Author: jmstine

1920s Female Federal Agent Sent to Prison!

Gun Moll, undercover nemesis of crime, lies helpless in prison, victim of a brilliant scheme. New York City reels under a horrifying wave of crime and murder. Eyewitnesses agree that a sapphire-eyed blonde is the gang's leader. Soon Gun Moll, whom all gangdom has sworn to bring down, is hauled before the courts, identified as the criminal, and sentenced to the big house.

In a prison where heartless fiends rule and women are driven to the brink of madness, Gun Moll faces the enemies she has sent there in years past. Meanwhile her friends, Rocky Brannigan, the crime boss of New York; Daisy, Gun Moll's faithful maid; Jingles; her staunch ally, Flynn; and her motor-mouthed lawyer, Morrie Lichtenburg combine forces to uncover the real criminals and free their beloved leader.

Rat infested dungeons, sadistic guards, a corrupt warden, and prisoners locked in a neverending round of despair, are only the beginning when Gun Moll is sent to The Prison of Guilt and Shame! Don't miss it!

Femme Noir Versus Hell's Mightiest Demon!

The eighth great issue of this amazing new tribute to the pulp magazines features "Claws of Fire and Ice," a book-length Femme Noir novel, plus new and classic horror short stories.

After centuries trapped beneath the icy waters of the Atlantic, Sarabotes, Hell's mightiest demon, awakes to spread disaster through the world. Rising in Boston harbor, he rains flaming destruction down on the city, laughing as its citizens burn in the fire. But before he begins his conquest of the Earth, Sarabotes plans to take an old flame for his bride. His prospective bride, however, has other plans. She's Femme Noir, Dread Nemesis of Hell's Restless Legions, and she has sworn to stop Sarabotes—even if it means her death!

Join Femme Noir, detective Rick Harrell, his irascible police chief, and Father Tomasino, as they oppose themselves to the occult powers of hell's most powerful demon. Here is a masterpiece of dark fantasy that will bring you face to face with Femme Noir's greatest secret and a shattering climax inside the Chapel of the Saints of Night.

Also included are C. E. Eddy's classic of necrophilic lust from the pages of Weird Tales, "The Loved Dead"; Ardath Mayhar's horrifying "The Dig"; J. D. Crayne's "Blood Madonna," and other dark fantasies.

First Issue of a New 1930s-Style Pulp Magazine!

In Nemesis Magazine, writes Rod MacDonald in SFCrowsnest, each issue features one of four "valiant ladies from different eras acting as the nemesis to various threatening forces including crime and evil. Names such as Rachel Rocket and Gun Moll come to the fore. It's all ripping stuff—this isn't an old pulp novel—it's modern stuff written by Stephen Adams who also does the evocative cover artwork."

The lead novels, MacDonald says, are "well-written—the action scenes were realistic and the dialogue easy flowing and believable. This type of fantasy isn't my normal reading but I found it light and entertaining. However, [the lead story] doesn't come on its own." There are also "reprints from old pulp magazines—these give a wonderful insight into attitudes and beliefs of that illusory and enigmatic period of time between the wars ... ripping stuff."

Nemesis #1 stars the blazing exploits of Gun Moll, the beautiful Undercover Nemesis of Crime whose brain is constantly working behind an expressionless face like a white, porcelain mask.

In "Tentacles of Evil", Gun Moll uncovers a plot in which Dr. Sin Lo, a fiendish super-genius, spins a web of crime and intrigue designed to bring the future of civilization itself into his clutches. To defeat his evil plan, she calls upon the help of Rocky Brannigan, the gangster warlord; Jingles, her loyal, brutish chauffeur; Flynn, the uncompromising old cop who dotes on her like a daughter; Calpurnia, her feisty maid; and the debased slave girls of Sin Lo's opium den. Failure means nothing less than the downfall of the United States of America!

Here is the first of Gun Moll's no-holds-barred battles with the Dr. Sin Lo to save the world from being strangled by his Tentacles of Evil! Plus A Nick Bancroft mystery by Bob Liter, "The Greensox Murders" by Jean Marie Stine, and a classic mystery short reprinted from the heyday of the pulps.

The Pulp Thrills Continue In This All-New 1930s Style Magazine!

Fans of The Spider, Doc Savage, and The Shadow won't want to miss the second pulse-pounding issue of Nemesis, featuring Rachel Rocket, the Winged Nemesis of Foreign Terror, in the book-length novel of Nazi treachery in the skies, "Hell Wings over Manhattan."

It's the late 1930s, and enemy spies have honeycombed the cities of the United States with their corrupting burrows. Like termites, they shun the light of liberty, even while they seek to snuff it out and replace it with the sinister darkness of Fascism. Their leader–The Demolition Master–and his Fifth Columnists launch an assault of death and destruction upon the heart of New York City. This merciless agent of the Gangster Nations rains terror down on to the great metropolis with an unstoppable armada of explosives-laden robot planes, and all a helpless populace can do is watch the skies and prepare to evacuate the city. But the American spirit of youth and freedom refuses to submit meekly. Rachel Rocket, the beautiful, red-headed pilot, and her comrades have vowed to man the nation's defenses against the threat of Totalitarianism.

