Author: jmstine

Another thrill-a-minute pulp magazine style adventure, with a thrill-a-minute heroine willing to brave any danger to get her story, from the fabulous imagination of Charles Lee Jackson II.

Brainy and bold newspaper reporter Kathlyn Owen is on to the story of her career. But deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle, where death lurks behind every tree, a greater danger is at work—a mysterious enemy out to stop Kathlyn’s expedition before it reaches a fabulous lost empire! Kathlyn’s sister, anthropologist Betty Owen, is part of the team, but she’s lost her godstone, source of Olympian powers (to learn more about Betty, don't miss The Avenger of Olympus!), and can’t help. Explosions, deadly piranja fish, avalanche, pitfalls, and wild animals—these are only some of the… Perils of Kathlyn !

And, in the same volume, Betty Owen deserts the expedition to recover her lost artifact and regain the powers of Nemesis, avenger of Olympus, but falls prey to a slave-master who forces her to work his mine, a villain who claims to be the spirit of an ancient conquistador, “The Silver Ghost”!

The Final Two Star Man Novels!

Escaping the time trap, Star Man is confronted by the mighty star wizard, Karmax, and his temonoid clones. Then, battered and war-weary, Star Man reaches the Alpha System, ahead of Cardwell's threatening Empire Fleet—only to find a deadly mental barrier has closed Thulone off from the universe!

Star Man's insurgent council tells him that the only defense against the approaching Empire forces is to regain access to Thulone and its resources. Besides, Germaine needs to penetrate Thulone to hear a deathbed communication from the leader of the United Freedom Fighters—which might, in turn, reveal a message left for him by Anne Cardwell.

But to get past the deadly barrier screen, they'll have to commit to an impossible task: a death-defying communication with the Alphid, the powerful collective mind of Alpha's only native species. The stage is set for the ultimate confrontation with Vincent Cardwell's Empire fleet.

Contains the never-before-published twelfth and last volume written by Golden Age pulpster Stuart J. Byrne.

Movie PR man Curly Woods has helped cowboy star Ken Maynard save the world; now Curly has to help him save...Ken Maynard!

When Woods finds Maynard passed out behind the St. Francis Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard with a bloody bayonet in his hand, lying next to the lifeless body of Adrian Comstock—a hateful ham who specialized in playing bad guys and has been stabbed through the heart—the PR flack knows he has to act fast, or else the hot-tempered Maynard will quickly become the L.A.P.D.'s easiest pick for a fall guy.

With sirens approaching, Woods wipes the bayonet clean and drags Maynard to his car. To clear Maynard, the two Hollywood Cowboy Detectives have their work cut out for them. They must find out who really killed the veteran western-film villain, and why that person wants to frame Maynard for the murder. But to solve the case, they discover they need to solve the disappearance of silent-movie vamp, Viola Flag, who vanished just as she was scheduled to return to the screen in a big-budget vampire film. The key to the mystery of the badman's slaying lies in the past, and they must find it before Maynard finds himself in tomorrow's headlines, looking out at his public behind bars, branded a killer or worse.

Another action-filled, tongue-in-cheek, B-movie, pulp magazine romp through the deadly streets of 1930s Hollywood.

Illustrated by animator and newspaper cartoonist D. Purcell.

"A good time. Recommend it to all who like old western movies and serials, too." —The Adventure Continues

In this homage to the B-movie westerns and movie serials of yore, Hollywood Cowboy Detectives Curly Woods, Hoot Gibson and Ken Maynard join forces with action star "Crash" Corrigan and radio's Mercury Theatre stars Orson Welles and Ray Collins. Together the team pool their unique talents to entertain children, battle Nazi zombies, and discover the identity of a diabolical assassin, while fighting their mutual desire to strangle each other on a Hollywood junket in a celebrity- and danger-filled bus from southern California to the Golden Gate. Their fellow passengers include a roster of other actors and actresses, a radio announcer, a mute sound- effects specialist, a photographer, G-men, plus a talentless reporter and a psychic.

The action begins when fascist saboteurs place bounties on the heads of Curly, Hoot and Ken. From there the story hurtles pell-mell to San Francisco—or bust! And in a story within the story, the author tips his hat to one of the great old-time radio programs, The Shadow, in which Welles starred during the mid-1930s.

A stuntman is killed during the filming of an Errol Flynn movie, The Charge of the Light Brigade. Within weeks of that death, a ghostly image of the late stuntman is seen riding in the hills—and then well-planned movie stunts start going wrong in a very deadly way.

A telegram from a beautiful stuntwoman seeking help sends Hollywood Cowboy Detective Sean “Curly” Woods to the site of her current film, where he must uncover the source of seemingly supernatural threats to the cast of Hopalong Cassidy Returns. With the help of western film stars William (Hopalong Cassidy) Boyd and George (Gabby) Hayes, Curly must track down the villainous specter, surviving a series of deadly traps, while seeking a culprit who might belong to this world or the next.

Non-stop action and laughs highlight this Hollywood Cowboy Detectives novelette.

When PR man Curly Woods and cowboy Hoot Gibson arrive at an Arizona dude ranch they find themselves up against a supervillain with a deadly weapon. Sent by the studio to teach Warner Oland, Keye Luke, and the rest of the cast of the new movie "Charlie Chan Goes West" how to ride, Woods and Gibson find themselves in the midst of a situation that makes the film's plot sound like a kiddie story.

Who is the mysterious "Dragon" and why is he killing horses, ranch hands, and plotting a mass slaughter of miners? And, most of all, why is he so determined to end our heroes' lives at all costs?

