The second of the "Nighthunter" collection by Robert Holdstock writing as Robert Faulcon, incorporating The Ghost Dance and The Shrine.

    With the aid of a powerful computerized automobile, Michael Knight fights to defeat the evil plans of Tanya Walker and her corporate espionage ring.

    Contents:7 · Lyricist of Lost Worlds · Donald Sydney-Fryer · in · I: The Monster of the Prophecy 13 · The Monster of the Prophecy · nv Weird Tales Jan ’32 · II: Zothique 51 · Xeethra [Zothique] · ss Weird Tales Dec ’34 70 · The Empire of the Necromancers [Zothique] · ss Weird Tales Sep ’32 80 · The Charnel God [Zothique] · nv Weird Tales Mar ’34 102 · The Witchcraft of Ulua [Zothique] · ss Weird Tales Feb ’34 · III: Vulthoom 112 · Vulthoom · nv Weird Tales Sep ’35 · IV: Hyperborea 139 · The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan · ss Weird Tales Jun ’32 148 · The Seven Geases · nv Weird Tales Oct ’34 168 · The Coming of the White Worm · ss Stirring Science Stories Apr ’41 · V: Lost Worlds 185 · Master of the Asteroid · ss Wonder Stories Oct ’32 200 · The Immeasurable Horror · ss Weird Tales Sep ’31 215 · Monsters in the Night [“A Prophecy of Monsters”] · vi F&SF Oct ’54 219 · The Gorgon · ss Weird Tales Apr ’32 231 · A Voyage to Sfanomoë · ss Weird Tales Aug ’31

    

    The babies stillborn, monstrously deformed...the adults dying, one by one. Then without reason it stopped. The beautiful New England town forgot. Once again healthy children skipped along its tree-lined streets. Everything was as it had been before. -- Except for eight children set apart from all the rest. Angelically beautiful...devilishly smart...unnaturally secretive. To get too close to them...to ask too many questions about them was to die. Horribly. Inexplicably.One young doctor was willing to risk his career, his very life to know why. One beautiful woman, a child already growing in her womb, unknowingly held the answer. But time was running out. Soon no one would be safe. First Cayoga Falls, then the world, would witness the dark and terrible dawning of...THE EIGHTH DAY

    Bayley --Wife's story / Ursula K. Le Guin --Rouge tomato / Michael Bishop --New me / Thomas M. Disch --Legacy / Charles Sheffield --Sisohpromatem / Kit Reed --Byrds / Michael G. Coney --Desertion / Clifford D. Simak --First Christmas tree / Tom Discj --Dark of the June / Gene Wolfe --Indian rope trick explained / Rudy Rucker --Flies by night / Lisa Tuttle and Steven Utley --Day of the wolf / Ian Watson --Between the dark and the daylight / Algis Budrys --Once on Aranea / R.A. Lafferty --Master / Angela Carter --Apotheosis of Myra / Walter Tevis --Itihonian factor / Richard Cowper.

    Games range from deadly mercenary missions and stealthy spy assignments to the careful piecing together of puzzling mysteries. Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes allows you to create and play many interesting characters: hard-bitten mercenaries, suave deadly spies, brilliant detectives, or fearless adventurers. Through group play with friends or the solo adventures you play alone, MSPE is elegantly simple, easy to learn, and most of all, fun to play!The game contains everything you need to play many games of Mercenaries, Spies and Private Eyes, including almost 100 skills for character development, and an extensive list of modern and archaic weapons.This special Combined Edition includes all the material from both previous versions of the MSPE rulebooks, including 15 pre-rolled characters, character folder & portraits, additional rules like Tunnels & Thompsons, Sci-Fi Enhancements and new art.Plus New MSPE rules by best-selling author Michael Stackpole.

    

    The drama was intense, the colors vivid, and the pace exhausting. The characters moving through these prose dreams were heightened, too. Most were cast in a quasi-heroic mold and moved on elevated planes of accomplishment.     This book and its companion volumes are concerned with the slow shaping of many literary conventions over many decades. This volume begins the study with the dime novels and several early series characters who influenced the direction of pulp fiction at its source.

    

    Hyatt Verrill Edmond Hamilton F. N. Waldrop Floyd L. Wallace Fredric Brown James H. Schmitz John R. Pierce Naomi Mitchison Poul Anderson Ray Bradbury Robert Silverberg Thomas N. Scortia

    Cloistered for years, Suzanna barely knew him until James Rutledge summoned her to be a translator for his English partner.Suzanna was ordered to cater to Lord Alex's every whim. But she had desires of her own and her heart would be given only to the man who would win it.

    She was warm and outgoing, a creative photographer. Josh Rettinger and Tracy Monroe couldn't have been less alike. Yet as they worked side by side on the latest news stories, their friendship blossomed. When Josh asked her to pose as his fiancee because he couldn't face Christmas with his family alone, Tracy agreed to play the part.But their romantic playacting soon became more than make-believe. For Josh, the closeness of his "fiancee" filled him with unexpected desire. Tracy found herself falling deeply in love. She knew Josh's icy facade hid a heart that had been cruelly hurt... and she knew just as surely that she loved him with a passion that would awaken him to love.

    

    The four survivors of a jetliner crash in Cambodia, an adolescent girl and boy, a Cambodian stewardess, and a former combat pilot, stumble on an abandoned airbase, a treasure, and two skeletons.