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1944; Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham. Printed in Sweden by Esselte AB, Stockholm. Dust Jacket edition
“Vincent Di Fate is regarded as one of the world’s foremost illustrators of futuristic themes. In nearly thirty years, Di Fate has produced more than 3,000 published works of science fiction, astronomical, and aerospace subjects for such diverse clients as IBM, “Reader’s Digest,” the National Geographic Society, CBS, and NASA. He has received numerous awards, including a Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist. His work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions, and is included in the collection of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C . . .” [Excerpt from the author’s bio on the dustjacket]
Kepes, G. (ed.), Education of Vision, New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1965.
Essays by: Rudolf Arnheim, Mirko Basaldella, Julian Beinart, Will Burtin, Anton Ehrenzweig, William J.J. Gordon, Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., Gerald Holton, Johannes Itten, Tomas Maldonado, Wolfgang Metzger, Robert Preusser, Paul Rand, Robert J. Wolff
Six men and two women are trapped in a tropic clearing – and one of them is a murderer. Confronted with the intense heat and boredom of the tropics, having to wait for the arrival of the coasting launch which passes by once a month, this assorted group become irritable and overwrought. Jealousies and enmities become more and more marked until one night one of the members of the party is found strangely and horribly strangled by the head of an Indian doll which has been thrust far down his throat.
In this, Asimov's second voyage into the human body, the destination is deep inside the human brain in a desperate search for the origins of thought itself. As in the first voyage, a team of scientists is miniaturized to molecular size and travel in a specially designed submarine. They embark on a dangerous journey to a dying brain in an attempt to tap the secrets held there.
1954; The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr. Dust Jacket by Leo Manso. Adrian is the youngest son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
“The Moon and the Planets” contains 40 double-page and fold-out plates featuring the work by space artist Ludek Pesek. It was his first publication. Ludek Pesek (1919-1999) was born in Kladno in what is now the Czech Republic. He produced his first artwork around the age of 19 and, later, attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. His art first reached US readers through the National Geographic Magazine which commissioned him to do a series of works about Mars. Previous to the Mars article he had painted 15 scenes for an article called “Journey to the Planets” in August 1970. He produced several 360-degree panoramas for projection in the domes of the planetariums at Stuttgart, Winnipeg and Lucerne, and has exhibited in Washington, DC, Boston, Nashville, Stuttgart, Berne, Lucerne, Zurich, and other venues. The asteroid 6584 Ludek Pesek is named for him and his work is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
Back cover detail, cropped and cleaned up, from the dust jacket of a hard cover copy of the "Green Fairy Book," edited by Andrew Lang.
Robert E. Howard’s science fiction novel “Almuric” was first published in book form by Ace Books in 1964.
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It was originally a three-part serial that began with the May 1939 issue of Weird Tales.
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The novel features a muscular hero known on earth as Esau Cairn. He transports through space to a world known as Almuric to hide from the law after a deadly altercation with a corrupt politician. While there he battles wild beasts and ape-like humanoids and becomes known as the Iron Hand due to his physical strength and fighting skills.
“THE ULTIMATE FANTASY ADVENTURE STRIP
“The planet Mongo is a strange world, inhabited by fantastic races and weird creatures. Though its technology is far advanced, most of the planet lives in primitive savagery under the oppression of Emperor Ming the Merciless. The cruel dictator has sworn to capture and kill the three Earthling castaways who threaten his power on Mongo. Flash Gordon, an American sportsman, lovely Dale Arden, and near-mad genius, Dr. Hans Zarkov, find themselves in a never-ending series of heart-stopping adventures as they are pursued across the wilds of Mongo.
“Artist Alex Raymond has created what many consider the apex of fantasy strips. It is an original classic from the Golden Age of Comics. Nostalgia Press and King Features are proud to present this color album of Flash Gordon comic strips from the 1930’s and 40’s.” [Quoted from the blurb on the dust jacket]
Release a Jinn from a bottle – according to legend – and he becomes your slave. But Zongri was an unusual Jinn – evil, malicious, and thoroughly angry at having been kept imprisoned for thousands of years. Instead of thanking young Jan Palmer for freeing him, he cursed Jan – with the curse of “eternal wakefulness.”
Jan had enough trouble in his own world. Meek and bookish, he stood accused of murder, and no one would believe him innocent. But his trouble more than doubled as the curse sent him into another world every time he fell asleep. In this other existence, he had a separate identity – that of Tiger, swashbuckling adventurer and warrior against the ruling demons. The odds were against him everywhere – and he could die in either world at any moment!
