Supernatural novel. The plot resembles (in som ways) that of 1973 film The Wicker Man.
''a London policeman comes to a remote English village dominated by the presence of ancient monolithic stones. On the autumn night of Samain the dead come back to life''. View More...
The author's first novel. Vampires.''the best first novel I've read in a long time: an audacious and heady mixture of vampires, ghosts, goddesses and psychopaths'' (Neil Gaiman). ''Atkins's background as a writer of artistic splatter movies - he worked on the first Wishmaster film and three Hellraiser films--is obvious in this fast-paced horror-suspense novel, first published in the U.K. in 1992. A serial killer who signs the word Morningstar in the blood of his decapitated victims is stalking the streets of San Francisco. Donovan Moon, a flat-broke freelance journalist, gets a tip from a f... View More...
Weird and supernatural short story collection: introduction by Glen Hirshberg. LIMITED EDITION: 250 numbered hardcover copies signed by the author, Hirshberg and Les Edwards (cover illustrator). This is no 81. View More...
68 pages: combination of a play The Twilight Limited (four acts) interspersed with three stories - one each from Atkins and Hirshberg, plus ''Call Home'' by Dennis Etchison. The play itself was performed at three venues in Southern California in October 2007 by the three authors and musicians. View More...
Collaboration between a biker/ex-heroin addict and sf/fantasy author, to create a thriller of ''street warfare, underworld politics and the consequences of illicit desire''. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS AND THE PUBLISHER. View More...
'' sf novel whose plot and pacing initially remind one of an early Keith Laumer adventure, but which expands upon and darkens its origins in space opera; the protagonist, after a millennium of cryonicsleep, awakens into an extremely complex and cruel world run by AIs, where he is used for pornography and enslaved before his eventual rescue. It could not be said that AAA is a tempered writer; but the splurge and dance of his prose can be, at times, enormously enlivening'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF). View More...
First volume in an Arthurian fantasy series: followed by ARTHOR and THE PERILOUS ORDER. Preceded the US edition by over two years.''with THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN (1994 UK) and Arthor (1995) he began an ambitious Arthurian sequence: the first volume presents a complex cosmogony in which the unicorn - a noncorporeal creature of the sun - takes on bodily form only when caught in bondage to the Earth. The figure of Merlin gradually emerges as an avatar of a spirit or demon immemorially appalled by matter. The second volume, which focuses on ''Arthor'', is bound more explicitly to traditional Ar... View More...
Fantasy/sf novel.''his novels are generally sf - he is best-known for the Radix Tetrad sequence beginning with Radix (1981) - but the exorbitant intensity of his rendering of the visible world brings them at times close to magic realism. Set mostly in the South Pacific in the early 17th century, WYVERN (1988), which is fantasy, follows the rite of passage into adulthood of a blond Tarzan-like enfant sauvage whom the ''natives'' of Borneo think is a demon and who is raised by a soul-catcher sorcerer to fulfil prophecies; in the event he becomes a pirate, shifting en passant from the realm of fa... View More...
Lost Race novel, illustrated with eight b/w plates by Fred Hyland and Leigh Ellis (note: one of the plates is missing - that opposite p. 115).''The first and main pseudonym (he also wrote as Fenton Ash) of UK civil engineer and author Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-sf pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. The first and most successful of the three was The Devil Tree of El Dorado: A Romance of British Guiana (1896), which capitalized on the contemporary interest in the Roraima Plateau lying athwart the disputed border... View More...
Lost Race novel, first published in 1896. Part of the Arno Press reprint series 'Lost Race And Adult Fantasy Fiction'. The author also wrote as ''Fenton Ash''.''The first and main pseudonym of UK civil engineer and author Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-sf pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. The first and most successful of the three was The Devil Tree of El Dorado: A Romance of British Guiana (1896), which capitalized on the contemporary interest in the Roraima Plateau lying athwart the disputed border between V... View More...
64 page magazine/booklet: interview with, and fiction by Simon Clark (GoH), poem by Tom Holt, reprint of a Ramsey Campbell story and reprint of a long Thomas Ligotti article ''The Consolations of Horror'' (from Dark Horizons #27). And more. View More...
Issue 10 of small press sf, fantasy and horror fiction fanzine/magazine. 18 issues published in total 1983-1993. Includes a story by D. F. Lewis (signed by him) and another by Peter F. Jeffery. View More...
