Lovecraft. Although "Shadows Over Innsmouth" includes the said novella, the book is a collection of Innsmouth-related stories by a number of later authors and not a single story or novel. You might also consider moving your personal rating and/or review to the appropriate page if you have read only the novella. SEVENTEEN CHILLING STORIES, INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL MASTERPIECE OF HORROR: “THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH” by H. P. LovecraftInspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s classic, today’s masters of horror take up their pens and turn once more to that decayed, forsaken New England fishing village with its sparkling treasure, loathsome denizens, and unspeakable evil. “ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD AGAIN” by Neil Gaiman: The community of Innsmouth performs a blood sacrifice–with shocking, terrifying results.“THE CHURCH IN HIGH STREET” by Ramsey Campbell: In the crypt of a derelict church, a sensible young man meets a bestial, unthinkable fate. “INNSMOUTH GOLD” by David Sutton: An adventurer searches for buried treasure–and discovers a slithering hell on earth.“THE BIG FISH” by Jack Yeovil: A few months after Pearl Harbor, a mobster and his floating casino lie under water, teeming with the stuff of nightmares.AND THIRTEEN MORE TERRIFYING TALES!

    A prisoner exacts a revenge and escape so meticulous, so brilliant, that no one suspects his plan. . . .

    But at the moment of truth, Shinichi discovers something unexpected in his heart: sympathy for the monster. Soon Shinichi, who harbors his own alien parasite, will come to a stunning realization about the dark side of human nature-and his own soul. This is the final volume of Parasyte. Includes special extras after the story!

    This long out-of-print classic is the perfect stocking-stuffer for any bah humbug.

    Reprint.

    P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), a Providence author considered by many to be the finest horror story writer of the twentieth century. Lovecraft's tales are a blend of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, with the latter being especially prominent. Many of his tales describe a pantheon of powerful beings known as the Great Old Ones.Since Lovecraft's time the Cthulhu Mythos has grown exponentially, until it has become increasingly difficult to keep track of, even for devoted fans. Many writers have contributed to it, including Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Brian Lumley, and Stephen King. This book is the first major attempt in many years to provide a comprehensive guide to H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.This second edition of Encyclopedia Cthulhiana has been extensively revised and contains over a hundred and fifty additional pages and scores of new entries. New features include thumbnail illustrations of the most important signs and symbols and a timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos spanning billions of years. Many entries have been revised to reflect our latest understanding of the Mythos, and the infamous Necronomicon appendix has been greatly expanded. Also present for the first time is "A Brief History of the Cthulhu Mythos," which examines the evolution of the genre.

    Daly, Christina Marsden Gillis, Don Moser, Tom Quirk, B. Ruby Rich, R.J.R. Rockwood, Larry Rubin, Gretchen Schulz, Marie Mitchell Oleson Urbanski, Joyce M. Wegs, Marilyn C. Wesley, and Joan D. Winslow.

    But for the isolated community of Bridelow, his removal is a sinister sign—a danger to the ancient spiritual tradition. In the weeks approaching the Celtic feast of the dead, tragedy strikes again and again in Bridelow. And, as zealots challenge an older, gentler faith, the village faces a natural disaster unknown since the reign of Henry VII.

    Two complete unabridged novels in one volume: HIDEAWAY, tells of an accident victim being miraculously resuscitated, and THE VISION is the story of a clairvoyant who can foresee murders but cannot prevent them taking place.

    This collection of horror stories, many previously unpublished, includes "The Medusa," "Conversations in a Dead Language," and "Mad Night of Atonement." By the author of Grimscribe.

    On December 8, 1980, that blood will run again...In the ruins of a haunted medieval abbey, four musicians hope to tap into the site's dark history. The experience almost destroys them. Years later, the original group is forced to return to the abbey, to confront the old evil they discovered.Thirteen years ago on a cold December night, a rock band called The Philosophers Stone gathered in the ancient ruins of an abbey to record their new album.The evening ended in bloodshed and death. Now, the tapes from that fateful recording session have been released as The Black Album, and the scattered members of the band know it's time for a reunion. Time to return to that dark December night—for one final performance.

    a hideous, flesh-eating creature - part snake, part earthbound demon - that feasted on the blood of innocent children in the cold black heart of the Tennessee backwoods. But ten-year-old Jeb Sweeny knows the horrible stories are true. His best friend Mandy just up and disappeared. He also knows that no one has ever had the courage to go after the monster and put an end to its raging, bestial hunger. Until now. But Evil is well guarded. And for young Jeb Sweeny, who is about to cross over into the forbidden land of Fear County and the lair of the unknown, passage through the gates of Hell comes with a terrible price. Everlasting...FEAR!

