Omnibus including The Roaring Trumpet, The Mathematics of Magic, The Castle of Iron, The Wall of Serpents, and The Green Magician.The Baen edition includes an introduction by David Drake.

    The fate of six sisters lies in the House of Scorpio, where they are brought together by forces beyond their control--written in the stars and over the human heart.Haven of Horror! Haven of Love! SCORPIO!The Sisters:ARA--the brilliant and regal tutor to the household of the handsome actor Solis finds she must act a part in a dangerous play where lives and love are at stake.VENA--the beautiful governess fights the demon warlock Chrion for the love and reputation of the dashing horseman, Ramo.CLAIRE--the dark and comely nurse's love for a famous architect leads her to a wild Saturnalia of unbridled lust and danger.CELENE--the stunning housekeeper is led into a perilous trap with the brilliant doctor Draco, where her wits and passion are her only weapons.MENI--the delicate artist tangles in a web of intrigue and suspense where the masterful ambassador Rigo and the arrogant secretary Miyan play a dangerous game for her life.CYBELE--the love Virgo is trapped in a mesh of deadly poison where everyone is a suspect--including the man she loves.

    Howard "The Lost Race""Men of the Shadows""Kings of the Night""A Song of the Race" (poem) "Worms of the Earth"Untitled ("A gray sky arched...") "The Dark Man"Cover Illustration: Jeff Jones

    Here, along with the usual monsters - vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and some of Dr Frankenstein's more freakish creations - you'll find other, less familiar ones. You'll meet the frightening Fly-by-Night, the hideous shaddy, the horrible mock, and the dreaded shadmock, perhaps the most terrible of all. When Donald McCloud offers a starving man a meal, he unexpectedly discovers that the man is a vampire - and he's the main course! Accompanying the vampire, Eramus, to The Monster Club, Donald encounters a whole host of strange monsters, who, in a series of five linked stories, recount to Donald their monstrous exploits. But as Donald is regaled with these tales of monsters and their unfortunate human victims, it gradually dawns on him that as the only human in a club full of bloodthirsty monsters, he might be in a bit of a predicament. . . . First published as a paperback original in 1976, R. Chetwynd-Hayes's "The Monster Club" was adapted for a 1981 film starring Vincent Price, John Carradine and Donald Pleasence, and both book and film have gone on to become cult classics. Told in a wry, tongue-in-cheek style, the tales in "The Monster Club" are simultaneously horrific, comical, and curiously moving. This edition is the first in more than twenty years and features a new introduction by Stephen Jones and a reproduction of John Bolton's painting from the comic book adaptation of the film.

    These included "The Hounds of Tindalos" (the 1st Mythos story written by anyone other than Lovecraft), The Horror from the Hills (which introduced the elephantine Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn to the Mythos) & "The Space-Eaters" (featuring a fictionalized HPL as main character). The Hounds are Long's most famous 17 fictions. They're a pack of foul, incomprehensibly alien beasts "emerging from strange angles in dim recesses of non-Euclidean space before the dawn of time" to pursue travelers down the corridors of time. They can only enter our reality via angles, where they mangle & exsanguinate their victims, leaving behind only a "peculiar bluish pus or ichor". They're referenced by many later Mythos writers, including Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter & Brian Lumley. They've inspired a number of metal & electronic music artists, such as Epoch of Unlight, Edith Byron's Group, Beowulf, Fireaxe/Brian Voth & Univers Zero, all of whom have recorded tracks based on the story.

    GoodmanThe Celery Stalks in the Basement by Saralee TerryLast Respects by Dick BaldwinThe Strange Island Of Doctor Nork by Robert BlochUnsigned Original by Parke GodwinA Predicament by Edgar Allan PoeMoon-Face by Jack LondonThe Philosophy of Sebastian Trump or The Art of Outrage by William E. Kotzwinkle & Robert ShiarellaOil of Dog by Ambrose BierceThe Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O'BrienThe Pale Criminal by C. Hall ThompsonThe Day of the Lynx by Steve KnickmeyerOur Late Visitor by Joseph LavinsonNight and Silence by Maurcie LevelThe Possession Of Immanuel Wolf by Brother Theodore & Marvin Kaye

     She soon discovers that both her sister and her new husband have tragically perished in a fire which destroyed their home. Alone in the bleak Norfolk brecklands, Deborah is at first forced to accept hospitality from the handsome yet forbidding widower, Sir Randall Gaunt. Yet even when Deborah later stumbles upon the warm companionship of Lord Stannard, the charming young aristocrat wooing her with such passionate urgency, the strange events that follow cause her feelings of uneasiness to grow. And then, before long Deborah becomes inextricably involved in a nightmare of unimaginable evil…

    But as she took a short-cut through the woods, she was enveloped in a strange white fog...and when it had passed, beside her stood a coach-and-four with two liveried attendants - who forced her into the coach and made off with her! And suddenly Lee Parks found herself in Fenwick Manor, deep in the English countryside of 1773. And to her horror, she was caught up in a whirlwind of tragedy and suspense: A series of narrow escapes from violent death, in which she was mistaken for the mistress of Fenwick Manor who had mysteriously disappeared. Could Lee find the white fog and return to her own era? Or would she be stalked by macabre death intended for another?

