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

  • Little Bear


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • The Jordan Rules


  • The King's Stilts


  • The Pirate Coast


  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


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


  • The Stardust Road


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


  • The Murderer's Ape


  • Gilead


  • Dawn


  • Dark of the Moon


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • The Ghost Clause


  • The Goldfinch


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


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


  • Naked Lunch


  • Foundryside


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • Rural Free


  • The Woman in White


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


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • Through a Life


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • The Shipping News


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • Siddhartha


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • Six Seasons


  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


  • Patriot Games


  • Strange Planet


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


  • Catch 22


  • Running with Sherman


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


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


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • The Color Monster


  • X'ed Out


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • Life


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • The Friend


  • My Name is Asher Lev


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


  • The Last Wish


  • The Luster of Lost Things


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • The Far Field


  • Riddley Walker


  • Giver of Stars


  • The Snowy Day


  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • A Little Princess


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • Prelude to Bruise


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • Travels With Charley


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • Robin


  • The Music Lesson


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • Providence


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • Dune Messiah


  • Oleanna


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


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • I Know This Much is True


  • Suttree


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • The Master and Margarita


  • Birdie and Me


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • Ulysses


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • In Full Color


  • True Grit


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • The Wild Robot


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


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


  • Jane Eyre


  • Fog Island


  • The Library


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • What is the What


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • Cannery Row


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • Raintree County


  • Dragon Bound


  • The Raven Boys


  • The Snow Child


  • War and Peace


  • The Johnstown Flood


  • On A Sunbeam


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • Wired


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • Figuring


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • The Eye of Minds


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • Station Eleven


  • The Never Game


  • The Silmarillion


  • Persepolis


  • Under the Volcano


  • The Brothers Karamazov


  • The Lost Coast


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • Big Sur


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • Oreo


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


  • Daisy Jones & The Six


  • Hopscotch


  • Parable of the Sower


  • East of Eden


  • Copper Beach


  • The Chronicles of Amber


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • The Room : A Novel


  • The Stand


  • The Index Card


  • Lost Horizon


  • The Go-Between


  • Tropic of Cancer


  • VALIS


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • Sunny


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


  • Watchmen


  • The Little Prince


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


  • The Word Is Murder


  • Growth of the Soil


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


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


  • The Blue Sword


  • Unterzakhn


  • Dietland


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


  • The Shell Seekers


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


  • Simulacra and Simulation


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


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • Wolf Hall


  • Cinder


  • Wild Beauty


  • Dune