The Thief of Always tells the haunting story of Harvey, a bright 10-year-old who is suffering from the winter doldrums, and of a creature who takes him to a place where every day is filled with fun, and Christmas comes every night. Illustrated.

    The New York Times #1 bestselling author's terrifying masterpieces: Watchers (his personal favorite), Whispers and Shattered, now for the first time in one hardcover edition.

    ChichesterCreator: Clive BarkerAdaptation: Alan Grant,John WagnerArtist: Jim BlaikieLetterer: Michael HeislerOriginal Editor: Greg WrigthtConsulting Editor: D.G. ChichesterReprint Editor: Marc McLaurinAsst. Editor: Tom DaningDesigner: Veronica CarlinExecutive Editor: Carl PottsCover art: Mike Mignola

    Here for the first time is a fascinating, comprehensive look at the life, career and work of this truly inventive talent - with more than 70,000 words of material from Dean Koontz himself...

    Lauren Wagner was a celebrity. She was involved with the most exciting adventure mankind had ever undertaken. The whole world admired and respected her.But Lauren knew fear.Inside voices entreating her to love them.Outside — the mystery of the missing group that had gone before her. The dead group.But were they simply dead?Or something else?A terrifying novel of horror — and, surprisingly, of salvation — from one of America's bestselling writers.A novel you won't forget.

    And the terror begins. For Ted is no longer fully human, and only Thor can detect the Bad Thing lurking within Uncle Ted. Only Thor can sense the horror he is helpless to communicate. And only Thor can defeat that horror.

    Each story contains the common elements of the gothic tale--a warped sense of time, a claustrophobic setting, a link to archaic modes of thought, and the impression of a descent into disintegration. Yet taken together, they reveal the progression of the genre from stories of feudal villains amid crumbling ruins to a greater level of sophistication in which writers brought the gothic tale out of its medieval setting, and placed it in the contemporary world. Bringing together the work of such writers as Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jorge Luis Borges, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents a wide array of the sinister and unsettling for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.

    This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries of suspense and horror.Appearences are definitely deceiving in John Saul's world. Stories are set in typical, all-American towns, but well-woven plots reveal an eerie array of characters with deeply hidden secrets. Their unspeakable pasts hide unavenged evils--and warrant terrifying justice. The spine-tingling novels in this volume prove that John Saul's talent for writing suspense fiction stands unequalled.

    Carol Clover argues, however, that these films work mainly to engage the viewer in the plight of the victim-hero - the figure, often a female, who suffers pain and fright but eventually rises to vanquish the forces of oppression.

    160 illustrations including 100 in color.The Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks, official companions to films, large format (8 3/8 x 10 7/8), heavily illustrated throughout, with color photographs, details on the making of the film, background on the filmmakers and cast.

    Beaumont's talents also helped bring to life such cinematic terrors as 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Masque of the Red Death'. As a writer of short stories, his contribution to the landscape of our nightmares is unequalled. The Howling Man is the definitive collection of Beaumont's most haunting work. Here are the classics - "The Hunger," "Miss Gentilbelle," "Free Dirt," along with five never-before-published stories. The Howling Man features introductions by Robert Bloch, Dennis Etchison, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Roger Corman, Richard Matheson and many other masters of horror and dark fantasy. They offer illuminating tributes to Beaumont - as a friend, a colleague, and a man whose dark magic left an indelible stamp on modern horror fiction, and on their own imaginations.

    . .It's got its fingers on the fear-loving pulse of the nation like no magazine around. Already winner of the American Horror Award and nominated for a Hugo, Midnight Graffiti has re-created the genre in just the first few years of its existence -- defying taboos, exalting the subnormal, mining our richest, most sinister fantasies, bringing you the best new works by the most acclaimed masters and hottest writers on the dark side of fiction.STEPHEN KING brings a plague of terror down from the peaceful skies of Maine . . . you may want to close your shutters. DAVID J. SCHOW cruises the L.A. streets with a martyred punk whose distinctive tag burns through the void of the voids. JOE R. LANSDALE finds a plastic, inflatable friend you can take almost . . . anywhere. NANCY COLLINS demystifies the messiah reborn, an avenging angel of the suburbs with a strange and savage appetite. And HARLAN ELLISON, DAN SIMMONS, NEIL GAIMAN, REX MILLER, STEVEN R. BOYETT, K.W. JETER, and JOHN SHIRLEY all bring you original tales from the farthest corners of the imagination that until now could only be found in the horror-haunted pages of . . . MIDNIGHT GRAFFITI.

