Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont’s finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes.Beaumont dreamed up fantasies so vast and varied they burst through the walls of whatever box might contain them. Supernatural, horror, noir, science fiction, fantasy, pulp, and more: all were equally at home in his wondrous mind. These are stories where lions stalk the plains, classic cars rove the streets, and spacecraft hover just overhead. Here roam musicians, magicians, vampires, monsters, toreros, extraterrestrials, androids, and perhaps even the Devil himself. With dizzying feats of master storytelling and joyously eccentric humor, Beaumont transformed his nightmares and reveries into impeccably crafted stories that leave themselves indelibly stamped upon the walls of the mind. In Beaumont’s hands, nothing is impossible: it all seems plausible, even likely.

    But when a fatally wounded private eye staggers off a plane, gasps out a message, and collapses in front of the souvenirs, pretty Jean Cunliffe finds herself at the heart of a dangerous plot beyond anything she ever imagined.At the side of a mysterious playboy millionaire who has asked for her help, Jean is pitched into an international chase as they try to stay one step ahead of the killers. She’s within a hairsbreadth of unraveling the mystery—if only she can do it without giving away the secret to her enemies!

    Learn secrets of love and hidden fortune. Meet painted ladies, bejewelled assasins, Scarlet Priests, necromantic critics, a whip-wielding boutique owner--and wizards. Come, Liavek awaits.

    Authors include Elizabeth Moon, Jody Lynne Nye, Harry Turtledove and Margaret Ball.

    Terrifying urban myths, malicious ghosts, cursed architecture, malignant city deities, personal demons (in business or relationships) twisted into something worse virtually anything that inspires the contributors to imagine some bit of urban darkness."

     STAG PARTY Dane Hearne -- also known as the Irish fertility god Cernunnos -- must choose a bride quickly. His long-time goddess has run off with a salsa dancer, and Dane must be married by Beltane, just a week away, or become a mortal -- and die. When he meets American travel writer Megan St. Clair, he knows he's found his soul mate. But while Dane is a sexy Irish hunk with his fair share of blarney, can he convince Megan to marry him in just one week? NORSE TRULY Alrik Sigurdsson is cursed to sail his Viking ship along the same stretch of Scandinavian coastline forever. So when lovely American Brynna Lund skids her car off the road into the ocean, he and his men are happy for the diversion of rescuing her. Then Alrik discovers that Brynna is the only woman who can break the curse. Is it any wonder that he's determined to keep her...forever?

    . . All Hallows’ Eve . . . Samhain . . . Día de los Muertos . . . the Day the Dead Come Back . . . When the barriers between the worlds are at their weakest—when ghosts, goblins, and grisly things can cross over into our dimension—then for a single night each year the natural becomes the supernatural, the normal becomes the paranormal, and nobody is safe from their most intimate and terrifying fears.The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories brings you a dark feast of frightening fiction by some of the most successful and respected horror writers working today, including Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Joe R. Lansdale, Helen Marshall, Richard Christian Matheson, Robert Shearman, Robert Silverberg, Angela Slatter, Steve Rasnic Tem, and many more, along with a very special contribution by award-winning poet Jane Yolen. Here you will encounter witches, ghosts, monsters, psychos, demonic nuns, and even Death himself in this spooky selection of stories set on the night when evil walks the earth . . .

    Now, for the first time, that fiction has been gathered together in one place, ready to be enjoyed one twisting, tangled tale at a time. Her work crosses genres and subverts expectations.Meet the mad scientists of “Laughter at the Academy” and “The Tolling of Pavlov’s Bells.” Glory in the potential of a Halloween that never ends. Follow two very different alphabets in “Frontier ABCs” and “From A to Z in the Book of Changes.” Get “Lost,” dress yourself “In Skeleton Leaves,” and remember how to fly. All this and more is waiting for you within the pages of this decade-spanning collection, including several pieces that have never before been reprinted. Stories about mermaids, robots, dolls, and Deep Ones are all here, ready for you to dive in. This is a box of strange surprises dredged up from the depths of the sea, each one polished and prepared for your enjoyment. So take a chance, and allow yourself to be surprised.Enjoy.

