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Clifford Brooks and his wife Joan believe that 'Herbert,' the frisky dinosaur who'd saved their lives in A THING OF THE PAST, has been lost forever in the Earth's underworld. But to their amazement, he returns to the surface of the Earth--and immediately raises once again all of the complicated problems...

To the peoples of Earth, it had seemed the perfect marriage when Violet Ray Brant--better known as The Golden Amazon--and Abna of Atlantis were wed in Westminster Abbey. But it was nothing of the kind, and before long Abna found himself betrayed and marooned on a satellite of Jupiter, while the Amazon's...

SF Author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33, in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterization, and humor completely revolutionized the field, and profoundly influenced his contemporaries. Among his many imitators was English writer John Russell...

Once it had been king city of a mighty empire and the center of the ancient faith; Gateway to the Gods, the old epics name it. Now it was dead, empty, deserted, only a dim ghost of its vanished splendor. Such was Ilionis, the Lost City of Mars. A somber ruin, cold and lonely. But Ilionis was not forgotten....

Thongor of Valkarth -- mightiest warrior of the ancient continent of Lemuria, before the dawn of history -- launches into his saga with this rousing adventure of swordplay and sorcery. The ancient dragon kings have deemed the hour right to regain their dominance over Earth -- and only Thongor and...

A new ruler has arisen on the ancient continent of Lemuria. It is Thongor the Barbarian, whose dauntless courage and mighty sword have made him overlord of a thriving young empire. Against him conspire in secret those dedicated to the Black Gods of Chaos. Suddenly Thongor's wife, the Princess Sumia,...

Lin Carter's greatest creation, the barbarian swordsman Thongor of Lemuria, returns in his first new book in more than 40 years! "Young Thongor" collects Carter's short stories about Thongor's earliest adventures. Drawing on Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian and Edgar Rice Burroughs'...

When Chalmers decides to attend one of Dr. Lanson's nightly séances, it's not because he has any belief in the occult, but simply to find somewhere warm to rest his weary feet. It's a decision he soon regrets. First, a luminous cloud forms in the air over the heads of the assembled people. A strange...

Walter de la Mare (1873 – 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist, probably best remembered for his works for children and the poem "The Listeners". De la Mare also wrote some subtle psychological horror stories, of which "Seaton's Aunt" and "Out of the Deep" are noteworthy examples. His 1921 novel "Memoirs of a Midget" won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.

Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) is best remembered as the creator of Chinese detective Charlie Chan.Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang...

"Charlie Chan Carries On" -- the 1931 Fox motion picture starring Warner Oland as Chan -- is now considered a "lost" film (the original film materials were destroyed in a vault fire.) Unless a copy surfaces in some remote corner of the world, as happened with "Charlie Chan in Paris," this original screenplay...

Charlie Chan, visiting San Francisco to make a speech, finds himself swept into one of his most puzzling -- and dangerous -- cases! A cult known as the Golden Horde is running a spiritual retreat, helping the disturbed and the depressed find inner peace. Benny Chan, who worked for the Golden Horde, is...

Zombies are relentless, ravenous creatures, and their insatiable appetite for living flesh has given author Mark McLaughlin plenty of food for thought. In BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE, you will sit down to a feast of zombie stories -- seventeen in all. Zombies can rise from the dead for countless reasons....

Master storyteller Lyn McConchie returns with two tantalizing tales for Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. This time our heroes must dig deep to unearth long-buried family secrets in Familiar Crimes. When Bradon Riggston decides to write his family history, he is shocked to find that many of his relatives...