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John Gregory Betancourt
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…
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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…
Featuring the very first issue of ‘The Phantom Detective’, this volume includes all stories and features, as well as original ads and interior artwork.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Blind Archer is a fantasy novel that tells the story of young Ker Orrum, who dreams of wielding magic. His fate changes when an Oracle speaks of a journey…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rex Stout
Aline Solini–a beautiful Russian adventuress who has abandoned her Russian husband and is now in search of greater conquests in Europe–arrives in Marisi, on the eve of World War II…
Edith Wharton
Wharton (1862-1937) had immense commercial and critical success–most notably with her novel The Age of Innocence (1920), which won a Pulitzer Prize. Some of her finest fantastic and detective work…
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…
John Gregory Betancourt,Roger Zelazny
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…
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…
The conclusion to the first ever Amber prequel trilogy.
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…
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…
Algernon Blackwood
The Willows is one of Blackwood’s best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural…
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…
A Prize for Princes is a charming period piece, with a languid evocation of a long-lost Europe that will captivate fans of Stout’s later works, as well as readers of…
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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…
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…
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…
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