Lovecraft produced works of enduring power. Now gathered together into this omnibus volume are seven classics of screaming supernatural terror and vilest horror...Front cover illustration by Tim White.Contents:- Introduction: H. P. Lovecraft's Novels by August Derleth- At the Mountains of Madness- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward- The Dreams in the Witch-House- The Statement of Randolph Carter- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath- The Silver Key- Through the Gates of the Silver Key

    For the first time ever in one volume three nightmarish tales of horror from the best selling author Stephen King.

    The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie--back cover

    Experience the thrill of helpless horror again—or for the first time!

    The story Pages from a Young Girl's Journal won Aickman the World Fantasy Award in 1975. It was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in 1973 before appearing in this collection.Cold Hand in Mine stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a 'strange story' writer to the full, being more ambiguous than standard ghost stories. Throughout the stories the reader is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story (Pages from a Young Girl's Journal) but all the stories remain unconventional and inconclusive, which perhaps makes them all the more startling and intriguing.• The Swords • The Real Road to the Church • Niemandswasser • Pages from a Young Girl's Journal• The Hospice • The Same Dog • Meeting Mr. Millar • The Clock Watcher

    Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says. No one had seen the poet, Leslie Jacobs, for a long time, and though the pungent aroma of Gauloise filled the parlor with intimations of his presence, no one was certain he was there:Not Mrs. Hallet, the real estate agent who'd rented the old house to the eminent English poet and his daughter and whose formidable manner, product of her impeccable Long Island lineage, brooked no betrayals, especially not from a thirteen-year-old...Not her son Frank, whose Halloween visit, intruding on Rynn's birthday rituals, had been more trick than treat and whose own insidious motives would soon lock them both in a perilous contest of will...Not the local policeman who came to call and, lured by what he had seen, returned...Not the shy young amateur magician who arrived on an errand-and stayed to become confidant and co-conspirator...Who was the little girl who lived in such strange seclusion at the end of the leaf-swept land? Lonely and innocent seeking shelter from a hostile world? Or consummate liar? Each for his own reason, the Hallets were determined to find out. And it was then that the terrible secrets of the house at the end of the lane emerged. Moving with swift and shocking turnabout to a profoundly disturbing denouement, here is a fine and freezing novel of suspense that probes the subtle bonds of innocence to evil.

    Filling the air with chilling howls, the dead are rising from their graves, bent on feeding on the flesh and blood of the living. They seek out human life. And these monstrous corpses will let nothing stand in their way as they hunt down the living to satisfy their own evil desires.

    Explore the most eerie lands in adult fantasy - The Lost Worlds of Clark Ashton SmithThe Contents:ZOTHIQUEThe Empire of the NecromancersThe Isle of the TorturersNecromancy in NaatXeethraAVEROIGNEThe Holiness of AzedaracThe Beast of AveroigneOTHERSThe Letter from Mohaun LosThe Light from BeyondThe Hunters from BeyondThe Treader of the DustCover illustration by Bruce Pennington

    It was released in 1942 and was the third book published by Arkham House. 1,054 copies were printed. A British hardcover appeared from Neville Spearman in 1971, with a two-volume paperback reprint following from Panther Books in 1974. Bison Books issued a trade paperback edition in 2006.The stories for this volume were selected by the author and were considered by him to be his best fantasy and horror stories to date. The collection contains stories from Smith's major story cycles of Averoigne, Hyperborea, Poseidonis, and Zothique. Smith had wanted to call the collection "The End of the Story and Other Stories", but acceded to Derleth's suggestion, an allusion to Edgar Allan Poe's "Dream-Land".

    The tales that made Swamp Thing a fan-favorite are collected in hardcover for the first time! Featuring the first appearance from HOUSE OF SECRETS #92 along with SWAMP THING #1-13 and featuring moody art by legendary artist Bernie Wrightson!

    LovecraftIncredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures...take one step across the threshold of his stories and you plunge into colour, sound, taste, smell and texture: into language. - Ray BradburyStories like strange ornaments, the metal elaborately inlaid and fired, studded with unknown semi-precious stones, from an unknown and timeless culture. - Fritz LeiberCover illustration by Bruce Pennington

    But now for the first time - suddenly, shockingly, horribly - the balance of power had shifted and the rats began to prey on the human population.

