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Living with the Dead (Paperback)
Darrell Schweitzer; Introduction by Tim Lebbon; Illustrated by Jason Van Hollander
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Weirdbook #43 (Paperback)
Doug Draa; Darrell Schweitzer, Adrian Cole
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R353
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Weirdbook #38 (Paperback)
Michael Bracken, Darrell Schweitzer, Adrian Cole
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Weirdbook #36 (Paperback)
Douglas Draa; Darrell Schweitzer, L. F. Falconer
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When one thinks of the classic adventure-story authors of the pulp
fiction era, H. Rider Haggard, Talbot Mundy, and Rafael Sabatini
may come first to mind. But Arthur O. Friel's stellar contributions
-- particularly his stories featuring Lourenco and Pedro, two
workers on a rubber-tree plantation in the Amazon Jungle. Their
adventures in the Amazon's mysterious back-country certainly
deserve honorable mention. Here are tales of peril and last-minute
rescue, brutal savages and men of honor, snake-worshipping armies
and half-ape Lost Races-and many more! For in the shadows of the
rain-forest, many evils lurk . . . human and otherwise! Features a
new introduction by Darrell Schweitzer, eight short stories, and
The Jararaca, a complete novel.
Included in this volume are historic interviews with Alfred Bester,
Robert Silverberg, Brian Aldiss, James Gunn, Gardner Dozois, Norman
Spinrad, Gordon R. Dickson, Ben Bova, Ted White, Jack Williamson,
L. Sprague de Camp, Frank Belknap Long, Gahan Wilson, and Jerry
Pournelle.
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Caesar Dies (Paperback)
Talbot Mundy; Introduction by Darrell Schweitzer
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R349
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Set during the reign of the Emperor Commodus, here is Talbot
Mundy's tale of palace intrigue, the brutalities and debaucheries
of Rome, and a man who would make himself ruler of the civilized
world! Features an introduction by scholar Darrell Schweitzer.
Achmed Abdullah's name was once synonymous with adventure. He
published dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories in the
pulp magazines of the early 20th century, thrilling millions of
readers throughout the world. He wrote with authority about exotic
peoples and places because he had lived a life filled with
adventure, serving in the British army and travelling extensively
to exotic locales before settling down to a literary career. Here
is the first new book of Adbullah's stories in almost seventy
years, sampling a broad range of his work. "A Charmed Life" tells
of one life-changing night in India, when a white man glimpses a
beautiful woman in danger and acts to rescue her. "Framed at the
Benefactor's Club" is a fascinating, intricately plotted mystery
set in Manhattan. "The Yellow Wife" is a chilling look at Chinese
life in Chinatown. "Bismallah!" is a light adventure in Africa, as
crooked traders try to put a successful rival company out of
business. "Light" is a surprisingly effective supernatural tale. "A
Yarkand Survey" tells the story of a corrupt governor sent on a
survey mission that might cost him his life -- if he isn't careful!
And "Fear" is the tale of two thieving white men in Africa and the
weird fates that awaited them. Ranging from mystery to adventure to
outright horror, from the streets of New York to the rooftops of
Calcutta, from London's Chinatown to the jungles of Africa, here
are tales of men caught up by plots and mysteries beyond their
wildest imaginings! Features a new introduction by pulp scholar
Darrell Schweitzer.
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Lilith (Paperback)
George MacDonald; Introduction by Darrell Schweitzer
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R358
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George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, teacher, and,
briefly, clergyman, whose theology was too personal and
idiosyncratic for him to remain on the pulpit for very long, but
whose imagination led him to write two of the most important
visionary novels of the 19th century, "Phantastes" and "Lilith."
A self-standing companion to Darrell Schweitzer's British Fantasy
Award-nominated The Mask of the Sorcerer, the present volume
collects all the Sekenre stories, which proved very popular when
originally published in Weird Tales, Interzone, Adventures in Sword
& Sorcery, and elsewhere.
Clark Ashton Smith was a prodigy, who wrote Arabian Nights novels
in his mid-teens and was heralded as a major voice in American
poetry by the time he was nineteen. In one frantic burst in the
middle 1930s, he wrote nearly a hundred strange, wondrous, and
grotesque stories, most of which were published in Weird Tales,
Strange Tales, Wonder Stories, and other pulps, but he was by no
means a conventional pulp writer. A direct heir to Edgar Allan Poe
and to the late Romantics and Decadents, a translator of
Baudelaire, Smith wrote in baroque, jeweled prose of distant times
and remote planets, of baleful magics and reanimated corpses, lost
lovers, eldritch gods, and inexorable fate. He is also a writer
whose works refuse to die, even after nearly a century. Think of
him as the sorcerer-poet, alone in his eyrie in the dry California
hills, dreaming his strange dreams and creating his unique
worlds-of Zothique, the Earth's haunted last conti- nent at the end
of time, Hyperborea, a prehistoric land, Posei- donis, the last
foundering isle of Atlantis, and Averoigne, an unhistoried province
of medieval France, thick with vampires. runes, transported from
the sorcerer's lair by in- describable genii or winged spirits. His
stories are altogether unlike anyone else's and quite wonderful,
among the treasures of fantastic literature. This fine collection
of Clark Ashton Smith's work reprints eight of his classic
fantasies, including two set in Hyperborea.
