Darrell Schweitzer

The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. Featured this time are: <P> AGAPE AMONG THE ROBOTS, by Allen Steele<BR> THE STARSHIP MECHANIC, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes<BR> PEACEMAKER, by Gardner Dozois<BR> OR ALL THE SEAS WITH OYSTERS, by Avram Davidson<BR> GRANDMA, by Carol Emshwiller<BR> THE GIFT BEARER, by Charles L....

This volume assembles 25 tales by Darrell Schweitzer, modern and alternate-world fantasy and horror tales in the «Weird Tales» vein. Included in this volume are some of his very finest works, including «Pennies from Hell,» «Peeling It Off,» «Kind Yvorian&apos;s Wager,» and many more! Complete contents: <P> TRANSIENTS<BR> A LANTERN MAKER OF AI HANLO<BR> THE STORY OF A DADAR<BR> REFUGEES FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY<BR> THE SORCERER EVORAGDOU<BR> THE...

The Weird Fiction Megapack collects both modern and classic stories from the classic pulp magazine, Weird Tales, with selections ranging throughout the 20th Century, but focusing mainly on the classic era of the 1930s. Included are works by many famous authors, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Manly Wade Wellman, E. Hoffmann Price, Tennessee Williams, and many more – with an emphasis on great but less-well-known stories that readers may not have encountered before....

Issue #334 features IN THE CATACOMBS, by Charles L. Harness, plus new stories by Darrell Schweitzer, John Gregory Betancourt, W.C. Morrow, Myke Cole, and Joshua Rupp. Plus poetry and the usual features.

Fantasy novel by the World Fantasy Award-winning editor and author. «Few writers can genguinely touch the quality of nightmare…the fear that formless and almost banal stems from the sleeping mind. John Bellairs did it with THE FACE IN THE FROST… James Blaylock can do it. And now there is also THE SHATTERED GODDESS.» –Mary Gentle

The Weirdbook Annual returns featuring a Cthulhu Mythos theme. Stories abound featuring our favorite squamish elder god! Full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:<br> •The Shining Trapezohedron, by Robert M. Price<br> •A Noble Endeavor, by Lucy A. Snyder<br> •Ancient Astronauts, by Cynthia Ward<br> •The Thing in the Pond, by John R. Fultz<br> •Enter The Cobweb Queen, by Adrian Cole<br> •Tricks No Treats, by Paul Dale...

"[This] novel has immense power in its climax," said The Encyclopedia of Fantasy about Darrell Schweitzer&apos;s 1982 novel, THE SHATTERED GODDESS. Now, at last, here&apos;s the companion volume to that work, a cycle of eleven stories set «in the time of the death of the Goddess.» This is an Earth of the far future, when the planet has declined into chaos, and darkness looms at the end of human history. Here you&apos;ll meet…a dadar, a wizard&apos;s shadow attempting to become a man; two...

The Summer, 1998 issue of WEIRD TALES presents 9 great fantasy & horror stories, plus the usual features and poems. A strong issue, with the following stories: <P> FLOWER WATER, by Tanith Lee<BR> THE RENFIELDS, by Christopher Lee Walters<BR> THE GAME, by Melanie Tem<BR> ON THE LAST NIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL OF THE DEAD, by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> BEDDY-BYE, by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre<BR> TO FAST IN FIRES, by Charles D. Edkert<BR> RING RING! by...

Seventeen fantasies by one of the field&apos;s most prolific short story authors, including tales of…mad gods, specters returning from the beyond, inexplicable enigmas from outer space, a romantic and surreal interlude of the legendary madman, Tom O&apos;Bedlam, time travel to allow an irate professor to settle the Shakespearean authorship controversy, and the King Arthur legend–plus genuinely frightening horror, including the celebrated story, «The Dead Kid.» Mike Ashley calls the author...

A facsimile reprint of the April 1933 issue of «Weird Trails» magazine, featuring M.M. Moamrath&apos;s «Riders of the Purple Ooze,» and many more Lovecraft-inspired stories.

