How I Achieved Humility (Confessions of a Duffer)

Don Webb

Sunshine Publications

When They Came is a collection of 23 dark fantasy stories by Don Webb. The contents include magical realist tales of life in Texas, altered states of consciousness, the effects of imaginary drugs, forbidden knowledge, and the perilous attraction of books. Several stories pay homage to H. P. Lovecraft.

When They Came

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Temporary Culture

<ul><li>Modern pulp fiction with a retro twist! IDW presents ten original prose adventures featuring Cliff, Betty, Peevy, and a host of new villains. From murderous treasure-hunters and marauding Asian sky-pirates, to ancient Egyptian magicians and haunted mad scientists, the Rocketeer solves crimes and fights evil in these unique and exciting tales of jet-pack action and pin-up romance. Set between 1939 and 1946, with such historical characters as Howard Hughes, Hedy Lamarr, Tarzan’s Johnny Weissmuller, and acclaimed Western writer Zane Grey, to name but a few.</li></ul>

Rocketeer: Jet-Pack Adventures (The Rocketeer)

Literature & Fiction

Nicholas Kaufmann

Cody Goodfellow

J. Bone

GREGory FRoSt

Simon Kurt Unsworth

yvonne-navarro

United States

IDW Publishing

New commentaries on Aleister Crowley’s Book of the Law reveal how it is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths • Examines each line of the Book of the Law in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, Gurdjieff’s teachings, and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought • Explores Crowley’s identification with the First Beast of Revelation as well as his adoption of the Loki archetype for becoming a vessel of love for all humanity • Recasts the Cairo Working as a text of personal sovereignty and a relevant tool for personal transformation • Includes commentary on the Book of the Law by Dr. Michael A. Aquino, who served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1975 to 1996 Received by Aleister Crowley in April 1904 in Cairo, Egypt, the Book of the Law is the most provocative record of magical working in several hundred years, affecting not only organizations directly associated with Crowley such as the Ordo Templi Orientis but also modern Wicca, Chaos Magic, and the Temple of Set. Boldly defying Crowley’s warning not to comment on the Book of the Law, Ipsissimus Don Webb provides in-depth interpretation from both Black and White Magical perspectives, including commentary from Dr. Michael A. Aquino, who served as High Priest of the Temple of Set from 1975 to 1996. Webb examines each line of the Book in the light of modern psychology, Egyptology, existentialism, and competing occult systems such as the teachings of G. I. Gurdjieff and contemporary Left-Hand Path thought. Discarding the common image of Crowley formulated in a spiritually unsophisticated time when the devotee of the Left-Hand Path was dismissed as a selfish evil doer, Webb unveils a new side of Crowley based on his adoption of the Loki archetype and his aim to become a vessel of love for all humanity. In so doing, he shows how the Book of the Law is connected to both Right- and Left-Hand Paths and reveals how Crowley’s magical path of mastery over the self and Cosmos overthrew the gods of old religion, which had kept humanity asleep to dream the nightmare of history. Providing in-depth analysis of Crowley’s sources and his self-identification with the First Beast of Revelation from a profound esoteric perspective, Webb takes his views out of the Golden Dawn matrix within which he received the Book of the Law and radically recasts the Cairo Working as a text of personal sovereignty and a relevant tool for personal transformation.

Overthrowing the Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Inner Traditions

