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Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi
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Thirteen terrifying tales from the master of horror who created the nationally bestselling Necroscope series. The title story, “Fruiting Bodies,” in which a small village slowly disappears, won the British Fantasy Award.

“The Viaduct,” is the story of two young boys who learn the truth about fear and death.

“Born of the Winds” was nominated for the World Fantasy Award.

There is also an introduction by Lumley in which he discusses violence in horror fiction.

Stories included in this collection:
Fruiting Bodies
The Man Who Photographed Beardsley
The Man Who Felt Pain
The Viaduct
Recognition
No Way Home
The Pit-Yakker
The Mirror of Nitocris
Necros
The Thin People
The Cyprus Shell
The Deep-Sea Conch
Born of the Winds

Demogorgon

Demogorgon
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Charlie Trace, professional thief, is no stranger to deceit and violence. But nothing in his life on the knife-edge of London’s underworld could prepare him for the horror of Demogorgon.

It is centuries old. Satan is its lord and master. It walks the earth in the guise of a man, but it is not a man: it is the very essence of evil.

Across many years and nations, Demogorgon has sown the seeds of hell. Now, it is calling its children home. Demogorgon’s power grows with every soul it devours – and if Charlie Trace can’t stop it, he will be its next victim!

Necroscope

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An instant classic, Brian Lumley’s astonishing feat of imagination spawned a universe which Lumley has explored and expanded through more that a baker’s dozen of novels and novellas.

Millions of copies of Necroscope and its successors are in print in a dozen languages throughout the world. Nominated for the British Fantasy Award, Necroscope has inspired everything from comic books and graphic novels to sculptures and soundtracks.

This new edition of Necroscope uses the author’s preferred text and includes a special introduction by Brian Lumley, telling how the Necroscope saga came to be. It also includes chapter ornaments by Hugo-Award-Winning artist Bob Eggleton, long identified with Lumley’s blood-sucking monsters.

As a classic, Necroscope rightfully claims a place in the Orb trade paperback list, for scholars of the field and the dedicated Lumley collector. And also for all the people who have read more than one mass market copy of the book to tatters.

Harry Keogh is the man who can talk to the dead, the man for whom every grave willingly gives up its secrets, the one man who knows how to travel effortlessly through time and space to destroy the vampires that threaten all humanity.

In Necroscope, Harry is startled to discover that he is not the only person with unusual mental powers–Britain and the Soviet Union both maintain super-secret, psychically-powered espionage organizations. But Harry is the only person who knows about Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire long buried in the mountains of Romania–still horribly alive, in undeath–and Thibor’s insane “offspring,” Boris Dragosani, who rips information from the souls of the dead in a terrible, ever-lasting form of torture.

Somehow, Harry must convince Britain’s E-Branch that only by working together can they locate and destroy Dragosani and his army of demonic warriors–before the half-vampire succeeds in taking over the world!