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"The First R. Austin Freeman Megapack" collects 27 mystery tales featuring the forensic sleuth Dr. Thorndyke (and others). Included in this volume are: <P> THE RED THUMB MARK (1907)<BR> THE MAN WITH THE NAILED SHOES (1909)<BR> THE STRANGER'S LATCHKEY (1909)<BR> THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AT LARGE (1909)<BR> THE BLUE SEQUIN (1909)<BR> THE MOABITE CIPHER (1909)<BR> THE MANDARIN'S PEARL (1909)<BR> THE ALUMINIUM DAGGER (1909)<BR> ...
| Автор | R. Austin Freeman |
The Third Macabre MEGAPACK® continues the great series with another volume of rare tales of horror and the macabre. Included this time are:<P> THE WALTZ, by Morris W. Gowen<BR> THREE AT TABLE, by W.W. Jacobs<BR> VERA, by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam<BR> A LOST DAY, by Edgar Fawcett<BR> METZENGERSTEIN, by Edgar Allan Poe<BR> A TRAGEDY OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES, by Brainard Gardner Smith<BR> THE LEGEND OF TCHI-NIU, by Lafcadio Hearn<BR> THE OUTGOING OF...
| Автор | Lafcadio Hearn |
Unknown Cause Episode 1 its a fictional story & it is the first chapter of many stories coming about a man who faces the strangest turn of events in his life, his time dimensions changed, he faced unseen before creature with indescribable looks & aura.
| Автор | Abdolaziz Aljahani |
Weird Tales #353 presents a selection of fine stories by modern writers, including Paul Tremplay and Robert Davies, plus features by Kenneth Hite (Lost in Lovecraft), Jason Heller (The Greatest Poison), Amanda Gannon (The Bazaar), and more! Plus an interview with horror legends Thomas Ligotti and artist Richard Corbin.
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Brian McNaughton's masterful «nasty stories» will shock, amaze, and delight you. From twists upon medieval torture chambers to the weirdest Little Red Riding Hood you'll ever meet, Nasty Stories will take your breath away and hold you rapt: a delightful nightmare of terror and humor in equal parts. Once you've read it, you'll know to be afraid!
| Автор | Brian McNaughton |
"The Bram Stoker Megapack" assembles 22 classic works by the author of «Dracula,» including all of his classic horror novels and a selection of rare and famous stories. Of special interest is the mystery story «Old Hoggen,» which has never before appeared in a complete, corrected text until this time (we transcribed it from the 1893 newspaper publication especially for this volume) – and it's worth the price of this volume by itself! In all, «The Bram Stoker Megapack» collects more...
| Автор | Bram Stoker |
When Kent Murdock, news cameraman who doubles as a private eye, steps into a case there’s always plenty of fast talk and fast action. But even Kent didn't bargain for the singing slugs and flying fists that dogged his trail in the bedroom murder of New York’s most beautiful radio writer – who handed out keys to her apartment like a salesman hands out samples. It was only reasonable that Kent should be trailed by trouble – for this time he was both detective and chief suspect! And that was...
| Автор | George Harmon Coxe |
Bulldog Drummond is a British fictional character, created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name «Sapper». After an unsuccessful one-off appearance as a policeman in The Strand magazine, the character was reworked by McNeile into a gentleman adventurer for his 1920 novel Bulldog Drummond. McNeile went on to write ten Drummond novels, five short stories, four stage plays, and a screenplay before his death in 1937. Included in this volume are all ten novels and the five short stories...
| Автор | Sapper |
This volume assembles 25 tales of pulp adventure, mystery, and cthulhu by fictioneer C.J. Henderson, ranging across time and space, through fantasy, science fiction, and Lovecraftian horror – terrific pulp-style yarns by a modern master! Complete contents: <P> HOPE<BR> BREAD AHEAD<BR> NINE DRAGONS<BR> SO FREE WE SEEM<BR> THE IDEA OF FEAR<BR> BRING MORE<BR> SCRUPULOUS TECHNIQUE<BR> VUUDUU<BR> THE QUESTIONING OF THE AZATHOTHIAN...
| Автор | C.J. Henderson |
She was an alcoholic blonde with a load of hot diamonds—a set-up for murder on the rocks. And only private eye Johnny Liddell can crack the case.
| Автор | Frank Kane |
The condemned man asked for three things before he climbed the thirteen steps to the gallows: a glass eye, a champagne cork and a wooden parrakeet. Can any mystery writer—other than Chicago paper blackener Harry Stephen Keeler—have proposed such a scenario? And then written a huge meganovel filled with celestials and tong lore to explain why the condemned man should make such a request?
