Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy.Contents:"Introduction" (Lin Carter) Hyperborea "The Muse of Hyperborea" (prose poem) "The Seven Geases" "The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" "The White Sybil" "The Testament of Athammaus" "The Coming of the White Worm" "Ubbo-Sathla" "The Door to Saturn" "The Ice-Demon" "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles" The World's Rim "The Abominations of Yondo" "The Desolation of Soom" "The Passing of Aphrodite" "The Memnons of the Night" "Notes on the Commoriom Myth-Cycle", by Lin Carter

    Awaiting him will be his fiercest battle: the cold steel of his sword against the hell-fed powers of the sorcerer Thoth-Ammon.

    Landing in the Valley Dor, he witnesses a brutal attack on a party of green Martians by plant men and giant white apes, and then joins the battle--only to find himself fighting side by side with his old friend, the mighty Tars Tarkas! The Warlord of Mars: Far to the north, in the frozen wastes of Polar Mars, lay the home of the Holy therns, sacred and inviolate. Only John Carter dared to go there to find his lost Dejah Thoris. But between him and his goal lay the bones of all who had gone before.

    Within the context of exciting and suspenseful auto races Wibberley teaches important lessons about fear and how to overcome it. Woody perseveres through a series of accidents in the experimental Black Tiger racing car until finally winning the big race against other racers and his own fears.

    His stories are masterpieces of psychological suspense and mystery, and they have inspired classic movies like Hitchcock's Rear Window and Truffaut's The Bride wore Black. This collection brings together twelve of his finest, most powerful and disturbing tales.Contains the stories:- Graves for the Living- The Red Tide- The Corpse Next Door- You'll Never See Me Again- Dusk to Dawn- Murder at the Automat- Death in the Air- Mamie 'n' Me- The Screaming Laugh- One and a Half Murders- Dead on Her Feet- One Night in Barcelona- The Penny-a-Worder- The Number's Up- Too Nice a Day to Die- Life is Weird Sometimes(N.B: The last four stories are not included in the Crime Masterworks edition.)

    No one should waste those deliciously dark hours between dusk and dawn when the wind howls the loudest and the smallest sounds can reap the greatest dividends of dread. Therefore in his latest collection Hitch has personally selected tales tailored to break the stranglehold of slumber and make sure that all your nightmares are waking ones.

    Contents:About The Spawn of CTHULHU & H.P. Lovecraft · Lin CarterThe Whisperer in Darkness · H.P. Lovecraft · in Weird Tales Aug ’31 An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Newsletter Dec 25, 1886 The Yellow Sign · Robert W. Chambers · nv The King in Yellow, New York & Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895 Cordelia’s Song from The King in Yellow · Vincent Starrett · pm Weird Tales Apr ’38 The Return of Hastur · August Derleth · nv Weird Tales Mar ’39 Litany to Hastur (from Dreams from R’lyeh) · Lin Carter · pm Amra v2 #32 ’65 The Children of the Night · Robert E. Howard · ss Weird Tales Apr/May ’31 K’n-yan · Walter C. DeBill, Jr. · pm The Arkham Collector Win ’71 The Tale of Satampra Zeiros [Satampra Zeiros] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales Nov ’31 The Hounds of Tindalos · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales Mar ’29 The Curse of Yig · Zealia Brown Reed Bishop · ss Weird Tales Nov ’29 The Mine on Yuggoth [revised from “The Tower from Yuggoth”, Goudy #2 ’61] · Ramsey Campbell · ss The Inhabitant of the Lake, Arkham, 1964

    Long ago they served as refuge for the Wingate women from the savage tempers and brutal passions of the Wingate men. Now. though they had been sealed for many years, distant echoes of what once happened there still seemed to reverberate in the dimly-lit air. Everyone told Chloe Win-ate to let the ghosts of the fearful past rest undisturbed. Handsome. sardonic Innis Rolland mocked Chloe's efforts to investigate the evil that haunted the old mansion. Cool. level-headed Cecil Mallory claimed that he wanted to take Chloe away with him to safety. But Chloe was in the grip of something stronger than reason, and as in a dream. she found herself opening the forbidden door and stepping inside....

