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Post by dem bones on May 6, 2008 9:50:46 GMT
Byron Preiss, David Keller, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt (eds.) - The Ultimate Werewolf (Dell, 1991) Bruce Jensen Introduction: Crying “Wolf!” - Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison - Adrift Just Off The Islets Of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54’ N, Longitude 77° 00’ 13" W Philip José Farmer - Wolf, Iron, And Moth Kathe Koja - Angels’ Moon Nina Kiriki Hoffman - Unleashed Kim Antieau - The Mark Of The Beast Jerome Charyn - At War With The Wolf Man Craig Shaw Gardner - Day Of The Wolf Mel Gilden - Moonlight On The Gazebo Nancy A. Collins - Raymond Larry Niven - There’s A Wolf In My Time Machine Pat Murphy - South Of Oregon City Kevin J. Anderson - Special Makeup A. C. Crispin & Kathleen O’Malley - Pure Silver Brad Linaweaver - Close Shave Robert J. Randisi - Partners Bill Pronzini - Ancient Evil Brad Strickland - And The Moon Shines Full And Bright Stuart M. Kaminsky - Full Moon Over Moscow Robert E. Weinberg - Wolf Watch Robert Silverberg - The Werewolf Gambit
Leonard Wolf - Selected Filmography Some big names involved in this companion volume to The Ultimate Dracula. Read ...Werewolf when it came out and now, of course, can't remember anything about it which is great - its like having a brand new book. Don't think I'll start with Harlan Ellison's unpretentiously titled little opus though ... Kevin J. Anderson - Special Makeup: World War II. Lance Chandler, star of Tarzan Versus The Third Reich and Craig Corwyn, U-Boat Smasher, is currently playing the patriotic lead in Wolfman In Casablanca. When he upsets Zoltan, his makeup man, the Gypsy rubs a foul-smelling brown goo into his face and assures him he won't need anything else to get him through the transformation scene. Sure enough, Lance makes the most convincing man-into-wolf metamorphosis in history, trashing the set and terrifying the extras. Now its time for his love scene with Brigette, "the vacationing French Resistance fighter"... Robert E. Weinberg - Wolf Watch: Old Otto Stark is the diligent lone night-watchman at a huge department store. When one of the former managers, sacked for boozing on the job, rounds up three hoods to raid the store, he chooses the graveyard shift to strike because he knows Otto doesn't carry a gun. But then, Otto doesn't need to.
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Post by franklinmarsh on May 6, 2008 10:01:02 GMT
That's the one! Although I've got a British paperback reissue - with (I think) a slightly different cover - which I will attempt to scan.
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Post by dem bones on May 6, 2008 10:17:36 GMT
I got The Ultimate Dracula too, and there was definitely an Ultimate Frankenstein and (I think) ....Zombie and ....Witch.
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Post by weirdmonger on May 6, 2008 10:41:04 GMT
I got The Ultimate Dracula too, and there was definitely an Ultimate Frankenstein and (I think) ....Zombie and ....Witch. I've got a story in The Ultimate Zombie book!
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jun 29, 2008 17:25:20 GMT
Headline Book Publishing plc 1992 Same line up! Cover illustration by Mike Posen
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Post by dem bones on Jan 8, 2012 18:55:51 GMT
Picked up another from the series, The Ultimate Dragon, during a desperately fallow period last year, promptly forgot it existed. Giving the thing a once over yesterday decided me that however impressive the contributors list, i can't be doing with a book about f**k**g talking dragons, so a quick table of contents and it is back to The Ultimate Werewolf! Byron Preiss, John Betancourt & Keith R. A. DeCandido (eds.) - The Ultimate Dragon (iBooks, 2003; originally Dell, 1995) Bruce Jensen Tanith Lee - Introduction
Tanith Lee - Age Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Tin Lizzies Lois Tilton - Ulf the Wyrm Kevin J. Anderson - Short Straws Mike Resnick & Nicholas A. DiChario - Pleasantly Pink Ursula K. Le Guin - The Rule of Names Lawrence Watt-Evans - Sirinita’s Dragon Jane Yolen - Dream Reader Harlan Ellison & Robert Silverberg - The Dragon on the Bookshelf Ian Hunter - The Shedding and the Song Andrew Lane - The Old, Old Story Mary A. Turzillo - The Mandlebrot Dragon Joanne Bertin - Dragonlord’s Justice Gerald Perkins - Grandfather’s Briefcase Phyllis Ann Karr - Mordred and the Dragon Josepha Sherman - Falcon and Dragon Cynthia Ward - When the Summons Came from Camelot Gordon R. Menzies - Serpent Feather S. P. Somtow - Dragon’s Fin Soup
