Marvin Kaye

Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled generations of readers throughout the world.Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in Weird Tales' first year of publication, 1923 -- classics by many who would later play an integral part in the Unique Magazine, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.

Summary (From the publisher): This long awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world's most renowned detective originally suppressed to avoid causing scandal and embarrassment to the Crown, to public figures, or to Sherlock Holmes himself. Now, finally, the truth is revealed about Holmes' exploits involving such figures as Ida Tarbell, Consuelo Vanderbilt, P.G. Wodehouse, and James McNeil Whistler. Related by diverse hands, including Watson, Inspector Lestrade, and Holmes himself, detailing untold incidents involving the Titanic, Holmes' rematch with Irene Adler, the childhoods of both Holmes and Watson, and one unfortunate result of Holmes' facility with disguise, this cornucopia of Sherlockiana will delight fans young and not-so-young. Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Preliminary Ponderings Sherlock Holmes by Frederic Dorr Steele The Recollections of Captain Wilkie by Arthur Conan Doyle The Original of Sherlock Holmes by Dr. Harold Emery Jones Mr. Sherlock Holmes by Dr. Joseph Bell Early Parodies – Con Amore The Singular Adventure of the Unexpected Doorscraper by Kenneth Grahame The Adventure of the Two Collaborators by James M. Barrie The Mystery of Pinkham’s Diamond Stud by John Kendrick Bangs The Umbrosa Burglary by R.C. Lehmann A La Sherlock Holmes by Charles Loomis The Sign of the “400" by R.K. Munkittrick The Adventure of the Clothes-line by Carolyn Wells Sherlock Holmes Umpires Baseball Anonymous Six Classic Pastiches The Adventure of the Circular Room by August Derleth The Adventure of the Marked Man by Stuart Palmer The Strange Case of the Megatherium Thefts by S.C. Roberts The Adventure of the Unique Hamlet by Vincent Starrett The Enchanted Garden by H.F. Heard But Our Hero Was Not Dead by Manly Wade Wellman Scholarly Ponderings Sherlock Holmes and the Drood Mystery by Edmund Pearson In the Island of Uffa by Poul Anderson The Tibetan Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Amanda Russell The Histrionic Holmes by Marvin Kaye How Holmes Came to Play the Violin by Jacques Barzun Parodies Absurdes et Cruelles The Really Final Solution by Nick Pollotta The Unmasking of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Chapman The Succored Beauty by William B. Kahn The Adventure of the Second Swag by Luke Sharp An Irreducible Detective Story by Stephen Leacock The Adventures of Shamrock Jolnes by O. Henry The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte A Letter from Mycroft Holmes by Jon White The Murder of Conan Doyle by Ray Russell The Adventure of the Conk-Singleton Papers by John Dickson Carr Journal of a Ghurka Physician by Capt. Daniel M. Pinkwater The Struldbrugg Reaction by John Sutherland New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Moriarty Gambit by Fritz Lieber The Adventure of the Missing Countess by Jon Koons The Gibraltar Letter by Sam Benady The Strange Case of the Tongue-Tied Tenor by Carole Buggé The Problem of the Purple Maculas by James C. Iraldi Our American Cousins by Roberta Rogow Pieces Problematical The Field Bazaar by Arthur Conan Doyle Sussex Interview by P.M. Stone From the Diary of Sherlock Holmes by Maurice Baring Mrs. Hudson Speaks by ZaSu Pitts The Adventure of the Bogle-Wolf by Anthony Boucher Sherlock Holmes in Oz by Ruth Berman The Sinister Cheesecake by Craig Shaw Gardner The Dilemma of the Distressed Savoyard by Crighton Sellars The Adventure of the Death-Fetch by Darrell Schweitzer The Theft of the Persian Slipper by Edward D. Hoch The Dynamics of an Asteroid by Robert Bloch ”Daydream” by Basil Rathbone Appendix I: Miscellaneous Notes Appendix II: Holmesiography Original title: The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes

Knights in space,straight up giant knights in space

> Fall under the spell of these tales of black magic >Witches and warlocks curse, jinx, hex, possess, becharm, and bedevil their victims in these tales of sorcery and the supernatural. In Oscar Wilde's "The Fisherman and His Soul," a witch condemns a man's soul to wander loveless through foreign lands; Isaac Asimov's "The Up-to-Date Sorcerer" portrays an eccentric professor who invents a hormone solution that inspires love; and in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," a devil tricks a man into thinking his wife is a witch--though it may not be a trick. >This spooky collection includes works by such classic authors as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, W. B. Yeats. L. Frank Baum, and Nikolai Gogol, as well as contemporary writers such as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ray Bradbury, Manly Wade Wellman. Daniel Pinkwater, Tanith Lee, Robert Bloch, and many others.

Introduction: Wishing Will Make It So - essay by Isaac Asimov The Monkey's Paw - short story by W. W. Jacobs Behind the News - short story by Jack Finney The Flight of the Umbrella - novella by Marvin Kaye Tween - novelette by J. F. Bone The Boy Who Brought Love - short story by Edward D. Hoch The Vacation - short story by Ray Bradbury The Anything Box - short story by Zenna Henderson A Born Charmer - short story by Edward P. Hughes What If ... - short story by Isaac Asimov Millennium - short story by Fredric Brown Dreams Are Sacred - novelette by Peter Phillips The Same to You Doubled - short story by Robert Sheckley Gifts - short story by Gordon R. Dickson I Wish I May, I Wish I Might - short story by Bill Pronzini Three Day Magic - novella by Charlotte Armstrong The Bottle Imp - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson

"I am a singer. And I am alone. His parents came from two very different worlds. And Singer was an outcast. a misfit who belonged to neither world... a master of solitude." The City stood alone beyond the forest. Through the Self-Gate, annihilator of the unwary, none could gain entry alive, and none came out.