The stratoship lurched suddenly. The deck heaved up under Lawton's feet, hurling him against Captain Forrester and spinning both men around so that they seemed to be waltzing together across the ship. The still limp gym slugger slid downward, colliding with a corrugated metal bulkhead and sloshing back and forth like a wet mackerel. "Slashaway," Lawton muttered. "Slashaway, old fellow." Slashaway opened blurred eyes, "Phew " he muttered. "You sure socked me hard, sir." "You went out like a light," explained Lawton gently. "A minute before the ship lurched." "The ship "lurched," sir?" "Something's very wrong, Slashaway. The ship isn't moving. There are no vibrations and -- Slashaway, are you hurt? Your skull thumped against that bulkhead so hard I was afraid --
Dip the pen of a Frank Belknap Long into a bottle of ink and the result is always bound to be a brilliant piece of imaginative science fiction. And he's done it again in the tortured story of Sally. Sally watched the molten gold glow in the sky. Then knew she would not see her son and her husband ever again on Earth.
No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings - without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden. A fantastically futuristic science fiction tale written by one of the masterminds of the genre, Frank Long!
For ages Mankind labelled Mercury a dead world—a red-hot, seething outpost of hell. Too late Rawley learned of the hideous life that molten, steaming planet spawned! Frank Belknap Long was best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977).
The Fourth Frank Belknap Long Science Fiction MEGAPACK® presents 2 full novels and a short novel by the acclaimed master of science fiction and weird horror! Included in this volume are: MADE TO ORDER MISSION TO A DISTANT STAR …AND OTHERS SHALL BE BORN If you enjoy this ebook, search your favorite bookstore for "Wildside Press MEGAPACK" to see the 400+ entries in the series, including science fiction, mysteries, westerns, adventure tales—and much, much more!
INTRIGUE IN EARTH'S OUTER ORBIT Tremendous and glittering, the Space Station floated up out of the Big Dark. Lieutenant Corriston had come to see its marvels, but he soon found himself entrapped in its unsuspected terrors. For the grim reality was that some deadly outer-space power had usurped control of the great artificial moon. A lovely woman had disappeared; passengers were being fleeced and enslaved; and, using fantastic disguises, imposters were using the Station for their own mysterious ends. Pursued by unearthly monsters and hunted with super-scientific cunning, Corriston struggles to unmask the mystery. For upon his success depended his life, his love and the future of Earth itself.
Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) -- one of the early masters of fantasy and science fiction, friend of and collaborator with H.P. Lovecraft -- produced hundreds of novels, short stories, and poems throughout his long and distinguished career. From fantasy and horror in Weird Tales to action-adventure science fiction in Planet Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories to more "nuts and bolts" science fiction in Astounding Stories, and also work in the romance and mystery fields, his career spanned 7 decades and was filled with remarkable accomplishments. Included in this volume are 22 classic tales: BRIDGEHEAD THE BODY-MASTERS BLUE EARTHMAN RED STORM ON JUPITER TEMPORARY WARP THE BLACK VORTEX MIND OUT OF TIME WHITE BARRIER FLAME OF LIFE ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW WOMAN OUT OF TIME THE HORIZONTALS THE VIBRATION WASPS BROWN PRISONERS IN FLATLAND TO FOLLOW KNOWLEDGE CIRCLE OF YOUTH STAR COMRADES SON OF HIS FATHER WILLIE ALIAS THE LIVING HE CAME AT DUSK If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) -- one of the early masters of fantasy and science fiction, friend of and collaborator with H.P. Lovecraft -- produced hundreds of novels, short stories, and poems throughout his long and distinguished career. From fantasy and horror in Weird Tales to action-adventure science fiction in Planet Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories to more "nuts and bolts" science fiction in Astounding Stories, and also work in the romance and mystery fields, his career spanned 7 decades and was filled with remarkable accomplishments. Included in this volume are 21 more classic tales: ATOMIC STATION SHADOW OVER VENUS COLLECTOR'S ITEM THE SOARING TWO FACE THE MINIATURE MENACE THE GOLDEN CALF MUSEUM PRISON BRIGHT, PRISON DEEP BEYOND THE VORTEX MARTIAN HOMECOMING THE UNFINISHED THE TIMELESS ONES AND SOMEDAY TO MARS DARK COMMAND MANHUNT THE COTTAGE TWO WAY DESTINY GIANT IN THE FOREST REBIRTH YOUNG MAN WITH A TRUMPET The MEGAPACK® Ebook Series If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Prepare yourself for more macabre spectacles and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from far outside angled space, all brought to you by the incomparable Frank Belknap Long! Included are 20 short stories and the complete text of Long's 1977 poetry collection. Here are: JOHNNY ON THE SPOT THE MAN FROM NOWHERE FISHERMAN'S LUCK THE REFUGEES GRAB BAGS ARE DANGEROUS STEP INTO MY GARDEN IT WILL COME TO YOU RETURN OF THE UNDEAD THE PEEPER THE HOUSE OF RISING WINDS HUMPTY DUMPTY HAD A GREAT FALL FUZZY HEAD LITTLE MEN OF SPACE NIGHT-FEAR MR. CAXTON DRAWS A MARTIAN BIRD PREVIEW COTTAGE TENANT PROBLEM CHILD GATEWAY TO FOREVER THE NECRONOMICON, JOHN DEE'S TRANSLATION IN MAYAN SPLENDOR (Poetry) If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Frank Belknap (1901-1994), one of the early masters of fantasy and science fiction, friend of -- and collaborator with -- H.P. Lovecraft, produced hundreds of novels, short stories, and poems throughout his long and distinguished career. From fantasy and horror in Weird Tales to action-adventure science fiction in pulp magazines like "Planet Stories" and "Thrilling Wonder Stories" to more "nuts and bolts" science fiction in "Astounding Stories," and also work in the romance and mystery fields, his nearly 70-year career is filled with remarkable achievements. