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Biography of H. P. Lovecraft. The book was written largely in response to L. Sprague de Camp's Lovecraft: A Biography (1975), which Long, a friend of Lovecraft, felt was biased again Lovecraft.

Here is a major science-fiction novel in the tradition of Brave New World and 1984. Frank Belknap Long's long-lost science fiction masterpiece concerns a machine that computes men's futures... and the one person who dared to tamper with its infallible system!

Table of Contents:

• Plants Must Slay (1941)
• Wobblies in the Moon (1942)
• The Ether Robots (1941)
• Satellite of Peril (1942)
• Snapdragon (1943)
• Plants Must Grow (1945)

A once handsome youth lay hidden behind a boulder on the isolated new England coast, his body hideously torn and a deep burn penetrating his chest...

The sky darkens and fills with vast shadows. A wild panic sweeps the beach as an alien shape forms in the sky for the barest instant...

They were being attacked, one by one, but how can you defend yourself from an enemy you cannot see, from a danger of unknown origin.

THE PRIMITIVES

Anthropologists tell us that primitive man believed he could be in several places at the same time. He had no sense of time as we understand it, and could think of himself as living in the past and present simultaneously.

And the future...?

He was convinced, too, that he could, at the same time, be a human being and an animal; space and time held no restrictions for him.

And the future...?

Suppose it weren't just primitive fantasy, suppose such powers were slumbering in some people and could be awakened.

The future is now...

PLANET IN DANGER

There was trouble brewing on Mars--bad trouble. Two giant industrial empires fought for control there, and their struggle imperiled the whole Mars colony. Civil war--atomic civil war second--could break out any second, leaving Earth's only foothold in space a mass of radioactive rubble.

One man was needed to take charge--one man who could act fast and decisively, brutally if he had to.

Ralph Graham got the job.

And then the people around him started to die...

A group of Earthpeople's mission to a star was to save a superior race which could not heal its own sickness.

A young scientist is plunged into a world of ice-age barbarians and cataclysmic terrors.

On a polluted, dying earth, a man fights for survival for himself and the world.

"Survival World" is an ornately written time travel novel, very much in the pulp tradition. Combining extravagant language, environmental fears, and action-adventure, it is a unique tale only Frank Belknap Long could have written!

Contains:

• A Visitor from Egypt - (1930) - short story
• The Refugees - (1942) - short story
• Fisherman's Luck - (1940) - short story
• Death-Waters - (1924) - short story
• Grab Bags Are Dangerous - (1942) - short story
• The Elemental - (1939) - short story
• The Peeper - (1944) - short story
• Bridgehead - (1944) - novelette
• Second Night Out - (1933) - short story (variant of The Black, Dead Thing)
• The Dark Beasts - (1934) - short story
• Census Taker - (1942) - short story
• The Ocean Leech - (1925) - short story
• The Space-Eaters - (1928) - novelette
• It Will Come to You - (1942) - short story
• A Stitch in Time - (1940) - short story
• Step Into My Garden - (1942) - short story
• The Hounds of Tindalos- (1929) - short story
• Dark Vision - (1939) - short story
• The Flame Midget - (1936) - short story
• Golden Child - (1945) - novelette
• The Black Druid - (1930) - short story

Everone thought that it would be possible to land a man on the Moon by 1970, at least, but 1970 had come and gone, and Project Apollo was still in the blueprint stage. Increasing knowledge brought increasing realization of the difficulties involved. However, the drive to conquer interplanetary distances kept men working on the problem, and John Ridgeway was in charge of a vial intermediate step: the Space Station project:

He had acceded to Helen's urging to take the children, Bobby and Betty Jane, to the circus that was playing near the Project, and they had paused by one of the sideshows, where the barker was saying, "Folks, you'll be privileged to witness one of the greatest marvels of the age!...The distinguished gentleman seated on my right has seen Mars. And you'll see the red deserts and the canals-some of them a thousand miles long-through his eyes on a lighted screen! Think of it, Folks! You'll see the planet Mars!"

It wouldn't be a trick, exactly, Ridgeway explained. They evidently had secured one of the new electronic thought visualization screens that practically everyone-including scientists-had become excited about.

One had to have particular extrasensory talents to operate them; to make even a dim and scientifically valueless image appear on such a screen, one had to be clairvorant. If the bearded man, who apparently would be the operating the screen, could make any image of Mars at all appear upon it, Ridgeway thought, it wouldn't be a scientific experiment it would be a criminal misuse of valuable talents.

The barker was making even more extravagant claims. "When you've seen Mars with your own eyes you'll know that this gentleman is not deceiving you. He has actually looked upon the red desert sands and explored the mountains and the valleys and the dead sea bottoms. He will project upon the screen living memories."

