In a turbo-charged romp through the Hollywood of everyone's wildest dreams, Boy Wonder follows the career of Shark Trager—rebel filmmaker and megasuccessful producer—from his birth in 1950 at a drive-in movie theater and his meteoric rise to the pinnacle of Hollywood power, to his equally spectacular descent into obscurity.

    Almost every important writer of fantastic fiction in the first half of this century—including H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Fritz Lieber—and countless other notables have had their works showcased in its pages.Now, in this special volume compiled by popular anthologist Marvin Kaye, some of the most memorable horrific, bizarre tales ever published are assembled, all of which have appeared in various incarnations of Weird Tales over the years.Interim by Ray BradburyThe House of Ecstasy by Ralph Milne FarleyThe Stolen Body by H.G. WellsThe Scrawny One by Anthony BoucherThe Sorcerer's Apprentice by Lucian of Samosata translated by Sir Thomas MoreSkulls in the Stars by Robert E. HowardEena by Manly BanisterThe Look by Maurice LevelMethought I Heard A Voice by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher PrattOff the Map by Rex DolphinThe Last Train by Fredric BrownTi Michel by W.J. StamperIn the X-Ray by Fritz LeiberSpeak by Henry SlesarThe Pale Criminal by C. Hall ThompsonThe Sombrus Tower by Tanith LeeMr. George by August DerlethThe Terror of the Water Tank by William Hope HodgsonThe Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller by Gustave FlaubertThe Hoax of the Spirit Lover by Harry HoudiniSeed by Jack SnowMasked Ball by Seabury QuinnThe Woman with the Velvet Collar by Gaston LerouxMistress Sary by William TennThe Judge's House by Bram StokerThe Bagheeta by Val LewtonGhost Hunt by H.R. WakefieldFuneral in the Fog by Edward D. HochThe Damp Man by Allison V. HardingThe Lost Club by Arthur MachenWet Straw by Richard MathesonMysteries of the Faceless King by Darrell SchweitzerMore Than Shadow by Dorothy QuickThe Dead Smile by F. Marion CrawfordThe Sorcerer's Apprentice by Robert BlochChicken Soup by Katherine MacLean and Mary KornbluthThe Haunted Burglar by W.C. MorrowNever Bet the Devil Your Head by Edgar Allan PoeHe by H.P. LovecraftThe Brotherhood of Blood by Hugh B. CaveThe Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan by Clark Ashton SmithMen Who walk Upon the Air by Frank Belknap LongA Child's Dream of a Star by Charles DickensThe Perfect Host by Theodore SturgeonWhy Weird Tales attributed to Otis Adelbert KlineDust jacket illustration by Richard Kriegler, based on Howard's "Skulls in the Stars." Interior drawings by Richard Kriegler.Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. A mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable.

    No Light to Die ByAn eerie illumination in the moonless night sky lights a path to destruction for Doc Savage-as The Man Of Bronze must defuse the most explosive threat to mankind since the atom bomb!Authored by Lester Dent.The Monkey SuitWhy are people being murdered for a rented, moth-eaten ape costume? Doc and his crew battle to unmask the deadly mystery-and to keep a billion-dollar scientific breakthrough out of the hands of gangland gorillas.Authored by Lester Dent.Let's Kill AmesWhen a beautiful but unscrupulous con-artist gets herself entangled in a poisonous extortion plot, only Doc Savage and his bold crew can discover the hidden antidote for murder.Authored by Lester Dent.Once Over LightlySudden death turns a carefree vacation into a captive hell, as Doc races to prevent a terrifying transaction that could reduce America's cities to radioactive rubble!Authored by Lester Dent.I Died YesterdayThe corpse of a young man in a beauty parlor, an ice pick, a camera, plants, chemistry, and Doc's meddlesome cousin Pat Savage all add up to a frightening plot-and an all-out mission to save The Man Of Bronze!Authored by Lester Dent.

    To save the peaceful People of the Forest, Gath must dice with the gods, and the price he must pay is to become death made flesh, the Prisoner of the Horned Helmet.

    Then it discovers a way, an escape, back into the world of men…in the form of a seductively beautiful .357 Colt Python revolver. Forged in the damned fires of the underworld, hammered from the strongest but cursed steel, the gun and the entity that inhabit it are capable of immeasurable destruction and insidious evil. Anyone who comes in contact with it, even touches it, will find themselves staring into the muzzle of a loaded and sinister gun…and into the mouth of hell.

    Long ago, two priests vowed to silence the evil entombed below. But now, the guardians are gone--and once again, the people of Chinook Island are stalked by the undead, seeking to feast on human blood!

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    Abandoning the light of day, he finds an evil as old as time, and a redemption which must be bought by a price far greater than death.

    

    His victims die horribly--their last moments a nightmare of fear and pain that feeds a savage madness. Their mutilated bodies taunt the city. As the public panics, the police stand by, helpless.In a desperate move, the authorities call in Paul Fenner, an ex-cop with a checkered past. Fenner has won his battle with booze and overcome the failure of a lifetime. Now, he's about to become the prey of an insane killer, caught in a maze of madness and murder...

    

    But a deeper obligation made him remain behind, disobeying orders to wage a personal war against the brutal Red Chinese oppressors. And now the renegade American is alone, a marked pawn for the KGB, dodging bullets from a crack Company assassin, and targeted for death by a beautiful but bloodthirsty female warlord.But Destiny has other plans for Bart Lasker. There are age-old prophesies to be fulfilled, prophesies of destruction and of a world reborn. The legend from time immemorial to be, at long last, realized, of a fearless avenger from out of the West, transformed from mortal man to MYSTIC REBEL

    Faced with her beloved grandmother's illness and her own attraction to a boy her parents would disapprove of, Franny tries to shut off her feelings completely.

    From the gentle release of an old soul's peaceful passing to the quick silent death of a hunting owl's prey, Mitch felt it all. — All -- including the bloody, horrifying murder of a young woman who died suddenly in the night! — The murder echoes in Mitch's mind -- the beating, the rape, the terrible pain of the stabbing knife. Unable to banish what she has seen, Mitch goes to the police. And seals her doom.For the murderer knows that what Mitch felt was real. She will have to die before she can identify him.The next death Mitch sees will be her own.