Ramble House Books
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Ramble House Books
@ramblehouse.bsky.social
Ramble House is a tiny two-person publishing outfit, selling books from ramblehouse.com. We specialize in pulp, weird and out-of-print work. We helped popularize Harry Stephen Keeler. Please take a look at our books! (Many NSFW)
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The Anthologist's Folly is a collection of eldritch horror stories curated by award-winning editor Johnny Mains. It collects stories from Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Oswell Blakeston, A.J. Alan, and other horror authors. Its page on Ramble House's website: www.ramblehouse.com/Anthologists...
We're still alive! Hopefully I can get a new post up soon!
December 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The other new book from Ramble House is also by Francis Nevins, Judges & Justice & Lawyers & Law: Exploring the Legal Dimensions of Fiction and Film. www.ramblehouse.com/Judges.htm
July 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Ramble House has two new books out! The first is Ellery Queen: The Art of Detection, compiled by Francis Nevins, two-time winner of The Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award. www.ramblehouse.com/EQ.htm
July 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
The Anthologist's Folly is a collection of eldritch horror stories curated by award-winning editor Johnny Mains. It collects stories from Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Oswell Blakeston, A.J. Alan, and other horror authors. Its page on Ramble House's website: www.ramblehouse.com/Anthologists...
June 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Other work has gotten in the way lately, but we're still around! Expect a new post soon.
June 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A new book from Ramble House, His Beautiful hands: The Short Fiction of Oscar Cook, collected and edited, with great effort, by Johnny Mains! www.ramblehouse.com/HisBeautiful...
March 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Arkham House published mystery and horror writer Richard Lupoff's (RIP 2020) Lovecraft's Book in 1985, but it was a heavily cut down version of a much larger version called Marblehead. Marblehead was lost until 2012 when Ramble House published the complete novel: www.ramblehouse.com/marblehead.htm
March 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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[“As he fed the cat with Executive Mansion cutlery, the First Lady asked: “Don’t you think it is shameful for Mr. Lincoln to feed tabby with a gold fork?” Her husband replied: “If the gold fork was good enough for Buchanan I think it is good enough for Tabby” and continued feeding the cat.”]
February 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
John Dickson #Carr was a master of what's called the "locked room mystery," in which a detective solves an apparently impossible case. For aficionados of Carr, and those who would like to be, Ramble House publishes James Keirans' The Carr Companion: www.ramblehouse.com/jdccompanion...
February 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.

The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Notorious filmmaker Ed Wood, director of some consider the worst movies ever made, was also a writer, and his written works are of a piece with his movies. Muddled Mind by David Hayes is a celebration of his writing, and contains a few of his short stories. www.ramblehouse.com/muddledmind....
February 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Also a reminder that if you are reading good coverage, share/post those links, a lot has shifted and people need to know where to find information
There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.
February 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Harry Stephen Keeler is best known for his strange and idiosyncratic mysteries, but for 21 years he edited a magazine called 10-Story Book, "A Magazine for Iconoclasts." In this book published by Ramble House, Chris Mikul collects 35 of its best stories. www.ramblehouse.com/bestof10stor...
February 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
R.R. Ryan wrote (according to Karl Wagner of Twilight Zone magazine) three of the greatest horror novels of all time, but is nearly entirely unknown today. Ryan was also, secretly, a woman named Denice Bradley-Ryan writing under her father's name. The story: www.ramblehouse.com/subjugatedbe... 1/4
January 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Ramble House books are so much cheaper if you order directly from www.ramblehouse.com. You can also sign up for a newsletter called The Rambler which has lots of book sales in it.
RH Home Page
Celebrating 25 Years of Independent Publishing
www.ramblehouse.com
January 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Delton Prouse is a semi-Robin-Hood: he steals from the rich and gives to charity, but he keeps half for himself. His weapons are pepper spray and a syringe of knock-out drug that he'll use against enemies or friends alike. Read about it in The Crimson Clown: www.ramblehouse.com/crimsonclown...
January 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Mail call! Keeler and his bizarre circus! Lura-Lora, the double-headed girl! Crimes against written clarity! All courtesy of @ramblehouse.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Harry Keeler wrote over 70 novels [...] but thanks to a conspiracy among publishers and Freshman Composition 101 teachers worldwide, he has been totally forgotten by the masses." A To Izzard is a celebration of his work. More info and purchase links: www.ramblehouse.com/atoizzard.htm
January 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Hey, it's Ramble House! The folks I have to blame for my Harry Stephen Keeler appreciation!

If you want to be introduced to a writer whose books feature strangulation-via-baby-in-helicopter or detectives who can see the 4th dimension and the like, start here:
www.ramblehouse.com/atoizzard.htm
January 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In 1939, the last year of his life, Ernest Vincent Wright wrote Gadsby, a novel about the people of the town of Branton Hills, where he sensed that the young people were growing listless. And he decided to do it without using the letter E. (Which is not even the case of this description.)
January 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
It was through Ramble House that many people first found out about Harry Stephen Keeler, certainly the most original (in good and bad senses) mystery writer of all. It can be ordered from Amazon or Lulu, but contact us for a good price: www.ramblehouse.com/Daniel%20Eus...
December 23, 2024 at 10:29 PM
The Anthony Boucher Chronicles, edited by Francis M. Nevins, contains every review that Boucher wrote as fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle, from 1942 to 1947. It includes an index to every author of the hundreds he reviewed and has explanatory annotations. #AnthonyBoucher
December 19, 2024 at 10:09 PM
There's a new issue of the Ramble House newsletter, The Rambler out! Information on a compilation of Fender's own writing, a book sale, and more! gem.godaddy.com/p/7b798b1
December 19, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Keller Memento (_not_ Keeler) is a collection of 25 short stories by Dr David Keller (1880-1966), a physician who worked with “abnormals” in various state mental institutions before he became a full-time author in the 1920s. Its page on Ramble House's site: www.ramblehouse.com/kellermement...
Keller Memento
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December 15, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Hi, we're Ramble House! We're a small press (two people) who specialize in weird, pulp and out-of-print titles. We helped spread the word about Harry Stephen Keeler!
Check out the catalog on our home page: www.ramblehouse.com
Somehow, we have a Wikipedia page!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramble_...
RH Home Page
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December 10, 2024 at 12:56 AM