    Storylines include that of a woman who discovers grisly horror on a mountain road, a plastic love doll who becomes liberated, and a baby's diaper that is possessed by aliens.Contents:Mister Weed-Eater (1993)Steppin' Out, Summer, '68 (1991)Love Doll: A Fable (1991)Bubba Ho-Tep (1994)Man with Two Lives (1994)Pilots (1989)The Phone Woman (1990)The Diaper, or The Adventure of the Little Rounder (1990)Everybody Plays the Fool (1993)In the Cold, Dark Time (1990)Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (1991)By Bizzare Hands: The Play (1991)Godzilla's Twelve-Step Program (1994)Drive-In Date (1991)

    A first collection.Brian Evenson has added an O. Henry Award–winning short story, "Two Brothers," to this controversial book and a new afterword, in which he describes the troubling aftermath of the book's publication in 1994.

    At first, taking piano seems like a cool idea. But there's something creepy about Jerry's piano teacher, Dr. Shreek. Something really creepy. Something Jerry can't quite put his fingers on.Volume 14: The Werewolf Of Fever Swamp: There's something horrible happening in Fever Swamp. Something really horrible. It started with the Strange howling at night. Then there was the rabbit, torn to shreds. Everyone thinks Grady's new dog is responsible. After all, he looks just like a wolf. And he seems a little on the wild side.Volume 15: You Can't Scare Me!: Courtney is a total show-off. She thinks she's so brave and she's always making Eddie and his friends look like wimps. But now Eddie's decided he's had enough. He's going to scare Courtney once and for all. And he's just come up with the perfect plan. He's going to lure Courtney down to Muddy Creek. Volume 16: One Day At Horrorland: The Morris family got lost trying to find Zoo Gardens Theme Park. But that's okay. They found another amusement park instead. It's called Horrorland. In Horrorland there are no crowds. No lines. And the admission is free. It seems like a pretty cool place. But that was before that heart-stopping ride on the deadly Doom Slide. And that terrifying experience in the House of Mirrors.

    This is the biggest of the Angsana Russell Lee series - 192 pages. More readers are now telling us about their encounters with the supernatural. Theses are not merely stories - they're all true!

    The first issue, #0, was released in October 1994 by Fantagraphics Books, and a second issue, #1, was released the following January. A third issue (#2) was announced in the pages of other Fantagraphics publications and solicited in Previews but was never published. "I Was Killing When Killing Wasn't Cool", a color short story with a markedly different art style originally intended for issue #2, appeared instead in the anthology Zero Zero. In a 2010 interview, Columbia recalled that the unfinished issue "looked so different that it just didn’t look right, it didn’t look consistent, and it didn’t feel right to keep putting out that same comic book, to try to tell a story where the style is mutating."[1] The series' title is taken from a passage in the William S. Burroughs book Exterminator! (in the chapter "Short Trip Home"). The passage in question is quoted briefly in a story from issue #0, also titled "The Biologic Show".Each issue of The Biologic Show contains several short stories and illustrated poems. Many of the pieces deal with disturbing subject matter such as mutilation, incest, and the occult. Issue #0 introduces three of Columbia's recurring characters: the hapless, Koko the Clown-like Seymour Sunshine in the opening story "No Tomorrow If I Must Return", and the sibling duo Pim and Francie in "Tar Frogs". (Both "Tar Frogs" and the aforementioned "The Biologic Show" had originally appeared in the British comics magazine Deadline but were partially redrawn for Columbia's solo book.) Issue #1 is dominated by the 16-page Pim and Francie story "Peloria: Part One", intended as the start of an ongoing serial. It includes another character, Knishkebibble the Monkey-Boy, who reappears in Columbia's later work. Upon the demise of The Biologic Show Fantagraphics announced that Peloria would be released as a stand-alone graphic novel,[2] but this plan was also abandoned.