    Then, slowly, it began to turn skywards. Och, no, he thought before the end, not ma brain... not ma brain... anything but ma brain...please don't slice ma brain... no, no... not the brain...och, no...'Never before had there been a book about a flying knife, and, although Marenghi would ink three sequels*, Slasher, R.I.P.P.E.R., and Slicer IV: The Blade is Back, Slicer is our first novel-length taste of the Marenghian terrors to come. The themes are all here: blood, redemption, fear of cutlery, distaste for body hair, and the question of Man's place (mis-place?) in Romford. Its influence can be seen in a host of imitators, notably Fork! by Herbert G. Samson.Much has been written about Slicer's psychological implications (try either Dan Britten's essay in 'Bending Spoons and Stabbing Knives: the Psychic Phenomena of Spiritual Cutlery' (New York, 1985) or Muriel Carter's Slash Me, Slay Me - Post-Modern Carve-ups in 20th Century Horror Fiction (New York, 1988) ), but most significantly it gave a much needed kick in the arm of an elitist publishing industry obsessed by literary 'classics'. And, as Hard Gore's Neil Nichols has opined: 'One can only be thankful that our bi-annual Marenghi shock treatments continue to prevent the genre slipping into postmodern somnambulism.' Marenghi evidently concurs with the renowned splatter fiction aficionado : 'I see my life as being a single-handed pump. And that can get lonely.'*Marenghi prefers to think of them as a 'self-integral cycle''It really doesn't get any better' The Observer'A cut above the rest of the so-called "dangerous implement horror" sub-genre' The Sunday Times

    "Sometimes They Come Back" is set in Stratford High School in Stratford, Connecticut.

    The Collected Supernatural Fiction, Volume 2 of 3.Introduction: A Mind Turned In Upon Itself: The Life & Supernatural Fiction of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu from 1861–70'**'Ghost Stories of the Tiled House' 'Borrhomeo the Astrologer' 'An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House''Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling''Squire Toby's Will''Green Tea''The Haunted Baronet'**An Afterword Concerning the Text to 'Ghost Stories of the Tiled House'

    LoMedico; A Seance in Summer by Mario Martin Jr.; The Voices of El Dorado by Ward Smith; A Spell for Jonathan by Thomas F. Monteleone; The Red Stone Key by Arthur Tofte; Through the Crystal Ball, and Beyond by Nic Anderson.

    Gilt lettering. Ilus throughout with black and white sketches and some photos. The Vampire as he/she has appeared through legend, history, and literature.

    Lewis, Eleanor Scott, Ambrose Bierce, M.P. Shiel, H.R. Wakefield, Charles Birkin, L.T.C. Rolt, Marjorie Bowen, A.C. Benson, E.F. Benson, R.H. Benson, Joy Burnett, Frederick Cowles, D.K. Browster, J.D. Beresford, Robert W. Chambers, and Vivian Meik.Contents (view Concise Listing)9 • Editor's Foreword (A Wave of Fear) • (1973) • essay by Hugh Lamb13 • The Child • (1934) • short story by L. A. Lewis26 • Celui-La • (1929) • short story by Eleanor Scott44 • A Resumed Identity • (1908) • short story by Ambrose Bierce51 • Huguenin's Wife • (1895) • short story by M. P. Shiel63 • Blind Man's Bluff • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield (variant of Blind Man's Buff) [as by H. R. Wakefield]68 • Marjorie's on Starlight • (1973) • short story by Charles Birkin80 • Hawley Bank Foundry • (1948) • short story by L. T. C. Rolt102 • Twilight • (1912) • short story by Marjorie Bowen111 • Basil Netherby • (1926) • novelette by A. C. Benson139 • The Wishing-Well • (1929) • short story by E. F. Benson154 • The Traveller • (1903) • short story by R. H. Benson163 • Phantom Silhouette • (1973) • short story by Joy Burnett169 • Terrible Mrs. Greene • (1936) • short story by Frederick Cowles176 • Clairvoyance • (1932) • novelette by D. K. Broster194 • The Late Occupier • (1918) • short story by J. D. Beresford198 • The Messenger • (1897) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers235 • A Honeymoon in Hate • (1933) • short story by Vivian Meik

    Since then, the Parks have continued excavations, not only at Michilimackinac, Mackinac Island, and Mill Creek, but at other sites at the Straits as well. Over the years the highly respected Archaeological Completion Reports Series has presented significant interpretations of this archaeological research. The reports are now available through Michigan State University Press.The stories of ghosts, goblins, and other creatures come to life in the French legends brought to Mackinac by French-Canadian voyageurs during the days of the fur trade.

    Beneath the Moors and Darker Places, a companion to The Whisperer and Other Voices, collects nine of Lumley's best long short works, many of them unavailable for decades in any form.The Cthulhu Mythos of the immortal H. P. Lovecraft provides inspiration for much of Lumley's work, including "Dagon's Bell" and "Big C," both included here. The explosive creation of a new volcanic island off Iceland in 1967 led to "Rising with Surtsey," an homage not just to Lovecraft but to the great August Derleth. "David's Worm"-which takes an interesting view of "you are what you eat"-was published in a Year's Best Horror Stories and later adapted for radio in Europe.The collection also includes the macabre "The Second Wish," published here for the first time with the author's original, intended ending, and "The Fairground Horror," first published in The Disciples of Cthulhu twenty-five years ago and not seen since save for a small press edition.The title tale, Beneath the Moors, a complete short novel, has been unavailable in the US since its first publication by Arkham House in the early 1970s. It is considered to be one of Lumley's strongest short works; Tor is proud to restore this and the other pieces in this volume to Lumley's growing readership.