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Weird Tales from Northern Seas: Norwegian Legends

2 reviews
Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie, R. Nisbet Bain

Penfield Press, 1995

Superb northern gothic ghost stories and related folklore
Jonas Lie are ranked among the most popular norwegian authors ever, writing plays, novels and short stories. His folklore short stories were originaly published in two volumes entitled "Troll" and "Troll 2" (A 'troll' is a evil monster of dark forces, as you may know, though some are depicted as nice and dumb). One of the stories were selected by Roald Dahl as one of the worlds 15 best ghost ...

Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!

5 reviews

Tor Books, 2003

For fans of Lumley and anyone who enjoys Lovecraft
HARRY KEOGH: NECROSCOPE AND OTHER WEIRD HEROES is clearly for fans of Brian Lumley and anyone who enjoys Lovecraft. The collection contains eight long shorts/novellas starring four of Mr. Lumley's top guns. Three stories feature Titus Crow (psychic detective). David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer (Agents of the king) travel in Dreamlands in two contributions. Finally the title character stars in ...

Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors

5 reviews
Stefan R. Dziemianowicz

Random House Value Publishing, 1988

Weird Tales
This book purports to reprint the best story of the year for each year the magazine "Weird Tales" was published, from 1923 through 1954. Not surprisingly, many of these tales range from creepy to truly scary. Two of the stories, C.M. Eddy's "The Loved Dead," and Robert Barbour Johnson's "Far Below," I had actually heard of in urban legends passed around in grade school and middle school ...

Devil's Auction (Weird Tales Library)

6 reviews
Robert Weinberg

Owlswick Press, 1988

...i dare you to put this book down...c'mon, i double-dare you...
Every generation, a dread auction is held at a secret place that only those especially invited may reach. It is always held by the same man, simply known as Ashmedai. For centuries, countless witches and warlocks have vied in vicious bidding wars with one another to attain the auction's mysterious prize. No one knows what this prize is, only that it contains immeasurable power and thus is worthy ...

Johnny, the Mark of Chaos (The Chaos Dragon Fantasy Series)

8 reviews
Susan D. Kalior

Blue Wing Publications, Workshops, and Lectures, 2008

Fascinating Twist!
This amazing character is more than a vampire, more than a were-dragon (of sorts) and more than a warlock. Set in New York City, this eerie thriller carries such an authentic tone to the dark side of life, laced with with philosophical gems that are most uplifting. There is much mystery, and unexpected twists and turns characteristic of this author. The sexual tension is magnificent between this ...

The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales

1 review
H.F. Heard

Wildside Press, 2008

THE GREAT FOG
Here is an overview and three brief reviews of THE GREAT FOG: Cover copy from the 1944 Vanguard edition "THE GREAT FOG is literary adrenalin for the jaded reader of the macabre. Mr. Heard is a master of capturing the split second when the usual becomes the unusual, when the ordinary becomes the mysterious. His murderers are not killers but astute men of ingenuity, his dreamers are men of ...

A Touch of Strange: Weird Tales of the Bc Coast

2 reviews
Dick Hammond

Harbour Publishing, 2001

Something of the Ancients
Having read the first two of Hammond's books, I had to have this one too and it didn't fail to disappoint, to say the least. I think A Touch of Strange is my favourite of all three of this real-life west-coast trilogy. It's grittier than the others and there are even more great characters -many old ones but several new ones too- than in the other two books combined, which I was not expecting. ...

The Best of Weird Tales: 1923

2 reviews

Borgo Press, 1997

Attention Weird Fiction Fans!
This anthology is a must for fans of weird fiction. Today most copies of Weird Tales from tha time period can cost Anywhere between $100 and $1000. This anthology allows us to read some of the stories that appeared in The Unique Magazine in its heyday. A must read for doe hard weird fiction fans.

The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M R James, Ambrose Bierce, H P Lovecraft

2 reviews
S. T. Joshi

University of Texas Press, 1990

A real critic for real readers
In The Weird Tale, Joshi analyses the work of half a dozen writers whose influence on the modern supernatural horror story is either incalculable (Lovecraft, James and possibly Bierce) or else not nearly large enough (Blackwood, Machen, Dunsany). Joshi's central theoretical tenet is that weird fiction is an inherently philosophical mode, since it offers writers the chance to remake the world ...

The Three Impostors and Other Stories: Vol. 1 of the Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen (Call of Cthulhu ...

