Stuart Hopen: 8 books

The saga of the Twilight Patrol continues -- equal parts H.P. Lovecraft and G-8 and His Battle Aces. Out of the night explodes an engine of unimaginable fury, powered by the drive to accumulate and hoard for the mere sake of possession — a force that draws its strength from the perpetual motion...

An insidious battle rages for the post of High Priest of the Mysteriarchs of the Abyss. As the Archons work to replace their dying leader, they hide behind a new threat to humanity. In dealing with the ordeals of reordering their order, the Mysteriarchs of the Abyss always demand to be the only ones...

What happened when Maximum Woman literally became too big for her britches? How did immortality kill Perpetual Man? The Silver Ballerina had a lot to cope with when her triumphant theme music faded away, and she succumbed to paralysis. The Golden Years of Super-Heroes aren't always golden,...

"Readers nostalgic for the flash and dazzle of pulp derring-do will find this adventure tale a fitting homage."— Publishers Weekly Reprinting the June, 1935 issue of The Twilight Patrol exactly as it might have appeared ... if it ever appeared ... The strangest adventurers of all time...

1918 — The Great War has crossed the Atlantic to the American eastern shore. City after city has fallen to the combined might of the Central Powers and their insidious allies, the Mysteriarchs of the Abyss, whose deadly arsenal of bullet proof-zeppelins and flesh-eating flies have made them masters...

Foulness spreads across the Florida Everglades. Its gangrenous veins stretch from the salt marshes to the Indian burial grounds, to the Live Oaks, now blackened and dying. Some strange manner of contagion -- the like of which has never before been seen in the world -- leaves a Stygian residue, as...

Beneath our feet, beneath this very spot, lies beauty beyond all comprehension. This beauty lies in the form of seven cities. These seven cities are linked in mysterious and secretive ways to one another, and the destiny of all mankind. But the Mysteriarchs of the Abyss are preparing to destroy the...

Newly revised and expanded edition. Interstellar flight has been outlawed -- the great warpships that traveled between systems were found to be damaging the very fabric of the universe. Isolated by the ban, the Draconian system has become decadent, strange -- and foul. Dominated by corporate guilds...