Issue 11 of small press sf, fantasy and horror fiction fanzine/magazine. 18 issues published in total 1983-1993. Includes a story by D. F. Lewis. View More...
Issue 13 of small press sf, fantasy and horror fiction fanzine/magazine. 18 issues published in total 1983-1993. Includes a story by D. F. Lewis. View More...
Issue 17 of small press sf, fantasy and horror fiction fanzine/magazine. 18 issues published in total 1983-1993. Includes two stories by D. F. Lewis. Also laid in is a separate booklet 'Auguries Reviews'. View More...
Issue 7 of small press sf, fantasy and horror fiction fanzine/magazine. 18 issues published in total 1983-1993. Includes a story by D. F. Lewis (signed by him). View More...
Issue 8 of small press sf, fantasy and horror fiction fanzine/magazine. 18 issues published in total 1983-1993. Includes a story by D. F. Lewis (signed by him) and another by Peter F. Jeffery. View More...
Issue 9 of small press sf, fantasy and horror fiction fanzine/magazine. 18 issues published in total 1983-1993. Includes a story by D. F. Lewis (signed by him). View More...
No 27/28. 264 page double-issue, published as a trade paperback. From no 44 (2011) it became a downloadable Online Magazine.
Australian SF magazine of Semiprozine status based on its circulation (about 5,000) but of professional status based on payment rates. The longest surviving sf magazine in Australia. Aurealis was established to fill a void in Australian publishing when there was a dearth of markets for short science fiction'' (Mike Ashley/Encyclopedia of SF, 3rd Edition). View More...
No 2 (Autumn 1995) of very attractively produced UK small-press weird fiction magazine (small pocket-sized format, 17.5cm x 13cm) in plastic spiral binding. Three issues were published 1995-1996, maybe all published? Includes stories by D. F. Lewis and Rhys Hughes. View More...
Collection of linked stories set in prehistoric times. In Bleiler's Checklist of SF & Supernatural Fiction, 1978, p. 12. PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR/''To Charles (?), who makes splendid music of his appreciations, hoping he will like these barbaric (?), from his friend, F. Britten Austin, 7 June 1927''.''(1885-1941) UK author and WW1 army captain, most noted for his collections of stories illustrating problems for UK military security arising in Future Wars from new weapons and tactics: In Action: Studies of War (1913) and The War-God Walks Again (1926). The latter vol... View More...
First issue (of 4-5 total, I believe): ''Axiom was a litzine that came out of Ely, Cardiff, circa 1995. It was edited by Michelle Oliver and sold for £1.50. The fanzine comprised poetry and short stories, including work by Tim Lebbon and DF Lewis. The publication?s aesthetic was vaguely punk, making use of cut-up and collage techniques''. This issue has stories by Matt Coward, Tim Lebbon and D. F. Lewis. View More...
Second issue (of 4-5 total, I believe): ''Axiom was a litzine that came out of Ely, Cardiff, circa 1995. It was edited by Michelle Oliver and sold for £1.50. The fanzine comprised poetry and short stories, including work by Tim Lebbon and DF Lewis. The publication?s aesthetic was vaguely punk, making use of cut-up and collage techniques''. This issue has stories by Peter Tennant, Allen Ashley and D. F.Lewis. View More...
No 4 (?) of 4-5 total, I believe: ''Axiom was a litzine that came out of Ely, Cardiff, circa 1995. It was edited by Michelle Oliver and sold for £1.50. The fanzine comprised poetry and short stories, including work by Tim Lebbon and DF Lewis. The publication?s aesthetic was vaguely punk, making use of cut-up and collage techniques''. Includes stories by Paul Pinn, Steve Sneyd, David Ratcliffe and Peter Tennant. No indication of issue number anywhere, but it DOES say that the next issue (April 1998) will be the final issue. View More...
Dystopian SF novel.''Not so long ago, let it not be forgotten, as decreed by The Preacher, Men and Women lived apart on separate sides of the Divide in segregated isolation. The celebrated novelist Soween Clay-Flin recalls this period in recent history based on documents of the period, including her own personal diary as a young girl who lived through it and survived to tell the tale. In the aftermath of a deadly contagion which has decimated the population, contact between men and women has become fatal. Under the dictates of an unseen authoritarian leader known as The Preacher, an unthinkabl... View More...
