Showing posts with label classic novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classic novels. Show all posts

Saturday, November 21, 2015

2 Fritz Leiber horror novels in online PDF reproductions of their "natural" habitats (CONJURE WIFE in UNKNOWN WORLDS, 1943; YOU'RE ALL ALONE in FANTASTIC ADVENTURES, 1950)

The links below take you to the highlighted titles as they have been scanned online from their original magazine appearances.

Novel 

  • , pp. 9-78 - PDF
    Novel


  • Novelette 

  • , pp. 105-132 - PDF
    Novelette


  • Readers' Departments 

  • , pp. 6-8 - PDF


  • Short Stories 

  • , pp. 79-93 - PDF
  • , pp. 94-102 - PDF

  • [+] Book Reviews (Anthony Boucher and Langley Searles)
     (2 Reviews) 
    , p. 103 - PDF



  • All Stories Complete 




  • , pp. 8-81 - PDF
    (Novel---40,000)
  • , pp. 84-89 - PDF
    (Short---3,000)
  • , pp. 92-99 - PDF
    (Short---4,000)
  • , pp. 102-108 - PDF
    (Short---3,500)
  • , pp. 110-123 - PDF
    (Short---8,000)
  • , pp. 126-127 - PDF
    (Short-short---1,000)
  • , pp. 130-149 - PDF
    (Novelette---11,000)
  •  - PDF
    Illustrating a scene from "You're All Alone"



  • Three "bonus" issue covers (texts not obviously online that I could find...go find the hardcopies/books!):

    The third Leiber horror novel, in its original shorter form, later expanded for book publication as Our Lady of Darkness (and Edward Ferman might be the most underrated editor in the field's history, if his one-time assistant, later Fantastic and Heavy Metal editor Ted White, isn't):


    And another Jones cover...the Virgil Finlay interior illustrations were Much better--
    the Bloch story is an excellent zombie metafiction(!), adapted for television with moderate success (and a good cast save the star) in the early 1970s; the Sturgeon and Simak stories were good, and the McGivern, Sheldon and Phillips stories not too shabby, either...from the intermittently impressive Fantastic Adventures issues in the several years running up to the launch of Fantastic in 1952):

    Friday, October 24, 2014

    FFB consumer's advisory bonus: two quartets of horrors for the season...

    The US reader (of English) is this year offered essentially four Best of the Year volumes collecting horror and related material...I have yet to crack my copies, but I have all four...

    The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six 


    The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2014 

    Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume 1 

    Best New Horror: 25th Anniversary Edition 
    • Editor: Stephen Jones
    • Year: 2014-11-11
    • ISBN: 978-1-62873-818-6 [1-62873-818-9]
    • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
    • Price: $15.95 
    • Pages: 608 

    • INTRODUCTION: HORROR IN 2013 The Editor 
    • WHO DARES WINS: ANNO DRACULA 1980 Kim Newman 
    • CLICK-CLACK THE RATTLEBAG Neil Gaiman 
    • DEAD END Nicholas Royle 
    • ISAAC'S ROOM Daniel Mills 
    • THE BURNING CIRCUS Angela Slatter 
    • HOLES FOR FACES Ramsey Campbell 
    • BY NIGHT HE COULD NOT SEE Joel Lane 
    • COME INTO MY PARLOUR Reggie Oliver 
    • THE MIDDLE PARK Michael Chislett 
    • INTO THE WATER Simon Kurt Unsworth 
    • THE BURNED HOUSE Lynda E. Rucker 
    • WHAT DO WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT Z— Lavie Tidhar 
    • FISHFLY SEASON Halli Villegas 
    • DOLL RE MI Tanith Lee 
    • A NIGHT'S WORK Clive Barker 
    • THE SIXTEENTH STEP Robert Shearman 
    • STEMMING THE TIDE Simon Strantzas 
    • THE GIST Michael Marshall Smith 
    • GUINEA PIG GIRL Thana Niveau 
    • MISS BALTIMORE CRABS: ANNO DRACULA 1990 Kim Newman 
    • WHITSTABLE Stephen Volk 
    • NECROLOGY: 2013 Stephen Jones & Kim Newman
    • USEFUL ADRESSES 
    And...recently, I was seeking a pair of short novels for a new friend, a native speaker of Spanish who loves horror and wanted preferably short novels in English she could practice her Anglophone reading with...since she's a lover of horror film, as well, my favorite duo from 1959 came to mind first, even if one is a suspense novel rather than horror (and the other is arguably so as well, with difficulty):

























    ...and two more became pretty obvious next choices (in rather battered first editions pictured below):











    Further suggestions?

    ("Impure" horror collections that also came to mind:
    All The Stories of Muriel Spark and 
    E Pluribus Unicorn by Theodore Sturgeon)

    (...and...and...)