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Sometimes geography is no match for metaphysics. Uncanny of Place: Cities, Streets, Shops, and Spaces in Classic Speculative Fiction collects seventeen stories of magical shops, vanishing rooms, sentient streets, and other transitory or perplexing locations. Stories include: The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe); Germelshausen (Friedrich Gerstäcker); Mysterious Disappearances (Charles Bierce); The Hall Bedroom (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman); The Magic Shop (H. G. Wells); Number 13 (M. R. James); A Somewhat Improbable Story (G. K. Chesterton); The Door in the Wall (H. G. Wells); The Madness of Andelsprutz (Lord Dunsany); Space (John Buchan); The Never-Ending Road (Anonymous); The Bureau d'Echange de Maux (Lord Dunsany); The Street (H. P. Lovecraft); The Blue City (Frank Owen); The Theater Upstairs (Manly Wade Wellman); The Street That Wasn't There (Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi); Tunnel Terror (Allison V. Harding)
Cat are king in this anthology filled with were-cats and ghostly felines. Twenty-two classic short stories are included.
This fourth Coachwhip anthology of weird botanical and fungal entities collects 21 stories with menacing flowers from the darkest corners of the globe, invasive seeds from outer space, botanical experiments gone awry, and expeditions encountering mythical green horrors. From the uncanny nature of our vast forests and jungles to the scientific manipulation of vegetational genes, the world of plants and fungi offers a vast wellspring of inspiration for writers of speculative fiction, and these anthologies have shown the many strange and different ideas that take root under cover of darkness.Stories included are: Phalaenopsis Gloriosa (1905) by Edgar Wallace, The Tree That Eats (1908) by Brew Molohan, The Devil Plant (1923) by Lyle Wilson Holden, Fungus Isle (1923) by Philip M. Fisher, Mandrake (1923) by Adam Hull Shirk, Si Urag of the Tail (1923) by Oscar Cook, The Gray Death (1923) by Loual B. Sugarman, The Man-Trap (1925) by Hamilton Craigie, The Plant-Thing (1925) by R. G. Macready, Dorner Cordaianthus (1925) by Hester Holland, The Devil-Plant (1928) by John Murray Reynolds, The Gas-Weed (1929) by Stanton A. Coblentz, Up Irriwaddy Way (1929) by Lieutenant Edgar Gardiner, Moss Island (1930) by Carl Jacobi, The Giant Puffball (1931) by Eugene Stowell, At the Bend of the Trail (1934) by Manly Wade Wellman, Seeds from Space (1935) by Laurence Manning, The Moaning Lily (1935) by Emma Vanne, The Glowworm Flower (1936) by Stanton A. Coblentz, Forest of Evil (1938) by John Murray Reynolds, and Seed (1946) by Jack Snow.
This anthology collects a wide range of early stories involving dinosaurs and other fossil reptilians come back to life. The short stories include The Last of the Vampires, The Lizard, The Monster of Lake LaMetrie, The Slaying of the Plesiosaurus, The Pterodactyl, The Monster of "Partridge Creek," The Diplodocus, The Last Haunt of the Dinosaur, The Great Beast Of Kafue, The Lizard God, The Beast of the Yungas, The Paradise of the Ice Wilderness, The Ancient Horror, and Report on the Status Quo. Also included is Arthur Conan Doyle's classic, The Lost World.
First published in 2004, Cryptozoology: Science and Speculation examines the rationale, purpose, and methodology of this discovery science. This is followed by several chapters discussing various mystery animals and zoological folklore that are of interest to cryptozoological researchers, illustrating how an investigator might examine a reported mystery animal from a biological-folkloric perspective.For additional cryptozoology material, visit StrangeArk.com and CoachwhipBooks.com.
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