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Post by dem bones on Aug 28, 2014 13:11:12 GMT
Robert M. Price (ed.) - Acolytes of Cthulhu (Titan, 2014) Bob Eggleton Robert M. Price - Introduction
Earl Pierce, Jr. - Doom of the House of Duryea Joseph Payne Brennan - The Seventh Incantation Hugh B. Cave & Robert M. Price - From The Pits Of Elder Blasphemy Duane Rimel - The Jewels of Charlotte Manly Wade Wellman - The Letters of Cold Fire Henry Hasse - Horror at Vecra Charles R. Tanner - Out of the Jar Edmond Hamilton - The Earth-Brain Elwin G. Powers - Through the Alien Angle James Causey - Legacy in Crystal C. Hall Thompson - The Will of Claude Ashur David H. Keller, M.D. - The Final War Arthur Pendragon - The Dunstable Horror Arthur Pendragon - The Crib of Hell Steffan B. Aletti - The Last Work of Pietro of Apono Steffan B. Aletti - The Eye of Horus Steffan B. Aletti - The Cellar Room John Glasby - Mythos Jorge Luis Borges - There Are More Things Randall Garrett - The Horror Out of Time S. T. Joshi - The Recurring Doom Dirk W. Mosig - Necrotic Knowledge Donald R. Burleson - Night Bus Peter Cannon - The Pewter Ring David Kaufman - John Lehmann Alone Gustav Meyrink - The Purple Death [translated by Kathleen Houlihan & Robert M. Price] Richard F. Searight & Franklyn Searight - Mists of Death Neil Gaiman - Shoggoth’s Old PeculiarBlurb IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MASTER
Terror abounds in twenty-five rare and alluring tales, all set in the legendary Cthulhu Mythos created by the master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft. Covering more than six decades of arcane storytelling, this extraordinary anthology is a triumph of interdimensional threats, ritual magic and cosmic horrors.First published by Fedogan & Bremer in 2001. This new edition replaces C. M. Eddy jnr's Black Noon with the Hugh B. Cave/ Robert M. Price collaboration, so evidently there are still some unresolved copyright issues where the work of The Loved Dead man is concerned. Am particularly pleased to see Steffan B. Aletti's trio for R. A. W. L.'s Magazine Of Horror and Weird Terror Tales back in print. Four stories in and, as yet, a notable absence of tentacled monstrosities, although it is early days, and Gustav Meyrink's apocalyptic item does provide millions of purple cones. Steffan B. Aletti - The Last Work of Pietro of Apono: Late 13th Century. The great and good poet-philosopher Pietro is falsely accused of sorcery by an aggrieved neighbour and hideously tortured to death by the Holy Inquisition. To spare his friend further indignities - for the cheated priests plan to burn his mangled remains in public - Girolamo da Padova exhumes the corpse and reburies it in secret. Alongside Pietro, Girolamo lays his final work, a partial translation of The Gloriae Cruoris, an ancient black book so blasphemous and terrible that its contents must never be shared with the public! Present day. After several years diligent research, the narrator traces Pietro's unmarked coffin to the crypt of San Guiseppe church. Girolamo did not exaggerate. Serpensis, author of the terrible Grimoire was demonstrably "a vampire and necrophile .... a master ghoul who would have made the monstrous and infamous Gilles de Retz look like an effeminate weakling." But still the scientist in our tomb-raider insists that he attempt at least one of the potentially catastrophic rituals. Donald R. Burleson - Night Bus: A gaunt fellow in rags boards the midnight bus for Brattleboro, Vermont, and slumps down next to narrator. The new passenger smells of rotting meat, and his death-mask of a face is none too clever either, but at least he's sociable. Dripping slime, he explains that he's off to meet the wife in Akelyville. She'll be staggering from the cemetery just about now. Gustav Meyrink - The Purple Death: Sir Hannibal Roger Thornton and his deaf servant Pompeius don copper divers helmets and air-cannisters to explore a ravine where, it is rumoured, a lost tribe in red pointed caps and sheepskin coats conduct Satanic ceremonies. A treacherous Tibetan leads them to the contaminated passage - the ground unleashes jets of carbon monoxide - and, having successfully negotiated the death trap, the two men advance into the forest. The hostile tribe keenly await the explorers. This is their opportunity to unleash the purple death epidemic across the entire globe! Earl Pierce, jnr - Doom Of The House Of Duryea: Father and son are reunited after twenty years following the death of Aunt Cecilia who insisted on their being kept apart when the father was accused of draining the blood of two of his children, a family taint going back five generations. Dad demands of his boy that he ties him to the bed to prevent him going walkabout in his sleep. Darkness falls ....
