Sprague de Camp · in 15 · Hawks Over Shem [revised by de Camp from “Hawks Over Egypt” by R.E.H. Howard’s original version was eventually published in The Road to Azrael, Bantam 1980] · nv Fantastic Universe Oct ’55 54 · Black Colossus · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Jun ’33 99 · Shadows in the Moonlight · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales Apr ’34 138 · The Road of the Eagles [“Conan, Man of Destiny”] · nv Fantastic Universe Dec ’55 172 · A Witch Shall Be Born · Robert E. Howard · na Weird Tales Dec ’34

    And so the most stupendous hero of fantasy-adventure returns to the battlefield, matching his savage strength against the most monstrous forces of evil and doom."

      Many decades before George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, Grand Master Fritz Leiber ruled the sword-and-sorcery universe. These three short story collections chronicle the unconventional adventures of Leiber’s endearing antiheroes: barbarian Fafhrd and former wizard’s apprentice, the Gray Mouser.  Swords and Deviltry: Fafhrd, a handsome barbarian of the Steppes, is seduced by a beautiful prostitute and her equally intoxicating city, while the Gray Mouser, a slum rat wizard-in-training, is tempted by the dark arts. The two men meet on a night of multiple thieveries and an enduring partnership is born.  Swords Against Death: Rogue swordsmen and devoted companions Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser pursue ill-gotten fortunes within the confines of Lankhmar. They cross paths with two wizards, Sheelba of the Eyeless Face and Ningauble of the Seven Eyes, and a most violent clash ensues. Eventually, following further adventures, the two antiheroes end up as indentured swordsman servants to their former foes.  Swords in the Mist: A cloud of concentrated hatred and lean times in Lankhmar compels Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser to temporarily depart the most corrupt metropolis in all of Nehwon as they seek adventure in the realm of the Sea-King—and on a different world entirely.   This must-read collection of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser short stories features multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated tales, and includes the acclaimed novella Ill Met in Lankhmar.

    Cassie is a swinger and so is the rest of her family, much to the confusion of two Moroccan exchange students who thought they were being placed with a typical American family.

    Howard, Avon Fantasy Reader 18, ed. Wollheim, Avon, '52 "Black Thirst" (Northwest Smith), C.L. Moore, Weird Tales 4/34 "A Victim of Higher Space" (John Silence), Algernon Blackwood, The Occult Review 12/14 "The Sapphire Siren" (aka "The Sapphire Goddess"), Nictzin Dyalhis, Weird Tales 2/34 "The Voice in the Night", William Hope Hodgson, Blue Book 11/07 "The Crawling Horror", Thorp McClusky, Weird Tales 11/36 "The Kelpie", Manly Wade Wellman, Weird Tales 7/36

    It contains hundreds of predictions covering the next thirty years. Readers may "keep score" on the accuracy of the predictions herein—until, as Criswell predicts, August, 1999, after which it will not matter.

    The writings of the man who ditched a successful university career and simply dropped out, living on the streets of London, and his acquaintance with L.S.D.

    "In Eden everybody's thirsty and the water supply is full of LSD."

    No one became too upset, and there was never an embarrassing display of grief. Death would come to all in time, and there were rules for playing the game. A few discreet tears, decorum in widow's weeds, a softly uttered lament for interrupted dreams....Until Dr. Stewart Turner Garland moved into the town. Dr. Garland was a master of the various methods of death, and his presence brought the citizens of Garland [sic] new dimensions in the fine art of dying.And the good doctor had a master plan for the entire village!

    A girl who has been playing the cello for eight years spends the summer before her first year in college at music camp, where she must master a new style of using her bow hand, examine her dedication to music, and deal with relationships with an extremely talented older boy, a Negro cabin mate, and a smitten younger boy who also plays the cello.

    Its central characters. Billy and Betty, are surely one of the strangest brother-and-sister combinations in recent fiction: they may in fact go down in literary history as the Bobbsey twins of the 'sixties.'

