Long before the association with "Weird Tales" magazine and H.P. Lovecraft that led to his enduring fame, Clark Ashton Smith was a well-regarded regional poet whose tastes ran to the romantic and the fantastic.
This collection of poems -- originally published in 1918 -- presents some of his best early work.
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Eco-tourist Jonah Brooks stumbles into a nightmare as he's snared in an East African quarantine zone. Black Nile hemorrhagic virus rampages through the rain forest like a feral beast.
It burns through the human population with a terrifying kill rate; and everyone in the medical group sent to study it lies dead in their camp.
It's not quite the tour package that Jonah signed up for.
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I'd been sitting at Doyle's Clam House for an hour, and to my disappointment, no one had gotten around to being kidnapped by aliens yet.
I had a bowl of what the guide books called the best damned chowder north of Bodega Bay on one side, and a redhead who'd make Raymond Chandler dive for his thesaurus on the other.
What could possibly go wrong on an evening like this?
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In 1828 a young man in rags appeared in the German city of Nurnberg, saying that he'd been kept isolated in a dungeon all of his life.
Was he the bastard offshoot of some noble or royal family, secreted away to preserve the honor of the house? Within a few months he was dead under mysterious circumstances, his mystery still unsolved.
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Émile Augier presents the story of SAPPHO, another tragedy set in classical times, full of betrayal and self-sacrifice.
Ancient Greek drama had much in common with modern opera, emphasizing story lines that have been simplified to focus very tightly on particular emotional themes. The freshness and charm of this French dramatization is remarkable.
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In these three librettos, Philippe Quinault turns from classical opera to medieval legends--Renaud and Armida, Amadis and Oriana, and Angelica and Roland--exploring the tensions between love and glory. As usual, the dramatist relates his stories deftly with classic simplicity. In these adaptions of traditional medieval stories of romance, enchantment, monsters, and magic, either the heroine (Armida... [click here for more]
The Guidebook for that most accursed, possibly haunted item, the Windrow-Ravenswood Deck. Long thought lost to the archives of the Ravenswood Institute. This full and complete 396 page guide contains all of the following:
The full list of cards, with their artwork, divinations, correspondences, and historical notes
Guides to methods of reading the deck
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