SYNOPSIS This sixth volume of S. T. Joshi s acclaimed Black Wings series demonstrates as never before how infinitely malleable are H. P. Lovecraft s weird conceptions. The twenty-two stories and poems in this book run the gamut of modes and genres, but each of them is fueled by elements large and small drawn from Lovecraft s inexhaustibly rich corpus of writing. Cosmicism is central to Lovecraft s imaginative vision, and it oftentimes is manifested in tales of archaeological horror. In this volume, stories by Ann K. Schwader, Lynne Jamneck, Don Webb, and Stephen Woodworth treat this motif in varying and distinctive ways. Lovecraft s work is also infused with a profound sense of place, as he himself was attached to the familiar locales of his native New England but also travelled widely in search of new vistas to stimulate his imagination. Here, stories by Tom Lynch, Aaron Bittner, W. H. Pugmire, and Darrell Schweitzer summon up the landscapes of diverse realms in America to tease out the horrors embedded in them. Alien creatures are featured in many of Lovecraft s greatest tales. In this volume, William F. Nolan, Nancy Kilpatrick, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Thomas, and Jason V Brock summon up multiform monsters inspired by Lovecraft s notions of hybridism and alien incursion. The forbidden book theme is deftly handled by Caitlín R. Kiernan, and the notion of other worlds lying just around the corner from our own is the subject of stories by Donald Tyson and Mark Howard Jones. Finally, David Hambling cleverly adapts Lovecraftian concepts to the locked-room detective story. In commemorating the incredible efflorescence of weird poetry in our time, this book presents poems by four leading contemporary poets Ashley Dioses, K. A. Opperman, Adam Bolivar, and D. L. Myers. Each of their works fuses skilful use of rhyme and metre with compact evocations of Lovecraftian themes. H. P. Lovecraft s work is likely to continue inspiring writers for many generations, and this volume presents a vivid snapshot of what can be said in this idiom by sensitive and talented authors.

Black Wings VI - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Steve Rasnic Tem

William F. Nolan

Jonathan Thomas

Jason V Brock

S.T. Joshi

Nancy Kilpatrick

Lynne Jamneck

Ann K. Schwader

stephen-woodworth

Genre Fiction

PS Publishing

ABOUT THIS BOOK In his celebrated novella At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft told of the discovery of a vast, alien city buried beneath Antarctic ice: millions of years old, filled with shocking secrets about the history of life on Earth, and not entirely uninhabited. After the Miskatonic University expedition of 1930 came to a disastrous end, further exploration was either discouraged or suppressed. The city of the Elder Things slept once more, and the world seemed safe from whatever the Mountains of Madness still harbored. Decades later, global warming melts ice caps and glaciers retreat. That which was once hidden is hidden no longer. So what happens when that horror-filled city of Elder Things and shoggoths is in plain sight, its existence impossible to deny? How will mankind deal with the realization we are masters of the Earth only by sheer chance? Something is stirring, that mastery may be coming to an end. What happens next? Denial? Exploitation? The rise of strange cults? Maybe even an ill-advised attempt at tourism? Or will the cosmic forces now awakened engulf the entire planet? Here are some of the answers: stories by Adrian Cole, Gordon Linzner, James Chambers, Melinda LaFevers, John R. Fultz, Harry Turtledove, James Van Pelt, Robert M. Price, Don Webb, John Shirley, Paul Di Filippo, Frederic S. Durbin, John Linwood Grant, Geoffrey Hart, Amdi Silvestri, Géza A.G. Reilly, and Darrell Schweitzer. Verse by Ann K. Schwader and Adam Bolivar. The Mountains of Madness . . . revealed. Table of Contents Introduction Darrell Schweitzer Climate of Fear Ann K. Schwader. Cold Storage Adrian Cole Beyond the Thaw Gordon Linzner Echoes from the Ice James Chambers New Birth Melinda LaFevers The Embrace of Elder Things John R. Fultz The Hill of the Beast Harry Turtledove Skinny Dipping with the Old Ones James Van Pelt The Unspeakable Spawning of the Proto-Shoggoths Robert M. Price The Water of Dhul Nun Don Webb A Boy and His Shoggoth John Shirley The Yog-Sothoth Policeman s Union Paul Di Filippo The Evening Calm Frederic S. Durbin Strange Perfumes of a Polar Sun John Linwood Grant At the Mountains of Magnates Geoffrey Hart In Everything a Sound Amdi Silvestri A Wind from the South Géza A.G. Reilly Down to a Sunless Sea Darrell Schweitzer The Ballad of the Black Mountain Adam Bolivar

