For twenty years The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror" has been recognized as the world's foremost annual showcase of horror & dark fantasy fiction. Now with one story from each year in which it has been published from 1989 to 2008 representing the work of dozens of authors many of them acknowledged as the foremost practitioners of the genre multi-award-winning editor Stephen Jones looks back on two decades of superb writing to bring readers the ultimate horror fiction anthology. With names such as Ramsey Campbell Christopher Fowler Neil Gaiman Michael Marshall Smith Paul J. Mc Auley & Lisa Tuttle this collection represents a true landmark in horror fiction publishing. Praise for Stephen Jones: ' Horror's last maverick'
- Christopher Fowler. ' Stephen Jones.. .has a better sense of the genre than almost anyone in this country'
- Lisa Tuttle " The Times Books". ' The best horror anthologist in the business is of course Stephen Jones'
- Roz Kavaney " Time Out". ' Edited by Stephen Jones a member of that tiny band of anthologists whose work is so reliably good that you automatically reach out & grab hold of any new volume spotted if you are wise'
- Gahan Wilson " Realms of Fantasy". ' One of the genre's most enthusiastic cheerleaders'
- " Publishers Weekly". ' Horror readers owe Stephen Jones a lot'
- Rue Morgue. ' Edited by the prolific & reliable Stephen Jones'
- "SFX Magazine". ' Jones performs his usual exemplary job'
- " Starlog (UK)". 'A new horror anthology from Stephen Jones is always an event'
- Dennis Etchison."








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The original Kama Sutra" was designed to help lovers to explore the height of sensual & erotic pleasure. Since then numerous variations have been produced on this manual for love-making. Here in one giant volume is the fullest ever collection of " Kama Sutra" positions & its modern variants including all the positions featured in the original text plus over 50 more. Each position is clearly explained with specially commissioned illustrations by award-winning artist Carolyn Weltman & Louisa Minkin. Also included are little known revelatory stories of how each position developed plus the full unexpurgated history of the Kama Sutras own genesis. Packed with beautiful illustrations & sensual nuggets of inspiration " The Mammoth Book of the Kama Sutra" is the fullest ever collection of the worlds most popular lovemaking text." ...

Time travel romance is not the same thing as sci-fi romance though some stories may be set in an imagined future; it is romantic fiction set in various different eras usually from around the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A woman may fall asleep in Central Park in the present to wake up in the arms of a Scottish laird in the sixteenth century. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance" contains 25 stories of adventure & love; settings include medieval Scotland sixteenth-century England the nineteenth-century ' Wild West'. Some stories are set in the present & a few in the future. Stories include an Elizabethan nobleman whisked into the present day & a troubled young woman who lands in the sixteenth century able to break a curse of lost love. It

Includes:: stories from: Nina Bangs Jude Deveraux Sandra Hill Linda Howard Lynn Kurland Karen Marie Moning & many more."

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This giant collection

Includes:: a huge range of 20th-century first-hand accounts of hauntings such as the

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New mysteries as well as variations on recurring ones continue to surface on a weekly basis around the globe from showers of frogs over Hungary to birds falling to earth in Arkansas. This compendious round-up of unexplained phenomena examines everything from the experiments being done with the Large Hadron Collider to classic maritime mysteries involving inexplicably missing crews via UFOs mediums cryptozoology panics paranoia & a universe proving stranger in fact than wed imagined. ...

The first book in the Agnes Browne trilogy Now a film starring Anjelica Huston & Tom Jones ' And what was the cause of death?' 'A Hunter' Agnes said. ' Was he shot' the girl asked incredulously 'was your husband shot?' ' By who?' Agnes asked this question as if the girl had found out something about her husband's death that she didn't know herself. Then a look of realisation came into her face. ' No! A Hillman Hunter he was knocked down by a Hillman Hunter!' Agnes Browne is a widow of only a few hours when she goes to the Social Welfare Office. Living in James Larkin Flats with Redsers' legacy
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- to support on the income from her Moore Street stall she can't afford to miss a day's pension. Life is like that for Agnes & her best pal Marion. But they still have time for a laugh & a jar & Agnes even has a dream
- that one day she will dance with Cliff Richard. THE MAMMY describes the life & times the joys & sorrows of Agnes mother of the famous Mrs. Browne's Boys from the daily radio soap. A book of hilarious incidents glorious characters & a passion for life it is written with a sure touch & great ear for dialogue.


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James Bailey's form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was as bizarre as it was unbearable. He was obsessed by a fear of drugs & their effects believing himself to be in constant danger of becoming insanely high through people spiking his food or even by just touching a photograph of a marijuana leaf. The treatment programme he went through at a specialist American clinic was challenging to say the least. He was asked to shake hands & mingle with the local junkies fighting his anxieties & the urge to go & wash for as long as possible in order to 'expose' himself to his fears. Man Interrupted gives us a glimpse into the tortured world of a man suffering from what is an increasingly common disorder. But far from being a doom-laden account of mental illness the result is uniquely revealing hilariously entertaining & wonderfully rewarding. ...

What would you say if you knew there was ONE solution to every man's most vexing problems?
- Bigger muscles? Easy.
- Less fat?

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A fabulously engaging & exciting novel about a man who has to learn about life & love the hard way. Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV a gorgeous wife a lovely child. & in one moment of madness he chucks it all away. Man & Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life & achieves a degree of self-respect bringing up his son alone & gradually learning what words like love & family really mean. It is very well written pacy funny & heart-breakingly moving. ...

Odo of Conteville the younger half-brother of William the Conqueror was ordained Bishop of Bayeux while still in his teens. A larger than life character he is best known for commissioning the Bayeaux Tapestry in which he makes a dashing appearance at the height of the Battle of Hastings. He also played a pivotal role in the planning & implementation of the Conquest of England after which as Earl of Kent he was second only to William in wealth & power. The popular impression of Odo is of a not so loveable rogue who typified the worst excesses of the Norman conquerors. He was the first Chief Justice of England & on occasion also acted as regent when the king was in Normandy. After defrauding both Crown & Church however Odo was disgraced & his plans to raise an unauthorised army for a campaign in Italy possibly in order to gain the papacy saw him imprisoned for five years. He was released by the dying William in 1087 but soon rebelled against the new king his nephew William Rufus. Yet Odo was far from being a loutish philistine. The bishop recognised the value of education & the arts & amongst his less well-known activities was his generous patronage of both. Trevor Rowleys book is the first full-length biography of Odo which seeks to redress this balance & to make Bishop Odos extraordinary life-story known. ...