Douglas E. Winter

Over a span of almost 60 years, E. Hoffmann Price, a prolific writer during the great pulp magazine fiction era, befriended many of the great and near-great colleagues of the profession—writers like H. P, Lovecraft, August Derleth, Jack Williamson, Edmond Hamilton, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Henry Kuttner, Seabury Quinn, Otis Adelbert Kline, W. K. Mashburn, Ralph Milne Farley, Robert Spencer Carr, Albert Richard Wetjen, Norbert C. Davis, Harry Olmstead, Milo Ray Phelps— and Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright. Through a vast correspondence, diaries he kept of his many cross-country motor trips, E. Hoffmann Price encapsulates the successes and failures of a score of fascinating lives through a series of engaging biographical essays that also reveal important details about the author's own nomadic life. Historian Richard Bleiler says, "I was absolutely floored by BOOK OF THE DEAD. It is incredible! Price was one of the undisputed masters of the biographical sketch. His works on Smith, Lovecraft and Howard are among the most informative and vital portraits of these people ever done—and now there is a whole book of his portraits of other pulp writers and figures, all vividly portrayed, warts and all." Bleiler continues, "This is one of the most important documents in pulp studies to emerge in recent years, and I thoroughly regret that it was not published 25 years ago when Price was still alive to get honored for it." BOOK OF THE DEAD includes additional essays by and about Price, a bibliography of his fiction, an index, and a photo gallery.

Discusses the life, career, and influence of the popular horror writer Stephen King.

Contains: [Lunch at the Gotham Café]( / Stephen King -- The psycho / Michael O'Donoghue -- Pas de Deux / Kathe Koja -- Bright blades gleaming / Basil Copper -- Hanson's radio / John Lutz -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- Ro Erg / Robert Weinberg -- Going under / Ramsey Campbell -- Hidden / Stuart Kaminsky -- Prism / Wendy Webb -- The maiden / Richard Laymon -- You're got your troubles, I've got mine / Bob Burden -- Waco / George C. Chesbro -- The penitent / John Peyton Cooke -- Driven / Kathryn Ptacek -- Barbara / John Shirley -- Hymenoptera / Michael Blumlein -- The end of it all / Ed Gorman --Heat / Lucy Taylor -- Thin walls / Nancy A. Collins -- Locked away / Karl Edward Wagner --

A collection forty-six horror and fantasy fiction stories from the year 1995 from a wide selection of well-known genre authors Acknowledgement -- Summation 1995: fantasy / Terry Windling -- Summation 1995: horror / Ellen Datlow -- Horror and fantasy in the media: 1995 / Edward Bryant -- Obituaries / James Frankel -- Home for Christmas / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- Heartfires / Charles de Lint -- Screens / Terry Lamsley -- King of crows / Midori Snyder -- Professor Gottesman and the Indian rhinoceros / Peter S. Beagle -- The hunt of the unicorn / Ellen Kushner -- More tomorrow / Michael Marshall Smith -- Penguins for lunch / Scott Bradfield -- Ether OR / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Paper lantern / Stuart Dybek -- [Lunch at the Gotham café]( / Stephen King -- Queen of knives (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Dragon-rain / Eileen Kernaghan -- Llantos de la Llorona: warnings from the wailer (poem) / Pat Mora -- Too short a death / Peter Crowther -- The James Dean garage band / Rick Moody -- Because of dust / Christopher Kenworthy -- Loop / Douglas E. Winter -- La loma, la luna / Sue Kepros Hartman -- Women's stories (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Swan/princess (poem) / Jane Yolen -- Switch / Lucy Taylor -- Scaring the train / Terry Dowling -- Blood knot / Steve Rasnic Tem -- The girl who married the reindeer (poem) / Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin -- The otter woman (poem) / Mary O'Malley -- Resolve and resistance / S.N. Dyer -- La dame / Tanith Lee -- Circe's power (poem) / Louise Glück -- Dragon's fin soup / S.P. Somtow -- The granddaughter / Vivian Vande Velde -- Daphne and Laura and so forth (poem) / Margaret Atwood -- A lamia in the Cévennes / A.S. Byatt -- The guilty party / Susan Moody -- She's not there / Pat Cadigan -- The white road (poem) / Neil Gaiman -- Refrigerator heaven / David J. Schow -- After the elephant ballet / Gary A. Braunbeck -- Henry V, part 2 / Marcia Guthridge -- Mrs. Greasy / Robert Reed -- / Joyce Carol Oates -- The printer's daughter / Delia Sherman -- Prayer (poem) / Nancy Willard -- Jacob and the angel (poem) / Jane Yolen -- The lion and the lark / Patricia A. McKillip -- Honorable mentions.

[Night flier / Stephen King]-- Having a woman at lunch / Paul Hazel -- Blood kiss / Dennis Etchison -- Coming to grief / Clive Barker -- Food / Thomas Tessier -- Great God Pan / M. John Harrison -- Orange is for anguish, blue for insanity / David Morrell -- Juniper tree / Peter Straub -- Spinning tales with the dead / Charles L. Grant -- Alice's last adventure / Thomas Ligotti -- Next time you'll know me / Ramsey Campbell -- Pool / Whitley Strieber -- By reason of darkness / Jack Cady.

Contains: The reploids / Stephen King -- [Sneakers]( / Stephen King -- [Dedication]( / Stephen King -- Metastasis / Dan Simmons -- Vanni Fucci is alive and well and living in hell / Dan Simmons -- Iverson's Pits / Dan Simmons -- The skin trade / George R.R. Martin.

Seventeen year-old Rae Voight discovers the voices in her head aren't because she's crazy, but because she can pick up people's thoughts through their fingerprints.

Adam and Watch are walking by Spooksville's cemetery one evening when a skeleton suddenly jumps the wall and attacks them. Somehow they manage to fight off the creature, but the next night more skeletons wake up and they want one thing -- Watch.

Ben Forsberg is an ordinary guy, leading an ordinary life - or so he thinks. Everything changes the day two government agents appear unexpectedly at his door. Ben's business card has been found in the wallet of one of America's most dangerous assassins, who has just been shot dead. Whoever killed him has now set their sights on Ben. With no idea why he has been targeted, Ben has to act quickly. And in a world where suddenly nothing is as it seems, and no one can be trusted, Ben's only option is to run for his life.