The Fly-By-Nights, Screaming Science Fiction and The Nonesuch and Others by Brian Lumley
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Overview: Brian Lumley is a British horror and science fiction writer, who started out writing Lovecraftian stories before finding his own voice – creating well-received books like the Necroscope series.
Here we have two collections (Screaming Science Fiction and The Nonesuch and Others) and a novel (The Fly-By-Nights), all illustrated by Bob Eggleton.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Screaming Science Fiction
Gleefully mixing SF, fantasy, and horror, Screaming Science Fiction is a full-length collection of nine thrilling, chilling, spine-tingling stories by horror master Brian Lumley (Necroscope), including "No Way Home," "Snarker’s Son," "The Strange Years," and a nearly 20,000 word novella ("Feasibility Study") appearing for the first time anywhere.
Contents:
Foreword
Snarker’s son
Man who felt pain
Strange years
No way home
Man who saw no spiders
Deja viewer
Feasibility study
Gaddy’s gloves
Big "C"
The Nonesuch and Others
Normally, when readers seen Brian Lumley’s byline on a book–especially one with the amazing jacket art of Bob Eggleton–the names of several colourful fictional characters spring to mind: heroes such as Harry Keogh, the eponymous Necroscope, or perhaps the occult investigator Titus Crow. While these may be the author’s best-known heroes; however, they are only two of a large handful, which is why it may come as something of a surprise this time around to discover that the so-called hero of this current trilogy of tales…isn t!
No, for this lesser-known character isn’t so much a typical Lumley hero as an innocent bystander who all too often seems to be standing by in the wrong place at the wrong time–a man in collision with various weird horrors who can never state definitely that the things he experiences are real. After all, someone who sees a few too many pink elephants may question almost anything he experiences, right?
So here he is–the neither hero nor anti-hero narrator of these stories–though in The Nonesuch he s at least seen to be brave if not actually heroic. However, when you’ve done reading this small trilogy, you might like to ask yourself this: pitted against horrors like those in these stories, just how much of a hero would you be?
Contents:
Introduction
The Thin People
Stilts
The Nonesuch
The Fly-By-Nights
150 years ago the world ended. Bombs fell, winter came, and the survivors fled underground in search of safety. Now they struggle to preserve what’s left — sleeping by day, and battling fearsome vampiric fly-by-nights after sunset.
Resources are scarce and security is scarcer in this fallout-poisoned world, but one subterranean clan of hardy souls clings to life, scavenging and scraping by until their water supply goes catastrophically bad. Forced to seek a new life above, they leave their long-time home to caravan across the stricken planet’s surface, where the light is toxic and the night hides unspeakable monsters.
It is a difficult existence without promise or direction, until word from a band of fellow refugees fizzes through the choppy radio static. The Kindred promise help, companionship, and a new settlement in a distant valley…if only the clan can reach them.
For between the Kindred and the Clan stand a hundred miles of impossible terrain and countless fly-by-nights, and within the Clan itself trouble brews when two very different men fight for the love of one woman who has already made her choice.
It’s the oldest story ever told, but this time it could mean the end of humanity.
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