SET SAIL ON THE SEVEN SEAS OF HILARITY At last the fabulous exploits of Captain Aleister Gaspard, the not-quite-King of the Buccaneers, can be told Compiled from the horribly misspelled journals of his biographer at tremendous expense (and no end of eyestrain), these tales of the freebooting reaver of the Seven Seas (well, six-and-a-half, really. . .but just give him time ) will shiver your timbers (and tickle your funnybone). Gaspard sets off on a wild odyssey complete with rich booty, curses, licentious pagan goddesses, bloodthirsty pirate queens, desperate alliances, living treasure...

LOVES THAT TRANSCEND TIME AND SPACE Published together for the first time, newly annotated and revised, SONNETS FROM THE SARCOPHAGUS and WIZARD'S VISIONS perfectly complement each other. These two sonnet-sequences tell connected stories of love and longing, beauty and horror, as the sundered souls of lovers seek each other across the trackless gulfs of infinity and eternity. In SONNETS FROM THE SARCOPHAGUS, the first of these stories told in verse, an ancient Egyptian priest accidentally resurrected from the dead seeks the reincarnation of his lost love - only to learn that the gulf that...

Everybody wants something. But what will they do get it? When fabulously wealthy General Kingsley throws a coming-out party for his staggeringly beautiful (but not overly bright) daughter Julia, all the local predators swoop in for the kill: a corrupt judge, a slimy lawyer, an unscrupulous psychiatrist and an explosive-tempered munition manufacturer. The greedy General is scheming to sell off his valuable offspring to the bidder offering him the most profitable deal. All of the suitors want Julia's money - and they're not averse to satisfying their other desires at her expense. None of them...

THE BEAST-GOD'S REVENGE When arch-wizard Khorlen falls under the curse of a demon-god, he must perform a dire sacrifice to free himself from the demon's ire: he must offer up Lysidia, princess of a ravaged city, whose life might threaten even the bastions of Hell itself. And Lysidia must be sacrificed with no earthly knife. Only the last remaining fang of the primal beast-god known as the Great Tiger must steal her life. Unfortunately, Khorlen does not know where to find the fang, carved in lost ages of the earth into a slender, menacing sphinx . . . When Kondur, an itinerant Hyperborean...

Remember DR. STRANGE, the groovy Master of Mystic Arts? With his lover, the slave-princess Clea; his mentor the Ancient One; his loyal servant Wong; his arch-enemies Baron Mordo, Nightmare, and the Dread Dormammu, the Sorcerer Supreme flourished in Marvel Comics in the sixties and seventies, and made a comeback in the nineties. Well, these characters ain't them, folks. THE STRANGELOVE CHRONICLES are a rude, lewd, crude, scabrous, offensive, adolescent, and thoroughly lowbrow lampoon (note the second syllable) of the comic book series. Trapped on an island of surgically-created manimals, Doc...

This eclectic mix of fantastic tales has cosmic horrors and comic absurdities to chill your spine and tickle your funybone. In these pages you'll find: The lonely, misanthropic pilot who heeds the call of the wild - and an insidious, irresistible summons from a dark world beyond humanity - when he meets a savage beauty deep in the Alaskan wilds. The dream woman who makes her lover's life a living Nightmare. The professor-turned-private-eye retained by a ghost to bring his murderer to justice - while seeking a cursed relic of the Crusades that makes the Maltese Falcon look like a Cracker Jack...

MORE CAVIAR & LESS POPCORN continues the same eclectic mix as CAVIAR & POPCORN, with the fantastic element this time centered on SF rather than dark fantasy. Read about the traps men and women make for themselves in the name of love: The alien bacteria made their hosts immortal and immune to all diseases - but they exacted a terrible price from their hosts. Despite this, Dr. Amy Tanner is strongly tempted to give the bacteria human hosts - for it might save her life, and that of her unborn child . . . The military regulations governing sexual conduct were stringent - especially those relating...

SORCERY AND SKULLDUGGERY IN STEAMPUNK LONDON The Hound of the Baskervilles - the Sussex Vampire - the Devil's Foot - Sherlock Holmes, the world's first Consulting Detective, brilliantly solved these mysteries. In doing so, he proved that human villainy was behind them all instead of dark magic, for Holmes never admitted the existence of the supernatural. But what about cases in which there is no possible explanation except the powers of hell? When the bounds of nature are shattered by the incursion of dark powers, the only resource left is Shemlard Shoreditch, the world's first Consulting...

The works in this collection range from the Biblical to the bawdy. Many of them treat the recurrent theme of the femme fatale - still a figure of great erotic and psychological appeal, although feminists would doubtless deride and descry it - culminating in the long dramatic monologue "The Lamentations of Lilith." Rounding off the collection are short poems, ranging from sonnets to haiku - even limericks. (WARNING: These latter contain adult material.)

BIRTH OF A DAMNATION Following a disastrous mission, the Wanderer spends five years as a total amnesiac. When she finally reports to Agency headquarters, she finds that her trusted contact Grimsdyke is unaccountably missing from his office - and that she's now classed as an enemy agent. Worse, the duplicitous Agency has learned all of her well-hidden weaknesses, and uses them to subdue and interrogate her. Has someone been telling her secrets? Was it Grimsdyke? During those five years, the Agency has secretly bioengineered a new species called the Starborn to fight the Night Spawn. The powers...