Anthologies
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Anthology of great science fiction stories. Introduction by Forrest J. Ackerman, preface by the editor, plus: The Test (1954) by Richard Matheson; The Earth Killers (1949) by A. E. van Vogt; The Racer (1956) by Ib Melchior; All the Troubles of the World (1958) by Isaac Asimov ; Friends and Enemies (1957) by Fritz Leiber; No Land of Nod (1952) by Sherwood Springer; A Very Cultured Taste (1960) by Charles Nuetzel [as by George Frederic ]; The Mute Question (1950) by Forrest J. Ackerman; The Homo Sap by Charles Nuetzel; Aquella (1942) by Donald A. Wollheim; The Climbing Wave (1955) by Marion Zimmer Bradley; Your Life In 1977 (1954) (essay) by Willy Ley; Preposterous (1954) by Fredric Brown.
An anthology of science fiction and crime stories
Trouble with Treaties novelette by Katherine MacLean and Tom ConditA Touch of Grapefruit short story by Richard MathesonCompany Store short story by Robert SilverbergAdrift on the Policy Level short story by Chan Davis [as by Chandler Davis]Sparkie's Fall short story by Gavin HydeStar Descending short story by Algis BudrysDiplomatic Coop short story by Daniel F. GalouyeThe Scene Shifter short story by Arthur SellingsHair-Raising Adventure short story by Rosel George Brown
CONTENTS Introduction by Michel Parry Potential (1973) by Ramsey Campbell The Snake (1933) by Dennis Wheatley They Bite(1943) by Anthony Boucher The Vixen (1910) by Aleister Crowley "He Cometh and He Passeth By!" (1928) by H. Russell Wakefield The Invoker of the Beast (1974) (trans. of Призывающий зверя? 1906) short story by Feodor Sologub Witch War (1951) by Richard Matheson The Ensouled Violin (1892) by Helena P. Blavatsky Nasty (1959) by Fredric Brown The New People (1958) by Charles Beaumont In the Valley of the Sorceress (1916) by Sax Rohmer The Devil's Debt (1894) by James Platt The Hand of Glory (1933) by Seabury Quinn
Fourteen amazing tales of galactic terror and suspense.
Includes tales of horror and suspense by such masters as Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft and many others
Collects a variety of humorous science fiction stories, poems, and cartoons by authors and cartoonists including Gahan Wilson, Robert Sheckley, and Russell Baker
This collection of stories spans fantasy writing through the decades. The collection includes the story of a boy who brings a whale to the parched surroundings of Arizona and the story of the parents who suffer agonies when their son deserts wizardry for accountancy.
Book by Serling, Carol, Waugh, Charles G.
A collection of tales featuring aliens, zombies, and everything in between
Collects fantasy, horror, fairy tales, and gothic stories chosen from the past year, including works by Ursula K. LeGuin, Neil Gaiman, and Bill Lewis.
Masterpieces of horror fiction. Brilliant introduction by Hartwell.
Horror fiction is a special and enduring pleasure, invoking fear and wonder. For centuries, writers have struggled to achieve the sublime through these tales, at times creating works of enduring interest. Horror novels have become one of the major bestselling forms of fiction in recent years, and Hollywood has given us a huge and varied supply of popular films, which has created an audience in the millions for horror. But throughout history, many of the finest achievements in horror have been in short fiction. From these masterpieces have been selected the contents of Foundations of Fear. This anthology presents an international selection of the strongest work by writers such as Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft, and Arthur Machen, who have been identified as category horror writers, and by writers such as Carlos Fuentes, Gerald Durrell, and Daphne Du Maurier, whose literary reputations transcend category. For horror in literature cuts across all category boundaries. Thus the reader will find in this volume domestic horror stories by Thomas Hardy, Violet Hunt and Mary Wilkins Freeman; and stories by Robert A. Heinlein and Philip K. Dick, masters of science fiction. The Introduction to Foundations of Fear takes particular note of women writers, who have made important contributions to the development of the horrific in literature; in addition to those already mentioned the collection includes works by Madeline Yale Wynne, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Gertrude Atherton, and others. Foundations of Fear challenges the notion that the supernatural in fiction has in modern times been supplanted by the psychological, the idea that horror is dead. Horror is one of the dominant literary modes of our time, a vigorous and living body of literature that continues to thrill us with the mystery and wonder of the unknown. This book is conceived as a companion volume to The Dark Descent, in which the anatomy of horror and its evolution were chronicled for the first time in the contemporary period. Foundations of Fear includes many stories of novella length, supplying the reader with works rarely anthologized in smaller, shorter books.
