Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singular achievement. A bestselling master of suspense himself Jeffery Deaver had the enviable task of selecting from the thousands of stories written over the past one hundred years those which best represented the classic form, as well as the justly celebrated authors whose ironic twists and stunning payoffs left a lasting, vivid, and unnerving impression. The result is a triumph.

In this ambitious anthology you’ll revel in the sardonic, overtly amoral plotting of Patricia Highsmith. You’ll rediscover the strangely poignant and surprising turns of Stanley Ellin, and the profoundly underrated Margaret Millar, a genius who mixed savage social satire with brooding horror. You’ll be treated to Stephen King at his chilling best. You’ll find yourself on the violent urban streets of Ross Macdonald and Mickey Spillane, and seeped in the ominous regional flavor of Sharyn McCrumb and Tony Hillerman. You’ll marvel at the cunning webs spun by Lawrence Block, Ruth Rendell, Anthony Boucher, and Sara Paretsky, all of whom defy expectations as they reinvent the genre. And you’ll understand the awesome reputations of those authors who set the standard, such as the legendary Harlan Ellison, Fredric Brown, the master of the twist ending, and James M. Cain, uncannily skilled at knowing what went on between men and women behind closed doors. (The darker the room the better.)

Delivering everything from the one-two punch of the detective story to the ingeniously precise trappings of the police procedural, from the disquieting corners of the criminal mind to sheer dread-inducing horror, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a rich anthology of this popular literary genre, a stunning tribute to the art of storytelling, and to the men and women who have done it best.

Harlan Ellison, Richard Christian Matheson, Connie Willis, and many more contribute to a compelling psychological exploration of the many shades of love.

An incubus disguised as a high school girl puts a disturbing spin on the teacher/student fantasy. An engineer creates a robot with unexpected consequences during the end of the world. A man becomes the pet of alien invaders. From stories of aliens in other worlds to those living among us, these tales will move you out of your comfort zone and open you up to experiencing something—or someone—completely different.

The seventeen stories that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® award-winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots. Featuring best-selling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson. Stories by Neal Asher, Paolo Bacigalupi, J. G. Ballard, Alan Baxter, Justin Coates, Harlan Ellison, Joachim Heijndermans, Joe Lansdale, Rich Larson, Alberto Miego, Jeff Fowler & Tim Miller, John Scalzi, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick.

This stellar collection of Jewish science fiction and fantasy carries on in the tradition of its companion volume—the enduring classic Wandering Stars—breaking new ground with every story.

Trouble with mothers; invading aliens and demons; the arrival of the long-awaited Messiah… all these phenomena and more are tackled in these tales from a creative group of extraordinary writers. We go to the edges of the universe, finding humor, pain and humanity in the unlikeliest of places and situations. Filled with wit, vigor and sharp insight, this is a fantastic feast for the imagination that will intrigue and delight everyone who picks it up, Jew and non-Jew alike.

In their heyday, the true-crime pulp magazines spawned many of the masters of American detective fiction. These early gems have been unearthed and collected here for the first time.

The BIGGEST, the BOLDEST, the MOST COMPREHENSIVE collection of PULP WRITING ever assembled!

Weighing in at over a thousand pages, containing over forty-seven stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train — a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes; sultry dames whose looks are as lethal as a dagger to the chest; and gin-soaked hideouts where conversations are just preludes to murder. This is crime fiction at its gritty best.

Including:

• Three stories by Raymond Chandler, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Dashiell Hammett.

• Complete novels from Carroll John Daly, the man who invented the hard-boiled detective, and Fredrick Nebel, one of the masters of the form.

• A never before published Dashiell Hammett story.

• Every other major pulp writer of the time, including Paul Cain, Steve Fisher, James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, and many, many more of whom you’ve probably never heard.

• Three deadly sections — The Crimefighters, The Villains, and The Dames — with three unstoppable introductions by Harlan Coben, Harlan Ellison, and Laura Lippman.

Featuring:

• Plenty of reasons for murder, all of them good.

• A kid so smart — he’ll die of it.

• A soft-hearted loan shark’s legman learning — the hard way — never to buy a strange blonde a hamburger.

• The uncanny “Moon Man” and his mad-money victims.

The first time in a science fiction and fantasy collection that the Jewish People—and the richness of their particular points of view—appear without a mask. A showpiece of Jewish wit, culture, and lore, blending humor and sadness, cynicism and faith.

Artificial intelligence in 100 stories.