    

    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.

    Kyoko Kuonji is said to be with child for the last twenty months, and her husband Makio disappeared a few months prior to her pregnancy. The odd circumstances have left the family with no one to turn to for help, until a freelance writer asks his exorcist friend to take on the case. The catch-the exorcist does not believe in ghosts. To Akihiko "Kyogokudo" Chuzenji, the supernatural is as much metaphysical and mental as it is unearthly.The Summer of the Ubume was the debut work by the Neil Gaiman of Japanese mystery fiction - Natsuhiko Kyogoku. Weaving together intrigue and Kyogoku's passion for Japanese folklore, particularly the paranormal and preternatural, this Summer gives birth to a new form of Japanese fiction.

    Curl up with old friends like Washington Irving's "The Devil and Tom Walker" or Charles Dickens's "Chips." Or make the acquaintance of "The Serpent Woman" and "The Skull That Spoke"--but beware of spectral visitors like "The Blood-Drawing Ghost." There's something here for everyone who likes a good shudder. . . but be prepared for goose bumps!Delightfully creepy illustrations by Katherine Coville and Jacqueline Rogers highlight this second collection of scary stories.

    Tales of vampires and lurking spirits, of inexplicable evil cloaked in the guise of childish innocence, of ordinary people driven to unthinkable extremes by the perversities of fate -- they're all here, told with King's inimitable blend of dark humor and heart-clenching suspense.It Grows on You (Stephen King) The Fifth Quarter (Gary Sinise) You Know They Got A Hell of a Band (Grace Slick)The Night Flier (Frank Muller)Popsy (Joe Mantegna) Sorry, Right Number (cast) The 10 O’Clock People (Joe Morton)Notes (Stephen King) The Beggar and the Diamond (Domenic Cuskern)

    Terror on Tape is a complete, comprehensive guide to over 2,000 horror films from the past 75 years that have been reissued on videotape, from mainstream masterpieces like Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs to cheesy exploitation flicks like Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman and Friday the 13th: Part 4, from cult classics that broke to a wider audience like Night of the Living Dead and Halloween to deservedly unknown bombs like The Worm Eaters and Yog, Monster from Space.As entertaining as it is useful, Terror on Tape features dozens of photos and 100 sidebar essays that take a closer look at some of the influential actors and directors who have left their mark on the horror genre, making this the perfect book for the devoted horror movie fan and the curious horror novice alike.

     PRAY FOR HER! The lies began as fantasies, and before long, young Dani was lying about everything. Now she's being adopted by a picture-perfect family, and the lies must stop. But behind the dream is a cruel reality. No one believes her when she discovers a shocking secret...and her foster father will kill to make sure no one finds out!

    Here begins the terrifying story of a family who moves into the house that even their neighbors on Fear Street are afraid to enter. Twin sisters must learn the secret of the evil or be the next victims.

    A creature with a very nasty habit.So says the editor of the local newspaper. But neither he, nor anyone else knows what is behind the spate of brutal killings which sent a shockwave through the town.They don’t know that a séance was held one dark and stormy night. A séance that went disastrously wrong. Something evil had been summoned from a dark place. For those around the table, the clock is ticking..And for the whole town, the nightmare is just beginning.The only clue to its real identity, and its purpose, comes in the terrifying visions of a psychic girl….but who can believe she can see the killings before they actually happen.It is only when the victims bodies are found impaled in steep, high places that detective Jack Fallon realises the visions are real. And that something evil, and hungry, is stalking the night.Something that must be stopped and stopped fast.Because Lorna Breck’s latest vision makes it clear that the beast is coming for Jack Fallon, and the people he loves most.Together, they will have to face it…in the dark.

    "Ibe Pit and the Pendulum, 7be Fall of the House of Usher and The Black Cat are just three of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous tales in this chilling, enthralling collection.Contents:The SphinxThe Fall of the house of UsherThe Oval portraitMS found in a bottleA Descent into the maelströmThe Tell-tale heartThe Oblong boxThe Masque of the red deathHop-frogSome words with a mummyWilliam WilsonThe Black catThe Pit and the pendulum

    The author's early classic of adolescent evil, The Voice of the Night, unites with The Mask (appearing in hardcover for the first time) and Strangers for a hair-raising collection of thrillers.

