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Jirel of Joiry, the first of the great female warriors, the beautiful commander of the strongest fortress in the kingdom, would face any danger to defend her beloved country. She wielded her bright sword against mighty armies, the sinister magic of evil sorcerers and fearsome castles guarded by the dead, even daring to descend into Hell itself...

Northwest Smith, the scarred and weathered outlaw, the legendary hero of the spaceways, forced to confront the terrible mysteries, the terrifying, mythic monsters of the universe...

Jirel of Joiry and Northwest Smith are C.L. Moore's greatest creations and she used them not only to spin spellbinding tales but also to explore the mysteries of the human psyche.

This is the omnibus edition of the collections Jirel of Joiry (aka Black Gods) and Scarlet Dream (aka Northwest Smith).

Comus, the communications network/police force, has spread its web of power all across an America paralyzes by the after-effects of limited nuclear war. But in California, resistance is building against the dictatorship of Comus and Andrew Raleigh, president for life. For now Raleigh is dying and the powers of Comus are fading. It's the perfect time for the Californian revolutionaries to activate the secret weapon that alone can destroy America's totalitarian system and re-establish democracy. Yet Comus too has powers at its disposal, chief among them Howard Rohan. A washed-up actor until Comus offers him a second chance, Rohan will head a troupe of players touring in the heart of rebel territory. Howard Rohan, double agent, caught between the orders of Comus and rebels demands Which side will he choose? Who will he play false - himself or the entire country?

During World War II, four bitter enemies are pulled forward a billion years in time by a master being from an alien galaxy. They arrive on a dying Earth--to Carcasilla, Earth's last citadel--where the mutated remnants of humanity are making their final stand against the monstrous creations of a fading world.

Thrust in the middle of this desperate struggle for survival, the last humans must put aside their differences and stop the looming Armageddon.

This novelette originally appeared in the collection No Boundaries (1955). It can also be found in the anthologies S-F: The Year's Greatest Science-Fiction and Fantasy (1956), edited by Judith Merril, and Asleep in Armageddon (1962), edited by Michael Sissons.

The fierce, proud, and relentless commander of warriors, standing tall above her enemies and simmering with rage, Jirel bids farewell to the world of treacherous men and walks through a forbidden door into Hell itself in pursuit of freedom, justice, and revenge.

Table of Contents:

• Jirel Meets Magic (1935) - novelette
• Black God's Kiss (1934) - novelette
• Black God's Shadow (1934) - novelette
• The Dark Land (1936) - novelette
• Hellsgarde (1939) - novelette

The original book publication of Judgement Night was issued by Gnome Press, which included four shorter works in addition to the novel. Subsequent publications of Judgement Night did not always include these shorter works.

Table of Contents:

• Judgment Night - (1952) - novel
• Paradise Street - (1950) - novella
• Promised Land - (1950) - novelette
• The Code - (1945) - novelette
• Heir Apparent - (1950) - novelette

Here is an anthology that explores the furthest reaches of imagination and the closest areas of emotion with power and with humour and with a sense of human purpose. This is Kuttner and Moore at their best.

Table of Contents:

• Vintage Season - (1946) - novelette
• The Devil We Know - (1941) - novelette
• Home There's No Returning - novelette
• Exit the Professor - (1947) - short story
• Two-Handed Engine - (1955) - novelette
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited

From on high of Mount Olympus comes an adventure in mythology, penned by a Hugo-nominated master of the genre.

Jay Seward remembered a former life in a land of magic, gods, and goddesses--a time when he was Jason of Iolcus, sailing in the enchanted ship Argo to steal the Golden Fleece from the serpent-temples of Apollo. But one night the memories became startlingly real, as the Argo itself sailed out of the spectral mists and a hauntingly beautiful voice called: "Jason... come to me!" And suddenly he was on the deck of the Argo, sailing into danger and magic.

Two-Handed Engine is the largest collection of science fiction and fantasy by Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore ever published. It features a frontispiece by Richard Powers, and an introduction by the book's editor, David Curtis.

