The First Book of Lost Swords

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R.A. MacAvoy

From back cover Bantam Spectra paperback October 1986: **Re-enter the fantastic world of the Black Dragon....** If you were among the many readers who lost their hearts to R. A. MacAvoy's remarkable first novel *Tea with the Black Dragon*, you are invited to rejoin Mayland Long and Martha Macnamara in an astonishing new adventure filled with music, mystery, and magic. And if, by some chance, you've not yet had the pleasure of their company, prepare yourself for a special sort of treat. But be warned. In the world of the Black Dragon, nothing is quite what it seems....

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Bill Pronzini

Contents: Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle by Charles Dickens The Furnished Room by O. Henry Lost Hearts by M. R. James The Judge’s House by Bram Stoker Phantas by Oliver Onions On the Moors by William F. Harvey The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde The Panelled Room by August Derleth The Skull of the Marquis de Sade by Robert Bloch Silver Spectre by Jon L. Breen Deathlove by Bill Pronzini Fish Night by Joe R. Lansdale Dust to Dust by Marcia Muller Chained by Barry N. Malzberg Night-Side by Joyce Carol Oates

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Brian W. Aldiss

"After the 'Accident, ' all males on Earth become sterile. Society ages and falls apart bit by bit. First, toy companies go under. Then record companies. Then cities cease to function. Now Earth's population lives in spread-out, isolated villages, with its youngest members in their fifties"--Amazon.com.

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A. E. van Vogt

Gilbert Gosseyn, a man living in an apparent utopia where those with superior understanding and mental control rule the rest of humanity, wants to be tested by the giant Machine that determines such superiority. However, he finds that his memories are false. In his search for his real identity, he discovers that he has extra bodies that are activated when he dies (so that, in a sense, he cannot be killed), that a galactic society of humans exists outside the Solar system, a large interstellar empire wishes to conquer both the Earth and Venus (inhabited by masters of non-Aristotelian logic), and he has extra brain matter that, when properly trained, can allow him to move matter with his mind.