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The Early
Fears Robert Bloch Thirty-nine classic stories by the Grand Master of Horror The Early Fears gathers for the first time in one volume all of the stories from Robert Bloch's first two, long out-of-print, collections. Including:
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| The Door
Below Hugh B. Cave Few writers can match the output and longevity of Hugh B. Cave. In a professional career that stretches over seven decades, he has written over a thousand stories, plus novels, non-fiction books and articles, in almost every genre from weird menace to mainstream. Along the way, he has published in everything from Spicy Mystery to Ladies Home Journal - and all parts in between. But Cave is more than merely prolific. He has won the Grand Master of Fantasy and the World Fantasy awards and has been a popular guest of honor at many conventions. In this new compendium, the author has selected stories from all periods of his long
career. Writes Cave in his foreward to this collection: ISBN 1-878252-30-5, 332 pages, trade hardcover edition. |
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Death Stalks
the Night Hugh B. Cave "Simple things can breed terror. A lonely road, a cloud masking the moon, the cry of a cat, or the eyes of a bent old man...meaningless things, but sometimes mysteriously charged with weird menace..." So begins the gruesome tale "Modern Nero" by Hugh B. Cave. It was the 1930's and pulp magazines such as Dime Mystery Magazine, Terror Tales, and Horror Stories perfected a genre that blended hard-boiled action and grotesque horror into something that came to be called the weird menace pulps. Editor Karl Edward Wagner suggested calling them "splatterpulps" in the introduction of this volume. Hugh B. Cave is a master at this genre, "the Alfred Hitchcock of sadistic horror". The late Karl Edward Wagner assembled this collection more than a decade ago, intending it as a companion piece to Cave's World Fantasy Award-winning horror collection Murgunstrumm and Others. Death Stalks the Night has finally seen print, complete with an introduction by Wagner and the original artwork by the great Lee Brown Coye. ISBN 1-878252-15-1 |
| The Vampire
Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes "R. Chetwynd-Hayes ranks as one of England's finest practitioners of
the art of horror fiction... his prose displays a crisp sophistication and, often, a
macabre sense of humour to prove that the author is a major stylist in his own
right." The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes collects together for the first time fifteen tales by the award-winning British author, including such classics as "My Mother Married a Vampire", "The Labyrinth", "Birth", "Looking for Something to Suck" and "The Werewolf and the Vampire", plus a brand-new tale written especially for this volume featuring Frances St. Clare, the World's only Practicing Psychic Detective, and his assistant Frederica Masters, better known as Fred. With these stories, Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes masterfully blends horror and humour as he introduces the reader to a cleaning woman who discovers she is working for Dracula's son; a couple trapped in a house created by the mind of a centuries-old vampire;a young boy whose ancestor is depressed by his undead existence;a creature of darkness that sucks the life-force from its victims, and the unusual offspring of a werewolf and a vampire who is threatened by an obsessed clergyman. With an original introduction by Brian Lumley, author of the bestselling Necroscope series, and an exclusive interview with the author about his vampire stories, fans fo the undead are in for a fang-tastic treat... ISBN 1-878252-33-X, 252 pages, trade hardcover edition. |
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The Black
Death Basil Copper A deadly secret awaits John Carter, a young architect who left London for a new life in the rustic and seemingly innocent town of Thornton Bassett... "I am putting your own life in danger by confiding in you, John, so do not thank me for something you may regret." He leaned forward, lowering his voice. "The police know all about these murders. They have done their best to hush things up. But it is difficult to prevent rumours flying from village to village. They use a terrible term for a terrible and quite inexplicable form of murder." Carter bent forward to catch what his companion was saying as he reduced his voice to the merest breath. "They call it The Black Death!" ISBN 1-878252-04-6, 373 pages, trade hardcover edition. |
| The Exploits
of Solar Pons Basil Copper Solar Pons was created nearly seventy years ago by August Derleth who patterned his sleuth closely after Doyle's great detective. Sixty-eight tales, including one novel, were written by Derleth over a period of some forty years. But Mr. Pons' already impressive career did not end with the death of his creator. The series passed to the capable hands of the British author Basil Copper. While several collections of Mr. Copper's Pons stories have already appeared in paperback editions, this is the first publication of the stories contained herein. Contents The Adventure of the Verger's Thumb $36.00 (Cnd) $24.00 (US) |
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The
Recollections of Solar Pons Basil Copper Solar Pons lives again in this new collection of finely crafted mysteries by Basil Copper. Mr. Pons was created by August Derleth in 1928 to fill the void after Arthur Conan Doyle stopped writing Holmes stories. Since Derleth passed on in the early Seventies, the series has been continued by his friend and admirer Basil Copper, who brings a keen sense of period and atmosphere to these new adventures of "the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street." Contents The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire ISBN 1-878252-20-8, 248 pages, trade hardcover edition. |
| Before...12:01...and
After Richard Lupoff "Richard Lupoff's stories are
singularly clever, inventive, well-crafted, and involving. He can put on different styles
as easily as some of us change suits, and all of them fit him exquisitely. This collection
is pure pleasure from the first page to the last." "Every story offers a smile - and a surprise. You just cannot predict where Lupoff
is going to lead you! After a few stories, I gave up trying - and let his wonderful
imagination carry me away!" "This career-spanning collection reflects the breadth and growth of Richard
Lupoff's unique fictional talents. Often nostalgic, sometimes bittersweet, always
