Monsters and nightmares, dream snakes and hyenas, thrive in this fantasy world that happened yesterday - or even before the dawn of time. It's all here, in the most enthralling collection ever of weird and fantastic adventures by Robert E. Howard, master fantician and creator of CONAN.Contents:Pigeons From HellThe Gods of Bal-SagothPeople of the DarkThe Children of the NightThe Dead RememberThe Man on the GroundThe Garden of FearThe HyenaDig Me No Grave The Dream SnakeIn the Forest of VillefereOld Garfield's HeartThe Voice of El-Lil

    A great experience, it all adds up to a sizzling novel."-Edinborough Evening News"Eckert thrusts us without warning into a breathtaking adventure. A gripping tale, monumental, captivating and enthralling, the story is a masterpiece!"-Chicago Sun Times

    Here is some of Howard's best work.Contents:"Introduction" by Glenn Lord"Pigeons From Hell" "Recompense" (poem)"The Pit of the Serpent" "Empire" (poem)"Etchings in Ivory" (prose poems)"Proem" "Flaming Marble""Skulls and Orchids""Medallions in the Moon""The Gods That Men Forget""Bloodstones and Ebony" "Thor's Son" (poem)"Cimmeria" (poem)"A Sonnet of Good Cheer" (poem)"Red Blades of Black Cathay""The Dust Dance" (poem)"The Bar by the Side of the Road" (poem)"Knife, Bullet and Noose""The Gold and the Grey" (poem)"Gents on the Lynch" "A Song Out of Midian" (poem)"She Devil""The Day That I Die" (poem)"The Voice of El-Lil""Black Wind Blowing" "The Curse of the Golden Skull""Black Talons" Notes

    But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time - a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner! Based on the screenplay by Sylvester Stallone.

    Hoffmann Price "Foreword" by Glenn Lord Autobiography "The Wandering Years" "An Autobiography" "A Touch of Trivia" "Letter: Robert E. Howard to Farnsworth Wright" "On Reading - And Writing" Biography "Facts of Biography" "A Biographical Sketch of Robert E. Howard" by Alvin Earl Perry Letter to Alvin Earl Perry, ca. early 1935, "The first character I ever created . . ." (excerpt only) "Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam" by H.P. Lovecraft "Lone Star Fictioneer" by Glenn Lord "A Memory of R.E. Howard" by E. Hoffmann Price "The Last Celt" by Harold Preece Bibliography "The Bibliography" by Glenn Lord Books Fiction Verse Articles Letters Index by Periodicals Translations Unpublished Fiction Unpublished Verse Unpublished Articles Series Index Lost Manuscripts Unborn Books Comics Television Adaptations The Junto About the Author Miscellanea "The Hand of Nergal" "The Battle That Ended the Century" by H.P. Lovecraft "Pictures in the Fire" "The Hall of the Dead" The Robert E. Howard Memorial Collection "Iron Shadows in the Moon" (first page of original typescript) Letters "The Golden Caliph" "R.E.H., as Mythical Dane" Cartoon from the Junto "Map of the Hyborian Age" A Robert E. Howard Photograph Album A Gent From Bear Creek Magazine Covers Obituaries

    P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and Theodore Sturgeon.

    He sang and danced like no other performer of his time. Tall, slender, handsome and resplendent in a white zoot suit, his presence on stage was electric. 'Hi-de-hi-de-ho,' he'd sing. 'Hi-de-hi-de-ho,' the audience would answer. 'Wah-de-do-de-way-de-ho,' he'd intone. 'Wah-de-do-de-way-de-ho,' they'd roar back. And on it would go until the crowd was singing and stomping and dancing in the aisles. It was the Great Depression, but he made them forget. More than that, he made them happy. That has always been Cab Calloway's profession - and the secret of his monumental success - knowing how to make people happy. He has entertained presidents and crowned heads of Europe, Mr. and Mrs. America (as they were then called) over network radio and the first integrated audiences in the South - as well as those still segregated by a rope down a concert hall. He has starred in Broadway shows, made scores of movies, and written hundreds of songs. He has worked - and played - with the greats of his profession from Louis Armstrong to Lena Horne, Duke Ellington to Al Jolson, Dizzy Gillespie to Bill Robinson...."

    The author recounts her story of adopting two children at a time when single adoptive parenthood and interracial families were virtually unknown.

    Howard - creator of some of the greatest worlds of heroic fantasy and nightmare horror ever conceived by the mind of manH.P. Lovecraft described Howard as a master of description of vast megalithic cities of the elder world, around whose dark towers and labyrinthine nether vaults lingers an aura of pre-human fear and necromancy which no other writer could duplicate.In the three volumes of Skull-Face Omnibus published by Panther Books you will find a nerve-tautening gallery of tales of superhuman savagery and supernatural evil, Journey back into long-lost eons of time and across frontiers of the occult with one of the greatest masters of the century, Robert E. Howard.A classic collection of tales from the Golden Age of fantasy and horrorCover illustration: Chris Achilleos

    JACOB - Papa. He owns a failing department store, which he plans to have burned down by a lifelong friend, who happens to be insane. RUTH - Mama. A Very spaced-out lady, She lives inher own world and her idea of a social evening is to throw a small funeral, say for thirty people. EZRA - The eldest son. A total failure at being a basketball coach. Then he spots a black street-court player who is phenomenal. He adopts him. HARRY - The younger son. A nebbish whose dream is to get into a shiksa's good graces as soon as possible. HERMA - The daughter. No beauty she. As a child she was mistaken for a monkey by the local organ grinder."