The stories, ranging from across their entire career, include: Shambleau, The Graveyard Rats, Mimsy Were the Borogoves, Vintage Season, Private Eye, and more.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Two-Handed Engine) - (2005) - essay by David Curtis
• Shambleau - (1933) - novelette by C. L. Moore
• The Graveyard Rats - (1936) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
• A Gnome There Was - (1941) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• The Twonky - (1942) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Compliments of the Author - (1942) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Mimsy Were the Borogoves - (1943) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Shock - (1943) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Reader, I Hate You! - (1943) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
• The World Is Mine - (1943) - novelette by Henry Kuttner [as by Lewis Padgett]
• When the Bough Breaks - (1944) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• The Cure - (1946) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• The Code - (1945) - novelette by C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell]
• Line to Tomorrow - (1945) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Clash by Night - (1943) - novella by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell]
• Ghost - (1943) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
• The Proud Robot - (1943) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Nothing But Gingerbread Left - (1943) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• No Woman Born - (1944) - novelette by C. L. Moore
• Housing Problem - (1944) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• What You Need - (1945) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• Absalom - (1946) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• Call Him Demon - (1946) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Keith Hammond]
• Daemon - (1946) - shortstory by C. L. Moore
• Vintage Season - (1946) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lawrence O'Donnell]
• Dark Angel - (1946) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (variant of The Dark Angel) [as by Henry Kuttner]
• Before I Wake - (1945) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner (variant of Before I Wake...)
• Exit the Professor - [Hogben - 2] - (1947) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• The Big Night - (1947) - novelette by Henry Kuttner [as by Hudson Hastings]
• A Wild Surmise - (1953) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Don't Look Now - (1948) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
• Private Eye - (1949) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• By These Presents - (1953) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
• Home Is the Hunter - (1953) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• Or Else - (1953) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• Year Day - (1953) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
• A Cross of Centuries - (1958) - shortstory by Henry Kuttner
• Two-Handed Engine - (1955) - novelette by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner

Beyond Earth's Gates

THE LOVELIEST GIRL IN TWO WORLDS - AND THE DEADLIEST!

Under Eddie Burton's management the ambitious starlet Lorna Maxwell seemed headed for the top of Broadway's glamorous world of make-believe. And then she vanished - through a wall where there was no door. Eddie found himself plunging after her into a city beyond reality.

In that weird twin city to New York, Eddie became a hunted fugitive while his girl friend turned up as an ever-present face and all-pervading voice that awed and mystified the inhabitants. And Eddie learned that between him and return to his natural home stood her new manager, a mysterious figure who ruled by a tyrannical combination of super-scientific miracle and brute force.

Daybreak--2250 A.D

Two centuries after an atomic war on earth, a silver-haired mutant sets out on a dangerous search for a lost city of the ruined civilization.

Contents:

• Intro by Lester Del Rey
• Shambleau
• Black Thirst
• The Bright Illusion
• Black God's Kiss
• Tryst in Time
• Greater Than Gods
• Fruit of Knowledge
• No Woman Born
• Daemon
• Vintage Season
• Afterword by C.L. Moore.

Terrifying disturbances have been reported in the Uranium mines of Fortuna. The minors have come to believe that they are haunted, and the delays in production have attracted the attention of the Royal Atomic Energy Commission. Their agent arrives to discover one of the mine's owners, a young woman of unknown origin, living in terror of the other, an old man with mad dreams of immortality. They follow a mysterious and ruthless would-be goddess into another world, where masked beings of pure energy have enslaved the population for thousands of years, drawing their titanic power from the unfathomable Well of the Worlds.

A Variant Title for The Fairy Chessmen:

A mathematician whose research involves a type of chess played with variable rules ("fairy chess") is the only one able to solve an "equation from the future" in which the constants are treated as variables that the "bad guys" are going to use to win World War III.

Jirel returns to the terrifying dark land beneath Joiry to undo a wrong she committed in Black God's Kiss.

The Jirel of Joiry series is not numbered but this is the second published story of such.

This novelette is included in the collection "Jirel of Joiry".

It first appeared in the December, 1934 Issue of Weird Tales, available free on Internet Archives.

Jirel visits the haunted castle of Hellsgarde to retrieve a treasure.

The Jirel of Joiry series is not numbered but this is the sixth published story of such.

This novelette is included in the collection "Jirel of Joiry"

It first appeared in the April, 1939 Issue of Weird Tales, available free on Internet Archives.

The story of a warrior maid and the tremendous adventure that awaited her beyond the castle window-

The Jirel of Joiry series is not numbered but this is the third published story of such.

This novelette is included in the collection "Jirel of Joiry".

It first appeared in the July, 1935 Issue of Weird Tales, available on Internet Archives.

A gripping story of a warrior maid who went down into a land of unthinkable evil in search of a strange weapon.

The Jirel of Joiry series is not numbered but this is the first published story of such.

This novelette is included in the collection "Jirel of Joiry".

It first appeared in the October, 1934 Issue of Weird Tales, available on Internet Archives.

Jirel is snatched from her deathbed by Pav of the dark land of Romne.

The Jirel of Joiry series is not numbered but this is the fourth published story of such.

This novelette is included in the collection "Jirel of Joiry".

It first appeared in the January, 1936 Issue of Weird Tales, available free on Internet Archives.

This short story was originally published in the fanzine Scienti-Snaps, February 1940, and reprinted in Fantastic Universe in January, 1957. It was later anthologized in Echoes of Valor II, edited by Karl Edward Wagner (1989), and collected in Scarlet Dream (1981) and in Northwest of Earth: The Complete Northwest Smith (2008).

