City of Saints and Madmen

Sons Press.

Kickleback, John, The Hoegbotton Guide to Squidomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Kleyblack, Nora, Squid of the Southern Isles, Being an Abridged Description of the Cephalopods and Other Mollusks of Saphant, Nicea, Briand, and Wrayly, Arranged According to the Natural System, Pulsefire Products.

Kron, Michael, “Sensory-Motor Skills of the Injured Squid,” Squidology Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, Southern Cities Press.

Kron, Michael, Squid Death Danses & Habitual Mourning, Southern Cities Press.

Laglob, E.A., The Story of My Boyhood Amongst the Squid Folk and What Became of Me Because of It, privately printed.

(Laglob’s story, although poorly written, is a poignant, sometimes heartbreaking, tale of acceptance and ultimate betrayal. Too intense for me to finish.)

Larsen, David, Ambush Courtship in theMothRiver Delta, Source Press.

Larsen, David, Beak Soup: A Season Tracking Bull Squid, With a Note About Night and a Caution Regarding Riverbank Assignations, Source Press.

Lawler, L. Marie, Combating Compression, Cephalopod Publications.

(Compression is usually more of a problem for squidologists writing essays than for the squid.) Lawler, L. Marie, Critical Inking, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

Lawler, L. Marie, Invisible Ink: Tentacles from the Dark Side, Cephalopod Publications.

Lawler, L. Marie, Squibble: An Indepth Look at Squid Person alityDisorders, Cephalopod & Cuttlefish.

Lawler, L. Marie, The Colors of Fear: Squid Self Defense, The Real Cephalopod Press.

Lawler, L. Marie, The Curious Case of Changed Careers: The Tragedy of Freelance Writer Harry Flack, Ex-Squid Hunter, Hoegbotton & Sons.

Lorstain, Michael, The Hoegbotton Guide to Eleuthromania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Lorstain, Michael, The Hoegbotton Guide to Timbromania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Madnok, Frederick, “Squidanthropy: The Silent Disease,” published in The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric& Discredited Diseases, M. A. Roberts, ed., Chimeric Press.

(In retrospect, I chose a bad title. The disease is not so much “silent” as “inappropriate.”) Madnok, Frederick, Certain Subtle Aspects of Squidanthropy (chapbook), Madnok Press.

(What many do not realize is how disconcerting sudden non-binocular vision can be to sufferers — not to mention the loss of muscular control as one’s hindquarters “melt” into a funnel and mantle and one’s legs

“dissolve” into eight arms.)

Madnok, Frederick, Tentative Tentacles: A Failure of Nerve Among Amateur Squidologists (chapbook), privately printed.

(The publication that resulted in the Ambergris Squidology Society banning me from any future meetings.

Even so, I stand by every statement I made.)

Madnok, James, The Meaning of Mushrooms, Murmur Press.

(Even then the house was crumbling. Many of my father’s finest experiments revolved around fruiting bodies situated in some dark corner of the basement or wine cellar. My mother, dedicated to the eradication of all rot, hated this situation — especially since my father sometimes went out of his way to encourage rot [“but not rubbish,” as he was fond of saying]. When my father was at his most mischievous, my mother might open the tea cupboard and find tendriled gray-and — crimson fungi peeking out from the side of each perfect saucer.)

Madnok, James, Experiments into the Transformative Element of Fruiting Body Absorptions, Southern Cities Press.

(The most amazing transformation my father ever made involved the alchemy of merging metal and mushroom. The result was uncanny. For days, my father slowly weaned the red-dappled gort cap from its normal diet of compost and dead beetles, replacing its sustenance with iron shavings. After months of careful regulation, the mushroom became shiny, gray, and hard. After a year, it became almost entirely metallic, with but a few flecks of red-and-beige to hint at its formerly edible nature. It had become a decorative ornament. [My own experiments have been of an opposite nature: turning the decorative into the sinuous and fleshy…] He gave it to my mother for her birthday; she gave it to me soon thereafter and I still have it somewhere in storage.)

Madnok, James, The Invisible World, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

(My father’s masterwork: A beautifully-designed 400-page book that was unfairly ignored by reviewers and readers at the time of publication but which is now widely recognized in certain circles as the definitive statement on Southern fungi. I still have a copy of this book. The sarcastic jabs at Truffidian

“theories” on the gray caps drove a wedge between my parents.)

Madnok, James, A Unified Theory of Spore Migration, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

(I would like to believe that my father was on the right track in this, his final book, posthumously published — alas, he was forced to abuccinate; the book never saw print in the Southern Cities — and that he felt no pain.)

Mannikan, A., The Great Cephalogod (fiction), Hoegbotton & Sons.

Marmont, E.D., A Raucous Yet Commercial People: Living on the Banks of the Moth, A Study, Not Worthy Publishers.

Midan, Pejora “The Architectural Marvel That Is the Cephalopod”, published in Architecture of the Southern Cities, Vol. 95, Issue 12, Barqology Press.

Midan, Pejora, Squid Iconography as Expressed in Ambergrisian Architecture, Blueprint Publications.

(Midan’s infatuation with squid did not last. His plannedMolluskPalace and Tentacle House never came to fruition; all we have now are the plans for such wonders.)

Midan, Pejora, The Underwater Gardens of the Mollusk: God’s Design, Blueprint Publications.

Mipkin, Siffle, The Hoegbotton Guide to Entomomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Morge, Ralph, Squid Theories Involving the Sabotage of Haragck Flotation Devices (chapbook), Ambergris Squidologist Society.

(Morge’s postulation that squid sabotaged the Haragck during their famous attack by puncturing their flotation devices seems circumstantial at best.)

Nanger, D.T., “The Fish Preferences of a Freshwater Squid in a Controlled Experiment Involving a Hook, Bait, a Really Big Boat, and a Strong Line of Inquiry,” Hablong Research Institute Quarterly Report, Hablong Publications.

Nick, Robert, The Edge of Madness, Frankwrithe & Lewden. Nick, Robert, The Role of Madness and Creativity, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

(That squidanthropy should be cited so inappropriately in this context discredits the book before the reader has even finished a quick skim of the index.)

Norman, Hugh. Beware of Random Letters: The History of Non-Human Communication, Frankwrithe & Lewden.

Nymblan, Kever, The Hoegbotton Guide to Erotographomania, Hoegbotton & Sons Press.

Parsons, Kevin, A Field Guide to Freshwater Squid, Southern Cities Press.

Pickleridge, Timothy, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of the Religious, Being a Call to Worship Our Father the King Squid (chapbook), privately printed.