There is no light without dark; no highlights without shadows; no good without evil. The Devil is where things happen. Where stories begin. This collection brings together stories from multiple cultures, featuring the Devil both as an abstract concept and a creature, a terror, a force of nature, an enemy, a trickster, and so many more.Step into the world of shadows, and travel through Devil's many incarnations spanning centuries of history and myth, from the Ancient Greece, African...

This collection, the Third Borgo Press Book of Science Fiction, was originally prepared for publication in 2011, but only the paperback version appeared. The field has changed a lot since it appeared, but quality writing still finds an audience. Here, then, in a time capsule from more than a decade ago: great tales of speculative fiction, including:BEST OF FOOLS: A SIME~GEN STORY, by Jean LorrahBEST-LAID PLANS, by William MalteseBOOG'/4 AND THE ENDICARAN K...

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), the pioneering writer of weird fiction, has himself become an icon in popular culture. Stories, novels, and other works featuring the gaunt, lantern-jawed gentleman from Providence, Rhode Island, have proliferated. These works have been triggered by the incredible amount of knowledge we have on the writer—his family, his friends, his idiosyncrasies and eccentricities—as found in his thousands of surviving letters.This anthology takes the figure of Lovec...

In this amazing issue:Three boys are pursued by a shapeless terror in The Drain by Stephen Gallagher, author of Down River and Rain.Acclaimed writer Charles L. Grant takes motherly love to the limits in Alice Smiling.And Kim Newman reveals an obsessive book collector's dark secret in The Man who collected Barker.Plus news and views from the world of fantasy and horror.

Volume 6 in the successful and critically acclaimed series of Lovecraftian horror anthologies by the most prominent acolytes of the horror master.From claustrophobic fear in isolated New England towns to terrifying threats that span the infinite cosmos, the tales herein are fuelled by H. P. Lovecraft's creations. While his horrors originate in a vast cosmos outside of space and time, the terrors they bring strike ordinary humans caught up in conflicts far beyond their control. This volume ...

Darrell Schweitzer's career stretches back to the early 1970s. He has written novels, most notably The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995), which was expanded from a World Fantasy Award finalist novella, but he has probably most distinguished himself for a steady stream of short fiction which caused anthologist Mike Ashley (in The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers' Tales) to call him "today's supreme stylist" in the fantasy field. His work has appeared in a great variety of publications ranging from Amazi...

I hope the title of this book is not misleading. If you are expecting an entire volume of spinoffs from Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, complete with consciousness-swapping across the aeons, cone-shaped scholarly beings compiling their archives while dinosaurs roam outside their cities and some nameless doom threatens them from below, this isn't it. I did indeed include a few stories of that sort, as such titles as Robert Guffey's "Toward a General Theory of Yithian Psychology" and Rob...

Special Space and Spaces IssueBrian Stableford: The Impossibility of Impossible WarBernadette L. Bosky: Finding Space in Peter StraubPatrick McGuire: The Soviet Space Epic Cosmic VoyageChristopher Kovacs: Growing Ecclesiates' RoseDarrell Schweitzer on James Morrow's Madonna and SpaceshipAlec Austen on Greg Rucka's BravoUrsula Pflug on Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being

The six volumes in the Black Wings series, from which these "Best of" tales are selected, stand as a monument to H. P. Lovecraft's incalculable and unassailable influence on contemporary weird fiction, and so the time seemed right for a retrospective volume that exhibits the choicest items from the series. The task of selection was not a simple or straightforward one, for every tale in the series had some claim to be chosen; let it then be said that this volume does not contain necessarily...

Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany (1878–1957) was a pioneering writer in the genre of fantasy literature and the author of such celebrated works as The Book of Wonder (1912) and The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1924). Over the course of a career that spanned more than five decades, Dunsany wrote thousands of stories, plays, novels, essays, poems, and reviews, and his work was translated into more than a dozen languages. Today, Dunsany’s work is experiencing a renaissance, as many of his earli...

Weird fiction is an incredibly rich and varied genre, running the gamut from supernatural horror to imaginary-world fantasy to psychological terror. This anthology seeks to exhibit the wide range of themes, motifs, and imagery that weird fiction allows, as embodied in the work of some of the leading contemporary writers in the field.The ghost or revenant is a venerable motif, and stories by John Shirley, Lynda E. Rucker, and Reggie Oliver ring fascinating changes on it. Allied to t...

This anthology follows the same theme as Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel Volume I. In this anthology, 30 authors provide their amazing visions on the theme of time travel, showing their storytelling skills while delighting readers. These stories take readers to the past, alternate present, and the future.