Weirdbook returns with another jam-packed issue full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:<P> • HARLOT ROAD, by Michael Bracken<BR> • WITH A POET’S EYES, by John C. Hocking<BR> • THE WISHING WELL, by Robert Graves<BR> • O KING OF PAIN AND SPLENDOR!, by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> • YOU’D DO IT FOR DIAMONDS, by Adrian Cole<BR> • DREADFUL APPETITE, by Franklyn Searight<BR> • THE HANDMAID OF THE KEY, by R.C. Mulhare<BR> •...

Weirdbook returns after a nearly 20-year hiatus under the editorship of Douglas Draa! Here are great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre…<P> Chivaine, by John R. Fultz<br> Give Me the Daggers, by Adrian Cole<br> The Music of Bleak Entrainment, by Gary A. Braunbeck<br> Into The Mountains with Mother Old Growth, by Christian Riley<br> The Grimlorn Under the Mountain, by James Aquilone<br> Dolls, by Paul Dale...

Weirdbook #36 presents another great assortment of stories and poems in the Weird Tales tradition: fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, and the just plain unclassifiable find a home here! Included are:<P> Burn on the Bayou, by L.F. Falconer<BR> The Mumbler, by Gillian French<BR> Cleric at Sentinel Hill, by Franklyn Searight<BR> Whores and Criminals, by Dean Macallister<BR> The Quiet on the Water, by C. C. Adams<BR> The Haggard Brothers Go to Town, by...

Darrell Schweitzer&apos;s third collection of essays and reviews, a successor to the well-received «Windows of the Imagination» and «The Fantastic Horizon,» is a balanced mixture of scholarship and entertainment, ranging over the entire spectrum of imaginative literature, from the oldest novel in the world (1st century B.C.) to classic (and not-so-classic) pulp fiction, to childhood reading, to examinations of the works of such masters as H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Robert Bloch, Stanley...

Weirdbook returns with another jam-packed issue full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are:<P> • Iconoclasm, by Adrian Cole<P> • Have a Crappy Halloween, by Franklyn Searight<BR> • Early Snow, by Samson Stormcrow Hayes<BR> • The Dollhouse, by Glynn Owen Barrass<BR> • Elle a Vu un Loup, by Loren Rhoads<BR> • Bringing the Bodies Home, by Christian Riley<BR> • Restored, by Marlane Quade Cook<BR> • Nameless and Named, by...

IMAGINE…<P> It is not hard to imagine that you are a thirteen-year-old (almost fourteen) and you don’t quite feel like you belong in your own family, with a somewhat goofy father who does magic tricks and disappears for long periods of time and might be a secret agent, not to mention a mother who might be a white witch, and a sister is actually normal but doesn&apos;t look the slightest bit like you. Then it gets worse when your family suddenly moves into a massive pile of a house deep in...

The 43rd issue of Weirdbook, under the editorship of Doug Draa, presents new tales of fantasy and horror in the grand Weird Tales tradition. Included this time are:<P> Short Stories<P> An American Story, by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> Impervious to Reason, Oblivious to Fate, by John R. Fultz<BR> The River, by Sharon Cullars<BR> Taking Out the Trash, by by D.C. Lozar<BR> Arthur Wardrobe And Asia Anastacia: A Love Story, by Andrew Darlington<BR> Snack...

A definitive look at the life and work of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, by a leading scholar of the fantasy and horror field. INTRODUCTION, by Darrell Schweitzer NOTES ON AN ENTITY, by Robert Bloch A LITERARY COPERNICUS, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. THE FOUR FACES OF THE OUTSIDER, by Dirk W. Mosig THE FIRST LEWIS THEOBALD, by R. Boerem STORY-WRITING: A Letter from H. P. Lovecraft CHARACTER GULLIBILITY IN WEIRD FICTION, by Darrell Schweitzer SOME THOUGHTS ON LOVECRAFT, by Arthur Jean Cox THE...

The basics of a good interview may be summed up in the following sentence: find someone interesting and articulate, ask just enough questions to get them talking, then point the microphone, shut up, and, oh, by the way, make sure your equipment works. So says Darrell Schweitzer, the editor of this fascinating volume of contemporary interviews with seventeen science fiction writers. Included are scintillating conversations with: George R. R. Martin, James Morrow, Jack Dann, Geoffrey A. Landis,...