P. Lovecraft. Despite this nearly unprecedented posthumous trajectory, at the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction, the source of "incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction" (Joyce Carol Oates).In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft's uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work.Over the course of his career, Lovecraft―"the Copernicus of the horror story" (Fritz Leiber)―made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings. One of the progenitors of "weird fiction," Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization.Following his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft's best, most chilling "Arkham" tales, including "The Call of Cthulhu," At the Mountains of Madness, "The Whisperer in Darkness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Colour Out of Space," and others. With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H. P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep.

    But Doctor Varanus Shashavani has far more pressing concerns to worry about than a lunatic in Whitechapel. Her charitable hospital is under siege by gang lords, her English cousins are threatening to steal her inheritance, and her best friend has become obsessed with Gothic novels. To make matters worse, her son Friedrich is associating with an American who talks endlessly of wellness and yoghurt, while her bodyguard is pestering her to return home to Georgia, half a world away. It seems that everyone--friends, enemies, and "Saucy Jack" alike--have conspired to interrupt her work. But Varanus did not obtain immortality just to have mad killers and distant relations get in the way of scientific progress. Though supernatural conspiracies and all-too-human monsters confront her at every turn, Varanus will stand firm against all odds. After all, she is accustomed to fighting for what is rightfully hers.

    In order to fulfill his vow, all he has to do is fight a horde of demons and monsters, bargain with a few ghosts, outwit the sinister schemers of the emperor's court, find a way to defeat an assassin who cannot be seen, heard, or touched -- and change the course of history. Fortunately, Yamada specializes in achieving the seemingly impossible, so he is sure in some way to succeed...if he doesn't drink himself into oblivion first.

      Eerie Dearies is an unusual book that offers a carefully crafted & alphabetized selection of twenty-six beautifully illustrated excuses for being awol from school. Faded and well-used book covers serve as compelling backgrounds to each of these delicately rendered acrylic paintings, creating an atmosphere akin to an old and dusty collection of darkly humorous myths.   This bizarre and astonishing ABC book contains 26 illustrations of absent school girls by Vancouver artist Rebecca Chaperon. Chaperon’s fine art paintings capture the misadventures of various heroines from literary works while portraying the tale of a female protagonist within a slightly surreal landscape. Her images entertain the mind with possible narratives, while haunting us with underlying emotions. In Eerie Dearie ephemeral landscapes are populated with intriguing figures, at once pale and wan and amusingly dramatic. The perfect peculiar ABC!

    T. Kastn"Bittersweet Bedlam" by Samuel Marzioli "The Last Witch" by William F. Nolan+++++*SECTION TWO: Lost Innocence*"The Claim" by Erinn L. Kemper"Lovecraft's Pillow" by Don Webb"Forgetting" by Misty Dahl (flash)"Birth of an Apocalypse" by Lawrence Van Hoof"Descartar" by S. J. Chambers"Apples and Peaches" by Gio Clairval"La Joie de Vivre, or Picasso and the Satyr" by Ralph Sevush"Immigrant" by Andrew S. Fuller"Timbrel and Pipe" by Melanie Tem+++++*SECTION THREE: Forbidden Knowledge*"Old Enough to Drink" by Lois H. Gresh"Homo Suicidus" by JG Faherty"'In Your Dark': Differing Strategies in Subhuman Integration Through 'Monster Academies' [S. Armand & J. Miller, Unpublished Manuscript]" by Jason Maurer"Transformations at the Inn of the Golden Pheasant" by Gene O'Neill"Lords of Chaos" by Wade German (poem)"The Squatters" by Nicole Cushing"Tardigrade" by Mike Allen"The Bat" by Jan Vander Laenen"Dust Made of Words" by Cody Goodfellow"Genius" by Greg Bear (screenplay)+++++*SECTION FOUR: Hidden Truths*"Breakfast in Tasmania" by Dennis Etchison"Darkness" by Nancy Kilpatrick"Water over Stone" by W. H. Pugmire (sonnet)"Redaction" by Gary A. Braunbeck"Paper and Pencil, Skin and Ink" by Chris Marrs"Buddha Circus" by Derek Künsken"The Weight Lost" by Steve Rasnic Tem"The Case of the Four-Acre Haunt" by Joe R. Lansdale"Creaking Earth" by Richard Gavin"'You’ll Reach There in Time'" by S. T. Joshi+++++*SECTION FIVE: Uncanny Encounters*"Three Fables: 1) In the Hood, 2) Krustallos, 3) The Fiction Lover" by E.E. King"Down the Hatch" by Jonathan Thomas‘Selected Poems’ by Marge Simon (poems)"Outsiders" by J. C. Koch"Promise to Nessie" by Jerry Airth"Him" by Ian Futter (poem)"Kudzu" by Lucy A. Snyder"I Keep the Dark That is Your Pain" by Wendy Rathbone"In the Wardrobe" by Nickolas Furr"The Fine Art of Courage" by Weston Ochse"Phoenix on the Orange River" by Tom Conoboy

