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The book "Llana of Gathol" first appeared as four separate stories, published in the pulp magazine Amazing Stories, comprising "The City of Mummies", "Black Pirates of Barsoom", "Yellow Men of Mars", and "Invisible Men of Mars". We present the original magazine texts as they first appeared in print, including the mistakes made by Ray Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories, in his editing of "Invisible Men of Mars", where he added text and dialogue ...

The story of Captain Hedrock, Earth's immortal man-up against one force-the outlawed Weapon Makers-who could make that immortality end abruptly if they could but find him. In the world of the lsher Empire a titanic struggle is taking place. An interstellar drive has been perfected, and the Empress Isher, convinced that it will be ruinous to her government, and that emigration to the stars will strip the solar system of its inhabitants, is usin...

A replica of the December 1950 issue of IMAGINATION STORIES OF SCIENCE AND FANTASY digest magazine featuring MEET ME IN TOMORROW by Guy Archette. "Their love was hopeless--for can two people find happiness in separate worlds?" TECHNICAL SLIP by John Beynon, TOURISTS TO TERRA by Mack Reynolds, "WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL . . ." by Day Keene, THE ULTIMATE QUEST by Hal Annas, IT'S RAINING FROGS! by Milton Lesser, THE OLD ONES by Betsy Curtis, and TH...

A replica of the October 1950 issue of GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION digest magazine featuring TIME QUARRY by Clifford D. Simak, THE STARS ARE THE STYX by Theodore Sturgeon, CONTAGION by Katherine MacLean, THIRD FROM THE SUN by Richard Matheson, LATER THAN YOU THINK by Fritz Leiber, THE LAST MARTIAN by Fredric Brown, and DARWINIAN POOL ROOM by Isaac Asimov.

A replica of the Summer 1951 issue of SUSPENSE MAGAZINE digest featuring Science Fiction, Mystery, Adventure, Crime, The Macabre, and Fantasy. OPERATION PEEP by John Wyndham, WORLD WITHIN by Thomas A. Coffee, BLOOD WILL TELL by Nathaniel Weyl, THE NIGHTMARE FACE by Walter Snow, ELUSIVE WITNESS by Georges Simenon, SURVIVAL by Thomas Gilchrist, FATAL MISTAKE by John Basye Price, CRIMINAL AT LARGE by Larry Holden, PARDON MY TERROR by Irving Burst...

PRINCINO DE MARSO is Esperanto for A PRINCESS OF MARS. This is a facsimile of the original 1938 Esperanto edition of this famous Edgar Rice Burroughs story.

CLUBS AND BATTLE AXES! The Murrian stood with his battle ax gripped in both hands, his shaggy beard clotted with blood from the blow Deswine's spiked club had dealt him. Jerwold, white faced, supple, unmarked, stood at ease, the long thin blade balanced and bobbing in his hand. Tark could hear the Murrian snort as he began to move, catlike, to his left, circling his opponent, hands gripping the haft of the battle ax, feinting, drawing back, se...

A replica of the June 1958 issue of VANGUARD SCIENCE FICTION digest magazine featuring SOS, PLANET UNKNOWN by A. Bertram Chandler, REAP THE DARK TIDE by C. M. Kornbluth, WHEN THE SHOE FITS by James E. Gunn, THE STRAD EFFECT by Raymond F. Jones, and FAREWELL PARTY by Richard Wilson.

A replica of the March 1958 issue of INFINITY SCIENCE FICTION digest magazine featuring THE OVERLORD'S THUMB by Robert Silverberg, NEVER MEET AGAIN by Algis Budrys, THE LEAF by Robert F. Young, ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES by Robert Sheckley, NOTE FOR A TIME CAPSULE by Edward Wellen, and AND THEN THE TOWN TOOK OFF (part 2 of 2) by Richard Wilson.

