Anthologies

Poetry readers and fantasy connoisseurs the world over have treasured "A Wine of Wizardry" and "The Hashish-Eater" for almost a century. Written by George Sterling in 1904 and Clark Ashton Smith in 1920 respectively, these poems have been the supporting lintel and threshold to a fantastic doorway of the imagination for generations of enthralled readers. Now at last there is a contemporary response to these masterworks from poets as diverse and distinguished as Richard L. Tierney, Bruce Boston, Alan Gullette, Leigh Blackmore, Michael Fantina, Wade German, Earl Livings, and Kyla Lee Ward. Their magnificent poems evoke the enduring, timeless qualities of Sterling's and Smith's masterpieces and rework the spell to enthral a new generation. "We seem to be in the midst of a renaissance of fantastic poetry, as the present volume attests. The poets in this book have found in their work the inspiration to weave a tapestry of weirdness that stands as a substantial contribution to the fantastic verse of our own time. Connoisseurs of poetry know what aesthetic pleasures are in store for them when they read vivid, meticulously crafted work such as is contained in this book." S. T. Joshi (author Supernatural Literature of the World, I Am Providence, H. P. A Comprehensive Bibliography) "Inspired by George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith, yet fueled by the twenty-first century talents of celebrated poets from both hemispheres, this collection of vintages has something for every rarefied taste. From hashish dreams to psychic expeditions through deep space-time, here are experiences not to be found elsewhere. Sip slowly, and revel in the flight." Ann K. Schwader (author Twisted in Dream, In the Yaddith Time, Wild Hunt of the Stars) "A feast of fantastic verse, a special delight for Klarkash-tonians who need no further reassurance that the stately, cosmic tradition represented by such masterpieces as 'The Star-Treader' and 'The Hashish-Eater' is alive and well." Darrell Schweitzer (author Pathways to Elfland, Windows of the Imagination, Exploring Fantasy Worlds)

CONTENTSThe October Game by Ray BradburyThe Secret of Death Dome by Walter M. Miller, Jr.Three Gentlemen in Black by August DerlethThe Seed from the Sepulcher by Clark Ashton An Episode in a Lodging House by Algernon BlackwoodThe Message on the Slate by Edward Lucas WhiteBlack Country by Robert E. Howard

Includes tales of horror and suspense by such masters as Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft and many others

Contents 9 Introduction (The Fantasy Hall of Fame) (1983) essay by Robert Silverberg 13 The Masque of the Red Death (1842) shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death) 21 An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886) shortstory by Ambrose Bierce 26 The Sword of Welleran (1908) shortstory by Lord Dunsany 42 The Women of the Wood (1926) novelette by A. Merritt (variant of The Woman of the Wood) 76 The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan [Hyperborea] (1932) shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith 86 The Valley of the Worm [James Allison] (1934) novelette by Robert E. Howard 110 Black God's Kiss [Jirel of Joiry] (1934) novelette by C. L. Moore 143 The Silver Key [Randolph Carter] (1929) shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft 157 Nothing in the Rules (1939) novelette by L. Sprague de Camp 191 A Gnome There Was (1941) shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ] 221 Snulbug (1941) shortstory by Anthony Boucher 239 The Words of Guru (1941) shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth 248 Homecoming [The Elliott Family] (1946) shortstory by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming) 263 Mazirian the Magician [Dying Earth] (1950) novelette by Jack Vance 282 O Ugly Bird! [John the Balladeer] (1951) shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman 296 The Silken-Swift (1953) shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon 318 The Golem (1955) shortstory by Avram Davidson 325 That Hell-Bound Train (1958) shortstory by Robert Bloch 341 Kings in Darkness [The Elric Saga] (1962) novelette by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn [as by Michael Moorcock ] 375 Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1967) novelette by Harlan Ellison 399 Gonna Roll the Bones (1967) novelette by Fritz Leiber 424 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973) shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin

Book by Serling, Carol, Waugh, Charles G.

Collection of favourite short stories from World Fantasy convention members. Published by Robinson in 1990.

PB - Tales selected by Robert Weinberg, Stefan R Dziemianowiz, & Martin H Greenberg

A collection of classic stories by Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Roger Zelazny, Edgar Allen Poe, and many others.

