Anthologies

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

Presents thirteen tales of adventure in an illustrated format by prominent artists in the fields of comics, book illustration, and fine arts.

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (1883 – 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. He issued the first Fu Manchu novel, in 1913. It was an immediate success. The Fu Manchu stories, together with his more conventional detective series characters—Paul Harley, Gaston Max, Red Kerry, Morris Klaw (an occult detective), and The Crime Magnet— made Rohmer one of the most successful and well-paid authors of the 1920s and 1930s. The first three Fu Manchu books were published in the four years 1913–17; but it was not until 1931 (some fourteen years after the third book in the series) that Rohmer returned to the series with The Daughter of Fu Manchu. The reason for the long interval was that Rohmer wanted to be well and truly done with the series after The Si-Fan Mysteries, much as Arthur Conan Doyle did with Sherlock Holmes. The first three books had been successfully filmed by Stoll in the twenties as a pair of serials. In 1928, Rohmer bowed to pressure and agreed to write a fourth novel as a serial for Collier's. Paramount had the first Warner Oland picture gearing up for production and the daily newspaper strip based on the series was in the offing. In this book: The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, 1913 The Hand Of Fu-Manchu, 1917 The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, 1916 Tales of Chinatown, 1922 Brood of the Witch-Queen, 1918 The Orchard of Tears, 1918

Ten stories of new and classic pulp fiction — Mr. Pleeber knew people like himself didn’t have dangerous adventures, so he thought it was all a bad dream when he woke up to murder; An unusual masquerade, industrial espionage, Egypt; Private investigator Ken Sligo had a promising future, but had to make certain he wasn’t killed on his first case; In Mexico, a strange vigilante was called the Death’s Head, those who met him learned why; One last heist for a notorious jewel thief ... one reporter had the knowledge to prevent it; A lawyer swears to uphold the law, but is forced to bend it; A conspiracy theorist is considered a nut-job in life … Internet legend in death …; and a pirate asks for a helping hand, only to be served a cruel joke.