    It is an act he cannot excuse--a mistake that will change his life forever. Now Dan is on the run, heading south toward the Louisiana bayous. On his trail are police officers and bounty hunters, including the most memorable and bizarre team ever paired in modern fiction: Pelvis Eisley, an Elvis impersonator of the worst kind, and Flint Murtaugh, a fastidious, ruthluss loner and freak-show refugee who carries the body of his unformed twin brother on his side.As Dan heads down into the swampland in search of his own salvation, he meets a young woman who is on a similar journey. Like Dan, Arden Halliday bears a great burden--a disfiguring purple birthmark that blankets half her face. Wounded by the stares, by the pity and revulsion, she is making her way into the bayous to search of the Bright Girl--a legendary faith healer who will rid her of her birthmark and her suffering. Though on separate missions, Arden and Dan come to respect each other's quest for freedom, for a touch of simple kindness in a world grown cruel. Thrown together by circumstance, bound by a loyalty stranger than love, they set off on a journey of relentless suspense and impassioned discovery...an odyssey over dark, twisting road and waterways into the beautiful and mysterious depths of the human heart.

    Not many survived, but some of those who did emerged twenty years later, to a world where mutant whales heaved themselves across the blackened, dry seabed of the Pacific, and the roses… oh God, the roses.“Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back” is a chilling post-nuclear short story by Joe R. Lansdale.

    Singaporeans once again relate their ghostly encounters. There are more than 70 stories told by models, tour guides, army recruiters and even a school principal. Angsana Books' Russell Lee makes sure that every tale is spine-tingling and absolutely true!

    Then, for her, everything changed…as the world ended. The earthquakes, the global floods and the devastating fires arrived first. The human race, displaced and panicked, at first fled, migrating to any place there was food and shelter. Then the worldwide plague arrived with its waves of death. And as mankind suffered and died out, vampires, their numbers dwindling from the same sickness, struggled and fought fiercely among themselves to survive in a world where there weren’t enough humans left to feed upon. As the months went by the vampires become fewer, more desperate and ruthless. Emma, as the world disintegrated around her, found herself alone, the old life she’d known, her family and friends all dead…and fighting off an unnatural hunger as she became one of the undead. Defying her unwanted destiny she was determined to resist the increasing bloodlust, the need to kill and feed on human blood, of losing her humanity, for as long as she could bear it, but she was so hungry, and the night, the wolves, called. And then she met Matthew and was no longer alone…but could the love she felt for him protect him from her hunger; could her love protect him from the other vampires?

    A secluded, cliff-top mansion overlooking the rugged Pacific coast. A school for children gifted -- or cursed -- with extraordinary minds. Children soon to come under the influence of an intelligence even more brilliant than their own -- and unspeakably evil. For within this mind a dark plan is taking form. A plan so horrifying, no one will believe it. No one but the children. And for them it is already too late. Too late, unless one young student can resist the seductive invitation that will lead... into the Shadows.

    Nothing in an Engstrom story is what it first appears to be, yet at its core each tale has the ring of truth.Nightmare Flower is Engstrom's first major collection, containing eighteen short works plus a novelette, "Fogarty & Fogarty," and a short novel, "Project Stone." The stories span a wide range of styles and genres, varying from the almost fable-like simplicity of "The Pan Man" to the spine-chilling horror of "The Jeweler's Thumb is Turning Green."Love - what people will do to get it and keep it, the devastations of the loss or betrayal of love, the transformation of love to obsession - Love in all its different forms - lies at the heart of several of Engstrom's eloquent and quietly unnerving tales, including "Fogarty & Fogarty" and the collection's title story, "Nightmare Flower."In "Rivering" a woman confronts grief; in "Genetically Predisposed" a man, a woman, and a snake form a new version of the old, eternal triangle. "Quiet Meditation" reveals the little lies that make life bearable; "The Old Woman Upstairs" studies the complex relationship between mother and daughter.Each of these stories is a sideways glimpse of the world, a slant on life both moving and thought-provoking.

    25,000 first printing.

    What kind of devil could devise a new and intricate method of killing its victims every time, turning each horrifying death into an act of creative terror? Caught in a closing web of terror, Cathy Riley must help uncover a secret no rational mind would suspect.