    After the April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, global temperatures dropped and a rainy, monsoon-like drizzle settled in over Northern Europe. In a holiday villa on the shores of Lake Geneva, a young English poet and his lover, the guests of another poet, discouraged from outdoor pursuits, sat discussing the callousness of nature and speculating about the fashionable subject of "galvanism". Was it possible to reanimate a corpse? The villa was Byron's. The other poet was Shelley. His fiancee, 19-year-old Mary Shelley (nee Godwin), was in post-partum distress. When Byron, inspired by a book of supernatural tales, suggested that each member of the party should write a ghost story to pass the time. Initially, Mary Shelley didn’t feel up to Byron's challenge. Then, she said, she had a dream about a scientist who "galvanises" life from the bones he finds in charnel houses: "I saw – with shut eyes, but acute mental vision – I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion." Young Mary took the prize, with her tale of eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. ‘Frankenstein’ became a bestseller and a Gothic classic that still resonates with readers almost two centuries later… But with like many great works of art, ‘Frankenstein’ was initially misunderstood. The first reviews were decidedly mixed. An anonymous review in The Literary Panorama and National Register published June 1 1818 dismissed Shelley’s work as ‘a feeble imitation of one that was very popular in its day.’ Other periodicals were kinder. Writing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine on 20 March 1818, Walter Scott praised the unusual Gothic Romance as a “tale, though wild in incident, is written in plain and forcible English, without exhibiting that mixture of hyperbolical Germanisms with which tales of wonder are usually told.” 'Frankenstein and the Critics' presents a selection of the most prominent reviews from the time of Frankenstein’s publication. Also included is Mary Shelley’s uncensored 1818 text often labeled ‘Frankenstein 1818’ presented in its unabridged entirety. This is the original, 1818 text. In 1831, the more traditionally first "popular" edition in one volume appeared.This version of the story was heavily revised by Mary Shelley who was under pressure to make the story more conservative, and included a new, longer preface by her, presenting a somewhat embellished version of the genesis of the story. This edition tends to be the one most widely read now but many scholars prefer the 1818 text, arguing that it preserves the spirit of Shelley's original publication. *Nine contemporary reviews of 'Frankenstein.' *The complete text of 'Frankenstein 1818.' *'Frankenstein' image gallery. *Links to different free audio recordings of 'Frankenstein 1818.'

    This comprehensive eBook presents Burroughs’ complete works (except for six non-public domain works) , with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Burroughs’ life and works * Concise introductions to all the novel series * ALL the novels in the public domain, with individual contents tables * Features the original first edition text of TARZAN OF THE APES – the only digital edition to contain the purely unaltered text, with 1,193 more words than the digital text found in all other collections – discover the true Tarzan first edition! * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special Contextual Pieces section, with reviews, articles and essays evaluating Burroughs’ contribution to literature * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: six later novels including TARZAN AND THE MADMAN and TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS are still held in copyright and cannot appear in this collection. When new texts become available in your public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels The Tarzan Series TARZAN OF THE APES (1912) THE RETURN OF TARZAN (1913) THE BEASTS OF TARZAN (1914) THE SON OF TARZAN (1914) TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR (1916) JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN (1917) TARZAN THE UNTAMED (1921) TARZAN THE TERRIBLE (1921) TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION (1923) TARZAN AND THE ANT MEN (1924) TARZAN AND THE TARZAN TWINS (1927) TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE (1928) TARZAN AND THE LOST EMPIRE (1928) TARZAN AT THE EARTH’S CORE (1929) TARZAN THE INVINCIBLE (1930) TARZAN AND THE CITY OF GOLD (1932) TARZAN AND THE LION MAN (1934) TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD MEN (1935) TARZAN’S QUEST (1936) TARZAN THE MAGNIFICENT (1937) TARZAN AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY (1938) TARZAN AND THE CASTAWAYS (1940) TARZAN AND THE FOREIGN LEGION (1947) The Barsoom Series A PRINCESS OF MARS (1912) THE GODS OF MARS (1914) THE WARLORD OF MARS (1918) THUVIA, MAID OF MARS (1920) THE CHESSMEN OF MARS (1922) THE MASTER MIND OF MARS (1928) A FIGHTING MAN OF MARS (1931) SWORDS OF MARS (1936) SYNTHETIC MEN OF MARS (1940) LLANA OF GATHOL (1948) JOHN CARTER AND THE GIANT OF MARS (1941) SKELETON MEN OF JUPITER (1943) The Pellucidar Series AT THE EARTH’S CORE (1914) PELLUCIDAR (1923) TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR (1928) BACK TO THE STONE AGE (1937) SAVAGE PELLUCIDAR (1942) LAND OF TERROR (1944) The Mucker Series THE MUCKER (1914) THE RETURN OF THE MUCKER (1916) THE OAKDALE AFFAIR (1917) The Jungle Adventures THE CAVE GIRL (1925) THE ETERNAL LOVER (1925) JUNGLE GIRL (1932) THE LAD AND THE LION (1938) The Caspak Series THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (1918) THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT (1918) &l