15 reviews
Arthur Machen

Chaosium Inc., 2007

Convinced to buy Vol. 2
As the title says, I found this collection so intriguing that I will be buying the next volume (The White People and other Tales). The only work that I had previously known by Arthur Machen was "The Great God Pan", which has shown up in so many anthologies that I am thoroughly sick of it, although it is a good read the first few times through. "The Inmost Light" was quite disturbing to me in ...

Warning Whispers: New Weird Tales

1 review
A. M. Burrage

Equation, 1988

Ghostly collection from the early 20th century pulps
Ash Tree Press is one of today's finest purveyors of supernatural fiction, and many if not most of their titles come from the golden age of ghost stories (Victorian and Edwardian England). "Warning Whispers" is a collection of twenty-five stories which have moldered in the depths of weekly periodicals that were popular back at the beginning of the twentieth century (1915 - 1931). A.M. Burrage, ...

Twisted Tales (Deadlands: The Weird West)

1 review
Shane Lacy Hensley

Pinnacle Entertainment Group, 1998

Easily the best
This is easily the best character-booklet I've seen for any RPG. With plenty of detail for all aspects of the game, and plenty of space for notes or a journal, this little companion will quickly become your best friend in the fight against the reckoners.

H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Tales: The Roots of Modern Horror

1 review

Cold Spring Press, 2005

Superlative collection
This is an absolutely superlative collection -- important for its assemblage of some of the very best of the horror genre and also because it helps provide historical insight into the tastes of H.P. Lovecraft, serving as a reading guide for his classic SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE. It also helps that this has such nice readable type!--unlike many of the collections of similar material ...

The Lady Wore Black and Other Weird Cat Tales

1 review
Hugh B. Cave

Ash Tree Pr, 2000

A horror and fantasy master
Hugh Cave has been writing since 1929--and at the age of 91 he is still active, one of the lasat of the popular writers who cut his literary teeth on the pulps. This volume contains some of his early stories, as well as some of his most recent--showing that he is still at the top of the field.

Tales Of Terror: 1877 (Deadlands; PEG1018) (Deadlands: The Weird West)

1 review
Steven S. Long, Christopher McGlothlin, ...

Pinnacle Entertainment Group, 1998

History, the way it never happened!
Tales of Terror: 1877 introduces Marshals and Posses to the wonders of the Weird West. There are new weapons, Edges and Hindrances and Knacks, but the best part is the Tombstone Epitaph, incorporated into the book. The first part relates the happenings of the year 1877, as told by a reporter travelling the West. The second part reveals to Marshals (and Marshals only!) what's "really" going on ...

Strange but True, Colorado: Weird Tales of the Wild West

1 review
John Hafnor

Lone Pine Productions, 2005

Strange But True, Colorado
If you're looking for a "names and dates" academic history, don't buy this book. But if you'd like to be treated to some very weird events from the past, then you should find this book chock full of entertainment value. I went looking for the book when the book editor guy from the Boulder Daily Camera wrote something about it being "...the perfect bathroom book." It's true-- The stories, over 100 ...

Weird Shadows over Innsmouth

1 review

Fedogan & Bremer, 2005

Another success for Stephen Jones. and Fedogan & Bremer
In my recent review of Hardboiled Cthulhu I wrote a very churlish comment about Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth. After I did that, I began to feel guilty as I had not actually essayed more than the first few stories. And then I took another look at the author list and started over from the beginning. The short version of this review is that while Hardboiled Cthulhu is a tasty dessert, Weird ...

The Weird Tale

1 review
S. T. Joshi

Wildside Press, 2003

Meet H.P. Lovecraft's heroes: Dunsany, Machen, Blackwood, Bierce, and James
In the past 40 years H.P. Lovecraft has become the most well-known and popular "cult" horror writer. (As opposed to main-stream best sellers like Anne Rice or Stephen King.) Some of the writers who cast a large influence over Lovecraft were Lord Dunsany, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, and M.R. James--all well known in their time, but today nearly forgotten. Until recently ...

The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson: Horripilating Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)

1 review
William Jones

Chaosium, 2008

Horripilating indeed! More please, Mr. Jones.
The Strange Cases of Rudolph Pearson by William Jones is a trade paperback published by Chaosium. List price is $14.95; currently is not available directly from Amazon. Cover art is by Steven Gilberts, who gave us the covers of Frontier Cthulhu (my favorite of his works) and Arkham Tales (which I also liked better than this). A vile multi-tentacled thing with weirdly segmented legs is trying to ...

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