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Enter a magic-infused Victorian alternate history, where silver tigers and demon birds roam, and one young woman is caught up in a sweeping mutiny...

In this epic historical fantasy by Kay Kenyon, discover an alternate 19th century where two warring continents vie for power: the scientific Anglica and magical Bharata. Inspired by her grandfather's final whispered secret of a magical lotus, young Tori Harding, an aspiring botanist, embarks on a quest to Bharata, where magic, intrigues, and ghosts await. There she will find what she most desires; less perfect than she had hoped and stranger than she could have dreamed.

Her fate awaits. But how can she make the choice between two suitors - and two irreconcilable realms?

Seventeen science essays (all reprinted from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction) are grouped into two parts: Part I--Of Time and Space; Part II--Of Other Things. The articles are numbered as chapters, with the first ten in Part I, and the next seven in Part II.

Table of Contents:

• ix - Introduction (Of Time and Space and Other Things) - essay
• 2 - The Days of Our Years - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 14 - Begin at the Beginning - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1965) - essay
• 26 - Ghost Lines in the Sky - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 38 - The Heavenly Zoo - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 51 - Roll Call - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1963) - essay
• 64 - Round and Round and... - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 74 - Just Mooning Around - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1963) - essay
• 86 - First and Rearmost - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 98 - The Black of Night - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 109 - A Galaxy at a Time - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 122 - Forget It! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 134 - Nothing Counts - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 146 - C for Celeritas - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1959) - essay
• 157 - A Piece of the Action - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 168 - Welcome, Stranger! - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1963) - essay
• 180 - The Haste-Makers - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay
• 193 - The Slowly Moving Finger - [Asimov's Essays: F&SF] - (1964) - essay

When you think of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Robert Sliverberg, you most probably think, 'Master of Science Fiction'. Or possibly, even 'Master of Fantasy'. However, what you would most likely never consider is 'Master of Horror'.

And yet, there was a time - in the late 1950s - when Robert Sliverberg was producing all kinds of stories: science fiction, crime fiction, men's adventure fiction, softcore porn and, yes even horror fiction!

In those days he was turning out an estimated million words a year, necessitating the use of multiple pseudonyms. Many of the stories published in this volume have never been reprinted before - they are drawn from a wide variety of magazine, from Fantastic and Super-Science Fiction to such rarities as Monster Parade and Monster and Things.

In these pages you will find twenty-seven tales by one of the most talented authors in any genre. Featuring vampires, werewolves, ghouls, mad scientists and, yes, monsters and things - both alien and terrestrial - they deserve to be rescued from obscurity.

CONTENTS:

• Foreword: Robert Silverberg: Master of Horror by Stephen Jones
• Introduction: Little Monsters by Robert Silverberg
• Freak Show
• The Werewolf Gambit
• Call Me Zombie!
• Dig That Crazy Scientist
• The Man Who Believed in Werewolves
• Secrets of the Torture Cult
• Coffins Are for Corpses
• "Find Me a Victim"
• Crossroads of the Ghouls
• The Thing Behind Hell's Door
• Demons of Cthulhu
• Mournful Monster
• Vampires from Outer Space
• A Cry for Help
• You Can't Cheat Death's Demon
• The Undertaker's Sideline
• Guardian Devil
• The Day the Monsters Broke Loose
• Beasts of Nightmare Horror
• The Horror in the Attic
• Monsters That Once Were Men
• Birth of a Monster
• Planet of the Angry Giants
• Which Was the Monster?
• The Loathsome Beasts
• The Monsters Came by Night
• The Insidious Invaders

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in his imagination, he finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While his family falls apart around him, David is violently propelled into a land that is a strange reflection of his own world, populated by heroes and monsters, and ruled over by a faded king who keeps his secrets in a mysterious book... The Book of Lost Things.

An imaginative tale about navigating the journey into adulthood, while doing your best to hang on to your childhood.

Phoebe, an eight-year-old girl, lies comatose following a car accident. She is a body without a spirit, a stolen child. Ceres, her mother, can only sit by her bedside and read aloud to Phoebe the fairy stories she loves in the hope they might summon her back to this world. But it is hard to keep faith, so very hard.

Now an old house on the hospital grounds, a property connected to a book written by a vanished author, is calling to Ceres. Something wants her to enter, and to journey - to a land coloured by the memories of Ceres's childhood, and the folklore beloved of her father, to a land of witches and dryads, giants and mandrakes; to a land where old enemies are watching, and waiting.

To the Land of Lost Things.

Harry Bodie's been called into the delightful fantasy world of his grandmother's beloved children's books. It's not delightful here at all.

All roads lead to Underhill, where it's always winter, and never nice.

Harry Bodie has a famous grandmother, who wrote beloved children's books set in the delightful world of Underhill. Harry himself is a failing kids' TV presenter whose every attempt to advance his career ends in self-sabotage. His family history seems to be nothing but an impediment.

An impediment... or worse. What if Underhill is real? What if it has been waiting decades for a promised child to visit? What if it isn't delightful at all? And what if its denizens have run out of patience and are taking matters into their own hands?