When they got inside the tent, Ridgeway saw that the screen was well over seventy feet in width and so high that he had to look up sharply and strain his eyes to see where it merged with the shadows just under the ceiling. But the picture! The landscape which stretched out before him the instant the screen became flooded with light made him draw in his breath sharply and stare straight ahead.

"Daddy, it is Mars!" Betty Jane gasped. "It is-it is! OH, Daddy, Look..."

And Bobby, three years older than his sister, said, "What did I tell you, Dad? It's Mars, all right. It couldn't be anything else."

That wasn't the point. It wasn't even the scarlet-plumed, snowy-crested birds, with long, curving bills and stork like legs, which they saw alighting and taking off in wind-buffeted swarms, or running swiftly in pairs across the blowing sand. It wasn't even the fact that this could not possibly be Mars, or scientists were all wrong about the planet. The point was that this could not be an electronic thought-visualization screen! No such screen could produce this sort of image.

Ridgeway emerged from the show shaken, and angry. But that was only the beginning. Later, while they were riding the Whip, Ridgeway's eyes closed and he seemed to see an image of the bearded man's face, and hear a voice. The voice whispered deep in his mind: "I will return. Your children will see me, too, in the bright sunlight and in the silence of the night when their eyes are closed in sleep. I will give you no rest until you follow my instruction. If you would spare them pain...do not delay the decision which you will have to make."

Here is an absorbing novel of the mystery of another world, and one of its inhabitants' mission to Earth, by the author of Three Steps Spaceward.

"Out of the depths emerged the giant wolf-creature---come to destroy all who stood in his monstrous path".

Inside a cave in Bulgaria Professor Margrave, his daughter, Doris, and his colleague, John find the carved wooden head of a predatory wolf. The rare and priceless discovery reveals the horrifying meaning of the talisman.

Were they from another time--or another place?

Earth was being watched. Their surceillance was exacting and systematic. No one knew who they were or where they came from. But they were there. Why?

Only two people from Earth knew the answers. But they were only two against so many.

A JOURNEY OF A BILLION LIFETIMES

There were seventy-two passengers crowded into the metal-walled cabin of the supersonic space craft, with no assurance they would ever see earth again... and fear was contagious.

Suddenly the blood rushed so swiftly to Ralph Sanford's brain that his eyes went out of focus and all was a great, indistinct blur.

But Helen Arcularis remained steadfast: her vision was of other worlds...

An expedition to Saturn's largest moon culminates in the capture of an intelligent life-form in its jungles. Brought back to Earth, the creature dies and a second expedition to results in a crash landing. The plot thickens as a rescue team led by John Loring and his wife Anne, commences a harrowing search for the survivors...

This is the unusual and sensual story of David Loring, an artist, and his beautiful fiancée, Janice Reece. David loved Janice but the Martian Empire had a plan to entice David away from his beloved. With their plan for world domination at stake the Martians selected these two lovers' for their first attack. Together, David and Janice became involved in a highly emotional and physical conflict that broke through the barriers of outer space itself.

Empire of the Atom

Atomic War had destroyed the world. History and records had been lost; the few war-shocked people who were left could not even recall what had started the destruction. But even these desperate circumstances could not change the basic nature of man.

Out of the still-smoking ruins came one who was stronger and more ruthless than the rest. From his plans to rule the universe grew the seeds of the last great war of all, the one that would finally wipe man off the face of Earth.

Space Station # 1

The Space Station floated up out of the Big Dark. Lieutenant Corriston had come to see its marvels, but he soon found himself trapped in unexpected terrors.

The grim reality was that an unknown, unsuspected outer space power had usurped control of the artificial moon. A beautiful woman had disappeared; passengers were being fleeced and enslaved; and, using fantastic disguises, imposters from - SOMEWHERE - were using the station for their own mysterious ends.

WHAT MYSTERIOUS POWER EMANATED FROM THE BEJEWELED CROWN OF STARS THAT RULERS OF THREE PLANETS FRANTICALLY SOUGHT ITS POSSESSION?

THE PORTALS OF THE UNKNOWN HAD OPENED WIDE, THEN HAD CLOSED, LEAVING A HORROR OF MONSTROUS PROPORTIONS.

The figure's eyes seemed lidless and sheathed with a thin film like a snake. But they were so penetratingly malignant that they pierced deep into the man's brain, mercilessly exploring all that was there -- laying his thought bare like a visual scalpel that mad ehim scream every time it was moved.

It was not human.

One of the early works of pulp terror, The Horror from the Hills is the legendary first tale of the Cthulhu Mythos. It is drawn from the disturbing nightmares of Belknap Long's friend and colleague, H. P. Lovecraft, the master writer of supernatural fiction of the modern age. A blood-sucking demon from the fourth dimension is mistakenly exhibited in a Manhattan museum and feasts on the blood of its admirers.