Download or read book The Second Wish and Other Exhalations written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This may be The Second Wish, but it's the third witch's dozen of nerve-rending stories of the macabre from the man who gave you the internationally bestselling Necroscope and Vampire World series. Brian Lumley's The Second Wish and Other Exhalations maintains the nightmarish tradition established by his Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi and Dagon's Bell and Other Discords to complete a trilogy of terror. From Lovecraftian tales such as "The House of the Temple", "Rising With Surtsey" and the title story, to such contemporary horrors as "The Sun, the Sea, and the Silent Scream" and "The Luststone", this new collection has been culled from the writings of a true Master of Nightmares. Remember: in the field of no-holds-barred terror fiction, there's Brian Lumley – and then there's the rest… Stories included in this collection: The Second Wish The Sun, the Sea, and the Silent Scream De Marigny's Clock The Luststone Mother Love What Dark God? The Thief Immortal The House of the Temple Back Row Name and Number Snarker's Son Rising With Surtsey David's Worm

Download or read book The Brian Lumley Companion written by Stanley Wiater and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Brian Lumley and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner Stanley Wiater, The Brian Lumley Companion is an indispensable guide to the life and works of Brian Lumley. The Companion is illustrated with photographs from the author's private collection and full-color reproductions of Hugo Award–winning artist Bob Eggleton's eye-catching cover art for Lumley's works. Contributors to The Brian Lumley Companion include some of today's most noted experts on horror fiction, including W. Paul Ganley, founder of Weirdbook Press and two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award; Stephen Jones, coeditor of Horror: 100 Best Books and winner of multiple World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Awards; Robert M. Price, author of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos and one of the most respected analysts of Lovecraftian fiction; Robert G. Weinberg, an acknowledged specialist in weird fiction, and Stanley Wiater, host of the TV series "Dark Dreamers." In The Brian Lumley Companion, Lumley aficionados will find an overview of Lumley's career, from his first short fiction up to the present day; essays comparing Lumley and H. P. Lovecraft, a lengthy interview with the author that delves into the heart of Lumley's relationship with the writers and editors who inspired him and the fans who support him, and analyses of Lumley's short fiction and novels. An interview with Bob Eggleton gives insight into the development of his striking covers for the Necroscope series and other Lumley works. This companion also includes complete listings of the first publications of each of Lumley's novels, short fiction, and poetry. Major attractions are the detailed concordances that focus on individual novels and series, including the three Psychomech titles, the Dreamlands and Primal Lands series, and each volume in the Necroscope series. As a special treat, The Brian Lumley Companion includes three short short stories by Brian Lumley, works that have never before appeared in book form. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Return of the Deep Ones and Other Mythos Tales written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Lumley, author of the bestselling Necroscope and Vampire World series of novels, has for many years been a devotee' of H. P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, by such nightmare fables as Dagon, The Call of Cthulhu The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft’s legendary Deep Ones have taken their place in terror fiction alongside the vampire and the werewolf. Now they are given the Lumley treatment in—RETURN OF THE DEEP ONES! But the Mythos was not restricted to tales of oceanic horror; nightmares out of space and time—and inner earth—abound in Lovecraft’s fiction. Thus, with the addition of Beneath the Moors, Inception, and the novella, Lord of the Worms, Brian Lumley offers his latest homage to Lovecraft the Master. Now, from forbidden depths of dream and ocean, the RETURN OF THE DEEP ONES! In the field of no-holds-barred terror fiction, there’s Brian Lumley—and then there’s the rest …

Download or read book The Taint and Other Novellas written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thrilling tales from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos by one of horror's biggest legends. This volume contains the very best of Brian Lumley's Mythos novellas. Novellas included in this collection: The Horror at Oakdeene Born of the Winds The Fairground Horror The Taint Rising with Surtsey Lord of the Worms The House of the Temple

Download or read book Maze of Worlds written by Brian Lumley and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1999-05-15 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alien beings bent on our destruction have seeded the world with horrible machines capable of transforming our planet into a hellhole where only they can live. Our only hope is to solve the puzzle of a four-dimensional maze, an alien thing that is part building, part machine, and part psychological torture chamber. A few brave men and women--and one fearless dog--dare to enter the maze. What they find there will change their lives forever, as the alien machinery creates terrifying worlds based on their worst nightmares. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Caller of the Black written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caller of the Black is Brian Lumley's first published collection of stories, with many of them involving the Cthulhu Mythos. Stories included in this collection: A Thing About Cars! The Cyprus Shell Billy's Oak The Writer in the Garret The Caller of the Black The Mirror of Nitocris The Night Sea-Maid Went Down The Thing from the Blasted Heath An Item of Supporting Evidence Dylath-Leen De Marigny's Clock Ambler's Inspiration In the Vaults Beneath The Pearl

Download or read book Exhalation written by Ted Chiang and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way you think, feel, and see the world. They are Ted Chiang at his best: profound, sympathetic, revelatory. Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications that are literally universal. In “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom,” the ability to glimpse into alternate universes necessitates a radically new examination of the concepts of choice and free will.