    Cupp, Kathryn Ptacek, Douglas Borton, Morgan Fields, Richard Lee Byers, and others.

    Geiss is the most dedicated fourth-grade teacher imaginable. She goes to extraordinary lengths to make sure her students are presented with every opportunity—showing them slides from her summer vacations during Geography, reading to them from the classics of children’s literature after lunch, and providing them with the kinds of learning rewards that they will truly respond to—bite-sized nuggets of human flesh. Because Ms. Geiss’ students are pint-sized zombies, and the main tool of her peculiar version of the teaching trade is her trusty Remington .30-06 rifle. Ms. Geiss is firm but fair, and keeps a disciplined classroom. She has far more trouble from the adults shambling through what’s left of town than she does from her students, though a well-bulldozed killing field and the gasoline-filled moat encircling the school usually keeps the worst of the undead marauders at bay. But even the hardest working educators let their guard down sometimes, and after the Tribulations, just one mistake can mean school’s out forever. Bestselling, acclaimed author Dan Simmons’ story “This Year’s Class Picture” is a zombie tale that could itself be described as best in class, honored by the Stoker, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards.

    Early in the 19th century her great sailing ships traveled the world in search of trade and treasure. A series of mishaps brought the town to the brink of financial ruin, but it was saved when Captain Obed Marsh discovered a secret source of gold among the islands of the South Pacific. Some whisper that old Obed Marsh made a pact with the devil. The truth is much more sinister.Escape from Innsmouth details Lovecraft's New England town of Innsmouth. A comprehensive atlas of the town is supplemented with complete statistics for numerous townspeople. Three adventures complete the book. One of the adventures, "The Crawford Inheritance," is brand new in this edition, while "The Raid on Innsmouth" has been expanded with a new section.

    . . but Lucien’s secret is inescapable. A living thing that has followed him across the world, from the horrors of Southeast Asia to the penthouse suites of the rich and famous. Everyone craves money, power, and sex . . . but Lucien can satisfy his every urge, every decadent impulse, every erotic whim—for a price. Everyone has private demons . . . but Lucien’s demon is all too real. All too powerful. All too hungry . . . for human souls.

    Have you heard of the headless brakeman who warns of approaching danger on the railway, or the screaming, faceless phantoms who strike terror along the roadways?These and other spine-chilling stories are based on actual reports that will spook even nonbelievers. Are they in fact true? Do such supernatural beings exist? Only you can decide.

    "This special edition of Cold Turkey is limited to 500 numbered copies, each signed by the author and artist."This story is included in Dead Roses for a Blue Lady, published in 2002.

    Their home, Barras Hall, is at first a welcome refuge, until Charlotte realizes that the manor has become her prison, and that she is surrounded by a horror she cannot escape.

    P. Lovecraft first introduced his macabre universe in the pages of Weird Tales magazine, the response was electrifying. Gifted writers—among them his closest peers—added sinister new elements to the fear-drenched landscape. Here are some of the most famous original stories from the pulp era that played a pivotal role in reflecting the master’s dark vision.  FANE OF THE BLACK PHARAOH by Robert Bloch: A man obsessed with unearthing dark secrets succumbs to the lure of the forbidden.BELLS OF HORROR by Henry Kuttner: Infernal chimes ring the promise of dementia and mutilation.THE FIRE OF ASSHURBANIPAL by Robert E. Howard: In the burning Afghan desert, a young American unleashes an ancient curse.THE ABYSS by Robert A. W. Lowndes: A hypnotized man finds himself in an alternate universe, trapped on a high wire between life and death.  AND SIXTEEN MORE TALES OF ICY TERROR . . .  THE THING ON THE ROOF by Robert E. Howard THE SEVEN GEASES by Clark Ashton Smith THE INVADERS by Henry Kuttner THE THING THAT WALKED ON THE WIND by August Derleth ITHAQUA by August Derleth THE LAIR OF THE STAR-SPAWN by August Derleth & Mark Schorer THE LORD OF ILLUSION by E. Hoffmann Price THE WARDER OF KNOWLEDGE by Richard F. Searight THE SCOURGE OF B’MOTH by Bertram Russell THE HOUSE OF THE WORM by Mearle Prout SPAWN OF THE GREEN ABYSS by C. Hall Thompson THE GUARDIAN OF THE BOOK by Henry Hasse MUSIC OF THE STARS by Duane W. Rimel THE AQUARIUM by Carl Jacobi THE HORROR OUT OF LOVECRAFT by Donald A. Wollheim TO ARKHAM AND THE STARS by Fritz Leiber

