76 pages. Oversized trade paperback. Introduction by Ben Szumskyj. "An Introduction to the Life and Works of Robert E. Howard" and an interview with Glenn Lord by Joe Marek; an untitled dark fantasy/Cthulhu Mythos style story featuring John O'Dare by Robert E. Howard; "A Short History of the Conan Typescripts" by Patrice Louniet; "The Devil's Woodchopper" by Robert E. Howard; "Pages from 'As the Poet Says'" by Rusty Burke with Leo Grin; "Three Autobiographical Letters" by Robert E. Howard (to ARGOSY, and to Farnsworth Wright, and to Wilfred Blanch Talman; "And in This Corner, Hailing from Nazareth, or, What the Eddas Don't Tell You" by Scott Sheaffer (on Robert E. Howard's pagan/Viking/Celtic stories); "Double Cross" by Robert E. Howard (an Ace Jessel & John Taverel boxing story); "Am-Ra: Howard's Lost Hero" by Ben Szumskyj; "The Right Hook No. 1 Vol. 1" by Robert E. Howard, introduced by Tom Munnerlyn (unpublished Robert E. Howard material from a zine produc! ed by a nineteen-year old Robert E. Howard); "Some People Who Have Had Influence Over Me" by Robert E. Howard (a high school essay); afterword by Ben Szumskyj. Profusely illustrated by Gary Gianni, Rick Cortes, Mark Schultz, Rick McCollum, David Burton.

Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind

Grin, Leo

Sheaffer, Scott

Munnerlyn, Tom

LORD, GLENN

Szumskyj, Ben

Marek, Joe

Louinet, Patrice

Burke, Rusty

Howard,Robert E.

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Spawned from the classical horror-hunt of Inspector Legrasse, in H.P. Lovecraft's seminal tale "The Call of Cthulhu", now his further adventures have been taken directly from the original notes of Professor William Channing Webb of the American Archaeological Association and written up for your edification by author C.J. Henderson, the dedicated chronicler who has exhaustively reported the occult adventures of Anton Zarnak, Jack Hage and Teddy London. These seven tales detail the epic confrontation of an unsuspecting mankind with the unimaginable horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. After a wait of over half a century, from the combined hands of H.P. Lovecraft &amp; C.J. Henderson, finally comes the answers to all the maddening riddles of the legendary first tale of the Cthulhu Mythos, "The Call of Cthulhu".

The Tales of Inspector Legrasse

Literature & Fiction

H.P. Lovecraft & C.J. Henderson

United States

UNHOLY DIMENSIONS collects 27 exursions into realms Lovecraftian and H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, through the mind's eye of Jeffrey Thomas, author of PUNKTOWN and TERROR INCOGNITA.

Unholy Dimensions

Jeffrey Thomas

Genre Fiction

VISIONS by Richard A. Lupoff is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories selected from decades of writing. The author consistently shows himself to be a master storyteller, and these short stories are fine examples, containing psychic detective tales, stories of Lovecraftian horror, and other fantasy and horror tales. 11 tales of fantasy, horror & adventure from the marvelous imagination of Dick Lupoff. CONTENTS: Hebrews Have No Horns, There Are Kings & Steps Leading Downwards (3 Abe & John psychic investigator stories / Petroglyphs (a light fantasy) / The Peltonville Horror (a Cthulhu Mythos related thriller) / Patterns (a non-fantasy crime story) / Brackish Waters (an intense Cthulhu Mythos related story) / Simeon Dimsby's Workshop ( a Cthulhu Mythos related story, slightly tongue-in-cheek) / Tangaroa's Yarn (South Seas adventure yarn) / Stream of Consciousness (fantastic imagery) / Snow Ghosts (bittersweet philosophical fable).

