Dangerous Laughter

Steven Millhauser
Millhau

A collection of darkly comic stories united by their obsession with obsession.—Publisher



"A wonderful collection that reminds me of the concept driven short stories of Jorge Luis Borges with the anywhere America setting of Ray Bradbury."—Matt N., Community and Customer Engagement Assistant Manager


Bicentennial Staff Picks

  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • Dragon Bound


  • The Master and Margarita


  • The Lost Coast


  • The Snowy Day


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • Copper Beach


  • Big Sur


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • Providence


  • Jane Eyre


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • The Woman in White


  • The Far Field


  • Unterzakhn


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • The Index Card


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • Nitro --The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapes of Ted Turner's WCW


  • I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness


  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • Parable of the Sower


  • The Stardust Road


  • In Full Color


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • Ulysses


  • Star Wars : from a certain point of view : 40 stories celebrating 40 years of Star Wars


  • The Friend


  • War and Peace


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • The Brothers Karamazov


  • The King's Stilts


  • Siddhartha


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • The Jordan Rules


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • Travels With Charley


  • Growth of the Soil


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


  • The Room : A Novel


  • VALIS


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • Oleanna


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • Gilead


  • Wired


  • The Chronicles of Amber


  • The Ghost Clause


  • Sunny


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • Dune


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


  • The Never Game


  • Raintree County


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • The Last Wish


  • Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems & Drawings of Shel Silverstein


  • The Little Prince


  • Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks


  • Hopscotch


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • Wolf Hall


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • Under the Volcano


  • The Color Monster


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • Through a Life


  • I Know This Much is True


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • Strange Planet


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


  • The Go-Between


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • East of Eden


  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


  • A Little Princess


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • Dietland


  • Figuring


  • The Silmarillion


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • Watchmen


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • Rural Free


  • The Goldfinch


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • The Word Is Murder


  • Oreo


  • Catch 22


  • Life


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • Lost Horizon


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • Six Seasons


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • Dawn


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • The Pirate Coast


  • The Wild Robot


  • Daisy Jones & The Six


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • The Raven Boys


  • The Library


  • The Eye of Minds


  • Birdie and Me


  • Patriot Games


  • Giver of Stars


  • The Blue Sword


  • The Life and Art of Felrath Hines : from dark to light


  • Suttree


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • The Snow Child


  • X'ed Out


  • The Shell Seekers


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


  • Cinder


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • Persepolis


  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


  • The Music Lesson


  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • Riddley Walker


  • Castoff: The Strange Adventures of Petra De Winter and Bram


  • One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish


  • Cannery Row


  • Running with Sherman


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • My Name is Asher Lev


  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • Tropic of Cancer


  • Fog Island


  • Wild Beauty


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • Dune Messiah


  • Foundryside


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • The Stand


  • The Shipping News


  • Dark of the Moon


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • What is the What


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • True Grit


  • Robin


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • Naked Lunch


  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • On A Sunbeam


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking


  • Station Eleven


  • Communing With The Divine: A Clairvoyant's Guide To Angels, Archangels and the Spiritual Hierarchy


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • The College of Beer : The Story of Nick's English Hut


  • Little Bear