A collection of stories.Fantastic creations, out of time, space and mind. Past and present intermingle in these spellbinding stories; reality and illusion rub shoulders .and the results are terrifyingly logical and utterly incredible.Or All the Seas with Oysters ? (1958)Up the Close and Doun the Stair ? (1958)Now Let Us Sleep ? (1957)The Grantha Sighting ? (1958)Help! I Am Dr. Morris Goldpepper ? (1957)The Sixth Season ? (1960)Negra Sum ? (1957)Or the Grasses Grow ? (1958)My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello ? (1954)The Golem ? (1955)Summerland ? (1957)King's Evil ? (1956)Great is Diana ? (1958)I Do Not Hear You, Sir ? (1958)Author, Author ? (1959)Dagon ? (1959)The Montavarde Camera ? (1959)The Woman Who Thought She Could Read ? (1959)

"Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like."Not a novel, not a book of short stories, Adventures in Unhistory is a book of the fantastic-a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and-revealed at last-the Secret of Hyperborea.

Set during the reign of the Aztecs in Mexico, two alien forces, dormant for centuries, enter a confrontation on a remote mountain that will decide Earth's fate. The Great Old Ones benevolently ruled before the cruel Aztecs were shaped by the Huitzil, who came from the Evil Stars and taught the Aztecs how to conquer and demanded endless human sacrifice.

Peregrine was the bastard son of the King of Sapodilla, the last pagan kingdom in the world to resist christianity. Accompanied by his page and the rather time-worn sorcerer, Appledore, the prince sallies forth into the Dark Ages to find his fortune. What he find sinstead is: dragons, whores, Huns, Roman Legions, emperors and a most fantastic collection of mysteries and adventures.

Professor Vlad Smith is on a terrifying quest, one that will take him from the halls of our most hallowed institutions to the most run-down of old houses in blighted neighborhoods. A mysterious committee, shredded yellowed newspapers, a daguerrotype of a Confederate soldier, a headless corpse and a corpseless head.... These are the clues which Smith must piece together to save his sanity and his daughter, and uncover the terrible secret of the Boss in the Wall. What a scary story, like a modern Dracula but completely original in its concept and chillingly realistic in its narration. Avram Davidson was one of the finest writers the fantasy field has had, endlessly inventive and uniquely vivid. Grania Davis has completed this work, which he left unfinished, in a way that does him proud. - Poul Anderson The Boss in the Wall is a last powerful and major work by a major and powerful author. - Gregory Benford It is hard to imagine the genre that could encompass him; it is even more difficult to imagine fantasy or science fiction without him. - The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Masters of the Maze by Avram Davidson is a science fiction novel that explores the concept of a mysterious, interdimensional maze used to protect Earth from alien invaders. The story follows the protagonist, Jung Mariner, as he navigates the maze, encountering strange beings and dangers along the way. The novel combines elements of mystery, adventure, and speculative fiction, with Davidson's trademark wit and rich, imaginative world-building.

"Who is Joyleg? What is he? There are governments that want to know his secret. There is evidence that he is more than 200 years old. And indeed he does have a secret--one that will cause the history of the world to be rewritten!"--Page 4 of cover.

Davidson, Avram

MUTINY IN SPACE began as a novella entitled "Valentine's Planet," which appeared in the August 1964 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow. "To space opera of the time, the character of the captain was as important as that of the king was to Shakespeare. He (the captain was always a "he," even when the author was female) was the model and exemplar for society, the man with the right stuff, he who made the tough decisions and enforced discipline?

"Jerrod Northi--pirate, rogue, and a citizen of Pemath--was desperate enough to go through the transformation. It cost 100,000 units for the Craftsmen to endow him with the Seven Signs: green eyes, long fingers, long ears with tips, a smooth and hairless body, full mouth, slender feet, and a melodious voice. It was a rather steep price, even for Northi, but he would pay it somehow. For Jerrod Northi had powerful enemies. Since being attacked by deadly leeris, he knew the cost of missing this opportunity to find refuge in the land of Tarnis might be even higher ... perhaps even his life!"--Page 4 of cover