Download or read book Red Wet Dirt written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing three short stories & three novellas: While on vacation, a young man's fiance becomes a heart-collecting Yuletide Thing on Christmas Eve. Get stuck in traffic when The Freeway Reaper claims another soul. A suburban family is plagued by a horde of were-rats. Special Agent Sam Cross, mortally wounded by a Jamaican specter, journeys into a psychedelic Festival of Fallen Souls in search of a supernatural healer whose lover's touch brings in contrast instant death. A legendary flesh eater arrives on the shores of an ancient Minoan city, infecting its population, beginning with a teenage boy's father who's summoned by the pompous king to become an undead garbage disposal. In Red Afterworld, an ex juvenile preacher gets his childhood wish of becoming a vampire when he's recruited into a male-only biker fraternity and finds himself one of the few survivors of global nuclear war, discovers a time portal in the Arizona desert with the hope of saving the world, and finds true love. Including extra minor works from the author's youth and the short screenplay Cutting Edges, the basis for an upcoming film and the author's directorial debut, Red Wet Dirt is to die for and is destined to become a classic way beyond its genre. “I don’t know what else to say about this that has not already been said by some of the best writers of the genre. All I can do is join them in singing his praises. Grabowsky is a master of taking old legends and giving them new life… discover for yourself one of the best up and coming writers of our decade!” --Eve Blaack, Hacker’s Source Magazine, on RED WET DIRT

Download or read book Red Afterworld written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Dayton Monday wanted was to make a difference in this world. But the world isn’t what it used to be. Global nuclear war has already begun. The world is in chaos. The water supply of major amusement parks has been tainted with LSD by terrorists. But Dayton’s neighbor, Toad, promises that if he joins his male biker fraternity, the Brotherhood of the Black Heroes, he can help make the world a better place. Through his laborious initiation, he discovers the frightening truth about the Black Heroes: they represent all male vampires, and he is about to become one of them. Vampires are reckless and don’t know sex or love, are addicted to household cleaners and endless supplies of red meat and blood, and despise females of their kind. Just before the world ends, the Second Coming happens, but the returning savior is not what everyone expected: it is Sam Hall, a man hung for murder in the Old West, who died for the world’s sins. That said, crosses no longer protect against them. Now, any image of the Sam Hall hanging tree will do. And then the nukes arrive. What a way to end the world. After the nukes hit, Dayton finds himself one of the few survivors, wandering the wasteland of the Arizona desert where survival seems to be the only meaning of life under an endless red-tainted sky….. until he discovers a strange portal that leads to the barrel pond in the backyard patio of his home at a time just before his initiation, a new hope of saving the world, and true love. Author's note: “Symbolism is only potent when it is given meaning.” --NG RED AFTERWORLD is an important story for me, infused with a multitude of important personal influences and themes. It’s where the name Black Bed Sheet comes from and incorporates my grade school delusion that I was a vampire myself, and my own initiation over eighteen years ago into The Ancient & Honorable Order of E. Clampus Vitus, a fraternity of rowdy & charitable drinking men sprung from the Gold Rush days. It’s inspired by Johnny Cash and Harold Camping (the evangelist who proclaimed the Second Coming a couple years ago and whom my parents are still devoted to). It’s also a response to the mental anarchy that’s been going on in my head for years about how vampires are increasingly portrayed and marketed as dashing romantic teen lovers. In RED AFTERWORLD, they are in many ways a reinvention…..male and female vampires have despised each other and been feuding ever since the “Countess Bathory Incident” where Bathory was betrayed by the Black Hero of Hungary, Count Ferency Nadasdy (an event from which sprung all modern vampires and essentially a true story). They know no romance, sex, or real happiness. I particularly love the female vampire characters, members of a defunct feminist band called Blamia Kiss, and they kick ass, especially Tricks Matrix. In fact, I think RED AFTERWORLD kicks ass. I think it’s like nothing you’ve ever read, and you’ll never think about vampires the same way again.

Download or read book Diverse Tales written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Diverse Media. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse Tales is a thrilling collection of the lost works (lost prior to 2001) of a master of offbeat and macabre fiction, Nicholas Grabowsky.

