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Lost Worlds: Volume 1: Zothique, Averoigne and Others

10 best books like Lost Worlds: Volume 1: Zothique, Averoigne and Others (Clark Ashton Smith): Night's Black Agents, The Best of C.L. Moore, The Best of Michael Swanwick, Untouched By Human Hands, The Apex Book of World SF, Crackpot Palace, Viriconium Nights, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012, Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies, The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories

Night's Black Agents
AuthorFritz Leiber
ISBN0722154763
If I had to choose just one single-author horror collection to keep forever (not counting "greatest hits"-type retrospectives), Night's Black Agents would definitely be in the top 3 or 4. You get prime early examples of urban horror from the 40s with "Smoke Ghost" and "Girl with the Hungry Eyes," and...
The Best of C.L. Moore
AuthorC.L. Moore
ISBN0345289528
Forty Years of C. L. Moore '75 essay by Lester del Rey
Shambleau [Northwest Smith] '33 novelette by C. L. Moore
Black Thirst [Northwest Smith] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore
The Bright Illusion '34 story by C. L. Moore
Black God's Kiss [Jirel of Joiry] '34 novelette by C. L. Moore
Tryst...
The Best of Michael Swanwick
AuthorMichael Swanwick
ISBN1596061782
It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far-ranging...
Untouched By Human Hands
AuthorRobert Sheckley
ISBN1345004370
The 1950s saw publication of Sheckley's 1st four books: short story collections Untouched by Human Hands (Ballantine '54), Citizen in Space ('55), Pilgrimage to Earth (Bantam '57) & a novel, Immortality, Inc. (1st serialized in Galaxy, '58).
"The Monsters" (F&SF 1953/3)
"Cost...
The Apex Book of World SF
AuthorLavie Tidhar
ISBN0982159633
The world of speculative fiction is expansive; it covers more than one country, one continent, one culture. Collected here are sixteen stories penned by authors from Thailand, the Philippines, China, Israel, Pakistan, Serbia, Croatia, Malaysia, and other countries across the globe. Each one tells...
Crackpot Palace
AuthorJeffrey Ford
ISBN0062122592
Eclectic is certainly an adjective that can be used to describe the work of the phenomenal Jeffrey Ford—along with imaginative, provocative, mesmerizing, and brilliant. His powerful dark fantasy, The Physiognomy, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; his novel, The Girl in the Glass, won...
Viriconium Nights
AuthorM. John Harrison
ISBN0441865704

This fourth and last volume of the sequence is not a novel, but rather a series of melancholy mood pieces--Schumann's "Night Pieces" come to mind--in which the ill-fated inhabitants of many versions of Viriconium engage in inconclusive quests and rescues while the city that sustains their imaginative...
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012
AuthorRich Horton
ISBN1607013444
From the publisher's web site: This fourth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, RJ Parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Catherynne M....
Weird Tales: The Magazine That Never Dies
AuthorMarvin Kaye
Since its first issue in March 1923, Weird Tales - "The Unique Magazine" - has provided countless readers with the most innovative and offbeat fantasy, suspense and horror stories. Almost every important writer of fantastic fiction in the first half of this century - including H.P. Lovecraft, Robert...
The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories
AuthorJo Anderton
ISBN0980777097
Enter a world where terrible secrets are hidden in a wind chime's song
Where crippled witches build magic from scrap
And the beautiful dead dance for eternity

The Bone Chime Song and Other Stories collects the finest science fiction and horror short stories from award-winning writer...
A Touch of Strange
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0879973730
'Winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, Theodore Sturgeon has established his reputation as one of the most original and provocative of SF writers.

Here are nine masterpieces of imagination from the period of his finest creativity. Included are "The Pod in the Barrier", "The Other Celia",...
Who Fears The Devil
AuthorManly Wade Wellman
ISBN0440197767
There's a traveling man the Carolina mountain folk call Silver John for the silver strings strung on his guitar. In his wanderings, John encounters a parade of benighted forest creatures, mountain spirits, and shapeless horrors from the void of history with only his enduring spirit, playful wit,...
Iced on Aran
AuthorBrian Lumley
ISBN0812524225
And so end the Dreamland series following the adventures of Eldin and Hero. Now I remember saying that after finishing the Mad Moon of Dreams where could the adventures go next - well this book certainly shows us where.

And I must admit its a bit of a disappointment - now the action is still there...
Fireflood and Other Stories
AuthorVonda N. McIntyre
ISBN0671836315
I'm pretty sure I read this collection of short stories by Vonda N McIntyre about thirty years ago - some of them were definitely very familiar, though as I couldn't remember anything at all about some of the others I may simply have read them in anthologies. I bought a copy a few months ago, and when I heard...
Third from the Sun
AuthorRichard Matheson
Contents:
· Born of Man and Woman · vi F&SF Sum ’50
· Third from the Sun · ss Galaxy Oct ’50
· Lover, When You’re Near Me · nv Galaxy May ’52
· SRL Ad · ss F&SF Apr ’52
· Mad House · nv Fantastic Jan/Feb ’53
· F--- [“The Foodlegger”] · ss Thrilling...
The Disaster Area
AuthorJ.G. Ballard
ISBN0586090711
This mesmerizing collection demonstrates perfectly Ballard’s extraordinary writing talent. All the concentrated power and imagination that distinguish his novels are demonstrated here: the iron strength of his stories lies in the juxtaposition of a recognizable physical word with an inner,...
The Stealer of Souls
AuthorMichael Moorcock
ISBN0583113443
Mighty Elric... Mightier Sword!

Elric-
the most unusual hero in the great tradition of heroic fantasy.
Elric-
the albino sorcerer and battle-thirsty prince.
Elric-
doomed beyond hope to wander a world of barbarism and treachery.
Elric-
seeker of impossible...
The Haunter of the Dark
AuthorH.P. Lovecraft
ISBN0586063234
WARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERROR

When you open this book you will lost - lost in a world of dreadful nightmare brought to screaming life by the century's greatest master of adult fantasy and horror.

H.P. Lovecraft

Here is a collection of the most...
All Fools' Day
AuthorEdmund Cooper
[Back Cover]

"The summer of 1971 was unusually sunny for London. It was laso scientifically fascinating: Sunspots emitting a new type of solar radiation suddenly appeared.

Then, unaccountably, there began a sharp rise in the suicide rate, and over the next ten years, the radiation-triggered...
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