The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there s no escape. Vampires Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil...
The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of va...
An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary mainstream. Black Mask was the apotheosis of noir. It was the magazine where the first hardboiled detective story, which was written by Carroll John Daly appeared. It was the slum in which such American literary titans like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their start, and it was the home of stories with titles like Murder Is Bad Luck, Ten Carets of Lead, and Drop Dead Twice. Collected here is best of the best, the hardest...
An unstoppable anthology of crime stories culled from Black Mask magazine the legendary publication that turned a pulp phenomenon into literary...
Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre s finest from the past year. Featuring gritty tales told with panache, this is a must-read for anybody who cares about crime stories (Booklist)."
Best-selling novelist Lee Child edits this latest collection of the genre s finest from the past year. Featuring gritty tales told with panache, this ...
A great recurring character in a fictional series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from? What was the real-life location that inspired Michael Connelly to make Harry Bosch a Vietnam vet tunnel rat? Why is Jack Reacher a drifter? How did a brief encounter in Botswana inspire Alexander McCall Smith to create Precious Ramotswe? In THE LINEUP, some of the top mystery writers in the world...
A great recurring character in a fictional series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and roo...
The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 includes Lawrence Block, Brendan DuBois, Loren D....
The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest sho...
Each year, for the past seventeen years, Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler has commissioned an original Christmas story by a leading suspense writer. These stories were then produced as pamphlets, just 1,000 copies, and given to customers of the bookstore as a Christmas present. Now, all seventeen tales have been collected in one volume, showcasing the talents of:
Charles Ardai - Lisa Atkinson
George Baxt - Lawrence Block
Mary Higgins Clark - Thomas H. Cook
Ron Goulart - Jeremiah Healy
Edward D. Hoch - Rupert Holmes
Andrew Klavan - Michael Malone
Ed McBain - Anne...
Each year, for the past seventeen years, Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler has commissioned an original Christmas story by a leading suspens...
The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 includes Peter S. Beagle, Kathleen Ford, Mary Gaitskill,...
The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest shor...
A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted and haunting ghost tales. Includes eerie vintage ghost illustrations. The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to...
A spirited Black Lizard anthology with over a thousand pages of haunted and haunting ghost tales. Includes eerie vintage ghost illustrations. The ...
Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continuallyarresting collection come with anirresistible challenge: At their end they leave it to you, the reader, todetermine how they end.
For ultimately it's the reader who authors thefate of the brave youth as hecontemplates which of the two doors in the king'sarena he will choose in FrankStockton's famous and unforgettable "TheLady, or the Tiger?" And which of the twobrothers in three-timeEdgar-winner Stanley Ellin's "Unreasonable Doubt" shoots abulletsquare in the middle of their rich uncle's forehead?...
Tantalizing, as ingenious as they are devious, the classic stories in this continuallyarresting collection come with anirresistible challenge: At t...