After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, L. Ron Hubbard developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first expounded in book form in May 1950. He subsequently developed his ideas into a wide-ranging set of doctrines and rituals as part of a new religious movement that he called Scientology.
Hannes Bok (1914-1964) is one of a handful of fantasy illustrators from the pulp magazine era, along with Virgil Finlay and Edd Cartier, whose work is just as popular today as it was in the 1940s. He made his professional debut in the pages of Weird Tales in late 1939, but he began dabbling in fantasy and science fiction art as early as 1930. He did considerable pulp magazine work throughout the 1940s, and was active as a book illustrator and painter in the late 1940s and early 1950s, contributing to such publishers as Arkham House, Shasta, Fantasy Press, and Gnome Press.
“A Story of Desperate Men and a Rare Kind of Patriotism . . .
PASSAGE TO MARSEILLE
Originally Published as “Men Without Country” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, authors of “Mutiny on the Bounty.”
“Passage to Marseille” is a 1944 war film made by Warner Brothers, directed by Michael Curtiz. The screenplay was based on the 1942 novel “Men Without Country” by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, authors of “Mutiny on the Bounty.” “Passage to Marseille” is one of the few films to use a flashback, within a flashback, within a flashback, following the narrative structure of the novel on which it is based. The film opens at an airbase in England during World War II. Free French Captain Freycinet tells a journalist the story of the French pilots stationed there. The second flashback is at the French prison colony at Cayenne in French Guiana while the third flashback sets the scene where the lead character, Jean Matrac, a newspaper publisher, is framed for a murder to silence him. [Source: Wikipedia]
Superb action and adventure as patriots resist fascism from Devil's Island and on shipboard against Vichy agents and Nazi dive bombers. Along with Bogart, the film stars Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Claude Raines.
“Pirates of Venus” is the first book in the Venus series and was first published in six installments in Argosy magazine in 1932 and in book form two years later. The novel contains elements of political satire aimed at communism and there are fantastic creatures, amazing landscapes, picturesque kingdoms with strange customs, a resourceful hero with telepathic abilities, and, of course, a beautiful and strong-willed princess. Carson Napier, the hero of the story, is on a journey to Mars, misses the red planet by a wide margin and crashes on Venus, a water world called Amtor by its humanlike inhabitants. And it’s there that many new adventures begin. “Pirates of Venus” is generally considered one of Edgar Rice Burroughs best books from the 1930s. [Source: Wikipedia]
1950; Zeerovers eiland [Treasure Island] by R.L. Stevenson. Dutch edition with dust Jacket by Piet Marée.
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“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans - front jacket
Stated FIRST Edition / FIRST Printing (full number-line) and Boldly SIGNED and INSCRIBED by AUTHOR Justin Evans on the title page. (Ho-oH ! I got lucky there.)
The Magnificent Dust-Jacket is in top conservation shape.
The Jacket design is by Erin Schell and the Jacket Illustration by the painter JOSE GUADALUPE POSADA (1852-1913) was chosen by the author.
Published by Shaye Areheart Books in May of 2007.
Shaye Areheart Books is an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, itself now a division of Random House, Inc., New York . ISBN: 0307351289
Printed in the United States of America - Book Design by Lynne Amft
I like this Artsy style book design: it is a nice production.
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Frank Herbert's celebrated science fiction novel "Dune" was first published as a three-part serial "Dune World" in the December, 1963 - February, 1964 issues of Analog (formerly Astounding Science Fiction).
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The Chilton Company, which was better known for automotive manuals, put out the novel in book form in 1965. "Dune" was the basis for a less-than-stellar film directed by David Lynch in 1984, an Emmy-winning TV miniseries written and directed by John Harrison in 2000 and a popular 3-D video game in 2001.
1952; The fast Buck by James Hadley Chase. Cover art by David Arnold Taylor. Allways liked the lettering on these dust jackets and later on the paperbacks.
ADAPTED FROM
COLUMBIA’S ALL-TALKING
PICTURE BY RALPH GRAVES
A FRANK R. CAPRA PRODUCTION
PRODUCED BY HARRY COHN
“The first all-talking drama of the air will thrill you.”
“Flight” is an adventure and aviation film directed by Frank Capra. The film stars Jack Holt (as gruff Gunnery Sergeant “Panama” Williams, U.S. Marine Corps pilot), Lila Lee (as Navy nurse Elinor Murray), and Ralph Graves (as Corporal “Lefty” Phelps), who also came up with the story, for which Capra wrote the dialogue. Dedicated to the United States Marine Corps, the production was greatly aided by their full cooperation.