When Nazi treachery puts her best friend, Dr. Mitzi Rowan, in a hospital room hovering between life and death, and lays her partner, Hank Rowan, low with a gangster's bullet in his body, Rachel Rocket must take to the skies alone to save America from the evil plans of a mad Axis dictator and his evil henchmen.

Aided only by her skill and daring, Rachel pits herself against gangster hordes, the Axis' greatest aerial Aces, and the masked spymaster from an enslaved, central European country, when the heavens explode and "Hell Wings Over Manhattan."

Plus spine-tingling science fiction stories, including EPPIE nominee Stefan Vucak's "Hunger," author J. D. Crayne's disturbing "Point of View," Hugo Award winner Larry Niven's "No Exit," written with Jean Marie Stine, and a classic novelette of space ship mystery by the king of space opera, Edmond Hamilton.

Cover: Stephen Adams.

One Woman Warrior Against Hitler's Death Machines!

In December of 1941, the U.S. was forced into the boiling cauldron of World War II. Willing but still unready for the task at hand, the nation geared up for the greatest military conflict of all time. Within weeks, a new kind of soldier appeared on the scene—Major Victoria Rose Hardwyck (a.k.a. Victory Rose).

Her origins were labeled "Top Secret," and they remain classified in government files even to this day. When the first accounts of her heroic battles against Nazi tyranny leaked to an incredulous public, Victory Rose, Nemesis of Axis Tyranny, was thought to be a legend, her figure barely glimpsed in flashes of gunfire. As the true accounts of her exploits were released as a morale builder, America found herself with a new ally and a powerful weapon in the war against the Axis.

Now, as Nazi Germany totters on the verge of collapse, Victory Rose and her unit are given their most challenging assignment: fly to Berlin and steal or destroy the newest and greatest of the German Wonder Weapons. In a last ditch effort to halt the Allied advance, Nazi scientists have created the War Trumpet, a device capable of knocking out electronic devices all along the battlefront and leaving the Allied Army at the mercy of a devastating counterattack.

Trapped alone in the besieged German capital of Berlin, Victory Rose fights for her life against SS execution squads, faces the fury of a frenzied mob, and locks horns with Schickelgruber himself, Adolf Hitler, in his bunker deep beneath the city. To survive she must form an uneasy alliance with Russian commandoes led by her old flame, Alexei Kruszynski.

But the game becomes more complicated when Victory Rose discovers that to accomplish her mission, she will not only have to recover the secrets of Nazi technology for the Allies, but keep it out of the hands of the Communists as well. For gripping World War II action, read "The Fuhrer's Final Trumpet," a pivotal episode in the saga of Victory Rose!

Plus: A trio of classic jungle tales from the heyday of the pulps, including full-length adventures of those legendary jungle men, Ki-Gor, Lord of the Jungle (in "Nirvana of the Seven Voodoos") and Kwa, King of the Apes. Illustrated with classic pulp art.

Cover design: Stephen Adams.

Meet the Eeriest Villainess in Suspense Fiction!

Nemesis, the contemporary pulp magazine, continues with another book-length Gun Moll novel, featuring America's Undercover Nemesis of Crime against The Angel with No Hands, plus new and classic mystery short stories.

It's the 1920s and Giselle, a beautiful but treacherous French double agent, is captured by her vengeful countrymen and sentenced to one of history's grimmest fates. Soon she earns a new and deadlier name—Giselle sans Mains ("without hands")—one that strikes terror in to the hearts of all who hear it. For no one is more ruthless in their pursuit of crime, and her lust for mass destruction leaves a trail of slaughter wherever she goes.

Now sans Mains has exported her genius for evil to America and plans to wreck the nation's economy and spread death throughout its cities. As bombs explode and buildings burn, only Gun Moll, America's Undercover Nemesis of Crime, the woman with ice in her veins, stand between Giselle sans Mains and the helpless population of New York. But can even Gun Moll's cool, calculating brain find a way to defeat such a pitiless foe, especially when all of New York's gangsters are lined up behind her?

Stephen Adam's Angel with No Hands is a nonstop rollercoaster of action and suspense that carries Gun Moll straight into the torturer's den where the price of victory may be her own death! Plus new and classic mystery short stories including a never-reprinted adventure of the "first and best of blind detectives," Max Caraddos.

Cover: Stephen Adams

She Was the Nemesis of Hell's Restless Spirits!

In issue #4 of Nemesis, the modern pulp magazine, you will meet the incredible, mystical Femme Noir, sworn to oppose Lucifer's Legions, in a complete book-length novel of demonic horror.

When a mysteriously traumatized young woman begs for asylum at the Chapel of the Saints of Night, Father Tomansino must come to grips with one of the gravest errors he has made during his lifetime of stewardship. A moment's negligence is all it has taken to open a conduit of pure evil and release an invasion of creatures from the pit of Hell upon unsuspecting humanity.

