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10 reviews
John D. Harvey

Arkham House Publishers, 2002

One of the most enjoyable books I've read in a long time.
What an incredible introduction to a new author. THE CLEANSING is easily one of the best, most enjoyable books I've read in a long time. Not since King's THE STAND have I been so unhappy about finishing a novel. It was a joy to read from the opening paragraph until the last page. At times horrific, intriguing and endearing, it grabs your full attention and never lets go. Each of John D. Harvey's ...

Lord Kelvin's Machine: A Novel

4 reviews
James P. Blaylock

Arkham House Publishers, 1992

An astutely told science fiction adventure
Deftly written by James P. Blaylock (a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award), Lord Kelvin's Machine is a fantastic steampunk saga set in Victorian London. Our intrepid hero, Langdon St. Ives, is devastated by murder and surrounded by mayhem in the midst of an uproar over (and battles to possess) a wondrous machine with the power to travel through Time itself. An ...

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology

22 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft, Divers Hands

Arkham House Publishers, 1990

J.K. Potter's Illustrations Are Rich (Eldritch)
Well done thou good and faithful servants. Especially you J.K. Potter! Much has been said about the stories and deservedly so, but Potter's "photos" of Lovecraftian creatures are also well worth mentioning.

Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology

19 reviews

Arkham House Publishers, 1995

Very good modern collection of Cthulhu short stories
_Cthulhu 2000_ is (as one might guess from the title) a collection of recently written short stories set in the universe created by H.P. Lovecraft, none by Lovecraft himself but rather by a variety of different authors. Editor Jim Turner provides a nice introduction to the Lovecraft's writings, drawing attention to two themes in the Cthulhu mythos. One theme is that though Lovecraft is in many ...

Dragonfly

15 reviews
Frederic S. Durbin

Arkham House Publishers, 1999

Wild Halloween Ride!
This is truly an amazing book! If you love the spooky atmosphere of October, put this on your must-read list. DRAGONFLY is to Halloween what A CHRISTMAS CAROL is to Christmas--a celebration of the essence of a holiday. I'll never carve a jack-o'-lantern again without thinking of Durbin's eerie settings and ramshackle buildings, of the wild ride he gives us through harrowing fights and flights, ...

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

6 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft, T. E. Klein, ...

Arkham House Publishers, 1986

The Lovecraft Experience
In my humble opinion, there are two ways to read Lovecraft. The first, and best, is to get your hands on an original "Wierd Tales" or other pulp. There is something about the musty smell that adds to the tale. For true conisours, read them under the covers with a flashlight, late in the evening hours. Realizing that original pulps may be prohibitively expensive, the Arkham House Editions are ...

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Macabre Tales

21 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Arkham House Publishers Inc., 1985

About this edition . . . .
I will not try to write a complete review, since I see that there are already 17 reviews available here, several of fine quality. This edition is of great interest because it issues from Arkham House. Arkham House publishing was founded by August Derleth, a protege of H.P. Lovecraft who himself wrote a rather large volume of pastiche material using the Cthulhu mythos of Lovecraft. One motive ...

Voyages by Starlight

1 review
Ian R. MacLeod

Arkham House Publishers, 1996

Subtle, balanced, elegant bombshells
Voyages by Starlight is Ian R. MacLeod's first collection. His stories are very well-constructed, and characteristically rather quiet in tone. In this, in some of his themes, and in his ability to plant a subtle bombshell and explode it in the reader's face at a story's close, he reminds me of the excellent mainstream writer William Trevor. SF writers he reminds me of include Christopher Priest, ...

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (Collected Lovecraft Fiction, Vol. 4)

8 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi

Arkham House Publishers, 1989

HP LOVECRAFT & MORE SURPRISES!
HP Lovecraft was a terrific writer of horror and was editor of Weird Tales 1920-30s and his stories are still popular today. Along with Robert E. Howard (My favorite), and Clark Ashton Smith, these three writers comprised the bulk of innovative talent of Weird Tales. This book has stories that HP Lovecraft had a hand in writing,editing and some his own. The creepiest story is Winged Death by ...

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever: The Great Years of James Tiptree, Jr

4 reviews
James Tiptree Jr [Alice B Sheldon]

Arkham House Publishers, 1990

My Favorite Book in the World
Do you have a favorite book in the world? This book, quite simply, is mine. This is a posthumously-published collection of eighteen stories by James Tiptree, Jr. (pseudonym for Alice Sheldon). It contains most of her best short fiction. It also contains a compelling introduction by John Clute. Mark Richard Siegel, who wrote the Starmont Reader's Guide on James Tiptree, Jr., wrote the ...

The Jaguar Hunter

9 reviews
Lucius Shepard

Arkham House Publishers, 1987

Never read anything so consistently wistful.
This book is introspective without being maudlin, and I find myself struggling for a better word than "wistful", but alas, no cross-referenced OED at my fingertips. Therefore: I can promise you this, there's not a happy ending in the book, and I found myself at first very disappointed in this growing trend. At some point in the third short story, I realized that he would supply no easy answers, ...

Flowers from the Moon: And Other Lunacies

2 reviews
Robert Bloch

Arkham House Publishers, 1998

Fantastic and terrifying short stories
Flowers From The Moon And Other Lunacies is a collection of fantastic and terrifying short stories by Robert Bloch, the renowned author of "Psycho," the novel that became one of the most famous horror movies of all time. Descriptive narration of magical events being twisted into macabre and gruesome doom, bring these spine-chilling tales to vivid life, in an unforgettably eerie anthology. The ...

The Far Side of Nowhere

2 reviews
Nelson Slade Bond

Arkham House Publishers, 2002

Romances, inventions, & intrigue
Nelson Bond is a wizard at creating bizarre, unusual story lines which excel in the unexpected, and his original stories comprising Far Side Of Nowhere, provide some unusual scenarios; from supernatural forces to wizards and magic. Romances, inventions, intrigue: all the stuff of thrilling fantasy and ordinary individuals caught in unbelievable worlds comes to life.

The Ends of the Earth: 14 Stories

3 reviews
Lucius Shepard

Arkham House Publishers, 1991

Glorious, absolutely bloody glorious
Lucius Shepard is one of the most extraordinary writers living, inside the genre ghetto or out. All his books - Green Eyes, The Jaguar Hunter, The Golden, Barnacle Bill the Spacer, Life During Wartime and any others you happen to run across - are complex, literate, unputdownable and decidedly different from anything else you've ever come across. There's almost nothing in science fiction, less in ...

The Aliens of Earth

1 review
Nancy Kress

Arkham House Publishers, 1998

The best short story collection I've ever read.
I read this short story collection and walked around the rest of the day in a daze. Nancy Kress managed to blow me away almost every time. I had loved her novels, but this was even better. She managed not to get caught in a rut while maintaining a consistency of quality that was amazing. If you want to know about technology and human nature, read this book. If you want to know how to ...

Selected Letters: 1929-1931. Edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
H. P. Lovecraft

Arkham House Publishers, 1997

Meeting in Infinity: Allegories & Extrapolations

2 reviews
John Kessel

Arkham House Publishers, 1992

I actually quite enjoyed this one.
I'm a fan of short form science fiction, and this is one of the most under-appreciated collections I can recall. The enchantment lies in the unexplained premise behind most of the stories, situations that are taken for granted, as if they're perfectly normal. Such as the endless drive down an infinite highway mentioned in the Kirkus review. The writing is excellent and overall the collection ...

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