    The publication of this revised third edition of Ritual and Other Stories reflects the continued interest in Machen's work, and collects together his more elusive short fiction. Through the publication of Ritual and its companion 'best of' volume Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, Tartarus has now reissued all Machen's short stories in accessible form.As R.B. Russell writes in his new Introduction, 'the great strength of Ritual is that it spans Machen's career and thus reveals his development as a writer'. As well as two early pieces from the 1880s, Ritual contains from the 1890s stories that compare well with Machen's better-known decadent work, such as The Great God Pan. These include the exquisite prose-poem 'Rus in Urbe' (1890), and the stories from the Ornaments in Jade collection, written in the 1890s but not published until 1924. Machen's much underrated later work is represented by, amongst others, 'The Tree of Life' (1936), 'one of the most sympathetic stories Machen ever wrote', and the title story 'Ritual', which although written in 1937 'could have been penned at any time in his career, and is undeniably Machen at his best'.Ritual & Other Stories contains:The Priest and the Barber, The Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita, The Town of Long Ago, Candletime, Cidermas, Over the Gate, Of the Isle of Shadows, A Further Account of the Academy of Lagado, Tales from Barataria, Sir John's Chef, Rus in Urbe, By the Brook, The Autophone, The Brook Farm, A Remarkable Coincidence, A Double Return, A Wonderful Woman, The Lost Club, An Underground Adventure, Jocelyn's Escape, The Red Hand, The Rose Garden, The Turanians, The Idealist, Witchcraft, The Ceremony, Psychology, Torture, Midsummer, Nature, Holy Things, The Young Man in the Blue Suit, The Soldiers' Rest, The Monstrance, The Dazzling Light, The Little Nations, The Men from Troy, The Light That Can Never Be Put Out, Drake's Drum, A New Christmas Carol, 7B Coney Court, Munitions of War, The Gift of Tongues, The Islington Mystery, Johnny Double, The Cosy Room, Awaking, Opening the Door, The Compliments of the Season, The Dover Road, The Exalted Omega, The Tree of Life, Out of the Picture, Change, Ritual.

    

    Original.

    And his stories are dark masterpieces of gut-wrenching horror….Have you ever thought about being buried alive, trapped beneath the ground, covered with wet dirt, clawing your coffin, screaming? He did. Have you ever thought about being tortured, tied, in the dark, with rats and agony on all sides, knowing your enemies can watch you shriek? Have you ever thought the thing that most hates you is waiting inside the walls, under the floor? Have you ever thought about death and madness taking human form and coming after you? Have you ever thought about…He did. All this and more…and more…and more. Which is why the name of sheer, stark horror is…EDGAR ALLAN POE

    An unknown killer is prowling the night... An evil chuckle echoes down a shadowy corridor... In the tower, the bell is ringing. It's...Thirteen O'Clock, the latest deranged pulp nightmare from alternative-comics maestro Richard Sala! You've seen his fevered visions in the pages of Raw, Blab, and Buzz, and his animated serial, "Invisible Hands," mesmerized a nation of video slaves on MTV's Liquid Television! Thirteen O'Clock collects the exploits of Sala's mysterious figure of the night, Mr. Murmur, from Deadline U.S.A. along with new Murmur material seen nowhere else on this planet! Follow Sala's masked avenger as he descends into the city's stygian depths to unlock the unholy secrets behind the Corkscrew Murders! Join Mr. Murmur, Eve E. Vee, The Wheezer, Lt. Sedan, Dr. Verlorene, and the head of Zolok in this tableau of dread, death, and darkness!

    