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention, the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1987 from the Horror Writers of America, and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 1977. This collection presents 20 of his "golden age" pulp science fiction stories, originally published from the 1930s through the 1950s. Included are: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR THE LAST MEN GREEN GLORY CONES THE SKY TRAP WOBBLIES ON THE MOON THE CRITTERS FILCH THE TRAP GUEST IN THE HOUSE LAKE OF FIRE THE WORLD OF WULKINS THE MISSISSIPPI SAUCER LESSON IN SURVIVAL THE MAN THE MARTIANS THE SPIRAL INTELLIGENCE THE CALM MAN MAN OF DISTINCTION THE MAN FROM TIME GOOD TO BE A MARTIAN THE SPECTACLES If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 280+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
This volume collects four tales by Frank Belknap Long from pulp magazines: "The Man Who Died Twice" (from Ghost Stories, January 1927); "Humpty Dumpty had a Great Fall" (from Startling Stories, November 1948); "The Sky Trap" (from Comet, July 1941); and "The Mississippi Saucer" (from Weird Tales, March 1951).
Prepare yourself for more uncanny tales, with macabre spectacle and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from far outside angled space, all brought to you by the incomparable Frank Belknap Long! Included in this second volume are: JOHNNY ON THE SPOT THE MAN FROM NOWHERE FISHERMAN'S LUCK THE REFUGEES GRAB BAGS ARE DANGEROUS STEP INTO MY GARDEN IT WILL COME TO YOU RETURN OF THE UNDEAD THE PEEPER THE HOUSE OF RISING WINDS HUMPTY DUMPTY HAD A GREAT FALL FUZZY HEAD LITTLE MEN OF SPACE NIGHT-FEAR MR. CAXTON DRAWS A MARTIAN BIRD PREVIEW COTTAGE TENANT PROBLEM CHILD GATEWAY TO FOREVER THE NECRONOMICON, JOHN DEE'S TRANSLATION IN MAYAN SPLENDOR (Poetry)
Prepare yourself for macabre spectacle and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from far outside time and space, all brought to you by the incomparable Frank Belknap Long! Included are: AT THE HOME OF POE (prose poem) THE EYE ABOVE THE MANTEL IN THE TOMB OF SEMENSES THE DESERT LICH DEATH-WATERS THE SEA THING THE WERE-SNAKE MEN WHO WALK UPON THE AIR THE DEVIL-GOD THE OCEAN LEECH THE DOG-EARED GOD THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND LEGS THE SPACE-EATERS, by Frank Belknap Long 0 YOU CAN'T KILL A GHOST THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS, by Frank Belknap Long THE RED FETISH A VISITOR FROM EGYPT THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS WHEN CHAUGNAR WAKES (poem) IN THE LAIR OF THE SPACE MONSTERS SECOND NIGHT OUT THE DARK BEASTS THE GREAT COLD DARK VISION THE CREEPER IN DARKNESS THE ELEMENTAL If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
Prepare yourself for macabre spectacle and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from far outside angled space, all brought to you by the incomparable Frank Belknap Long! Included are: AT THE HOME OF POE (prose poem) THE EYE ABOVE THE MANTEL IN THE TOMB OF SEMENSES THE DESERT LICH DEATH-WATERS THE SEA THING THE WERE-SNAKE MEN WHO WALK UPON THE AIR THE DEVIL-GOD THE OCEAN LEECH THE DOG-EARED GOD THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND LEGS THE SPACE-EATERS YOU CAN'T KILL A GHOST THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS THE RED FETISH A VISITOR FROM EGYPT THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS WHEN CHAUGNAR WAKES (poem) IN THE LAIR OF THE SPACE MONSTERS SECOND NIGHT OUT THE DARK BEASTS THE GREAT COLD DARK VISION THE CREEPER IN DARKNESS THE ELEMENTAL
Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) -- one of the early masters of fantasy and science fiction, friend of (and collaborator with) H.P. Lovecraft -- produced hundreds of novels, short stories, and poems throughout his long and distinguished career. From fantasy and horror in Weird Tales to action-adventure science fiction in Planet Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories to more "nuts and bolts" science fiction in Astounding Stories, and also work in the romance and mystery fields, his career spanned 7 decades and was filled with remarkable achievements. He received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement at the 1978 World Fantasy Convention, the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1987 from the Horror Writers of America, and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award in 1977. This collection assembles 4 of his best science fiction novels: Space Station 1 Mars Is My Destination The Three Faces of Time Survival World If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 290+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!
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