This volume is the third of a set of three showcasing the work of Frederic Boutet, the other two volumes being The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories and The Voyage of Julius Pingouin and Other Strange Stories. Viewed as an ensemble, the collections illustrate the range and development of Boutet's early work, and provide a few representative samples of its later evolution. Here are a baker's dozen of supernatural, horror, and fan ...
Drop into The Bone-God’s Lair and take a walk on the Wild Side! Here is premier horror-sci-fi writer A. R. Morlan's introduction to some of Pop Culture's most famous (and infamous) practitioners, from Marilyn Monroe’s poignant farewell in «The Sweet End of the Lollipop,» to Andy Warhol’s wandering spirit in Norm Littman's 15 Minutes, and Jim Morrison's incorruptible presence in «He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's…» Morl ...
The second in the classic series featuring Chief Inspector Damiot of the Paris police!<P> STARLIGHT, CHAMPAGNE AND MURDER<P> A sweet-scented breeze greets Chief Inspector Damiot's arrival on the sunny Cote d'Azur…and so does trouble. His secret mission is to assist the local prefecture in recovering a stolen Cezanne. His private plan is to sip his favorite whiskey and search for the perfect bouillabaisse. But more than a ...
FOR THE UNIQUE PROBLEMS OF TAHITI…YOU NEED A UNIQUE DETECTIVE: JOE CANEILI!<P> What's a nice farmboy from Bookbinder, Kansas, tough but fair, doing as the only Private Eye in the South Pacific? A minor disagreement with the fine Police Officers of Cologne, Germany… 23 years as a Sergeant-Major in the French Foreign Legion… A sardonic eye for the vagaries of human nature… Nothing in Tahiti is too strange for Caneili!<P> Include ...
You're supposed to find sex, sin, sun and sand in Tahiti! Quiet lagoons, beautiful vahines, complaisant women, languor and love. But instead, you'll find kidnapping, murder, and exploding bombs. Mais non! It all starts with a beautiful, naked damsel in distress in expatriate LaRoche's adventures in the real-life Garden of Eden. ...
The MacNair of MacNair, conman extraordinaire, pulled into a parallel universe by desperate revolutionaries … finds his life endangered by madmen of every stripe … desperately jumping from universe to universe and century to century, on the run from berserk Emperors, secret policemen, vengeful wives, and maddened doppelgangers, the supremely unruffled MacNair still finds time to save an empire, marry an heiress, and invent the two hallmarks of m ...
SILVERLOCK is one of the all-time great fantasy classics. In this richly picaresque story of a modern man's fruitful adventurings in legendary realms of gold, John Myers Myers has presented a glowing tapestry of real excitement and meaning. In essence, this is the tale of Silverlock's wanderings in the Commonwealth, the land of immortal heroes real and imagined, in search of his true destiny. In form, it is sheer headlong narrative, wi ...
"The Torture Trust" they called themselves–that unholy trio who met in a hidden room in a deserted part of the city. Brilliant men by day, leading scholarly and productive lives as far as the police and the outside world were concerned, secretly they donned black cloaks and ran an organization of evil … for «The Torture Trust» threatened their blackmail victims with a terrible acid bath, leaving a trail of faceless corpses to bear mute test ...