Receiving the Marine Corps’ full cooperation, including the use of facilities and personnel at Naval Base San Diego and NAS North Island, provided the authentic settings Capra required. A total of 28 aircraft were at Capra’s disposal and with the benefit of using actual aircraft, Capra did not have to rely on “process shots” or special effects which was the standard of the day, although dangerous crash scenes and a mass night takeoff were staged using studio miniatures. [Source: Wikipedia]
(Frank Capra would later direct such classics as Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life.)
Jacket art by Robert McGinnis. MacMillan Australia first edition hardcover (1983).
The autobiography of Alan Yates, alias Carter Brown. Features numerous full-colour photographs of classic Carter Brown covers.
The front cover of a wonderful book - the 1939 "Old Fashioned Flowers" by Sacheverell Sitwell that is so beautifully illustrated by John Farleigh - who produced this title page. The book was published by Country Life and printed at the lovely Curwen Press in Plaistow, east London.
Audubon Society Field Guide to MUSHROOMS is published by Knopf under Chanticleer Press imprint way back in 1981. Color plates take up a bit less than half the book, on thicker calendared paper, with the text printed on almost Bible quality paper.....total numbered pages are 926. Gary H. Lincoff author and Carol Nehring credited with the Visual Key.
Durably bound and likely to fit inside most backpacks or even a camera bag.. My copy arrived today. At some point you will remove the dustjacket. Seen here, with a nice photo on the paper jacket, it is shorter than the bound volume. Note the pig skin textured football-color? Well, that is the actual book cover sticking out top and bottom. Not leather, but it looks stout for field work.
Doc Stoeger, owner and editor of the Carmel City Clarion, hopes that before he dies he can put out just one exciting issue of the Clarion. Closing up the forms on Saturday’s issue, he crosses the street for a drink at his favorite tavern. It is as though he had fallen into a rabbit hole, landing in another world where Vorpal Blades, Jabberwocks and Bandersnatches are real as they were to Alice on the other side of the looking glass.
Doc feels quite at home with these unconventional goings-on, being an authority on the works of Lewis Carroll, but murder, bank-robbing, night-driving metropolitan gangsters and a “haunted” house never figured in Doc’s understanding of Carroll’s world. Wonderland became Murderland, with no holds barred.
The "Jabberwock" is a fanciful creature from the wacky mind of Lewis Carroll, who described it in his book "Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There." The Jabberwock has "jaws that bite," "claws that catch," and "eyes of flame." John Tenniel, the book's illustrator, brought it too life and his rendering looks pretty much like the cover illustration on Brown's book:
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Walter Gibson was an accomplished magician as well as an author. Under the Street & Smith house name of Maxwell Grant, he created and wrote 282 of the 325 novels about the most famous crimefighter to battle evil-doers in the pages of pulp magazines -- "The Shadow."
1954; Brandon in New York by Vernon Warren. Cover art by Jas. E. McConnell. Hardcover with dustjacket.
This is one of Arthur C. Clarke’s best novels. It has an irresistible theme – mankind’s first encounter with a visitant from the unimaginably remote depths of space and time.
A new celestial body appears in the outer reaches of our solar system in 2130. Believed at first to be an asteroid and named Rama by earthlings, it proves not to be a natural object at all. It’s a vast cylinder about 31 miles long and over 12 miles across, with a mass of at least ten trillion tons. It is moving steadily closer to the Sun. The five-thousand-ton spaceship Endeavour lands on Rama, and when Commander Bill Norton and his crew make their way into its hollow interior they find a whole self-contained world – a world that has been cruising through space for at least 200,000 years and perhaps for more than a million.
Norton and his crew have, at most, three weeks to explore Rama, which seems to be a dead world, though not without its perils. Then, in its own astonishing way, it proves to be very much alive and the perils intensify. Yet in the end homo sapiens pose the greatest menace.
If Morgan Freeman has his way, Rama will someday make its way onto the big screen:
Kepes, G. (ed.) The New Landscape in Art and Science. Chicago: Paul Theobald and Co., 1956.
Essays by: Jean Arp, Naum Gabo, R.W. Gerard, S. Giedion, Walter Gropius, S.I. Hayakawa, Jean Helion, Fernand Leger, Kathleen Lonsdale, Charles Morris, Richard J. Neutra, C.F.A. Pantin, Bruno Rossi, Paul Weidlinger, Heinz Werner, Norbert Wiener, Richard Wilbur
Young Danny Cross couldn’t understand the telegram from the Security Commission ordering him home from college. He wondered whether it had anything to do with the reported “death” of one of America’s leading atomic scientists in a rocket explosion over White Sands. He was surprised that it was only another thorough security check and a change of security card – the vital “open sesame” to anyone living in the Alamogordo, New Mexico, of 1981.