    Morlan, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, Jane Yolen and many others. Supplementing the stories are the editors' invaluable overviews of the year in fantastic fiction, Edward Bryant's witty roundup of the year's fantasy films, and a long list of Honorable Mentions —all of which adds up to an invaluable reference source, and a font of fabulous reading.Table of ContentsThe beautiful uncut hair of graves -- David Morrell In carnation -- Nancy Springer The somewhere doors -- Fred Chappell Poe at the end -- (poem) / -- R.H.W. Dillard Angels in love -- Kathe Koja Vivian -- Midori Snyder True love -- K.W. Jeter The second most beautiful woman in the world -- A.R. Morlan The swordsman whose name was not death -- Ellen Kushner The ragthorn -- Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth The smell -- Patrick McGrath The tenth scholar -- Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem Fisher death -- (poem) / -- Jessica Amanda Salmonson Walk in sable -- (poem) / -- Jessica Amanda Salmonson The cut man -- Norman Partridge The kind men like -- Karl Edward Wagner The coon suit -- Terry Bisson Queen Christina and the windsurfer -- Alison Fell Chui Chai -- S.P. Somtow Mama gone -- Jane Yolen Peter -- Pat Murphy Our lady of the harbour -- Charles de Lint The visitor's book -- Stephen Gallagher At the end of the day -- Steve Rasnic Tem The monster -- Nina Katerli Hummers -- Lisa Mason Santa's way -- James Powell Call home -- Dennis Etchison The Braille Encyclopedia -- Grant Morrison The poisoned story -- Rosario Ferre Blood -- Janice Galloway Dogstar man -- Nancy Willard Persistence of memory -- Joanne Greenberg You'll never eat lunch on this continent again -- Adam Gopnik The glamour -- Thomas Ligotti The peony lantern -- Kara Dalkey To be a hero -- (poem) / -- Nancy Springer The same in any language -- Ramsey Campbell Teratisms -- Kathe Koja The life of a poet -- Kobo Abe The witch of Wilton Falls -- Gloria Ericson Home by the sea -- Pat Cadigan Pish, posh, said hieronymus bosch -- (poem) / -- Nancy Willard The ash of memory, the dust of desire -- Poppy Z. Brite The pavilion of frozen women -- S.P. Somtow Moon songs --Carol Emshwiller The afternoon of June 8, 1991 -- Ian Frazier Gwydion and the dragon -- C.J. Cherryh A story must be held -- (poem) / -- Jane Yolen The Ogre's wife -- Pierrette Fleutiaux.

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    Driven by Indian spirits, it is the Witiko...gatherer of power, harvester of human flesh and blood...On the Maine coast, hired assassins search for their target; John Winter, a former government hit man-one of their own. Winter is dying of cancer even while he's marked for death. Heading west in his station wagon, he hopes to slip beyond the reach of the hired killers, but they follow close behind all the way across the country...In the vast, majestic Northwest, the citizens of Avallon are also being pursued-by a more unearthly, insatiable force. A charred tribe of blackened corpses, the newly dead are descending from the mountains, threatening the town and its determined young police chief, Erin O'Donnell. For her, for John Winter, for everyone, the truth will soon be revealed. Living death, the ghastly legacy of the Witiko, is their only chance for survival...

    The book includes all the facts and inside information (much of it never revealed anywhere before) that every fan of the world's favorite "Dream Killer" will be "dying" to read about. Photos, charts, diagrams, and memorabilia throughout, plus a 16-page color photo insert.

    The Crypt-Keeper delivers the shivers with "The Craving Grave," "Oil's Well That Ends Well," "Raw Deal," and three others.Black-and-white illustrations.

    

    McFarland paid for his crimes in the electric chair. Yet not even death will stop him from finishing what he started...Bloody LegacyAfter fourteen years, Sonny's father is back. He'd been away so long that Sonny hardly remembered him. But Richard McFarland remembers his only son. And now he will teach him how to kill. Sonny is about to become a deadly force that will be unleashed on the unsuspecting citizens of Cedar Bluff. For when the time is right, he will return to the small quiet town, bridging death and destruction on an even more terrifying Christmas Day!

    Free, they race to Europe to discover the answers to the vampiric heritage questions they've had for a long time - burning questions which the vampire Lestat would not answer for them.

    The peaceful town of Stoneridge, Kansas, turns suddenly deadly when a bottomless shaft mysteriously appears in the town cemetery and an evil force lures Karl, Beth, and Erik.

    Buried in the world of his own imagination, painter Anthony Shriek finds his dormant emotions awakened by the arrival of a bizarre and alluring woman whose presence turns his paintings into gateways to another world.

    Born half-vampire, Danielle Walthers finds her vampire lust rising when she moves to Beverly Hills, and soon she is compelled to prowl the streets of Los Angeles in search of blood.

