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Sprockets: A Little Robot (Sprockets #1)
by Alexander KeyA pint-size robot with a big spirit goes on an interstellar adventureRunning low on metal, an assembly line spits out something unusual: a peculiar little robot, no bigger than a boy. His name is Sprockets, and though he is small, he has the most powerful electronic brain on Earth. "Destroy him!" cries the foreman, but Sprockets escapes. He runs through the moonlit city, pushing his little body as hard as he can until rain starts to fall--and he begins to rust. But Sprockets is rescued just in time by Jim and his father, Dr. Bailey--a brilliant inventor who sometimes has trouble with fractions. Luckily for him, there is no finer tabulator than Sprockets. They adopt this little robot as their own, and soon set off for another world--where Sprockets will be charged with saving the universe and learning what it is to be alive.
Supernatural Stories featuring The Phantom Crusader (Supernatural Stories)
by Leo Brett Patricia Fanthorpe Lionel FanthorpeThe Phantom Crusader: A skeleton figure gleamed beneath the ancient armour.The Room that Never Was: The door had been there the night before ... and now there was nothing.The Tunnel: Faint and far beneath them, they could hear the unmistakable sounds...Stranger in the Skill: There was someone at the door, someone strangely, frighteningly familiar.The Stockman: Psychic justice ... strange but sure ...Footprints in the Sand: There was nothing but wilderness for a thousand square miles. What had made the prints?
Supernatural Stories featuring Sands of Eternity (Supernatural Stories)
by R L Fanthorpe Patricia Fanthorpe Lionel FanthorpeSands of Eternity is the breath-taking saga of forbidden, secret evil erupting beneath the thin veneer of Yesterday.
Supernatural Stories featuring The Thing from Sheol (Supernatural Stories)
by Bron Fane Patricia Fanthorpe Lionel Fanthorpe"The Thing from Sheol" by Bron Fane is the nerve-chilling saga of a thing from the next world which tore down the flimsy curtain of Reality.
Supernatural Stories featuring The Thing from Sheol
by Patricia Fanthorpe Lionel Fanthorpe Bron Fane"The Thing from Sheol" by Bron Fane is the nerve-chilling saga of a thing from the next world which tore down the flimsy curtain of Reality.
Supernatural Stories featuring Twilight Ancestor (Supernatural Stories)
by R L Fanthorpe Patricia Fanthorpe Lionel FanthorpeThe Gliding Wraith: If he was really asleep in his chair why did he glide across the street?Twilight Ancestor: Her evil power held the tribe in terror ... only the stranger dared to oppose her.The Man Who Never Smiled: The stranger never parted his lips, as though afraid of what he would reveal.Fangs in the Night: Something evil and dangerous lurked in the shadows below the window.An Eye for an Eye: He had forgotten about the hare in the trap ... until his own life was in danger.
The Unknown: 11 Stories
by D. R. BensenTHE UNKNOWN BECKONS YOU... Deep into the impossible, to the farthest reaches of the unreal, through strange dimensions and brave new worlds. Your guides, the boldest travelers ever to explore the uncharted realm of Fantasy: HENRY KUTTNER shows you the all-too-human problems of a saint in spite of himself... L. SPRAGUE de CAMP weaves a weird, witty fable of a Being old as history... THEODORE STURGEON chronicles the bizarre progress of an ordinary man trapped in a most extraordinary warp of time... FREDERIC BROWN spins a tall and terrifying tale of the Second Coming of Satan... PLUS seven other voyages into the utterly unexpected with FRITZ LEIBER, H. L. GOLD, ROBERT K. ARTHUR, ANTHONY BOUCHER, MANLY WADE WELLMAN, and MALCOLM JAMESON... THE UNKNOWN-The most outstanding collection of fantasy writing ever to appear in a single paperback volume!
The Case Against Satan
by Ray Russell Laird BarronBefore The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, there was The Case Against Satan By the twentieth century, the exorcism had all but vanished, wiped out by modern science and psychology. But Ray Russell--praised by Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro as a sophisticated practitioner of Gothic fiction--resurrected the ritual with his classic 1962 horror novel, The Case Against Satan, giving new rise to the exorcism on page, screen, and even in real life.Teenager Susan Garth was "a clean-talking sweet little girl" of high school age before she started having "fits"--a sudden aversion to churches and a newfound fondness for vulgarity. Then one night, she strips in front of the parish priest and sinks her nails into his throat. If not madness, then the answer must be demonic possession. To vanquish the Devil, Bishop Crimmings recruits Father Gregory Sargent, a younger priest with a taste for modern ideas and brandy. As the two men fight not just the darkness tormenting Susan but also one another, a soul-chilling revelation lurks in the shadows--one that knows that the darkest evil goes by many names.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Edge of Eternity
by John Glasby John E. MullerThese were the last weeks and days before the end of the world, before total destruction overwhelmed Earth and every living thing on the surface of the planet. No one knew exactly how long they had before the sun turned nova and destroyed not only Earth but all of the other planets in the Solar System. For mankind, the only excape lay in flight to the stars, to Alpha Centauri, more than four light years distant.The hyperdrive, capable of carrying them there at close to the speed of light had been developed, but as yet had not been perfected. In a world without a future, the starships were the only salvation of mankind and they could save only a minute fraction of the population of Earth.Panic is there, but temporarily forgotten by most, as the plans for a mass exodus are speeded up, as the long hours of mounting tension draw to a close and Judgement Day, when the world shall be destroyed by fire, is mo longer a hazy time in the far future, but something very close and very terrible. For those who remained behind, there could be no escape; death would come suddenly, eight minutes after the nova explosion. For those who fled the Solar System in the starships, untried and working on principles only partially understood, there was only the long, terrible journey through the endless night, not knowing what lay at the end of it.
The Eternal Champion
by Michael MoorcockThe first book of The Eternal Champion trilogy.Erekose is the Eternal Champion: pulled by the tides of chance through a thousand worlds and ages. In his lonely search for peace and justice all he can trust are his own courage and enduring passion. Across magical landscapes, fantastic worlds without end, he strides - eternal hero, eternal warrior, eternal lover - forever defying destiny and lifting his brave sword against the cruel, cold logic of the Multiverse...
A Life For The Stars: Cities in Flight Book 2 (CITIES IN FLIGHT)
by James BlishScience has come to humanity's rescue with two crucial discoveries - antigravity devices that enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and longevity drugs that allow their inhabitants to live for thousands of years - lead to the establishment of a unique Galactic empire.Now, the earth's cities are able to abandon the worn-out homeworld for a new life, a new future. But what will they find as the hurtle off into the depths of space . . . ?
Necromancer: The Childe Cycle Book 2 (CHILDE CYCLE)
by Gordon R DicksonThe machine that controlled all life wouldn't tolerate any interference. People who refused to be regulated had to be disposed of - isolated, driven insane, murdered. A small group of men had dedicated themselves to fighting this Frankenstein of man's technological achievement. Secretly they laid plans to destroy the machine and all its works including the millions of people who had accepted their robot-like existence. Either way, the human race was doomed!
Now in November
by Josephine W. Johnson Nancy HoffmanBrilliant, evocative, poetic, savage, this first novel (1934) depicts a white, middle-class urban family that is turned into dirt-poor farmers by the Depression and the great drought of the thirties. <P><P> The novel moves through a single year and, at the same time, a decade of years, from the spring arrival of the family at their mortgaged farm to the winter 10 years later, when the ravages of drought, fire, and personal anguish have led to the deaths of two of the five. Like Ethan Frome, the relatively brief, intense story evokes the torment possible among people isolated and driven by strong feelings of love and hate that, unexpressed, lead inevitably to doom. Reviewers in the thirties praised the novel, calling its prose "profoundly moving music," expressing incredulity "that this mature style and this mature point of view are those of a young women in her twenties," comparing the book to "the luminous work of Willa Cather," and, with prescience, suggesting that it "has that rare quality of timelessness which is the mark of first-rate fiction."<P><P> Pulitzer Prize Winner
The Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Three: Window on the Square, Thunder Heights, and The Golden Unicorn
by Phyllis A. WhitneyThree haunting novels of romantic suspense from the New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning “Queen of the American gothics” (The New York Times). A trio of spellbinding thrillers from “the Grand Master of her craft” (Barbara Michaels) and a “superb and gifted storyteller” (Mary Higgins Clark). Window on the Square: Megan Kincaid lives in a house of secrets on Washington Square in New York City. Hired by romantic and wealthy Brandon Reid as his stepson’s caretaker, she knows the boy’s violent history—one the Reid family has tried to bury. But their mysterious past runs deeper and more dangerous than she realized. Now, as Megan slowly unravels the truth behind a tragic murder, she’s torn between a child she must save, a man she’s come to love, and the desire to run for her life. Thunder Heights: Camilla King has received a startling invitation: Her wealthy and estranged grandfather wants her to return to the mansion on the Hudson where her mother suffered a mysterious death. Camilla complies, partly to meet the family she never had, and partly because of whispers of an inheritance. But a series of suspicious accidents lead Camilla to fear that her homecoming may be a carefully designed trap—the same one her own mother fell prey to many years ago. The Golden Unicorn: After the death of her adoptive parents, Courtney Marsh is determined to uncover her past. The only clues are a unicorn pendant she’s had all her life and a newspaper clipping about a prominent yet reclusive East Hampton family. Under the guise of a reporter, she’s arrived at the Rhodes’s mansion to find the truth of her heritage. But the more Courtney discovers, the more she fears—because hers is a legacy of murder that has yet to play its final hand.
