books by Underwood Books     books:       Dark Thoughts: On Writing : Advice and Commentary from Fifty Masters of Fear and Suspense7 reviews Underwood Books, 1997 Great Reading As an aspiring writer, I was especially interested in these writers' basic influences, fears, and drives. After the first chapter, I was glued to this book, absorbing the thoughts of writers such as Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Anne Rice, and many others. This is a great gift for a horror fan.             Legacy: Paintings and Drawings by Frank Frazetta15 reviews Frank Frazetta Underwood Books, 2008 Truly amazing...the Greatest Illustrators work... Frazetta was an artist with a different style, yet seemed to capture and captivate so many foreign lands of barbarians and beasts...then bring them end gently place them on the table in front of us. From Conan to Tarzan and so much more, this is a great book. I call it a coffee table book because I had a rougher copy that I kept in the living room. Whenever someone came over they would start ...             Once More Miranda12 reviews Jennifer Wilde Underwood Books, 1984 My favourite romance of all time!! Once More Miranda is the best romance ever written. I have lost track of how many times I have read this..and I know that I will read it many many more times in the future. Anyone who reads this book is transformed by Miranda..and never forgets her.             Spectrum 12: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Spectrum (Underwood Books))7 reviews Cathy Fenner, Arnie Fenner Underwood Books, 2005 The annual of fantasy art As always, the annual Spectrum compiles hundreds of samples of the very best of 2004's fantasy art. The work is divided into categories that reflect the generally commercial origin of each work: ads, comics, books, etc. Every category displays a range of subjects and style. Lush realism predominates, including two of Royo's fantasy pinups. Other styles appear, too, including ink paintings by Vess ...             Revolution: The Art of Jon Foster7 reviews Jon Foster Underwood Books, 2006 Too good for words - just get it! The postman arrived about an hour ago. I opened the parcel, the book and got lost in Jon's worlds. I just shut it and I felt need to get this out now. I first got hooked by Jon's art as I read Liz Williams' Inspector Chen novels. His covers are amazing. Before starting the novels, you are pulled into a world you wouldn't imagine. My compliments also go to Underwood Books, the publisher. What ...             ADD Success Stories: A Guide to Fulfillment for Families with Attention Deficit Disorder8 reviews Thom Hartmann Underwood Books, 1995 ADD Success Stories - Awesome As a "hunter" myself, I never could get past all that boring ADD diagnotic stuff about receptors, etc. This was the first book on ADD that was interesting enough to read. It confirmed, for me, what I thought all along. I'm not defective, just different. Many gifted people throughout history have been just tormented by our boring farmer society. This book has also helped my to deal ...             Spectrum 14: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Spectrum (Underwood Books))15 reviews Underwood Books, 2007 PERHAPS THE BEST SPECTRUM YET! Like Santa Claus, Spectrum only comes around once per year and is always highly anticipated. This annual collection of the world's best contemporary fantasy and Sci-fi art is always a favorite not only due to its sheer size and beautiful production, but also because of its diversity in scope. Spectrum presents the best art from the fields of books, comics, advertising, editorial, concept, and ...             Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick7 reviews Philip K. Dick Underwood Books, 1987 There'll Never Be Another Like Him This book, third in a set of five from Citadel Press (who are doing similar definitive collections of Robert Bloch & Theodore Sturgeon), collects all of Dick's short stories, the vast majority of them from the 50s - not coincidentally, the high-water mark of the sf pulps. All are introduced by later-era sf writers like Tom Disch, Norman Spinrad & this volume's John Brunner; unfortunately, all ...             Tapestry: The Paintings of Robert McGinnis8 reviews Arnie Fenner, Cathy Fenner Underwood Books, 2000 Astonishing Treasure I had never even heard of Robert McGinnis until I was linked to this page by the editors' names (the Fenners) who I know from their affiliation with science fiction art. The reviews were so favorable that I decided to gamble on this book without any other familiarity with McGinnis. I usually lose on these impulsive gambles. Not this time. Suffice it to say this book is a total prize, it's just ...             Icon36 reviews Underwood Books, 2003 The Fantasy Master When people think of fantasy artwork, they might think first of those Conan and Edgar Rice Burroughs paperback covers, or a berserker warrior on horseback, corpses of foes beneath him and dripping weapon above him. People think of Frazetta first, whether or not they know it's him they're thinking of. He's also done recognizable work for Mad magazine, Little Annie Fanny for Playboy, posters for ...             