entertaining, these are stories to be savoured." "His books and stories...display not only his intelligence and perceptivity, but
also the grace and charm of his wit, the skill of his narrative technique, and the
exemplary individuality of his ideas. That is to say, he's a damned good writer." ISBN 1-878252-23-2 |
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The New
Lovecraft Circle Edited by Robert M. Price Many whose souls were hopelessly corrupted by perusing the blasphemy-soaked pages of Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos have patiently endured strange eons of waiting till its much-anticipated sequel should appear. The faithful need wait no longer! It's here!! Whereas Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos contained fiction by Lovecraft's contemporaries, this volume features Mythos stories by the next wave of narrative necromancers, Brian Lumley, Ramsay Campbell, James Wade, Lin Carter, Richard Lupoff, John Glasby, Richard Tierney and many others. Together with its predecessor, this second collection is a tribute to August Derleth, whose 1969 anthology, Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos did so much to inspire whole new generations of Cthulhu Mythos fandom. ISBN 1-878252-16-X |
| Tales of the
Lovecraft Mythos Edited by Robert M. Price
You can almost smell the pulp. Any fan of the weird magazines must surely recognize the pleasure of savouring the titles before turning to the story. Sometimes the title evoked the sense of dread anticipation almost better than the story could - what story could improve on, for instance, "The Thing That Walked on the Wind"? All the tales in the book attest to the influence of Lovecraft, whether he looms behind the grotesque wit of Clark Ashton Smith, or capers in the the parody of Wollheim, or lends Robert E. Howard's fine tales a more powerful atmosphere of the ancient yet not dead. Some of those written in his lifetime he admired; on the subject of others he kept his piece, or is that the sound of stirring in a grave we hear? Perhaps it is rather the sound of crumbling pulps reassembling themselves, invoked by
the book, or the inticing whisper of those blurbs whithout which no contents page was
complete, and which sometimes seemed as though the stories themselves were dreaming: the
ululations from beneath the earth... the wall as long as the future...the mound that
reaches for the world...the horror that lurks behind the legend of mermaids... the
appendage that quivers on the bedspread...the gobbling conch...the miasma yellow as pulp
paper that seeps into my mind...I - can write - no - more ... ISBN 1-878252-02-X |
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The House of
the Toad Richard L. Tierney "An exciting and welcomed
venture into dark and cosmic realms by one of the foremost authors writing in the
tradition of H.P. Lovecraft." For years James Kerrick has eked out a living looting archeological treasure for sale on the international black market. Finally, in the ruins of a lost city in Mexico, he makes a discovery for which a Midwestern millionaire, J. Cornelius Wassermann, is willing to pay a small fortune. For Kerrick, a bitter American expatriot, it is a chance to retire once and for all from his dangerous profession - and an opportunity to return home to see the woman he left behind years before. But she has inexplicably vanished and Wassermann is no ordinary collector. To his mounting terror, Kerrick is inexorably swept into a vast conspiracy involving ancient cults and international intrigue. Worse still, the stars are becoming right! ISBN 1-878252-03-8 |
| Exorcisms
and Ecstasies Karl Edward Wagner Karl Edward Wagner was one of the genre's finest practitioners of horror and dark fantasy. His untimely death in 1994 robbed the field of one of its major talents For nearly a quarter of a century he chronicled the exploits of Kane, the Mystic Swordsman, in a series of superior novels and stories. Having trained as a psychiatrist, his short fiction often dealt with themes of psychological horror and bizarre eroticism. As a writer, editor and publisher he was a multiple winner of the British and World Fantasy Awards, and he continued to encourage new talent through his annual anthology series, The Year's Best Horror Stories. Just prior to his death, Wagner finished compiling a fourth collection of his fiction, to be titled Exorcisms and Ecstasies. With this current volume, his friend and colleague Stephen Jones has compiled the author's original selection of stories with all his uncollected work (including two never-before-published tales, one written when he was twelve years old) to create an impressive tribute. Along with stories of modern horror and twisted sexuality, here are also the fantastic adventures of the warrior-sorcerer Kane and dark gunslinger Adrian Becker, while such close friends and contemporaries as Peter Straub, Ramsey and Jenny Campbell, Brian Lumley, David Drake, David J. Schow, Frances Wellman, C. Bruce Hunter and James Wagner contribute personal memoirs of the man and the writer they knew. Exorcisms and Ecstasies also includes an exclusive photo section and an extensive working bibliography of all Wagner's books and stories published in the English language. ISBN 1-878252-28-3, 462 pages, trade hardcover edition. |
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Don't Dream The Collected Horror and Fantasy Fiction of Donald Wandrei "The first science fiction book I ever read contained a
Donald Wandrei story. I was amazed then, and I am amazed now. And extremely pleased that
he's back in print; he was a wonderful writer." "One of the greatest of the pulp visionaries, Wandrei had a remarkable ability to
out-cosmic Lovecraft and even Edmond Hamilton with a flair that has made his work stand
the test of time." "Donald Wandrei joins a very select company in his excellence as a poet, fiction
writer, and essayist. Perhaps his most distinguishing feature is a spectacularly bizarre,
'cosmic' imagination, laced with a wholly delightful and refreshing soupcon of
misanthropy. The best of his work is weird in the quintessential sense of that term." ISBN 1-878252-27-5 |
| Time Burial The Collected Fantasy Tales of Howard Wandrei "A
weird artist of astonishing skill and genius." From the grotesque to the humorous, few writers can match Howard Wandrei for a clever
turn of the phrase or telling detail that is capable of transforming even the most mundane
occurrence into an event of unspeakable horror or mordantly dark humour. Now for the first
time, his work has been brought together in a collection that fantasy readers will
treasure for years to come. ISBN 1-878252-22-4 |
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