Mountains of Madness Revealed

HARRY TURTLEDOVE

John R. Fultz

James Chambers

John Shirley

Robert M. Price

Darrell Schweitzer

Adrian Cole

James Van Pelt

Gordon Linzner

Melinda LaFevers

ABOUT THIS BOOK 
In this latest edition of THE WORLD’S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY you will find cutting-edge stories by such authors as Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Alison Littlewood, Jonathan Carroll, Michael Marshall Smith, Angela Slatter, Reggie Oliver and Richard Christian Matheson, amongst many others. You'll also find the usual Introduction: Horror in 2019 and Necrology of those who have left us. 
CONTENT 
Introduction: Horror in 2019 ― THE EDITOR 
Zombie-ish ― SCOTT BRADFIELD 
Wake the Dead ― MAURA MCHUGH 
Mercy Brown ― CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN 
Mama Bruise ― JONATHAN CARROLL 
The Same As the Air ― ALISON LITTLEWOOD 
Getting Through ― RAMSEY CAMPBELL 
The Children of Medea ― STEPHEN BACON 
The Water of Dhu’l Nun ― DON WEBB 
Under the Frenzy of the Fourteenth Moon ― RON WEIGHELL 
The Promise of Saints ― ANGELA SLATTER 
Crawlspace Oracle ― RICHARD GAVIN 
Downriver ― MICHAEL CHISLETT 
Death in All Its Ripeness ― MARK SAMUELS 
Shrapnel ― RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON 
Precipice ― DALE BAILEY 
Antripuu ― SIMON STRANTZAS 
A Crown of Leaves ― KRISTI DeMEESTER 
A Stay at the Shores ― STEVE RASNIC TEM 
The Old Man of the Woods ― REGGIE OLIVER 
Iron City ― TANITH LEE 
Slough ― GLEN HIRSHBERG 
A Species of the Dead ― D.P. WATT 
The Burning Woods ― MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH 
Necrology: 2019 ― STEPHEN JONES & KIM NEWMAN 
Useful Addresses

Best New Horror #31

MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH

Stephen Jones

Alison Littlewood

Angela Slatter

Caitlin, R., Kiernan

Maura McHugh

kim-newman

Scott Bradfield

Stephen Bacon

Ramsey, Campbell

This second instalment of S. T. Joshi s critically acclaimed Black Wings series contains eighteen stories by leading contemporary writers, all drawing upon themes, images, and ideas from the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. Caitlín R. Kiernan has written a poetic reinterpretation of The Hound, while Nicholas Royle plays a fascinating riff on the existential horror of The Outsider. Three separate tales, by Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, and Jonathan Thomas, ring changes on Lovecraft s seminal story, The Call of Cthulhu. Nick Mamatas writes an ingenious elaboration of The Whisperer in Darkness. The cosmic indifferentism that is the core of Lovecraft s fiction is treated in various ways by John Langan, Melanie Tem, Tom Fletcher, Darrell Schweitzer, and Richard Gavin. The archaeological horror that we find in some of Lovecraft s most powerful tales is revivified by Donald Tyson, while Lovecraft s media presence is made the subject of half-comic, half-horrific tales by Don Webb and Chet Williamson. John Shirley, Rick Dakan, and Jason V Brock use Lovecraft s life and outlook as springboards for imaginative tales of psychological and supernatural horror. All in all, Black Wings II affords a rich feast of terror inspired by the twentieth century s greatest writer of the supernatural.