Another selection of fascinating, informal conversations with the
creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy, presented exactly as
originally published.Here are authentic voices from 1983 through
2002: Peter S. Beagle, Octavia Butler, Philip Jos Farmer, Charles
L. Harness, Michael Kandel, R.A. Lafferty, Jack McDevitt Tim
Powers, Charles Sheffield, Susan Shwartz, Michael Swanwick,
Evangeline Walton, Gene Wolfe, Jane Yolen, and George Zebrowski.
Darrell Schweitzer has been three-times nominated for the World
Fantasy Award, twice for Best Collection, and once for the novella
"To Become a Sorcerer," which forms the first four chapters of this
book. He is also the author of _The White Isle, The Shattered
Goddess, _ and nearly 300 short stories, many of which are
collected in such volumes as _Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out, Transients,
Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes, _ and _The Great
World and the Small._ An expert on fantastic fiction, who has
written books about Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft, he is also
co-editor of the legendary _Weird Tales_ magazine.
_The Mask of the Sorcerer_ is one of the ten best fantasy
novels of the past generation. The plot is compelling and moves at
breathtaking pace. The characters are intriguing,
multi-dimensional, lovingly drawn. The fear is chilling, the
excitement intense. But mostly _The Mask of the Sorcerer_ is about
magic. True magic. Magic that rings in the bones and the soul,
magic that very few contemporary writers can understand or create.
Darrell Schweitzer _is_ a sorcerer, and his knowledge of magic is
awesome. _The Mask of the Sorcerer_ is authentic, a beacon shining
above a sea of imitations. Unique as all great creations are
unique, it stands alone." -- Morgan Llywelyn
If ever your heart has said, _The great days are no more. The
golden afternoon of golden tales has faded into night, and I came
late, born out of time, to warm my hands at the embers that flicker
and fade hour by hour_ -- read this... Here are ghosts grim and
gentle, red gold of Ophir, and fell weavings. Here is a tale to
keep Scheherazade talking a hundred years. -- Gene Wolfe use of the
best trappings of Fantasy, he employs a disquieting awareness of
the dark nooks of the mind and soul...Best of all, Schweitzer is a
story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spell-bound. --
Tanith Lee Award, twice for Best Collection, and once for the
novella To Become a Sorcerer, which forms the first four chapters
of this book. He is also the author of _The White Isle, The
Shattered Goddess, _ and nearly 300 short stories, many of which
are collected in such volumes as _Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out,
Transients, Refugees from an Imaginary Country, Nightscapes, _ and
_The Great World and the Small._ An expert on fantastic fiction,
who has written books about Lord Dunsany and H.P. Lovecraft, he is
also co-editor of the legendary _Weird Tales_ magazin
Ever since the first edition of Thomas Ligotti's 'Songs of a Dead
Dreamer' appeared in 1985, it was clear that here was an author of
extraordinary brilliance and originality. In following years there
has been a great deal of interest in the author and his works,
although, until now, articles about him have mostly been scattered
in obscure journals. Now, at last, here is a book about him, a
symposium of explorations and examinations of the Ligottian
universe by such leading critics as S.T. Joshi, Stefan
Dzimianowicz, Robert M. Price. With a complete, up-to-date
bibliography of Ligotti's work, two interviews with him, and even a
fascinating essay by Ligotti himself. Also available in hardcover.
The second four issues of Weird Tales as published by DNA
Publications present new work by Brian Stableford, Darrell
Schweitzer, Ian Watson, William F. Nolan, Ramsey Campbell, Tanith
Lee, Hugh B. Cave, and many more.
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.
The Winter 1989/1990 issue of Weird Tales showcases Featured Author
Brian Lumley (who contributed 3 stories and an interview) and
Featured Artist Vincent di Fate (who contributed all the artwork).
Also includes Keith Taylor, Phyllis Ann Karr, and more.
Here you will find the collective experience of three writers and
editors distilled into a complete guide to writing science fiction.
Separate chapters cover Idea, Plot, Character, Background, Science,
Tragedy, and Comedy. Twelve stories, each a first sale by its
author, illustrate the main points of the book. A foreword by Isaac
Asimov gives an overall look at the task of becoming an SF writer,
and an appendix by the editors explains exactly how to prepare a
manuscript for publication.
"The House on the Borderland (1908) -- perhaps the greatest of all
Mr. Hodgson's works -- tells of a lonely and evilly regarded house
in Ireland which forms a focus for hideous otherworld forces and
sustains a siege by blasphemous hybrid anomalies from a hidden
abyss below. The wanderings of the Narrator's spirit through
limitless light-years of cosmic space and Kalpas of eternity, and
its witnessing of the solar system's final destruction, constitute
something almost unique in standard literature. And everywhere
there is manifest the author's power to suggest vague, ambushed
horrors in natural scenery." -- H.P. Lovecraft
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