What men know is called science; what they have not yet learned they call magic. But both are real.... — In the world of today and the near future, three people inexorably linked by a common interest in the work of H. P. Lovecraft, discover: — that the legendary creatures he created in his fan...
Best known as the author of "Psycho", Robert Bloch is world-renowned for his stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Many of the 25 stories in this first volume of "The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch" have been unavailable for decades. The stories are in his classic style of g...
set during the reign of Queen Victoria and follows the investigation of Inspector Abberline in attempting to apprehend Jack the Ripper and includes some famous Victorians such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle within the storyline. Historical fiction featuring Jack the Ripper, Arthur Conan Doyle, George ...
Mary is entrusted with $40k to deposit in the bank - but decides to run away with it instead. On her way to the small town where her fiance, Sam Loomis, lives, she decides to stop at a motel for the night, freshen up with a shower and some sleep, and be ready to surprise Sam in the morning to sta...
Contents:xi · Robert Bloch: The Man Who Wrote Psycho · Lester del Rey · in 1 · Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · ss Weird Tales Jul ’43 21 · Enoch · ss Weird Tales Sep ’46 39 · Catnip · ss Weird Tales Mar ’48 55 · The Hungry House · ss Imagination Apr ’51 79 · The Man Who Collected Poe · ss Famous F...
What's with this anyways? Film novelizations are something that is usually done by a starving beginner anxious to hone his professional skills or an established writer under a pseudonym. In fact one author told me that no writer should do novelizations as publishing companies look down on them as...
Bloom walked through the doorway. Miss Cox looked up from her seat behind the reception desk, then nodded briskly. “Here we are!” She rose and moved forward with a smile of greeting that was as false as her teeth. “I’ve been expecting you all aftern...
The somewhere was an old loft over a condemned office building on Bleecker Street. And the somehow . . .Barton Stone came there early one Monday morning as the sun shone yellow and cold over the huddled rooftops. He noted the mass of the surrounding buildings, rearranged them into a more pleasing...
It was fair and warmer in Los Angeles. Not that people were thinking about the weather. They were too busy reading the headline story in the Times and listening to the early newscasts. And, warm as it was, a collective shudder swept across the city. Memories began to stir....
The sun disappeared into the woods and shadows started slinking out from between the trees. Twilight brought a chill wind whipping across fallen leaves and in the distance the huddling hills were hidden in autumn haze. That’s when David began moving through the farmhouse, ...
I drove into town at nine. When I got uptown I stopped in at a filling station and loaded up the tank. I put in some oil and some water, checked the tires over. Then I drove downtown and parked at a meter. I went across to the post office. There was a pay phone there, and ...
Jan stared at Santo Vizzini as he rose from behind his desk. “Something wrong?” he asked. “Your mustache—you shaved it off.” Vizzini nodded as he moved toward her in a swirl of scent, running a pudgy forefinger over the bare ...