City of Saints and Madmen

Cross, Templeton, “A Note on Rook’s Misappropriation of Crimson Bull Squid Mating Calls in his Proposed ‘Opera,’” Bulletin of the History of Mollusk Studies, Vol. 679, No. 12, Libyrinth Press.

Ditchfield, Marc, Squid Fatal to Their Owners, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

(It astonished me to read just how many squid have been fatal to their owners throughout Ambergris’

history.)

Dormand, Samuel T., The Hoegbotton Guide to Bruxomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Dormand, Samuel T., The Hoegbotton Guide to Pathomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Drabble, Smocke, A Compleat Dictionary of Squid Types with Small But Comprehensible Drawings of Tentacles and Beaks, Diverse Kinds Press.

(The dictionary is compleat, all right. Alas, the drawings are not comprehensible, consisting as they do of a series of spasmodic scribbles.)

Dribble, Larken, Squid Inks: A Catalog of Cephalopod Political and Personal Satire Preserved by the Ambergris Department of Broadsheet Licensing, Ambergris Department of Broadsheet Licensing Publications.

Dundas, Elayne, “And I Heard of a Mollusk in Your Ear”: Folk-Humor Among the Squid Fishermen of theMothRiver Delta, Tarzia Publishing.

(So this is what the squiders said to each other as they tended the squid mills! It was a revelation to discover this book one sticky sweet summer day stuck — bliss and torment — in the library. It gave voice to those far-off men otherwise only visible to me through my spyglass.) Enamel, George, The Hoegbotton Guide to Cheromania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Enamel, George, The Hoegbotton Guide to Phaneromania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Evens, Langerland, “Squid Mating Activity on the Southern Coastal Plain During the Late Pre-Trillian Period,” Vol. 29, No. 11, Squidologist Digest, Morrow Squidologist Association.

Everlane, Brian, Gentleman Squid, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

(A risky and risque novel that charts the downward course of a promising young architect as he tries unsuccessfully to deal with his squid obsession. The evocation of the infamous Oleander Squid Club — closed down twenty years ago — has true poignancy.)

Everlane, Brian, Squidy Jenkins: The Great Prize Fighters of Yesteryear, Volume 9, Southern Cities Press.

(Gerald Jenkins received his “Squidy” nickname for the rapidity of his punches, which at times made his arms appear multiplied to a more cephalopodic number.)

Fain, Corbett, “An Analysis of Squid Feces Obtained at Various and Divers Locations Around the City,” published in The Amateur Squidologist, Vol. 10, Issue 5, Ambergris Squidology Society.

(The less said, the better.)

Fain, Corbett, Nicean Cuttlefish Rarities Discovered in a Sec ondPortfolio of Louis Verden’s Squid Plates, Southern Cities Press.

Fangmountain, Eliza, Squid in Myth, Magic, and Medicine, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

(The myth, the magic, if not the medicine, are all, as far as I’m concerned, to do with the author’s dangerously precipitous surname.)

Farmore, Arthur, “Rising Bubbles: The Case for Squid Indiscretions,” published in The Amateur Squidologist, Vol. 19, Issue 7, Ambergris Squidology Society.

(Farmore would have enjoyed talking to Fain, no doubt — both covered their subject from the same end.)

Feaster, Elaine, “B&H: The Circumstantial Evidence,” The Amateur Squidologist, Vol. 44, Issue 4, Ambergris Squidology Society.

Feeney, Dora, The Hoegbotton Guide to Poriomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Fisher, Marian T., “Wrede’s Aporia: A Refutation of Gendered Hydrotherapy,” Current Cephalopodic Remedies, Vol. 21, No. 7, Libyrinth Press.

Fisher, Marian T., “Spilled Ink: A Deconstructionist Critique of Wredian Methodology,” Current Cephalopodic Remedies, Vol. 21, No. 11, Libyrinth Press.

Flack, Harry, Squid Stalking at Home and Abroad, Action-Danger Press.

Flack, Harry, The Further Deadly But True Adventures of the Squid Hunter, Hoegbotton & Sons.

Flack, Harry, The Latest Horrifying and Yet Oddly Magnifi cent Adventures of the Courageous Squid Hunter, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

(Probably the best of this tough-man series. Ironic, really, that I read him as a child and fill him out as an adult.)

Flack, Harry, The Return of the Squid Hunter and His HorriblyDangerous Profession, Hoegbotton

& Sons.

Flack, Harry, The Squid Hunter’s Ferocious Adventures in the Wilds, Hoegbotton & Sons.

Flack, Harry, Voss Bender Memorial Mental Institute Clinic Check-In Form.

Flack, Harry, Voss Bender Memorial Mental Institute Handbookof Regulations.

Flack, Harry, Voss Bender Memorial Mental Institute Patient Evaluation Form.

Flack, Harry, Voss Bender Memorial Mental Institute Patient Sign-in Sheet.

Flaunt, Contense T., How to Order Your Bibliography for Maximum Reader Impact, The Writing Life Consortium.

Flex, Drednaught, Squid Squinting: The Elmor Brax Story, Mathew Press.

Floxence, Edna, The Mysteries of the Freshwater Squid Revealed, Credence, Ltd.

(Acarpous!)

Floxence, Edna, The Strange World of the Freshwater Squid, Credence, Ltd.

(Feeble-brained theorists should not tackle squidology!)

Forrest, Hayden A., An Outspoken Condemnation of Squid Wrestling, Six Doors Press.

Forrest, Hayden A., Beaks to Beakers: The History of Squid Science, Mollusk Medicine Press.

(A harrowing volume in which electric squid experiments and nerve ending research make me cringe in sympathy even now.)

Forrest, Hayden A., Cephalopodectomy in Theory and Practice, Mollusk Medicine Press.

Forrest, Hayden A., Famous Tentaclopheliacs, Snark & Daughters.

(Even Trillian, apparently, was one — and most of his Banker Warriors.) Forrest, Hayden A., Kraken Dawn: An Investigation of the Post-Celebration Sleep Patterns of Festival Attendees, Wry Investigations, Inc.

Forrest, Hayden A., Squid Wrestling for Fun and Profit, Engelbrecht Club Publishing.

Fragnall, Dibdin, Puddling by the Docks: An Ecstacy of Collecting, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

(Truly a career-affirming experience for any aspiring squidologist. Dibdin understands the squidology subculture better than any living author.)

Fragnall, Dibdin, The Co fee Table Book of Squid Forgeries, Frankwrithe &