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This is the first anthology ever published to feature the writings of leading eighteenth-century thinkers on the subjects of atheism, religion, freethought, and secularism. Editor S. T. Joshi has compiled notable essays by writers from Germany, France, England, and early America. The contributors include Denis Diderot (a principal author of the multivolume French Encyclopédie), Baron d'Holbach (System of Nature, 1770), Voltaire (Philosophical ...

Offers up to 21 horrifying tales taking their inspiration from stories by Lovecraft himself.

Image and video signals require large transmission bandwidth and storage, leading to high costs. The data must be compressed without a loss or with a small loss of quality. Thus, efficient image and video compression algorithms play a significant role in the storage and transmission of data. Image and Video Compression: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications explains the major techniques for image and video compression and demonstrates the...

Sixteen all-new stories spring from the concepts of doomed exploration, remote terror, and cosmic horror. A who's who lineup of authors instills new energy into the subgenre that is Lovecraft, featuring authors who rarely contribute to a Lovecraftian anthology.

Famous as a political, social and cultural gadfly, journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken was unafraid to speak his mind on controversial topics and to express his views in a deliberately provocative manner. This is a collection of work previously only published in newspapers and magazines.

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the first Wildside Mystery Double, featuring two new novels of the 1930s private eye, Joe Scintilla: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, by S. T. Joshi. When the lovely Lizbeth Crawford walks into Scintilla's office, she tells him that her father, wealthy industrialist James Crawford, did not kill his brother Frank, even though he confessed and is n...

Hippocampus Press has done the Lovecraftian community an immense favor by picking up the torch of published scholarship on H.P. Lovecraft." -Grim Blogger Table of Contents: Locked Dimensions out of Reach: The Lost Stories of H. P. Lovecraft............J.-M. Rajala Cosmic Maenads and the Music of Madness: Lovecraft's Borrowings from the Greeks............John Salonia Blacks, Boxers, and Lovecraft............Gavin Callaghan On H. P. Lovecraft's ...

Solar Based Hydrogen Production Systems deals with various hydrogen production systems in general and solar hydrogen production systems in particular and their energy and exergy analyses. It also covers the various chemical processes involved in hydrogen production, the primary energy sources conventional and non-conventional, that are used to produce hydrogen. In addition, various other hydrogen production methods such as photovoltaic based, ...

Katharine Vance had supposedly committed suicide in 1932, but when she surfaces under another name a year later, with no memory of her previous life, private eye Joe Scintilla is hired to investigate. He must travel from his native New York to Los Angeles to Italy, to uncover the nefarious schemes of "The Removal Company." A thrill-a-minute hard-boiled adventure, the first of a series!

The long history of prejudice against women has been the focus of many academic studies, but until now there has been no attempt to collect actual examples of this prejudice from books, articles, and scholarly monographs. In Her Place gathers together dozens of works - mostly by American writers over the past two centuries but also by some European writers who influenced American thought - that embody the scorn and contempt for the "weaker sex...

This collection of essays on the Cthulhu Mythos range from pioneering articles by Richard L. Tierney and Dirk W. Mosig to penetrating studies by Robert M. Price, William Murray, Steven J. Mariconda, and others.

When An Epicure in the Terrible first appeared in 1991, commemorating the centennial of H. P. Lovecraft's birth, it was hailed as a significant contribution to Lovecraft studies. Its thirteen original essays, along with a lengthy biocritical introduction by S. T. Joshi, contained penetrating work by leading authorities in the field. Among them were Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.'s pioneering study of Lovecraft's parents, Jason C. Eckhardt's analysis of ...

The globalisation of medicine has made it imperative for radiologists all over the world to be in touch with the latest available results. This Syllabus encompasses a long-standing need as regards abdominal imaging. It predominantly covers pathologies that radiologists encounter in day-to-day practice, especially in the gastrointestinal tract. A wide range of topics (pancreatitis, G.I. bleeding and intervention, obstructive jaundice and severa...

Throughout his career as a literary critic, H. L. Mencken was intent on elevating the bold, the daring, and the innovative over the hackneyed, the trite, and the superficial, and his drama criticism exhibits this tendency to the fullest. Though known primarily as a newspaperman and commentator, Mencken also wrote several one-act plays, as well as a full-length work.In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has a...

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India: The Wilt Disease of Safflower The writer is thankful to Dr. E. J. Butler, Director, Imperial Bureau of Mycology, London, for suggestion of the subject of investigation while working at Pusa, and desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to Mr. P. K. Dey, Plant Pathologist to Government, United Provinces, Cawnpore, for ever ready help and criticisms. About the Publisher Forgotten ...

H. P. Lovecraft ist, ohne Wenn und Aber, der bedeutendste Autor unheimlicher Phantastik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Im angloamerikanischen Raum ist er längst als Klassiker anerkannt, und auf Deutsch liegt sein Werk in verschiedenen Ausgaben und Übersetzungen vor.Sein Leben dagegen ist mehr als umstritten: Als »Einsiedler von Providence« wurde er bezeichnet, als Rassist und Menschenfeind. Dem steht entgegen, dass er sich sein Leben lang als Amateurjo...

To know Lovecraft's mind, one must first know his books. H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This third revised edition provides comprehensive information on over 1000 books owned by Lovecraft. These books focus chiefly on four key areas that Lovecraft found particularly fascinating: ancient literature and history, the histor...

H. P. Lovecraft ist, ohne Wenn und Aber, der bedeutendste Autor unheimlicher Phantastik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Im angloamerikanischen Raum ist er längst als Klassiker anerkannt, und auf Deutsch liegt sein Werk in verschiedenen Ausgaben und Übersetzungen vor.Sein Leben dagegen ist mehr als umstritten: Als »Einsiedler von Providence« wurde er bezeichnet, als Rassist und Menschenfeind. Dem steht entgegen, dass er sich sein Leben lang als Amateurjo...

Fourteen spellbinding tales, including The Sin Eater, by Fiona McLeod, The Eye Above the Mantel, by Frank Belknap Long, as well as renowned works by R. H. Barlow and Lord Dunsany.

Since the publication of his first novel in 1946, Gore Vidal has been one of America's most successful writers, as well as one of its most outspoken public figures. The author of more than twenty novels including The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, Burr, and Lincoln as well as several books of nonfiction, plays, and screenplays, Gore Vidal has been a leading man of American letters for more than half a century. As the first comprehensi...