Black Wings II [jhc]

JOHN LANGAN

Nicholas Royle

Tom Fletcher

Donald Tyson

Nick Mamatas

Richard Gavin

Melanie Tem

Jason C. Eckhardt

Brian Evenson

Rick Dakan

his third installment of S. T. Joshi s critically acclaimed Black Wings series contains seventeen stories by some of the foremost writers in contemporary weird fiction, using the ideas, imagery, and atmosphere of H. P. Lovecraft s tales as springboards. Jonathan Thomas opens the book with a chilling tale of biological horror set in Lovecraft s native Providence, Rhode Island. Caitlín R. Kiernan melds brooding melancholy with Lovecraftian cosmicism in her tale, while Simon Strantzas weaves an ingenious variant on Lovecraft s concept of the ghoul. Darrell Schweitzer and Donald Tyson probe the notion of alternate worlds in their tales. This volume takes the reader on imaginative journeys around the world. Don Webb finds Lovecraftian horror in the wilds of Texas; Peter Cannon s characters encounter the denizens of Innsmouth on a trip to China; Mollie L. Burleson enlivens the American Southwest with terrors out of history. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., revivifies Lovecraft s ancient New England seaport of Kingsport, Massachusetts, while in their collaborative tale W. H. Pugmire and Jessica Amanda Salmonson do the same with Lovecraft s iconic Arkham. The volume concludes with a searching rumination on Lovecraft s early tale From Beyond by Brian Stableford. Black Wings III demonstrates how H. P. Lovecraft s work continues to inspire some of the best in contemporary weird writing. CONTENTS Introduction by S. T. Joshi Houdini Fish Jonathan Thomas Dimply Dolly Doofy Donald R. Burleson The Hag Stone Richard Gavin Underneath an Arkham Moon Jessica Amanda Salmonson &amp; W. H. Pugmire Spiderwebs in the Dark Darrell Schweitzer One Tree Hill (The World as Catalysm) Caitlín R. Kiernan The Man with the Horn Jason V. Brock Hotel del Lago Mollie L. Burleson Waller Donald Tyson The Megalith Plague Don Webb Down Black Staircases Joseph S. Pulver, Sr China Holiday Peter Cannon Necrotic Cove Lois Gresh The Turn of the Tide Mark Howard Jones Weltschmerz Sam Gafford Thistle s Find Simon Strantzas Further Beyond Brian Stableford

Black Wings III - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror

Brian Stableford

Donald R. Burleson

Lois Gresh

The Great Old Ones, Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Yog Sothoth, and the rest, so vividly described by H. P. Lovecraft, have lurked in the dim places of the Earth since the beginning of time. That is not dead, wrote the mad poet Abdul Alhazred, which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die. You may reasonably wonder, then, why no one seemed to notice prior to the events in the Lovecraft stories. Was Cthulhu merely dreaming in sunken R lyeh all this time, or did the dreams he sent out to mankind subtly influence, or pervert, human history? Were the outbreak of the Dunwich Horror and the resurrection of Charles Dexter Ward s ancestor Joseph Curwen, both of which occurred in the 1920s, unique events, or have similarly dreadful things happened before? What were the Mi-Go of Yuggoth doing in the centuries before they were discovered in the Vermont hills by Henry Wentworth Akeley, as told in The Whisperer in Darkness ? This book proposes that such horrific events did occur down the centuries. They just have not been adequately chronicled until now. Esther Friesner proposes a unique explanation to the explosion of the island of Thera in the 2nd millennium B.C., which gives a whole new meaning to the phrase big bang. Keith Taylor illuminates what was up till now merely a sinister allusion, of how Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos appeared as a man in Egypt in the days of the pharaohs. Jay Lake and John Langan tell of very different encounters between ancient Romans and forces vaster and more ancient than any of the world s empires. Darrell Schweitzer tells how survivors of the disastrous Peasants Crusade made an even more hideous pilgrimage to the Plateau of Leng. Don Webb reveals the very circumstances under which the English scholar John Dee translated the dreaded Necronomicon into English in the early 17th century. S. T. Joshi, John R. Fultz, Harry Turtledove, Richard Lupoff, Will Murray. W.H. Pugmire, and Lois Gresh all explore the subtle and insidious ways Lovecraft s cosmic monsters have touched the lives of all of us. If our species still survives, it may be by sheer chance, and not for long, for the horrors are still there, still waiting for the day when the stars are right and they shall return to reclaim the Earth.

That Is Not Dead

Will Murray

Lois H. Gresh

W.H. Pugmire

keith-taylor

Jay Lake

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