Frank Belknap Long is best remembered for his Cthulhu Mythos stories like “The Hounds of Tindalos.” But the prolific Long also wrote his own unique brand of science fiction blended with mystery. This new Ramble House collection brings all of the John Carstairs stories together for the first time. If you like mysteries with a science fiction element to them, these long forgotten stories will delight you!
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
PLANTS MUST GROW
SNAPDRAGON
PLANTS MUST SLAY
SATELLITE OF PERIL
THE ETHER ROBOTS
THE HEAVY MAN
WOBBLIES IN THE MOON
THE HOLLOW WORLD
George – You read my mind. I had recently obtained a UK paperback of this title and was thinking of doing vit. You beat me to it. Still fun stuff.
Scott, I think Ramble House is distributing those UK titles. I’m trying to get a set of their Neil R. Jones collections next!
I have a Frank Belknap Long short story collection that I should really pull out and read for RIP this year. It is filled with stories that look to have more of a ‘scary’ bent but I suspect they have a degree of cross-genre flavor to them.
Frank Belknap Long earned fame for his Lovecraftean stories, Carl. I still remember the first time I read Long’s “The Hounds of Tindalos.”
Cool cover. I too remember reading “The Hound of Tindalos” after discovering Lovecraft and his followers back in the ’70’s.
For my money, Jeff, Frank Belknap Long and Robert Bloch were the best practitioners of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Interesting. I’ve read some of Long, but not these. I’m afraid I disagree with Jeff on the cover, though.
The cover is a garish reimagining of the 1949 cover of JOHN CARSTAIRS, SPACE DETECTIVE, Rick.
Ramble House covers do tend to the perfunctory. Long was perhaps the next most reliable exponent of “weird-scientific'” stories in WEIRD TALES after Hamilton…though, indeed, more Lovecraftian than EH chose to be (Long was a Circle member, after all).
George, I was seeing the “It works!” bug page on your blog again this morning…has that been permanently beaten back yet?
The “It Works!” seems to pop up in Firefox and GOOGLE CHROME, Todd. It seems to have been beaten back in Internet Explorer and on Apple devices.
I guess the humor didn’t come through.
Perhaps if I’d said “Like wow, Daddio, cool cover” my meaning would have come through.
I think we figure *Someone* must like them…
I like the RAMBLE HOUSE mapbacks, Todd. They’re well done.
RH books are well-enough built, I’d say, and at least mostly good books, often important. Some just need better covers; certainly more professional ones would help sales, I think.
Weird (or is that just sad) that the bug is only active in some browsers (and, as it happens, the two I use the most).
When Patrick returns from Peru, I’m sure he’ll nuke that bug, Todd.
Jeff, rather if you’d said “the cover looks like it was whupped with an ugly stick” it would have been clear.
Oh by the way, the link Todd had for you yesterday was for another book entirely…
Well, Rick, I think you can see why, if you read the preceding comments. (And the comments on the Brackett book, which spell it out explicitly.)