But Danny noticed a change in the atmosphere at the proving grounds and in the communities where its scientists and technicians lived. As more and more atomic scientists disappeared in “rocket explosions” miles above Earth – explosions that failed to scatter debris under the sites of the accidents – the former camaraderie was replaced by an air of suspicion and foreboding. The continuing disappearances led Danny to conclude that a highly skilled scientific group had planned, constructed and was operating a space station that circled the Earth in secret. He suspected that even his father and mother planned to desert Earth’s laboratories for an extraterrestrial life.
1946 3rd Print; Best Supernatural Stories by H.P. Lovecraft. Dust Jacket art by Leo Manso. Editor August Derleth
Howard Spring's autobographical story of his Cardiff childhood published in 1956 and embellished with a dust jacket illustrated by Lynton Lamb.
Dust Jacket Art by C. E. Monroe.
"Tarzan and the Golden Lion" is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ ninth Tarzan novel. It was made into a motion picture in 1927. A. C. McClurg published the first edition of the novel in 1923 with a dust jacket and interior illustrations by J. Allen St. John. Grosset & Dunlap began reprinting the book in 1924. My copy retains St. John's interior illustrations but the dust jacket features new art by C. Edmund Monroe.
In the previous novel, Tarzan rescued Jane after he discovered that she was alive, and was reunited with his son Korak. In this story he and his family encounter and adopt an orphaned lion cub, whom they name Jad-bal-ja ("The Golden Lion" in the language of the lost land of Pal-ul-don, which they have recently left). They then return to their African estate, gutted by the Germans during the course of World War I in “Tarzan the Untamed.” They find it already being rebuilt by Tarzan's faithful Waziri warriors, including old Muviro, who first appears in this novel after a previous mention in “Tarzan the Untamed.” Muviro reappears in a number of later novels as sub-chief of the Waziri. Back home, Tarzan raises Jad-bal-ja, who in adulthood is a magnificent black-maned golden lion devoted to the Ape Man.
Later Tarzan is drugged and delivered to the priests of Opar, the lost colony of Atlantis that he had last visited in “Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar.” Once again La, the High Priestess of the Flaming God, who is consumed by her hopeless infatuation with Tarzan, rescues him. But when her people discover that she had betrayed them, she flees with Tarzan into the legendary Valley of Diamonds, where savage gorillas rule. The good news is that Tarzan and La are followed by the faithful Jad-bal-ja. The bad news is that they are also being trailed by Esteban Miranda - who happens to look exactly like Tarzan - who hopes to locate and loot Opar. [Source: Wikipedia]
Rear panel of the dust jacket with scenes from the movie.
“A great American story, together with 12 other tales, formerly published as THE LONG VALLEY. The story from which the Technicolor film was made, starring Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Peter Miles and Sheppard Strudwick. A Republic Picture – Directed by Lewis Milestone. A Charles K. Feldman – Lewis Milestone Production.
“’The Red Pony’ is one of Steinbeck’s finest stories and the title story of this volume. It is one of thirteen magnificent stories, almost all set against the background of the Salinas Valley that Steinbeck has preempted as his literary domain. Here we see once more the paisanos of ‘Tortilla Flat,’ the barley-ranch hands of ‘Of Mice and Men,’ the agricultural workers of ‘In Dubious Battle’ – the farm boys, the idlers on the wharves of Monterey, the simple people of the land so profoundly brought to life in all of Steinbeck’s work.
“Contained in this volume are: ‘The Chrysanthemums,’ the ‘White Quail,’ ‘Flight,’ ‘The Snake,’ ‘Breakfast,’ ‘The Raid,’ ‘The Harness,’ ‘The Vigilante,’ ‘Johnny Bear,’ ‘The Murder,’ ‘St. Katy the Virgin,’ ‘Red Pony’ (3 Parts), ‘The Leader of the People.’
“Some of the finest work that the author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ has ever produced has been in the short story or novelette form. Always a superb craftsman who leans to economy of words and directness and concreteness of impression, Steinbeck often includes in a single tale as much material as another author would spread thinly throughout a novel.”