    But Christie's worst fears about her Piscean husband were not realized until she arrived at Ellersley Hall and learned the truth about the first Mrs Radford's dark fate...a fate that seemed to be written in the blackest stars...and would soon be Christie's own.

    Just what Timmy and Sid need to get away from it all. The bracing sea air puts new life into a man. But what about a woman? janice and Anthea who were bored; Mrs Reynolds who wanted some Golden Shred, Muna the stowaway, Caroline who had led such a sheltered life; Mame who liked a drop of the hard stuff - and booze as well; Fatima, the belly dancer who was always trying to build something extra into her act. Not to mention, Gloria, Natalie, Elizabeth, Margaret and the admiral's wife. There is no doubt about it: the sea does have a strange effect on women.

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    A warning, perhaps, of worse to come? Then the master of the household was dead, impaled by his own rapier. And his nineteen-year-old twin daughters were left orphans, facing a future that would bring them danger, misunderstanding, and love...a future complicated by the venomous hatred of a scheming woman who would stop at nothing - not even murder - to gain possession of the plantation and destroy its lovely heiresses.

    It's legally the only way a man can lay hands on a woman in public. And a woman surrenders herself to him whether she realizes it or not.This was Frank Draper... with his blond curly hair, his intense blue eyes that melted a woman on contact, and his tight, custom-tailored jeans that showed such great promise. Raw, sexual magnetism was what Frank had, and every woman in the shop could feel his impact.A wild novel of sex and beauty and what happens when they explode together.

    

    A munificent inheritance from an unknown benefactor...a fabulous Victorian mansion in San Francisco, the only one on Juniper Hill to escape destruction in the great earthquake...a ghostly pianist who plays a locked grand piano in the depths of the night...an eerie séance in the flickering candlelight...a beautiful young woman- very much in love- threatened by a desperate killer as she unravels the mystery of the musical ghost.

    Even at Athens airport, however, he is caught in the first strands of a frightening web of death and deceit. From the busy modernity of Patras and Athens, Killearn and his friends escape to the beauty and sunshine of the Greek islands.Yet it is in such idyllic settings that they come face to face with the horrific meaning of the Dark Host and where the final violent and tragic consequences of a bizarre attempt to cheat death are encountered."

    And all too fearfully she soon knew that in her Angela Teabury had a slave to do her bidding from beyond the grave...an unknown enemy had a defenseless target for savage attack...and a handsome man of many names had a terrified young woman to tremble in his arms and wonder if he were lover or devil in disguise...

    LOVECRAFTTerror in Cut-Throat Cave by ROBERT BLOCHThe Grey God Passes by ROBERT E. HOWARDThe People of the Pit by A. MERRITTThe Traveller by RAY BRADBURYA View From A Hill by M.R. JamesThe Interloper by Ramsey CampbellThe Cotillon by L.P. HartleyA Watcher By The Dead by Ambrose Bierce

    A world in which she never felt she really belonged. Then one day a handsome man appeared and introduced himself as her Uncle Lucien. He had been married to her long lost Aunt Tovi, he said, and he'd come to take Janella back to her people. Desperate for answers that would explain her bouts of amnesia and illuminate her mysterious past, Janella agreed to accompany him--little knowing that by doing so, she had sentenced herself to a nightmare without end. For in the curiously remote house to which her uncle had brought her, Janella learned that buried in her past were her own supernatural powers..powers born of ancient Scandinavian rituals..powers of evil that, once unleased, she could not control.

    was not enough to keep lovely, orphaned Denise Leclerc from visiting the chateau that was the home of her only surviving relatives. Left totally alone by the death of her aunt, and then discovering that she was both an heiress and a member of a distinguished Canadian family, nothing her lawyer said could deter her from seeking out her newfound uncles. Even the letter left by her aunt, with its mysterious warning of the danger that awaited her at the chateau, could not persuade Denise to change her plans. Yet if her lawyer could not convince her to remain in Boston, he could at least provide her with some protection in the person of his nephew, Robert Gordon, the handsome young man who in their one brief meeting had made a deep impression on Denise's heart.But the chateau held sinister surprises for the young heiress. And from the moment she knocked upon its massive door, Denise committed herself to a nightmare of terror, becoming the captive in a deadly game of deceit from which even Robert Gordon might not be able to rescue her...

    Nevertheless, she agrees to build a dirigible from his plans, in partnership with another aeronautic, Wolf Sanger, and puts aside as irrational her fears at living and working in his secluded mansion. But someone wants the dirigible to fail. Wants it badly enough to murder.