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Originally ephemeral pamphlets sold by traveling peddlers, or "chap-men", chapbooks have enjoyed a long and illustrious history, surviving in print form from the sixteenth century until today--in fact, much contemporary poetry has first appeared in small-press chapbooks, most frequently...

During these uncertain economic times, many families have turned to food storage as a hedge against unemployment, inflation, chronic shortages, and other social and economic turmoil. Chief among family food-storage programs are dehydrated foods of all kinds--and cases of unground whole wheat...

Shadow Valley is an isolated farming community known to few, but in one of its ramshackle farmhouses dwells a power that threatens death and destruction to any who walk within its walls. Now, Lila Ellis arrives to make the final arrangements for a project that will flood Shadow Valley for a...

Sonnets are among the most widely recognized of poetic forms, dating back almost a thousand years. In this book, Michael R. Collings blends past tradition with contemporary experimentation, public commentary with private meditation, lyric compression with epic breadth, rigid structure with...

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the eighth Wildside Double. THREE TALES OF OMNE: A COMPANION TO WORDSMITH, by Michael R. Collings This is Omne, a world enveloped by perpetual clouds, without metals, machines, or...

Here are verses ranging from one-page lyrics, to longer meditations on belief and faith, to self-contained narratives. Drawn from religious backgrounds, particularly Latter-Day Saint faith, the five parts move through space and time from the ancient tales of the Middle East to contemporary visions...

John Milton (1608-1674) is best known today for his two epic poems, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, but he wrote a great many other works, both poetry and nonfiction, all infused with his particular philosophy and theology of the Christian religion. Well-known scholar Michael R. Collings here...

1066 Oleander Place seems a typical tract house in the Southern California town of Tamarind Valley. What no one grasps is that this house is deadly: dark, dangerous, EVIL to the core. It consumes all who enter it, one by one--spiritually, psychologically, physically. Even to visit the place...

In these 16 scintillating tales of fantasy, terror, and wonder-- A murderer is forced to confess by pressure from his own confederates; A monstrous creature slaughters ruthlessly by day, and by night just...dreams; A psychic vampire possesses a curiously refined taste for fine chocolate; An alien...

This collection of 25 essays of literary criticism includes pieces on British poet John Milton, British fantasy writer C. S. Lewis, American horror writer Stephen King, American SF and fantasy writer Orson Scott Card, British horror writer Clive Barker, and several others. Complete with...