Estar Books Llc: 199 books

The life on a whaler is a series of feverish activities, working day and night after the whale has been caught, followed by spells of leisure cruising around awaiting the word “There she blows.” During the period of stripping the carcass, bailing the precious spermacetti from the case, mincing,...

It was a screwball situation. Here was Dan, sitting at home and minding his own business, when the knock came at his front door. A short time later he was in a lavish apartment a few miles away, where he had been convoyed at the point of a gun, and a beautiful cutie he had never seen before was calling him “Dan, darling” and implying that they were old sweeties!

Whatever it was, it had happened thirteen years ago! Whatever it was, only a dead man was supposed to know anything about it! Yet now Sid Waldring was being blackmailed for it. Completely in the dark, Dan offers to help if he can.

Dan had little sympathy for the dead woman, and a lot for the girl with the pistol. This seemed the time to take the law into his own hands.

Everybody knew Kilgore had been killed trying to escape from San Quentin. Yet now this girl, who knew all the facts in the case, pleads with Dan to save her from the dead man!

While traveling in the Black Forrest Kane meets a traveler named Gaston L'Armon, who seems familiar to Kane together they visit the Cleft Skull Tavern… note: very short!

The darkness that is Africa is brilliantly depicted in this weird story of a white man alone in the jungle.

The “un-official” sequel to War of the Worlds by Garrett P. Serviss! It first appeared in 1898 and this story invents many concepts that were later to become staples of the Science Fiction genre! Serviss managed to get permission from Thomas Edison to use his name and he is the hero of this epic...

Deep in an unexplored part of Antarctica lives a strange and mysterious race… Beyond the Pole.

From the bow of one of America’s ships a beam of bluish light stabbed out and struck an enemy craft. It passed thru the vessel as tho it had been made of glass instead of thousands of tons of steel.

The marvelous tale of Hotar and Evidon and their voyage to the planet Sfanomoë, from the last isle of foundering Atlantis. Note: Clark Ashton Smith single title and a short story

Guns roared in Chinatown. The police took it calmly. “Another ton war,” they said. But Hollywood’s super-sleuth was always a doubter. Wouldn’t it seem more reasonable that somebody had deliberately short at the girl to keep her from tipping anyone off about the kidnapping?

Nathaire a thrice infamous alchemist, astrologer and necromancer has unleashed upon the world horrors from Abaddon. Can Gaspard du Nord fight this evil? Or will the world be overrun by the horrors of Abaddon…

On Zothique, the wizard Namirrha is out to take revenge on King Zotulla…