Weird fantasy novella, introduction by Alan Moore. LIMITED EDITION: from a total printing of 800 copies (500 were paperbound) this is one of 300 numbered hardcover copies signed by both authors. This is no 5. View More...
''welcome to Eddie's world, where grave fillers throng the pavements, where ants are plotting to slash and burn us before we do it to them, and where it doesn't pay to have too many dealings with John Satan''. View More...
SF short stories. Expanded contents: adds an extra six stories not present in the original US Four Walls, Eight Windows paperback edition (1999). Laid in is a publicity/publisher's colour postcard. View More...
SF novel. Expanded contents: adds six extra stories not present in the original US paperback (1999) edition. Issued simultaneous with the hardcover edition.''third in the Beerlight series: Beerlight is nightmare city of the future (albeit a future that may be only a week away) where violence is the new art form and artists are the only people with regular jobs. In a cartoon landscape, larger-than-life characters act out plots that would be rejected by Hollywood for being too over the top, yet which still carry a serious message about violence in society. This is satire at its most vicious an... View More...
SF short stories. Expanded contents: adds an extra six stories not present in the original US Four Walls, Eight Windows paperback edition (1999).''third in the Beerlight series: Beerlight is nightmare city of the future (albeit a future that may be only a week away) where violence is the new art form and artists are the only people with regular jobs. In a cartoon landscape, larger-than-life characters act out plots that would be rejected by Hollywood for being too over the top, yet which still carry a serious message about violence in society. This is satire at its most vicious and most pure.... View More...
Two booklets. Fiction and poetry, illustrated by Carole Humphreys and Diavolo respectively, introduction by the editor in volume 1. Two of a series of booklets published by Peter Tennant, separate chapbooks to the 16 issues of the horror fanzine/magazine Whispers of Wickedness he edited between 2003-2009. View More...
240 pages: collects ten sf stories, five of which were first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, two from Asimov's Science Fiction and two from elsewhere: the title story is orginal to this collection. ''First Edition'' stated on the copyright page. View More...
Issue 15 (first larger-size issue). 24 issues published in total 1984-2002 of this UK semiprozine, small-press sf/fantasy magazine. Published at irregular intervals but usually twice a year: 21 of the 24 issues were published between 1984-1992, with the final three appearing in 1994, 1997 and 2002. It began as a slim-but-ambitious A5 format xeroxed fanzine but switched to A4 from Spring 1990 (no 15), professionally printed, with bold design.''From the start it was able to attract material from Michael Moorcock in the shape of some of his song lyrics (no 7 was a Moorcock Special issue), alo... View More...
No 19 (Summer, 1991). 24 issues published in total 1984-2002 of this UK semiprozine, small-press sf/fantasy magazine. Published at irregular intervals but usually twice a year: 21 of the 24 issues were published between 1984-1992, with the final three appearing in 1994, 1997 and 2002. It began as a slim-but-ambitious A5 format xeroxed fanzine but switched to A4 from Spring 1990 (no 15), professionally printed, with bold design.''From the start it was able to attract material from Michael Moorcock in the shape of some of his song lyrics (no 7 was a Moorcock Special issue), alongside other e... View More...
SF novel, the author's first and only book Robert Hale produced books primarily for the library market (still flourishing in the 1970s) and so most titles are very uncommon. The only edition of this title.''author known only for his single sf novel for Robert Hale, THE LAST EXPERIMENT (1974). Robert Hale was a UK publishing firm which from 1936 - 1984, though mainly in the 1970s, published more than 450 sf novels, in hardbound editions, primarily for the library market. A large majority of titles originating with the firm were uniform in length (192 pages) and routine in substance, most ... View More...
''the original novel saw Frankenstein begin to make a woman, a bride for his creation, but then destroy her. In this novel Hilary Bailey imagines that he pursued the plan''. View More...
424 pages: introduction by Gary A. Braunbeck and Janet Harriett. Four short stories, four novelettes, four novellas and 4 graphic adaptations by varioua (36) authors. Includes (for example) the graphic adaptation ''Firedance'' by Jack Ketchum, illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne. View More...
Supernatural historical fantasy: the third book in The Company series. Published in the US as ''Mendoza in Hollywood'': Amazon.com list the British publication date as being April 6th, which if so preceded the US (Harcourt) release (April 29th) by over three weeks. View More...