"This is a book of stories intended to describe that hand of mortal destruction in 16 utterly different, yet all apocalyptically stunning ways!" — Harlan Ellison, from the Introduction. These compelling visions of post-apocalyptic societies and dystopian worlds include short stories by some of the most acclaimed authors of our time. Among the noteworthy contributors and their works are Stephen King's "The End of the Whole Mess," "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke's "No Morning After." The first-ever apocalyptic fantasy about global warming, "The End of the World," appears here, in translation from Eugene Mouton's 1872 French-language original. "The Pretence," by Ramsey Campbell, questions the nature and structure of everyday life in the aftermath of a doomsday prediction. In addition, thought-provoking stories by Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Greg Bear, Erica L. Satifka, and others offer an end-of-the-world extravaganza for fans of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. "These doomsday tales are highly original, thought provoking, and reality questioning. Recommended as a collection for fans of intriguing and eccentric sci-fi!" — Read Well

Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny (Dover Doomsday Classics)

Literature & Fiction

LANSDALE, Joe R.

MacHado, Carmen Maria

Bear,Greg

DU BOIS, W.E.B.

KING,STEPHEN

SAMUELS, mARK

Satifka, Erica L.

Vonnegut, Jr., Kurt

Campbell, Ramsey

Clarke,Arthur C.

Stableford,Brian

BRADBURY,RAY

United States

Dover Publications

Critically acclaimed weird fiction stories by the author of THE WHITE HANDS AND OTHER WEIRD TALES, THE FACE OF TWILIGHT, THE MAN WHO COLLECTED MACHEN, WRITTEN IN DARKNESS and THE PROZESS MANIFESTATIONS.

Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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.

Alfredo Salgado, Catholic schoolboy and proud Spaniard, wages his own personal offensive against the dictates of modernity and the enemies of Orthodoxy and the Old Faith. Set in 1981 and 2015 against a backdrop of societal upheaval A PILGRIM STRANGER is an ebullient satire of contemporary values.

A Pilgrim Stranger

"Fans of literate, subtle horror will clamor for more."-Publishers Weekly Starred Review "The quality of the stories selected is so uniformly high it's difficult to single out the best..."-Rue Morgue For the past two decades, British author Mark Samuels has written some of the most vibrant and challenging weird fiction of any contemporary writer. But his work-collected in such volumes as The White Hands and Other Weird Tales (2003), The Man Who Collected Machen (2010), and Written in Darkness (2014)-has by and large appeared in limited editions not widely distributed in the United States. This volume features seventeen of Samuels's best weird stories. Several display his fascination with technology, advertising, and urban horror, as in "Apartment 205" and the title story. Other tales speak of the writing of weird fiction itself as a potentially hazardous and supernatural enterprise, as in "The White Hands" and "Vrolyck." In several of his lengthier narratives-notably "The Gentleman from Mexico" and "The Crimson Fog"-Samuels draws upon H. P. Lovecraft's pseudomythology to venture into realms of cosmic horror. "The Black Mould" and "My World Has No Memories" are distinctively existential tales of undeniable potency. Mark Samuels is one of the pioneering weird writers of today, and this selection makes plain why he has few rivals in the portrayal of the horrors that are unique to our troubled age.

The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels

Hippocampus Press

When, in 1940, Saul Prior receives a letter from Lady Caroline Degabaston to catalogue the library of Thool Abbey in Hertfordshire, he jumps at the chance. But he soon finds himself in a realm that seems cut off from the real world. In the cryptic fastnesses of the abbey, Prior is beset by bizarre dreams and seems incapable of leaving the place. Lady Caroline proves to be a baleful and mysterious presence, and Prior is mired in a landscape that mingles Gothic terror and surrealism. The actual books that Prior is tasked with cataloguing are themselves a farrago of occultism, psychological aberration, and cosmic horror. And when other presences manifest themselves in and around the castle, Prior knows that he has stumbled into an adventure that is unlikely to end short of death or madness. Mark Samuels has knitted together many of the themes that appear in his previous work into a grand synthesis of dread and awe. Impeccably written, with careful attention to historical detail and the portrayal of the strange characters he puts on stage, Witch-Cult Abbey is a triumph of supernatural terror.

Witch-Cult Abbey

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The White Hands And Other Weird Tales

Contemporary

Tartarus Press

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

The Tartarus Press

THE FACE OF TWILIGHT by Mark Samuels, intro by Mark Morris, cover art by James Hannah. Hornsea, UK; PS Publishing; 2006. 1st edition hardcover. Synopsis: Who is the sinister little man with the scarred head? Why is there no end to the twilight? What is symbolised by the strange graffiti that seems to be appearing everywhere? Ivan Gilman is the penurious author of several obscure novels. When he rents a cheap flat overlooking Archway Road in north London, he is determined to finish the new book that he believes will finally establish his literary reputation. Instead, he finds himself caught up in a bizarre conspiracy to replace the living with the cryptic dead. Gradually, Gilman discovers evidence of this conspiracy operating at all levels of society but, by then, it appears to be far too late to escape the consequences of his prying... Issued in a SIGNED/LIMITED edition of 300 SIGNED BY BOTH author & introducer.

PS Publishing

Cryptic and potent languages, bizarre cults, mysteries that span the gulf between life and death, occult influences that reverberate through history like a dying echo, irresistible cosmic decay, forces of nightmare that distort reality itself, gateways to worlds where esoteric knowledge rots the future. Here, from Mark Samuels, the author of Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes and modern exemplar of mystical horror, is a collection of tales that forms a veritable Rosetta Stone for scholars of cosmic wonder and terror.

The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales

Chomu Press

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Grave Predictions: Tales of Mankind’s Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Disastrous Destiny (Dover Doomsday Classics)

Glyphotech and Other Macabre Processes

The Face of Twilight

A Pilgrim Stranger

The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels

Witch-Cult Abbey

The White Hands And Other Weird Tales

White Hands and Other Weird Tales

The Face of Twilight

The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales