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Futures Past Editions and Amazing Stories Classics are proud to present the first-ever reprinting of this legendary double-length collection of the very best of Amazing Stories' first three and a half decades.

Inside you'll find such classic tales as Eando Binder's twice-televised "I, Robot"; Edgar Rice Burroughs' immortal "John Carter and the Giant of Mars"; Philip Francis Nowlan's first Buck Rogers story, "Armageddon: 2419 A.D."; Edmond Hamilton's haunting "Devolution"; Ray Bradbury's groundbreaking "I, Rocket"; R. F. Starzl's romantic "Out of the Sub-Universe" and more. Plus a very special memoir by Amazing Stories founder Hugo Gernsback on the events that led to the publication of the magazine's first issue.

Long considered a seminal anthology, this special reprint of Amazing Stories' Giant 35th Anniversary issue belongs on every fan's bookshelf. As a bonus, the ebook edition contains the covers for each issue of Amazing Stories from which these stories were selected.

Who is Jawbreaker, the hooded hero? The underworld wants to know!

Called Jawbreaker because of his no-holds-barred approach to fighting crime, he thinks nothing of stealing a cop’s motorcycle in his single-minded pursuit of evildoers! Not wanting to waste a moment in his battle, Jawbreaker doesn’t pause to don a costume, he merely slips on a black hood and goes into instant action in whatever he happens to be wearing—be it a suit and tie or dungarees and a sweatshirt.

Performing incredible feats of speed and strength, Jawbreaker possesses no superpowers. But like other famous, larger-than-life champions of justice—e.g., Zorro, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Tarzan, the Green Arrow, the Spirit, the Lone Ranger, Santo, the Phantom, etc.—he is a superhero.

But now Jawbreaker is up against his greatest challenge, a fiend called the Scarlet Skull who has unleashed a reign of terror on Southern California. But what is his motive? Revenge? Profit? Power? Or is he a complete madman glorying in inflicting death and destruction on anyone and anything? No one knows. And no one seems able to stop him.

Jawbreaker alone is determined to track down the Scarlet Skull and end the supervillain’s monstrous career of bloodshed and death—even if it costs the hooded hunter his life!

Donald F. Glut is the author of the Number 1 nationwide bestseller, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. He is also a prolific, Inkpot-Award-winning comic book author, who has written for Marvel, DC, and Gold Key Comics.

As a novelist, television and comic book writer, Glut has been involved with popular franchises such as The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Transformers, Captain America, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and others. Glut is also the author of three previous novels, including the thrillers Bugged! and Spawn, soon to be reprinted for the first time in four decades by PageTurner Editions.

The prolific Mr. Glut has also carved a niche in the film world as an executive-producer, writer and director of “traditional-style” horror movies featuring iconic monsters, among the most recent Tales of Frankenstein, Dances with Werewolves and The Mummy's Kiss.

All of which makes him the ideal person to create a masked hero in the classic vein and to present that hero in slick, polished, high-velocity pulp fiction prose.

First time in print!

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING “STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK” COMES AN UNFORGETTABLE SCIENCE-HORROR CLASSIC!

Bugged! begins at college reunion in a moldering mansion in the midst of an isolated swamp. Howard Barks, accompanied by his daughter Karen, is looking forward to seeing his old college chums when his car stops dead. Howard gets out to see what the trouble is, when a hundred of insects swarm over him and strip the flesh from his bones.

Ronald Reid, owner of the mansion begins to grow concerned for the Barks when hours pass and they fail to arrive and sends his butler Grollman to find them. Grollman discovers their car, with Howard’s skeleton, parked beside the road, and his daughter Karen alive inside the locked car.

Thinking what has happened is a freak occurrence, the rest of the alums don’t realize the horrors are just beginning until each member is attacked by swarms of insects and eaten alive.

“An affectionate parody of … horror stories …quite bloody and gruesome … a good chunk told from the point of view of the bugs … All in all, a strange and unique little book." –Amazon verified review

Donald F. Glut is the author of the Number 1 nationwide bestseller, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. He is also a prolific, Inkpot Award winning comic book author, who has written for Marvel, DC, and Gold Key Comics. As a novelist, television and comic book writer, Glut has been involved with popular franchises such as The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Transformers, Captain America, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Johnny Quest and others. The prolific Mr. Glut has also carved a niche in the film world as an executive-producer, writer and director of “traditional-style” horror movies featuring iconic monsters, among the most recent Tales of Frankenstein, Dances with Werewolves and The Mummy's Kiss. All of which makes him the ideal person to write a classic horror thriller and present it in slick, polished, high velocity pulp fiction prose. Donald F. Glut is the author of three previous novels, including the thrillers, Jawbreaker! and Spawn, soon to be reprinted for the first time in four decades by PageTurner Editions.

