This inaugural volume begins a publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Amazing Stories, Science Wonder Stories, and Astounding Stories, this volume features nine tales including two novel-length adventures, The Green Girl and The Birth of a New Republic. Also included are Williamson's earliest letters and contest entries to the editors of the SF magainzes of the late 20's and early 30's. The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by 1998 Science Fiction Grand Master Hal Clement, The Metal Man and Others documents the beginning of Williamson's unparalleled career and acts as a mirror to the development of American Science Fiction

The Metal Man & Others: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson (Short Stories)

Literature & Fiction

Williamson, Jack

United States

Haffner Pr

This second volume continues the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Astounding Stories, Wonder Stories, and Amazing Stories, this volume features ten tales, four never published in book form, including novel-length adventure, The Stone from the Green Star. Also included are Williamson's letters and contest entries to the editors of the SF magainzes of the early 30's. The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. With a foreword by noted writer Harlan Ellison, Wolves of Darkness imparts the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.

Wolves of Darkness, The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Two (Short Stories)

While primarily known for his adventures of terrestrial doom and interstellar peril, Edmond Hamilton also wrote a number of tales of mystery and horror. The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Horror collects nine stories from pulp magazines such as Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, Thrilling Mystery, and Weird Tales. 
Included are Hamilton's four tales of supernatural terror that appeared in Weird Tales under the nom de plume Hugh Davidson. Two of these stories feature the psychic detective, Dr. John Dale. 
An introduction by Hugh B. Cave, recipient of the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, provides a personal glimpse at the bygone days of writing for the pulp magazines. 
Included as an afterword is an essay by Hamilton reflecting on the halcyon days of writing for Weird Tales.

The Vampire Master and Others Tales of Horror

HAMILTON, EDMOND

Genre Fiction

This third volume continues the publishing program to collect the stories of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. 
Drawn from such classic pulp magazines as Astounding Stories, Weird Tales, Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, and Thrilling Mystery, this volume features sixteen tales (including a novel-length adventure, "Xandulu"), seven of which have never been published in book form. 
The book is smythe-sewn, bound in full cloth, and printed on acid-neutral paper, with full-color endpapers reproducing the original pulp magazine cover art. 
With a foreword by author, and long-time friend of Williamson, Ray Bradbury, Wizard's Isle contains the sense of wonder from the early years of American Science Fiction and continues the documentation of Williamson's unparalleled career.

Wizard's Isle : The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Three

Jack Williamson

The fourth volume of a project to collect, in order of original publication, the short fiction of Science Fiction Grand Master Jack Williamson. Volume Four includes twelve stories from 1936 to 1938, and a foreword by SF &amp; Horror author and scholar Edward Bryant. An appendix includes a novelty feature and an unreprinted story preface. The author provides an afterword commenting on the genesis of these stories, and reflecting on the economic and cultural mood of the nation during the early years of American Science Fiction. 
Contents include: "The Ruler of Fate" (from Weird Tales) "Death's Cold Daughter" (from Thrilling Mystery) "The Great Illusion" (from Fantasy Magazine) "The Blue Spot" (from Astounding Stories) "The Ice Entity" (from Thrilling Wonder Stories) "Spider Island" (from Thrilling Mystery) "The Mark of the Monster" (from Weird Tales) "The Devil in Steel" (from Thrilling Mystery) "Released Entropy" (from Astounding Stories) "Dreadful Sleep" (from Weird Tales) "The Infinite Enemy" (from Thrilling Wonder Stories) "The Legion of Time" (from Astounding Science-Fiction) 
As with the previous volumes in THE COLLECTED STORIES OF JACK WILLIAMSON, SPIDER ISLAND is a smythe-sewn 6" x 9" hardcover bound in a custom-dyed cloth, and typeset in a format designed in honor of the Fantasy Press editions of Williamson's first books from the 1940s &amp; 50s. Full-color endpapers reproduce the pulp magazine cover art for each story's first appearance.

Spider Island: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Four

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