William Browning Spencer

Harry Gainesborough wrote a children's story called "Zod Wallop". And then his daughter died. Now Raymond Story, a patient at Harwood Psychiatric Hospital and Harry's biggest fan, has escaped--to find Harry in his remote cabin. Raymond is convinced that the people, creatures, and places of "Zod Wallop" are real. And as events transpire, Harry begins to wonder if Raymond is right.

Zod Wallop

"Philip Kenan is battling a series of bad jobs - and the monsters from H. P. Lovecraft's fiction go with him." "Philip's first confrontation with the monsters set in motion a bizarre chain of events that finally sent his girlfriend Amelia packing. Now the battle rages from the dank, cramped sweatshop of Philip's former place of employment, Ralph's One-Day Resumes, to the gleaming, deadly corridors of corporate giant Pelidyne. Can he save Amelia this time, or will the monsters triumph and consign all humanity to an existence of grim servitude?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Resume with Monsters

Maybe I'll Call Anna

John Shirley

Darrell Schweitzer

Robert Silverberg

Donald Tyson

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Lois H. Gresh

Arthur C. Clarke

Harry Turtledove

Joseph S. Pulver

Michael Shea

Jonathan Thomas

Melanie Tem

J. C. Koch

K. M. Tonso

Lesław Haliński

Maciej Machała

Szaleństwo Cthulhu

An imaginative update on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, this wicked satire of corporate culture traces a would-be writer's struggles at dead-end jobs where monsters lurk behind every cubicle.

Résumé with Monsters

It’s a hot summer night in a small town in North Carolina. A pretty girl named Anna Shockley has arrived in the emergency room after a drug overdose. And so, David Livingston—emergency room orderly, fledgling artist, and incorrigible romantic—meets the obsession of a lifetime. When David moves into the communal house where Anna lives, he soon discovers that Anna Shockley is dangerous to herself and others—and that there are those around her, drawn by the “doomed shout” of her beauty, who are far more dangerous.

In the title story--which tells of a letter from the past that sends a middle-aged man in search of a diabolical engine of death and the identity of a legendary murderer--and other stories, William Browning Spencer demonstrates a wildly imaginative, non-stop narrative skill in the tradition of Roald Dahl and John Collier.

The Return of Count Electric

Fans of William Browning Spencer have been waiting more than ten years for this, his second collection of short stories. The Ocean and All Its Devices won't disappoint. Spencer's first collection, The Return of Count Electric was acclaimed by reviewers in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Cemetery Dance, Publishers Weekly and other magazines and newspapers. Science fiction legend Roger Zelazny, once introduced to Spencer's work, became a lifelong devotee. He wrote: "William Browning Spencer is one of those rare short story writers who comes along once in a generation -- like Saki, Collier, Sheckley -- and manages to combine all of the virtues within that restricted format." The Ocean and All Its Devices collects some of Spencer's finest published work. Three of these stories appeared in "year's best" anthologies. Another, "The Death of the Novel," was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award, while "The Essayist in the Wilderness" was on the final ballot for a World Fantasy Award

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The Ocean and All Its Devices

William Browning Spencer

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