Avram Davidson

Avram Davidson (1923-1993) was an American writer of fantasy fiction, science fiction, and crime fiction, as well as the author of many stories that do not fit into a genre niche. He won a Hugo Award and three World Fantasy Awards in the science fiction and fantasy genre, a World Fantasy Life Achievement award, plus an Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine short story award and an Edgar Award in the mystery genre. This volume assembled 20 of his classic...

"Earthy, hot-tempered Captain Stag followed a simple man's quest; Tabnath Lo the trader was driven by obsessions; the enigmatic augurs Castegor and Gortecas manuervered toward secret ends; and around them all the Sixlimbed Folk massed in hatred and plotted barbaric vengeance... "A world of living legend peopled by centaurs, golems, harpies, and primitive but shrewd humans...I was completely caught up in the saga."Fritz Leiber "It's always exciting...

"The Last Manuscript of a Master It began with an accident, as if Fate had a plan for Vergil Magus ... After his trials in the Very Rich City of Averno but before his crowning achievement of a certain magic mirror, the great sorcerer and alchemist finds himself on a journey nothing short of epic. Sure he is slated for death in Rome, Vergil seeks safety in the far reaches of the Empireand finds a world teeming with wonders and magical oddities. The...

"Marooned on a lost planet at the edge of Space. Their only companions? A howling army of screaming, crazed women. Captain Marrus Rond and his command staff were castaways, and the Starship Persephone was in the hands of the mutineers. Abandoned on an unknown planet, the ship's deposed officers moved slowly through the depths of a dark, twisted alien forest, seeking food and shelterand some way home. What they found was beyond their imagination. "To...

"On a mountaintop in Mexico, ancient galactic enemies meet! On one side, the Great Old Ones, who had benevolently ruled the land in the days of the Toltecs, before the coming of the cruel Aztecs. On the other side, the Huitzili, who had come from the distant Evil Stars to teach the Aztecs conquest and war. In return, they demanded endless human sacrifice, human blood, and human hearts. And now, if they gain control of the awesome secret power within...

"Prime World: Home of the Universe's Most Elite Dragon Hunt Generations after Liam and his tribe defend Britland from the Devils that threatened Earth, new danger stalks on her forests and rebuilt cities. The Hunt Corporation has turned the remote, nearly forgotten Prime World into a game preserve. Far away from the meddling of the Confederation, the rich and carefree have turned the tables on their enemies of old. The prey: the dragons of the Kar-Chee....

"The Bear Swarthy, hairy, ostracized by others of his tribe, Arnten set off to lead a life of proud an lonely independence in his primitive world of Thule Ultima Thulewhere med huddled in animal skins against the arctic cold, and used crude clubs and spears to kill the giant prehistoric animals that roamed the land. But Arnten"The Bear"was quicker of body and sharper of mind than his fellow men, and he had a special destiny: a path beset with mortal...

Professor Vlad Smith is on a terrifying quest, one that will take him from the halls of our most hallowed institutions to the most run-down of old houses in blighted neighborhoods. A mysterious committee, shredded yellowed newspapers, a daguerreotype of a Confederate soldier, a headless corpse, and a corpse less head...These are the clues that Smith must piece together to save his sanity and his daughter, and uncover the terrible secret of the Boss...

Collected here for you, a sampler of stories & poems set in or related to the "Cthulhu Mythos," as conceived by H.P, Lovecraft, expanded on by the "Lovecraft Circle" and endlessly expanded on by current writers up to the current day. Included are: INTRODUCTION, by Shawn Garrett DREAMS OF YITH, by Duane W. Rimel (Poem) OUT OF THE AEONS, by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald FISHHEAD, by Irvin S. Cobb WHEN CHAUGNAR WAKES, by Frank Belknap...