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John Gregory Betancourt
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A corrupt Congress rules a drugged-out America, land of slums and malls. But in the underground, a few violent young malcontents will stop at nothing to smash the system…and bring…
Here are five funny, entertaining, delectable mystery stories featuring Peter Pit Bull Geller, who may be a bit damaged physically (in an auto accident), but has lost neither his biting…
Presents a reprint of the June 1931 issue of the classic pulp magazine, Ghost Stories , which features contributions from Conrad Richter (best known as the author of The Light…
Sinister Stories was a short-lived (only 3 issues) weird menace magazine, designed to thrill and titilate through a mix of suspense, science fiction, bondage, nudity, and grisly horror. Stories such…
The famous weird menace pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s are among the rarest and most sought-after publications by collectors. The Spicy magazines – which included Spicy Mystery, Spicy…
Tales of Magic and Mystery, which published five issues between December 1927 and April 1928 under the (anonymous) editorship of Walter B. Gibson, remains one of the rarest and most…
An issue of hero-pulp Phantom Detective, where the lead novel is The Emperor of Death, by G Wayman Jones, in which the Phantom Detective wages a lone-wolf campaign against a…
ADVENTURE TALES #3 celebrates the work of Murray Leinster – the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (1896-1975) – whose writing career spanned the first six decades of the 20th…
This issue of HOODED DETECTIVE features the Black Hood novel The Whispering Eye, by G.T. Fleming-Roberts. ( Hunted by the police … framed for robbery and murder by the Eye…
The Spicy magazines published a titillating mix of fantasy, horror, mystery, and suspense, punctuated by episodes of torture, sadism, sex, and other risque elements. This book includes contributions from Robert…
Containing stories by pulp stalwarts such as George Fielding Eliot (author of the grisly Weird Tales classic The Copper Bowl ) and Alan Bosworth, a prolific pulp writer who appeared…
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Featuring the very first issue of ‘The Phantom Detective’, this volume includes all stories and features, as well as original ads and interior artwork.
The famous Spicy pulp magazines of the 1930s and 1940s published a titillating mix of fantasy, horror, mystery, action-adventure and suspense, punctuated by episodes of torture, sadism, sex and other…
Tales of Magic and Mystery , which published five issues between December 1927 and April 1928, remains one of the most sought-after of the early fantasy pulp magazines. This issue…
Features a mix of suspense, science fiction, bondage, nudity and grisly horror. This work includes stories such as Brides of the Half-Men, Satan’s Studio of Sin and White Flesh Must…
When Strange Tales first appeared, it was clearly something new. Edited by Harry Bates, it combined the supernatural horror and fantasy of Weird Tales with vigorous action plots. Strange Tales…
Sean Wallace
Presents a collection of the best horror prose written in 2005, by some of the genre’s greatest authors, and selected by two of horror’s most respected editors. This volume includes…
Fredric Brown
Mystery and science fiction writer Fredric Brown (1906-1972) remains best-known for his short fiction. His story Arena (in this volume) became the basis for a Star Trek episode of the…
Collected here are 13 of the best short stories published in Weird Tales’ first year of publication–1923–classics by many who would later play an integral part in the Unique Magazine…
John Gregory Betancourt,Roger Zelazny
All Hail King Oberon! At last, Dworkin has created the magic Pattern, and Amber has been established with its own myriad of shadow worlds. Now, King Oberon works on repairing…
STRANGE TALES OF MYSTERY AND TERROR …
When Strange Tales first appeared, it was clearly something new. Edited by Harry Bates, it combined the supernatural horror and fantasy of Weird…
Murray Leinster
Included in this volume of Murray Leinster’s work are four short stories, Sand Doom, Atmosphere, Attention Saint Patrick, The Leader, plus one complete novel, The Wailing Asteroid. Introduction by John…
Curtis Steele
Kasma, baleful divinity from the wastes of Asia, had laid his blighting curse upon America. All who opposed him came to ghastly ends: amnesia, madness and screaming, agonizing death. One…
Operator #5, America’s Secret Service Ace, appeared in 48 novels in the classic pulp magazine bearing his name. From April 1934 to November 1939, Jimmy Christopher fought villains from inside…
The first book in a trilogy, this one expands the Amber universe and answers important questions left open, such as why it was necessary to create Amber, how Chaos and…
What do the world’s most imaginative minds feast upon? How do the world’s great science fiction and fantasy authors feed themselves when they’re not whipping up tales of wonder? What…
Johnson McCulley
Thubway Tham is a small, short-tempered gnome of a man, a professional pickpocket with an annoying lisp. But he is no mere thief … he is the king of his…
Russell Thorndyke
Posing as a respectable vicar in Dymchurch at the turn of the 18th century, Dr. Syn is actually the retired pirate Captain Clegg. Clegg, believed hanged in Rye, is no…
From Anne Rice’s chilling portrait of a woman more dead than alive to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s future where nobody dies forever, from Nina Kirki Hoffman’s powerful story of the dead…
The conclusion to the first ever Amber prequel trilogy.
Johnston McCulley
The masked woman called herself Madame Madcap, and she gathered a gang of cutthroats determined to loot high society of all its riches starting with the notorious womanizer Hamilton Brone…
Robert Silverberg,John Gregory Betancourt
The return of the legendary magazine Startling Stories under the editorship of Doug Draa is one of science fiction’s publishing events of the year. Jam-packed with fiction, art, and even…
Dworkin and Oberon arrive at the Courts of Chaos to confront their hidden enemies. But things don’t go as planned. Oberon has a terrible physical reaction to being in Chaos…
BONES TO THE RESCUE!
His name is Dr. Bones. He will transport you across a galaxy of unknown fate and perilous adventures. His discoveries unveil mysterious fossils, forgotten species and…
Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled…
John Kendrick Bangs
The three works which comprise John Kendrick Bangs’ Hades series, A Houseboat on the Styx , Pursuit of the Houseboat , and The Enchanted Type-Writer are acknowledged classics of modern…
What would happen if master detective Sherlock Holmes sired a son with the daughter of one of his archenemies? That’s the supposition at the center of R. Holmes & Co…
Long prized by collectors as a curiosity, Submarine Stories contains stories by pulp stalwarts such as George Fielding Eliot (author of the grisly Weird Tales classic, The Copper Bowl )…
Earl Derr Biggers
Fifty Candles by Earl Derr Biggers. One of the greatest classics of literary fiction, now available in high quality.
George Allan England
Eleven of George Allan England’s stories from the pulp magazines.
Johnston D McCulley
A thrill-a-minute ride set in the days of Spanish colonialism in California, where thugs and greedy tyrants try to wrest every penny from peasants–and the one hero who defends the…
John Gregory Betancourt,Linda E Bushyager
Pacifica is an artificial island designed to feed the starving millions of the world. For a holographic artist in love with a woman who abandoned him, it is a chance…
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