Visions

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Richard A. Lupoff

Fantasy

From its earliest origins, the human religious impulse has been fundamentally bound up with an experience of primordial horror. The German theologian Rudolf Otto located the origin of human religiosity in an ancient experience of 'daemonic dread.' American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft asserted that weird supernatural horror fiction arose from a fundamental human psychological pattern that is 'coeval with the religious feeling and closely related to many aspects of it.' The American psychologist William James wrote in his classic study The Varieties of Religious Experience that the 'real core of the religious problem' lies in an overwhelming experience of cosmic horror born out of abject despair at life's incontrovertible hideousness. In Dark Awakenings, author and scholar Matt Cardin explores this ancient intersection between religion and horror in seven stories and three academic papers that pose a series of disturbing questions: What if the spiritual awakening coveted by so many religious seekers is in fact the ultimate doom? What if the object of religious longing might prove to be the very heart of horror? Could salvation, liberation, enlightenment then be achieved only by identifying with that apotheosis of metaphysical loathing? 
In Dark Awakenings, author and scholar Matt Cardin explores the ancient intersection between religion and horror in seven stories and three academic papers that pose a series of disturbing questions: What if the spiritual awakening coveted by so many religious seekers is in fact the ultimate doom? What if the object of religious longing might prove to be the very heart of horror? Could salvation, liberation, enlightenment then be achieved only by identifying with that apotheosis of metaphysical loathing? This volume collects nearly all of Cardin's uncollected fiction, including his 2004 novella 'The God of Foulness.' It contains extensive revisions and expansions of his popular stories 'Teeth' and 'The Devil and One Lump' and features one previously unpublished story and two unpublished papers, the first exploring a possible spiritual use of George Romero's Living Dead films and the second offering a horrific reading of the biblical Book of Isaiah. At over 300 pages and nearly 120,000 words, it offers a substantial exploration of the religious implications of horror and the horrific implications of religion. REVIEWS: "In Dark Awakenings, Cardin proves himself to be an adept in the fullest sense of the word. To both the morbid and the cosmically minded, who may be one and the same, he delivers his visions and nightmares in a master's prose. In the tradition of Poe and Lovecraft, Cardin's accomplishments as a writer are paralleled by his expertise as a literary critic and theorist, as readers can witness in this volume. His analyses of supernatural horror and its practitioners are also dark awakenings in the dual manner of his stories, with one eye on the black abyss and the other on an enlightened transcendence without denomination. Again, this quality of Cardin's work can be seen in the writings of Poe and Lovecraft, two other felicitous freaks who merged the antagonistisms of their imagination into a chimera as awful as it is awe-striking." -- Thomas Ligotti, author of Teatro Grottesco and The Nightmare Factory "Matt Cardin channels visions of dark, maniacal intensity. His otherworldly divinations will have you lying awake in the dark, counting stars in that most pitiless gulf that yawns above us all. A master of terror and dread, he ranks among the foremost authors of contemporary American horror." -- Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence &amp; Other Stories

Dark Awakenings

Matt Cardin

The long-awaited completion of Lupoff's epic trio of short-story collections contains stories that range from Lovecraftian horror to Holmesian detection, from hard science fiction to whimsy, from semi-autobiographical recreations of past decades to images of the distant future. 260 pp.

Dreams

Lupoff, Richard A.

Gilberts, Steven

134 pp. Introduction by Robert M. Price. 14 short stories, some horrific, some fantastic, some uncategorizeable, but all haunting and unsettling. Some stories include a brief introduction by the author. The collection consists of several Lovecraftian tales: The Chaos Into Time / The Firebrands of Torment / I Will Teach You / The Water Nymphs / What He Chanced To Mould In Play / Translation (which also tips the hat to Arthur Machen and William S. Burroughs); also the remainder of the tales are evocative of Cisco' s own unique haunting style: Two Fragments / The Depredations of Mur / Dr. Bondi's Methods / For No Eyes / He Will Be There (a tribute to THE KING IN YELLOW by Robert W. Chambers, with a nod to Ramsey Campbell) / The Night of the Nights / The Death of Edgar Allan Poe / Ice Age Of Dreams (with varying influences of T.E.D. Klein and Arthur Machen, and dedicated to Thomas Ligotti). Color cover, endpapers and several interior illustrations by Harry O. Morris, and an interior illustration by Jason C. Eckhardt and by Thomas Brown.

Secret Hours

Michael Cisco

THE BLACK SUTRA by Walter C. DeBill Jr. is the author's first short story fiction collection. His name should be familiar to many, as he was one of the authors included in the famous anthology DISCIPLES OF CTHULHU edited by E. Paul Berglund. THE BLACK SUTRA is a horror fiction collection, and will appeal to fans of H.P. Lovecraft &amp; his "Cthulhu Mythos", as the story contains several Cthulhu Mythos tales, and also stories of classic Lovecraftian horror. Noted author and scholar Robert M. Price provides the introduction for the book.

The Black Sutra

DeBill, Walter C. Jr.

Omens is a collection of twelve haunting tales by Richard Gavin, whose work is reminiscent of the subtle supernatural tales of Robert Aickman, and also of the eerie and unsettling tales of Thomas Ligotti.

Omens

Richard Gavin

DARK WISDOM is a collection of horror fiction Gary Myers, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft & the Cthulhu Mythos, who was first published by Arkham House in 1975 in the classic collection THE HOUSE OF THE WORM. This new collection of tales has been long-awaited by fans of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.

Dark Wisdom

Gary Myers

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