Fantasy & Horror

Fantasy, the Occult and Horror. Ghosts, Monsters, the Undead. Dragons, Swords and Sorcery.

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Strange was the bondage into which he sold himself, a terror-stricken slave in an abyss of evil. And stranger still was the bargain he made with the Unseen World to escape the shadow of the Thing named . . . Skull-Face.

The Lunar Point of View is a collection of four stories by S.M. Tenneshaw a “house name” for Fantastic Adventures and Amazing Stories. The actual writers of these stories are unknown.

Black Colossus – Three Conan Stories by Robert E. Howard
Three novelettes in the Conan saga by Robert E. Howard: Black Colossus, The Slithering Shadow, and The Pool of the Black One.

Elak of Atlantis and Jirel of Joiry are, in a way, a matched pair. Elak,written by Henry Kuttner, and Jirel, written by C.L. (Catherine Lucille) Moore, are heroes of the Swords and Sorcery sub-genre of fantasy fiction. What better way to be introduced to these two superb authors, from before they married, than through two of their acclaimed series.

The complete tales of Jirel of Joiry, flame haired warrior maiden of medieval France. Jirel is the proud, tough, beautiful, flame haired, warrior ruler of Joiry — located somewhere in medieval France about 1500. Her adventures pit her against witches, sorcerers and supernatural beings, as well as much more easily dispatched men.

Dreams and Horror – Two Novelettes by H.P. Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror – “Oh, oh, great Gawd . . . that . . . that.”
The Dreams in the Witch-House – A story of mathematics, witchcraft and Walpurgis Night, in which the horror creeps and grows—

Early Cthulhu Stories – seven early stories by H.P. Lovecraft that are the foundation of the Cthulhu Mythos. The Cthulhu stories describe a race of “Elder Beings” who once ruled the universe, but who are now imprisoned or sleeping in some remote part of the Earth or elsewhere in the universe. They only await the time “when the stars are right” to return and resume their rule. Monsters and evil humans live and act to hasten this return.

The Black Gargoyle and Other Stories – From the Amazon, to darkest Africa, to Borneo and the East Indies, four stories of the monsters and eldritch demons that inhabit the jungles around the world.

The Duel of the Sorcerers by Paul Ernst
It is magic in the dark—sorcerer against sorcerer—master against his hell-bound pupil.

Wolf of the Steppes – Five early stories by Greye La Spina (1880-1969) one of the founding female authors of the modern horror story.

The Moon Pool – In the middle of the South Pacific, among the islands of Polynesia, there is a lost world under the earth’s surface, home to the evil Shining One and its acolytes. A party of archeologists stumble upon this lost land and must fight to save their own world on the earth’s surface.

After the suicide of Robert E. Howard in 1936, readers were left wanting more stories of swords and sorcery similar to the Conan stories. Henry Kuttner (1915-1958) responded with the Elak of Atlantis stories.