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    Howard had a gritty, vibrant style–broadsword writing that cut its way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger than life.”–David GemmellIn a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s most enduring heroes. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howard’s greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes, and the richly evocative blend of history and mythology, that would distinguish his later tales of the Hyborian Age.Much more than simply the prototype for Conan, Kull is a fascinating character in his own right: an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize.This groundbreaking collection, lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Justin Sweet, gathers together all Howard’s stories featuring Kull, from Kull’s first published appearance, in “The Shadow Kingdom,” to “Kings of the Night,” Howard’s last tale featuring the cerebral swordsman. The stories are presented just as Howard wrote them, with all subsequent editorial emendations removed. Also included are previously unpublished stories, drafts, and fragments, plus extensive notes on the texts, an introduction by Howard authority Steve Tompkins, and an essay by noted editor Patrice Louinet. “Howard was a true storyteller–one of the first, and certainly among the best, you’ll find in heroic fantasy. If you’ve never read him before, you’re in for a real treat.”–Charles de Lint“For stark, living fear . . . what other writer is even in the running with Robert E. Howard?”–H. P. Lovecraft

    When her struggling artist father decides he needs to go away and paint, he leaves Kate and Thomas in the care of neighbor Mrs Beer and her husband. In the great old house, with only Thomas for company, Kate is terribly alone. So when Aunt Rhoda appears in the quiet village and introduces herself as a relative, Kate is more than happy to welcome her in. But too soon Kate begins to feel the menacing usurpation of Aunt Rhoda's presence, and senses the arrival of the great dog Moon Eyes. She has opened her home to something much greater. So begins a deadly struggle for possession—with Thomas as the prize.

    Contains three Gothic novellas: "Sanguinarius," "Sardonicus," and "Sagittarius," plus author's introduction entitled "The Haunted Castle: A Confession."

    The payment was $3.50. The time was 1927, and for Gruber this first sale meant much more than being able to get a job as an editor of a farm paper on the basis of being a published author. It meant the beginnings of a massive assault on the pulp jungle.

    Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Girl, the Human Torch and our own shy retiring Thing were the first of Marvel's superhero successes and without them there might be no Hulk, no Spider-Man, no Howard the Duck. In this high voltage full color never before seen volume, you will see for yourself the reasons for their stupendous success and the immense influence they've had on the rest of comicdom. From the day they took off, as mere mortals, for the unknown terrors of outer space (and returned changed by the cosmic rays into superhero superstars) they've been battling the likes of Dr. Doom, Apex, the Inhumans and Galactus. That's right. Galactus, the godlike devourer of whole worlds and the only being strong enough to stop him, the Silver Surfer took their first bows in an episode of Fantastic Four. And it was the fearsome foursome who reintroduced Prince Namor, otherwise known as the sensational Sub-Mariner, to the world of comics after a long, long absence. And it's all right here, in this volume filled with the Fantastic Four's most fabulous fables and Marvel's most memorable milestones.Collects Fantastic Four #4, 48–50, and 87

    Grope J. Edgar Hoover in the silent Halls of Congress.2. Get thee to a nunnery....1001. Bring peace to Viet Nam: strike joy into the universe.

    Shaw, Jr.

    Contains:PrologExile of AtlantisThe Shadow KingdomThe Altar and the ScorpionBlack AbyssDelcardes' CatThe Skull of SilenceRiders Beyond the SunriseBy This Axe I Rule!The Striking of the GongSwords of the Purple KingdomWizard and WarriorThe Mirrors of Tuzun ThuneThe King and the OakEpilog

    Dick; "Light of Other Days" [Slow Glass] (1966) by Bob Shaw; "The Keys to December" (1966) by Roger Zelazny; "Nine Hundred Grandmothers" (1966) by R. A. Lafferty; "Bircher" (1966) by A. A. Walde; "Behold the Man" (1966) by Michael Moorcock; "Bumberboom" (1966) by Avram Davidson; "Day Million" (1966) by Frederik Pohl; "The Wings of a Bat" (1966) by Pauline Ashwell [as by Paul Ash]; "The Man from When" (1966) by Dannie Plachta; "Amen and Out" (1966) by Brian W. Aldiss; "For a Breath I Tarry" (1966) by Roger Zelazny.

    

    A woman's husband is accused of being a communist spy, nobody believes she's innocent.

    The three perpetrators of nine unspeakably heinous murders are out prowling the streets when Deil Connor vows to hunt them down one by one and kill each as brutally and as cunningly as they have killed.

    Woolrich. The yellow wall paper, by C. P. Gilman. The copper bowl, by G. F. Eliot. The facts in the case of M. Valdemar, by E. A. Poe. The calamander chest, by J. P. Brennan. The question, by S. Ellin. Couching at the door, by D. K. Broster. The idol of the flies, by J. Rice. The small world of Lewis Stillman, by W. F. Nolan. The haunted woodshed, by H. R. Daniels. The other Celia, by T. Sturgeon. Philco baby, by I. Faust.

    He's where the action is sometimes even before it happens.

    Cover art believed to be by George Ziel.

    

    'tis the season to be gay and jolly...

    Most of the characters are ordinary people living ordinary lives — but living them in such a way that the terror they encounter is inevitable: modern men and women, cut off from themselves, haunted by the fragment that is missing.Nelson Algren, reviewing Herlihy's first volume of stories for the Chicago Sun-Times eight years ago, said, "He writes with an edge of iron that Steinbeck lost and Saroyan never had, a real indignation at humiliation of the human spirit."The edge of iron is still here, and so are the wild humor, the charged immediacy and the vitally accurate dialogue that have won praise in a dozen languages for his novels, Midnight Cowboy and All Fall Down.

    A DIFFERENT DRUM. He said it was because he had divided his loyalties in the war, and hated no one, but was that why he wanted to get his hands on them so desperately...

    

    "The first and only complete guide to the Underground today—with up-to-minute regional data from the East Village to Haight-Ashbury."

    On board are...Pamela Westcott, widowed and frustrated, clinging to...her son Richard, undergoing his first homo- and heterosexual experience with...the rich American, John, and impotent Sir Gerald Pratley's nymphomaniac wife Fiona, respectively.In between wildly evocative, eventful stops at Villefranche, Naples, Athens, Rhodes, Beirut, and earthy bedfights all round, Lady Fiona turns against David Welch, her rebellious gigolo...It would have been better for everyone if Chief Officer Welch had gone down with his last ship.