Robert R. McCammon

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.

Contains: [The monkey]( / Stephen King -- The new tenant / William Hallahan -- In the cards / Robert Bloch -- Clay / George A. Romero -- A cabin in the woods / John Coyne -- Makeup / Robert R. McCammon -- The small world of Lewis Stillman / William F. Nolan -- The seige of 318 / Davis Grubb -- The champion / Richard Laymon -- The power of the Mandarin / Gahan Wilson -- Horror house of blood / Ramsey Campbell -- Absolute ebony / Felice Picano -- The root of all evil / Graham Masterson -- Julian's hand / Gary Brandner -- The face / Jere Cunningham.

The Border is the saga of an Earth devastated by a war between two marauding alien civilizations. But it is not just the living ships of the monstrous Gorgons or the motion-blurred shock troops of the armored Cyphers that endanger the holdouts in the human bastion of Panther Ridge. The world itself has turned against the handful of survivors, as one by one they succumb to despair and suicide or, even worse, are transformed by otherworldly pollution into hideous Gray Men, cannibalistic mutants driven by insatiable hunger. Into these desperate circumstances comes an amnesiac teenaged boy who names himself Ethan--a boy who must overcome mistrust and suspicion to master unknowable powers that may prove to be the last hope for humanity's salvation. Those same powers make Ethan a threat to the warring aliens, long used to fearing only each other, and thrust him and his comrades into ever more perilous circumstances.

Contains: Introduction, by Steve Berman If Damon Comes, by Charles L. Grant Treats, by Norman Partridge The Family, by Halli Villegas The Horse Lord, by Lisa Tuttle My Name Is Leejun, by John Schoffstall Princess of the Night, by Michael Kelly Duck Hunt, by Joe R. Lansdale The Choir, by Joel D. Lane Children of the Corn, by Stephen King Yellowjacket Summer, by Robert R. McCammon The Stuff that Goes on in Their Heads, by Michael Marshall Smith Second Grade, by Charles Antin Respects, by Ramsey Campbell Melanie Klein Said, by Robert McVey Gaslight, by Jeffrey Ford Endless Encore, by Will Ludwigsen Cockroach, by Dale Bailey By the Mark, by Gemma Files The Disappearance of James H, by Hal Duncan I Was a Teenage Slasher Victim, by Stephen Graham Jones Blue Rose, by Peter Straub Making Friends, by Gary Raisor You Deserve, by Alex Jeffers The Queen of Knives, by Georgina Bruce The Naughty List, by Christine Morgan The Perfect Dinner Party, by Cassandra Clare & Holly Black Make Believe, by Michael Reaves

Civil War soldier and partial vampire Trevor Lawson travels by night, working to combat evil and hunting LaRouge, the vampire queen who turned him. If he can trap LaRouge and drink from her, he may be able to return to mortal life. In this adventure he may gain the help of an unexpected ally or find himself sinking deeper into darkness.

"The year is 1703. The place: the Carolina settlement of Charles Town. Matthew Corbett, professional "problem solver," has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball. What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation. A sixteen-year-old girl has been stabbed to death on the grounds of a local plantation. The suspected killer is a slave who has escaped, with two family members, into the dubious protection of a nearby swamp. Troubled by certain discrepancies and determined to see some sort of justice done, Matthew joins the hunt for the runaway slaves. He embarks on a treacherous journey up the Solstice River, also known as the River of Souls. He discovers that something born of the swamp has joined the hunt... and is stalking the hunters with more than murder in mind. What follows is a shattering ordeal encompassing snakes, alligators, exiled savages, mythical beasts, and ordinary human treachery. The journey up the River of Souls will test the limits of Matthew's endurance, and lead him through a nightmarish passage to a confrontation with his past, and a moment that will alter his life forever" --

Contents: Miss Attila the Hun / Dean R. Koontz -- Hardshell / Dean R. Koontz -- Twilight of the dawn / Dean R. Koontz - - Predators / Edward Bryant -- The Baku / Edward Bryant -- Frat rat bash / Edward Bryant -- Haunted / Edward Bryant -- Buggage / Edward Bryant -- Doing Colfax / Edward Bryant -- The Deep end / Robert R. McCammon -- A Life in the day of / Robert R. McCammon -- Best friends / Robert R. McCammon.

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. Their murderer was never identified, but the name created for him by the press has become far more famous than any of these five women. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, historian Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, and gives these women back their stories. Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

"The year is 1703, and Matthew Corbett, professional "problem solver," is missing. Last seen by his friends in New York before he departed on a lucrative, seemingly straightforward mission for the Herrald Agency in Charles Town, he's been too long absent. His comrade-in-arms Hudson Greathouse has an increasing sense the young friend he thinks of as a son must have met with some unexpected peril. Following his hunch, Greathouse retraces Matthew's steps only to find him first presumed dead, then accused of murdering a young woman and apparently en route to London with a devious Prussian count last encountered on Professor Fell's Pendulum Island. Little does he know that Matthews's circumstances are growing worse by the second. For when Matthew arrives in the bustling squalor of Londontown, he's come shackled, charged for the murder of Count Anton Mannerheim Dahlgren. No matter the lack of body, presumed lost to the ocean. He soon finds himself locked up in the infamous Newgate prison, and has drawn the interest of a mysterious mask-wearing vigilante accused of several gruesome murders. Greathouse and the woman Matthew loves, Berry Grigsby, travel across the high seas to England to aid their friend, but it is impossible to know whether they will reach him in time to save his life. Freedom of the Mask is the sixth installment in bestselling author Robert McCammon's acclaimed series of standalone historical thrillers featuring the exploits of a young hero the USA Character Approved Blog has called “the Early American James Bond.” The most surprising and ambitious volume to date, this is a novel filled with unpredictable twists and a note-perfect depiction of early 1700s London. Fans will not want to miss Matthew Corbett's most dangerous adventure yet."--Provided by publisher.