This long awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world's most renowned detective originally suppressed to avoid causing scandal and embarrassment to the Crown, to public figures, or to Sherlock Holmes himself. Now, finally, the truth is revealed about Holmes' exploits involving such figures as Ida Tarbell, Consuelo Vanderbilt, P.G. Wodehouse, and James McNeil Whistler. Related by diverse hands, including Watson, Inspector Lestrade, and Holmes himself, detailing untold incidents involving the Titanic, Holmes' rematch with Irene Adler, the childhoods of both Holmes and...
This long awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world's most renowned detective originally suppressed to avoid causing scandal a...
An abiding presence in myth and literature from around the world, the dragon has been reborn in modern fantasy fiction. The classic winged fire-breathing reptile often associated with evil (they do despoil villages and demand virgin sacrifices, after all) tends nowadays to be more kindly disposed to humankind, sometimes aloofly offering magical wisdom, sometimes actively involved in human lives, whether as a servant or friend. In this volume, originally compiled exclusively for the members of the Science Fiction Book Club and not available in stores, editor Marvin Kaye has skillfully...
An abiding presence in myth and literature from around the world, the dragon has been reborn in modern fantasy fiction. The classic winged fire-bre...
Marvin Kaye has crafted a wondeful sequel to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, picking up the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and revisiting familiar characters such as Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and many others, following it through to an altogether satisfying conclusion in an intricate tapestry of the real and the supernatural, as the reformed Scrooge tries to satisfy a nagging feeling of something yet undone.
..".intriguing and unusual. It's a very interesting idea to put a new text into an 'intertextual' relationship with a Dickens original.The treatment of the Jewish angle throws a...
Marvin Kaye has crafted a wondeful sequel to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, picking up the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and revisiting familiar char...
Brian Lumley, a Grand Master of Horror and author of the popular Necroscope(R) series, opens the collection with the tense -A Place of Waiting.- The moors of Devon, England, are home to many ghosts, but none as fearsome as the red-eyed specter that refuses to accept his death. His only chance of release, however, comes at a terrible cost.
Orson Scott Card puts a new spin on one of literature's most famous ghosts in -Hamlet's Father.- What if the former King of Denmark was not killed by his treacherous brother for his crown, but by someone entirely unexpected as punishment for the...
Brian Lumley, a Grand Master of Horror and author of the popular Necroscope(R) series, opens the collection with the tense -A Place of Waiting.- Th...
Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in "Weird Tales'" first year of publication--1923--classics by many who would later play an integral part in the "Unique Magazine, " such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.
Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in "Weird Tales'" first year of publication--1923--classics by many who would later play an ...
Variations on this play have been filmed and put on Broadway as a musical. This version, carefully restored by author and scholar Marvin Kaye, returns to the original text. Footnotes and an Afterword on staging a production of "Sweeney Todd" based on this text provide useful additional information. (Plays/Drama)
Variations on this play have been filmed and put on Broadway as a musical. This version, carefully restored by author and scholar Marvin Kaye, returns...
