Fiction

The Descendant (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish) :" Writing on what my doctor tells me is my deathbed, my most hideous fear is that the man is wrong. I suppose I shall seem to be buried next week, but…In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring. He lives all alone with his streaked cat in Gray's Inn, and people call him harmlessly mad. His room is filled with books of the tamest and most puerile kind, and hour after hour he tries to lose himself in their feeble pages.

I awoke abruptly from a horrible dream and stared wildly about. Then, seeing the high, arched ceiling and the narrow stained windows of my friend's room, a flood of uneasy revelation coursed over me; and I knew that all of Andrews' hopes had been realized.

Nyarlathotep (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish) :Nyarlathotep… the crawling chaos… I am the last… I will tell the audient void… .

The Cats of Ulthar is a story written by American fantasy author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. As the narrative goes, the city is home to an old couple who enjoy capturing and killing the townspeople's cats.

Medusa's Coil (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish) :" The drive toward Cape Girardeau had been through unfamiliar country; and as the late afternoon light grew golden and halfdreamlike I realized that I must have directions if I expected to reach the town before night.

Memory (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish)

Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT (1890-1937) American occult and horror-fiction author who became a cult figure in underground literature in the 1960´s. Lovecraft developed a mythology around “the dread Cthulhu”, in which powers of evil and darkness threatened to break through to control the world, and he was obsessed with the theme of global threat (“The Colours out of Space”, The Dunwich Horror”, “The Shadow over Innsmouth”).

Ibid (+Biography and Bibliography) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish) :" "… as Ibid says in his famous Lives of the Poets.

"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Plot Summary: An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer. He describes Slater as a "typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region, who corresponds exactly with the 'white trash' of the South", for whom "laws and morals are nonexistent" and whose "general mental status is probably below that of any other native American people".

Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT (1890-1937) American occult and horror-fiction author who became a cult figure in underground literature in the 1960´s. Lovecraft developed a mythology around “the dread Cthulhu”, in which powers of evil and darkness threatened to break through to control the world, and he was obsessed with the theme of global threat (“The Colours out of Space”, The Dunwich Horror”, “The Shadow over Innsmouth”).

The Enormous Room is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

Howard Browne was a science fiction editor and mystery writer.

Social living requires the elimination, or at very best, the modification of many elements necessary to survival in "nature".

No Charge for Alterations is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

Manners of the Age is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

A Transmutation of Muddles is presented here in a high quality paperback edition.

[S]urely that need not and ought not to be the whole of Christmas-only a single day or generosity, ransomed from the dull servitude of a selfish year,-only a single night of merry-making, celebrated in the slave-quarters of a selfish race!

Settle in for a titillating tale of illicit passion, romantic entanglement, and murder. Honore de Balzac's novella The Girl With the Golden Eyes highlights the French writer's skillful ability to convey truths about the darker nature of humanity through perfectly wrought details and observations.