    From Vaudeville, through the big bands and up to the hottest rock acts, the Luxor had them all. It's closed now, a boarded-up relic, standing alone in a run down industrial part of town. But the old dance hall isn't empty. A hideous presence lives there, a monstrous evil that has the ability to invade people's fantasies and nightmares . . . and bring them to life. Three strangers will soon learn the extent of the dance hall's power. As their lives become more and more entangled in its inescapable web, they will come to see that what haunts the Luxor is far worse than any ghost.

    Betsy Taylor and the Wyndham werewolves are back in three all-new outrageous novellas from New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson.MaryJanice Davidson “continues to put her own unique spin on paranormal romance” (Fallen Angel Reviews) in these hilarious and sexy new novellas featuring Undead Queen Betsy Taylor as she meets Fred the mermaid, an all-new female superhero, and Lara Wyndham, the daughter of the Pack leader of the Wyndham werewolves.

    Includes all new stories by Piers Anthony, Jeff Strand, Joe McKinney, Lisa Morton, Jeremy C. Shipp, Gary McMahon, Aric Sundquist, and many more! You don’t want to miss this staggering collection of horror and dark fantasy! Complete TOC: INSIDE THE BOXES by Jeff Strand DOWN IN THE WOODS TODAY by Emily C. Skaftun DOLLHOUSE by Craig Wallwork POOR ME AND TED by Kate Jonez A LITTLE CRIMSON STAIN by Joe McKinney I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE by S.S. Michaels DREAMS OF A RAGGED DOLL by Cate Gardner ATTIC DOG by David Raffin WHEN HARRY KILLED SALLY by Lisa Morton LIVING DOLL by Piers Anthony THE WHITE KNIGHT by Aric Sundquist THE DOLL TREE by Amelia Mangan A LITTLE TERROR by Phil Hickes GIVE IT A NAME by Gary McMahon DISCARDED by Nancy Rosenberg England GOOGLY by Jeremy C. Shipp RUBIK'S CUBE by Melanie Mascio A BRIGHTLY-COLORED BOX FILLED WITH STARS by Dorian Dawes THE TEA-SERVING DOLL by Mae Empson

    Things stay with us—souvenirs with memories attached. We can't always choose what to keep, what to throw away.Nathan's parents devised cautionary tales for him and his sister—gruesome stories about predatory cars racing along the "Big Street" at one end of their neighborhood, or dope fiends lurking in the woods behind their house and ready to plunge hypodermics into the skin of foolish young trespassers. These stories served their purpose during Nathan's gullible childhood, essentially constructing an invisible fence around the yard and keeping the boy close to home where he'd be safe.Such barriers are not so easy to discard in later life. As an adult, Nathan no longer believes his parents' stories, and yet they still confine him. He lives cautiously, avoiding serious relationships, avoiding risk. But despite his efforts, something from his parents' cautionary tales threatens to creep beneath that invisible border…and the enclosed yard might not be as safe and secure as it always seemed…