The witches who populate these 100 delightfully scary stories include practitioners of white witchcraft and devotees of black magic. Most are female, some are male, and a few are thoroughly unclassifiable. They can be born witches or made witches, and may mix simple love potions or volatile concoctions that threaten all we hold dear. Some resent not receiving the treatment they feel they deserve from lesser mortals; yet other witches don't even realize that they wield any special influence at all. The many writers who take on this ever-fascinating character (so fundamentally human unlike her more paranormal, ghostly brethren) include Juleen Brantingham ("Burning in the Light"), Joe R. Landsdale ("By the Hair of the Head"), Simon McCaffery ("Blood Mary"), Terry Campbell ("Retrocurses"), Lawrence Shimel ("Coming Out of the Broom Closet"), and a coven of others.

Readers seeking exotic locales and nonstop pulse-pounding thrills will love this collection of six classic adventure stories, beginning with The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, one of the best-known short stories, about a hunt designed for very specific prey. Other timeless tales include To Build a Fire by Jack London, The Caballero's Way by O. Henry, The Seed from the Sepulchre by Clark Ashton Smith, Alone in Shark Waters by John Kruse, and The Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling.

This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Colour Out of Space") to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Bloch), to later followers (Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Brian McNaughton), and contemporary afficianados (Brian Stableford, Mark McLaughlin, Adrian Cole) -- and many more. This is one collection no Lovecraft fan can afford to miss! Included are: "At the Mountains of Madness," by H. P. Lovecraft "The Events at Poroth Farm," by T.E.D. Klein "The Return of the Sorcerer," by Clark Ashton Smith "Worms of the Earth," by Robert E. Howard "Envy, the Gardens of Ynath, and the Sin of Cain," by Darrell Schweitzer "Drawn from Life," by John Glasby "In the Haunted Darkness," by Michael R. Collings "The Innsmouth Heritage," by Brian Stableford "The Doom That Came to Innsmouth," by Brian McNaughton "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," by H. P. Lovecraft "The Nameless Offspring," by Clark Ashton Smith "The Hounds of Tindalos," by Frank Belknap Long "The Faceless God," by Robert Bloch "The Children of Burma," by Stephen Mark Rainey "The Call of Cthulhu," by H.P. Lovecraft "The Old One," by John Glasby "The Holiness of Azédarac," by Clark Ashton Smith "Those of the Air," by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason Van Hollander "The Graveyard Rats," by Henry Kuttner "Toadface," by Mark McLaughlin "The Whisperer in Darkness," by H. P. Lovecraft "The Eater of Hours," by Darrell Schweitzer "Ubbo-Sathla," by Clark Ashton Smith "The Space-Eaters," by Frank Belknap Long "The Fire of Asshurbanipal," by Robert E. Howard "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," by H.P. Lovecraft "Something in the Moonlight," by Lin Carter "The Salem Horror," by Henry Kuttner "Down in Limbo," by Robert M. Price "The Dweller in the Gulf," by Clark Ashton Smith "Azathoth," by H.P. Lovecraft "Pickman’s Modem," by Lawrence Watt-Evans "The Hunters from Beyond," by Clark Ashton Smith "Ghoulmaster," by Brian McNaughton "The Spawn of Dagon," by Henry Kuttner "Dark Destroyer," by Adrian Cole "The Dunwich Horror," by H. P. Lovecraft "The Dark Boatman," by John Glasby "Dagon and Jill," by John P. McCann And don't forget to search this ebook store for more entries in the Megapack series -- collections covering Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Adventure ... and many more!

The Wildside book of Fantasy presents 20 great fantasy tales by modern masters. Included are stories by Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Robert E. Howard, and many more. A choice selection of tales! THE DEAD MAN, by Gene Wolfe BRIGHT STREETS OF AIR, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman THE DOLPHIN AND THE DEEP, by Thomas Burnett Swann THE SWORDSMEN OF VARNIS, by Clive Jackson THE EMPEROR OF GONDWANALAND, by Paul Di Filippo SPACE-TIME FOR SPRINGERS, by Fritz Leiber RED NAILS, by Robert E. Howard ARMS AND THE WOMAN, by Lawrence Watt-Evans THE BRIDE OF THE MAN-HORSE, by Lord Dunsany THE WOMAN, by Tanith Lee DREAMTIME IN ADJAPHON, by John Gregory Betancourt THE BLACK ABBOT OF PUTHUUM, by Clark Ashton Smith BLACK HAWK OF VALKARTH, by Lin Carter THE DEVIL’S CRYPT, by E. Hoffmann Price VANDIBAR NASHA IN THE COLLEGE OF SHADOWS, by Darrell Schwetizer THE POWER OF PRAYER, by Brian Stableford THE SECRET OF KRALITZ, by Henry Kuttner LIGHT, by Achmed Abdullah THE LOST RACE, by Robert E. Howard RINGARD AND DENDRA, by Brian McNaughton

