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Armchair Fiction presents paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Volume 16, The Best Weird Fiction of 1923, Pt. One; Seabury Quinn and Others." This is the first of two Horror Gems collections celebrating the classic works of "The Unique Magazine," Weird Tales. The year was 1923 when tales took a turn for the weird with the launch of the world's first genre pulp magazine, Weird Tales; and here we have a collection of the weirdest and most spine tingling of the first year. So jump into Seabury Quinn's "The Phantom Farm House" where mysterious legends, dream houses, and unimaginable terrors come to life. Perhaps tales of revenge are your preference? Then try William P. Barron's "Jungle Beasts" where one learns never to mess with the feline species-or face a harrowing fate! Then there is Vance Hoyt's "The Devils Cabin" where legend terrifies even the most seasoned adventurer and beasts creep in the night. Things take a turn for the strange as science takes over in Anthony M. Rud's "Ooze," when the hunger of one man's creation spirals out of control and can no longer be contained! These and more fantastic tales abound in Armchair Fiction's latest Horror Gems collection. The contents are as follows:THE PHANTOM FARMHOUSE by Seabury QuinnJUNGLE BEASTS by William P. BarronOOZE by Anthony M. RudTHE GUARD OF HONOR by J. Paul SuterTHE THING OF A THOUSAND SHAPES by Otis Adelbert KlineLUCIFER by John D. SwainDAGON by Howard Phillips LovecraftTHE DEVIL'S CABIN by Vance Hoyt THE GHOUL AND THE CORPSE by G. A. Wells
This is the readers' edition of the first issue of Weird Tales, the hugely influential Pulp Magazine that went on to define many ideas of modern fantasy and supernatural horror. It spawned the careers of writers such as H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. This collection includes: The Dead Man's Tale · Willard E. Hawkins Ooze · Anthony M. Rud The Thing of a Thousand Shapes [Part 1 of 2] · Otis Adelbert Kline The Mystery of Black Jean · Julian Kilman The Grave · Orville R. Emerson Hark! The Rattle! · Joel Townsley Rogers The Ghost Guard · Bryan Irvine The Ghoul and the Corpse · G. A. Wells Fear · David R. Solomon The Chain · Hamilton Craigie The Place of Madness · Merlin Moore Taylor The Closing Hand · Farnsworth Wright The Unknown Beast · Howard Ellis Davis The Basket · Herbert J. Mangham The Accusing Voice · Meredith Davis The Sequel [Fortunato] · Walter Scott Story The Weaving Shadows · W. H. Holmes Nimba, the Cave Girl · R. T. M. Scott The Young Man Who Wanted to Die · Anon. The Scarlet Night · William Sanford The Extraordinary Experiment of Dr. Calgroni · Joseph Faus & James Bennett Wooding The Return of Paul Slavsky · George Warburton Lewis The House of Death · F. Georgia Stroup The Gallows · I. W. D. Peters The Skull · Harold Ward The Ape-Man · James B. M. Clark, Jr. This edition strips the original manuscript of ads and irrelevant news items, keeping only the stories and the notes from the original editor. It presents these stories in a way that is easier for modern readers on modern devices. PDF scans of the original magazine, as it would have been read in 1923, are available online. About the Pulp Fiction Collection Our modern popular culture would not exist in its current form without the enormous influence of pulp fiction. So named due to the cheap wood-pulp paper used in the printing process, pulp magazines brought affordable fiction options to the masses. This collection attempts to create a modernized version of these magazines, taking the short stories from each public domain issue and assembling them in a more modern collection format. For a scanned facsimile of the original issue, complete with original ads and formatting, visit MythBank.com.
"Chick Bassist is utterly savage. Lockhart's style waxes poetic as a modern Beat giving us a glimpse into Rock & Roll hell." - Laird Barron, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Occultation and The Croning Erin Locke, the Queen of Rock, wakes up at the crack of noon. "La Cucaracha" has infested her dream, and now echoes through her hotel room. "What the fuck is that?" Erin's voice is muffled by the thick blankets that completely cover her. Beside the lump that is Erin lies a black Ibanez bass guitar. A Heroes for Goats sticker adorns its reflective surface. Erin thrusts one arm out from beneath the blankets and fumbles for the nonexistent alarm clock. She's still slogging off fragments of her dream, that goddamn recurrent creep-out where she's a praying mantis, translucent green, perched on the crest of a burning city, devouring her still-copulating preymate. This time her meal had worn her father's face. Those dreams were the worst. Chick Bassist welcomes you into punk rock hell, the friendless disillusionment of waking up in a shitty motel room in California with half a joint and an empty six-pack, radio blaring Lou Reed, concrete ocean on all sides and a blazing inferno within.
In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, witchcraft, vampirism, lycanthropy, and sea monsters. Stories of cruelty and vengeance, of a body that refuses to be cremated, a deranged performer with one last shocking show, a frozen corpse that may not be dead. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly funny, by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats, this is a horror anthology like no other. Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin • John Blackburn • Michael Blumlein • Mary Cholmondeley • Hugh Fleetwood • Stephen Gregory • Gerald Kersh • Francis King • M. G. Lewis • Florence Marryat • Richard Marsh • Michael McDowell • Christopher Priest • Forrest Reid • Bernard Taylor • Hugh Walpole 'The things were there and they were hiding in the slime; waiting ... waiting to clutch and claw and savage’ - AUNTY GREEN by John Blackburn ‘The sound that came from her throat, a small, pleading cry of terror, was cut off before she’d hardly had a chance to utter it’ - OUT OF SORTS by Bernard Taylor ‘The words filled her with an indescribable fear, and she turned to run; but her way was blocked by a figure, gigantic in stature​ – and its monstrous shape moved towards her, and she knew it was the incarnation of evil itself ’ - THE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles Birkin
Armchair Fiction features the best in classic horror and fantasy short story collections. Here it is?part one of the greatest collection of H. P. Lovecraft works ever put together, "Masters of Horror, Vol. Two: H. P. Lovecraft, the Ultimate Illustrated Weird Tales Collection, Pt. 1." This incredible collection features the very best horror tales of H. P. Lovecraft, complete with their Weird Tales illustrations and publishing dates. It also contains a Lovecraft photo gallery showing H. P. at the many stages of his life and career. You get the best of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos series, as well as top tales from his "Dream Cycle," as well as other miscellaneous tales of horror and fantasy. The lineup includes "The Dunwich Horror," "Cool Air," "The Haunter of the Dark," "The Rats in the Walls," "Hypnos," "The Hound," "Pickman's Model," "The Thing on the Doorstep," "The Statement of Randolph Carter," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Call of Cthulhu," The Shunned House," "The Nameless City," and "From Beyond." So kick back in your favorite armchair and take aim at fourteen gems from the all-time master of the classic horror yarn.
Originally published by the publishers of WEIRD TALES pulp magazine, this book contains four stories which first appeared in that magazine: "The Moon Terror" by A. G. Birch, "Ooze" by Anthony M. Rud, "Penelope" by Vincent Starrett, and "An Adventures in the Fourth Dimension" by Farnsworth Wright. This is a facsimile reproduction of the original book.
Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled generations of readers throughout the world. Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in Weird Tales' first year of publication, 1923 -- classics by many who would later play an integral part in the Unique Magazine, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction. Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband’s heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret “Mad Madge” Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)? If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson, whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series, then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era. You’ll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Colter, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today’s vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales. Part biography, part reader’s guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.