    This groundbreaking series examines the life and work of a bestselling young adult novelist, helping both teachers and readers of young adult literature to understand many of their favorite authors.Each title in this unique series provides:-- A succinct, readable summary of the life and art of a leading young adult author-- Extensive interviews with the authors themselves, giving young readers the means to get to know their favorite authors as real people-- Jargon-free literary analysis of the author's work with attention to plot, theme, character, setting and imagery-- A chronology, notes and references, selected bibliography, list of awards, photos, index and more-- Insights and background material helpful for teaching mid-grade and young adult novels

    Its companion collection is Foundations of Fear, of which Visions of Fear is the third and final volume released in mass market paperback. Features stories by Clive Barker, Philip K. Dick, and many others.

    An evil governess, bewitched dolls, and a dip into the past combine in a tale that's just right for a stormy afternoon's read.

    Silva • 19 • I Scream Man • (1985) • shortstory by Robert R. McCammon • 27 • The Young Man Who Did Not Know His Father • (1988) • shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer • 39 • The Well That Whispered Darkness • (1984) • shortstory by Ardath Mayhar • 45 • Site B • (1985) • shortstory by Colleen Drippé • 53 • The Visitor • (1983) • shortstory by Paul F. Olson • 63 • Mole • (1988) • shortstory by Susan M. Watkins • 75 • Razors • (1988) • shortstory by Ron Wolfe • 87 • The Gap Nearly Closed Today • (1985) • shortstory by J. N. Williamson • 91 • Black Noise • (1986) • shortstory by Pamela J. Jessen • 99 • On a Dark October • (1984) • shortstory by Joe R. Lansdale • 103 • Night Rats • (1988) • shortstory by Gary L. Raisor • 115 • Passing Phase • (1985) • shortstory by Ramsey Campbell • 125 • Snow • (1989) • shortstory by Kathryn Ptacek • 137 • Witch Woman • (1985) • shortstory by Bentley Little • 147 • The Scar • (1987) • shortstory by Dennis Etchison • 155 • Red Zone • (1987) • shortstory by Brian Hodge • 165 • 5a Bedford Row • (1990) • novelette by Graham Masterton • 189 • The Freaktent • (1990) • shortstory by Nancy A. Collins (variant of Freaktent) • 201 • Optional Music for Voice and Piano • (1986) • shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite • 211 • A Chinese Lullaby • (1986) • shortstory by Kiel Stuart • 215 • The Cure • (1988) • shortstory by William F. Nolan • 231 • The Mystery Buff • (1986) • shortstory by David J. Schow • 239 • We Are the Dead • (1988) • shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer • 255 • Immortality and Mrs. Mundy • (1984) • shortstory by Janet Fox • 265 • Piano Moon • (1985) • shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem • 271 • Wolf Is Waiting • (1983) • shortstory by Mark A. Parks • 275 • Red Paint • (1987) • shortstory by David Barker • 285 • Thundersylum • (1985) • shortstory by Elizabeth Massie • 293 • Oasis • (1984) • shortstory by Brian Hodge • 303 • Feeder • (1985) • shortstory by Mark-Christopher Mitera • 313 • The Elder • (1987) • shortstory by Poppy Z. Brite • 321 • Death Train • (1986) • shortstory by G. Wayne Miller • 327 • Reaping • (1986) • shortstory by Peter Heyrman • 335 • Self-Possessed • (1986) • shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem • 345 • Runt • (1987) • shortstory by Bentley Little • 355 • The Magazine Lady • (1985) • shortstory by A. R. Morlan • 361 • Nightmare Flower • (1988) • shortstory by Elizabeth Engstrom • 371 • They Came from the Suburbs • (1986) • shortstory by Paul F. Olson • 381 • The Place Where All Things Go to Die • (1989) • shortstory by Susan M. Watkins • 401 • The Interrogation • (1987) • novelette by Dean R. Koontz • 423 • After the Show: An Afterword (The Definitive Best of the Horror Show) • (1992) • essay by Paul F. Olson

    Collects a story from each of the "pulp" fiction magazines available from the 1920s to the 1950s, guaranteed to chill and thrill--if they don't make ill--all but the most bloodless readers.

    Take a trip to the cutting edge of terror and discover:- Why an obsession with sixties British comedy stars can make you a murderer ...- The mother who dreads the sound of hymns - with good reason.- How schooldays can be the weirdest days of your life.- A couple who regularly visit the supermarket from Hell...- And why people who collect table-mats are dangerous - only when they're dead...

