Mike Ashley – The Dreaming Sex

Mike Ashley  (ed.) – The Dreaming Sex:  Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Woman   (Peter Owen, 2009)

Introduction
L.T. Meade –  The Blue Laboratory
Mary Shelley –  The Mortal Immortal
Harriet Prescott Spofford –  The Moonstone Mass
Alice W. Fuller –  A Wife Manufactured to Order
Mary Elizabeth Braddon –  Good Lady Ducayne
Mary Wilkins Freeman –  The Hall Bedroom
G.M. Barrows –  The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar
Roquia Sakhawat Hossein –  The Sultana’s Dream
Edith Nisbet –  The Five Senses
Clotilde Graves –  Lady Clanbevan’s Baby
Muriel Pollexfen –  Monsieur Fly-by-Night
Greye La Spina –  The Ultimate Ingredient
Clare Winger Harris –  The Miracle of the Lily
Adeline Knapp –  The Earth Slept: A Vision

Thanks to James Doig for putting me on to this one!

Attention Bruce Pennington Fans!

From the maker of Paperback Fanatic: coming soon!

PENNINGTON – a portrait of a master fantasy artist

Legendary for his paperback covers for H P Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Herbert, Edgar Rice Burroughs and more, Bruce Pennington gets the Fanatic treatment
If you’re not familiar with his work, check out the attached covers for a taste!
Two volumes, totalling 140 pages with 125 full colour reproductions of some of his most striking covers
Including an overview of his early career, an auto-biographical essay and a full checklist of his art.

Strictly limited edition based on orders received by 31st August
UK price for both volumes including postage £12.50
AIr-mail is £15.00
Order at the on-line shop now!

The Giant Book Of Fantasy & The Supernatural

Stephen Jones & David Sutton  (eds) –  The Giant Book Of Fantasy & The Supernatural (Parragon, 1996: originally Tiger Books 1994 as The Anthology Of Fantasy & The Supernatural)

Stephen Jones & David Sutton  – Introduction: A Bazaar of the Bizarre

Tad Williams – Child of an Ancient City
Thomas F. Monteleone  – The Cutty Black Sow
Adrian Cole – Treason in Zagadar
Nancy Holder  – Fatal Age
Ramsey Campbell  – The Mouths of Light
David J. Schow  – [scribble]
Brian M. Stableford  – The Storyteller’s Tale
Nicholas Royle  – The Big Game
Alex Stewart  – The Cat in the Wall
Anne Goring – The Shadow Queen
Brian Mooney  – The Waldteufel Affair
Parke Godwin – Up Yours, Federico
Andrew Darlington – Foul Moon Over Sticklespine Lane
Mike Chandler  – The Star Weave of Snorgrud Sunbreath
Melanie Tem  – Pele
William Thomas Webb  – Alchemist’s Gold
Allen Ashley  – The Horror Writer
Laurence Staig – The Healing Game
Josepha Sherman  – The Love-Gift
David Riley – A New Lease
H. J. Cording  – A Fly on the Wall
William F. Nolan – At Diamond Lake
Randall D. Larson – Satan Claws
Dallas Clive Goffin – The Maiden & the Minstrel
Jean-Daniel Brèque – Sight Unseen (Droit de Regard).
David Andreas – The Malspar Sigil
Steve Green  – Cracking
Steve Rasnic Tem – Angel Combs
S. M. Stirling – The Waters of Knowing
Charles Wagner – Just a Visitor at Twilight
Joel Lane – And Make Me Whole
Darrell Schweitzer & John Gregory Betancourt- The Last Child of Masferigon
Samantha Lee  – Silent Scream
Garry Kilworth  – Store Wars
Earl Godwin – Daddy
Adam Nichols – The Dark Fantastic
Michael Marshall Smith  – The View
C. Bruce Hunter  – The Salesman and the Travelling Farmer’s Daughter
Peter Dennis Pautz – And the Spirit That Stands by the Naked Man

illustrations by Allen Koszowski,  Dave Carson, Randy Broeker, Alan Hunter, Dallas Goffin, Harry O. Morris, Russ Nicholson, Russell Morgan, Jim Pitts, Mark Dunn, Charles Dougherty, Martin McKenna, John Stewart, Alfred R. Klosterman.

