When you're a writer who's been doing it for over 60 years, traveling to exotic places for research, meeting interesting people for interviews and letting your mind wander wherever the hell it wants, you end up with a lot of stories, just as Richard A. Lupoff has done -- in spades. This 280-page volume contains the first four dozen of the tales that Dick Lupoff has written down for us. There's even a few pictures. If you've enjoyed the novels, short stories and non-fiction masterpieces that he's written over the years, here's your chance to find out what was going on behind the scenes.

Now that you've dipped your toe into the raging torrent of Richard A. Lupoff's life as an inkslinger with WRITER Volume 1, it's time for 320 more pages of memoir, criticism, interview, and sheer literary joy. This time he tackles SF controversies, gives a speech or two, and dishes out some of the most intriguing gossip about the good ol' days of SF.

In this original horror novel by Gary Lovisi, set in modern-day Louisiana, the local townsfolk and law-enforcers are confronted with the powers of evil and the horrors that are resurrected.

John Pelan knows what he's talking about when he gets into the shudder pulps. Last year we came out with SATAN'S SIN HOUSE and Other Stories, the first volume in the Weird Tales of Wayne Rogers series and here we have the second volume. John's introduction to this book tells you even more about Rogers the writer and prepares you for yet even more volumes in this series. Here are the stories that await you in volume 2: Daughters of Pain, Dime Mystery Magazine, November 1934 Killer Blood for Sale, Dime Mystery Magazine, November 1936 Doom Flowers, Terror Tales, May 1935 Satan Stole my Face, Horror Stories, February/March 1936 Hell Welcomes Lonely Wives, Terror Tales March/April 1937 Her Lover from the Grave, Terror Tales, November 1935 Dead Man's Kiss, Dime Mystery Magazine, July 1936 Fresh Blood for Golden Cauldrons, Dime Mystery, September 1934 Her Suitor from Hell, Terror Tales, April 1936 Death Rocks the Cradle, Horror Stories, February/March 1937 Satan's Love Bazaar, Terror Tales, July/August 1937

Back in the 60s and 70s writer Richard A. Lupoff knew his SF. He knew it so well he put out two books called WHAT IF? each consisting of stories that were eligible for Hugo awards and in his opinion should have won. He had a third volume in this fascinating series ready to go, but technical problems caused it to never see the light of day -- until now. Here it is, the legendary third volume in the WHAT IF? series, personally introduced by Richard A. Lupoff. The stories are: LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS - 1966 Bob Shaw THE STAR-PIT - 1967 Samuel R. Delany THE BARBARIAN - 1968 Joanna Russ SUNDANCE - 1969 Robert Silverberg THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR DEATH AND OTHER STORIES - 1970 Gene Wolfe VASTER THAN EMPIRES AND MORE SLOW - 1971 Ursula K. Le Guin PAINWISE - 1972 James Tiptree, Jr. MY BROTHER LEOPOLD - 1973 Edgar Pangborn

In the style of Stuart Kaminsky, Wes D. Gehring of Ball State University has written an intriguing murder mystery involving a lost Chaplin film and a host of nefarious characters who want it. Using his vast knowledge of all things Chaplinian, Gehring perfectly captures the mindset of the little tramp and has produced a short novel worthy of the subject.

This new edition of L. Frank Baum's classic tale is illustrated by Gavin L. O'Keefe. The illustrator has reflected the author's interest in Theosophy, providing a new perspective on this established icon of literature. With an Introductory Note by Fender Tucker and a Foreword by John Algeo.

Walter S. Masterman wrote a number of novels, supernatural and not, and some of them are rather easy to find. But THE CURSE OF CANTIRE has been one of the rarest of Masterman's novels for decades until Ramble House found a copy. It's the story of a cursed castle and the family who lives in dread of the next death, foretold by the curse. This is the first time it's been available since its 1939 printing.