The 11th Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK®: E. Hoffmann Price

E. Hoffmann Price

Description

Welcome to The 11th Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK®, which features the weird fiction of E. Hoffmann Price. Wildside Press, in association with Mr. Price’s heirs, are dedicated to making the extensive body of work of this pulpsmith extraordinaire accessible once again to the public through our line of MEGAPACK® collections.

Included in this volume are 18 more of Price's classic stories from the pages of Weird Tales and other pulp magazines. Here are:

SALADIN'S THRONE-RUG

THE GIRL FROM SAMARCAND

THE PEACOCK'S SHADOW

THE LORD OF ILLUSION

PALE HANDS

TARBIS OF THE LAKE

THE GARDEN OF EVIL

THE WALKING DEAD

TOMB DWELLER

KEEPER OF THE GATEWAY

PIT OF MADNESS

SATAN'S DAUGHTER

THE DESTROYING DEMON

SPANISH VAMPIRE

SELENE WALKS BY NIGHT

THE OLD GODS EAT

PRAYER TO SATAN

WEB OF WIZARDRY

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Sujets

• Horror
• Hurlements 2
• Classics
• Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Wildside Press LLC
• Date de parution: 15 août 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781479428144
• Langue: English

Extrait

Contents
COPYRIGHT INFO
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
INTRODUCTION, by Shawn Garrett
SALADIN’S THRONE-RUG
THE GIRL FROM SAMARCAND
THE PEACOCK’S SHADOW
THE LORD OF ILLUSION
PALE HANDS
TARBIS OF THE LAKE
THE GARDEN OF EVIL
THE WALKING DEAD
TOMB DWELLER
KEEPER OF THE GATEWAY
PIT OF MADNESS
SATAN’S DAUGHTER
THE DESTROYING DEMON
SPANISH VAMPIRE
SELENE WALKS BY NIGHT
THE OLD GODS EAT
PRAYER TO SATAN
WEB OF WIZARDRY
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COPYRIGHT INFO
The 11th Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK®: E. Hoffmann Price is copyright © 2017 by Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved.
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The MEGAPACK® ebook series name is a trademark of Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved.
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“Introduction,” by Shawn Garrett, is copyright © 2017 by Wildside Press.
“Saladin’s Throne-Rug” was originally published in Weird Tales , October 1927.
“The Girl from Samarcand” was originally published in Weird Tales , March 1938.
“The Peacock’s Shadow” was originally published in Weird Tales , November 1926. Copyright © 1926, renewed 1954.
“The Lord of Illusion” was originally published in Crypt of Cthulhu #10, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by E. Hoffmann Price.
“Pale Hands” was originally published in The Magic Carpet Magazine , October 1933.
“Tarbis of the Lake” was originally published in Weird Tales , February 1934.
“The Garden of Evil” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , July 1935.
“The Walking Dead” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , November 1935.
“Tomb Dweller” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , December 1935.
“Keeper of the Gateway” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , September 1936.
“Pit Of Madness” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , April 1936.
“Satan’s Daughter” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , January 1936.
“The Destroying Demon” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , August 1936.
“Spanish Vampire” was originally published in in Weird Tales , September 1939.
“Selene Walks by Night” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , August 1940.
“The Old Gods Eat” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , February 1941.
“Prayer to Satan” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Tales , May 1942.
“Web of Wizardry” was originally published in Spicy Mystery Stories , December 1942.