His own desperate efforts to halt the release of the demonic hoards having failed, the terrified priest has only one hope. As the bloody monstrosities roam the city, slaughtering and devouring its citizenry, Tomasino turns to Femme Noir, Dread Nemesis of Hell's Restless Legions. From the depths of her sanctum, the shadowy Chapel, this Champion of Light issues forth to wreak destruction upon the forces of Hell, before humanity can become food for their gluttonous appetites.

As her only mortal friend and ally, Detective Rick Harrell, rallies his forces to fight a desperate holding action against Hell's most fearsome creations, Femme Noir singlehandedly battles through the blood-thirsty demons in order to risk her soul in a face-to-face confrontation with the sorcerer who has unleashed "Hell's Hungry Darlings."

Also featured in issue #4 are new and classic horror stories including "The Challenge from Beyond," the legendary round-robin novelette of cosmic horror by those classic terror masters H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, A. Merritt, C. L. Moore, and Frank Belknap Long.

In Nemesis magazine, writes Rod MacDonald in SFCrowsnest, each issue features one of four "valiant ladies from different eras acting as the nemesis to various threatening forces including crime and evil. Names such as Rachel Rocket and Gun Moll come to the fore. It's all ripping stuff—This isn't an old pulp novel—It's modern stuff written by Stephen Adams who also does the evocative cover artwork." The lead novels are "well-written—the action scenes realistic and the dialogue easy flowing and believable. This type of fantasy isn't my normal reading but I found it light and entertaining."

Rachel Rocket in the Clutches of a Fascist Millionaire's Death Machine!

Investigating a mysterious cloud of smoke on the Caribbean Sea, Rachel Rocket and her partner, Hank Rowan, crash land on an island where an evil industrialist is building the world’s most terrible weapons of mass destruction! Soon Rachel has been sentenced to a life of soul-destroying drudgery in the bowels of a mysterious factory no one ever leaves alive.

While Hank and his newfound companion, an island native longing for escape, battle the sea in an open boat, Rachel Rocket discovers the secret her masters have worked so hard to protect—a weapon that harnesses the power of the universe to rain fire from the sky upon helpless victims of tyranny’s lust for power.

With the aid of unexpected allies, Rachel resolves to destroy the weapon—even if it costs her life. Battling a machine-gun wielding army of guards and dodging the blazing fury of a U.S. Navy air raid, Rachael faces barehanded the unimaginable power of a dictator’s most dangerous toy, the Molten Image. Fighting for her life, Rachel knows that stopping the March of the Molten Image will be only the first step in her desperate effort to save the East Coast from destruction.

Don't miss this thrilling pulp novel plus new and classic science fiction by Balrog winner Ardath Mayhar, J. D. Crayne, Jean Marie Stine, and Joe Vadalma, plus Lynn Venable's "All the Time in the World," which became a Twilight Zone classic.

One Costumed Heroine Against Nazi Science at its Most Fiendish!

Pounded from all sides in their crumbling pocket of Stalingrad, the German High Command makes one last desperate throw of the dice to hold off the Red Army. From the nightmare crucibles of the Third Reich, where sadism and science walk hand in hand, comes the evil Doktor Schadel with a plan to create an unstoppable army of super storm troopers—an army for whom death holds no terrors. Now he has turned them loose on the Russians, and America's Soviet allies are helpless before Schadel's invincible troopers.

Then out of the West comes a star of hope: The Legendary Allied agent, Victory Rose—battling her way into the heart of the Nazi juggernaut. With guns in her fists and fire in her eyes she flings herself single-handed into combat with the super-storm troopers—buying the Soviets time, even at the cost of her own life.

It's horror, adventure, and mayhem when Victory Rose leagues herself with Stalingrad's brave defenders only to find that Death Stalks the Ruins!

Cover design: Stephen Adams.

Did She Offer Humanity Hope—or Hellfire?

Who was the mysterious sex therapist known only as "Madam Ninon"?

"A breakthrough science fiction classic whose exploration of humanity's sexual mores bares comparison with Candide and Stranger in a Strange Land." —Jean Marie Stine, author, Season of the Witch.

Science fiction writer and satirist Larry Maddock's lost masterpiece. Written contemporaneously with Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, it shares uncanny parallels with that more famous tome. In Madam Ninon, a naïf encounters a messianic figure who teaches her followers to engage in freer sex as a means to become fully human.

Released a few months after Stranger, Madame Ninon was not merely overshadowed by Heinlein's success, it was unnoticed, even among the author's own circle of writers and artists. The original paperback's microscopic printing and the fact that it was distributed by a small publisher to a handful of adult bookstores—for an audience who can hardly have been interested in the author's intricate meditations on midcentury sexual conventions and inhibitions—further ensured the resounding silence that greeted its publication.

Yet Madame Ninon is just the kind of novel which Larry Maddock—Agent of T.E.R.R.A. author, science fictioneer, sexologist, and social critic that he was—might have been expected to write.

Inspired by the author's reading of the life and writings of 17th century courtesan Madam Ninon De Lenclos, whose legendary "School of Gallantry" taught the arts of love to the young men and women of France, the book's pungent verbal duels offer the perfect vehicle for Larry Maddock's private speculations on sex and sexuality.