This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Colour Out of Space") to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Bloch), to later followers (Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Brian McNaughton), and contemporary afficianados (Brian Stableford, Mark McLau...

Love Edgar Allan Poe and want more? Explore new gothic stories and poems inspired by Poe in this haunting, award-winning anthology!Take a tour through Poe’s Baltimore home, experience “The Tell-Tale Heart” through the old man’s eyes, go corporate at Raven Corp., witness “The Fall of the House of Usher” from the perspective of a hidden Usher sibling, and much more.Don’t miss the award-nominated stories “The Heart of Alderman Kane” by Eleanor Sciolistein and ...

Advances in wide bandgap semiconductor materials are enabling the development of a new generation of power semiconductor devices that far exceed the performance of silicon-based devices. These technologies offer potential breakthrough performance for a wide range of applications, including high-power and RF electronics, deep-UV optoelectronics, quantum information and extreme-environment applications.This reference text provides comprehensive coverage of the challenges and latest r...

Thirty Usher-Inspired Stories and PoemsWhisper the words “The Fall of the House of Usher” and you conjure strange imagery… a brooding, black tarn… sullen siblings… the frenzy of undeath…This famous story, published by Edgar Allan Poe in September 1839, continues to hold sway in our society over one hundred and eighty years later. This volume is composed of thirty stories and poems inspired by this great gothic work.Explore the vaults of the House of...

The Andre Norton MEGAPACK® collects 15 classic works by the Grand Master of Science Fiction, ranging from science fiction to westerns to mystery. Included are:"The People of the Crater""The Gifts of Asti""Plague Ship""Star Born""All Cats Are Gray""The Time Traders""Voodoo Planet""Storm Over Warlock""Star Hunter""The Defiant Agents""Key Out of Time""Ralestone Luck" (historical)"Ride Proud, Rebel!" (h...

To anyone interested in the roots of modern science fiction, the name of Ray Cummings should be well known. He wrote science fiction and fantasy before the name "science fiction" had been coined, publishing fantastic yarns in Argosy, Munsey's Magazine, and other mainstream magazines. Of course, as soon as the science fiction pulps debuted, he moved to them, where his work received a hearty welcome from fans. Cummings publishing more than 750 novels and short stories over ...

The Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK®s are designed to introduce readers to classic science fiction writers who might otherwise be forgotten. Lester del Rey (1915–1993) is most remembered today as one of the namesakes of Del Rey Books—but in the Golden Age he was an accomplished writer who got his start alongside (and sold to the same markets as) a young Isaac Asimov. This volume assembles 9 classic del Rey tales—more than 500 pages of great reading! Included are:PURSUIT...

Mack Reynolds was a frequent and prolific contributor to the science fiction magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. This volume collects 23 choice tales, ranging from space opera to social science fiction—over a thousand pages vintage work from a master storyteller!Included are:HAPPY ENDINGULTIMA THULEGUN FOR HIREADAPTATIONSTOWAWAYMEDAL OF HONORI’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELFSTATUS QUOUNBORN TOMORROWSUMMIT...

The Philip K. Dick Megapack assembles no less than 15 classic science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick. Included are:INTRODUCTION: PHILIP K. DICKEXHIBIT PIECEBEYOND LIES THE WUBTHE DEFENDERSTHE CRYSTAL CRYPTBEYOND THE DOORSECOND VARIETYTHE EYES HAVE ITTHE GUNTHE VARIABLE MANTONY AND THE BEETLESTHE HANGING STRANGERTHE SKULLPIPER IN THE WOODSMR. SPACESHIPSTRANGE EDENAnd d...

n Damien Broderick’s haunting tale, “The Meek,” the survivors of humanity’s drive toward racial suicide must pay an awful price for their continued survival. John Glasby’s “Innsmouth Bane” tells how the alien entity Dagon first came to nineteenth-century America. In “Helen’s Last Will,” James C. Glass shows us that death may not always be “the end.” Charles Allen Gramlich’s “I Can Spend You” is a futuristic western which puts prospecting in a whole new light! “The Voice of the Dolphin in A...

The Tenth Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK® presents no less than 19 classic science fiction stories by this great writer. Included in this volume are:CANALEXIT MR. SMITHGENTLEMEN, THE SCAVENGERSKINCAID'S CARLODANASEQUENCESTRANGERS TO STRABATEST CASETHE GENTLEMAN IS AN EPWATHE PLAYER AT YELLOW SILENCETHE WAR OF THE WEEDSTHE WHITE PINNACLETHE WORLD IN A BOXWRITING ON THE WALL

Collected here for you, a sampler of stories & poems set in or related to the “Cthulhu Mythos,” as conceived by H.P, Lovecraft, expanded on by the “Lovecraft Circle” and endlessly expanded on by current writers up to the current day. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn GarrettDREAMS OF YITH, by Duane W. Rimel (Poem)OUT OF THE AEONS, by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel HealdFISHHEAD, by Irvin S. CobbWHEN CHAUGNAR WAKES, by Frank Belknap Long (Poem)THE MOU...