    He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no one--including the U.S. government--and a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought he'd buried years ago--inner demons that could destroy him if his enemies don't first.

    Gordon Melton has the credentials: he's a religious historian, author of 25 books about religion and vampires, president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula (founded in Bucharest, Romania), and chairman of the committee that put on Dracula '97: A Centennial Celebration in Los Angeles. The Vampire Book is meticulously researched and well organized. Included are an article on the cultural history of the vampire; a historical timeline; addresses of vampire societies all over the world; a 55-page filmography; vampires in plays, opera, and ballet; a 13-page list of vampire novels; and an extensive index. The A to Z entries, each with a short bibliography, include vampire lore in more than 30 different geographic regions and a comprehensive "who's who," and cover topics ranging from fingernails to sexuality, the Camarilla to Szekelys.

    

    Toxique, a fictitious comic book heroine born in the vivid imagination of a lonely young boy, comes alive to do battle with an evil killer on a bloodthirsty quest to eliminate young comic book fans everywhere.

    But why dicker when you could do both? The fresher ones were blue. That was important if you wanted to avoid cramps, salmonella. Eat a green one and you'd be yodeling down the big porcelain megaphone in no time." Those are the opening lines of "Jerry's Kids Meet Wormboy," a justifiably (in)famous Romero-world zombie tale presented here in a collection for the first time. That gives you just a taste (heh heh) of the bold horror imagery and witty metaphors (or shall we call them tropes?) that are David J. Schow's trademark. Black Leather Required is a knockout collection: 12 superb stories (some new, some reprinted), one short play in the Grand Guignol style, an introduction by John Farris, and an afterword by Schow himself. It's all beautifully produced by Mark V. Ziesing. (Click on the cover for a larger view of the dramatic cover painting.) The stories include a remarkably sharp tale about dinosaurs ("Sedalia"), a delightfully manic number about roadside violence in the Arizona desert ("Bad Guy Hats"), the tale of a loathsome near-death ("Scoop Makes a Swirly"), and varied sagas of the recently dead or the undead having a good ol' time. As Farris writes in the intro, Schow is "like a Gothic Absurdist, an urbanized Cormac McCarthy, but with a hip, mean sense of fun.... He punishes you, then he winks and punishes you some more. Friends, I do this for a living, and I'm not easily impressed, but the can-you-top-this operatic exuberance David conjures with mere words is a cause for, not censorship, but celebration." --Fiona Webster

    The guests soon find themselves hurled back to the 1960s. When they return to the present, history has changed and the long-dead friends are still alive--including the one intent on destroying them all. (August)

    But, during one horrendous night, it died...and for a hundred years it has been nearly empty. A ghost town waiting to live again.Now that's about to happen...Fourteen-year-old Bryce Willems, whose family has just arrived from New York, is beginning to appreciate the unfamiliar charms of his new home. But gradually it becomes apparent that something about the town is very strange.As he and stepsister Megan discover the terrible secret of the nearby Wizard mine, they are caught up in a clash of ancient, vengeful powers that cannot rest until a deadly wheel of destiny is set in motion once again.

    Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numberous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damnation. The Monk (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is Mary Shelley's disturbing and perennially popular tale of a young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences.This collection illustrates the range and attraction of the gothic novel. Extreme and sensational, each of the four printed here is alos a powerful psychological story of isolation and monomania.

    Limited release. Not sure why, but the ISBN number on the book is linked with a different book, also by Cinemaker Press. Same year as well.

    Faye Summer has been haunted by a three-thousand-year-old-murdered Egyptian princess, one of the five daughters of Nefertiti and the doomed pharaoh Akhenaton, since she was a young girl…and has glimpsed her desperate ghostly face in darkened mirrors and heard her whispers in her dreams. Whispers begging for Faye’s help in uncovering the true story of her and her family’s long ago disappearances and deaths, their terrible fate, so the ghost would no longer be damned to her eternal wandering. On that grave quest, Faye and her husband, Nick, reluctantly travel to Egypt and among the ancient pyramids, sparkling hot sands and the ghosts of the past they discover a truth far worse than they could have imagined and end up fighting for their own survival. (Originally a 1994 Zebra/Kensington Publishing mass market paperback.)