Everett Raymond Kinstler: The Artist's Journey Through Popular Culture, 1942-19625 reviews Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr., Everett Raymond Kinstler, ... Underwood Books, 2005 A welcome and very highly recommended addition to both academic and community library American Art History collections Everett Raymond Kinstler: The Artist's Journey Through Popular Culture 1942-1962 showcases the life and work of an American artist who left The High School of Industrial arts at the age of fifteen and twenty years later painted astronaut Scott Carpenter's portrait for NASA. Everett Raymond Kinstler went on to paint the official White House portraits of Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, and is ...             Beyond ADD: Hunting for Reasons in the Past and Present6 reviews Thom Hartmann Underwood Books, 1996 A positive approach! So many books look at ADD as a "problem" that must be diagnosed and dealt with. Thom Hartmann looks at ADD another way, a way that makes a lot of sense! This book is a MUST read for anyone who has ADD or anyone who knows someone with ADD and wants to understand. The Hunter/Farmer explanation puts it all into perspective. I am an adult with ADD, and the parent of a child with ADD. I often ...             Spectrum 10: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Spectrum (Underwood Books))5 reviews Underwood Books, 2003 Drop Dead Gorgeous! Sci-Fi and Fantasy artists have always seemed like illustration's poor step-children, often ignored (and sometimes sneered at) while the historical and Western painters wore the mantel of respectability. Thank goodness Spectrum came along to point out to the naysayers that Art is Art and that the practitioners of "fantastic" art are as gifted as anyone working today (if not better). Spectrum 10 ...             The Shark-Infested Custard: A Novel of Crime, Vice, and Sex5 reviews Charles Ray Willeford Underwood Books, 1993 Ah, to have buddies like these? Even the title is intriguing, although it has little to do with the story behind it. After savoring the title, you will find that this is a real "buddies" yarn, consisting largely of first-person versions of the same events seen from different points of view. The four main characters, though differing considerably in personality and profession, have in common their age (mid-30's), residence ...             The Star King (The Demon Princes, Book 1)6 reviews Jack Vance Underwood Books, 1983 A Fantastic Interstellar Adventure! Kirth Gersen (sometimes called Keith Gersen) is a formidable bounty hunter and occasional secret agent/enforcer for an interstellar law agency. Gersen, however, has his own personal agenda: to seek out and kill the 5 super-criminals (known as the 5 Demon Princes) responsible for the raid on his home planet that left everyone but him and his grandfather dead or enslaved. To that end, Gersen has ...             Spectrum 8: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art7 reviews Underwood Books, 2001 Such great work... There's a lot of imagination and talent in this book, and with such a varity of styles it's sure to appeal to a wide range of tastes. Personally, I enjoy the edgier, more contemporary material, but there is also plenty of more traditional "faries and unicorn"-type stuff as well. I especially like seeing some comic book covers being treated as the art they are, w/o the title covering up a good ...             Testament: The Life and Art of Frank Frazetta6 reviews Frank Frazetta Underwood Books, 2008 Odds & Ends Collection, "Icon" & "Legacy" Better to Start This is a beautiful book, but the more famous Frazetta works are to be found in the two previous books of this trilogy. So this book is great for serious Frazetta fans, but "Icon" and "Legacy" are better books for showing the most famous of his works. This book, "Testament," is good for showing more of his unpublished stuff. It has many Playboy-type girlie paintings and drawings, some western ...             Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art5 reviews Underwood Books, 2002 Spectacular, As Usual I have been patiently waiting (OK, maybe not so patiently) since November for Spectrum 9 to be released. Even though I had to wait an extra month and a half, it was well worth the wait. Once again, the Spectrum series provides us with the best in contemporary and fantastic art, and it IS fantastic. Entries range from weird, to gory, to funny, to beautiful. I began this series with Spectrum 8, ...             The Art of Jeffrey Jones4 reviews Underwood Books, 2002 The Best Jones Questions have always circulated about Jeffrey Jones and his place in the history of 20th Century fantasy art: was he a monumental talent or just another Frazetta imitator? I think this book finally provides a definitive answer: he was both. THE ART OF JEFFREY JONES is a beautiful showcase that effectively traces Jones' transition from a Frazetta-wannabe in the 1960s to the truly gifted painter ...             Origins: The Art of John Jude Palencar6 reviews John Jude Palencar Underwood Books, 2007 Glorious reproductions of many works by a brilliant artist I enjoyed Palencar's surrealistic cover art for years without knowing his name. I think the first may have been for Connie Willis (both her collections of short fiction). I remember stopping and studying the cover and thinking, "Wow, this is really, really something." I saw more work, recognizably "that artist's" work, on other covers--Octavia Butler novels, Charles de Lint books. 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