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Isaac Asimov Presents Tales of the Occult
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H. G. Wells,Kris Neville,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert W. Chambers,Martin H. Greenberg,Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Edith Wharton,Cornell Woolrich,F. W. Harvey,Judith Merrill,Henry Slesar,Avram Davidson,Gertrude Henderson,Ray Bradbury,Rudyard Kipling,Charles G. Waugh,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Hay,C. L. Moore,Edgar Allan Poe,Fritz Leiber,Isaac Asimov,Helen McCloy,Manly Wade Wellman,August Derleth |
Contains:
Under the knife / H.G. Wells --
Children of the Zodiac / Rudyard Kipling --
The girl who found things / Henry Slesar --
The emigrant banshee / Gertrude Henderson --
[Young Goodman Brow… |
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The Twelve Crimes of Christmas
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Stanley Ellin,S. S. Rafferty,Nick O'Donohoe,Martin H. Greenberg,Dorothy L. Sayers,Ellery Queen,Rex Stout,Carol-Lynn Rossel Waugh,Isaac Asimov,Robert Somerlott,John Dickson Carr,Edward D. Hoch,Alice Scanlan Reach,August Derleth |
Introduction: Noel, Noel! / Isaac Asimov
Christmas party / Rex Stout
Do your Christmas shoplifting early / Robert Somerlott
The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers
Father Crumlish celebrates C… |
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The adventure of the unique Dickensians
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August Derleth |
The Adventure of the Unique Dickensians is a Christmas story about an eccentric collector of Dickensiana, one Ebenezer Snawley, who dresses in nineteenth-century clothing and undergoes harassment fro… |
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The beast in Holger's Woods
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August Derleth |
When two boys decide to investigate reports of a "monster" seen in the woods, they find themselves in more danger than they expected. |
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Dark mind, dark heart
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August Derleth |
This anthology of more or less "old-fashioned" horror tales offers new, hitherto unpublished work by such masters of the genre as Robert Bloch, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, John Metcalfe, H. Russell Wa… |
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A Praed Street dossier
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August Derleth |
This book is an associational item, for the growing numbers of Praed Street Irregulars, for whom Solar Pons has proved to be an entertaining latterday Sherlock Holmes. Here are the marginal writings … |
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The Wisconsin, river of a thousand isles
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August Derleth |
A history and geography of the Badger State, examining the important heritage and cultural contributions of her residents, including the Ringling brothers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Dodge, and Zona G… |
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Haunted Stories
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Mark Twain,Aidan Chambers,Agatha Christie,Edgar Allan Poe,August Derleth |
The lonesome place / August Derleth
Such a sweet little girl / Lance Salway
A ghost story / Mark Twain
Footsteps invisible / Robert Arthur
The gnomon / Jan Mark
The haunted and the haunters (abr… |
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The Nightmare Reader
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John Gawsworth,H. G. Wells,Arthur Conan Doyle,Robert Bloch,Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton,Washington Irving,Ambrose Bierce,H.P. Lovecraft,Ray Bradbury,Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,Arthur C. Clarke,Edgar Allan Poe,Елена Петровна Блаватская,Montague Summers,Thomas De Quincey,Algernon Blackwood,Lord Dunsany,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Aleister Crowley,Peter Haining,Arthur Machen,Montague Rhodes James,Lafcadio Hearn,August Derleth,Matthew Lewis,C.F. Hoffman |
CONTENTS:
Introduction. What hath light wrought? / by Isaac Asimov
Visitation. The midnight embrace / by Matthew Lewis
The Frankenstein theme. The transformation / by Mary Shelley
Dream state. … |
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100 Books by August Derleth
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August Derleth |
A listing of Derleth's first 100 books. |
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Final Adventures of Solar Pons
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August Derleth |
Critics regard Solar Pons and his assistant Dr. Lyndon Parker as the greatest successors to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H.Watson.
Inspired by a letter from Holmes' creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle… |
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