William Hjortsberg Books in Order

Howard’s Swiss holiday takes a grotesque turn when a blizzard and a fall from an Alpine precipice leave him captive to a cannibalistic dwarf. Around him, an apparently picturesque mountain village becomes the setting for an increasingly absurd farce.

In a future where disembodied brains await new bodies, preserved child Skeets Kalbfleischer remains stubbornly twelve years old. His continued wish to become a cowboy creates a problem for the overseers of humanity's supposed immortality.

Dream-maker Par Sondak creates popular escapist worlds for a postapocalyptic city's inhabitants. When the nomads beyond his protected estate attract his interest, his curiosity threatens the comfortable existence his commercial dreams have made possible.

Spanish matador Paco Machismo becomes the center of a bizarre scheme involving crooks, Hollywood con men, and engineered bulls. A promised encounter with a rhinoceros draws inventors and eccentrics into a farce that turns bullfighting into elaborate spectacle.

Hired to locate a missing big-band singer, private investigator Harry Angel uncovers a trail of occult connections. As witnesses die and his client invades his dreams, the detective begins to fear for his own soul.

A killer recreates murders from Edgar Allan Poe's stories in 1923 New York. When Poe's ghost appears to Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer and Harry Houdini become involved in a mystery reaching beyond ordinary crime.

Hjortsberg traces Richard Brautigan's life and literary career through the San Francisco Renaissance and the counterculture of the 1960s. Drawing connections between the writer's experiences and work, the biography explores the troubled man behind his public reputation.

After a drug-fueled party in Mexico, Tod wakes beside a murdered woman and finds his wife missing. Suspecting their fugitive neighbors have framed him and abducted her, he arms himself and sets out to recover her.

Accused of three murders, Harry Angel escapes the police and searches for a magician who may explain his past. His journey through Boston, Paris, and the Vatican leads toward an occult confrontation and revenge.

This architectural volume examines the collaboration behind JLF Design Build's houses and other structures. It explores how distinctive materials, craftsmanship, and attention to landscape shape buildings rooted in the traditions of the American West.