'A real creepy crawly ... Recommended to those who like their thrills chilled.' - "Evening Standard"
'John Blackburn lives right up to his reputation for the eerie and the sinister.' - "The Guardian"
'A stylish, genuinely chilling author. Blackburn's devils do not loom vaguely in the background, but seem unstoppable and are among the most malevolent portrayals in the genre.' - "St James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers"
'An accomplished writer.' - "Spectator"
Three directors of the Van Traylen Fellowship have died in gruesome ways, and now a bus carrying children to the...

"The best writer in the genre since H. P. Lovecraft." - Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
"Outstanding in the genre." - August Derleth
"In the same class as M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood." - Michael and Mollie Hardwick
"One of the last great traditionalists of English fiction." - Colin Wilson
Frederick Plowright, a well-known scientific photographer, is recruited by Professor Clark Ashton Scarsdale to accompany his research team in search of "The Great White Space," described in ancient and arcane texts as a portal leading to the extremities of the universe....

"One of the great comic novels of the century." - Anthony Burgess
" A]n exuberant romp with a parcel of grotesques in a truly horrible nor'-nor'-easterly suburb of London . . . great fun." - "Manchester Guardian"
"Rabelaisian, vigorous, readable, inventive and bizarre." - Simon Raven
"The very best of his works." - Harlan Ellison
In the worst, poorest, most benighted corner of London is Fowlers End, one of the most godforsaken spots on the face of the earth. It is here that young Daniel Laverock, starving and nearly penniless at the height of the Great Depression, takes...

'Brilliantly clever . . . mercilessly funny.' - Kenneth Allsop, "Daily Mail"
'One of the most brilliantly written books since the war.' - Ian Fleming, "Sunday Times"
' A] clever and pitiless novel.' - Neil Ascherson, "Observer"
' An] extremely promising and funny first novel.' - "New Yorker"
'I laughed until I cried. Benedictus is a dazzling new wit and a blazing new talent.' - Patrick Dennis
David Benedictus was only twenty-three when his shock-filled, highly controversial first novel was published in 1962. In "The Fourth of June," Benedictus shows what it was like...

'He writes a clear, light prose, and he makes his interests, however bizarre, seem important.' - "Punch"
'One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation.' - "The Guardian"
'He has the kind of story-telling power which could charm the birds off the trees.' - "The Journal" (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Gerard Sorme has been hired by a New York publisher to edit a book on Esmond Donelly, notorious 18th-century Irish rake, friend of Rousseau, Boswell and Horace Walpole, and author of a bawdy work on the deflowering of virgins. Sorme's quest for information on Donelly...

"A memorable first book of fiction, one which belongs on any shelf of the best contemporary weird tales." - August Derleth, "Chicago Tribune"
" E]xtraordinary . . . gives Mr. Beaumont undeniable stature as an artist." - "N. Y. Herald Tribune"
"Charles Beaumont was a genius . . . and one hell of a storyteller." - Dean R. Koontz
"The name of Charles Beaumont will be honored and recognized for generations yet to come." - Robert Bloch
When "The Hunger and Other Stories" (1957) appeared, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) as an important and highly original...