A collection of horror tales features the work of Clive Barker, Philip K. Dick, Octavia Butler, Gerald Durrell, and Mary Wilkins Freeman
"The contributors (including Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Christopher Lee) constitute a who's who of modern SF and horror writers. In all, a good selection of (20 of) Bloch's (best short) stories accompanied by plenty of good feeling about a lovable man."--Booklist.
Collects the best American crime stories ever published, culled from the pulp magazines of the thirties, forties, and fifties and featuring such titles as ""Dime Detective,"" ""Black Mask,"" and ""The Shadow."" Original."
This is a collection of 35 stories where the main feature is the ending. Sometimes it's an unpleasant or a nasty end, sometimes there is an unexpected twist, but usually the ending comes as a complete surprise to the people in the story. You'll meet sinister landladies, deadly coffins, poisonous hats, evil statuettes, murderous monks, and real lions. And you'll find answers to such questions as: what does it feel like to be a ghost? What is living at the bottom of the well? And what should you do if you meet the terrifying Gorgo? The stories are written by well-known writers such as Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, E. Nesbit, T.H. White, John Christopher, and many more. They will thrill, delight, amuse, frighten, and surprise you. But watch out for the end--it could be nasty!
ContentsIntroduction (Taps and Sighs) by Douglas E. WinterCharms by Michael Marshall SmithThe Prisoner's Tale by Thomas F. MonteleoneCircling the Drain by Peter Crowther and Tracy KnightCandia by Graham JoyceAll You Inherit by Brian StablefordReturn Journey by Ramsey CampbellThe Words That Remain by Charles de LintNailed by Poppy Z. BriteGhosts by Ed GormanThe Glove by Ken WismanSpirits of the Age by Graham MastertonComing Home by Mark MorrisThe Insolence of Candles Against the Light's Dying by Chaz BrenchleyThe Walking Sticks by Gene WolfeHis Very Own Spatchen by Terry LamsleyAfterword (Taps and Sighs) by Richard Matheson
From the acclaimed anthologist editor comes an expertly selected array of deceptively innocent moments from which there's no turning back. Ever.
Four acclaimed purveyors of fantastic fiction collide in a pulp inferno of black magic, torture, and sexual depravity: Robert Bloch's The Skull of the Marquis de Sade , Jean-Paul Denard's Jacqueline, Daughter of the Marquis de Sade , Richard Matheson's De Sade (novelized by Henry Clement), and Jeremy Reed's When the Whip Comes Down . All four works are dark tributes to the Marquis de Sade, whose literary legacy and reputation continue to inspire writers and filmmakers to this day.
THIS IS THE LAST IN THE MASQUES HORROR ANTHOLOGY SERIES, EDITED BY JERRY WILLIAMSON WHO PASSED AWAY IN DECEMBER 2005. STORIES FROM RICHARD MATHESON, RAY BRADBURY, JACK KETCHUM, POPPY Z. BRITE, RAY GARTON AND OTHERS.
Limited Edition of this fantasy, horror, and science fiction anthology. Signed by the editor and many of the authors including Nancy A. Collins, Ed Gorman, Terry Lamsley, Norman Partridge, Peter Crowther, James Lovegrove, Ray Garton and many others. A new book with dust jacket and slipcase.
A wide-ranging collection of tales features confrontations of particularly gruesome detail between humans and the ever-voracious undead predators, in an anthology that explores various elements of zombie existence and their interactions with people. Original.
THE RESTLESS DEAD Life is over but the dead live on. Within the drafty rooms of an old house, a tarnished locket tumbles to the floor. The haunted souls of the dearly departed are still among us. Ghosts, phantoms, revenants, lost souls ? all these troubled spirits have unfinished business on this side of the veil. Doomed to seek out mortal answers, unable to rest until in death, they accomplish what they failed to achieve in life. This hair-raising collection of haunted tales brings together both new writers and celebrated masters ? Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Richard Matheson, Michael Marshall Smith and others ? for the ultimate collection from beyond the grave. Their characters are spirits, without bodies but still floating in our world. Some are motivated by love, others by loss or guilt. But sometimes they are driven by much stronger emotions, menacing and diabolical motives that take us up from our reading to check the hallways, secure the locks and question how firmly anchored we ourselves are to our world.
A collection of truly gripping stories, with contributions from leading horror writers dedicated to the popular contemporary sub-genre of "body horror," which revolves around disease and mutation, whether self-inflicted or otherwise.
The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like""gulp!""a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some we'll bet you've never thought of before... but now you will the next time you walk down the jetway and place your fate in the hands of a total stranger. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons, and many others, Flight or Fright is, as King says, "ideal airplane reading, especially on stormy descents... Even if you are safe on the ground, you might want to buckle up nice and tight." Book a flight