Download or read book Pigeons from Hell written by Robert E. Howard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pigeons from Hell by Robert Ervin Howard For stark, living fear . . . what other writer is even in the running?" -H. P. Lovecraft "[Behind Howard's stories] lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams." -Robert Bloch "Howard had a gritty, vibrant style-broadsword writing that cut its way to the heart, with heroes who are truly larger than life." -David Gemmell" Howard's writing seems so highly charged with energy that it nearly gives off sparks." -Stephen King Originally published posthumously by Weird Tales in 1938, and the basis of the Boris Karloff hosted TV episode in 1961 of "Thriller," "Pigeons From Hell" is the spellbinding short novel of two stranded motorists and a local sheriff who battle strange and malevolent forces that inhabit a run-down, abandoned mansion in the middle of a swamp in the middle of nowhere. "Pigeons from Hell," remains one of Robert E. Howard's most celebrated horror stories and has seen several reprints including the Pyramid Weird Tales anthology published in 1964. Although Howard is best remembered as the creator of Conan the Barbarian, he was equally recognized in the 1930's pulps for his incredible horror stories. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Download or read book Dead on the Bones written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight short stories pays tribute to the pulp storytelling that captivated the author in his youth, including "The Gruesome Affair of the Electric Blue Lightning," "Tarzan and the Land That Time Forgot," and the title story.

Download or read book The Horror on the Links written by Seabury Quinn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. Quinn's short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales's original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin's knack for solving mysteries-and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)-captivated readers for nearly three decades.

Download or read book The Wicked Haze written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Diverse Media. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Grabowsky presents three previously unfinished, unreleased tales written during his days as Nicholas Randers, the name he once used penning bestselling paperback horror. Here, fused together to make a psychedelic fantasy tale both nightmarish and brashly idiotic, are a series of parables and visions brought about by two strangers on a chance meeting on the street one foggy night under the influence of hallucinogen-laced sugar cubes.

Download or read book The Everborn written by Nicholas Grabowsky and published by Black Bed Sheet Books. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Grabowsky's award-winning, widely-praised aliens-among-us horror/science fiction epic, available for the first time packaged and edited the way it was intended to be! The Everborn concerns the offspring of fallen angels that have lived among us since the dawn of man. Throughout the ages, they live life after life in normal society until each one falls in love and fathers his own child. Before that child is born, they undergo a rapid degeneration into a fetal state before they disappear entirely and become reborn into a new life, essentially becoming their own fathers. All of them male, they live out their commonplace lives under the covert protection of Watchmaids, inter-dimensional female beings whose purpose is to ensure no harm comes to them under penalty of banishment into a state of eternal loneliness. When an Everborn is reborn as a set of twins, one a soulless serial killer on a quest to be born again into a sinless life and the other a kind-hearted ghostwriter for a world-famous rock-and-roll horror novelist, a banished Watchmaid claims her role in an ancient prophecy to use the soulless twin as a means to re-enter our world and bring about its destruction.

Download or read book Weird Tales 100 Years of Weird written by Jonathan Maberry and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov. Marking a century of uniquely peculiar storytelling, each part of this anthology features a different genre from Cosmic Horror, Sword and Sorcery, Space Opera, to the Truly Weird—things too strange to publish elsewhere, and the magazine’s raison d’etre. Landmark stories such as “The Call of Cthulhu”, “Worms of the Earth”, and “Legal Rites” stand beside original stories and insightful essays from today’s masters of speculative fiction. This visually stunning hardcover edition is a collector’s dream, illustrated throughout with classic full color and black & white art from past issues of Weird Tales Magazine.

Download or read book Skullcrusher written by Robert Ervin Howard and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SKULLCRUSHER is a two-volume collection of classic weird fiction comprising the very best stories by legendary pulp author Robert E Howard. These stories feature all of Howard's most famous creations -- Conan, King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn -- alongside others such as Cormac Mac Art, James Allison, Red Sonya, and Cormac McGeoffrey -- in a definitive anthology of sword and sorcery, weird adventure, and occult horror in the vein of H P Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. SKULLCRUSHER Volume One contains: RED SHADOWS - MOON OF SKULLS - WINGS IN THE NIGHT - THE SHADOW KINGDOM - THE MIRRORS OF TUZUN THUNE - KINGS OF THE NIGHT - WORMS OF THE EARTH - SKULLFACE - THE BLACK STONE - BLACK CANAAN - VALLEY OF THE WORM Featuring King Kull, Solomon Kane, Bran Mak Morn, James Allison and others in 11 pulsating tales of horror, black magic, obscene rites, bloody carnage, dismemberment and death.