It’s not unlikely the original stories were intended for Fantasy Tales before it went to the wall. As a non-fantasy man i’m not sure i will ever be able to get along with something called The Star Weave of Snorgrud Sunbreath but delighted to find stories i’ve not previously read from Michael Marshall Smith, David Riley, Brian Mooney and Ramsey Campbell among others.

see also the Giant Book Of Fantasy & The Supernatural thread on the Vault forum.

A Visual Guide To New English Library

Justin Marriott (ed.) – A Visual Guide To New English Library: Volume One (Nov. 2010) 

Blurb:
British Publisher New English Library are a legend amongst vintage paperback fans and collectors throughout the world.

Their cult output is celebrated in the first of an ongoing series of visual guides from the producers of The Paperback Fanatic magazine.

Volume one is crammed with full colour reproductions of rare covers. The glorious visuals are accompanied by insightful commentary and full bibliographical detail, including previously unrecorded information on pseudonyms.

more details on Vault Of Evil Forum:

Ramsey Campbell – New Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos

Ramsey Campbell (ed.) – New Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos (Grafton, 1980)

Ramsey Campbell – Introduction

Stephen King – Crouch End
A. A. Attanasio – The Star Pools
Brian Lumley – The Second Wish
Frank Belknap Long – Dark Awakening
Basil Copper – Shaft Number 247
T. E. D. Klein – Black Man with a Horn
H. P. Lovecraft & Martin S. Warnes – The Black Tome of Alsophocus
David Drake – Than Curse the Darkness
Ramsey Campbell – The Faces at Pine Dunes
Notes on Contributors
Blurb:
RETURN TO THE CAVES OF ABOMINATION

Mythmaker, visionary, conjuror of nightmare, outsider in his own century, H. P. Lovecraft called a whole universe into being: Great Cthulhu, the blind idiot god Azathoth, the sunken realm of R’Iyeh, the infamous Necronomicon – a world peopled with a festering pantheon of creatures who stalked upon the Earth before humanity’s spanning …

In their own startlingly modern interpretations of the Cthulhu Mythos, these contemporary adepts of abomination will guide you to the caves of abject, unrelenting terror, where vast unspeakable presences wait in the clammy darkness. Then they will turn off the lights …

John Carnell – Weird Shadows From Beyond

John Carnell – Weird Shadows From Beyond (Corgi, 1965)

Josh Kirby

John Carnell – Introduction

Mervyn Peake – Danse Macabre
John Kippax – Blood Offering
Mervyn Peake – Same Time, Same Place
Michael Moorcock – Master Of Chaos
William Tenn – Wednesday’s Child
Robert Presslie – Dial ‘O’ For Operator
Brian W Aldiss – The Flowers Of The Forest
E.C Tubb – Fresh Guy
Eric Williams – The Garden Of Paris
Theodore Sturgeon – The Graveyard Reader

blurb

Ten Nightmares

A freshly turned grave with one mourner filled with hate; a telephone kiosk at night with something outside trying to get in; a ghoul playing knucklebones on a tombstone, a bodiless evening dress suit dancing in a moonlight glade; an iron shark tooth; a witch and a were-leopard ….

These are but a few of the ingredients of this nightmarish collection of weird stories.

Pantechnicon #6

Pantechnicon Issue Six is now available.

Contents:

STORIES

The Interpreter
Centuries after a toxic atmosphere has confined Humanity to Earth, something wants to leave the planet.
To do that, it’ll need the help of an Interpreter – one of the professionals who use the Rosetta drug to facilitate diplomacy.
Together, they’ll change the world completely.
Luke Tudge

The Dopple Gang Show – Part One
Jacob Rieser’s not going to get an insurance payout for the destruction of his flat. Apparently the Loss Adjuster doesn’t believe his tale of parallell worlds, gorillas in armour, and a doppleganger who tried to kill him.
The first part in a new ongoing series.
Colin Sinclair

Blakenship & Dawes in: The Island of Ignominy!
Following the sinking of an ocean liner bound for South Afrika, Avery Dawes and James Blakenship find themselves stranded on an idyllic island.
Admittedly the island is dominated by an active volcano, the natives are mechanised spider-bodies with human heads, and the fellows in question are armed with naught but their wits and, well, their wits, but an English Gentleman must keep a stiff upper lip about him at all times.
Jens Rushing