Download or read book The Horror at Oakdeene and Others written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-12-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Horror at Oakdeene and Others is another of Brian Lumley's collections of short stories, with many of them involving the Cthulhu Mythos. Stories included in this collection: The Viking's Stone Aunt Hester No Way Home The Horror at Oakdeene The Cleaner Woman The Statement of Henry Worthy Darghud's Doll Born of the Winds

Download or read book Brian Lumley s The Best of the Rest written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction: This pretty much is what the title says. Many of the stories/novellas here will have only been done in limited print runs, such as in fanzines, magazines, pamphlets, special editions or online magazines. It’s a mixed genre of stories and these are what Brian considers the best of the rest of the stories in his body of work. We’ve got 111,000+ words in this collection so that means lots of enjoyment in what is likely the last collection coming from Brian. “The Challenge” As some fools do. But do you dare? Yes? Well, don’t! “The Man Who Photographed Beardsley” They should have been pictures from life – or was he simply impatient? “The Cyprus Shell” There are some you can eat, while others have their own pick-me-ups. “Clean Slate” If you’re in debt to the Devil, don’t mess with look-a-like sisters. “The Deep-Sea Conch” Some species build nests; while others are much like the cuckoo.... “The Ugly Act” But what’s a pimple or two – if there’s only you? “Irving’s Story” Her downstairs knew best, every time. “The Running Man” It may be true you can run – but as for finding a place to hide...? “Somebody Calling” The only way she could. He simply had to listen harder. “Vanessa’s Voice” Both beautiful ... and deadly! “The Vehicle” Some might think of him that way, others as a dyadic personality? “Mandraki” Take care who you lie down with ... and where! “Two Stone Tom” Yes, except he was an entire science heavier than that! “The Long Last Night” Was it just a myth – or a Mythos? “The Weird Wines of Naxas Niss” A wizard’s stolen potion is another man’s gateway to Nirvana...maybe! “Stealer of Dreams” Always remember, once they’re gone they might stay gone!

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction provides comprehensive coverage of the major authors and works in these popular genres. Each entry includes a brief discussion of the author's life and work and includes a full bibliography. Each entry on

Download or read book Necroscope The Novellas written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available now in one volume, two classic Necroscope novellas from Brian Lumley. The Plague-Bearer Harry Keogh is moving on. Though the search for his missing wife and child continues, his heart now lies in Edinburgh with Bonnie Jean—a beautiful Scottish werewolf whose friendly pack and flourishing pub have given him a place he can almost call home. But from the rocky heights of Sicily, the diabolical Francezci brothers plot the wolf-pack's destruction; and down in the terrible Pit beneath Le Manse Madonie, an ancient evil schemes. The vampires conspire. They reach a decision. They choose a vector. Mafia thug Mike Milazzo is no good to anyone, anytime, anywhere…which makes him perfect. Disposable. The brothers infect him with a deadly poison—an engineered plague that even a werewolf could never survive—and they offer him a terrible bargain: successfully contaminate the wolf-pack, and receive the antidote. Fail, and die! Mike has everything to lose. So does Harry Keogh. But the Necroscope lost everything once before, and he isn't about to do it again... The Möbius Murders Harry Keough, aka the Necroscope, has always considered himself a master of the Möbius Continuum—a dimension existing parallel to all space and time and his personal instantaneous gateway to anywhere in the multiverse. But this is hardly overweening conceit on Harry's part, for to his knowledge he is not unique; two other intelligences, with powers similar to his, do indeed exist. One such is the long-dead August Ferdinand Möbius himself, the German astronomer, mathematician, and discoverer of the eponymous Möbius Strip which led him to explore, posthumously, his previously conjectural Continuum; and the other is Harry s son, who has not only inherited his father's mathematical skill but also the metaphysical talent by means of which the Necroscope converses with dead people in their graves! Picture Harry's confusion, then, on returning home via the Möbius Continuum from an adventure in Las Vegas, as he witnesses however briefly a flailing figure hurtling conscious but uncontrolled through the endless midnight of the Continuum. Who could this be—how can it be?—that a helpless, silently protesting other is rushing meteor-like across the Continuum's Stygian vault? Moreover, if he hasn't arrived here voluntarily, then what vile murderer has sent his victim on this monstrous journey to the end of life itself? For Harry is sure that this is neither his son s nor Professor Möbius' doing. Who and where is he, this Möbius murderer? It is a mystery that only the Necroscope can ever hope to solve—but at what risk to his own life?