    Annotations are lengthy, detailed, and evaluative, often comparing works to other similar titles. Approximately 160 of the 700 annotations are new to this edition; 50-100 others have been extensively revised. Fan publications, serials, periodicals with reference value and nongenre materials of interest to science fiction researchers are reviewed in addition to such standard tools as bibliographies, encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and indexes. Major online resources and printed guides to the Internet have been added on a selective basis. The book also features core collection lists for academic, public, and personal research libraries. Aimed at librarians in academic and large public libraries.

    It's time to leave the safety of your everyday life, throw your fear into full throttle, and delve into a real spellbinder from the TWISTED TALES series: The Slithering Corpse & Other Sinister Stories.This creepy volume is scary enough to send shivers up your spine and make you want to read nothing but nursery rhymes forevermore. And if you haven't had enough horror, there's more gore in store. Look for The Dripping Head & Other Gruesome Stories, another terrifying collection in the TWISTED TALES series. Read them both soon. . . or else!

    His wife Rhonda, brutally murdered with their daughter three years ago, had suddenly appeared to him at an important business meeting. From beyond the grave, she sought his aid. And Taylor soon found that to help, he'd have to cross into her world...Marilyn Briggs, a professional medium, was desperately needed. A little dead girl kept appearing to her, pleading to her -- a little girl who wanted her murderer stopped ... and wanted her Daddy to help.Wayne Semmlar was ready to kill again. The corpses were piling up so high, he'd lost count. Soon, his pleas and sacrifices would be answered and the devil would take possession of his body; then Wayne could have the power to finally enact his horrific plans for the entire world...

    The stories feature attorneys Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd, who specialize in a unique clientele: vampires, werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. This mix of humor and horror has created quite a national following for the strip. Among stories included in this collection are parodies of the 'Beauty and the Beast' TV series and 'Prairie Home Companion'; an excursion to visit a client in hell; and a case involving a cartoon cat accidentally brought to life.

    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. Contents 1 • Introduction (Foundations of Fear) • (1992) • essay by David G. Hartwell 12 • Don't Look Now • (1966) • novella by Daphne du Maurier 41 • They • (1941) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein 52 • At the Mountains of Madness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novel by H. P. Lovecraft 115 • The Little Room • (1895) • shortstory by Madeline Yale Wynne 124 • The Shadowy Street • (1965) • novelette by Jean Ray (aka La ruelle ténébreuse 1932 ) 145 • Passengers • (1968) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg 154 • The Moonstone Mass • (1868) • shortstory by Harriet Prescott Spofford 163 • The Blue Rose • [Blue Rose] • (1985) • novella by Peter Straub (aka Blue Rose) 197 • Sandkings • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin 223 • The Great God Pan • (1894) • novella by Arthur Machen 256 • Aura • (1965) • novelette by Carlos Fuentes 276 • Barbara, of the House of Grebe • (1890) • novelette by Thomas Hardy 295 • Torturing Mr. Amberwell • (1985) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch 317 • The Prayer • (1895) • novelette by Violet Hunt 334 • Who Goes There? • (1938) • novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by John W. Campbell ] 370 • . . . and my fear is great • (1953) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon (aka . . . And My Fear Is Great . . .) 409 • When Darkness Loves Us • (1985) • novelette by Elizabeth Engstrom 439 • We Purchased People • (1974) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl 449 • The Striding Place • (1896) • shortstory by Gertrude Atherton 454 • In the Hills, the Cities • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker 474 • Faith of Our Fathers • (1967) • novelette by Philip K. Dick 495 • The Bell in the Fog • (1905) • novelette by Gertrude Atherton 509 • The Sand-Man • (1816) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (aka Der Sandmann) 530 • Bloodchild • (1984) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler [as by Octavia Butler ] 543 • Duel • (1971) • novelette by Richard Matheson 558 • Longtooth • (1970) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn 580 • Luella Miller • (1902) • shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary Wilkins Freeman ] 589 • The Entrance • (1979) • novelette by Gerald Durrell 619 • The Lurking Duck • (1992) • shortfiction by Scott Baker 649 • Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story • (1985) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti

    Fifteen stories dealing with boundaries between the sexes, facsimile humans, dreams of the dead, nightmares, and marriage in the future.Stories include: A Mother's Heart; Bits and Pieces; Dead Television; Other Room; Skin Deep; Lizard Lust; Colonization of Edwin Beal; Spirit Cabinet; Jamie's Grave; Riding the Nightmare; Heart's Desire; The Wound; Husbands; A Birthday.