Welcome to The Seventh Ghost Story MEGAPACK®! Once more we have a wide-ranging assortment of supernatural fiction, with setting across the world – Europe, the Americas, Asia – and across the centuries. You will note that we have a larger than normal number of «Anonymous» stories. No, the authors weren't embarrassed by their contributions. Victorian-era literary magazines and newspapers often ran fiction without crediting the author, or with only vague terms like «A Lady,» initials, or...
The pulp fiction magazines of the early to mid 20th century featured just about every subject imaginable, from fringe titles (yes, there really was a Civil War Stories, a Submarine Stories, and even a Suicide Stories) to mainstream (Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book) to genre titles (Weird Tales, Detective Stories, Ranch Romances) and everything in between. “In Between” includes the “hero” pulps, of which there were dozens…Doc Savage, Operator #5, The Avenger, Zorro, The Black Bat, and many, many...
An old friend of Albert Campion, «Uncle» William Faraday, has written a successful book that has been turned into a hit musical comedy. Jimmy Sutane, an established actor and dancer, is the star of the musical. But recently someone has it in for Sutane and has started playing harmless practical jokes that have caused the highly emotional Jimmy much trauma. Jimmy asks Campion to look into who the prankster may be. So Campion takes a trip to the Sutane household, where he unexpectedly finds more...
The Cutthroats and Criminals MEGAPACK® contains 20 great stories by modern and classic authors. Included are:<P> CRIMINAL TYPES, by Vincent McConnor<BR> REDHEADS DIE QUICKLY, by Gil Brewer<BR> THE SARDONIC STAR OF TOM DOODY, by Dashiell Hammett<BR> A HEARING AID FOR CARMODY, by Stephen Wasylyk<BR> A PADLOCK FOR CHARLIE DRAPER, by James Holding<BR> A TRULY HONEST MAN, by Talmage Powell<BR> MURDER OF A MOUSE, by Fletcher Flora<BR> SUPPLY AND...
A pre-Renaissance manuscript, an old treatise on witchcraft, and black magic feature in the murder of a quiet, young teacher at the University of California.<P> <P>"The writer, already well know to science fiction readers, gives us a startling detective in his Norwegian-Japanese Trygve Yamamura who, this time, finds the murderer of a young university who knew too much about a medieval Book of Witches and who was tortured before his death. Good suspense and excellent puzzle." – The...
Wildside Press is proud to present the fifthof Fletcher Flora’s series featuring police detective Lt. Joseph Marcus, as part of our ongoing effort to make Flora’s collected work available again to the public. We plan to release the entire series.<P> While Flora had a long career writing much crime, mystery, and detective fiction, Marcus seems to be his only attempt to create a series character. Marcus, as a character, is marked by his dogged rationality, as he attempts to solve various...
