Black River

Literature & Fiction

Melanie Tem

Contemporary

Headline

1st Headline 1994 edition paperback fine book In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Revenant

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

This small book could probably be described as a sci-fi short story, by award winning author Melanie Tem.

Pioneer

Wormhole Books

Her brother Ethan is dead.  then why does he visit and why does he leave the doors open for Lucy and her sisters -- doors that whisper of the place that claimed Ethan's body and mind?"Don't be afraid, Lucy."The world of sleepy houses and glimmering summer lawns is losing its hold on Lucy Brill.  Her parents don't have the answers - they don't even have the questions.  ethan has changed everything.  Ethan, whose drug-racked body lies in the morgue...Ethan, who beckons Lucy to follow."Welcome, Lucy, Welcome."Lucy will follow, blinded by light, her head filled with anger.  lucy Brill is going away...to the place that took her brother's life, where evil waits with open arms.

Prodigal

Genre Fiction

E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd

<p>ABOUT THIS BOOK 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 the best stories, but rather the most representative stories in the series. If this selection leads readers back to the many other tales featured in those volumes, then its purpose will have been adequately served. S. T. Joshi  Contents Lesser Demons Norman Partridge Howling in the Dark Darrell Schweitzer Passing Spirits Sam Gafford When Death Wakes Me to Myself John Shirley The Abject Richard Gavin Dahlias Melanie Tem Bloom John Langan Thistle s Find Simon Strantzas Houdini Fish Jonathan Thomas Artifact Fred Chappell Cult of the Dead Lois H. Gresh The Dark Sea Within Jason V Brock Night of the Piper Ann K. Schwader The Woman in the Attic Robert H. Waugh The Walker in the Night Jason C. Eckhardt The Organ of Chaos Donald Tyson Voodoo Stephen Woodworth The Shard Don Webb To Move Beneath Autumnal Oaks W. H. Pugmire Lore Wade Germa</p>

Best of Black Wings

JOHN LANGAN

Lois H. Gresh

John Shirley

Norman Partridge

Simon Strantzas

Darrell Schweitzer

Jason V Brock

S.T. Joshi

Ann K. Schwader

Sam Gafford

PS Publishing

This second instalment of S. T. Joshi s critically acclaimed Black Wings series contains eighteen stories by leading contemporary writers, all drawing upon themes, images, and ideas from the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. Caitlín R. Kiernan has written a poetic reinterpretation of The Hound, while Nicholas Royle plays a fascinating riff on the existential horror of The Outsider. Three separate tales, by Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, and Jonathan Thomas, ring changes on Lovecraft s seminal story, The Call of Cthulhu. Nick Mamatas writes an ingenious elaboration of The Whisperer in Darkness. The cosmic indifferentism that is the core of Lovecraft s fiction is treated in various ways by John Langan, Melanie Tem, Tom Fletcher, Darrell Schweitzer, and Richard Gavin. The archaeological horror that we find in some of Lovecraft s most powerful tales is revivified by Donald Tyson, while Lovecraft s media presence is made the subject of half-comic, half-horrific tales by Don Webb and Chet Williamson. John Shirley, Rick Dakan, and Jason V Brock use Lovecraft s life and outlook as springboards for imaginative tales of psychological and supernatural horror. All in all, Black Wings II affords a rich feast of terror inspired by the twentieth century s greatest writer of the supernatural.

Black Wings II [jhc]

Don Webb

Nicholas Royle

Steve Rasnic Tem

Tom Fletcher

Donald Tyson

Jonathan Thomas

Nick Mamatas

Richard Gavin

Jason C. Eckhardt

Brian Evenson

Rick Dakan

Caitlin, R., Kiernan

This revised and updated second edition of Best New Horror showcases some of the very best short stories and novellas published in 1990, the year when the horror boom finally went bust. In this vilifying volume you will rediscover terrifying tales by, amongst many others, Poppy Z. Brite, Jonathan Carroll, Harlan Ellison, Elizabeth Hand, Michael Marshall Smith, Peter Straub, F. Paul Wilson, Gahan Wilson and Gene Wolfe, along with an overview of the year in horror by the editors and a nightmare necrology of those who kicked off this mortal coil during that period.

25th Anniversay Edition BEST NEW HORROR #2 [Trade Paperback] Edited by Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell

Karl Edward Wagner

Peter Straub

GENE WOLFE

Elizabeth Hand

Poppy Z. Brite

David J. Schow

Thomas Ligotti

Ian R. MacLeod

Harlon Ellison

Drugstore Indian Press

SYNOPSIS  This fourth instalment of S. T. Joshi s acclaimed Black Wings series features seventeen stories that continue to elaborate upon the conceptions, motifs, and imagery of H. P. Lovecraft, the most influential writer of weird fiction of the past hundred years. One of Lovecraft s favourite themes was the tale of archaeological horror, where venturesome explorers unearth hideous secrets of the ancient past that cast a baleful light on the fragility of our own existence. In this volume, a major new novella by the award-winning novelist and poet Fred Chappell, Artifact, treats this theme with his customary panache and subtlety, while other writers such as Richard Gavin, Lois H. Gresh, Ann K. Schwader, and Donald Tyson broach the same theme in their own distinctive and diverse ways.   The cosmicism that was at the core of Lovecraft s vision finds vivid realisation in stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Cody Goodfellow, and Melanie Tem. John Pelan and Stephen Mark Rainey have co-written a vivid novelette fusing horror and science fiction, while Will Murray s tale of governmental espionage leads to a conclusion that bodes ill for the fate of the human race.   Lovecraft was skilled at evoking the terrors inherent in the history and topography of his native New England, and several writers in this volume notably W. H. Pugmire and Jonathan Thomas do the same. Jason V Brock finds Lovecraftian terror in Prague, just as Gary Fry locates it in the British countryside.   Lovecraft s patented motif of the forbidden book that reveals secrets too horrible to contemplate is the focus of Darrell Schweitzer s story of what can be found in an out-of-the-way bookstore, while stories by Simon Strantzas and Stephen Woodworth elaborate on the Lovecraftian themes of immortal gods and of dreams that reveal unwelcome truths about ourselves. The book s final contribution, by Charles Lovecraft, is nothing less than a recasting of Lovecraft s early tale The Lurking Fear in a cycle of twelve sonnets.   Black Wings IV shows that H. P. Lovecraft continues to inspire some of today s leading writers of weird fiction.

Black Wings IV - New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror [Signed Slipcased ED.]

Cody Goodfellow

Gary Fry

Charles Lovecraft

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