Read this story for free at Project Gutenberg.

Northwest of Earth is a 1954 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by C. L. Moore. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1954 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The collections contains stories about Moore's characters Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Dust of Gods - [Northwest Smith] - (1934) - novelette (variant of Dust of the Gods)
• 35 - Lost Paradise - [Northwest Smith] - (1936) - novelette
• 61 - The Dark Land - [Jirel of Joiry] - (1936) - novelette
• 89 - Julhi - [Northwest Smith] - (1935) - novelette
• 121 - Hellsgarde - [Jirel of Joiry] - (1939) - novelette
• 155 - The Cold Gray God - [Northwest Smith] - (1935) - novelette
• 183 - Yvala - [Northwest Smith] - (1936) - novelette

Shambleau and Others is a 1953 collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by American writer C. L. Moore. First published by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies the collection contains stories about Moore's characters Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.

Table of Contents:

• Black God's Kiss - (1934) - novelette
• Shambleau - (1933) - novelette
• Black God's Shadow - (1934) - novelette
• Black Thirst - (1934) - novelette
• The Tree of Life - (1936) - novelette
• Jirel Meets Magic - (1935) - novelette
• Scarlet Dream - (1934) - novelette

75th Anniversary Edition!

Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure halls of old Mars, Northwest Smith blazes a trail through the underbelly of the solar system in 13 action-packed stories you won’t soon forget.

Scarlet Dream is a collection of science fiction short stories by C. L. Moore with illustrations by Alicia Austin. It was first published in 1981 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,820 copies, of which 220 were bound in buckram, boxed, and signed by the author and artist. The stories feature Moore's character Northwest Smith. All but the last story originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.

Table of Contents:

• Scarlet Dream - interior artwork by Alicia Austin
• 11 - Shambleau - [Northwest Smith] - (1933) - novelette
• 48 - Black Thirst - [Northwest Smith] - (1934) - novelette
• 93 - The Tree of Life - [Northwest Smith] - (1936) - novelette
• 127 - Scarlet Dream - [Northwest Smith] - (1934) - novelette
• 156 - Dust of Gods - [Northwest Smith] - (1934) - novelette (variant of Dust of the Gods)
• 188 - Lost Paradise - [Northwest Smith] - (1936) - novelette
• 218 - Julhi - [Northwest Smith] - (1935) - novelette
• 256 - The Cold Gray God - [Northwest Smith] - (1935) - novelette
• 289 - Yvala - [Northwest Smith] - (1936) - novelette
• 326 - Song in a Minor Key - [Northwest Smith] - (1940) - short story

75th Anniversary Edition!

Among the best-written and most emotionally complex stories of the Pulp Era, the tales of intergalactic smuggler Northwest Smith still resonate strongly 75 years after their first publication. From the crumbling temples of forgotten gods on Venus to the seedy pleasure halls of old Mars, Northwest Smith blazes a trail through the underbelly of the solar system in 13 action-packed stories you won’t soon forget.

Contents:

• Teaching the World to Dream - essay by C. J. Cherryh
• Shambleau (1933) - novelette
• Black Thirst (1934) - novelette
• Scarlet Dream (1934) - novelette
• Dust of Gods (1934) - novelette
• Julhi (1935) - novelette
• Nymph of Darkness (1935) - short story with Forrest J. Ackerman
• The Cold Gray God (1935) - novelette
• Yvala (1936) - novelette
• Lost Paradise (1936) - novelette
• The Tree of Life (1936) - novelette
• Quest of the Starstone (1937) - novelette with Henry Kuttner
• Werewoman (1938) - novelette
• Song in a Minor Key (1940) - short story

Note: The Singularity & Co. e-book of Moore's Northwest Smith stories has the same contents as the 1982 Ace Books collection (Northwest Smith), and does not include "Nymph of Darkness", "Quest of the Starstone", and "Werewoman".

Vintage Season:

It's the most beautiful Spring the great metropolis has seen in modern memory. the sun-drenched air seems full of hope, of promise for a better tomorrow. But across the river, in the suburb on the ridge that overlooks the city, Oliver Wilson is perplexed. Who are those elegant, perfectly-poised, almost exotic people to whom he's rented his house? What impending event has drawn them here, to this sleepy suburb, as if it were the best seat in the house for the greatest show on Earth?

In Another Country:

For time-traveling tourists, the rule about affairs with the locals is clear--look but don't touch. To flout that rule is to invite endless paradoxes and complications--as the well-meaning Thimiroi finds out to his dismay, in this all-new tale by SF master Robert Silverberg, written especially for the Tor Doubles as a companion to C. L. Moore's famous original.