Download or read book The Nonesuch and Others written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nonesuch and Others features a new Brian Lumley hero, the Man With No Name. As stated in the introduction, the Man With No Name "is just an innocent bystander who happens to be standing by in the wrong place at the wrong time: a witness to terrifying occurrences, monstrous events, who can never be one hundred percent positive that the things he has experienced are real. And why not? Because a man who sees pink elephants might as easily see just about anything." Neither hero nor anti-hero, the Man With No Name is narrator of the three stories in this collection, but in The Nonesuch he's at least seen to be brave if not actually heroic. However, "if you the reader were confronted by the bizarre, inexplicable nonesuches whose paths tend to cross his in the following stories…well, how brave would you be?" Stories included in this collection: The Thin People Stilts The Nonesuch

Download or read book Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi written by Brian Lumley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Large helpings of old-fashioned atmospheric terror in tales that recall H. P. Lovecraft and the Weird Tales authors” from the Grand Master of Horror (Library Journal). Brian Lumley, best known for his national bestselling Necroscope series, has crafted a short story collection in the true tradition of H. P. Lovecraft. Spanning nearly twenty years in Lumley’s career, this “witch’s dozen” of his best, most frightening tales includes “The Viaduct,” where two young boys learn the truth about fear and death. The title story, “Fruiting Bodies,” in which a small village disappears, won the British Fantasy Award. Also included in this terrifying collection is an introduction by Lumley in which he discusses violence in horror fiction. This collection of frightening tales is sure to keep even the bravest reader awake at night. “Lumley aligns himself with the old school of horror . . . [His] well-crafted tales are satisfying entertainments.” —Publishers Weekly “A most enjoyable romp in the grue.” —School Library Journal “Witch’s dozen of 13 horror tales by Lumley, largely mainstream with just a touch of Lovecraft in the night . . . Outstanding here is the title piece, a tale that’s enough to make a collection like this worthwhile, not to say must-have.” —Kirkus Reviews

Download or read book Screaming Science Fiction written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gleefully mixing SF, fantasy, and horror, Screaming Science Fiction is a full-length collection of nine thrilling, chilling, spine-tingling stories by horror master Brian Lumley, including "No Way Home," "Snarker's Son," "The Strange Years," and a nearly 20,000 word novella ("Feasibility Study") appearing for the first time anywhere. Contents of this collection: Snarker's Son Man Who Felt Pain Strange Years No Way Home Man Who Saw No Spiders Deja Viewer Feasibility Study Gaddy's Gloves Big 'C'

Download or read book Brian Lumley s Freaks written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short collection gathers together some of the horror master's strangest stories -- tales of mutants, post-apocalyptic creatures that flee humanity to live in the wastelands and hug the shadows. Three of the stories are from long-out-of-print collections not published in the United States, one first appeared in a small press magazine in the 1980s, and the last is appearing here for the first time. Stories included in this collection: In the Glow Zone Problem Child The Ugly Act Mother Love Somebody Calling

Download or read book Dagon s Bell and Other Discords written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second collection of a witch's dozen of weird or horrific tales from Brian Lumley, author of the internationally bestselling Necroscope and Vampire World series. Remember: in the field of no-holds-barred terror fiction, there's Brian Lumley – and then there's the rest… Stories included in this collection: Dagon’s Bell No Sharks in the Med In the Glow-Zone The Caller of the Black The Picnickers The Fairground Horror Problem Child Aunt Hester The Whisperer The Statement of Henry Worthy The Strange Years Big “C” The Disapproval of Jeremy Cleave

Download or read book Haggopian and Other Stories written by Brian Lumley and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the first American publication of Brian Lumley's ground-breaking, dead-waking, best-selling Necroscope in 1988—the first novel in a long-lived, much-loved series—this British author had for twenty years been earning himself something of a reputation writing short stories, novellas, and a series of novels set against H. P. Lovecraft's cosmic Cthulhu Mythos backdrop. A soldier in 1967, serving in Berlin with the Royal Military Police, Lumley jumpstarted his literary career by writing to August Derleth, the then-dean of macabre publishers at his home in Sauk City, Wisconsin, telling of his fascination with the Mythos, and purchasing books by the "Old Gentleman of Providence, RI." In addition, he sent a page or two of written work allegedly culled from the various forbidden or "black books" of the Mythos. Suitably impressed, the master of Arkham House invited Lumley to write something solid in the Mythos as a possible contribution to a new volume he was currently contemplating, to be titled—what else but?—Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. And as might well be imagined, that set everything in motion. Years have passed since then and a good many words of Mythos fiction written, including critically acclaimed and award-nominated work, stories that have appeared in prestigious magazines such as Fantasy & Science Fiction, and hardcover volumes from publishers all over the world from the USA to China and the United Kingdom to Russia. Stories included in this collection: THE CALLER OF THE BLACK HAGGOPIAN CEMENT SURROUNDINGS THE HOUSE OF CTHULHU THE NIGHT SEA-MAID WENT DOWN NAME AND NUMBER RECOGNITION CURSE OF THE GOLDEN GUARDIANS AUNT HESTER THE KISS OF BUGG-SHASH DE MARIGNY’S CLOCK MYLAKHRION THE IMMORTAL THE SISTER CITY WHAT DARK GOD? THE STATEMENT OF HENRY WORTHY DAGON’S BELL THE THING FROM THE BLASTED HEATH DYLATH-LEEN THE MIRROR OF NITOCRIS THE SECOND WISH THE HYMN SYNCHRONICITY OR SOMETHING THE BLACK RECALLED THE SORCERER’S DREAM