Nightworlds [Mass Market Paperback]

William F. Nolan (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 355 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books (December 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843951915
• ISBN-13: 978-0843951912
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #462,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #21 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Anthologies
  • #94 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Occult

More About the Author

With 85 books to his credit, plus hundreds of scripts, articles and short stories embracing a dozen genres, William F. Nolan is an official Living Legend (voted that honor by the International Horror Guild).
As a noted pulp historian, he is a recognized authority on Black Mask, Dashiell Hammett, and "Max Brand" (Frederick Faust). Nolan has edited six collections of Faust tales, has written Max Brand: Western Giant, and is the author of the forthcoming biography King of the Pulps: The Man Who Was Max Brand. Nolan's historical anthology, The Black Mask Boys, is the key work on the legendary magazine - and he's written three books on Dashiell Hammett, plus several pieces on the early pulp fiction of his longtime pal, Ray Bradbury.
Nolan states: "I began my fiction career [13 novels and 185 stories] too late for the pulps, but I did have letters printed in Planet Stories and Famous Fantastic Mysteries - and I grew up reading Argosy and Weird Tales."
Recently voted a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to Dark Fantasy, Nolan is currently at work on ten new books. His most famous creations, Logan's Run, is now out in comic-book format from Bluewater Productions - and a new mega-budget film version is due from Warner Bros. in 2012.
Nolan lives in Vancouver, Washington, with an apartment full of books, pulp magazines, and stuffed animals.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better Than Dark Universe, March 3, 2005

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Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nightworlds (Mass Market Paperback)

I was disappointed when I read Dark Universe but I still decided to give Nightworlds a try. I am glad I did. All of the stories in this collection have been selected for inclusion by the author. These really are some of his best and most innovative.

The stories in this volume are dark and definitely deserving of an author considered a great in the horror field. Some are disturbing, some are unsettling, and some are just plain spooky. There is also a little science fiction included (although just as dark as the others).

If you like a good collection of tales to cause shivers, you can certainly do far worse than this collection of zombies, psychopaths, invaders, and things that go slash in the night.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nightworlds, December 27, 2004

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D. Hensley (jamestown, nc United States) - See all my reviews
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Not as good a collection as Dark Universe, but still a superior
collection of short stories. William F. Nolan is a true master of the short story. Not to much gore, but usually a twist at the end that will make the story stick out in your mind.