This is a list of my book fair kills from the end of last month. I had planned on posting them sooner, but I had some editing deadlines to finish before I could get back to blogging…
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Fiction:

The Upright Man – Michael Marshall
Abel Baker Charlie – John R. Maxim
The World’s Strangest Mysteries – Rupert Furneaux
The Bible and the Bermuda Triangle – George Johnson, Don Tanner
Atlantis: The Eighth Continent – Charles Berlitz
Atlantis Devil’s Sea - Greg Donnegan
Decipher – Stel Pavlou
The Road to Ruin – Donald E. Westlake
Subterranean – James Rollins (2 copies, to give away)
Sandstorm – James Rollins
Map of Bones – James Rollins
Temple – Matt Reilly (2 copies, to give away)
Ice Station – Matt Reilly
Panic Room – James Ellison
Unacceptable Risk - David Dun
The Black Silent – David Dun
Second Soul - Thomas Sullivan
Dispatch – Bentley Little
Maneaters – Peter Hathaway Capstick
Private Wars – Greg Rucka
Armageddons – Jack Dann & Gardner Dozios
Last On Earth -Book One: The Vanishing – Marilyn Kaye
The Closer – Donn Cortez
Pipsqueak – Brian M. Wiprud
Quietus – Vivian Schilling
The Northeast Kingdom – Peter Collins
Slipt – Alan Dean Foster
Phantoms – Dean Koontz
The Gunslinger – Stephen King

Non-Fiction:

Positive Thinking for Every Day of the Year – Norman Vincent Peale
Positive Imaging – Norman Vincent Peale
The Power of Positive Resistance – Dr. Roy Hicks
God’s Chosen Fast – Arthur Wallis
How to Fast Successfully – Derek Prince
There’s Dynamite In Praise – Don Gossett
Quantum Learning – Bobbi DePorter & Mike Hernacki
Brain Workout – Arthur Winter, M.D., Ruth Winter, M.S.
When I Relax I Feel Guilty - Tim Hansel
The Magic of Believing – Claude Bristol
The Satanic Bible - Anton La Vey
The Believer’s Guide to Spiritual Warfare – Tom White
Breaking Generational Curses & Pulling Down Strongholds – Vito Rallo
To Heaven & Back – Rita Bennett

Now, unless you completely skimmed over that list just now, you probably saw the one book that stuck out as a bizarre pick. The Satanic Bible? Why, oh Kevin, WHY!?! The answer is simple: so no one else could buy it. When I saw that on the table among all the other books, I was shocked. My first instinct was to not touch it, lest… you know… I become ‘infected’ with the sheer evil of it all. But then I thought through what would happen if I simply hid the book among the stacks of books beneath the table. Eventually, someone else would find it and buy it. And that thought? Well, that thought just made me kinda sad.

So I bought it. I bought it and took it home and threw it under my grill, to burn that sucker into cinder when it gets a little warmer outside. Or maybe I’ll shred it. Either way, I just want to render it unreadable. I think I’ll make that one of my goals when I go to Book Fairs in the future – to remove occult books from circulation. It’s one of the more subtle ways I can try to make the world a better place. (And boost the chicken and goat population at the same time! Everybody wins!)

Kevin