aka Lovers & other Monsters
From the dust jacket
Marvin Kaye's new collection of over fifty stories, poems, and a short play presents the darker and supernatural aspects of loveโwhether romantic, sexual, brotherly or decidedly unusual.
The cast of loversโor, perhaps, monstersโincludes wives and husbands, prostitutes and princesses, ghosts and demons, machines and computers, vampires, aliens and even a winged goddess.
Of particular note are:
Anne Rice's only published short story "Master of the Rampling Gate," a tale of vampiric seduction.
Ray Bradbury's "The Maiden," a story that until now has never been reprinted since its first appearance in 1947.
Mary Higgins Clark's "Voices in the Coalbin," an evocative tale of love and possession.
Morgan Lllywelyn's "Princess," a sly re-interpretation of a familiar fairy tale.
Dashiell Hammett's "In the Morgue," a little-known short story by a master of detective fiction.
And Jack Moffitt's solution to the classic tale by Frank R. Stockton, "The Lady or the Tiger?" (which is also included).
Table of Contents
Introduction
Odd Couples
Poul Anderson โ Journeys End
Jerome Bixby and Joe E. Dean โ Share Alike
C. H. Sherman โ Teacher
Christina Rossetti โ A Nightmare
Dan Burrello โ The Songs of My Young
Darrell Schweitzer โ Minotauress
Parke Godwin โ A Matter of Taste
Mildred Clingerman โ The Wild Wood
Worldly Love
Arthur Conan Doyle โ The Colonelโs Choice
Julia L. Keefer โ A Secret
Frederick Laing โ Gentleman on the Top Floor
Maxim Gorky โ Twenty-Six Men and a Girl
William S. Gilbert โ Ellen MโJones Aberdeen
Joan Andelman โ A Sunday in December
Jessica Amanda Salmonson โ The Old Woman Who Dragged Her Husbandโs Corpse
Carole Buggรฉ โ Laura
E. P. Conkle โ Minnie Field
H. G. Wells โ The Pearl of Love
Not of This World
H. P. Lovecraft โ The Strange High House in the Mist
Paula Volsky โ Let No Man Dream
Morgan Llywelyn โ Princess
Edith Wharton โ The Ladyโs Maidโs Bell
Toby Sanders โ The Satyr
Honorรฉ de Balzac โ Don Juan; or The Elixir of Long Life
Justin Dowling โ The Legs That Walked
Saralee Terry โ The Bridge to the Liver Pies
Ray Russell โ The Black Wench
Guillaume Apollinaire โ The Blue Eye
Anne Rice โ The Master of Rampling Gate
Theodore Sturgeon โ The Deadly Ratio
Out of This World
Amy Wasp-Wimberger โ Will the Real Dennis Casper Please Stand Up?
Fredric Brown โ Expedition
Dan Potter โ Tripping the Light Fantastic
Frederik Pohl โ The Fiend
Marvin Kaye โ Happy Hour
Richard L. Wexelblat โ Horace, Nellie, and the Computer
Isaac Asimov โ Iโm in Marsport Without Hilda
J. Timothy Hunt โ Moonflower
Robert Sheckley โ The Language of Love
Fatal Attractions
Edgar Allan Poe โ Berenice
Bret Harte โ A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst
Dashiell Hammett โ In the Morgue
Thomas D. Sadler โ Himerosโs Daughter
Josef Marais โ A-round the Corner
Mary Higgins Clark โ Voices in the Coalbin
Ray Bradbury โ The Maiden
Wallace West โ A Thing of Beauty
Traditional โ The Douglas Tragedy
W. C. Morrow โ The Permanent Stiletto
Joan Vander Putten โ In the Shadows of My Fear
Maurice Level โ Blue Eyes
WC : 192,399 Work Table : My Scan Add'l Contributors : Anderson, Poul & Dean, Joe E & Bixby, Jerome & Sherman, C H & Rossetti, Christina & Burrello, Dan & Schweitzer, Darrell & Godwin, Parke & Clingerman, Mildred & Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan & Keefer, Julia L & Laing, Frederick & Gorky, Maxim & Gilbert, William S & Andelman, Joan & Salmonson, Jessica Amanda & Buggรฉ, Carole & Conkle, E P & Wells, H G & Lovecraft, H P & Volsky, Paula & Llywelyn, Morgan & Wharton, Edith & Sanders, Toby & Balzac, Honorรฉ de & Dowling, Justin & Terry, Saralee & Russell, Ray & Apollinaire, Guillaume & Rice, Anne & Sturgeon, Theodore & Wasp-Wimberger, Amy & Brown, Fredric & Potter, Dan & Pohl, Frederik & Kaye, Marvin & Wexelblat, Richard L & Asimov, Isaac & Hunt, J Timothy & Sheckley, Robert & Poe, Edgar Allan & Harte, Bret & Hammett, Dashiell & Sadler, Thomas D & Marais, Josef & Higgins-Clark, Mary & Bradbury, Ray & West, Wallace & Unknown & Morrow, W C & Vander-Putten, Joan & Level, Maurice & Moffitt, Jack & Stockton, Frank Version : 5.0 Formats : EPUB, PDF