    

    What's worse than being stuck at summer camp with a bunch of rotten counselors? dead rotten counselors! That's what happens to Corey, who quickly realizes he's in danger of becoming zombie food.

    A major collection of works by a classic occult writer features a variety of bone-chilling favorites, such as "Dracular," "The Lair of the White Worm," and a posthumously published collection, "Dracular's Guest."

    Hannah and her younger sister Meg were miles from the nearest neighbor, trapped in a raging blizzard, home alone. Until the knock at the door. Two strangers burst into the house, wounded, bleeding and nearly frozen. Hannah couldn't just turn Lance and Jonathon away, so she made them promise to leave in the morning. But they stayed, insisting the girls needed protection. Wary of Lance's brooding good looks, Hannah was drawn to Jonathon's reassuring presence. Until the dog, and the axe, disappeared--and the girls wondered "protection from whom?"

    But Don’s philandering and Jerri’s drinking and mental instability tear the family apart. Jeff digs a tunnel in a lot behind their Oregon house with his neighborhood pals–an underground shelter from the turmoil above ground–never imagining it will become his mother’s grave. Meena turns into a human spider, creeping about the house, spying on her dysfunctional family. Set in the 1960s and told from the children’s and their Aunt Debbie’s point of view, Going Under is a poignant and emotionally powerful tale about the darker side of the human spirit and the consequences for those least prepared to understand it.“Luvaas tells a terrible but absorbing story and tells it movingly. I hope this book finds the wide readership it deserves.” —Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize winning Author of The Last Picture Show & Lonesome Dove“A mother drowning in alcohol drags her whole family down in William Luvaas’s powerful novel.” —New York Times Book Review“A surreal and frightening air prevails as guilt, aggression and madness escalate in this powerful evocation of family members coming to grips with crimes against one another.” —Publishers Weekly“Going Under is told with power and authority as it explores a family’s collapse into self-destruction and abuse. Luvaas’s great power as a storyteller brings the reader up out of these sorrows and into a sense of redemption that is triumphant and true.” —Frederick Busch, author of Sometimes I Live in the Country and Long Way From Home“Reading Going Under is like watching a train wreck happen before your eyes. It’s horrify­ing, powerful stuff you can’t tear your eyes away from.” —Susan L. Rife, Wichita Eagle“I found Going Under to be powerful, moving, frequently funny, and ultimately positive. Luvaas portrays the members of a dysfunctional family with compassion and insight… Those who admired Wally Lamb’s bestselling novel She’s Come Undone will find Going Under to be a richer, deeper, and more insightful study of the psychological problems that can damage essentially good people.” —Stephen Minot, author of Three Genres: The Writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Dra­ma and Surviving The Flood.

    Le Guin --The tattooer / Junichiro Tanizaki --Axolotl / Julio Cortazar --The wish / Roald Dahl --The lottery / Shirley Jackson --It's a good life / Jerome Bixby --Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson --The South / Jorge Luis Borges --The fly / George Langelaan --The doll / Algernon Blackwood --The hunted beast / T.F. Powys --The rival dummy / Ben Hecht --Lukundoo / Edward Lucas White --Sredni Vashtar / Saki (a.k.a. H.H. Munro) --The picture in the house / H.P. Lovecraft --Pollock and the Porroh man / H.G. Wells --The spider / Hans Heinz Ewers --The white wolf of the Hartz Mountains / Frederick Marryat --Tcheriapin / Sax Rohmer --The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs --The mark of the beast / Rudyard Kipling --Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn --The squaw / Bram Stoker --The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --Carmilla / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu --Not to be taken at bed-time / Rosa Mulholland --The Horla / Guy De Maupassant --The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe --The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne --La Belle Helene / Prosper Merimee --Nuckelavee / Anonymous --The painted skin / P'U Sung-ling --Bluebeard / Charles Perrault --The vampire, episode from the golden ass / Lucius Apuleius

    Beautiful and brilliant, she hunts alone, living among humans, living off humans. But someone is stalking her. Someone wants her dead. And Alisa has a choice to make - to keep a long held promise or protect the mortal she seems to be falling for.