    A time traveler, observing him from within an invisible bubble, would not have marked him as anything more interesting than an undersized fourteen-year-old, seemingly always in hot water. Lively blue eyes, but basically just another kid." "But something was stirring, something was wakening in that nexus of energy. And in The Cleveland News of June 7th, little more than a week after he turned fifteen, Harlan Ellison's first professional writing appeared in print: the initial installment of a five-part adventure serial (liberally cribbed from Sir Walter Scott) titled "The Sword of Parmagon."" "Now, in a retrospective, 50 years of the best of Harlan Ellison has been assembled in a volume exceeding 1200 pages, encompassing fiction, essays, personal reminiscences, reviews and (published for the first time anywhere) a complete teleplay. Eighty-six complete and (with one exception) unabridged examples of the nonpareil writings of the man The Los Angeles Times labels "the 20th Century Lewis Carroll." Contents:1 · Introduction: Sublime Rebel · Terry Dowling · in 5 · Beginnings · Misc. Material · si 11 · The Sword of Parmagon · ss The Cleveland News, 1949 17 · The Gloconda · ss The Cleveland News, 1949 23 · The Wilder One · vi Sundial Jan ’55 25 · The Saga of Machine Gun Joe · vi Sundial Jan ’55 27 · Introduction to Glowworm · is Unearth Win ’77 30 · Glowworm · ss Infinity Science Fiction Feb ’56; slightly revised and expanded 41 · Life Hutch [Kyben] · ss If Apr ’56 53 · S.R.O. [as by Ellis Hart] · ss Amazing Mar ’57 63 · Worlds of Terror · Misc. Material · si 67 · Lonelyache · ss Knight Jul ’64 83 · Punky & the Yale Man · nv Knight Jan ’66 107 · A Prayer for No One’s Enemy · nv Cad Mar ’66 125 · Worlds of Love · Misc. Material · si 129 · In Lonely Lands · ss Fantastic Universe Jan ’59 135 · The Time of the Eye · ss The Saint Detective Magazine May ’59 143 · Grail · nv Twilight Zone Apr ’81 163 · That New Old-Time Religion · Misc. Material · si 167 · I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream · ss If Mar ’67 181 · Corpse · ss F&SF Jan ’72 189 · The Whimper of Whipped Dogs · ss Bad Moon Rising, ed. Thomas M. Disch, Harper & Row, 1973 205 · A Stab of Merriment · Misc. Material · si 209 · The Voice in the Garden · vi Lighthouse Jun ’67 211 · Erotophobia · ss Penthouse Aug ’71 217 · Mom · nv Silver Foxes Aug ’76 229 · Ecowareness · ss Sideshow Sep ’74 231 · The Outpost Undiscovered By Tourists · ss F&SF Jan ’82 235 · Dept. of “What Was the Question?” Dept. · ms * 237 · From Competition 4: Story Leads from the Year’s Worst Fantasy and SF · ms F&SF Apr ’73 238 · From Competition 8: Near-Miss SF Titles · ms F&SF Sep ’74 239 · From Competition 23: Unwieldy SF Titles · ms F&SF Feb ’80 239 · From Competition 26: Imaginary Collaborations · ms F&SF Mar ’81 240 · From Competition 39: Complete the Following Sentence... · ms F&SF Mar ’86 241 · Trouble with Women · Misc. Material · si 245 · The Very Last Day of a Good Woman [“The Last Day”] · ss Rogue Nov ’58 253 · Valerie: A True Memoir · ar Los Angeles Free Press Nov 3-24 ’72 267 · The Other Eye of Polyphemus · ss Cosmos SF&F Magazine Nov ’77 275 · All the Birds Come Home to Roost · ss Playboy Mar ’79 287 · To the Mattresses with Mean Demons · Misc. Material · si 293 · The Tombs: An Excerpt from Memos from Purgatory · ar Memos from Purgatory, Harlan Ellison, Regency, 1961 333 · “Our Little Miss” · ar Los Angeles Free Press, 1970 341 · A Love Song for Jerry Falwell · ar, 1984 347 · Telltale Tics and Tremors · ar Unearth Fll ’77 357 · True Love: Groping for the Holy Grail [“How I Survived the Great Videotape Matchmaker”] · ar Los Angeles Magazine, 1978 377 · Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54’ N, Longitude 77° 00’ 13" W · nv F&SF Oct ’74 407 · Rococo Technology · Misc. Material · si 413 · The Sky Is Burning · ss If Aug ’58 421 · The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World · nv Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967 439 · Along the Scenic Route [“Dogfight on 101”] · ss Adam Aug ’69; Amazing Sep ’69 449 · The Song the Zombie Sang · Harlan Ellison & Robert Silverberg · ss Cosmopolitan Dec ’70 461 · Knox · ss Crawdaddy Mar ’74 475 · Heart’s Blood · Misc. Material · si 481 · From Alabamy, with Hate [“March to Montgomery”] · ar Knight Sep ’65 493 · My Father · ar Los Angeles Free Press, 1972 499 · My Mother · ar Saint Louis Literary Supplement, 1976 507 · Tired Old Man · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jan ’76 517 · Gopher in the Gilly · ss Stalking the Nightmare, Phantasia, 1982 523 · Strange Wine · ss Amazing Jun ’76 531 · Nights & Days in Good Old Hollyweird · Misc. Material · si 537 · The Resurgence of Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie · na Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled, Trident, 1968 607 · Flintlock: An Unproduced Teleplay (1972) · pl * 687 · The Man on the Mushroom · in Ellison Wonderland, Paperback Library, 1974 691 · Somehow, I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas, Toto · ar Genesis Jun ’74; revised 707 · Face-Down in Gloria Swanson’s Swimming Pool · ar Los Angeles Magazine, 1978 711 · Petards & Hangings · Misc. Material · si 715 · Soldier [“Soldier from Tomorrow”] · nv Fantastic Universe Oct ’57 735 · The Night of Delicate Terrors · ss The Paper: A Chicago Weekly Apr 8 ’61 743 · Shattered Like a Glass Goblin · ss Orbit 4, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1968 751 · At the Mouse Circus · ss New Dimensions I, ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971 759 · Shadows from the Past · Misc. Material · si 763 · Free with This Box! · ss The Saint Detective Magazine Mar ’58 771 · Final Shtick · ss Rogue Aug ’60 781 · One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty · ss Orbit 8, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1970 795 · Jeffty Is Five · ss F&SF Jul ’77 813 · Contracts on the Soul · Misc. Material · si 817 · Daniel White for the Greater Good · ss Rogue Mar ’61 827 · Neither Your Jenny Nor Mine · ss Knight Apr ’64 861 · Alive and Well and on a Friendless Voyage · ss F&SF Jul ’77 871 · The Classics · Misc. Material · si 877 · “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman · ss Galaxy Dec ’65 887 · Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes · nv Knight May ’67 905 · A Boy and His Dog [Vic & Blood] · nv New Worlds Apr ’69; revised 939 · The Deathbird · nv F&SF Mar ’73 965 · Dark Liberation · Misc. Material · si 971 · The Thick Red Moment · ar The Los Angeles Weekly News, 1981 989 · The Man Who Was Heavily into Revenge · ss Analog Aug ’78 1003 · Driving in the Spikes · ar Los Angeles Magazine, 1983 1015 · Afterword · aw