    The advocates of what is called the New Wave say yes. They insist that the "old" science fiction belongs to the past, is stereotyped, and no longer represents the whirl of modern times, the revolution of new thinking and the mind-tingling innovations that seem to be prevalent in all the arts these days.The New Wave in SF--they prefer to call it Speculative Fiction--has its roots among the imaginative writers of England, most specifically around the magazine New Worlds, and a great deal has been coming from that source that is indeed different and surprising. Judith Merril, an acknowledged authority on science fiction, has made herself the foremost American defender of the New Wave, and in this book ENGLAND SWINGS SF she has produced an anthology and a running, sparkling dialogue between its contributors and its editor on what they are doing to SF in England and why they are doing it.Are the New Wave advocates correct? Is it indeed time for new forms and new approaches to imaginative speculative fiction? Has science fiction as we have known it really become moribund?Here is the book which may be the turning point of that New Wave. Ace Books presents it because it is a work, a manifesto perhaps in the form of a group of most unusual SF stories, which everyone interested in science fiction ought to read. It will be a stimulating experience, whether you agree with Miss Merril or not.Ace Books, long the foremost publisher of science fiction in America, does not take any stand on this controversy. We have published and will continue to publish the best obtainable in all types of writing, from space-action adventures to the award-winning Specials, from the old "classics" to the best of the new collections of short stories. We reprint ENGLAND SWINGS SF not because we are in agreement or in disagreement with it, but because we think it is part of Ace's traditional service to science fiction.Two quotes may be apropos. Josephine Saxton says, inside the book, "British writers are in the vanguard--one thing they do is make much American S.F. look old-fashioned."Isaac Asimov said, outside the book, "I hope that when the New Wave has deposited its froth and receded, the vast and solid shore of science fiction will appear once more."Decide for yourself."A mind-stretching, nerve-sizzling adventure."-- Raleigh News & Observer"So far out it's left the understandable galaxy."-- Atlanta Journal"Intriguing, disturbingly mod... a bit too much of a good thing."-- Publishers Weekly"This book is a must for anyone interested in the future of the field of SF. Or in the future."-- WBAI, New York"They are closer to the world of Kafka and William Burroughs than to Asimov and Bradbury... it is doubtful that the New Wave will sweep away the more traditional science fiction."-- Boston Globe"The first wholesale application of modern styles of writing to the SF short story form."-- Columbus DispatchContents:The Island (1965) by Roger JonesNe déjà vu pas (1967) by Josephine SaxtonSignals (1966) by John CalderSaint 505 (1967) by John ClarkThe Singular Quest of Martin Borg (1965) by George CollynThe First Gorilla on the Moon (1968) poem by Bill ButlerBlastoff (1964) by Kyril BonfiglioliYou and Me and the Continuum (1966) by J. G. BallardWho's in There with Me? (1968) by Daphne CastellThe Squirrel Cage (1966) by Thomas M. DischManscarer (1966) by Keith RobertsThe Total Experience Kick (1966) by Charles PlattThe Silver Needle (1967) poem by George MacBethThe Baked Bean Factory (1967) by Michael ButterworthThe Hall of Machines (1968) by Langdon JonesThe Run (1966) by Christopher PriestAll the King's Men (1965) by Barrington J. BayleyStill Trajectories (1967) by Brian W. AldissSun Push (1967) by Graham M. HallReport on a Supermarket (1968) poem by Michael HamburgerDr. Gelabius (1968) by Hilary BaileyThe Heat Death of the Universe (1967) by Pamela ZolineThe Mountain (1965) by Michael MoorcockPsychosmosis (1966) by David I. MassonThe Idea of Entropy at Maenporth Beach (1967) poem by Peter RedgroveSame Autumn in a Different Park (1967) by Peter TateThe Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race (1966) by J. G. BallardPlan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy (1966) by J. G. Ballard

    Parody of Richard Amory's groundbreaking gay novel "Song of the Loon."

    His marriage had gone sour, his hopes as a playwright dashed. Confused and friendless, Steve turned to pretty boy Coy Randol for love and support. But then Coy was found brutally murdered and there was only one person the police suspected: Steve.

    The savage rituals of another age relived today!

    Jeffrey admitted this. She had suffered brain damage a fall from Jeffrey's horse. For all the years since, she had been closeted in her room, seen only accidentally by visitors, a fleeting vision of a burning-eyed wraith, distracted and angry.But Laura could not help feeling that there was something beyond this that controlled Jeffrey's life. His ghastly sculptures, his mother's alcoholism, and the unexplained disappearance of three visitors to the strange old house- all pointed to SOMETHING EVIL.