Tarzan throws off his three year cloak of civilization, and with a yell and a bound, is back at home again among the beasts of the Jungle, plunging into a series of adventures, so startling, exciting, and hair-raising that one gasps with astonishment. In the present story, powerful enemies first kidnap his young son, then abduct Tarzan himself and leave him marooned on the African coast. Here his early training serves him in good stead, he mak...

Far from the Terran colony's Homeport on the planet Astra, young Dalgard Nordis and his merman companion Sssuri are suddenly confronted by their old enemies, the alien Astrans. Within the ruins of the Astrans' former citadel the two discover that remnants of this nonhuman race, which had once ruled the entire planet, are struggling, to recover their lost knowledge and thus regain their power. Dalgard realizes that the safety of the Terrans is ...

Edgar Rice Burroughs believes in heredity. He has to, for what more striking proof of heredity could be adduced than the case of Jack Clayton? Who is Jack Clayton, say you? Why, the son of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, otherwise Tarzan of the Apes. Yes, now you know! In spite of all the efforts of Lady Greystoke, ably seconded by Tarzan himself, to keep all knowledge of the wild from the youthful mind of their only son-going even so far as to ...

A RUSH HENRY MYSTERY #3: The door had scarcely closed on the mysterious young man who had sought protection from Rush Henry because he feared for his life when wealthy Paul Germaine, Sr., brought one of the strangest requests of Rush's hectic career as a private investigator. Rush was to keep Chicago mobsters away from Germaine's brilliant young daughter, Leslie, whose interest in criminal psychology had made her determined to find out, first-...

The West, now known as Pan-America, under a single government, had closed it ocean's borders at 30 degree W and 175 degree W. Between those was peace, beyond was unknown and it was the death penalty to cross over them. Through treachery of one of his officers, Commander Jefferson Turck and three of his comrades were left adrift beyond 30. What adventures awaited them in Great Britain and Continental Europe? NOTE: "Beyond Thirty" was first publ...

Wrecked alone on an unknown shore, Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, scion of an effetely intellectual Boston family, finds himself terrified and physically unfit. A series of adventures leads him to the cave of a beautiful girl, Nadara, who is as primitive and uneducated as she is strong and self-reliant. NOTE: This book contains the original magazine texts for the two stories: The Cave Girl and The Cave Man.

The book "John Carter of Mars" comprises two novelettes originally published in Amazing Stories pulp magazine: "John Carter and the Giant of Mars" was published in the January 1941 issue with the byline "Edgar Rice Burroughs". However, ERB had nothing to do with the writing of the story! It was written by his younger son, John Coleman Burroughs. In the February 1943 issue of Amazing Stories, "Skeleton Men of Jupiter" appeared, the first part o...

Between the lines of the official histories of the frontier worlds of the 29th Century lie a myriad "confidential" accounts of the boners, near-catastrophes, and interstellar crises that were bound to occur when human meets non-human. The adventures of the interplanetary diplomat Retief loom large in those highly classified reports. They also loom large in the eyes of devoted science-fiction readers because the cosmic tight-rope diplomacy of R...

The West, now known as Pan-America, under a single government, had closed it ocean's borders at 30 degree W and 175 degree W. Between those was peace, beyond was unknown and it was the death penalty to cross over them. Through treachery of one of his officers, Commander Jefferson Turck and three of his comrades were left adrift beyond 30. What adventures awaited them in Great Britain and Continental Europe? NOTE: "Beyond Thirty" was first publ...

For two hundred and seventy years America had been totally cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of raging atomic fury. To the frightened countries of the Old World, what had once been the greatest of all powers was now the most fearful of all mysteries. No man ached to know what lay behind that frightful barrier more than Emmett O'Hara, restless air-sentinel of the International Patrol-whose American ancestors had been st...

Another bookful of Dan Turner stories from 1934, 1941, 1943, and 1946 issues of Spicy Detective, Dan Turner-Hollywood Detective, and Hollywood Detective. Included in this book are: Murder By Proxy, Crimson Comedy, Sleeping Dogs, Arrow From Nowhere, Feature Snatch, Shakedown Sham, and Fall Guy For Forgery.