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Over its twenty-issue and seven-year lifespan, Something Wicked magazine published over 150 stories from new and established authors across the world. Volume Two marks the official transition of Something Wicked from magazine to annual anthology. The contributors are seasoned veterans and first-timers...

This book-collection file includes 15 books: The Adventures of Gerard; Beyond the City; The Captain of the Polestar and Other Stories; A Desert Drama, Tragedy of the Korosko; The Doings of Raffles Haw; A Duet With Occasional Chorus; The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard; The Firm of Girdlestone; The Green...

George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a protagonist in a series of fantasy and science fiction novels and stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Professor Challenger is an aggressive, hot-tempered, dominating figure, and also a pretentious and self-righteous scientific jack-of-all-trades....

This exploration of the ways in which pregnancy affects narrative begins with two canonical American texts, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1848) and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Relying on such diverse works as Frankenstein, Peyton Place, Beloved, and...

Modern Shorts: 18 Short Stories From Fiction Attic Press, features the winners of the Fiction Attic Press Short Fiction Contest. This anthology includes new fiction by Neil Mathison, Jane St. Claire, Timothy Boudreau, Linda Boroff, D.R.D. Bruton, Darlene Campos, Christopher David DiCicco, J.S....

Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction—characters who subvert the conventions of the genre and challenge reader...

THE WEIRD FICTION OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH is a collection of twelve weird fiction tales by acclaimed short story writer Clark Ashton Smith.  Smith published extensively in WEIRD TALES magazine in the 1920s and 1930s, earning a lasting reputation as a writer of unusual fiction in the mode of H.P....

Thor is the God of Thunder and the son of Odin and the Elder Earth-Goddess Gaea. Combining the power of both worlds, Thor is arguably the greatest and mightiest defender of both.FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Thrillers / Supernatural

This early work by Philip K. Dick was originally published in 1953 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Last of the Masters' is a novelette about a post anarchistic revolution society and their attempts to crush any attempts at government. Philip Kindred Dick...

MDP Publishing has once again compiled a collection of 6 stories from some of history's most prolific Science Fiction icons. These stories were originally published by Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950's. Stories include the 3 part full length novel The Fireman, by Ray Bradbury, the...

You’ve written some poetry. Maybe you’ve written pages and pages of poetry that is stuffed away in a drawer in your favourite writing desk or stored in a folder on your computer, and you’re wondering what to do with it all. How do you publish poetry? How do you sell it? You may be thinking...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

Part Two takes you through the next step in the process of getting your manuscript to the reader. Whatever method of publication you choose for your novel this ebook will explain the basics for success. The first part, THE FORMULA For Writing Fiction That Publishers Will Like, is a master recipe,...

This book contains information on writing entering the Urban Fiction genre as either a new or seasoned Author. Many times Authors have many questions on what's going on within the genre. Should you sign an ebook deal or not? What are the benefits? What are the pitfalls? This books is a no holds barred resource to help the Author with questions make the best decision for their career.