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« UNP's Log: A Few Scifi Links | Main | Author Events: October 31st through November 6th »

October 30, 2007

Titles to Terrorize You: Some Scifi from UNP

Beyond_armageddon

Beyond Armageddon
Edited by Walter M. Miller Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg
Postcript to the Introduction by Martin H. Greenberg

Twenty-one stories by science fiction masters including Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, and Roger Zelazny regarding about how life may be after nuclear annihilation.

Lost_worlds
Lost Worlds
Clark Ashton Smith
Introduction by Jeff VanderMeer

Lost Worlds collects twenty-three of Smith's classic Weird Tales stories.

"None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living."—H. P. Lovecraft

 

Circus_of_dr_lao

The Circus of Dr. Lao

Charles G. Finney
Introduction by John Marco; Illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff

Abalone, Arizona is visited by a sideshow of fantastical animals, magic, and a foreboding fortune-teller.

Purple_cloud

The Purple Cloud

M. P. Shiel
Introduction by John Clute

Adam Jeffson is the sole survivor of a deadly purple cloud.

"Fantastic, weird, macabre . . . It is imaginative, fascinating, convincing, as some dreadful nightmare. . . . A remarkable piece of work, . . . head and shoulders above the average tale of fantastic adventure."—New York Times Book Review 

Nosferatu

Nosferatu: A Novel

Jim Shepard
With a new introduction by Ron Hansen

In a fictional biography, Nosferatu portrays director F. W. Murnau as a genius who becomes his own monster.

"Mordantly funny and moving."—Entertainment Weekly

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