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This deluxe hardback edition brings together a range of fascinating stories, from the cosmic horror of Lovecraft's Great Old Ones to the epic tales of Zothique, the last continent on a dying Earth.A number of writers made their reputations in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, which first appeared in 1922. Specialising in horror, fantasy and science fiction, it published some of the most imaginative and thrilling works of the era. These pioneers influenced generations of speculative fiction writers and shaped genre fiction as we know it today.This collection brings together many of the greatest stories published in that magazine, including:• 'The Call of Cthulhu' by H. P. Lovecraft• 'The Shadow Kingdom' by Robert E. Howard• 'The Dark Eidolon' by Clark Ashton Smith• 'The Hounds of Tindalos' by Frank Belknap Long• 'The Graveyard Rats' by Henry KuttnerABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Pulp Classics series brings together classic short story collections from across the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, strikingly presented in hardback gift editions with silver cover accents and full-colour page edges.

Like a great, lethal snake, plague creeps through the galaxies. No conscious entity can halt its progress, and life is slowly draining from planet after planet.Only one super-intelligence is capable of preventing cataclysm. To do it, he must penetrate far beyond infinity - to the formless, deathless creature out to kill the universe.

The Earth is long dead, blasted apart, and the human survivors who settled on Venus live in huge citadels beneath the Venusian seas in an atrophying, class-ridden society ruled by the Immortals - genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more. Sam Reed was born an immortal, born to rule those with a normal life-span, but his deranged father had him mutilated as a baby so that he wouldn''t know of his heritage. And Sam grew up on the wrong side of the tracks and the law, thinking of the Immortals as his enemies. Then he reached the age of eighty, understood what had happened to him and went looking for revenge - and changed his decaying world forever.Fury is a powerful, dark and compelling novel that explores the sensual, bloody and urgent nature of humankind''s striving.

When the curiously exotic millionairess Klai Ford started telling him about ghosts in a uranium mine, Sawyer knew he''d better be ready for anything in his investigations. But he didn''t count on being drawn into a passage between dimensions and tossed adrift in a world of islands floating in the sky, where strange brute-like creatures were attacking the cities in a vast struggle for power. Lost in this new world, Sawyer realised that the key to everything lay in the mysterious Well of the Worlds - and that the future of the universe lay in its secret.

People called them BALDIES! ...a race of mutants, hairless with egg-like skulls and lashless eyes... ...a race hated by normal human beings, who hunted them with animal ferocity and killed them with religious fervour... ...a race that was even split amongst itself with some that wanted to establish rule by mutants... ...a race that had an extraordinary talent, the powers of telepathy ! So the baldies disguised themselves with wigs and waited for the day when there would be enough of them to stop their persecution by normal men !

A brilliant scientist learns to reduce humans to Lilliputian size and finds the perfect guinea pigs when three colleagues try to discover his secret.Dr. Bulfinch, Bill Stockton, beautiful Mary Phillips, and the Mexican, Pedro, did not remember what had happened after the furious scientist caught them snooping in his secret room.Now they did not know where they were. They rose, shakily, breathing in great gasps. Everything was dark."Where are we?" Mary cried out.Suddenly horror grew in Pedro''s eyes as he remembered something. He gasped, "He made my Pinto, the mule, little. Now I know... He has made us little like my mule..."

Explore the origins of sword and sorcery with Henry Kuttner''s Elak of Atlantis! Published in Weird Tales to satisfy fans of Conan the Barbarian in the wake of Robert E. Howard''s death, these four stories depict a brutal world of flashing swords and primal magic, touched by a hint of Lovecraft''s Cthulhu. These exciting tales helped to establish a genre and are a critical part of any fantasy library. Also included in this collection are Kuttner''s two rare and equally ground-breaking Prince Raynor stories from 1939''s Strange Tales. Dive into these seminal, thrilling adventure tales from one of the most important writers in science fiction and fantasy, and discover for yourself why Elak of Atlantis is renowned by scholars as a major step in the evolution of a genre.