squid clubs, for the uninitiated, constitute one of Ambergris’ dirty little secrets. Squid clubs vary in degeneracy, from those that feature betting on squid fights to those that boil live squid right in front of you. And in some of the city’s most dangerous establishments, you can partake of debaucheries best left to the shadows of wordlessness.)

Cram, Louis, Squidphilobiblon, Squid-Lover’s Press.

Cram, Louis, The Cephalopod Codex, Squid-Lover’s Press.

Cross, Templeton, “An Analysis of the Mating Call of the Crimson Bull Squid,” Bulletin of the History of Mollusk Studies, Vol. 676, No. 6, Libyrinth Press.

Cross, Templeton, “Maestros of the Deep: A Proposal Towards Revising Our Notions on the Intelligence of the Crimson Bull Squid,” Bulletin of the History of Mollusk Studies, Vol. 678, No. 4, Libyrinth Press.