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Post by dem bones on Aug 29, 2014 6:30:30 GMT
Steffan B. Aletti - The Eye Of Horus: Wealthy amateur Egyptologist George Warren discovers an unopened tomb in the Nubian desert. Together with Andriju Kalatis, soldier of fortune, he descends the stairway into a vault lined with golden caskets. Standing guard over all, a supremely menacing statue of Horus. Warren is all for reporting their find to the authorities, the avaricious Kalatis is only concerned with how much treasure he can carry away with him. The eyes of the statue snap open. The tomb slowly fills with flesh-hungry falcons ....
Neil Gaiman - Shuggoth's Old Peculiar: Young Texan Benjamin Lassiter's miserable walking tour of the English coastline is about to take a turn for the even worse. Arriving at Innsmouth, a village so insignificant it doesn't warrant a mention on the map, Ben chances a visit to the pub, The Book Of Dead Names. The Saloon bar is empty save for a tired barmaid and two garrulous old-timers, Seth and Wilf, who persuade him to sample the house beer. At closing time they take him for a walk along the rusted pier. Lean over the railings and on a clear night you can see the sunken city of R'lyeh!
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Post by dem bones on Sept 3, 2014 17:52:47 GMT
Steffan B. Aletti - The Cellar Room: "I shall never forget the sight of Sir Harold. Despite the subsequent controversy, I never doubted that it was other than Sir Harold; at first the police believed me only because of a total lack of anything else that could be Sir Harold."
Until his retirement from the post a decade ago, Sir Harold Wolverton, president of the Royal College of Psychical Sciences, was one of very few spiritualists taken seriously by the general public. The great man abandoned his studies in 1885 following the mysterious death of fiancée Jessica during a seance in the cellar of Wolverton House. Finally prepared to break his silence over the matter, Sir Harold shares his horrific tale of a powerful elemental with a young psychic researcher who, fatally, demands proof that what he is being told is accurate. A world-weary Wolverton reprises the seance - and lets loose a terrible entity. Now a killer stalks Chelsea, West London, tearing random victims limb from limb.
This, The Last Work of Pietro of Apono, The Eye Of Horus and The Castle In The Window. Steffan B. Aletti's small body of work for Robert A . W. Londres is seriously great.
Dirk W. Mosig - Necrotic Knowledge; Old Jack Davis, proprietor of Lincolnshire's Ye Olde Occulte Bookshoppe, is forced into partnership with unscrupulous thug Carlo Corelli. Corelli has an abominable black book he wants to put on the market and implies that something very unpleasant will happen to Jack's daughter, Cindy, unless he plays ball. Necrotic Knowledge , composed by Tomeron, renegade priest of the corpse-eating cult of Leng, is so lethal to man that it comes secured in a strong-box. Dr. Ericson is one among legion black sorcerers who simply must have it in their collection and sends along his servant, Rashd Abdul Al-'Iraqu, to purchase it in exchange for several bags of the finest hashish. Both men are found dead shortly afterward, their flesh turned to rot and minds blown. The box, as ever, returns to its current owner, Corelli, for him to sell all over again.
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