A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
Welcome to the eleventh volume of our Weird Fiction MEGAPACK® series, focusing on the weird works of E. Hoffmann Price. There is a longer introduction by editor Shawn Garrett a few pages later, so Please skip ahead to that piece for more info on Price and his works.
Enjoy!
—John Betancourt
Publisher, Wildside Press LLC
www.wildsidepress.com
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INTRODUCTION, by Shawn Garrett
Welcome to The 11th Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK® , which features the weird fiction of E. Hoffmann Price. Wildside Press, in association with Mr. Price’s heirs, are dedicated to making the extensive body of work of this pulpsmith extraordinaire accessible once again to the public through our line of MEGAPACK® collections.
Edgar Hoffmann Price (July 3, 1898 – June 18, 1988) was born in Fowler, California. A graduate of West Point, he served in World War (followed by military duty in Mexico and the Philippines) and was a champion fencer and boxer—fellow pulp author Jack Williamson referred to him as “a real-life soldier of fortune.” Hoffmann was also something of a polymath—a Republican and a Buddhist, he was also an amateur Orientalist, and a student of the Arabic language.
Price’s first fiction sale was in 1924 to Droll Stories magazine and over the years he befriended, corresponded with, and personally met many authors of the pulp era including Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith and H.P. Lovecraft. He wrote hundreds of stories for many pulp magazines (including Weird Tales ) in varied genres like horror, detective, adventure, fantasy and science fiction. Wildside Press is proud to make his work available to readers again. Due to the inaccessibility of much of Price’s work (he kept no manuscript archive and so we must resort to those original publication copies we can track down) we have decided to package the material into themed MEGAPACK®s, highlighting specific genres he worked in. Later volumes will be released as we gather further material (any collectors interested in aiding our endeavors by supplying photocopies from their collections are strongly urged to contact Wildside’s publisher, John Betancourt, at [e-mail]).
This volume contains 20 stories of monsters, ghosts, occult powers and were-tigers, published between the years 1927 to 1942. Of particular interest are two stories presented here: “The Lord of Illusion” is Price’s draft from 1932 of the piece he co-wrote with H.P. Lovecraft, later published (after heavy revision by HPL) as “Through the Gates of the Silver Key.” Also, “The Peacock’s Shadow” is included here as a taste of Price’s occult detective series character, whose further exploits can be found in E. Hoffmann Price’s Pierre d’Artois: Occult Detective & Associates MEGAPACK ®.
We hope you enjoy these weird tales of the strange and supernatural and urge you to consider purchasing additional collections of Price’s work to be released in the near future. These include: • E. Hoffmann Price’s Exotic Adventures MEGAPACK ® • E. Hoffmann Price’s Two-Fisted Detective MEGAPACK ® • E. Hoffmann Price’s War and Western Action MEGAPACK ® • E. Hoffmann Price’s Fantasy & Science Fiction MEGAPACK ® • E. Hoffmann Price’s Fables of Ismeddin MEGAPACK ® • E. Hoffmann Price’s Pierre d’Artois: Occult Detective & Associates MEGAPACK ® •


SALADIN’S THRONE-RUG
Originally published in Weird Tales , October 1927.
“I would cheerfully have committed murder for that rug; but as it is…”
Morgan Revell smiled at the memory of his exceeding cleverness, and regarded the throne-rug of Saladin with that fanatic affection comprehensible only to a collector…
The savage jest of it is that he did commit murder. Only he doesn’t know it. Nor, for that matter, do I absolutely know. But, piecing it all together, and taking into account the emotions that take possession of a rug collector, I can draw but one inevitable conclusion. And that is—
But to approach the matter at all, some explaining is necessary. First of all, you who regard a rug as something to hide the nakedness of a floor must revise your conception of things. It is all very true that the machine-made atrocities of this country, as well as the precious weaves of the Orient, are indeed used as floor coverings; something on which to walk, something to give the vacuum cleaner its excuse for existing.
But that is only a part of it: Oriental rugs are works of art, the peer of any of the numerous products of man’s instinct to create unbelievable and imperishable beauty. And just as there are those who collect the works of ancient silversmiths, armorers, cabinetmakers, and bookbinders, so likewise are there those whose consuming passion and sole aim in life is the accumulating of antique specimens of Oriental weaving: rugs from Boukhara and silken Samarcand from Shiraz, and Herat of the Hundred Gardens; prayer rugs, palace carpets, or the priceless fabric that graced the floor of a nomad’s tent in Turkestan. Rugs are many, and their enumeration lengthy; and the study of their personality and traits is the pursuit of a lifetime. Some are prized for their beauty and matchless craftsmanship; others for their exceeding rarity; and some for the sake of all those qualities.
Once one has succumbed to the sorcery of a Bijar that covered the dirt floor of a Kurdish hovel, or a silken Kashan that hung suspended by silver rings on the walls of a king’s palace, one is beyond redemption, or the desire of redemption. It is even as though one had become addicted to the smoke of the poppy, or to the grain of