Trapped on a planet of deadly dinosaurs that made Jurassic Park look like a kid's playground! ...These creatures were smarter than the average dinosaur!

The Marshall Museum sent Gene Bishop on a simple mission to the distant world of Erigon to collect dinosaur eggs for the Museum’s spectacular DinoWorld park—a scrupulous recreation of the Mesozoic Era on Earth. Bishop figured it as a quick in-and-out—swoop down, grab some eggs and be gone. But he figured wrong.

When one of the indigenous women, Leea, who had spent her whole life fleeing from the gigantic, macabre creatures, tried to set Bishop right, he ignored her. The Terran simply could not believe what she was trying to tell him: that there was one terrifying difference between Erigon’s dinosaurs and their extinct Earth brethren—the Erigon dinos were intelligent, and horror and destruction were sure to follow, as night follows day, if the eggs were taken back to Earth and allowed to breed. But Bishop had too much fame and fortune at stake to want to believe her.

Some people have to learn the hard way, and for Bishop what happened next was a lesson that could cost him his life.

Spawn is an action-adventure masterpiece of a Dino world written 15 years before Jurassic Park—and available for the first time in print in almost 50 years. Another book in Don Glut's famous Pulp Thrillogy, and arguably the award-winning horror writer’s greatest science-terror novel! Also features the outline for Spawn 2: Gluts’s never-written sequel—the original MS, lost for over 40 years! Recently discovered in a used book shop!

Donald F. Glut is the author of the Number 1 nationwide bestseller, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, which won a Galaxy Award. He is also a prolific, Inkpot-Award-winning comic book author, who has written for Marvel, DC, and Gold Key Comics, and a Rondo Classic Horror Award winner for his movie Tales of Frankenstein. As a novelist, television and comic book writer, Glut has been involved with popular franchises such as The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Transformers, Captain America, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Johnny Quest and others. The prolific Mr. Glut has also carved a niche in the film world as an executive-producer, writer and director of “traditional-style” horror movies featuring iconic monsters, among the most recent Tales of Frankenstein, Dances with Werewolves and Blood Scarab. All of which makes him the ideal person to write a classic horror thriller and present it in slick, polished, high velocity pulp fiction prose. Donald F. Glut is the author of three previous novels now proudly sold by Futures Past, including the thrillers Jawbreaker! and Bugged!, now made available for the first time in four decades by our imprint Strange Particle Press.

THE ANN RADCLIFFE AWARD WINNING BOOK

“As an exhaustive, comprehensive, and in-depth survey of the Dracula character as he appears throughout history and in all media up to the present day, this book is without peer. Extremely detailed, well-researched, and generously illustrated with black & white photos, some quite rare. A landmark in documenting the horror genre. Be sure to also check out Donald Glut's companion books, The Frankenstein Legend and Classic Movie Monsters, both equally as authoritative.” —Amazon Verified 5-star review

PLUS: new 50 page Author's Afterword with dozens of additional never and rarely seen photo and posters.

PREFACE.. 2
INTRODUCTION I. 7
INTRODUCTION II. 10
CHAPTER 1: VLAD DRACULA, THE IMPALER.. 15
CHAPTER 2: THE VAMPIRE IMAGE.. 36
CHAPTER 3: THE ANCESTORS OF DRACULA.. 59
CHAPTER 4: BRAM STOKER’S CLASSIC.. 76
CHAPTER 5: DRACULA DRAMATIZED.. 103
CHAPTER 6: DRACULA ON THE SILENT SCREEN.. 127
CHAPTER 7: DRACULA HAUNTS UNIVERSAL.. 137
CHAPTER 8: THE HAMMER HORRORS OF DRACULA.. 189
CHAPTER 9: DRACULA FLIES AGAIN.. 227
CHAPTER 10: STAY TUNED FOR DRACULA.. 331
CHAPTER 11: OTHER DRACULA BOOKS. 359
CHAPTER 12: DRACULA MEETS The COMICS. 383
CHAPTER 13: DRACULA ETERNAL.. 411
AUTHOR’S NEW AFTERWORD: Dracula Has Risen Again!. 417
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 462