Dorothy Quick – författare

Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Dorothy Quick met aboard the S. S. Minnetonka in 1907. He was seventy-two years old, she almost eleven. The two began a great friendship that would endure until his death some years later. Dorothy became a frequent houseguest of Twain's, both at his Tuxedo Park home, in New York City, and in Redding Connecticut. Her recollections of life in those places dispel the image of Twain as a man bitter and pessimistic in his later years, revealing him instead as warm and fun-loving. Together they read his stories, which she knew well and loved, and he encouraged her to write, forming the ""Author's League for Two.

‘Weird Tales’ launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, ‘Weird Tales’ was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. ‘Weird Tales’ single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer did readers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror have to seek out single stories in otherwise mundane magazines; now they had a magazine all of their own that published only the stories they wanted to read. Collected in this anthology are over two hundred thousand words and more than five hundred pages of some of the greatest stories ever published in the pages of ‘Weird Tales.’ Included are: ‘Beyond the Black River’ by Robert E. Howard; ‘The Secret of Kralitz’ by Henry Kuttner; ‘The Shunned House’ by H. P. Lovecraft; ‘Way Station’ by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; ‘Never Stop to Pat a Kitten’ by Miriam Allen deFord; ‘The Diary of Philip Westerly’ by Paul Compton; ‘The Door Into Infinity’ by Edmond Hamilton; ‘Isle of the Undead’ by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach; ‘The Perfect Host’ by Theodore Sturgeon; ‘Gainful Employment’ by Jamie Wild; ‘The Tree of Life’ by C. L. Moore; ‘Mop-Head’ by Leah Bodine Drake; ‘The Golgotha Dancers’ by Manly Wade Wellman; ‘The Medici Boots’ by Pearl Norton Swet; ‘The House in the Valley’ by August Derleth; ‘More than Shadow’ by Dorothy Quick; ‘In the Dark’ by Ronal Kayser; ‘Dearest’ by H. Beam Piper; ‘Doom of the House of Duryea’ by Earl Peirce, Jr.; ‘The Mississippi Saucer’ by Frank Belknap Long; ‘Mask of Death’ by Paul Ernst; ‘The Ring of Bastet’ by Seabury Quinn; ‘Tiger Cat’ by David H. Keller; ‘Old Mr. Wiley’ by Greye La Spina; ‘The Long Arm’ by Franz Habl; and ‘The People of the Black Circle’ by Robert E. Howard.

It looked exactly like a little dog waiting to be lifted into its mistress’ arms. It had dimension and a definite personality. It seemed more than a shadow or a wet spot.

Weird Tales'' launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, ''Weird Tales'' was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. ''Weird Tales'' single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer did readers of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror have to seek out single stories in otherwise mundane magazines; now they had a magazine all of their own that published only the stories they wanted to read. Collected in this anthology are over two hundred thousand words of some of the greatest stories ever published in the pages of ''Weird Tales''. Included are: ''Red Nails'' by Robert E. Howard ''The Tree of Life'' by C. L. Moore ''Birthmark'' by Seabury Quinn ''Spider Mansion'' by Fritz Leiber ''Evolution Island'' by Edmond Hamilton ''The Monkey Spoons'' by Mary Elizabeth Counselman ''The Diamond Lens'' by Fitz-James O’Brien ''The Dunwich Horror'' by H. P. Lovecraft ''The Salem Horror'' by Henry Kuttner ''The Haunted Burglar'' by W. C. Morrow ''The Lost Gods'' by Dorothy Quick ''The Terror Of The Water-Tank'' by William Hope Hodgson ''The White Feather Hex'' by Don Peterson ''The Death of Ilalotha'' by Clark Ashton Smith ''Each Man Kills'' by Victoria Glad ''The Disc Recorder'' by August Derleth ''The Doors of Death'' by Arthur B. Waltermire ''Where Are You Mr. Biggs?'' by Nelson S. Bond ''The Invaders'' by Benjamin Ferris ''The Three Pools and the Painted Moon'' by Frank Owen ''Werewolf of the Sahara'' by G.G. Pendarves ''The People of the Black Circle'' by Robert E. Howard

From the backwaters of the Universe came two Beings—radiant, terrible—to challenge the love of a mortal man and woman!

From the backwaters of the Universe came two Beings-radiant, terrible-to challenge the love of a mortal man and woman! Dorothy Quick was a regular contributor to Weird Tales. She wrote more than a dozen books but was best known for her non-fiction book Mark Twain and Me which recounted her childhood friendship with Twain.poignant and powerful reflection of the human experience.

From the backwaters of the Universe came two Beings—radiant, terrible—to challenge the love of a mortal man and woman!