    Cross-genre blowtorches with bad guys and worse guys. Love stories both dark and bittersweet. A brand new novella and extensive story notes. You’ll find this and more in the fifth collection from three-time Bram Stoker award-winner Norman Partridge, an author Locus calls “one of the most dependable, exciting, and entertaining practitioners of dark suspense and dark fantasy… emphasis on the dark.”In Lesser Demons, Partridge explores the kind of fiction that made him both a horror fan and a writer. Using the shotgun prose of a crime novel, the title story draws a deadly bead on H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. “The Iron Dead” introduces Chaney, a monster-hunting pulp hero with a mechanical hand built in hell. “Carrion” cuts a mean swath through Robert E. Howard territory, while “The Big Man” explores dark shadows of American life never imagined in the atom-age horror movies of the fifties.Part celebration, part reinvention, Lesser Demons only serves to underscore RevolutionSF’s verdict: “Norman Partridge is the finest writer of short horror fiction going.” Table of Contents Second Chance The Big Man Lesser Demons Carrion The Fourth Stair up from the Second Landing And What Did You See in the World? Road Dogs The House Inside Durston The Iron Dead A Few Words AfterDust jacket by Vincent Chong

    For the ten short stories collected here, John Wyndham turns his imagination to, among other subjects, body-snatching, time-travel and mind-travel, and the the tricky business of interplanetary colonization.