[From the blurb on the dust jacket]
Volume 3 contains the stories “Son of Celluloid,” “Rawhead Rex,” “Confession of a (Pornographer’s) Shroud,” “Scape-Goats,” “Human Remains.” Barker himself adapted "Rawhead Rex" into a movie in 1986. A particularly nasty demon is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rawhead Rex's rampage through the Irish countryside while a man struggles to stop it.
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The “Books of Blood” are a series of horror fiction collections written by the British author Clive Barker. There are six books in all and each contains up to six stories. With the publication of the first volume, Barker became an overnight sensation and was hailed by Stephen King as “the future of horror.” The book won both the British and World Fantasy Awards.
Although undoubtedly horror stories, like most of Barker's work they mix fantasy themes in as well. The unrelentingly bleak tales invariably take place in a contemporary setting, usually featuring everyday people who become embroiled in terrifying or mysterious events. For the hardcover editions, Clive Barker himself illustrated each book’s cover. [Source: Wikipedia]
“Everybody is a book of blood;
Wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”
Clive Barker
“Tarzan’s Quest,” the nineteenth book in the Tarzan series, originally appeared as a six-part serial, “Tarzan and the Immortal Men,” in The Blue Book Magazine from October 1935 to March 1936. The characters include a prince, a princess, an English valet, a French maid, a hardboiled American aviator, and Tarzan’s wife Jane. These and an airplane crack-up, a murder, a tribe of bestial men who have discovered the secret of longevity, unfriendly natives, and Tarzan are the ingredients in this jungle adventure story.
This edition of Poe’s Tales features 12 full page color plates and 17 black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
“Rebecca” is Du Maurier’s first and most popular book, which opens with a truly memorable line: “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” The book is arguably the most famous and well-loved gothic novel of the 20th century. The story begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, is swept off her feet by the rich and dashing 42-year-old widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck. After a brief courtship, she agrees to marry him and, after the wedding and honeymoon, accompanies him to his mansion in Cornwall, the beautiful West Country estate Manderley.
It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife, Rebecca, will cast over their lives – presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave. The sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, who was profoundly devoted to the first Mrs. de Winter, continually attempts to undermine the new Mrs. De Winter psychologically.
The story was made into a haunting film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940 with Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, George Sanders, and Judith Anderson. It was Hitchcock’s first American project and it won two Academy Awards, including Best Picture, out of a total of 11 nominations. Olivier, Fontaine and Anderson were all Oscar nominated for their respective roles. Here is a link to the movie trailer:
“The Maltese Falcon” was originally serialized in the magazine Black Mask beginning with the September 1929 issue. The main character, Sam Spade, appears in this novel only and in three lesser known short stories, yet is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre. Raymond Chandler's character Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett's Spade. Spade was a departure from Hammett's nameless detective, The Continental Op. Sam Spade combined several features of previous detectives, most notably his cold detachment, keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked “The Maltese Falcon” 56th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. [Source: Wikipedia]
The story of “The Maltese Falcon” has been adapted several times for film, the most successful being John Huston’s 1935 version with Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade. www.youtube.com/watch?v=phUxnXGhEiI
This book from Arkham House collects four bizarre novels by British author William Hope Hodgson, their first printing in the USA. They are “The Boats of the Glen Carrig” (1907), “The House on the Borderland” (1908), “The Ghost Pirates” (1909), and “The Night Land” (1912). Primarily the romanticist, Hodgson could not overcome a strong predilection for the weird. A thread of romance creeps into even “The House on the Borderland,” perhaps his best work and one of the most unforgettable weird-scientific novels ever written. “The Night Land” which was subtitled “a love tale” is a weird fantasy story of the world millions of years in the future.
William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) was the son of an Essex clergyman who left home early in life to spend eight years at sea, a circumstance that profoundly influenced his writing career, for his best weird tales were written about the sea. When World War I broke out, Hodgson was granted a commission in the 171st Brigade at Royal Field Artillery. He fought at Ypres and, in the following year, he distinguished himself for bravery by the part he played to help stem the onslaught of a superior German force. Not long after, while on duty in the dangerous post of observation officer of his Brigade, he was killed by a shell.
Hannes Bok (1914-1964) is one of a handful of fantasy illustrators from the pulp magazine era, along with Virgil Finlay and Edd Cartier, whose work is just as popular today as it was in the 1940s. He made his professional debut in the pages of Weird Tales in late 1939, but he began dabbling in fantasy and science fiction art as early as 1930. He did considerable pulp magazine work throughout the 1940s, and was active as a book illustrator and painter in the late 1940s and early 1950s, contributing to such publishers as Arkham House, Shasta, Fantasy Press, and Gnome Press.