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A Collection of stories from Weird Tales Magazine:

Contains:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THE EYRIE by Marvin Kaye

INTERIM by Ray Bradbury

THE HOUSE OF ECSTASY by Ralph Milne Farley

THE STOLEN BODY by H. G. Wells

THE SCRAWNY ONE by Anthony Boucher

THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE by Lucian

SKULLS IN THE STARS by Robert E. Howard

EENA by Manly Banister

THE LOOK by Maurice Level

METHOUGHT I HEARD A VOICE by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt

OFF THE MAP by Rex Dolphin

THE LAST TRAIN by Fredric Brown

TI MICHEL by W. J. Stamper

IN THE X-RAY by Fritz Leiber, Jr.

SPEAK by Henry Slesar

THE PALE CRIMINAL by C. Hall Thompson

THE SOMBRUS TOWER by Tanith Lee

MR. GEORGE by August Derleth

THE TERROR OF THE WATER-TANK by William Hope Hodgson

THE LEGEND OF ST. JULIAN THE HOSPITALLER by Gustave Flaubert

THE HOAX OF THE SPIRIT LOVER by Harry Houdini

SEED by Jack Snow

MASKED BALL by Seabury Quinn

THE WOMAN WITH THE VELVET COLLAR by Gaston Leroux

MISTRESS SARY by William Tenn

THE JUDGE’S HOUSE by Bram Stoker

THE BAGHEETA by Val Lewton

GHOST HUNT by H. R. Wakefield

FUNERAL IN THE FOG by Edward D. Hoch

THE DAMP MAN by Allison V. Harding

THE LOST CLUB by Arthur Machen

WET STRAW by Richard Matheson

MYSTERIES OF THE FACELESS KING by Darrell Schweitzer

MORE THAN SHADOW by Dorothy Quick

THE DEAD SMILE by F. Marion Crawford

THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE by Robert Bloch

CHICKEN SOUP by Katherine MacLean and Mary Kornbluth

THE HAUNTED BURGLAR by W. C. Morrow

NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD by Edgar Allan Poe

HE by H. P. Lovecraft

THE BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD by Hugh B. Cave

THE WEIRD OF AVOOSL WUTHOQQUAN by Clark Ashton Smith

THE MEN WHO WALK UPON AIR by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.

A CHILD’S DREAM OF A STAR by Charles Dickens

THE PERFECT HOST by Theodore Sturgeon

APPENDIX I

WHY WEIRD TALES

APPENDIX II

APPENDIX III

aka Lovers & other Monsters

From the dust jacket

Marvin Kaye's new collection of over fifty stories, poems, and a short play presents the darker and supernatural aspects of love—whether romantic, sexual, brotherly or decidedly unusual.

The cast of lovers—or, perhaps, monsters—includes wives and husbands, prostitutes and princesses, ghosts and demons, machines and computers, vampires, aliens and even a winged goddess.

Of particular note are:

Anne Rice's only published short story "Master of the Rampling Gate," a tale of vampiric seduction.

Ray Bradbury's "The Maiden," a story that until now has never been reprinted since its first appearance in 1947.

Mary Higgins Clark's "Voices in the Coalbin," an evocative tale of love and possession.

Morgan Lllywelyn's "Princess," a sly re-interpretation of a familiar fairy tale.

Dashiell Hammett's "In the Morgue," a little-known short story by a master of detective fiction.

And Jack Moffitt's solution to the classic tale by Frank R. Stockton, "The Lady or the Tiger?" (which is also included).

Table of Contents
Introduction
Odd Couples
Poul Anderson – Journeys End
Jerome Bixby and Joe E. Dean – Share Alike
C. H. Sherman – Teacher
Christina Rossetti – A Nightmare
Dan Burrello – The Songs of My Young
Darrell Schweitzer – Minotauress
Parke Godwin – A Matter of Taste
Mildred Clingerman – The Wild Wood
Worldly Love
Arthur Conan Doyle – The Colonel’s Choice
Julia L. Keefer – A Secret
Frederick Laing – Gentleman on the Top Floor
Maxim Gorky – Twenty-Six Men and a Girl
William S. Gilbert – Ellen M’Jones Aberdeen
Joan Andelman – A Sunday in December
Jessica Amanda Salmonson – The Old Woman Who Dragged Her Husband’s Corpse
Carole Buggé – Laura
E. P. Conkle – Minnie Field
H. G. Wells – The Pearl of Love
Not of This World
H. P. Lovecraft – The Strange High House in the Mist
Paula Volsky – Let No Man Dream
Morgan Llywelyn – Princess
Edith Wharton – The Lady’s Maid’s Bell
Toby Sanders – The Satyr
Honoré de Balzac – Don Juan; or The Elixir of Long Life
Justin Dowling – The Legs That Walked
Saralee Terry – The Bridge to the Liver Pies
Ray Russell – The Black Wench
Guillaume Apollinaire – The Blue Eye
Anne Rice – The Master of Rampling Gate
Theodore Sturgeon – The Deadly Ratio
Out of This World
Amy Wasp-Wimberger – Will the Real Dennis Casper Please Stand Up?
Fredric Brown – Expedition
Dan Potter – Tripping the Light Fantastic
Frederik Pohl – The Fiend
Marvin Kaye – Happy Hour
Richard L. Wexelblat – Horace, Nellie, and the Computer
Isaac Asimov – I’m in Marsport Without Hilda
J. Timothy Hunt – Moonflower
Robert Sheckley – The Language of Love
Fatal Attractions
Edgar Allan Poe – Berenice
Bret Harte – A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst
Dashiell Hammett – In the Morgue
Thomas D. Sadler – Himeros’s Daughter
Josef Marais – A-round the Corner
Mary Higgins Clark – Voices in the Coalbin
Ray Bradbury – The Maiden
Wallace West – A Thing of Beauty
Traditional – The Douglas Tragedy
W. C. Morrow – The Permanent Stiletto
Joan Vander Putten – In the Shadows of My Fear
Maurice Level – Blue Eyes