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The 8Th Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK®: Frank Belknap Long Contents COPYRIGHT INFO . 3 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . 5 A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR . 6 . AT THE HOME OF POE (prose poem) . 9 THE EYE ABOVE THE MANTEL . 11 IN THE TOMB OF SEMENSES . .18 . THE DESERT LICH . 26 DEATH-WATERS . 34 . THE SEA THING . 46 . THE WERE-SNAKE . .Sample . file . 57. MEN WHO WALK UPON THE AIR . 71 THE DEVIL-GOD . 80 THE OCEAN LEECH . 95 THE DOG-EARED GOD . 106 . THE MAN WITH A THOUSAND LEGS . 115 THE SPACE-EATERS, by Frank Belknap Long . 140. YOU CAN’T KILL A GHOST . 172 . Contents | 1 THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS, by Frank Belknap Long . 182 . THE RED FETISH . 198. A VISITOR FROM EGYPT . 211 THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS . 223 . WHEN CHAUGNAR WAKES (poem) . 302 . IN THE LAIR OF THE SPACE MONSTERS . 304 . SECOND NIGHT OUT . .329 . THE DARK BEASTS . 339 THE GREAT COLD . 349 DARK VISION . .367 . THE CREEPER IN DARKNESS . .383 . THE ELEMENTAL . 394 . The MEGAPACK® Ebook SeriesSample . .file . 410 Contents | 2 COPYRIGHT INFO The Golden Age of Weird Ficton MEGAPACK®: Frank Belknap Long (Vol. 1) is copyright © 2016 by Wildside Press, LLC . All rights reserved . * * * * The MEGAPACK® ebook series name is a registered trademark of Wildside Press, LLC . All rights reserved . * * * * “At the Home of Poe” was originally published in The United Amateur, March 1922 . “The Eye Above the Mantel” was originally published in The United Amateur, March 1921 . “In the Tomb of Semenses” was originally published in Crypt of Cthulhu #39, May 1986 . “The Desert Lich” was originally published in Weird Tales, No- vember 1924 . Sample file “Death-Waters” was originally published in Weird Tales, Decem- ber 1924 . “The Sea Thing” was originally published in Weird Tales, De- cember 1925 . “The Were-Snake” was originally published in Weird Tales, Sep- tember 1925 . “Men Who Walk Upon the Air” was originally published in Weird Tales, May 1925 . “The Devil-God” was originally published in Weird Tales, June 1925 . “The Ocean Leech” was originally published in Weird Tales, January 1925 . COPYRIGHT INFO | 3 “The Dog-Eared God” was originally published in Weird Tales, November 1926 . “The Man With a Thousand Legs” was originally published in Weird Tales, August 1927 . “The Space-Eaters” was originally published in Weird Tales, July 1928 . “You Can’t Kill a Ghost” was originally published in Weird Tales, August 1928 . “The Hounds of Tindalos” was originally published in Weird Tales, March 1939 . “The Red Fetish” was originally published in Weird Tales, Janu- ary 1930 . “A Visitor from Egypt” was originally published in Weird Tales, September 1930 . “The Horror from the Hills” was originally published in Weird Tales, January-March 1931 . “When Chaugnar Wakes” was originally published in Weird Tales, Sept . 1932 . “In the Lair of the Space Monsters” was originally published in Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, October 1932 . “Second Night Out” (also published as “The Black, Dead Thing”) was originally publishedSample in Weird Talesfile, October 1933 . “The Dark Beasts” was originally published in Marvel Tales, July/Aug 1934 . “The Great Cold” was originally published Astounding Stories, February 1935 . “The Creeper In Darkness” was originally published in Strange Stories, April 1939 . “The Elemental” was originally published in Unknown, July 1939 . COPYRIGHT INFO | 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Published with the kind permission and assistance of Lily Doty, Mansfield M. Doty, and the family of Frank Belknap Long. Sample file ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 5 A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Thank you for purchasing this collection, the first volume of two collecting the weird short fiction of American writer Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) . Wildside Press intends to make Mr . Long’s large oeuvre available again to the reading public in ebook form . Already released are The Frank Belknap Long Science Fiction Novel MEGA- PACK® (containing four novels: Space Station 1 [1957], Mars Is My Destination [1962], The Three Faces of Time [1969] and Sur- vival World [1971]) and The Frank Belknap Long Science Fiction MEGAPACK® volumes 1 and 2 (which contain 42 science fiction stories between them—and volume 3 is coming soon)—along with the second volume of FBL’s collected weird fiction, containing an- other 20 stories and a good selection of his classic poetry . Following those, we will continue to package Mr . Long’s work as it becomes available to us . Frank Belknap Long had an extended and healthy career as a writer for the pulp fiction magazines from the early 1920s until the late 1950s, and madeSample continued salesfile beyond the pulp field’s general demise . He wrote in a variety of genres: horror & weird, science fiction, even crime and detective stories. He was also savvy enough about the pulp markets that he often composed single sto- ries which he could possibly sell to magazine’s of differing content. When compiling these Megapack collections (and in the interest of content balance), we have decided to place a few of these “cross- over” pieces where they might make the most sense thematically . Thus, while these two volumes of FBL’s weird fiction contain the expected ghouls, vampires and Lovecraftian monstrosities, we have also salted in the occasional fantastic tale in which the plot turns on a science-fiction explanation, but wherein the atmosphere is decid- edly “weird .” Mr . Long was especially interested in the application A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR | 6.
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