Halcyon Press Ltd : 195 books

In THE ROYAL BOOK OF OZ, the Scarecrow slides down a magic bean-pole and discovers he is actually the Emperor of the mysterious underground Silver Islands. When Dorothy discovers him missing, she sets out to find him, meeting the knight, Sir Hokus of Pokes, along the way. Ruth Plumly Thompson...

Written in the 1880s, LOOKING BACKWARD 2000-1887 was one of the best-selling books of the 19th century.  Set in the distant future of 2000, the story follows Julian West, an American who awakes from a trance after 113 years.  The world he discovers has been transformed into a socialist...

THE SECRET GARDEN tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled, contrary orphan, who is sent to live in her uncle's manor in Yorkshire. She is left to herself by her uncle Mr. Craven, who travels most of the time, trying to escape from memories of his wife. The only person who has any time for Mary is...

Set in the Klondike at the height of gold fever, THE SPOILERS features Roy Glenister, a man of powerful nature, whose theory of life is that force can accomplish anything. Rex Beach (1877-1949) was an American author, playwright, and Olympic water polo player.  After growing in Florida...

Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered aside the rising tide of narcotics-mania, the gambling fever, the insatiable lust for the irrational. Jeff had his own all-consuming obsession—Paul Conroe must...

ALICE is a classic Romance novel by British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) was an English politician, poet, playwright, and successful novelist.  In a career spanning more than forty years he wrote a stream of novels which were read widely in the...

SPACE PLATFORM tells of man’s first step into outer space ... of the difficulties and dangers of reaching for the stars. It is also an exciting adventure. When young Joe Kenmore came to Bootstrap to install pilot gyros in the Platform he hadn’t bargained for sabotage or murder or love. But Joe...

In the not-so-distant future, humans have colonized much of the solar system and discovered that dangerous life abounds on Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and some of the comets.  In THE INTERPLANETARY HUNTER, two Earthmen, Tommy Strike and Gerry Carlyle, hunt the most dangerous of these creatures...

BEHIND A MASK is about Jean Muir, governess for the wealthy Coventry family, during Victorian-era Great Britain. Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was an American novelist.  Born in Massachusetts, Alcott was educated by her father but also received instruction from Henry David Thoreau,...

Wilbur Whateley is peculiar in a remarkably unsettling way.  He's the son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father.  Strange events surrounded his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matured at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade--all the while indoctrinated him into...

HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR follows the machinations of a mad doctor and his dedicated sidekick as they try to reanimate the dead--with terrifying results. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird...

THE CTHULHU MYTHOS includes more than a dozen novellas and short stories central to H.P. Lovecraft's 'Cthulhu' myths. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the...

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town.  The house once harbored Keziah Mason, an witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants...

An Arkham university professor is contacted by a farmer living in a remote part of Vermont, who claims to have evidence of aliens living in the hills and mining a mysterious metal.  After visiting, the professor becomes alarmed at the mysterious change in the behavior of the farmer, including his...