Frank Belknap Long

An anthology of short fiction expanding and elaborating on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, edited by Ramsey Campbell. New Tales collects the following stories: "Crouch End" by Stephen King "The Star Pools" by A. A. Attanasio "The Second Wish" by Brian Lumley "Dark Awakening" by Frank Belknap Long "Shaft Number 247" by Basil Copper "Black Man with a Horn" by T. E. D. Klein "The Black Tome of Alsophocus" by H. P. Lovecraft & Martin S. Warnes "Than Curse the Darkness" by David Drake "The Faces at Pine Dunes" by Ramsey Campbell

Doorstep - short story by Keith Laumer Who's on First? - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. In the Jaws of Danger - short story by Piers Anthony The Witness - novelette by Eric Frank Russell The Mississippi Saucer - short story by Frank Belknap Long Primary Education of the Camiroi - short story by R. A. Lafferty Tween - novelette by J. F. Bone Zoo - short story by Edward D. Hoch Subcommittee - novelette by Zenna Henderson Keyhole - short story by Murray Leinster Kindergarten - short story by James E. Gunn

Danger Dimension - novelette by Stanley Mullen Zeritsky's Law - short story by Ann Warren Griffith [as by Ann Griffith] With These Hands - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth The Trouble with Ants - novelette by Clifford D. Simak (variant of The Simple Way) The Isolationists - short story by Robert Silverberg [as by George Osborne] Venus Is a Man's World - novelette by William Tenn A Gift from Earth - short story by Manly Banister Judas Ram - short story by Sam Merwin, Jr. Finders Keepers - short story by Milton Lesser The Rag and Bone Men - short story by Algis Budrys One Leg Is Enough - short story by Kris Neville She Who Laughs - short story by Peter Phillips

About The spawn of Cthulhu and H.P. Lovecraft / Lin Carter -- The whisperer in darkness / H.P. Lovecraft -- [An Inhabitant of Carcosa]( / Ambrose Bierce -- The yellow sign / Robert W. Chambers -- Cordelia's song / Vincent Starrett -- The return of Hastur / August Derleth -- Litany to Hastur / Lin Carter -- The children of the night / Robert E. Howard -- K'n-Yan / Walter C. DeBill, Jr. -- The tale of Satampra Zeiros / Clark Ashton Smith -- The hounds of Tindalos / Frank Belknap Long -- The curse of Yig / Zealia Bishop -- The mine on Yuggoth / J. Ramsey Campbell.

Reprint of The Early Long, Doubleday '75.

A glimmering gate of wonder.... During the summer of 1935, H. P. Lovecraft collaborated with his Florida friend, Robert Barlow, on the typesetting of a small collection of verse by Frank Belknap Long entitled The Goblin Tower. This volume and its 1926 predecessor, A Man from Genoa have become collector's editions of fabulous rarity, and yet contain poems which received great contemporary acclaim from such writers as Arthur Machen, George Sterling, and John Masefield. In Mayan Splendor presents the early poetry of Frank Belknap Long in a new edition that also includes the author's memorial sonnet to H. P. Lovecraft, reprinted from the June 1938 issue of Weird Tales. Here once again are the fanciful, passionate, wondrously ecstatic statements of a young romantic dreamer, a poet intoxicated by the haunting loveliness and iridescent mystery of human existence. From the eerie desolation of "The Inland Sea" to the rapturous delirium of "Stallions of the Moon," these poems have been conceived in a frenzy of aesthetic exaltation and rank withal among the most compelling artistic achievements by this famous author. Frank Belknap Long has remarked of his early work that, "There are visions of strangeness and beauty which come to us when we are quite young and remain with us until we are too old to dream. They are visions we like to share." Herewith, through the pages of In Mayan Splendor, a vision shared.

Contains: [Jerusalem's lot]( / Stephen King -- The parasite / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Fearful rock / Manly Wade Wellman -- Sardonicus / Ray Russell -- Nighflyers / George R.R. Martin -- Horrible imaginings / Fritz Leiber -- Jane Brown's body / Cornell Woolrich -- Killdozer / Theodore Sturgeon -- The shadow out of time / H.P. Lovecraft -- The stains / Robert Aickman -- The horror from the hills / Frank Belknap Long -- Children of the kingdom / T.E.D. Klein -- Frost and fire / Ray Bradbury.

The Big Brain denies John Tabor's request to marry, and in the twenty-second century it is the Brain that makes the decisions. Should he try an artificial woman to his own specifications, "for spacemen only"? or is an escape to the Ruins a more desirable alternative? There it is possible to live a primitive kill-or-be-killed life, with modern versions of barbaric traditions. Thus begins this major science fiction novel in the tradition of Huxley and Orwell. It is so chillingly, terrifyingly real that reading is compulsive and entertaining and yet at the same time one has the feeling that all this could be around the corner.