The Black Book of Horror contains 18 excursions into the realms of terror. Ranging from the supernatural to the macabre, the stories selected for this anthology feature black magic, the dead, monstrous beasts, and things from beyond. There are tales that witness madness, and the evil that man does. Contents: CROWS - Frank Nicholas REGINA vs. ZOSKIA - Mark Samuels THE OLDER MAN - Gary Fry POWER - Steve Goodwin CORDS - Roger B. Pile THE SOUND OF MUZAK - Sean Parker SHAPED LIKE A SNAKE - D. F. Lewis ONLY IN YOUR DREAMS - David A. Sutton THE WOLF AT JESSIE'S DOOR - Paul Finch SIZE MATTERS - John L. Probert SPARE RIB: A ROMANCE - John Kenneth Dunham FAMILY FISHING - Gary McMahon SUBTLE INVASION - David Conyers A PIE WITH THICK GRAVY - D. F. Lewis LOCK-IN - David A. Riley LAST CHRISTMAS (I GAVE YOU MY LIFE) - Franklin Marsh "SHALT THOU KNOW MY NAME?" - Daniel McGachey TO SUMMON A FLESH EATING DEMON - Charles Black

The Black Book of Horror

Literature & Fiction

Gary McMahon

Mark Samuels

David Conyers

Paul Finch

Genre Fiction

Mortbury Press

These nine tales are apocalyptic in the truest sense—they lift the veil and uncover what is hidden. Europe decays, but the Bloody Baron’s spirit will not rest. A lone yachtsman is becalmed at sea, and confronts madness, or something greater than madness. A condemned office building is besieged by the forces of transcendent decay. In the city of exiles, an unguessable secret awaits. These and other strange encounters, intrusions and transformations are to be found within the pages of this volume, Written in Darkness.

Written in Darkness

Egaeus Press

SYNOPSISH. P. Lovecraft (1890 1937), the pioneering writer of weird fiction, has himself become an icon in popular culture. Stories, novels, and other works featuring the gaunt, lantern-jawed gentleman from Providence, Rhode Island, have proliferated. These works have been triggered by the incredible amount of knowledge we have on the writer his family, his friends, his idiosyncrasies and eccentricities as found in his thousands of surviving letters. This anthology takes the figure of Lovecraft and enmeshes him in a series of bizarre and supernatural adventures. Darrell Schweitzer focuses on Lovecraft s childhood, when he was plagued with dreams of night-gaunts and was left bereft by the early death of his father. John Shirley depicts Lovecraft as a gawky teenager evolving his notions of cosmicism, while Scott Wiley emphasises Lovecraft s devotion to cats. Stephen Woodworth and Donald R. Burleson ring changes on the Lovecraftian theme of personality exchange. Lovecraft famously collaborated with Harry Houdini on a story. Donald Tyson and Jonathan Thomas write very different stories on the association of these two figures. Mark Samuels focuses on Lovecraft s creation of imaginary tomes of forbidden lore, while the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft s revolutionary motifs. While eschewing Lovecraft himself as a character, the tales by W. H. Pugmire and Simon Strantzas exhibit figures who reveal strikingly Lovecraftian elements while probing the psyche of the man from Providence. H. P. Lovecraft s work has captured the imaginations of millions and now he himself has become no less fascinating. In every sense of the word he was, as Vincent Starrett said of him, his own most fantastic creation.

His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Stories about H. P. Lovecraft

John Shirley

Simon Strantzas

Donald Tyson

Donald R. Burleson

Darrell Schweitzer

David Hambling

Jonathan Thomas

Richard Gavin

Jason V Brock

S.T. Joshi

W.H. Pugmire

Scott Wiley

Harry Houdini

stephen-woodworth

PS Publishing

SYNOPSIS Heh, Heh, Kiddies! They say that you can always tell a GOOD BOOK by its COVER! Well, after you BONE UP on the front of this first BEST OF volume of THE WORLD S LONGEST-RUNNING ANNUAL SHOWCASE OF HORROR AND DARK FANTASY by legendary artist NORMAN SAUNDERS, you ll be left SPELLBOUND by some of the most SIZZLING fiction ever published in this AWARD-WINNING series Between these covers are TASTY TERROR TALES by CLIVE BARKER, ELIZABETH HAND, JOE HILL, GLEN HIRSHBERG, STEPHEN KING, TIM LEBBON, KIM NEWMAN, MARK SAMUELS, LISA TUTTLE and SIMON KURT UNSWORTH. So, what are you WAITING for? Open up this HELLISH TOME and START READING! Because a cover NEVER lies, and neither does . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor s Forword Introduction: Bettering the Best RAMSEY CAMPBELL White [1999] TIM LEBBON The Other Side of Midnight: Anno Dracula, 1981 [2000] KIM NEWMAN Cleopatra Brimstone [2001] ELIZABETH HAND 20th Century Ghosts [2002] JOE HILL The White Hands [2003] MARK SAMUELS My Death [2004] LISA TUTTLE Haeckel s Tale [2005] CLIVE BARKER Devil s Smile [2006] GLEN HIRSHBERG The Church on the Island [2007] SIMON KURT UNSWORTH The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates [2008] STEPHEN KING Index to the First Twenty Years of Best New Horror I: Index by Contributor II: Index by Title III: Contents of Previous Omnibus Editions

Best of Best New Horror Volume 2

CLIVE BARKER

Joe Hill

Elizabeth Hand

Stephen Jones

Tim Lebbon

Glen Hirshberg

kim-newman

Lisa Tuttle

Simon Kurt Unsworth

Stephen, King

This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan, European feel. Mark Samuels writes about the fundamental fears of modern life, especially the effects of isolation and the dislocation that city dwellers can experience in their inhospitable, man-made environment.

White Hands and Other Weird Tales

Tartarus Press

The Face of Twilight

Short-listed for the August Derleth Award of the British Fantasy Society in 2007, this is the paperback reprint edition of Mark Samuels' highly acclaimed first weird fiction novel.

The White Hands and Other Weird Tales

ZAGAVA books

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