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The House on the Borderland (1908)-perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson's works-tells of a lonely and evilly regarded house in Ireland which forms a focus for hideous otherworld forces and sustains a siege by blasphemous hybrid anomalies from a hidden abyss below. The wanderings of the Narrator's spirit through limitless light-years of cosmic space and Kalpas of eternity, and its witnessing of the solar system's final destruction, constitut...

One of famed crime author Robert Edmond Alter's less-well-known books, Henry M. Stanley: The Man from Africa concerns the life of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone, whom he later claimed to have greeted with the now-famous line: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Leo's mother, Madam Sara Bresson, wasn't good with babies. She never claimed to be. She had her Gift, her charisma, her successful career as a Spiritualist medium, and there simply wasn't room in her life for sleepless nights or soggy nappies. Therefore, with her husband (Leo's father Maurice Moon, a music hall conjuror and xylophone player) out of the picture having recently decamped, she donated Leo as soon as was decent to her widowed mothe...

Robert Edmond Alter, best known as a mystery author, turns his considerable talents to stories of heroes and courage under difficult circumstances. These true-life historical retellings include tales of war, heroism, adventure, and survival-all of which required courage under extreme pressure or life-threatening circumstances.

For ten years, Colin sweated, slaved, and eventually built a nice business on a dusty world called Mars. Five more years and he'd have put all worry behind him. Ten more years and he'd have been able to retire a rich man. He didn't get those years. During a sandstorm, he blundered accidentally into the forbidden zone, where the temple of Dra Vheera waited and rested, an area guarded zealously to the death by a fanatical faith. The Martians com...

A party of crooks seeks to overthrow a Caribbean monarachy, ousting Prince Marcos in favor of his corrupt Cousin, Miguel-who happens to be the target of one of Nick Carter's investigations.

Sin Street-first publislhed in 1959-is an early crime novel by acclaimed Southern author Robert O'Neil Bristow. Set in the mean streets of the day-where marijuana and prostitution were the main worries-it chronicles the lives of down-and-out grifters and prostitutes as they go about their everyday business on the shady side of the law.

Johnny Lamb couldn't stop living long enough to clear his name of a murder charge in Connecticut. Instead, he took a whaling ship and wound up in the Sandwich Islands (now called Hawaii) not only as a successful merchant of goods and liquor but a common-law king to the reigning Queen Kaahumanu. He had a superb lust for life which he rarely denied, but he had respect for people, their rights, and their beliefs. He had become informal lord of th...

As "Jean d'Enneris, " Lupin finds himself engaged in a curious duel with his old opponent, Chief Inspector Béchoux. The Mélamare Mystery finds Lupin working both for and against the police-rather in his "Barnett" manner. But whereas in previous cases of the kind he has had no personal interest in the protagonists, this time he finds himself losing his heart to the delightful little mannequin, Arlette Mazolle. At once, the case is much more tha...

The first Black Cat Mystery Magazine of 2022 presents 12 original tales by top mystery authors. Included this time are: DEAD RECKONING, by Leone Ciporin THE MAN FROM TOPEKA, by Robert Lopresti VICE COP, by Elizabeth Zelvin THE WHITE CALF AND THE WIND, by Mike Adamson ANNIE, by Anita Murphy SANITY CLAUSE, by Max Devoe Talley THE BORSCHT BELT BURGLARY, by Marlin Bressi THE FIRST ANNUAL ATCHAFALAYA COYOTE HUNT, by O'Neil De Noux A REMOTE CHANCE,...

On several settled worlds of the Earth Confederation, towns had been utterly destroyed by attacking alien vessels-exploded into flaming ruin, and fleeing people reduced to smears of blood and bone. And so they sent for Captain Kurt Varl, the only man to have fought an alien ship and destroyed it-the only survivor from his crew of thirty souls. And now he would have to lead another ship and crew into battle, knowing that as well as the alien r...

When Walter Raleigh, a down-on-his-luck English gentleman-adventurer, rescues a man in Arminia from three attackers, he throws in with his new-found friend-and suddenly finds himself employed, for this friend is someone extraordinary. This book assembles for the first time the complete "Emperor's Detective" series, as originally published in The Windsor Magazine in 1898. Classic mystery-adventure fiction!

On several settled worlds of the Earth Confederation, towns had been utterly destroyed by attacking alien vessels-exploded into flaming ruin, and fleeing people reduced to smears of blood and bone. And so they sent for Captain Kurt Varl, the only man to have fought an alien ship and destroyed it-the only survivor from his crew of thirty souls. And now he would have to lead another ship and crew into battle, knowing that as well as the alien ra...

Empire builder Max Feyman had ruthlessly gained control of an invention called the 'zipdrive', a system of ultra-fast space travel. But his world is shattered when his daughter Celia, holidaying on the moon, is suddenly rendered unable to walk or speak-dependent on others to remain alive. Then, across the solar system, others are also struck down. Feyman must find a cure for the mysterious affliction that threatens not only the life of his onl...

A full-length story of the life and adventurous career of Prince Chrles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender.A portrait of a man whose charm and daring made him, for a time, the most romantic figure in Europe.

Gary Lovisi presents a new Sherlock Holmes adventure set in the magical land of Oz, as Holmes and Watson take on their most fantastic case-the Red Poppy Menace! Sure to delight all fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Oz, this edition is profusely illustrated by Lucille Cali.

Ships occasionally disappeared in hyperspace, regrettable sacrifices to the luxury of faster than light travel. But now one of the lost ships has been found and the wreckage is enough to terrify even the most cold-blooded witness. The lucky ones on the lost ship are dead. The others have been turned inside-out in gruesome parody of human beings and they are still alive. The disgraced Captain Kurt Varl is chosen to command a suicide mission to ...

Gary Lovisi presents a new Sherlock Holmes adventure set in the magical land of Oz, as Holmes and Watson take on their most fantastic case-the Red Poppy Menace! Sure to delight all fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Oz, this edition is profusely illustrated by Lucille Cali.

Ships occasionally disappeared in hyperspace, regrettable sacrifices to the luxury of faster than light travel. But now one of the lost ships has been found and the wreckage is enough to terrify even the most cold-blooded witness. The lucky ones on the lost ship are dead. The others have been turned inside-out in gruesome parody of human beings and they are still alive. The disgraced Captain Kurt Varl is chosen to command a suicide mission to ...

Recently widowed Lisa Moore was met by a strange chauffeur at the Los Angeles International Airport, on her arrival there. Lisa assumed had been sent to meet her, especially when he took her to Moreno Hall in Beverly Hills, home of her Aunt Margo, once a famous movie star...but then he vanished as mysteriously as he had appeared, leaving her to mourn her dead love in a mansion of ghosts. The ghosts turned out to be all too real-menacing, and...