    Over and over, the accident haunted me. The bridge - wet, slippery, so narrow. And then the fog - thick, condensing, coming from behind, then covering the windshield. Smothering me, blinding me. Oh, God, where's the railing? Then blackness... and icy water lapping, lapping. The hunters who found me on the shore were puzzled. How had I escaped? My car was still under water, locked. I knew no answers, only that I must go on to the dark house I would use as a hunting lodge, to welcome the strong young men who would come as hunters and might stay as lovers.

    

    Is that why the superstitious townspeople of Hessian's Cove recoiled from her when young and attractive Lilith Crane came to the sleepy fishing village located in the pine barrens of South Jersey? She didn't want trouble - all she wanted was to recuperate from the ghastly accident that took the lives of her parents and nearly blinded her, leaving her with an artificial cornea that allowed her to see strange ultraviolet visions.But Lilith had another mission that forced her to stay int he town: she had to find her real mother. Somewhere in her remote memory she remembered an earlier life, a life before the one she spent with her adoptive parents. But Hessian's Cove was an unlikely place to be reborn. Rife with madness, violence and Satanism, it was cut off from the rest of the world, more of a coven that a cove. Lilith had escaped death once . . . would she now be able to escape the . . . Devil in the Pines

    

    Suddenly the terrors of the film script are enacted in frightful reality. Just what IS the connection between Anvil Productions and the disappearance of more people from the village?Ann Green, a young and attractive journalist, makes it her business to find out and becomes enmeshed in a dangerous web of horror. Deliberately pursuing her solitary investigation, she feels herself exposed to evil, but she cannot back out now. Only she can stop this uncanny progression of events, or fall victim to them.

    

    

    Innocent of the hint of menace that lurks there …The eldest sister, Belinda, experiences sudden strange attacks of epilepsy; Sarah, the youngest, develops a craving for sexual perversion; and Nan, normally a contented, rational person, is infected with a morbid obsession with death.The only clue to these evil transformations lies in an ancient text which defines death as an extension of life – where the evil forces of a character are indestructible and return to infect the living.Someone must save the sisters from the power of the dead – and save them before their own personalities are irrevocably destroyed.

    Beautiful young Clarissa Colwell could feel it encroaching upon all who dwelt in the ancient mansion. Clarissa herself, who was married to handsome lawyer Caleb, a man twice her age, longed desperately for a love she had lost on the day she was wed. Her childlike sister Betsey, rescued from the abyss of death, had remained strangely silent ever since. Caleb’s son Jared had spurned love once, and now sought to reclaim it with the fury of a man possessed. And Caleb Colwell was devoted to a wife whose heart he could not call his, and pursued by a woman whose adoration he could never accept.They all lived together in the brooding old mansion, under the shadow of a witch’s evil spell. And slowly they walked an ominous, unseen path toward a future they could not foretell - toward a doom which might erase the name of Colwell forever...

    Adapted from the episode, "The Faces of Murder", written by Stanley Roberts, from the Paramount Television series, "Mannix", created by Richard Levinson and William Link, developed by Bruce Geller.

    Games of cards have been played throughout the ages in Egypt, India, China and Europe. Here, the author gives the traditional meanings ascribed to each card in the modern Minor Arcana, unfolds the secrets of the patterns from which the future can be predicted and tells how to discover whether wishes will be granted. Contents Include: Meanings Ascribed to the Cards - Curious Games with Cards Supposed to Foretell the Future - Dealing the Cards by Thirty Two - Dealing the Cards by Threes - Dealing the Cards by Sevens - Dealing the Cards by Sixteens - The Twenty-One Cards - The Italian Method - Past, present and Future - Another Method of Consulting the Cards - The Florence Mode - Modes of Using the Whole Pack of Fifty-Two Cards - The Star - Another Method Of Doing the Star - Wishes

    

    When Bart Fane, master of the manor, died suddenly and violently, his widow Amanda thought she would be free once again. Their marriage had been a barren one, and Amanda had fallen in love with another man. But in a final act of cruelty, Bart had left her Fanecliff, a grim inheritance she would have to live with for another year.Would she allow herself to be tied to a grave with chains of gold? She would forfeit her inheritance, it didn't matter, all she wanted was her freedom and her love. But the forces of Tarot forbade her happiness. The cards were tossed over and over, and again and again the grinning white skull appeared, calling Amanda to come peacefully and swiftly into the night.