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Brian Stableford
"Cthulhu has many instruments, but all of them are possessed of free will, and magnetic power can only operate mysteriously, even on the most primitive and stubborn brains." Written to…
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Charles Nodier
In 1831 Charles Nodier began to publish a series of "Extraits des m?moires de Maxime Odin" in the Revue de Paris. Although "Odin" is an anagram of the first four…
The mad scientist is a stereotypical, archetypal scientist who is often a clich? or commonplace in popular fiction. He can be absent-minded and harmless, or wicked and dangerous. French science…
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Brian Gallagher
The fate of the mysterious criminal mastermind known as Dr. Cornelius was left uncertain at the end of Gustave Le Rouge's 1913 classic The Mysterious Doctor Cornelius. Now, Brian Gallagher…
As above, so below.
This is the message Simon Cannick receives from his ailing mother, approaching her life’s end, the first time he meets her. A mystical commonplace, or is…
Simon Cannick, with the dubious assistance of possible extraterrestrial influence, seems to have largely recovered from his temporary death, his peculiar and continual lapses into dreamspace notwithstanding. However, fate, like…
They’re essentially frustrating-things I glimpse out of the corner of my eye, but which disappear as soon as I try to look at them directly. For me, they’re always peripheral…
In this breathless sequel to Revelations of Time and Space, Brian Stableford guides us through the hours aboard the spaceship Minerva during which psychic contact with the Saturnian intelligences now…
The Shoggoths attack: They had been so horrible before that I dare not say that they were any MORE horrible when they came again…. They were still unspeakable, still unthinkable–but…
It is 1847, and Paris is edging closer to its next revolution, but something is also astir inside Mont Dragon in the Ardeche. This is a place of annual pilgrimage…
At an 1847 revival of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le Diable, the ghost of Blaise Thibodeaux, the author of La Resonance du temps, appears in one of the boxes, just as…
The first volume of this narrative history of scientific romance includes an introduction to the prehistory of the genre in philosophical fictions, travelers’ tales and utopian fantasies, and tracks early…
The great detective Sherlock Holmes, the reluctant vampire Count Dracula, the mercurial Oscar Wilde, the visionary H.G. Wells, and many other figures from the literary firmament, become pawns and players…
Weird fiction has long been not only unappreciated but actively maltreated by orthodox esthetic evaluation, but its stature has improved considerably in modern times, and that has encouraged a reexamination…
Brian M. Stableford’s latest novel, The Mirror of Dionysus, explores the mystery of the origins of the immortal Axel Rathenius, who lives on the artists’ colony of Mnemosyne, an island…
Axel Rathenius now returns to Mnemosyne after his meeting with the legendary Madame Minerva only to be confronted by a new conspiracy which threatens to annihilate his beloved island…
In the 1580s, at the Benedictine Abbey in Paimpol, a scholarly monk named Ollivier, reputed to have practiced necromancy, is buried under the watchful eyes of two Dominican heresy hunters…
The concluding volume of the trilogy, Living with the Dead is set in and around Toulouse. Paul, who no longer needs the help of hypnotists to contact the dead, begins…
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles, two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)–here is the fourth Wildside Double. Les Fleurs du Mal: A Tale of…
Paul Furneret returns to Paris after a four-year interval. He again contacts Camille Flammarion, Madame Zosima, who now employs hypnosis to enable women to remember their alleged past incarnations, and…
Gabriel Bowlands, a young man taking the Grand Tour in the late 1780s, is less interested in absorbing the broad legacy of European culture than following up his own particular…
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Long ago, Iridia was isolated from the stream of time by magicians trying to preserve the golden age of magic forever. Unfortunately, the land’s slow, comfortable decline is about to…
The final volume of this narrative history of scientific romance tracks the fading away of the genre as it was gradually overtaken and absorbed into the genre of science fiction…
British, French and American traditions of speculative fiction developed separately for more than a hundred years, with only slight overlaps prior to 1926, and continued to develop thereafter in accordance…
This volume offers a history of the contes de fees invented by aristocratic women of the 17th century, France such as Madame d'Aulnoy, the Comtesse de Murat, Madame Leprince de…
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During an August heat-wave, the Comte de Saint-Germain seeks the help of detective Auguste Dupin. Someone–or someTHING–is trying to kill him! The Comte has inherited a magical cello and a…
Kirk Markham returns to his home town of Leeds in 1999 after three years at university down south. In order to support himself while he tries to find a way…
Paul Heisenberg is mysteriously endowed with the ability to jump through time. Together with thousands of eventual followers, he begins a journey that eventually takes him a billion years into…
At last, the true story can finally be told of my participation in the investigation of a haunted bookshop in Barry, South Wales, organized by my good friend and fellow…
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In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like new Rome to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, the Star-Pilots are the great heroes of the day, and Grainger has…
In a galactic culture that extends from quasi-Utopian worlds like New Alexandria to vermin-infested slums like Old Earth, starship pilots have become the great romantic heroes of the day. When…
Cris’s life falls apart after he and his girlfriend Claire are tattooed by artist Devon Curtin–who’s murdered shortly after. Twenty years later, Curtin’s fans, who believe his art was magical…
In the not-so-distant future, when biology is changing the human form and structure, Peter Bell the Third renews his friendship with Rowland Usher. In the new House of Usher that…
First published in 1976, The Mind-Riders features a remarkable anticipation of virtual reality gaming, in which the revised sport of boxing pits physically identical virtual fighters against one another, operated…
The people of the Euchronian Millennium had been reminded of the Underworld that existed beneath the platform on which they had constructed their better, cleaner, safer world–leaving the original surface…
In an alternate history of 1572, five intrepid British adventurers venture into the ether to seek out new life and new civilizations. They discover a galaxy-wide invertebrate empire, including the…
Thirty-four review essays of science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors and musical groups, including works by the following: Poul Anderson, Kim Antieau, Jackie Askew, Ataraxia, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, David…
Sheena is a vampire from Leeds who works in a call center, and has a dark secret that even she doesn’t know about. Her boyfriend has to discover it the…
A study of the popluar fiction of the past.
THE EARTH IS DYING! In the far future Earth is dying. Society has reverted to a more primitive life, much like the Middle Ages. Two men, Matthew and his brother…
The stories in this collection deal with apparitions of various sorts, five featuring ghosts produced by the troubled consciences of their protagonists, and three imagining harassments of a more tangible…