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
The Haunts & Horrors Megapack offers everyting from ghosts to vampires, from things that go bump in the night to nameless presences – and much more! Here are 31 tales to chill the blood, including: <P> SURREAL ESTATE, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman <BR> BIRTHMARK, by Seabury Quinn <BR> THE MONKEY’S PAW, by W.W. Jacobs <BR> FUGUES, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro <BR> DEAD BABIES, by Lawrence Watt-Evans <BR> THE MUFFIN MAN, by Mike Brines <BR> THE SILENT...
| Автор | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
When Old Hoggen disappeared, everyone in Charmouth suspected foul play. Hoggen had been rich, powerful – and not well liked. Suspicions fall on summer vacationers…and in particularly newcomers Augustus, his wife, mother-in-law, and Cousin Jemima (who bears a striking resemblance to the missing man). When Augustus actually finds the Old Hoggen's body washed ashore in a storm, events take a decidedly sinister turn. <P> A strikingly good, exceedingly rare mystery from the author of...
| Автор | Bram Stoker |
The Second Mystery Megapack selects 25 more tantalizing mystery tales, by modern and classic authors. Included are: <P>FUNNY STUFF, by Ron Goulart<BR> PIT ON THE ROAD TO HELL, by John Gregory Betancourt<BR> WHAT IS COURAGE? by Mack Reynolds<BR> JUST THE FACTS, by Meg Opperman<BR> TEN GRAINS OF SAND, by Christopher B. Booth<BR> MORE ALLISONS THAN I KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH, by Michael Hemmingson<BR> REFLECTION OF A DREAM, by Jean Lorrah<BR> GRIM...
| Автор | Mack Reynolds |
When the Photographer refuses to take an assignment – killing the nephew of General Da Silva, junta member – the Corporation finds a replacement…one not quite up to the job.
| Автор | James Holding |
A facsimile reprint of the April 1933 issue of «Weird Trails» magazine, featuring M.M. Moamrath's «Riders of the Purple Ooze,» and many more Lovecraft-inspired stories.
| Автор | Darrell Schweitzer |
Mr. Sawyer, who works for the newspaper, has disappeared. Meanwhile, petty thefts have occurred at many stores in Forestdale, and those stores are the ones participating in the Town Crier's contest, in which a computer will choose the winning entry.
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
When a young, cocky Chicago newspaper reporter turns away a woman with a scandal to tell, he ends up fired when she’s murdered before the day is through. Can he put the pieces together?
| Автор | James Michael Ullman |
This volume assembles 25 tales by Darrell Schweitzer, modern and alternate-world fantasy and horror tales in the «Weird Tales» vein. Included in this volume are some of his very finest works, including «Pennies from Hell,» «Peeling It Off,» «Kind Yvorian's Wager,» and many more! Complete contents: <P> TRANSIENTS<BR> A LANTERN MAKER OF AI HANLO<BR> THE STORY OF A DADAR<BR> REFUGEES FROM AN IMAGINARY COUNTRY<BR> THE SORCERER EVORAGDOU<BR> THE...
| Автор | Darrell Schweitzer |
The Weird Fiction Megapack collects both modern and classic stories from the classic pulp magazine, Weird Tales, with selections ranging throughout the 20th Century, but focusing mainly on the classic era of the 1930s. Included are works by many famous authors, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Manly Wade Wellman, E. Hoffmann Price, Tennessee Williams, and many more – with an emphasis on great but less-well-known stories that readers may not have encountered before....
| Автор | Darrell Schweitzer |
At first it was just a lark–bribing the stewards to steal food, bribing the conductors to steal blankets, raiding the club car, becoming a trainful of drunks. But then–then they began stealing morphine, and after that they began swapping mates, and after that… <P> Finally the lights went out. And a modern-day miracle of streamlined engineering was turned into a cage of evil, human beings become beasts, and for three days the meaning of civilization was forgotten, and carnality ruled!
| Автор | C.M. Kornbluth |
Jimmy Strange is a mysterious young man who turns up when he is least expected. Whenever and wherever there is trouble, he appears from behind some dark corner. No one knows much about him, though he is always a gentleman. He is never short of money, but its source is unknown. One thing is certain – he isn't a crook. Yet they say he can break into a house with the best of them…but always in a good cause…
| Автор | Ernest Dudley |
Old man Whittaker, in the prime of life, has been sentenced to die of cancer, and it is his strange and demoniacal whim to expose in name and deed the intimate friends with whose hidden crimes he has had a confessor’s acquaintance. To allow them a terrible moment in which to flavor their own ruin, he asks them for a week-end of celebration and, as the starting gun, informs them of the Memoir…
| Автор | Lesley Frost |
Death strikes down a man on the eve of his wedding to a lovely girl. The verdict is suicide, but the girl is certain it is murder—certain because of a closing door. Inspector McKee wonders, too, and soon both he and the girl have their hands full trying to catch up with an ingenious murderer who leaves a corpse-dotted trail.
| Автор | Helen Reilly |