Heroes and Rascals … Shipwrecks and Lost Gold … since 2008 the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column has entertained and informed Oregonians with the weirdest, quirkiest, funniest, and most outrageous true stories in the surprisingly long history of their young state. Now, for the first time, those stories have been collected together, re-researched, augmented with freshly discovered information, and presented to readers in book form -- starting with this volume, in which we'v...

Shanghaiers ... weird cults ... dumb criminals and clumsy power grabbers ...Since 2008 the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column has entertained and informed Oregonians with the weirdest, quirkiest, funniest, and most outrageous true stories in the surprisingly long history of their young state.Now, for the first time, those stories have been collected together, re-researched, augmented with freshly discovered information, an...

This 860-page collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. The hardcover, a Multimedia Bundle Edition, includes the e-book and audiobook editions as downloadable bonus content.Excerpt from Introduction:"When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of Weird Tales magazine in December 1932, nothing quite like it had ever before appeare...

This is The Completionist's Edition of the work of H.P. Lovecraft! Literally every weird-fiction story he wrote, revised, or collaborated on -- to the best of our knowledge -- is in this one enormous tome.The stories are arranged chronologically and contextualized with a brief running biography of the life of this fascinating author. If you're new to Lovecraft, reading or listening to this book will make you enough of an expert on the life and work of H.P. Lovecraft to hold your ow...

From the Master of Cosmic Horror …Supernatural Horror in Literature, H.P. Lovecraft’s “master’s thesis,” is a tour de force of literary analysis, tracing the origins of the horror genre back to its inception and beyond. In it, Lovecraft follows the development of horror-lit down through the centuries—from Horace Walpole, through Mary Wollstonecraft and Bram Stoker, to Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, and on into his own time.

This volume is part of the three-book Pulp-Lit Omnibus Collection of all the fiction writing of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. It presents the works of weird fiction which he ghostwrote or on which he collaborated with another author.Highlights of this volume include:Under the Pyramids, with Harry Houdini;The Mound, with Zealia Bishop;Two Black Bottles, with Wilfred Blanch Talman;The Horror in the Burying- Gr...

Although he’s best known for his works of weird fiction, H.P. Lovecraft for most of his life considered himself primarily a poet. This cycle of 36 classic-form sonnets, infused with his trademark cosmic dread, represents the pinnacle of Lovecraft’s career as a poet, and it’s his most well-known and thoroughly-studied body of poetry.This volume presents Fungi from Yuggoth in the context of Lovecraft’s literary life, with examples of his other poetry. In it, you will discover — or re...

This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft’s life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.Highlights of this volume include:Cool AirThe Call of CthulhuPickman’s ModelThe Colour out of SpaceThe Dream-Quest of Unknown KadathThe Case of C...

This is Volume One of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovcecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1917 through 1935. (Poems, ghost-written material and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.)Highlights of this volume include:• Dagon• The Doom that Came to Sarnath• The Music of Erich Zann• Herbert West, Reanimator•...

This is Volume Two of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovcecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1917 through 1935. (Poems, ghost-written material and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.)Highlights of this volume include:• The Color out of Space• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward• The Dunwitch Horror• The Whisperer in ...

This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft’s “apprentice years”: roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this volume, from 1917 through 1925.Highlights of this volume include:The TombDagonThe Doom that Came to SarnathThe TempleThe Picture in the HouseThe Nameles...

This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft’s life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.Highlights of this volume include:Cool AirThe Call of CthulhuPickman’s ModelThe Colour out of SpaceThe Dream-Quest of Unknown KadathThe Case of C...