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John Russell Fearn
How could two young women, in full possession of their faculties, look through a slide in a door and see a girl being murdered–and yet find the room beyond completely…
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John Russell Fearn (1908-1960) was an extremely prolific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British publishing…
Maria Black, the woman’s school headmistress who doubles as a detective, is invited to attend the engagement celebrations of an ex-pupil of her college. There she finds herself involved in…
Way out in the Atlantic, a gigantic ridge of land has arisen from the ocean floor, causing America and Europe to be hit with massive tidal waves. But this is…
The girl had been lying dead all night. There’d been a terrible struggle, but in the end, the woman had lost her life to the jagged top of a cologne…
Gerald Dawson was the first to die–in an apparent road accident. But when other members of his family receive mysterious telephone calls informing them of their own imminent demise, and…
In Robbery Without Violence, gold worth fifty million pounds vanishes overnight from an impregnable bank vault, Chief Inspector Hargraves of Scotland Yard finds himself completely baffled. And when the owner…
For an illusionist to make a woman vanish from a cage is merely a parlor trick, because the person must go somewhere; but in this instance the woman really DOES…
Dick opened the door again swiftly, Vera clinging to him–and they were so astounded at what they saw that he forgot for the moment to slam the door shut again…
The sun is dying. Astronomers can see that the Earth will soon become a frozen planet. All life will vanish from the surface, and the sea and air will freeze…
Maria Black, M.A., Principal of Roseway College for Young Ladies, does not expect to come face to face with murder in her favorite cinema, when a stranger seated in Number…
In the depths of the Milky Way, the Cosmic Crusaders encounter yet another mysterious planet-this time a world that appears to be a duplicate of Earth, birthplace of the Golden…
At first, it appeared to be a sun, forming in space where none had existed before. It kindled as an atomic fire, sustaining itself by the breakdown of fusion energies…
Nick Hansley and his young wife and father-in-law soon find that ‘The Cedars’, the isolated country house Ena has inherited, has more than just a sinister appearance – it radiates…
Gyron de London, most powerful–and most hated–industrialist of the year 2190, is warned by a mysterious letter that his doom is due on the 30th March, three weeks hence. Further…
Arising from the startling experiments of research biologist Jeffrey Dexter there emerges a creature capable of endless reproduction, but possessing none of reservations of a natural human being. Dexter and…
The great Metropolitan Observatory is the pride of 22nd century engineering and science. When the astronomer Dr. Henry Brunner is found there, battered and strangled to death, there are four…
Continuing their interstellar voyages, the Cosmic Crusaders find a strange planet whose inhabitants are held in thrall by a baleful hypnotic influence, reinforced by a gigantic luminescent face in the…
In their latest cosmic adventure, the Golden Amazon and her fellow Cosmic Crusaders fight to save the inhabitants of the planets of an alien solar system from destruction at the…
A new edition of John Russell Fearn’s classic pre-war time travel novel, together with an early novelette Invaders From Time, both of which introduced new concepts to science fiction!
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip one book over to read the second), here’s the twenty-first Wildside Double: THE G-BOMB: A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, by John Russell…
Gordon Fryer, a young, unemployed engineer, finds a post as a scientific guinea pig and assistant to an elderly scientist, Dr. Royd. But the result of Royd’s experiment predicts the…
Maria Black is faced with murder in the cinema when a stranger is found to be dead. Assuming her role of detective, she becomes Black Maria - the crime solutionist…
Maria Black, headmistress-detective, is invited to the engagement celebrations of an ex-pupil - and becomes involved in the apparent suicide of the prospective bridegroom, Keith Robinson. Maria has soon uncovered…
A FICTION HOUSE PRESS REPRINT: An outlaw of space, she was, with the strength of ten men. Here is an interplanetary story that will fill you with enthusiasm. She whipped…
When Jeffrey Collins stops his car to help an injured motorcyclist, the hurt man vanishes before his eyes! Collins approaches a scientist, Dr. Whittaker, for an explanation. But when Whittaker…
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip one book over to read the second title), here’s the twenty-third Wildside Double: THE SPACE WARP: A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL, by…
Tarnec Brodix, super-mathematician from an external cosmos, accidentally destroys his universe. The destruction begins to spread into our own cosmos in the form of a Dark Tide of Absolute Nothingness…
The bacterial intelligences of Neptune plan to conquer Earth by replacing humans in key positions with alien duplicates. A disturbing new element is introduced when the Neptunians themselves fall under…
The Golden Amazon’s arch-enemy, Sefner Quorne, discovers that all mental gifts, such as memory and creativity, are not inherent in human brains and mental make-up, but are something that is…
The unfolding story of the Golden Amazon enters a new phase when she renounces all ties with the Earth, the planet of her birth. Together with her husband Abna, former…
Reaching another solar system, the three Cosmic Crusaders discover a fantastic world of mental parasites drawing form and substance from our own Earth, fifty light years away. The planet is…
The Cosmic Crusaders find themselves on a truly strange world–a misfit planet that seems mysteriously cursed. Instead of evolving naturally from birth to death, it’s a world out of step…
Science fiction author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33 in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterizations, and pervasive humor completely revolutionized the…
The Cosmic Crusaders discover a planet whose people are subject to a baleful influence from outer space that sweeps across their world once a month, affecting every man, woman, and…
The Cosmic Crusaders are plunged into a strange new space, wherein all the probabilities of electronic law are strangely altered, a complete and stunning inversion of all so-called natural laws…
Continuing their cosmic crusade among the stars, the Golden Amazon and her three companions discover a planet in another space where intelligent beings are being created, not through normal biological…
Voyaging into a sector of interstellar space that is plunged into total darkness with an absolute absence of any light, the four Cosmic Crusaders encounter their most powerful and sinister…
When drifter Terry Carlton encounters the little town of Verdure in Arizona, he’s only seeking some hospitality and shelter for the night, before moving on. But what he learns from…
The Crusaders return to a divided Earth: one half is in thrall to the ‘Pagans, ’ scientific barbarians, who are seeking to overwhelm the remaining ‘Normals’ … unless the Crusaders…
From top to bottom the Brant Building became insubstantial, like the illusion of a dream world. It hung transparent, incredible, for a moment with the figures of people momentarily visible…
After many years spent in wars and struggle, mankind had achieved a perfect civilization. But this Utopia was going directly against the adaptive strain Nature had developed. In earlier times…
This first book publication of three exciting novelettes from science fiction’s Golden Age includes: LAST CONFLICT, in which an artificial storm of incredible violence–a storm that destroys London and all…
It came originally from the merciless, frost-bound wilderness of the night side of Mercury, the hellish planet nearest to the Sun. But when space explorer Harry Dagenham brings a long-dead…
When a young scientist discovers how to foreshorten space by using higher dimensions, it opens up the possibilities for almost instantaneous interstellar travel, initially using unmanned probes. The first probe…
Anjani returns! in this direct sequel to The Gold of Akada, Rita Perrivale, widow of an English explorer, goes back to the coast of West Africa. Having inherited her husband’s…
Clifford Brooks and his wife Joan believe that ‘Herbert, ’ the frisky dinosaur who’d saved their lives in A THING OF THE PAST, has been lost forever in the Earth’s…
To the peoples of Earth, it had seemed the perfect marriage when Violet Ray Brant–better known as The Golden Amazon–and Abna of Atlantis were wed in Westminster Abbey. But it…
