Books That Push the Genre
Explore the boundaries of speculative fiction with Books That Push the Genre—a curated list blending cosmic horror, pulp fiction, and genre-defying epics. From H.P. Lovecraft’s haunting tales and Ramsey Campbell’s chilling horrors to Tim Curran’s Antarctic nightmare and the War Against the Chtorr series, these books redefine terror, fantasy, and pulp. Discover transformative reads that stretch every convention.
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Alone with the Horrors
by Ramsey Campbell
Ramsey Campbell is perhaps the world's most decorated author of horror fiction. He has won four World Fantasy Awards, ten British Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and the Horror Writers' Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Three decades into his career, Campbell paused to review his body of short fiction and selected the stories that were, to his mind, the very best of his works. Alone With the Horrors collects nearly forty tales from the first thirty years of Campbell's writing. Included here are "In the Bag," which won the British Fantasy Award, and two World Fantasy Award-winning stories, "The Chimney" and the classic "Mackintosh Willy." Campbell crowns the book with a length preface which traces his early publication history, discusses his youthful correspondence with August Derleth, illuminates the influence of H.P. Lovecraft on his early work, and gives an account of the creation of each story and the author's personal assessment of the works' flaws and virtues. In its first publication, a decade ago, Alone With the Horrors won both the Bram Stoker Award and the World Fantasy Award. For this new edition, Campbell has added one of his very first published stories, a Lovecraftian classic, "The Tower from Yuggoth." From this early, Cthulhian tale, to later works that showcase Campbell's growing mastery of mood and character, Alone With the Horrors provides readers with a close look at a powerful writer's development of his craft.
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Delta Green
by John Tynes
Born of the federal government's 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green spent four decades opposing the forces of darkness with honour, but without glory. Stripped of sanction after a disastrous 1969 operation in Cambodia, Delta Green's leaders made a secret pact: to continue their work without authority, without support, and without fear. Delta Green agents slip through the system, manipulating the federal bureaucracy while pushing the darkness back for another day- but often at a shattering personal cost. When an agent vanishes, leaving behind a lifetime of mystery and igniting a future of peril, a Delta Green Team is pulled into a vortex of horror and deception, destiny and betrayal. From the Smokey Mountains of Eastern Tennessee to the snow covered beltway of Washington, from the depths of Fort Leavenworth prison to the sunny tropics of Puerto Rico, from the sky over China to the jungles of Cambodia, we are there, following a scarlet skein of tangled causality through time and space that threatens to ignite a war between Delta Green and its bitterest enemy.The dancers at the soul of time are calling across the gulf of infinity. Won't you join the dance?
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Eternal Lovecraft
by Jim Turner
A collection of short stories showing the influence of H.P. Lovecraft.
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Horrors Beyond
by Dave Campbell
Things are not as they seem. The world around us is filled with lurking creatures from other places, and other dimensions, locked away by the laws that govern the universe. When mankind tampers with these laws, the barriers protecting them from the horrors beyond are destroyed. These tales explore these unseen horrors, long hidden from the eyes of humanity.
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H.P. Lovecraft Tales
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
"This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of [Lovecraft's] fiction"--Jacket.
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The Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction
by Maxim Jakubowski
Offers a collection of detective stories by Dashiell Hammett, Donald E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, and other writers
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Hive
by Tim Curran
Jimmy Hayes had a bad feeling the moment he arrived at Kharkhov Station and it had nothing to do with the cold. And when mummies were discovered in the mountains at the South Pole, he knew the cause of his bad feeling.
