"An excellent collection" of vampire stories, from authors such as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, and Tanith Lee ( Publishers Weekly ).Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ranging from classically Gothic to postmodern satire, from horrific to erotic. These stories reflect the evolution of vampire literature from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice and beyond, resulting in a deeper ex...

2022 Splatterpunk Award Winner**[STARRED REVIEW] *“Hugo Award–winning editor Datlow (Edited By) brings together 29 spine-tingling tales of body horror to terrify even the most seasoned horror reader."—*Publishers WeeklyBestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft’s Monsters) presents body horror at its most wide-ranging and shocking best. Discover twenty-nine intricate, twisted tales of the human body, soul, and psyche, as told by...

In the city at the center of time, paradox is just another urban renewal project.All time and all possibilities converge in the city of Cinnabar. to experience its magic you must:Seek entrances both near and far... Cross uncountable parsecs and millennia... Look beyond the mirror... Try that odd freeway exit you've never taken... Follow the yellow brick road... Turn left at the north star and go straight on till morning...Or... use this book as your map. Here are so...

In an age when Rome stood at the very pinnacle of its power, one man guided the empire through two decades of extraordinary peace, prosperity, and measured wisdom. Antoninus Pius, the quiet emperor, the steady hand, the ruler history too often overlooks in favour of his more celebrated predecessors and successors, emerges here in full and compelling detail. Ernest Edward Bryant's meticulous scholarly study, first published in 1895, strips away the shadow of neglect that has long fallen acr...

Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine changed the publishing landscape when the anthology series first appeared in 1988. The series won the World Fantasy Award as a recognition of the power of its fiction and the transformative nature of the publication. From the beginning, award-winning author and editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch demonstrated her talent for publishing the cutting edge of late 20th century short fiction—and much of it still slices pretty deep.The stories in this volume sti...

A marvelous collection of wickedly apocalyptic stories by a two-time Nebula Award winning author.Three forlorn people huddle in a mausoleum of the frozen dead; they are the sole survivors of a germ-warfare attack that has wiped out the western United States. Their only food supply—the frozen corpses around them. Then, without warning, the refrigerators lose their electricity, and the dead begin to thaw...Rumors spread that occupants of abandoned cars along a desert highway ...

Three short stories and a teleplay (bought but never produced by The Twilight Zone) comprise this edition of scriptwriter Edward Bryant's The Baku: Tales of the Nuclear Age. In the title story nightmares and ghosts of Nagasaki victims haunt a former WWII bomber pilot and current head of a nuclear power consortium. As televised negotiations for a new plant provoke massive protests, Maxwell can no longer discern if he's awake or asleep. —Publishers WeeklyBecause of Ed's financial nee...

A trio of dark tales, all in the name of passion.With an introduction by Dan Simmons.Because of Ed's financial needs, almost all the profits from this book go directly to Ed. Donations to help with Ed's medical and other financial needs are also most appreciated via www.FriendsOfEd.org. Thank you!

Three of Ed's wonderful space opera stories, collected in one volume! "Waiting in Crouched Halls," the first reprint of "Neon," and featuring his Berserker story, "Pilots of the Twiglight."Because of Ed's financial needs, almost all the profits from this book go directly to Ed. Donations to help with Ed's medical and other financial needs are also most appreciated via www.FriendsOfEd.org. Thank you!

A trio of twisted little tales from the master of twistedness.With an introduction by Tim Powers.Edward Bryant is the multi-Nebula Award winning author of over a hundred short stories, over a thousand essays and reviews, and one novel with Harlan Ellison, PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES.

East of your nightmares, west of your dreams...Here are the venturers:A thirteen-year-old boy on the Great Plains in 1850 must contend with hunger, smallpox, and intruders from a world and time he can barely imagine.A young woman reporter and an elderly biologist become party to the strangest conspiracy of the century.An ex-Senator, resigned and in disgrace, returns home to the mountains only to find that the past is not dead — just deadly.A young In...

Modern day witch Angela Black faces some strange goings on with an old flame.About the AuthorEdward Bryant is the multi-Nebula Award winning author of over a hundred short stories, over a thousand essays and reviews, and one novel with Harlan Ellison, PHOENIX WITHOUT ASHES.