Biographies Blurb In this wondrous collection, some of the world's best-known authors of the fantastic explore the legends and lore of the fire-breathing creatures that have captured the imagination of adventure lovers everywhere-dragons. From S.P. Somtow's dramatic tale of an ancient dragon owned by a family in modern Thailand to Ursula K. Le Guin's classic story of the power of a dragon's naming, from Tanith Lee's portrait of a dying dragon on to Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg's look at a dragon whose love for a human woman could spell doom for the whole Earth -- here are spectacular dragon stories transcending time and place.Back (very hastily) with the werewolves; Bill Pronzini - Ancient Evil: De Vries and Larrabee take to the wooded mountains in pursuit of whatever has been tearing apart their sheep. As far as they're neighbours are concerned the culprit is either Bigfoot, an enormous wolf, or a run of the mill Viet Vet gone psycho. Eventually they gun him down in a cave but the entries in his notebook suggest their problems are only just beginning. The above does Ancient Evil no justice at all - you really have to read it. Jerome Charyn - At War With The Wolf Man: Police Comissioner Isaac Sidal on the trail of 'The Bangor Werewolf', a maniac loose on the streets of Manhattan. It was Isaac who'd captured "wolf man" Harvey Montaigne, a struggling actor who'd taken to wearing a mask and playfully biting women on the neck, but this latest version is way deadlier - whoever is responsible has developed a taste for human flesh and several of his victims remain on life support machines. Isaac's scouring of the underground system eventually pays off when he locates a filthy whiskered tramp in a disused station. Taking a shovel, Isaac creeps up on his prey ....
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Post by dem bones on Feb 13, 2017 22:05:18 GMT
Nancy A. Collins - Raymond: Seven Devils, Choctaw County. Raymond 'the retard' Fleuris is the new weird kid in High school. Pale, rake-thin, with ever-present bandage-turban and oversize canvas gloves, he's a nailed on prime target for Chucky Donothan, OFFICIAL SCHOOL BULLY. One lightening-swift flash of claw later and a mauled Donothan is reduced to a snivelling cry baby. Turns out the bandage hides a terrible scar, legacy of a lobotomy necessitated by Raymond's behaviour toward chickens.
The Carney comes to town. Raymond checks out 'Colonel Reynolds Pocket Jungle.' His mere presence terrifies the animals but the Big Game Hunter, recognising the tragic kid for who and what he is, offers him secure employment. A happy ending for Raymond, if not the live poultry tossed into his pit.
Craig Shaw Gardner - Day Of The Wolf: The city eventually became too dangerous, the countryside proved problematic, so Sam, fifty years a werewolf, tries his luck in Suburbia. And now an angry mob of armed vigilantes have him cornered in a yard, convinced he's the fiend tore out little Jenny's throat. Her pa has already mangled Sam's arm with a shot from close range when the brains of the outfit intervenes. It's the night of the full moon so why not lock the suspected man-wolf in a shed? If he changes they'll shoot him down with silver bullets. Sam tries to warn them but nobody is in the mood to listen. Don't know why it's called 'Day of the wolf' when 'Night of bloody carnage' is way more accurate.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 14, 2017 12:05:39 GMT
Robert J. Randisi - Partners: Veteran New York cop Frank Grey interrupts a burglary on Avenue D. A misplaced step sees him land flat on his arse in a pool of grease, but Frank ain't unduly concerned to to find himself surrounded by a four-strong gang of armed and very hyper teenage hoodlums. This being a night of a full moon he can rely on partner, Lisa Bain, to make a show-stopping, throat-ripping entrance. And to think there was a time when he was set against recruiting women to the force!
