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 Far Field


  • The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy


  • The Friend


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


  • Fog Island


  • My Name is Asher Lev


  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said


  • The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms


  • The Brothers Karamazov


  • Suttree


  • The Word Is Murder


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


  • Foundryside


  • Dealing with Dragons


  • Prelude to Bruise


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


  • Robin


  • Naked Lunch


  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles


  • Sunny


  • Copper Beach


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


  • The Silmarillion


  • Know My Name: A Memoir


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


  • Near to the Wild Heart


  • Me Talk Pretty One Day


  • Mouse Guard: Fall 1152


  • The Eye of Minds


  • Strange Planet


  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


  • Riddley Walker


  • Stormy: A Story About Finding a Forever Home


  • The Index Card


  • Catch 22


  • The Girl From Rawblood


  • Through a Life


  • Why You Like This Photo : the Science of Perception


  • The Rest is Noise


  • Their Eyes Were Watching God


  • Under the Volcano


  • The Lifespan of a Fact


  • Snotgirl Vol. 1


  • The Color Monster


  • The Monkey's Raincoat


  • Feeling Sorry for Celia


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


  • The Diary of a Young Girl


  • Hawkeye omnibus


  • The House at Pooh Corner


  • What is the What


  • Cannery Row


  • Life


  • The Mistress of Spices


  • Six Seasons


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


  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


  • Raintree County


  • Anne of Green Gables


  • A Clockwork Orange


  • The Time Traveler's Wife


  • Pretty Deadly, Volume One: The Shrike


  • Oleanna


  • The Snow Child


  • Gilead


  • Station Eleven


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


  • Dune Messiah


  • Jane Eyre


  • Wolf Hall


  • Warrior of the Wild


  • My Brother's Husband, Vol. 1


  • Birdie and Me


  • A Study in Scarlet Women


  • War and Peace


  • The Lost Words: A Spell Book


  • Dawn


  • Braiding Sweetgrass


  • The Shell Seekers


  • The Wild Robot


  • The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath


  • The Library


  • True Grit


  • Ecology of a Cracker Childhood


  • The Go-Between


  • Little Bear


  • Do Fish Sleep?


  • The Shipping News


  • Daisy Jones & The Six


  • Dark of the Moon


  • A Little Princess


  • East of Eden


  • To Kill A Mockingbird


  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine


  • Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste


  • The Universe in a Nutshell


  • Growth of the Soil


  • The Master and Margarita


  • Simulacra and Simulation


  • Running with Sherman


  • Dangerous Laughter


  • Understanding Comics: the Invisible Art


  • In Full Color


  • My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Book One


  • Persepolis


  • Cinder


  • Siddhartha


  • The New Moosewood Cookbook


  • The Story of Ferdinand


  • Hopscotch


  • The Charterhouse of Parma


  • In the Dust of This Planet


  • Inferno: The World at War 1939-1945


  • Wild Beauty


  • X'ed Out


  • The Luster of Lost Things


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


  • The Never Game


  • Slaughterhouse Five


  • Rural Free


  • Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters


  • Figuring


  • The Woman in the Dunes


  • Ulysses


  • Four Novels of the 1940s & 50s


  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?


  • The Lost Coast


  • Look Both Ways : a Tale Told in Ten Blocks


  • The Raven Boys


  • Fables. 8, Wolves


  • The Essential Tales of Chekhov


  • Autobiography of an Execution


  • The Pirate Coast


  • Taproot : a story about a gardener and a ghost


  • The Road Less Traveled


  • I Know This Much is True


  • Foucault's Pendulum


  • The Stardust Road


  • The Snowy Day


  • The Licanius Trilogy


  • Patriot Games


  • Once & Future, Volume 1


  • The Blue Sword


  • The Goldfinch


  • The Woman in White


  • Watchmen


  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid


  • Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker


  • The Last Wish


  • Oreo


  • The Stand


  • Travels With Charley


  • Dune


  • The Clan of the Cave Bear


  • Carry On: The Rise and Fall of Simon Snow


  • The Johnstown Flood


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


  • The Room : A Novel


  • Dietland


  • Wired


  • The Chronicles of Amber


  • Chloe's Vegan Desserts


  • Providence


  • VALIS


  • On A Sunbeam


  • Big Sur


  • Tropic of Cancer


  • Parable of the Sower


  • The Lord of the Rings


  • Unterzakhn


  • Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction


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


  • Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero


  • The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works


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


  • Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality


  • Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale


  • Dragon's Merry Christmas


  • Clear and Present Danger


  • The Quilter's Apprentice


  • Three Things About Elsie


  • His Majesty's Dragon


  • Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World


  • The Ghost Clause


  • Lost Horizon


  • Giver of Stars


  • The Little Prince


  • The King's Stilts


  • Dragon Bound


  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City


  • The Murderer's Ape


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


  • The Jordan Rules


  • Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey


  • Spoon River Anthology


  • Cry, Heart, But Never Break


  • Illuminatus! Trilogy


  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows


  • Matter : a Culture novel


  • The Music Lesson