Trade Paperback Halloween-themed science fiction anthology. Featuring a mix of classic science fiction reprints where the scary stuff happens in space. THE UNIVERSE MAY NOT BE A NICE NEIGHBORHOOD . . . “The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown,” the grand master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft, once wrote. And the greatest unknown is the vast universe, shrouded in eternal cosmic night. What things might be on other planets—or in the dark gulfs between the stars? Giving very unsettling answers to that question are such writers as Arthur C. Clarke, George R. R. Martin, Theodore Sturgeon, Tony Daniel, Robert Sheckley, James. H. Schmitz, Clark Ashton Smith, Neal Asher, Sarah A. Hoyt, and more, all equally masters of science fiction and of terror. One might hope that in the void beyond the earth will be found friendly aliens, benevolent and possibly wiser than humanity, but don’t be surprised if other worlds have unpleasant surprises in store for future visitors. And in vacuum, no one will be able to hear your screams—as if it would do any good if they could . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Speculative poetry travels winding roads leading to wondrous worlds, regions never traversed by mainstream verse. Fantastic poems range in the material they treat from the strange but explainable to the utterly fanciful, from horror to wonder, and from the rigidly verisimilitudinous to the purely surrealist. They may utilize traditional prosody or may avail themselves of the discontinuities and fragmentation of modernist free verse. They may use as setting the primary world, a secondary world, or a combination of the two. With roots planted firmly in the mythic and folkloric epics and ballads of yore, and branches reaching high into the endless skies of modern fantasy, science fiction, and horror, speculative poetry is a historic and vital poetic genre, the source of the most thoughtful, imaginative verse being written today. Red Sky features over 100 years' worth of speculative poetry from yesterday's masters, modern award winners, and emerging stars. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, metaphysical encounters and startling futuristic speculations, these poems will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of speculative poetry. "Enkindling dawns of memory, Each sun had radiance to relume A sealed, disused, and darkened room Within the soul's immensity. Their alien ciphers shown and lit, I understood what each had writ Upon my spirit's scroll; Again I wore mine ancient lives, And knew the freedom and the gyves That formed and marked my soul." Willy In The Nano Lab by Geoffrey A. Landis Cybernetic Sestina by E.S. Wynn Fatigue Of The Marionettes by Karen Neuberg The Fate Of Worlds by William Cullen, Jr. The Star-Treader by Clark Ashton Smith On This Outlying Planet by J.J. Steinfeld Close Encounters Of The Unique Kind by Adina Newman - Redder Soil, Greener Grass by Sara Bickley Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll Lost And Found by Fanni Süto To No End Death by Seth Frederiksen Shine Down On Me by David Revilla Rain Check: version 36 by Chris Fradkin Songs From An Evil Wood by Edward Plunkett Aerial Corps Enlistment by David S. Pointer What The Robots Know by Alyssa Black The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Flowing by Adrian George Nicolae You by Nora May French Pigeon Boy by Kyle Hemmings Repairman by John Grey Anastacia, Girl No. S10230 File: Insurgent by Carmen Tudor Rise Of The Machines by Stephanie Rose Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Fungi From Yuggoth by H.P. Lovecraft The Landing by Matthew Wilson The Green Hills Of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein The Visitors by Ed Higgins Locksley Hall by Alfred Lord Tennyson The Stars Are Calling by Mathias Jansson Discombobulation by Rami Sebai Shadow Of Dreams by Robert E. Howard Armageddon by M.A. Crawford The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats The Centaurs by Rudyard Kipling Lamia by John Keats Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley The Hunting Of The Dragon by G.K. Chesterton

"The true weird tale has something more than secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains according to rule. A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed with a seriousness and portentousness becoming its subject, of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." - H.P. Lovecraft The Weird Fiction Collection #1 gathers together some of the best fiction ever written. Featuring: Black Hound of Death (Robert E. Howard) Lazarus (Leonid Andreyev) The Black Abbot of Puthuum (Clark Ashton Smith) The Canal (Everil Worrell) The Challenge from Beyond (C.L. Moore, Abraham Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long) The Crawling Chaos (H. P. Lovecraft) The Furnished Room (O. Henry) The Ghost of Mohammed Din (Clark Ashton Smith) The Hounds of Tindalos (Frank Belknap Long) The Monster-God of Mamurth (Edmond Hamilton) The Night Wire (H. F. Arnold) The Upper Berth (F. Marion Crawford) Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment (Nathaniel Hawthorne) The Secret of Kralitz (Henry Kuttner) The Long Arm (Franz Habl)

