Author: jmstine

In 10th Century Europe, Two Vampires Race to Save the World!

Who is killing all the great vampires of tenth century Paris? In a storm-wracked French Tavern, Franc, one of the undead, encounters a former lover on the run. His bite turned Livia into a vampire long ago, and now she has just barely escaped with her undead life from the unknown assassins who have slaughtered most of her Parisian kind.

Before they can make plans, the pair meet Ulrich, a cruel Viking chieftain and powerful sorcerer. Ulrich is searching for an ancient magical relic, the long-lost Sceptre of Hades, said to possess the power to restore the dead to life. With it, Ulric intends to bring his dead lover back to life. Soon Franc and Ulrich become rivals on a dark quest across primitive, violent tenth century Europe and into the icy Norselands, as Franc strives to locate the Sceptre first, to prevent the sorcerer from using its powers for evil. In danger from both the vengeful sorcerer and the vampire assassins, Franc discovers his greatest peril may actually be the lovely Livia...

A classic pulp novel filled with action, romance and intrigue!

She was a priestess, guardian of the Legend of Freedom. He was a soldier from the remote past. Together they would fall in love and lead a rebellion against Earth's conquering masters! But would they both live to enjoy their love, if they won and an age of peace followed? Earth had been conquered by Venus hundreds of years earlier. America was a legend of freedom preserved by the priestess who nurtured the memory of liberty. Everyone believed the faces on Mount Rushmore were those of the Gods who had ruled and defended Earth in the past.

Then a strange accident threw a group of World War II-era U. S. soldiers thousands of years forward into that future. Soon they had become the rallying point for the first resistance since the jackboots of the Venusians had crushed and enslaved Earth. A resistance led by the priestesses and the soldiers begins. But the Earthmen have almost no weapons but bare hands with which to overthrow the advanced technology of their Venusian conquerors.

Written on the eve of WWII, with the Venusuians representing Nazi tyranny, here is a novel written to inspire in the hearts of its readers a vision of what the U.S. could do "when freemen shall stand." An outstanding pulp novel by one of the greatest pulp writers.

Allan Quatermain's First Three Classic Adventures!

Fantasy adventure fans who met Allan Quatermain for the first time in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or in a book or movie version of King Solomon's Mines or its sequel, Allan Quatermain, are in for the treat of a lifetime! You're about to embark on a voyage of discovery that will take you through all fourteen magical Allan Quatermain books, reprinted in five giant eBook omnibuses, in chronological order from his youth to his death on the great stairway of Milosis.

Here is a unique series of books that combine magic, mystery, high adventure, and even a pinch of science fiction, with authentic portraits of the cultures and peoples of Africa, whom the author, H. Rider Haggard, knew and admired firsthand. Here are Allan Quatermain's first adventures in Africa as a youth, the stories of his two ill-fated love affairs, the beginning of the sorcerer Zikali's revenge against the descendents of the Zulu leader Shaka, encounters with the supernatural, desperate fights against lions and wildebeests, and through it all the sense of the unspoiled vastness and variety of pre-20th-century Africa.

Allan's Wife tells the story of his first love, Stella, and her tragic fate at the hands of a half-human creature whom the great hunter befriends. Marie tells a story of Allan's second wife, Zulu witch doctors, and the war of the Zulu against the Boers in South Africa's Transvaal region. Child of the Storm tells us what happened to Allan after the death of Marie, of Mameena, the supernal Zulu Helen of Troy, who loved only one man and so lost an empire, and of the battle between the Princes Cetewayo and Umbelazi for the kingship of the Zulus.

This is a not-to-be-missed feast of fantasy and adventure nearly unparalleled in the history of literature. A short introduction discusses the author and character, identifying the real-life adventurer on whom the character Allan Quatermain was based.

Final Three Novels in the Epic Fantasy Saga!

In The Ancient Allan, a strange magical potion from ancient Egypt sends Allan and his soulmate, Lady Ragnall, back in time to the glory days of the kingdom of the Nile, where they are trapped in a deadly struggle for the crown and must oppose swords and sorcery with courage, intelligence, and Allan's awesome fighting skills.

Then, another whiff of the same potion sweeps Allan and Lady Ragnall to the Dawn Age when humankind still wore animal skins and warred with flint axes, and where the uncanny powers of the Ice-Gods threaten the future of all humanity, in Allan and the Ice-Gods.

Finally, in Allan Quatermain, the curtain comes down on the life of this extraordinary gentleman, when he penetrates the forbidden land of the Zu-Vendi, accompanied by his best friends, Good, Curtis, and the Zulu prince Umslopogaas and, to save the crown of a noble queen, they all face impossible odds in the gotterdammerung known as the Battle of the Stairs, from which two of their party will never return.

The fourth volume of this five-volume omnibus reprinting of the exploits of that extraordinary gentleman, Allan Quatermain, and his league of friends, begins with a bang.

The first novel, Finished, brings to an unforgettable conclusion the story of the downfall of the house of Senzangacona (the heirs of Shaka, the legendary Zulu king) from where it was left many years earlier in Allan's life, at the end of the books Marie and Child of the Storm. Only one of Shaka's brothers remains, and despite his greatest efforts, Allan once again finds himself forced to play a role in the horrendous fate the wizard Zikali has plotted for house of Senzangacona in vengeance for Shaka's ruthless slaughter of Zikali's wife and children.

Then, Magepa the Buck tells the story of the greatest act of heroism Allan Quatermain ever witnessed, and places him in peril from the Zulu king Cetewayo and his blood-soaked impis.

Then comes the tale of the hunter-hero's greatest adventure, the bestselling book that made Quatermain and his creator, H. Rider Haggard, world famous overnight, King Solomon's Mines.

