Dust jacket notes: "Step into the weird and unpredictable world of classic fantasy and horror in this spine-tingling anthology of stories and novellas from the incomparable pulp magazines Famous Fantastic Mysteries and Fantastic Novels." Contents: 1. Behind the Curtain by Francis Stevens. 2. Pegasus by Henry Kuttner. 3.The Face in the Abyss by A. Merritt. 4. Fungus Isle by Philip M. Fisher. 5. John Ovington Returns by Max Brand. 6. Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb. 7. The Outcast by E.F. Benson. 8. The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers. 9.The Derelict by William Hope Hodgson. 10. The Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen. 11. The Highwayman by Lord Dunsany. 12. Daemon by C. L Moore. 13. The Burial of the Rats by Bram Stoker. 14.The Day of the Deepies by Murray Leinster. 15. The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle. 16. The Lonesome Place by August Derleth. 17. The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London. 18. That Low by Theodore Sturgeon. 19. The Human Angle by William Tenn. 20. The Toys of Fate by Tod Robbins. 21. The Counter Charm by Margaret St. Clair. 22. Guardian Angel by Authur C. Clarke. 23. Mimic Donald A. Wollheim. 24. The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft. 25. The Dancing Partner by Jerome Lucas White. 26. Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White. 27. The Man Who Collected Poe by Robert Bloch. 28. Thus I Refute Beelzy by John Collier. 29. Homecoming by Ray Bradbury. 30. Worms of the Earth by Robert E. Howard.
I was born on August 29, 1946, making me one of the famous "baby boomer" generation. I attended Hillside High School in New Jersey, then got my B.S. degree in mathematics at Stevens Institute of Technology. I later obtained by M.S. in mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where I taught math for two years. I was working on my Ph.D. in Number Theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago when I met my (future) wife Phyllis in 1972. We were married in 1973 and I left college to start my own business. I ran three very successful corporations after leaving college and did some writing on the side. When I was 40, I decided I wanted to concentrate more on writing fiction, which I had done in college but had abandoned afterwards. So I started writing novels in 1986. My first book, THE DEVIL'S AUCTION, was published in 1998 and I've written another 15 novels since then. I'm probably best known as the author of a popular trilogy I wrote for White Wolf Games entitled THE MASQUERADE OF THE RED DEATH. These three novels have been published in a number of different languages (including French, German, Spanish and Hungarian) and I've gotten well over 1,000 fan letters about them since they first appeared.
I also have written 17 non-fiction books, many of them in the pop-science field with my friend, Lois H. Gresh. And, in my spare time, I've edited around 150 anthologies. I like to keep busy!