• Marketing focus on combination of gift production and high content values, delivering a curated read to genre enthusiasts. • Spotlight on submission process for the new stories, promoted online through blogs and social media • Monthly newsletter to increase mailing list of genre special interest readers. • Major interest pushed through Instagram, with Youtube reviewers and influencers. Featuring new stories specially commissioned for the collection this offering of H.P. Lovecraft's shared universe is a thrilling immersion into the world of Old Ones and the Elder Gods, an ancient race of terrifying beings. In Lovecraft's vision we live in a deep, but fragile illusion, unable to comprehend the ancient beings, such as the Cthulhu who lies dead but dreaming in the submerged city of R'lyeh, waiting to rise then wreak havoc on our realm of existence. Lovecraft used the mythos to create a background to his fiction, and challenged many writer companions to add their own stories. Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner were amongst the first but over the years many others such as Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter and August Derleth added their voices to the many mythic cycles, developing themes and new fictional pathways for the town of Arkham, and the creatures Azathoth and Nyarlathotep. The Lovecraft Mythos is fertile ground for any writer of supernatural, horror, fantasy and science fiction, so for this edition we opened our submissions for brand new stories, many published here for the first time, to continue expanding the shared universe. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Hal Bodner, Evey Brett, Ramsey Campbell, Helen E. Davis, JG Faherty, Cody Goodfellow, Rachael K. Jones, Scott R. Jones, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nancy Kilpatrick, N.R. Lambert, Victor LaValle, Thana Niveau, John Possidente, John Llewellyn Probert, Mark Samuels, William Browning Spencer, R.S. Stefoff, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson and Douglas Wynne.

Even though he passed over 80 years ago, H. P. Lovecraft maintains a visceral influence over a host of contemporary writers. Inspired by the Master of the Macabre's more optimistic writings, this unique collection spotlights the weird works of nine current horror and fantasy authors, including the award-winning Michael Cisco and Livia Llewellyn plus Victor LaValle, Molly Tanzer, and Masahiko Inoue. Also includes Clark Ashton Smith's 1931 "The City of the Singing Flame" and Lovecraft's own "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" as well as an extensive Introduction by leading Lovecraftian scholar Nick Mamatas.

Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #29—another fine issue. We have a historical interview with Poul Anderson (originally published in 1976). As Darrell says, his old interviews fall “somewhere between oral history and paleontology.” They are always fascinating. I’ve always said Darrell is one of the best interviewers in the field. For this issue’s mysteries, we have an original tale by Robert Lopresti—Michael Bracken, between his writing and editing our quarterly mystery journal, Black Cat Mystery Magazine , always manages for find something interesting for BCW. Barb Goffman has selected a harder-edged crime story, “Pickup and Delivery,” by Eric Beckstrom. And we have a classic suspense novel from John P. Marquand, creator of Mr. Moto. And no issue is complete without a brain-tickling solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles (the writing team of Hal Sweet and Charlie Blythe). Editor Cynthia Ward has selected a cyberpunk story by M. Christian, “Jigō Jitoku,” which is mind-bending fun. plus we have classics by Ray Cummings (Robots!), Malcolm Jameson (a deal-with-the-Devil!), Richard Wilson (classic SF!), and a personal favorite author, Clark Ashton Smith (historical fantasy!). Great reading. Here’s the complete lineup: Non-Fiction: “Speaking with Poul Anderson,” conducted by Darrell Schweitzer [interview] Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “The Man in the Quarry, by Robert Lopresti [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “A Surprising Treat,” by Hal Charles [solve-it-yourself mystery] “Cop Killer,” by James Holding [short story] “Pickup and Delivery,” by Eric Beckstrom [Barb Goffman Presents short story] The Black Cargo, by John P. Marquand [novel] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “Jigō Jitoku,” by M. Christian [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] “The Robot God,” by Ray Cummings [short story] “The Enchantress of Sylaire,” by Clark Ashton Smith [short story] “Blind Alley,” by Malcolm Jameson [short story] “The Big Fix!” by Richard Wilson [short story]