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The ultimate collection of weird and frightening American fiction As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and-of ...

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Ambrose Bierce was a well-known and highly admired journalist, short story writer, and satirist. After distinguished Civil War service, Bierce became a journalist, and in 1887 he became a columnist for William Randolph Hearst's Sunday Examiner. His work for the San Francisco Examiner made his reputation, especially on the West Coast. In 1914 he vanished on a trip to Mexico.The work for which he is best know, The Devil's Dictionary, was first p...

This volume contains the weird stories of May Sinclair (1863-1946), a British writer whose many novels and tales established her as a leading figure in English literature in her time. Her two collections of weird tales, Uncanny Stories (1923) and The Intercessor and Other Stories (1931), contain a number of works that feature her central literary concerns: an emphasis on interpersonal relationships and an intense focus on the shifting psycholo...

In 1978, Donald Sidney-Fryer published the first full-scale bibliography of Clark Ashton Smith, Emperor of Dreams. In the more than forty years since that book's appearance, the publication and study of Smith's work have increased exponentially, and a new, more exhaustive bibliography is long overdue. The three compilers of this volume, all leading authorities on Smith, have now achieved this monumental feat. Smith created a sensation when he ...

During the short period from the early 80s through the 90s, a small group of dedicated fans and scholars worked diligently to bring more understanding to the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. These people were known, informally, as 'The Providence Pals'. Working in a time when Lovecraft was still widely unknown and little noticed by literary circles, this group pioneered new research and blazed a path for the eventual acknowledgement of Lovecr...

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Leading critic S.T. Joshi reviews surveys the work of 13 mystery and crime writers, ranging from the Golden Age, Hardboiled school, the Psychological Mystery, and Contemporary Writers.The Golden AgeDorothy L. Sayers: Lords and Servants John Dickson Carr: Puzzlemeister Margery Allingham: Murder, Gangs, and Spies Philip MacDonald: Expanding the "Cosy" MysteryII. The Hard-Boiled School Dashiell Hammett: Sam Spade and Others Raymond Chandler: Mean...

TABLE OF CONTENTSThe Lovecraftian Solar System ....... Fred S. Lubnow "Hungry fer Victuals I Couldn't Raise nor Buy": Anthropophagy in Lovecraft ....... Duncan Norris The Rings of Cthulhu: Lovecraft, Dürer, Saturn, and Melancholy ....... Andrew Paul Wood "The Cats": An Environmental Ditty ....... Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer Lovecraft's Consolation ....... Matthew Beach "The Inability of the Human Mind": Lovecraft, Zunshine, and Theory of Mind ........

Arkham House, based in Sauk City, Wisconsin, is the most famous small press in the field of weird fiction. Since 1939, it has been a pioneering publisher of the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Ramsey Campbell, and many other titans of horror, fantasy, and supernatural fiction. In 1999, S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction (and the author or editor of 6 Arkham House books),...

Although best known as a biographer, critic, and editor, S. T. Joshi has devoted a portion of his career to the writing of mystery and horror fiction. As a teenager he became an enthusiast of the mystery story, especially the work of puzzlemeister John Dickson Carr, and wrote many detective tales as well as tales of supernatural menace. One early tale in this book, "The Recurring Doom, " was written at the age of 17. In the first decade of thi...

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After two centuries of literary and pop culture procreation, Victor Frankenstein and his monster are as virile as ever: synthetic biology, genetically modified organisms, artificial intelligence, the creation of one life at the cost of others. On the threshold of the third century, we stand on unforeseen shores of deep, far-reaching scientific and technological waters. And yet no truth-told tale is ever far from the sublime, the supernatural, ...

Table of ContentsThe Melancholia of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Music of Erich Zann" James Goho Feminine Powerlessness and Deference in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer Ravening for Delight: Unusual Descriptions in Lovecraft Duncan Norris Where Lovecraft Lost His Telescope: His Kingston and the Towns around It Robert H. Waugh Why Michel Houellebecq Is Wrong about Lovecraft's Racism S. T. Joshi "Whaddya Make Them Eyes at Me For...

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Committed atheist S. T. Joshi takes up this long-dormant "call to arms" in this highly acerbic critique of the religious point of view. With the aim of "combating religious mummery and obscurantism" he dissects the arguments offered by well-known apologists for various tenets of belief. Taking on both the famous intellectuals of the recent past as well as leading defenders of the supernatural today, he rigorously examines their claims and in e...

This eighth issue of Spectral Realms features a diverse array of poetry from the pens of such acclaimed poets as Adam Bolivar, Ashley Dioses, K. A. Opperman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Ann K. Schwader, John Shirley, and Richard L. Tierney. Wade German contributes a cycle of four evocative poems, "The Nightmares", Manuel Pérez-Campos, with "The Vortex That Ate Poseidonis, " pays tribute to the memory of Clark Ashton Smith, Liam Garriock, a promi...

22 brand new short stories in the vein of H.P. Lovecraft from authors considered his contemporary equivalents.

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This fourth revised edition provides comprehensive information on 1085 books owned by Lovecraft.These books focus chiefly on four key areas that Lovecraft found particularly fascinating: ancient literature and history, the history and antiquities of New England, astronomy, chemistry, and oth...

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