Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified.Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson’s most prized possession, an item he obsessively guards: a mysterious green box...

Gertrude Barrows Bennett (Minneapolis, 1883-1948) viene considerata una dei precursori del genere Weird.Dattilografa e appassionata di letteratura, dopo essere rimasta vedova e orfana di padre nel giro di pochi mesi, comincia a pubblicare racconti all'età di trentaquattro anni per necessità economiche, sotto lo pseudonimo di Francis Stevens.Dopo tre anni, nel 1920, muore anche la madre e Gertrude si trasferisce in California.Nel 1939 invia una lettera alla figlia in...

This science fiction novel is an immersive tale of dark fantasy, combining the occult with a nautical adventure. The story opens with soldiers discovering a recently formed volcanic island. They bring back a mesmerising green artefact, which eventually ends up in the hands of a New Jersey millionaire named Jesse J. Robinson.Jesse and his niece are soon haunted by horrible hallucinations and gruesome visions of the sea. A doctor begins to investigate and is horrified by what he star...

Listen to Citadel Of Fear with a movie-style soundtrack and amplify your audiobook experience. Citadel of Fear is considered Francis Stevens' masterpiece, by Lovecraft's acclaim. Two adventurers discover a lost city in the Mexican jungle. One is taken over by an evil god while the other falls in love with a woman from the ancient Mexican city of Tlapallan. Citadel of Fear was first published as a serial in Argosy Magazine in 1918-1919. It was eventually republished as a novel in 1970. It i...

“Haunted by a history that hurts - the loss of so many men in her life, the ravages of war, the struggle to survive and its seemingly hopelessness - Stevens gives us stories that plunge us in despair while also pulling us onward. Her writings are not a part of a neglected tradition, but a definitional one. 'Dark Fantasy', and its perverse psychic wiring, defines the age we live in, and why her books are our lamps in the night, our portals before a darkness.”– Ashraf Jamal

Imagine a world where women are the dominant sex. Now picture an old sailor woman. Are you ready? This is the story of the time she became a castaway on a very, very unusual island…An island which feels your every move. One that breathes in line with your breath. It can sense your every feeling. But the island does this for your own good.To understand. To empathise. To unite.She's called Anita. And she's about to change your world.Written under the pseudonym...

After the 'Lusitania' ship is torpedoed, a man from New York wakes up to find himself in the ocean off an uncharted island. On the magical South Pacific Island, he encounters a brutal wilderness, where plants can eat men and spiders are as big as dining room tables.Before he knows it, he is caught in a dangerous rivalry between two Russian brothers who will do anything to find the philosopher's stone.A tale of mystery, suspense, and endless adventures, "Nightmare!" explores...

Prophesy, nightmare, or inescapable reality?Long before The Hunger Games… Before even Philip K. Dick or H.P. Lovecraft… This 1919 pulp classic explored a nightmarish alternative reality where America’s ruling class forces the poor to compete in deadly games.Win, and you’ll earn a lifetime of fame and luxury. But the games are rigged, and a public execution awaits all who dare to try.When a seventeen-year-old girl from our own world follows ...

Tauchen Sie ein in die fesselnde Welt der Weird Fiction mit der Anthologie 'Die Zitadelle der Furcht', die eine beeindruckende Bandbreite literarischer Stile und fesselnder Erzählungen von Gertrude Barrows Bennett, bekannt unter ihrem Pseudonym Francis Stevens, bietet. Diese Sammlung umspannt furchteinflößende Albtraumlandschaften, geheimnisvolle Intrigen und phantasmagorische Szenarien, die die Grenzen der Fantasie ausloten und die Leser mit ihren unvergesslichen atmosphärischen Beschreib...

Die Anthologie "Der Kopf des Zerberus" entfaltet ein faszinierendes Spektrum literarischer Stile und verwebt auf meisterhafte Weise die Genres Science-Fiction und Fantasy. Diese Sammlung eröffnet dem Leser eine Reise durch doppelbödige und vielschichtige Erzählungen, die sich mit Themen wie Zeitreisen, Parallelwelten und der Manipulation der Realität auseinandersetzen. Besonders hervorstechend sind Geschichten, die die Grenzen zwischen diesen phantastischen Welten und unserer eigenen versc...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

What would you do if inhaling a mysterious dust transports you to a future totalitarian Philadelphia in 2118 AD where you are face to face with the mythical and ferocious three headed dog Cerberus? Who will succeed in killing you first – the government or the beast? Find out for yourself in this dystopian sci-fi classic! Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948) was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Fran...