The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub

9 best books like The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 1: Beyond Lies the Wub (Philip K. Dick): Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, Dagon, The Martian Way and Other Stories, The Wendigo, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, All Tomorrow's Parties, Le Serpent d'eau, Conan of Cimmeria

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Author	Edogawa Rampo
ISBN	0804803196

Edogowa Rampo--just say his pen name quickly three times to discover how much he loved Edgar Allen Poe--is considered the first and foremost writer of Japanese mystery fiction. He is also much more.

His stories, structured as popular "entertainments," are designed to convey all the...

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

Author	P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN	0140041923

The curious case of the Maiden Eggesford Horror

When the doctor advises Bertie to live the quiet life, he and Jeeves head for the pure air and peace of Maiden Eggesford. However, they hadn't reckoned on Bertie's irrepressible but decidedly scheming Aunt Dahlia, around whom an imbroglio of...

Dagon

Author

H.P. Lovecraft

"Dagon" is the second story of the writer H.P.Lovecraft, written in 1917 and published ,for the first time, in 1919. The work takes its title from the mythological God Dagon, and tells a disturbing story, happened years before to a man with the obsession of suicide. Before throwing himself from the window...

The Martian Way and Other Stories

Author

Isaac Asimov

This collection of four famous science fiction tales masterfully exemplifies author Isaac Asimov's ability to create quickly a believable human milieu in the midst of alien circumstances. Each of the long stores also shows his considerable skill in fully fleshing out a speculative scientific or...

The Wendigo

Author	Algernon Blackwood
ISBN	1406905925

a rainy, windy, chilly night with nothing to do but gaze lovingly at my overly full bookcases. so why not reread one of my favorite classic horror novellas? this one is about, wait for it, The Wendigo and its prey du jour (du nuit?): some hunters and their guides. but is the story really about this so-called...

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Author

H.P. Lovecraft

Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. Inspiration Lovecraft said the story was inspired by an April 27, 1919 article in the New York Tribune. Reporting on the New York state...

All Tomorrow's Parties

Author	William Gibson
ISBN	0425190447

Although Colin Laney (from Gibson's earlier novel Idoru) lives in a cardboard box, he has the power to change the world. Thanks to an experimental drug that he received during his youth, Colin can see "nodal points" in the vast streams of data that make up the worldwide computer network. Nodal points...

Le Serpent d'eau

Author

Tony Sandoval

That was one of the most bizarre, surreal, and unsettling graphic novels I've ever read... and I loved it so much I don't even know how to explain why. Let me start with the artwork:



This is some of the most unique and quietly disturbing art I've ever seen in a graphic novel, and it works...

Conan of Cimmeria

Author	Robert E. Howard
ISBN	0441114539

Contents:

9 · Introduction · L. Sprague de Camp · in
15 · The Curse of the Monolith [“Conan and the Cenotaph”] · L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter · ss Worlds of Fantasy #1 ’68
33 · The Bloodstained God · L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E. Howard · nv Tales of Conan, Gnome,...