Terrors

by Richard A. Lupoff

The stories in Terrors range from a serious and touching portrait of a dying child kept alive by his love of a superhero to swashbuckling retro pulp adventures, the exploration of a lost civilization buried beneath the sands of the Sahara Desert, and the descent into madness of a famous writer of horror stories when he finds himself trapped in a railroad car with a terrifying party of college coeds.

In "The Adventure of the Voorish Sign" no less a personage than the great Sherlock Holmes finds himself drawn into a Lovecraftian House of Horrors. "Lights! Camera!! Shub-Niggurath!!!" is a hilarious jaunt into the world of the future, where an eccentric producer attempts to film a Mythos tale in outer space. And in "Streamliner," the thrills and chills of classic radio drama are re-created for the delectation of the modern reader.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Collections, Pulp, Lovecraftian

Paperback

First published June 1, 2005

About the author

Richard Allen "Dick" Lupoff (born February 21, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American science fiction and mystery author, who has also written humor, satire, non-fiction and reviews. In addition to his two dozen novels and more than 40 short stories, he has also edited science-fantasy anthologies. He is an expert on the writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs and has an equally strong interest in H. P. Lovecraft. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1970 he worked in the computer industry.

Reviews

[Alex Budris · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was excited about this one and really tried to like it, but, unfortunately, it's a DNF. I usually like this pulpy stuff - Golden Age superheroes, Lovecraftian horrors, weird Sherlock Holmes... Well, there is a weird physics story - 'At Vega's Taqueria' - that's really good... But otherwise I was underwhelmed. Missing a quotient of 'zip' required to make this kind of writing three-dimensional.