Weirdbook #32 presents a selection of great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre. Included are:<P> Childhood's Dread, by Taye Carrol<BR> The Other Neighbors, by Daniel Davis<BR> Rare Air, by Mark Slade<BR> The Children, by J.E. Alamo<BR> The Radiant Boy, by Kevin Wetmore<BR> The Whisperer in the Woods, by Peter Schranz<BR> Sweet Oblivion, by Andrew Darlington& ...
Gardner F. Fox (1911-1986) enjoyed a long and successful career writing in many genres. He wrote adventure novels, spy novels, romances, historical novels, fantasy and science fiction, comic books (more than 4,000 of them!) – everything imaginable, in fact, and with a skill and surety that won him a legion of fans and readers worldwide.<P> In the 1960s, at the peak of the sword and sorcery craze, when Robert E. Howard's Conan the Bar ...
This volume assembles 20 classic stories, a poem, and 2 essays by Manly Banister, classic author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. FEAR (essay)<BR> WHY VAMPIRES CAN’T REFLECT (letter)<BR> SATAN'S BONDAGE: A WEREWOLF WESTERN<BR> SIX FLIGHTS TO TERROR<BR> CURSED AWAKENING<BR> DEVIL DOG<BR> ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS<BR> LOUP-GAROU<BR> SONG IN THE THICKET<BR> EENA<BR> THE ...
It starts for movie buff Dave Beauchamp, L.A.'s most hapless P.I., when the tomato walks into his office. At least that’s how she's dressed. But the woman in the tomato suit is not what she seems…and the restaurant she's promoting, which is owned by a powerful religious cult, harbors a deadly secret. «Aided» by the voices of classic film stars inside his head, Dave struggles to disentangle a web of corruption and murder, or die tr ...
THE SMOKY GOD is an Edwardian era «hollow earth» fantasy novel, presented as a true story. The narrator, Olaf Jansen, voyages through a polar opening in 1829 and spends 2 years in a strange underground world, believed to be the original Garden of Eden. This inner Earth is lit by its own sun, and here underground civilization has diverged from the ways of the surface. Here are giants, monsters, omnipotent High Priests, and lost races that speak S ...
At last, the true story can finally be told of my participation in the investigation of a haunted bookshop in Barry, South Wales, organized by my good friend and fellow science fiction writer Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe. As a result of the haunting in question, or perhaps the abundant coal dust that accompanied it, I was enabled to meet the Devil and make a mutually rewarding pact with him. The story also relates my subsequent close encounter with ...
Long-undisturbed Tenebrion Wood, identified in the Domesday Book and named by the Romans after a kind of «night-sprit,» stands in the way of a road development. Environmentalist Steve Pearlman recruits a number of investigators to examine the site in order to find some justification for its defense, including entomologist John Hazard. At first, the wood does not seem to be of any special scientific interest, despite the occasional profusion of i ...
Gardner F. Fox (1911-1986) enjoyed a long and successful career writing in many genres. He wrote adventure novels, spy novels, romances, historical novels, fantasy and science fiction, comic books (more than 4,000 of them!) – everything imaginable, in fact, and with a skill and surety that won him a legion of fans and readers worldwide.<P> In the 1960s, at the peak of the sword and sorcery craze, when Robert E. Howard's Conan the Bar ...
I had a dossier that made Dillinger look like a petty thief. This information was on a white card in a metal file in the prison records office. Attached to it was a newspaper clipping, describing the trial and the sentence and another describing the robbery itself. Only thing about it – it didn't describe the whole truth. A classic crime novel! ...