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Ardath Mayhar
Colonized and left to its own devices, the planet on which Lehnik the horsemaster lives has, over a thousand years, reached a medieval level. Sent with an orphaned child to…
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Two-Moons-in-the-Sky, an Iroquoian warrior woman and Dreamer, is transported into the strange world of medieval Britain by a dark sorcerer, Lallius, who lives in a black tower. Lallius wants to…
Gripping tales of fantasy, mystery, and horror set in the piney woods of East Texas.
When the bombs fell and Western civilization ended, the residents of Hickory Hollow, Texas, scarcely noticed the difference. They were already used to fending for themselves–growing their own food, helping…
TEXAS GUNSMOKE! When Dr. Nicholas Blasingame joins his cousin Alicia and her husband in East Texas, he is scarred from political battles in Baltimore, where he lost his efforts at…
THE GREED OF THE RAILROAD BARONS! George Fitch, an ex-Civil War soldier, is summoned to his parents’ New Mexico homestead. He arrives accompanied by an ancient Indian medicine man and…
The greatest dancer of her generation, slowly dying from cancer, finds herself transported into the worlds displayed on paintings of the roads, paths, and streets that she never had time…
Olive is the most unlikely of secret agents, a professional assassin in her sixties who’s known only as The Knit Lady. When Islamic terrorists take control of the cruise ship…
The upper-class inhabitants of the locked-gate community called Holroyd Square in Templeton, Texas, are used to their sedate, private lives-and the equally private secrets that each of them keeps hidden…
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After his father’s heart attack and the resulting crash of their small plane, Burr must travel alone through forty miles of summer desert with little food and water.
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When the Tyrant seizes power in the city of Lirith, capital of Kyrannon, his ambition for conquest and his need for the great horses of Fallowden create a vortex of…
When Robert Willingham, alias Robert Evans, came to Dry Wells, Texas, he was answering a job advertisement. Jed Cobb, a rancher, had chosen Robert because of his name on a…
From the author of People of the Mesa–the dramatic story of an ancient tribe’s struggle for survival. In 13th-century southwestern America, the Nadicha tribe is charmed by an outsider known…
Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous…
Seven-foot-tall Grittel, daughter of the Lord of Sundoth, has refused the impossible marriage arranged by her domineering mother. Now an embarrassment to her family, she is sent forth to make…
Yeleeve, a young woman who can sing the image of a soul onto the wall behind her, to commend or condemn the owner, discovers that a powerful evil is overcoming…
Ardath Mayhar began her creative life as a poet. As soon as she could put pencil to paper she began writing down her verse, and in time reached a point…
One of the best How-To books on writing ever published. Learn how to create characters that become real to the reader, and plots that offer interest, dramatic impact, and challenge…
Thirty-one tales from the back-of-the-woods American heartland filled with gentle humor, poignant encounters, funny fantasy, riveting adventures, and loads of sheer fun.
Araminta Palomer, the oversheltered child of a wealthy family, enlivens her life by imagining a near-invisible animal playmate-Willbe. But Minta possesses an unsuspected psychic talent, and so she unwittingly creates…
When twins Bud and Lindy discover that the Little People–the Turnipins–are real, they must fight to preserve their wee friends’ tree home from the ravages of modern developers.
In prehistoric Europe, Bain of the Hunting Clan flees his people, eventually encountering Arma of the Farming Clan. But the Hunters have followed their lost sheep, and when the two…
When Katharine’s father dies in 1864, leaving her destitute, her cousin sells her to the beastly One-Eye Murray. She then flees west into the wilderness, but One-Eye hires Sun-Shot O'Neill…
When their parents are killed, Nick and Nita find themselves destitute. Only an uncle they’ve never known offers them a refuge on his East Texas farm. The culture shock is…
As the Civil War lurches to a close, the Lintons of East Texas are waiting anxiously for their menfolk to return. But the stranger Finis Krim is attempting to extort…
A new collection of 29 scintillating tales of horror and fantasy, many of them never before published.
When two bodies are spit out by the local swamp, Police Chief Washington Shipp knows he has a drug problem–and the druglords will do ANYTHING to retrieve their missing stash…
When Marise Dering marries Ben Clarrington, and moves into the old mansion where the rest of the Clarringtons live, she’s ordered to keep out of the closed-off sections of the…
A delightful memoir of the fantasy, science fiction, mystery, western, and young adult writer, Ardath Mayhar, whose seventy books and hundreds of short stories have charmed readers throughout the world.
Granary–the breadbasket of the United Worlds–becomes enmeshed in civil war when its Commander, Theron Standish, attempts to impose his will over the independent granges. Only Theron’s elderly grandmother and predecessor…
When the Stonor family joins the last wagon train to Oregon in the 1840s, little do they realize that disaster awaits. Suddenly 17-year-old Maryla Stonor is left to fend for…
When their parents, the owners and performers of the Gannelli Family Circus, are murdered by a Yankee Captain in rural Arkansas during the Civil War, young Gian-Carlo and his cousin…
Solomon Peat, the wry narrator of Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule, returns with 17 more tall tales of Cotton County, Texas, including The Day of the Boomers,Fierce as…
Two short novels published for the first time: Born Rebel tells the story of a woman in 1825 who’s sold by her father to the neighboring farmer, and flees to…
Twenty-seven scintillating stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, all but two of which are published here for the first time. Robert Reginald says: Ardath Mayhar is able to evoke…
The Badger Clan and the Terrapin Clan have peacefully co-existed on the eastern plains for generations, living in harmony with nature and the spirits who guide them. When a herd…
When Lantirion is usurped by a renegade wizard, Prince Karas must use all his skills and powers to challenge the Warlock at the heart of his lair. Part of the…
Only Hale Enbo can defeat the illegal exploitation of alien species by the Ginli scientists.
The mage Kla-Noh and his foster son, Si-Lun, are Seekers After Secrets. In their fantasy adventures, they aid a woman from another dimension, calm a Weatherwitch, and heal the Beast…
The hereditary rulers of Sherath have psychic powers that can bring great good or evil to their people. When the Makra Theora murders her father and seizes his throne, her…
After the Ramsdens lose their father, Charlotte ( Carrots ), her brother, her young sister, and her mother continue to operate their East Texas dairy farm. Then their cousin from…
The Ancient Race of enhanced humans in Damaria has been all but destroyed by a revolt of the New People. The two survivors, Riddle the Poet and his nephew, young…
Young Burr Henderson, who survived an airplane crash in the Arizona desert in Medicine Walk, returns to fight for the ranch that he inherited from his father, and must survive…
Stranded on a Hell planet ironically named Heaven, the Thomas family must flee their protective biodome in order to have any chance of survival on this strange new alien world.
When drought and disease destroy the cool pine woods of what is now East Texas, the Geh-i-nah tribe must undertake a hazardous journey westward–to the towering rocks of of the…
When Margaret Thackrey, ex-government agent and writer, decides to pen her memoirs, she unwittingly gets the attention of a vicious assassin–a man whose nefarious deeds she’d nearly uncovered during her…
Uhtatse becomes the One Who Smells the Wind for his Anasazi clan, and sends his mind searching outward for enemy tribes in the Great Plains. When he finally senses peril…
The Old Lords of Rehannoth have been overthrown by rebel leaders who use the powers generated by the great machines to maintain their brutal rule. Only the two surviving children…
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