Robert Silverberg - The Werewolf Gambit: Very Tales From The Crypt. Keller, ladies man, is having no joy with tonight's intended conquest until he tells her a massive great fib - "I'm a werewolf." Incredibly it does the trick. Lora the ice maiden thaws, excitedly accompanies Keller back to his place on the promise of witnessing the moment of metamorphosis. Cheery mindless pulp horror. Even if you've not read Robert Bloch's The Bogeyman Will Get You you'll have the ending figured.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 30, 2018 9:42:18 GMT
Byron Priess [ed] The Ultimate Frankenstein (Headline, 1992) Mike Posen Isaac Asimov - Introduction: The Lord's Apprentice
Katherine Dunn - Near-Flesh Brian Aldiss - Summertime Was Nearly Over Michael Bishop - The Creature on the Couch Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - Fortitude Mike Resnick - Monsters of the Midway F. Paul Wilson - Dreams Philip José Farmer - Evil, Be My Good Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - A Writ of Habeas Corpus Benjamin M. Schutz - The State Versus Adam Shelley S. P. Somtow - Chui Chai Loren D. Estleman - I, Monster Melanie Tem & Steve Rasnic Tem - This Icy Region My Heart Encircles Esther M. Friesner - Mad at the Academy David J. Schow - Last Call for the Sons of Shock Karen Haber - Victor Garfield Reeves-Stevens - Part Five Joyce Harrington - Frankie Baby Charles de Lint - Pity the Monsters George Alec Effinger - The Last Supper and a Falafel to Go
Leonard Wolf - Selected Filmography Blurb: In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the first cinematic representation of Frankenstein's monster comes a collection of 18 original stories (plus one earlier classic) which explores the myths that have grown up around Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's tragic hero. In the words of some of the world's best-known authors of the fantastic, the mythical monster becomes a more horrifying figure than was ever encountered in the world of the B-movies. From Brian Aldiss' eerie look at a mysterious creature hidden from prying eyes for centuries to S. P. Somtow's Thai tale of passion and dismemberment to Katherine Dunn's examination of a bizarre affair. The Ultimate Frankenstein is a monster of a book created out of a gruesome melange of chilling parts!Mike Resnick - Monsters Of The Midway: Rank outsiders the Chicago Bears threaten to run away with the NFL Super Bowl when new boss Rattler Renfro promotes five mysterious rookies to the first team. Correctly suspecting their rivals are fielding laboratory-created players, the Alaskan Malamutes respond by transplanting a second brain into the skull of their own talismanic coach, Terry McNab. Esther M. Friesner - Mad at the Academy: Modern day Victor Frankenstein, Dr. Godwin Shelley, recruits a new assistant - Polly Doree, actress ( Amazons in Leather Cages, Swordswomen of Venus & Co), part-time model and tomb-looter of the celebrity dead. Together they scrape together a new Hollywood idol from the body-parts of previous superstars. All is well until the night of the Oscars. David J. Schow - Last Call For The Sons Of Shock: As later featured in Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher's Mammoth Book of Frankenstein. Annual reunion of Count Dracula, the Wolfman, and the Monster at the trendy Goth-Industrial dive where the latter is employed as doorman. Includes update on the post-Hollywood careers of the Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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Post by dem bones on Dec 31, 2018 10:13:06 GMT
Katherine Dunn - Near Flesh: Thelma Vole, a deeply unpleasant businesswoman, takes out her anger and sexual frustration on four synthetic robots/ futuristic blow-up dolls (all the top execs have them). Brains - programmed to love only her - takes the brunt of Boss Vole's spite until he puts both out of their misery. George Alec Effinger - The Last Supper And A Falafel To Go: Misadventures of a 7ft. vagrant with sewn-on head and patch work body in Linhurt, Louisiana. After a surprisingly joyful Thanksgiving, 'Victor' is again failed by Social Services and cast adrift to fall foul of the inevitable torch-bearing mob. This one could slot into Tom Johnstone & Joel Lane's depressingly prophetic Horror Uncut! Tales of Social Insecurity & Economic Unease.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 1, 2019 13:09:57 GMT
Loren D. Estleman - I, Monster; Excavated from the glazier where it's been frozen for two centuries, the Creature is thawed out at Michegan Uni. On escaping the campus, the hungry giant takes refuge in a woodland hut where it meets a WWA promoter. So begins a lucrative career in the ring (see also Larry, the Wolfman, in Last Call for the Sons of Shock). Considering my low expectations, this "Ultimate" has been mercifully easy on the brain thus far, so still plenty book left for things to go awry.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 5, 2019 9:17:04 GMT
Enjoyed both of these.
Joyce Harrington - Frankie Baby: Mad genetic scientist's don't make for ideal godmother's. Joanne misguidedly names her beloved daughter after estranged best friend, Dr. Francesca Stein, who despises the child's imperfections: if only baby Frankie had superior genes she might one day amount to someone worthy of existence. Dr. Stein sets to creating a perfect Frankie in the lab. Obviously there's not room for both, so Joanna's flawed bundle of joy will have to go. A real pulp horror throwback, this one, Grand Guignol ending and all.
Karen Haber - Victor: Freezing in the Arctic wastes, Frankenstein reflects on the loss of all those dear to him and concludes that he, like his hateful creation, is better dead. The monster has no intention of letting him off so lightly.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 10, 2019 18:41:01 GMT
Garfield Reeves-Stevens - Part Five: Another appealingly nasty one. Dr. Morley, Hollywood's #1 plastic surgeon, and reclusive director Edward Styles collude to ensnare a 23-year-old actress. Samantha Grant deludes herself she's a romp on the casting couch away from bagging female lead in Stardreamers II. Styles and Morley have designs on her body for sure, just not in the way she imagines.
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