VanderMeer suggest twelve overlooked books

Jeff VanderMeer has a list of twelve overlooked books of 2006. It's a good list, but some of the books come across more as art objects than books to be read. (He also cheats, as more than one of these books fall outside of 2006.) The Darkening Garden looks like a fun book, but i just cannot bring myself to shell out $45 for 165 pages, no matter how pretty the packaging is. It may be philistine, but i weigh page count against price quite often when experimenting with fiction new to me. It doesn't mean that i'd prefer The Stand to The Street of Crocodiles. I simply cannot afford to fuck around on vanity pressings.

The Wizard of the Crow has already been on my Must Read list for months now, but yet another nudge is going to push me into ordering it today most likely. Don Webb's When They Came fits my criteria of price and page count, the Lovecraft comparison is a plus, even though Lovecraft himself is a little tedious even for me. The literary zine Fairy Tale Review catches my fancy as well.