As in volume 3 of this omnibus reprinting of this extraordinary gentleman's adventures, before this volume is over, another major series character will lie dead, foreshadowing the protagonist's own death in the final novel of the series, Alan Quatermain, at the end of volume 5.

Quatermain Faces Magic, Mystery and Danger on his Greatest Quests!

In She and Allan, a mystic encounter with the African sorcerer Zikali, the Opener of Roads, sends that extraordinary adventurer Allan Quatermain along with his bloodbrother, Umslopogaas of the Axe, and Allan's loyal retainer and friend, the bushman known as Hans, for the fabled land of Kor (Edgar Rice Burroughs fans please note), said to be the home of a mysterious woman with supernatural powers, known as She-who-Must-be-Obeyed. If Allan survives the perils that guard the way to Kor, Zikali promises, what he encounters there will change his life forever!

Next, rumors of forbidden Mone, the Holy Lake, and of the Dabanda who live upon its shore, send Quatermain and Hans to uncover the truth about a mysterious Treasure of the Lake, that some say is a fabulous fortune in jewels and others claim to be a scheming white woman who holds sway as a mighty prophetess over the Dabanda.

Then Allan and Hans begin one of their strangest and most fateful adventures, a trek into the land of the semi-living statue called The Ivory Child, of the people known as the Black Kendah, of a strange religion whose priests wield a potent magic, and of a monstrous elephant-god Jana, who only Hans will have the power to slay.

This middle trio of novels marks a major turning point in the life of Allan Quatermain, one which will lead him slowly out of the sunshine and onto a path that will end with his inevitable, if heroic death in the final volume of his exploits, which bears his name.

Second Three Fantasy-Adventures of the Legendary Hunter/Hero!

Allan Quatermain has a very personal encounter with a lion that threatens to end his career before it begins and he faces long odds against surviving in A Tale of Three Lions, the first book in this blockbuster omnibus reprinting of the second three Quatermain adventures.

Then, the great hunter the natives call Macumazahn (He-Who-Watches-by-Night) must dare encounter unholy magic and even deadlier assegais to enter a forbidden land in search of the woman known as the Holy Flower, who may be an evil, ancient witch or who just might be a missing young English woman.

In league with a group of friends, Allan sets out to lift the curse of Heu-Heu, the Monster-God from a thousand centuries past who rules over a terrified, cowering land, but discovers that, as always, he must brave the dangers of the Black Kloof and seek the counsel of its master, the all-knowing sorcerer Zikali whose awesome powers intimidate even fearless hunter Quatermain, and whose design he so often finds himself carrying out.

Whether you learned to love Allan Quatermain through King Solomon's Mines or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you will thrill to the exploits of Allan Quatermain as chronicled by H. Rider Haggard, who was at the top of his form when penning this trio of fantasy-adventure classics!

Second Adventure of the Original "Buck Rogers"!

"For scientific interest as well as suspense little science fiction could hold its own with this particular story. It is one of those rare stories that will bear reading and re-reading many times," —Amazing Stories.

Recovering from a gas that caused him to sleep for five hundred years, Anthony "Buck" Rogers helped an enslaved America strike its first blow for freedom against the alien Han. Now, he and beloved warrior-woman Wilma Deering must lead a desperate a battle to the finish against a superior foe—using futuristic weapons such as disintegrators, jumping belts, inertron, paralysis rays, and atomic torpedoes. The climactic conflict features a magnificent battle of ships and rays that would prove a challenge to reproduce successfully on film, even for today's greatest filmmakers.

"A delight to readers, The Airlords of Han [is] told with directness, precise imagery, and discipline of controlled imagination. It is no accident that Buck Rogers became an almost instantaneous success." —Sam Moskowitz.

Buck Rogers Creator's Greatest Novel!

Move over, Edgar Rice Burroughs. Give it up, John Carter! In this classic pulp novel from the 1930s Amazing Stories, by Philip Francs Nowlan, you'll meet Daniel Hanley, the astronaut whose crash landing on Mars places him in more trouble than John Carter ever dreamed of. Because his name is similar to that of a legendary Martian prince whose return from the dead has long been prophesied, Hanley finds himself elected to wed a beautiful warrior maid and then lead a revolution against the Red Planet's tyrannical ruler.

If you loved Armageddon 2419 A.D., you won't want to miss Nowlan's The Prince of Mars Returns. Here are all the author's predictive and imaginative powers at their height, and an unforgettable classic adventure.

A must-read for fans of the movie. The classic fantasy film, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, was inspired by classic Irish folktales as retold by turn-of-the century author Hermine Templeton. Here is the first volume of Darby O'Gill, straight from the pages of the 1903 magazine where it originally appeared. All the magic and infectious good humor of the Disney hit are here in the series of tales originally known as Darby O'Gill—His Misadventures Among the Good People and Fairy Folk of Knocknashegh, Also Known as "Leprechauns."

The movie made a star of Sean Connery; the book will put stars in your eyes. The New York Times hailed it as "told in the right spirit—delightful reading", while the Saturday Review of Literature lauded it as "a happy evening for any reader with a heart for wise nonsense." Relish again Darby's unwilling sojourn among the Good People (fairies and leprechauns, to you); his friendship and feuds with King Brian; his famous battle of wits with the Leprechaun; and his terrifying encounter with a banshee.

Plus, discover what Disney left out: How the Little People were expelled from heaven and why they chose Ireland as their home; the delightful account of Father Cassidy's conversion after the good priest has his own face-to-face with the Good People. No wonder the Boston Transcript raved over their "delicate fairy fantasy, rollicking sense of humor, and gay and dashing imagination" when these tales first appeared. If you are of Irish descent, or just love Ireland, or love leprechauns, you owe it to yourself to read this collection of delightful tales.