Download or read book The Horror on the Links written by Seabury Quinn and published by Night Shade. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. Quinn’s short stories were featured in well more than half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the supernatural French detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries—and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (grand Dieu!)—captivated readers for nearly three decades. Collected for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, edited by George Vanderburgh, presents all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero. The first volume, The Horror on the Links, includes all of the Jules de Grandin stories from “The Horror on the Links” (1925) to “The Chapel of Mystic Horror” (1928), as well as an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg.

Download or read book Fantastic Stories Presents the Weird Tales Super Pack 2 written by Robert E. Howard and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weird Tales launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While Pulp magazines had been around for some time Weird Tales was the first pulp magazine to specialize in super natural fiction. Weird Tales single handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer did readers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror have to seek out single stories in otherwise mundane magazines now they had a magazine all of their own that published only the stories that they wanted to read. Collected in this anthology are over two hundred thousand words of some of the greatest stories ever published in the pages of Weird Tales. Included are: Red Nails by Robert E. Howard The Tree of Life by C. L. Moore Birthmark by Seabury Quinn Spider Mansion by Fritz Leiber Evolution Island by Edmond Hamilton The Monkey Spoons by Mary Elizabeth Counselman The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O'Brien The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft The Salem Horror by Henry Kuttner The Haunted Burglar by W. C. Morrow The Lost Gods by Dorothy Quick The Terror Of The Water-Tank by William Hope Hodgson The White Feather Hex by Don Peterson The Death of Ilalotha by Clark Ashton Smith Each Man Kills by Victoria Glad The Disc Recorder by August Derleth The Doors of Death by Arthur B. Waltermire Where Are You Mr. Biggs? by Nelson S. Bond The Invaders by Benjamin Ferris The Three Pools and the Painted Moon by Frank Owen Werewolf of the Sahara by G.G. Pendarves The People of the Black Circle by Robert E. Howard

Download or read book Weird Tales Vol 1 No 3 May 1923 written by A G Birch and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the readers' edition of the third 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 Moon Terror [Part 1 of 2], by A. G. Birch The Secret Fear, by Kenneth Duane Whipple Jungle Beasts, by William P. Barron The Golden Caverns, by Julian Kilman Vials of Insects, by Paul Ellsworth Triem An Eye for an Eye, by G. W. Crane The Floor Above, by M. Humphreys Penelope, by Vincent Starrett The Purple Heart, by Herman Sisk Feline, by Bruce Grant Two Hours of Death, by E. Thayles Emmons Midnight Black, by Hamilton Craigie The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Whispering Thing [Part 2 of 2], by Laurie McClintock & Culpeper Chunn The Death Cell, by F. K. Moss The Devil Plant, by Lyle Wilson Holden Hootch, by William Sanford The Thunder Voice, by Walter Wilson Case No. 27, by Mollie Frank Ellis The Finale, by William Merrit The Closed Cabinet, by Anonymous 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 CollectionOur 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.

Download or read book People of the Dark written by Robert E. Howard and published by COSMOS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously restored text by renowned REH scholar Paul Herman, this is the second in a ten book definitive chronological collection of Robert E. Howard’s weird stories that appeared in pulp magazines like the revered Weird Tales.

Download or read book The Horror Stories of Robert E Howard written by Robert E. Howard and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains two dozen horror stories from Robert E. Howard, one of the most prolific and significant American authors of pulp fiction in the early twentieth century. The included stories span several settings, including a fantastical twist on the wild west, and H. P. Lovecraft's Chtulhu Mythos. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Download or read book Famous Fantastic Mysteries written by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fantastic Stories Presents the Weird Tales Super Pack 2 written by Robert E. Howard and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: