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The following is an incomplete selection of the books and items stored in the private library of the vampires Louis de Pointe du Lac and Armand.
LEFT BOOKCASE
The Iliad - Homer, trans. Robert Fitzgerald
The Odyssey - Homer, trans. Robert Fitzgerald
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles, trans. David Grene
The Complete Tragedies of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's The Histories
Edward II - Christopher Marlowe
The Complete Plays of Oscar Wilde
The Blacks - Jean Genet
An Octoroon - Branden Jacobs Jenkins
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
Call Me by Your Name - André Aciman
La Divina Commedia - Dante Alighieri
Flowers in the Attic - V. C. Andrews
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Histoire de l'œil - Georges Bataille
Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
Are You My Mother? - Alison Bechdel
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Notre-Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo
The Trial - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb
Lady Chatterly's Lover - D. H. Lawrence
Le Fantôme de l'Opéra - Gaston Leroux
The New Negro - Alain Locke
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn - Stephanie Meyer
Paradise Lost - John Milton
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Jazz - Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Ottessa Moshfegh
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk
The Persian Boy - Mary Renault
The Essential Rumi
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf
Native Son - Richard Wright
RIGHT BOOKCASE
The Qur'an
La Bible
The Kama Sutra
A Dictionary of Urdu Classical Hindi and English
Tamil-English English-Tamil Dictionary & Phrasebook
Speaking in Tongues: Louisiana's 'Cajun' and Creole Languages Tell Their Own Story - Mr. John LaFleur II
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance - Gordon Campbell
L'Auvergne - Jean Ajalbert
La Chambre claire - Roland Barthes
Robert Doisneau. Paris - Jean Claude Gautrand
On Gaslighting - Kate Abramson
Why Does He Do That? - Lundy Bancroft
The Art of Self-EMDR for Trauma Recovery - Deborah L. Cox
Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship - David Schnarch
CEILING-SUSPENDED SHELF 1
The following volumes are encased within protective paper boxes, each with a label on the spine.
Claudia Diary 1
Claudia Diary 2
Claudia Diary 3
Claudia Diary 4
Claudia Diary 5
Claudia Diary 6
Claudia Diary 7
Claudia Diary 8
Claudia Diary 9
Claudia Diary 10
Claudia Diary 11
Claudia Diary 12
Claudia Diary 13
The Book of Nursery Rhymes - Charles Robinson
Portfolio labeled: "Paris photos"
Portfolio labeled: "Pointe du Lac Family Birth, Marriage, and Death Certificates"
Portfolio labeled: "Pointe du Lac Family Financial and Property Records"
Portfolio labeled: "Paul de Pointe du Lac - medical records"
Portfolio labeled: "Pointe du Lac Plantation - records of purchase"
CEILING-SUSPENDED SHELF 2
Marius de Romanus: a Forgotten Master of the Renaissance - D. Talbot
Palma Vecchio (Cambridge Studies in the History of Art) - Philip Rylands
The Practice of Tempera Painting: Materials and Methods - Daniel V. Thompson
An Introduction to Arabic Calligraphy
A locked box labeled: "Amadeo - sketches"
A Shadow on the Skin - Daniel Molloy
Under the Burning Sky - Daniel Molloy
The United States: Prison and Profit - Daniel Molloy
Hate and Ashbury - Daniel Molloy
Snowden: an Oral History - Daniel Molloy
Murder, Intent and American Free Speech - Daniel Molloy
The Internet's Gavel - Daniel Molloy
Homelandia - D. Molloy
The Cost of the Second - Daniel Molloy
Black Blood: the Enronian Way - Daniel Molloy
Veto Proof - Daniel Molloy
The Most Dangerous Animal of All: Searching for my Father... and Finding the Zodiac Killer - Gary L. Stewart
(The book is hollowed out. Inside is an album titled "The Boy - photographs - 1973")
The Odyssey - Homer, trans. Emily Wilson
(The book is hollowed out. Inside is an album titled "Daniel Molloy - photographs - 1974")
Passage to Ararat - Michael J. Arlen
(The book is hollowed out. Inside is an album titled "Daniel - photographs - 1975-1977")
The gourmet's guide to Jewish cooking - Bessie Carr
(The book is hollowed out. Inside is an album titled "Daniel - photographs - 1978-1980")
Not Dying - William Saroyan
(The book is hollowed out. Inside is an album titled "Daniel - photographs - 1981-1982")
My Name is Aram - William Saroyan
(The book is hollowed out. Inside is an album titled "Danny - photographs - 1983-1984")
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
(The book is hollowed out. Inside is an album titled "Danny - photographs - 1985-1989")
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
(The book is hollowed out. Inside is an album titled "Danny - photographs - 1990-1991")
The Complete Jewish Wedding Planner - Wendy Chernak Hefter
(The book is hollowed out. Inside is an album titled "Beloved - sketches")
Behind the book collection, there is a hidden door in the back of the shelf. Within the secret compartment is a series of videos.
VHS tape labeled: "Blenders of Various Models - results"
VHS tape labeled: "A's artsy bullshit"
VHS tape labeled: "'Donations' - an art exhibition by Alice M., recorded tour"
VHS tape labeled: "A&D Sex Tapes" "Documentation of Intimacy" "SEX TAPES" "Eternal Preservation of our Lovemaking" "IT'S FUCKING SEX TAPES YOU BASTARD"
Blade Runner (VHS tape)
Blade Runner (VHS tape)
Blade Runner (VHS tape)
Blade Runner (VHS tape)
Blade Runner (DVD)
Blade Runner (DVD)