Suspects include the film's stars, Oland and Luke; its German director; a cowboy actor who can’t ride; a young actress getting her first big break outside of comedy shorts; the ranch's beautiful but mysterious owner, and a bevy of Hollywood hopefuls. Dust Bowl refugees, Arizona ranch hands, aerial battles, shootouts, underground traps and living creatures gathered and released as weapons all spice up the action.

For anyone who loves the old fashioned thrills and action of the classic Hollywood B-movies.

The Wacky, Mind-bending SF Classic!

"The amiable Irish spaceman, Terence O'Corcoran, crash lands on an alien planet, encounters glaciers, forests—and bug-eyed monsters that may or may not be real. It's a solid adventure, crisply told, with a concrete sense of setting. The interior of the spaceship, the glacier, the jungle, an alien city, the various monsters—all are presented as solid and realistic. Fun Reading.” —Di Paul Camp

Only Larry Maddock, creator of the debonair Hannibal Fortune, time-traveling secret agent, and everybody's favorite wise-cracking symboite, Webley, could have written this uproarious comic adventure of an Irish spaceman, stranded on a world that couldn’t be!

When Terence O'Corcoran, solo scout for the Terran Planetary Survey Corps, crash-lands on an alien planet, he regains consciousness to discover his ship hopelessly wrecked. And that isn’t even Terence's biggest worry—it’s being charged by the savage flesh-eating dinosaur he recognizes from an Earth History lesson. And when he meets a leprechaun and a beautiful red-headed colleen, Terence is sure he must have taken one cup too many and be dreaming it all.

But it's no dream. And while everything might not be entirely what it seems, it's a tragically real slave planet Terence has stumbled on. An evil tyrant called Brahnbru has arisen and enslaved the once peaceful and carefree populace. It's a situation no red-blooded Irishman could tolerate!

To free them, Terence finds he will have to stir into rebellion a people who have never dreamed of war, then secretly mold them into an army. It’s also a challenge no Irishman could resist. Now all Terence has to do is penetrate the mysterious Branuru's citadel, learn its vulnerabilities, and get back out alive. With a draught or two for a bracer and a kiss from the lips of the woman he loves, it's a trifle for a son of the old sod. All except the last part: getting out alive! Terence has been caught. His only hope is that what they say is true and you really can't keep a good Irishman down.

Here is a rollicking science fiction classic that, as you would expect from the work of Larry Maddock, will keep you thrilled and chuckling throughout. Fans of Xanth and Discworld should love this madcap sf novel!

"Since Leprechauns are not often found on other planets, I figured that this story was going to be an unusual mix…those who still read Burroughs’ science fantasy can enjoy this original adventure, too.
—Goodreads

"Patron of the Arts gives us a future where art is a major driver in the culture. He envisions new technologies that deepen our arts and alter how we see our world. Rotsler at the top of his form." —Gregory Benford

Brian Thorne was a billionaire. There were only two things he cared about: women and art. And because he could afford it, he paid the world's finest artist to combine the two, to make a work of art of the unforgettable, incomparable Madelon in the new and extraordinary artform: the sensatron. Then Madelon and the artist disappeared—through the sensatron. And all the money in the world could not help Brian Thorne. To solve the secret of the sensatron, he was strictly on his own...

That is how Brian Thorne, billionaire, found himself helpless—caught in a magnificent crystal creation that grew on Mars, and without any resources even if he could get away from the killers who trapped him there. For although they knew he was Brian Thorne, he couldn't prove it. To find Madelon and the sensatron, he had gone to considerable trouble to cover his tracks. Now he wished he had not been so thorough in turning his back on the luxury-lined and very well-guarded life he lived back on Earth. Now, when it was too late!

"A fine novel!" —Harlan Ellison

Eachus' work "Keeps the reader asking the ultimate question: 'Then what happened?'"—Booklist

An enthralling, genre-crossing novel about the Kennedy assassination that weds the thriller to science fiction for an illuminating and surprising examination of what actually happened that day. As history records it, John F. Kennedy was killed at 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963 by two of three bullets fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone. But there are far too many matters that history failed to record...

Charlie Cross woke up late one summer morning in 1962, exactly forty years in his own past. Why he was sent back, and who sent him, are a complete mystery—until he begins to detect differences between the past as he knew it and the one playing out around him; a paradox that could have apocalyptic consequences for both Charlie and his reborn world.

With the aid of characters from both past and current lives, including Laura Mills, a journalist who becomes his supporter, rival and lover, and Secret Service Agent Ed Rossi, who has some secrets of his own, Charlie undertakes a mission that will literally change the course of history; a mission that will earn him powerful allies including John and Robert Kennedy, and Chief Justice Earl Warren, and dangerous enemies like J. Edgar Hoover.

In Dallas, on November 22, 1963, the truths of both of Charlie’s lives will lead him to the grassy knoll, and to the horrific choice between his future and ours.

Back From the Dead to Save a World!

Here's the second volume of this never-reprinted trio of pulp science fantasy classics that become increasingly delicious and bizarre as they progress. Michael Flannigan was dead, sealed in an airless coffin hurtling through space, wasn't he? So there was no hope for the primitive world of Serin-Gor as it faced destruction by powerful alien science, was there? So who was the man who returned through the lens to the land beyond it claiming to be Michael Flannigan? Not even the woman who loved him was sure.

And if he was Michael Flannigan... perhaps it would have been better if he wasn't. For he would have to enter the citadel of an alien God—and in order to win, he would have to lose all his humanity and become an alien himself! And what kind of love could there be for a sexless, metallic man! On the answer hung the fate of two worlds and two very different women.

Science fiction editor Ray Palmer hailed the Michael Flannigan trilogy as "Prime adventure in the high standard and tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs!" when it first appeared in a rival publication. "I'd stand in line for a story by Stu Byrne!" said Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. But you don't need to stand in line. You can read this enthralling trilogy by veteran sf writer Stuart J. Byrne right now.