Hours of great reading await, with adventure tales culled from the pulp magazines of the early 20th century by some of the most renowned pulp authors, including Robert E. Howard (creator of Conan the Barbarian), Harold Lamb, William Hope Hodgson, Dorothy Quick, E. Hoffmann Price, and many more! More than 500 pages of fiction! (Search for ?megapack? to find all the other great titles in this series.) <P> Included in this volume: <P> THE BLACK ADDER, by Dorothy Quick<BR> ...
From classic novels like «The Ghost Pirates» and «The House on the Borderland» to short stories to even a pair of poems, «The William Hope Hodgson Megapack» presents 35 classic works. Included are: <P> A NOTE ABOUT HODGSON, by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> NOTES ON HODGSON, by H. P. Lovecraft<BR> THE MYSTERY OF THE DERELICT<BR> A TROPICAL HORROR<BR> OUT OF THE STORM<BR> THE FINDING OF THE «GRAIKEN»<BR> ELOI ELOI LAMA SABACHTHANI<BR> THE TERROR OF...
Occult detectives—sometimes called psychic investigators—have been in vogue since the middle of the 19th century. This collection goes back to the roots of the occult detective story. The earliest story in this collection—Fitz-James O'Brien's «The Pot of Tulips»—originally appeared in 1855. Rare stories by Mary Fortune and Bayard Taylor, famous tales from the end of the 19th century by E. and H. Heron, plus 20th Century stories by Robert E. Howard, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman,...
In the far future, an unnamed narrator, who along with what remains of the human race dwells uneasily in an underground fortress-city surrounded by brooding, chaotic, relentless Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, 'Ab-humans,' Brutes, and enormous slugs and spiders, follows a telepathic distress signal into the unfathomable darkness. The Earth's surface is frozen, and what's worse – at some point in the distant past, overreaching scientists breached 'the...
Von 1973 bis 1990 strahlte Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) die beliebte Hörfunksendung «Nur für starke Nerven» (ab 1987 unter dem Namen «Die Mitternachtsstory») aus. Der Schauspieler Friedrich Schoenfelder las darin Grusel- und Kriminalgeschichten für Erwachsene zur guten Nacht vor. Bezeichnenderweise schlug er selbst 1972 der Unterhaltungsabteilung des SFB vor, eine Sendereihe zu starten, in der von ihm redaktionell ausgewählte Gruselgeschichten zu Gehör kommen sollten. Namhafte Autoren, von denen...