    Original.

    Sarah is shocked and devastated when her boyfriend, Josh, kills himself. When Sarah learns that Josh's family is descended from Victor Frankenstein, the man who created the monster, she becomes convinced that Josh can be brought back to life. . . .

    Duffy is a man dedicated to extremes of leisure and pleasure; fortunately his work allows him to mix paradise, rounds of golf, and his quest for the ultimate high. But he's not hullucinating when he stumbles upon his first jimjam, a wide-eyed inquisitive little creature that throws him way off par. And he's pretty straight when he finds its home, a pulsing, yarning orb that Duffy can't resist...and that threatens to transform Blue Turtle Island into a satanic sandbox.

    In The Earth Strikes Back, twenty writers of fantastic fiction have contributed dark tales focusing on ecological terror and suspense.The cautionary, often shocking volume, edited by World Fantasy Award winner Richard T. Chizmar, features brilliant new short stories from such best-selling authors as Dan Simmons, Richard Laymon, Poppy Z. Brite, Ed Gorman, Rick Hautala, Thomas Tessier, Charles de Lint, Nancy Collins, Hugh B. Cave, and many others.

    The streets are flooded with grease and the world’s gone to the dogs. Amy’s scratching out a living, scavenging by day and laying low by night. But when she picks a fight with the wrong pack, she realises she’s not going to be able to hide anymore. The dogs’ve got her scent and they’re on the hunt. If she’s going to survive, things are going to have to change. And maybe she’s going to have to change too.

    Whether the classic youthful gems of master writers, or the original tales of talented newcomers, they may just scare you into an early grave.CONTENTSMike Baker - IntroductionE.A.Poe - MS Found in a Bottle.R.E.Howard - Pigeons from HellRobert Bloch - The Skull of the Marquis de SadeRamsey Campbell - Cold PrintStephen King - The ManglerMichael Scott Bricker - Rattle RumbleClark Perry - Little Black BagsLawrence Schimel - An Eye for an Eye, A Tooth for a ToothTia Travis - The Weepin TreePamela Briggs - HystericalWayne Edwards - Spooge MonkeysBarb Hendee - Bringing Home a StrangerLoreilei Shannon - Anything for YouTodd Mechlem - Fixing Mr. Foucher´s FenceTim Waggoner - Mr. PunchJ.F. Gonzalez - Playing the GameJak Koke&Jonathan Bond - Pieces of PrisonChristopher A. Hall - Paper AnimalsGordon Van Gelder- Something MoreM. Francis Hamill - Judas WindowJames C. Bassett - Storm WarningBrian Everson - Hebe Kills JarryAdam Corbin Fusco - To a Mr. R.J.Guthrie, EdinburghH. Andrew Lynch - CrawlspaceTerry Campbell - Armadillo VillageSean Dolittle PaydayDominick Cancilla - Menentos of an Only ChildMarc Paoletti - DepthsPoppy Brite&Christa Faust - Saved

    Liam McDonaldA Descent Into the Maelström by Edgar Allan PoeThe Captain of the Pole-Star by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Upper Berth by F. Marion CrawfordThe Brute by Joseph ConradThe Boats of the Glen Carrig by William Hope HodgsonThe Song of the Sirens by Edward Lucas WhiteThe Ship of Silent Men by Philip M. FisherThe Temple by H. P. LovecraftBells of Oceana by Arthur J. BurksSecond Night Out (aka The Black, Dead Thing) by Frank Belknap LongThe Black Kiss by Robert Bloch & Henry KuttnerThe Sea Thing by A. E. van VogtSea Curse by Robert E. HowardA Vintage from Atlantis by Clark Ashton SmithDerelict by Hugh B. CaveSea-Tiger by Henry S. WhiteheadThe Women by Ray BradburyThe Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth by Roger ZelaznyThe Wine-Dark Sea by Robert AickmanThe Ferries by Ramsey CampbellThe Night Sea-Maid Went Down by Brian LumleyDown by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock by Joe R. LansdaleMessage Found in a Bottle II, or: An Invitation from Your Captain by Nancy HolderA Sailor's Pay by Jack CadyDeep Sleep by Matthew J. CostelloScape-Goats by Clive BarkerBetween the Windows of the Sea by Jack DannDip in the Pool by Roald DahlThe Night Ocean by R. H. Barlow & H. P. LovecraftSpawn of the Sea by Donald Wandrei