Innocent
Josephine is a harlot. A whore of Babylon, put on this Earth to tempt men and women alike. Her sensuality is unavoidable, undeniable.
Her mother knows this. Tempted by her own daughter, unable to bear it any longer, she struggles through life torn between what she should feel and what she does feel.
Josephine is four years old.
Victoria Snelling

The Resetting Sun
Allison’s Father has created the most advanced artificial life-form yet. Designed from the ground-up to be the most advanced weapon available to the military, he’s indistinguishable from a human being to the casual eye.
And he’s fallen in love with Allison.
Quentin Mark Pierson

Split
Set in the same universe as Krill (Issue Four), Split sees Jupiter yet again under examination – this time by husband and wife team Ashley Havers and Sindra Vandrewala.
David Brookes

FEATURES

The Ghost School Trilogy
Tony Lee takes a look at this collection of Korean horror films.

Deeply Disturbing:
An Interview with the Grand Master of Horror, Ramsey Campbell
Seriously. Do you need any more than that?

COLUMNS

Guest Column: Stephen Volk
Screenwriter Stephen Volk takes a look at the rebirth of Hammer, and asks whether it’s really a good idea to go digging around in cinema’s graveyard.

The Fandom Menace
When you wish upon a star
Why? Why demand your favourite franchise returns, only to rip it to shreds? Curse you, fandom!

DVD has killed my inner child
Documentaries on DVDs that tell you all about how the effects were done. Blessing, or curse? Discuss.

Trudi Topham

Pantechnicon seeks submissions for first print anthology

Pantechnicon seeks submissions for first print anthology.

Pantechnicon will be putting out its first book later this year, featuring brand new short stories from all our genres.

Submission guidelines are as follows:

– Stories must be in the SF/F/H genres, and of a standard that matches or surpasses what we would usually publish in the Magazine. It is highly recommended that you have read an issue of Pantechnicon before submitting to the anthology.

– Stories must be between 5,000 and 15,000 words.

– All submissions must be sent electronically in the form of a Word or RTF document to  Submissions@pantechnicon.net  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it <!– document.write( ” ); //–> with “ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSION” in the subject line. This document must include your name and email address.

– Simultaneous and Multiple Submissions are not accepted.

– Submissions must be the original work of the author and not previously published.

– Closing date for submissions is March 31st 2008. International date lines will be taken into account if you are behind GMT, so don’t panic if you’ve left it until 11pm PST to send your mail.

– Pantechnicon assumes first UK publication rights to a selected story. Contributors retain all other rights to their work.

– Authors may choose to withdraw their story at any time prior to publication.

– If an author fails to respond to communication from the editor at any point during the editorial process, Pantechnicon reserve the right to select another entry from the shortlist in their stead.

– Contributors receive a free copy as initial payment, then a percentage of the profits from the sale of the anthology every six months thereafter.

– Payment will only be offered via PayPal to non-UK residents. If you are a UK resident, other options may be considered and can be discussed on an ad-hoc basis.

– Anthology to be published in July 2008.

Good luck!

Written by Trudi Topham

Peter Haining – The Freak Show

Peter Haining (ed.) – The Freak Show (Corgi, 1971)

“Magicians and murderers … Puppets and corpses … Carnivals and cannibals …”

Introduction: The Truth About The Bearded Lady – Peter Haining

Daniel Defoe – The Magician
Edgar Allan Poe – Hop-Frog
Tod Robbins – Spurs
Clark Ashton Smith – The Ampoi Giant
Ray Bradbury – The Dwarf
L. Sprague de Camp – The Gnarly Man
Mildred Clingerman – The Gay Deceiver
Davis Grubb – The Magic Prince
Stanley Ellen – Beiderbauer’s Flea
Fritz Leiber – The Power Of The Puppets
Joseph Payne Brennan – The Rising Man (Levitation)
John Wyndham – Jizzle
August Derleth – Carousel
Esther Carlson – Heads You Win
Robert Bloch – Girl From Mars
Harry Harrison – At Last, The True Story Of Frankenstein
Eric Frank Russel – Mutants For Sale
Margaret St. Clair – Horror Howce
Harlan Ellison – Big Sam Was My Friend
Dylan Thomas – After The Fair

Cover artwork: Bruce Pennington