To ready us for the inevitable, here are 100 of the best short stories ever written--most of them by humans--about robots and artificial minds. Read them while you can, learn from them, and make your preparations... From 1837 through to the present day, from Charles Dickens to Cory Doctorow, this collection contains the most diverse collection of robots ever assembled. Anthropomorphic robots, invertebrate AIs, thuggish metal lumps and wisps of manufactured intelligence so delicate if you blinked you might miss them. The literature of robots and artificial intelligence is so wildly diverse, in both tone and intent, that our stories form six thematic collections.

It's Alive! is about inventors and their creations.

Following the Money drops robots into the day-to-day business of living.

Owners and Servants considers the human potentials and pitfalls of owning and...

ЖУРНАЛ ФАНТАСТИКИ И ФУТУРОЛОГИИТЕМАТИЧЕСКИЙ НОМЕР: FANTASYСодержание:Харлан Эллисон. ТРЕБУЕТСЯ ЛИШЬ НЕМНОГО ВЕРЫ.Карина Мусаэлян. РАЗБИТЬ КЛЕТКУ.Элджернон Блэквуд. ИВЫ.Анатолий Акимов. ВЕСТИ ИЗ ПАРАЛЛЕЛЬНОГО МИРА.Ларри Нивен. НЕЗАДОЛГО ДО КОНЦА.Кир Булычев. НОВЫЙ СУСАНИН.Наталия Сафронова. В ПОИСКАХ БУДУЩЕГО ВРЕМЕНИ.Элен Кашнер. ТОМАС РИФМАЧ.Елеазар Мелетинский. ЗОЛОТЫЕ ОКОВЫ МИФА.Кирилл Королев. СОСЕДИ ПО ПЛАНЕТЕ.

ЖУРНАЛ ФАНТАСТИКИ И ФУТУРОЛОГИИСодержание:Уильям Гибсон. СОЖЖЕНИЕ ХРОМ.Дмитрий Лозинский. ГЕРОСТРАТИКИ.Альгис Будрис, Харлан Эллисон. ЧУДО-ПТИЦА.Майкл Резник. ЛЮБИТЕЛЬ ЗАКАТОВ.Дмитрий Ухлин. КУДА ИЗВОЛИТЕ?Альфред Бестер. РУКОПИСЬ, НАЙДЕННАЯ В БУТЫЛКЕ.Евгения Савельева. ЧЕЛОВЕК И МАШИНА. СОЮЗНИКИ ИЛИ СОПЕРНИКИ?Р. А. Лафферти. ПЛАНЕТА КАМИРОИ.Екатерина Егорова. ТЕХНОЛОГИЯ ДЕМОКРАТИИ.Борис Кагарлицкий. ПРИОБЩЕНИЕ К ВАРВАРСТВУ.Джордж Мартин, Лиза Таттл. ОДНОКРЫЛЫЕ, повесть.«ИНТЕРКОМЪ». Журнал в журнале.

ФАНТАСТИКАЕжемесячный журналСодержание:Джеймс Блэйлок. БУМАЖНЫЕ ДРАКОНЫ, рассказАлексей Зарубин. ИСЦЕЛЕНИЕ, рассказВладимир Губарев. БРИЛЛИАНТОВЫЙ ДЫМНэнси Кресс. ДИКА, СВОЕВОЛЬНА, НЕ ОБУЗДАТЬ…, повестьХарлан Эллисон. РАЗРУШИТЕЛЬНАЯ СИЛА, рассказРевекка Фрумкина. «Я НИКОМУ НЕ ЖЕЛАЮ ЗЛА»Джин Вулф. ЗИККУРАТ, повестьВл. Гаков. МАСТЕР-ОТДЕЛОЧНИККонкурс «Альтернативная реальность»*Игорь Лебединский. ЗЕЛЕНАЯ ПАЛОЧКА, рассказЕвгений Харитонов. МЫ ЖИЛИ ПО СОСЕДСТВУНФ-новостиРецензииPersonaliaВидеодром*Тема-- Василий Горчаков. ЗАМКНУТАЯ ВСЕЛЕННАЯ «ЭНТЕРПРАЙЗ»*Герой экрана-- Евгений Зуенко. ПОЛ АТРИДЕС СТАНОВИТСЯ АГЕНТОМ*Рецензии*Как это делается-- Сергей Кудрявцев. КИНО КАК ИСКУССТВО СПЕЦЭФФЕКТОВ*Арсений Иванов. НОВОСТИ СО СЪЕМОЧНОЙ ПЛОЩАДКИОформление обложки А. Жабинского, Е. Спроге.Работа художников А. Жабинского, Н. Алексеева, О. Васильева, А. Михайлова, А. Филиппова, С. Шехова.

Печатается по изданию: Миры Харлана Эллисона, т.3. Рига, Изд-во «Полярис», 1997, с.141-155.