    

    Worshipped by opera lovers everywhere, Gilda Gianini retained her youth and beauty as well as her talent all those years. But there was a horrible secret behind the sweet pure tones that flowed from her throat, a terrifying reason behind the loveliness of her face. To discover the truth about Madame Gianini, Kitty Telefair was relying on her special occult powers, on the Telefairs' centuries-old heritage of psychic skills. But Kitty was stunned at the battle that followed her search - a battle fought with supernatural weapons, in a shadowy world where evil ruled.....

    The house was cursed by human, evil, or malice from beyond the grave.

    Thomas Aquinas? How can a man sealed inside a Patton tank be shot and killed when the only witness is able to swear that there was no murder?

    Nobody but Billy and his father seem to recognize the value of the junky Model A in the used-car lot.

    

    

    Complete with the original screenplay, the final shooting script. candid production shots and many stills. ON MAKING A MOVIE: BREWSTER McCLOUD THE SCENEHouston and its fabulous Astrodome. THE ACTIONThe on-location shooting of a major Hollywood film. CAST OF CHARACTERS * Director Robert Altman, making his first film since the smash success M*A*S*H... * Rock-and-roll magnate-turned-producer Lou Adler, with his funky Levis and $48,000 Rolls-Royce... * Bud Cort and Sally Kellerman, two rising young stars with big-time problems... * Also featuring an explosive assortment of actors, actresses, writers, cameramen, M-G-M tycoons, film editors, publicity men, press agents, gaffers, boom men, cablemen, stunt men, and everyone else involved in the fascinating, maddening, boring, exciting, often virtually unbelievable process of creating a big feature film--BREWSTER McCLOUD An Adler-Phillips-Lion's Gate Films Production.Directed by Robert Altman. Produced by Lou Adler.Released by M-G-M.

    — An evil, invalid mistress... — A mysterious lord of the manor... — These were only a few of the eerie terrors that awaited the new young governess. These were only a part of the bloodcurdling curse haunting the old estate. — There were also the dark, evil corridors... the weird half-human cries.. the looming black shadow... the banshee shrieks in the night...An innocent and unsuspecting young governess falls prey to a bizarre family curse. Heart-stopping romantic suspense in the tradition of Mary Stewart and Victoria Holt.

    ConeyMr. Nobody R. W. MackelworthThe Farmhouse David A. RileyThe People Down Below by Julia BirleyPhantasmagoria by W.T. WebbPrison by Bryn ForteyCharley's Chair by David RomeBroadcast by Ramsey CampbellGoat by David CamptonThe Winner by E.C. Tubb

    He had built his house with many doors so that he could escape the fire he knew would flare someday. But when the blaze began, no door would open to his frantic pressure.Now Carina was the last Barclay, heiress to a legacy of fiery death. If her would-be executioners were human, she could hope to escape. If they were not, what power could save her?

    But Beth St. Denis didn't believe in Satan, or His Satanic Majesty. Oh, there were hints of strange talents within her, of dark powers coursing through her blood...but this is the twentieth century, and tales of witches and witchery belong in the realm of children's fables. Then Beth accepted an invitation to Griffon House, and met Maretta Griffon Blackmer-who was a witch. Maretta and her circle of friends-and enemies-believed wholeheartedly in the powers of the Dark Master and welcomed eagerly the innocence of Beth into their Coven. Beth was soon forced to answer the question of whether innocence can sup with the Devil and remain innocent-or if she must die for sins she did not commit!

    Raymond was handsome, genial, gregarious; he had entered her New York office and swept her off her feet. Then they were off to Morlith and his ancestral home, Shrewsbury Hall... Yet why? Anne was young, inexperienced. Raymond didn't seem to want her as a woman. Why had he married her - knowing, as he must have known, that her serious questions had to torment him? Then she was a bride alone at Shrewsbury Hall, reading a strange diary and gazing at a shocking portrait. There the terrifying answers lay - in the ancient deeds of a bizarre cult in the cold silence of Morlith people she could not trust. The portrait was a long-dead girl who had succumbed to evil. Could Anne ward off the cult's enduring power - or would she join her in the tomb? What could she do?

    Pulp fiction catering to the British youth market of the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.