    Hartwell 23 • Introduction to Worlds of Fear • (1994) • essay by David G. Hartwell 24 • Sandkings • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin 76 • Aura • (1965) • novelette by Carlos Fuentes 115 • Barbara, of the House of Grebe • (1890) • novelette by Thomas Hardy 154 • Torturing Mr. Amberwell • (1985) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch 196 • The Prayer • (1895) • novelette by Violet Hunt 229 • Who Goes There? • (1938) • novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by John W. Campbell ] 301 • . . . and my fear is great • (1953) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon (aka . . . And My Fear Is Great . . .) 376 • When Darkness Loves Us • (1985) • novelette by Elizabeth Engstrom 437 • We Purchased People • (1974) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl 456 • The Striding Place • (1896) • shortstory by Gertrude Atherton

    Stephen King's America aims to heighten awareness of the numerous American issues that resonate throughout King's fiction, issues that bear universal application to the evolution of the human condition.

    

    From a fearful beast to a murderous obsession, from the fear of an invisible presence to malevolent magic, these chilling tales written by masters of the genre, contain all manner of disconcerting phenomena that will linger in the mind long after the final word is spoken.

    

    Spending his lunch hours in a porno theater to relieve his boredom, a young advertising executive discovers an obscure film called Throat Sprockets and develops a fascination for women's throats that gradually consumes his life.

    

    Three novels--Jaws, Beast, and The Girl of the Sea of Cortez--by one of the masters of the thriller genre and the author of the Deep.

    . . ." So proclaimed Bill McIlvain to the friends who'd gathered for his sixth birthday party. No one could have imagined on that festive day the twisted future that lay in store for young Billy. Billy's pedigree was distinguished. He was bright and well mannered. If little Billy McIlvain was guilty of anything, it was that he loved too much and too well. But then Billy watched helplessly as the person dearest to him was brutally murdered. The killers not only went free but cashed in on what they had done. The system had failed. For Billy, it would always fail. He was too young to have his revenge, but he would have it when the time was right, no matter the cost. Until that day, he could only wait. His family collapsed. Billy's mother, Grace, survived by plunging into a new career. She was away on business the day Billy's mind began to invent its own reality, the day he began his descent into evil. The papers and TV shows screamed the news of his "inhuman act." He was a celebrity. Girls he didn't know sent him love notes and pictures of themselves naked. They sent him to prison, and he lost a decade and all hope of a normal life. "They say that if you live long enough, you become the person you hate the most. . . ." On his own at last, grown-up Billy is now thirty-three. The all-American boy has become the all-American killer. Necessary Evil is the riveting, demonic tale of one man's obsession with justice in a corrupt world. For Billy McIlvain, justice is out of reach. He must settle for revenge. In the end, no one was safe from him. No one. Anywhere.

    Russell Lee explores the use of blood in occult practices and uncovers the real story behind the Vampire legend. Read also about how Voodoo has cast its spell on us through music and television.

    So did her best friend, Alison, when she was alive. Now Holly's made the squad, and she's begun getting creepy, threatening phone calls--calls from beyond the grave, from Alison . . . promising revenge.

    That was twenty-five years ago. Today, two more children have just been found brutally murdered.Eleven-year-old Joely calls this town her new home. She calls the shy, strange boy named Martin her new friend. But Martin has a secret: He knows who the killer is. Because he was the first victim. And unless he can stop the killings, Joely's going to be the next one.In this town, every child has a reason to be afraid.

    Private detective Teddy London, an investigator with a knack for the supernatural, is hired by Maxim Warhelski to hunt down the killer of his client's entire family, part of a pattern of similar crimes that have occurred throughout the world.

    EC Comics Tales from the Crypt Annual 3, including comics 11-15