Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Volume 4: The Night Land & Other Romances (Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson)
by William Hope Hodgson
from Night Shade Books
The fourth of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction. Introduction by Jeremy Lassen The Night Land # The Captain of the Onion Boat # Smugglers # The Girl with the Grey Eyes # Kind, Kind and Gentle Is She # A Timely Escape A Note On The Texts
Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures (The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Vol. 1)
by William Hope Hodgson
from Night Shade Books
The first of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction. Introduction by Jeremy Lassen The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" The Sargasso Sea Stories * From the Tideless Sea Part 1 * From the Tideless Sea Part 2: More News From the Homebird * The Mystery of the Derelict * The Finding of the Graiken * The Thing in the Weeds * The Call In the Dawn The Exploits of Captain Gault * Contraband of War * From Information Received * The Case of the Curio Dealer * The Diamond Spy * The Drum of Saccharine * The Red Herring * The German Spy * The Painted Lady * The Problem of the Pearls * My Lady's Jewels * The Adventure of the Garter * Trading with the Enemy * The Plans of the Reefing Bi-Plane The Adventures of Captain Jat * The Island of the Ud * Adventure of the Headland Stories of Cargunka * The Bells of the Laughing Sally * The Adventure with the Claim Jumpers A Note On The Texts
Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories
by Darrell Schweitzer
from Borgo Press
Darrell Schweitzer, author of The Mask of the Sorcerer and editor of Weird Tales collaborates with macabre artist-writer Jason Van Hollander on a series of remarkable fantasies, variously grotesque, horrific, ethereal, and darkly comic. Several of these form a cycle set in as-yet undiscovered countries where the common men have thrown down the gods and decadent nobles reach new heights of ecstasy and terror with the drug hanquil. You'll also encounter a wrenching yet romantic ghost story set in the American Southwest, an intimately personal tale of the Cthulhu Mythos and the lingering legacy of Dunwich; plus a dance of death; and a house haunted by the terror of eternal life. Here are all the stories Schweitzer and Van Hollander have written together, a unique blending which makes these two the most successful collaborative team since Burke and Hare.
The Cockatrice Boys
by Joan Aiken
from Starscape
The idea for this book might have come from National Enquirer: hideous demonic monsters invade England, laying it waste and devouring most of the inhabitants. Embargoed by the rest of the world, the English barricade themselves underground. After five years on the defensive, an armored, heavily-armed train is built to attack and, if possible, find the source of the plague: the Cockatrice Belle and her crack Cockatrice Corps crew. The train sets out for Manchester, and by chance it picks up Sauna, a young girl who embodies both cause and cure.
Joan Aiken's characters are evocatively Dickensian and strange--Sauna, Dakin, Clipspeak, Bellswinger, Tom Flint. This send-up of every other alien-invasion story is a quirky, inventive fantasy.
So the alarmed inhabitants of England discover when a plague of monsters-known as cockatrices-invade their country and begin gobbling them up. They must be stopped! A plucky band of survivors dubbed the Cockatrice Corps- including youngsters Dakin and Sauna-decide to fight back. But how?
A rollicking adventure filled with breathtaking twists and turns, The Cockatrice Boys is Joan Aiken at her comic best.
Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical
by Darrell Schweitzer
from Borgo Press
The House on the Borderland and Other Mysterious Places (The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Vol. 2)
by William Hope Hodgson
from Night Shade Books
The second of a five volume set collecting all of Hodgson's published fiction. Each volume contains one of Hodgson's novels, along with a selection of thematically-linked short fiction. Introduction by Jeremy Lassen The House on the Borderland Carnacki the Ghost Finder * The Gateway of the Monster * The House Among the Laurels * The Whistling Room * The Horse of the Invisible * The Searcher of the End House * The Thing Invisible * The Haunted Jarvee * The Find * The Hog Other Tales of Mystery and Suspense * The Goddess of Death * The Terror of the Water-Tank * Bullion * The Mystery of the Water-Logged Ship * The Ghosts of the 'Glen Doon' * Mr. Jock Danplank * The Mystery of Captain Chappel * The Homecoming of Captain Dan * Merciful Plunder * The Haunting of the Lady Shannon * Heathen's Revenge A Note On The Texts
FEAR - Fantasy Horror and Science Fiction - Issue 21 - September Sept 1990: The Shepherd's Daughter; The Paloverde Lodge; Solitary Solution; The Beautiful Body; Breaking Up; A Problem of Disposal
We've Been Waiting For You and Other Tales of Unease
by John Burke
from Ash Tree Pr
'Not until after her death did his mother actually come to live with them full-time.' Thus begins John Burke's 'One Day You'll Learn', a chilling ghost story in which a monstrous woman refuses to loosen her hold on her son and his family, even after her death. Many of Burke's stories concern the dead, and the power which they continue to wield over the living: a power which is, almost without exception, cold, malevolent, and without pity. Not all of John Burke's stories concern ghosts, however. The author prefers the term 'tales of unease' to describe his writings; and in all his stories a sense of unease is effortlessly conjured up, whether the author is concerned with beings from beyond the grave or with the powerful forces for violence and evil contained within human beings. There is also, however, a lighter side to Burke's writings; and in stories such as 'Flitting Tenant and 'Collaboration', the author shows us a world in which the dead and the living exist (more or less) peacefully side by side. WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU collects together twenty-two of John Burke's tales of unease, which have (with one exception) appeared in print over the past five decades. The volume concludes with 'And Cannot Come Again', a story which Nicholas Royle, in his introduction, calls 'one of the most affecting stories I have read'; a story which combines dream and nightmare to stunning effect, and shows why John Burke's tales deserve a place on the shelf of every admirer of supernatural fiction.
Dragonfly
A young girl is drawn into the strange, spooky underworld in the basement of her uncle's funeral parlor.
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