Author: jmstine

The Man who Saved the Universe—Without a Body—Returns!

As the editors of Amazing Stories, the magazine where the Mayhem stories appeared, described him in one issue: "If you've never read a Johnny Mayhem story before, you are in for a treat. Johnny, who wears different bodies the way ordinary people wear clothes, is one of the most fascinating series characters in science fiction."

Here three more of the never-reprinted Johnny Mayhem novelettes. The first story, "A Place in the Sun," takes place on the starship Glory of the Galaxy, where the most important statesmen in the galaxy are being held captive and shot straight toward Earth's sun. The original magazine blurb read: "Mayhem, the man of many bodies, had been given some weird assignments in his time, but saving The Glory of the Galaxy wasn’t just difficult—it was downright impossible!"

The second Mayhem adventure, "Think Yourself to Death," involves a gender-change adventure on a planet of Ophiuchus. As the magazine's editors described it: "Intrigue with a nice SF touch: our hero and 'mayhem' fighter can change bodies the way you change your mind."

In the final story in this volume, "Get Out of My World," Johnny is off to Partap's Planet, whose stubborn residents resist evacuation when their sun is about to go nova. Here is how the editors described this adventure in the original blurb: "In this hair-raiser, he climbs into the most amazing 'garment' he ever 'wore,' and hikes out into space to straighten out a situation nobody wants straightened. And so the universal slogan becomes, 'Lets Murder Mayhem.'"

Women With Wings and the Men Who Wanted to Clip Them!

When a group of shipwrecked sailors find an island of beautiful, naked women with wings—they think they've found paradise. What the sailors don't realize is that they are the snake in the Garden of Eden.

At first the sailors can't live without these beautiful goddesses and woo them ardently. But once they have married the winged women, the men can't live with the thought of their freedom of the air—or that if mistreated, the women might all fly away and desert them. Soon the sailors hold a council and decide to clip their wives' wings, so they can never fly again!

Be prepared for one of the most transformative twist endings in the literature of fantasy and science fiction. Angel Island (1914) is at once an enthralling adventure, a timeless feminist fable, and a milestone in the development of modern science fiction. The Encyclopedia of SF says Gillmore's Angel Island "conveys an almost surreal feminist message with considerable competence."

Cover: Mia Jennings

"Our Best Writer of Ghost Stories!"

Steven King was influenced by the work of William Hope Hodgson, while horror maestro H.P. Lovecraft praised Carnacki, Ghost Finder as a work of "undeniable power [that] affords glimpses of the peculiar genius characteristic of the author,"—and hailed the author himself, writing that "Few can equal him in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and insignificant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and the abnormal in connection with regions or buildings."

William Hope Hodgson was one of the archetypal masters of gaslight-era horror, and Carnacki ranks as one of his proudest creations. For the quiet, colorless man with the apartment by the river is in actuality a ghost-hunter and demon-layer extraordinaire. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of the arcane arts and supernatural manifestations, Carnacki puts on his coat and turns up his collar before stepping out the door to confront demons, hauntings, invisible presences, and fifth-dimensional intrusions. Journey with him—if you dare—while Carnacki confronts "The Thing Invisible," enters "The Gateway of the Monster," braves the terrors of "The Whistling Room," battles a dread entity from another realm.

"The Hog," Hodgson is "Our best writer of ghost stories" (The Liverpool Courier.) Here is a genuine classic of supernatural fiction no horror fan can afford to miss.

Cover: Elspeth Fahey.

"At The Earth's Core" and "Pellucidar" in one eBook!

Both books complete and unabridged. In At the Earth's Core, when David Innes accompanies his friend, the eccentric scientist Abner Perry, in his newest invention, a rocketship-shaped "mole" designed to penetrate the Earth's crust, he never dreams broken controls will send the two of them all the way to a strange world at the Earth's core.

There, human beings are still at a primitive state of development, and are enslaved—and used for food—by the Mahars, a race of near-immortal, telepathic pterodactyls. Taken prisoner, David and Perry make friends and enemies—including the primitive, beautiful cave woman, Dian—and David soon finds a reason to lead his fellow prisoners in a hopeless revolt against the Mahars of Pellucidar. But when he attempts to return to the outer world, Dian is kidnapped and he ends up alone on the Earth's surface.

In Pellucidar, David and Perry return to the inner world to find Dian, but emerge thousands of miles from their destination. With their "mole" wrecked, they must battle their way across savage Pellucidar—and only then will they reach the beginning of their long search!

Both books complete and unabridged—over 900 pages in hardcover.

Three Complete Masterpieces of the Weird and Uncanny!

Here is a trio of dark fantasies by the creator of the fiendish Dr. Fu Manchu. You will shiver with dread at some of the horrors that spring from the mind of author Sax Rohmer. As The Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection notes, "Although his tales are often fantastic, they are wholly accurate with regard to background material. If a 7-inch poisonous millipede [is used to commit murder], the reader can be sure that the insect actually exists. …many bizarre tales were based on historical events…"

Fire-Tongue, Dope and The Yellow Claw are three of his most celebrated novels of fiendish torture and macabre death. Even the chapter titles exude mystery, thrills, the occult: "Kazmah, The Dream Reader," "The Gilded Joss," "Chinese Magic," "The Maid of the Masque," "The Black Smoke," The Lady of the Civet Furs," "Cave of the Golden Dragon," "Ho-Pin's Catacombs," "The Living Dead," "Cagliostro's Staircase," "Grove of a Million Apes," "His Excellency Ormuz Khan," "The Seventh Kama."

