I have wondered this for a while

[james_davis_nicoll]

What's the point of the subtitle "a novel"?

Comments

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

I cannot offer a definitive answer to your question, but you never have the "a novel" subtitle on eldritch tomes, or those books that have a hollow interior for keeping guns or booze inside them.

[oneironaut.livejournal.com]

Aha! I am totally writing that in Sharpie on my hollow book. Now no one will think to check there.

[(Anonymous)]

Monstrous Beings, Vile, Heinous, & Grotesque: a novel?

TSM_in_Toronto