Frank Belknap Long

For the first time on Earth a human child had been born who could summon us! He was eight years old now, but wise beyond his years and he had summoned us deliberately across space. He had sat, hunched and shivering, in his own small room, staring up at the far-flung constellations. Then, abruptly, he had thrown out his arms and called to us.

Prepare yourself for more macabre spectacles and contes cruel, crawling things and loathsome gods, predators from deep inside the mind of man and from far outside angled space, all brought to you by the incomparable Frank Belknap Long! Included are 20 short stories and the complete text of Long's 1977 poetry collection. Here are: JOHNNY ON THE SPOT THE MAN FROM NOWHERE FISHERMAN'S LUCK THE REFUGEES GRAB BAGS ARE DANGEROUS STEP INTO MY GARDEN IT...

Eight Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Frank Belknap Long. Featured here: "The Mississippi Saucer", "The Sky Trap", "The Calm Man", "The Man from Time", "The Man the Martians Made", "The Mercurian", "Lake of Fire", and "The Vibration Wasps".

Excerpt: ""She had a secret library of psychological case histories, featuring pathological and brutal departures from normalcy in the area of sex. She never missed a weird movie. Terror in any form excited her physically...." Helen Lathrup had a curious twist in her imagination ... a twist that needed an outlet in real life. Close friends found themselves drawn into a nightmare world of terror and guilt. Finally one violent act triggered an explosion."...

He was after a fugitive from justice - but the man he found was...himself! A pulp classic originally published in Thrilling Wonder Stories (Spring 1954).

This is the unusual and sensual story of David Loring, an artist, and his beautiful fiancée, Janice Reece. David loved Janice but the Martian Empire had a plan to entice David away from his beloved. With their plan for world domination at stake the Martians selected these two lovers' for their first attack. Together, David and Janice became involved in a highly emotional and physical conflict that broke through the barriers of outer space itself....

Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) - one of the early masters of fantasy and science fiction, friend of and collaborator with H.P. Lovecraft - produced hundreds of novels, short stories, and poems throughout his long and distinguished career. From fantasy and horror in Weird Tales to action-adventure science fiction in Planet Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories to more "nuts and bolts" science fiction in Astounding Stories, and also work in the romance...

Amazing Stories is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are eight stories by Frank Belknap Long: "The Mercurian", "Time Trap", "The Timeless Ones", "The Mississippi Saucer", "The Sky Trap", "The Calm Man", "The Man from Time", and "The Man the Martians Made".

Something of the wonder that must have come to men seeking magic in the sky in days long vanished.

Deep in the Future he found the answer to Man's age-old problem.