How can you resist? A true ebook bargain.

A Trio of Full-Length Tarzan Books in One!

Here are three of the best Tarzan novels in one eBook—for one low price. In Tarzan the Untamed, the ape man goes on a trail of vengeance when German soldiers burn his African ranch and he finds Jane's charred body among the ruins.

In Tarzan the Terrible, the discovery that Jane still lives, her apparent death a trick by enemy soldiers, sends the jungle lord into the almost impenetrable fastnesses of the lost land of Pal-ul-don. There he finds two kingdoms of primitive humans caught up in a religious war, and Jane has become a prized captive. But, before Tarzan can rescue her, Jane rescues herself and, thrown back on her own resources, utilizes all the jungle craft she learned from the ape man to survive and thrive as a jungle Diana. When Tarzan and Jane are reunited, it is as captives stretched out helplessly as sacrifices on the altar of the Living God!

In Tarzan and the Golden Lion, the jungle lord's adoption of a lion cub is an act whose consequences he can not foresee—one that will find him a captive in the legendary City of Gold, where life is cheap and death lurks in every shadow.

All three books complete and unabridged—over 1200 pages in hardcover.

"Master Mind" and "Fighting Man"—Two Complete Burroughs Mars Books in One!

Here are two full-length, unabridged quintessential Barsoom novels in one ebook—for one low price! When soldier and soldier of fortune Ulysses S. Paxton wishes on a star, he's actually looking at Mars, planet and emblem of the God of War. Soon enough, however, Paxton's wishing ceases; he is whisked away to Mars itself—AKA Barsoom—to an almost unknown part of the planet.

Captured by the planet's greatest and maddest scientist, Paxton is forced to assist in grisly brain transplants—until the brain of the beautiful slave woman, and the object of his adoration, is to be transplanted into that of a rich, aged Barsoomian crone. Paxton rebels, but his rebellion results in his brain being transplanted to the body of an ape. Even then he is undaunted, determined to right the wrong done his beloved and restore her to her own body. Soon he is off on a series of hair-raising adventures that will bring Mars to the verge of all-out war and require the intervention of no less than John Carter, the Warlord himself, to avert.

And then, in A Fighting Man of Mars, Burroughs takes us inside the mind and heart of a typical Barsoomian soldier, whose life is changed when he falls in love—and discovers just how far he is willing to go to win the woman who captured his heart. And on Barsoom, facing death ten times over is just the beginning!

Cover Frank R. Paul circa 1927

John Carter's Daughter and Son—Two Full-Length Books in One!

Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars—complete and unabridged. Though Thuvia, the woman he loves, has pledged herself to another, Carthoris, son of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, mounts his sky sled and is off to the rescue when she is kidnapped by a jealous rival.

When he finds Thuvia in Barsoom's unknown wilds, he is forced to fight phantom bowmen, green men, white apes, and a decadent king to save Thuvia from a fate worse than death. And if he does save her—it will be to ensure her safe return to her finance.

In the Chessmen of Mars, the daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris, restless and proud, sets out at night for adventure. Soon she is wrecked in an enemy kingdom and falls in love with a man far below her station. She learns nobility is not a matter of title but of character, only to have her beloved forced to fight in a deadly game of chess where living chessmen battle to the death for possession of each square.

Two novels, complete and unabridged.

Cover: J. Allen St. John circa 1920

"A Princess of Mars", "Gods of Mars" and "Warlord of Mars" in One eBook!

Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic trilogy of Martian adventure. All three novels, complete and unabridged for one low price!

When John Carter is unexpectedly transported to the red planet, Mars, he finds himself prisoner of the cruel Green Men of Thark. Carter soon earns their respect for his bravery and skill with the sword, and wins a friend in Tars Tarkas of the Tharks. As he struggles to gain his freedom -- and the love of Dejah Thoris, a fellow captive and princess of the great City of Helium -- the fate of Mars hangs in the balance. Of course, Carter and the fiery Martian princess get off on the wrong foot, since Carter knows nothing about the culture of the red humanoid race, and are soon at odds with each other. Carter wants nothing more than to win her love. But before he does, he will have to battle his way across the red planet, earn himself a royal title, unravel the mysteries of the River Iss, the Goddess Isis, and the Black Pirates of Barsoom. The trilogy climaxes in an all out war between the forces of civilization on Mars and those of destruction that will determine the fate of Mars and the survival of every single person on the planet!

Cover: J. Allen St. John

Three Thrilling Golden Age Pulp Novels!

When pirates threaten the mail run of a passenger ship to Luna, the ship's pilot and a brainy woman fight for their lives—and the lives of others—in Brigands of the Moon.

Then a wandering planet enters the solar system bent on conquest when Earth faces the peril of Wandl the Invader.

In Cummings' best novel, only one brave woman can save the world when a would-be dictator rises to ruthlessly crush freedom and remake the world in the image of Tarrano the Conqueror. From the author of Girl in the Golden Atom.

Don't miss The Second Ray Cummings Omnibus (in the Related Products tab)!