Supernatural Stories featuring The Frozen Tomb (Supernatural Stories)
by Leo Brett Patricia Fanthorpe Lionel FanthorpeAnother spinetingling collection from the prolific pen of R L Fanthorpe!The Frozen Tomb: Unliving and undying she waited in a casket of ice.Sleeping Place: His thin lips curled back to display rows of sharp, white teeth.Strange Country: "What is he doing there? How could he escape?"Cry in the Night: The wolf cry sounded strangely human in the darkness...The Thing from Boulter's Cavern: Inhuman survivors of a weird, ancient race lived on in the labyrinth.The Coveters: "Greed is a psychic disease...maybe it has a psychic cure...?"
Supernatural Stories featuring Storm God's Fury (Supernatural Stories)
by Bron Fane Patricia Fanthorpe Lionel FanthorpeStorm God's Fury: The ancient gods used powerful weapons on those who defied them.Vampire Castle: Something with claws instead of hands was unpicking the lead.Moonlight Island: The prints on the beach changed from human feet to leopard tracks...The Mountain Thing: It staggered from the mountain cave ... savage ... hideous ... part man, part beast.Return of Lilith: Lilith ... ghastly night monster from mythology older than history.
They Walked Like Men
by Clifford D. SimakA reporter uncovers a terrifying conspiracy, in this thrilling classic from a Science Fiction Grand Master. After a night out on the town, Parker Graves returns home to life-threatening danger. The science reporter for the local newspaper barely misses a bear trap sitting on his doorstep. Then, the object transforms into what looks like a bowling ball and rolls off into the night all by itself. He begins to obsess over the question—Who put the trap there? And why? The following day, there is strange news floating around at the newspaper office. Someone with limitless funds is buying up hundreds of homes and businesses, only to close them up and tear them down. People are running out of places to live and to work. Suddenly, Parker finds himself in the middle of a story nobody will believe . . . Aliens? Dolls that walk like people? Talking dogs? With a little help from a fellow reporter and an unusual visitor, Parker just might be able to put a stop to this mess—if he survives. &“Some surprising jolts of violence and mayhem and a goodly dollop of cosmic paranoia.&” —Fantasy Literature
Viento rojo: Red Wind
by Raymond ChandlerUn detective sin escrúpulos en una sociedad dominada por la corrupción. «Soplaba viento del desierto aquella noche». Así empieza el relato que mejor ejemplifica el estilo de Raymond Chandler, uno de los autores norteamericanos más reconocidos de novela negra. En Viento rojo, publicado por primera vez en 1938, un sarcástico detective es testigo de un asesinato en una coctelería, y se verá obligado a intentar descifrar el misterio tras el crimen y, en el proceso, ayudar a la misteriosa mujer que la víctima buscaba. A través de sus relatos, que publicaba en las revistas conocidas como pulp fiction, Chandler se propuso infundir calidad a las narraciones detectivescas, reivindicando un mayor realismo en este tipo de narraciones. Además, las obras de este autor destacan por ser una clara denuncia social. Con diálogos rápidos e irónicos, consigue hacer un duro retrato de la sociedad norteamericana tras la Gran Depresión, cuando las ciudades parecían estar dominadas por mafiosos y policías corruptos.
Whistle for the Crows
by Dorothy EdenFrom one of the world's classic authors of romantic suspense comes the thrilling tale of a young woman caught between the desires of two very different brothers while researching a family's secret history in an eerie Irish castleFor Cathleen Lamb, traveling to Dublin to record the history of the mystery-shrouded O'Riordan family is the answer to a prayer. Still grieving over the accident that killed her husband and baby daughter, she hopes to lose herself in other people's lives.But something sinister is going on at the ancient castle at the edge of the moors . . . something beyond the scandalous skeletons rattling around the O'Riordans' closets. The former heir was killed three years earlier in a suspicious fall. The same night, the family matriarch suffered a stroke that left her mute.Despite the malice that surrounds her, Cathleen is drawn to the brooding, darkly passionate man who is plotting to control the family. But even he may not be able to protect her when the crimes of the past reach into the present to terrorize the living.
Whistle for the Crows
by Dorothy EdenWhen beautiful, young Cathleen Lamb accepted employment as historian for the haughty, mystery shrouded O'Riordan family, she soon found herself tangled in a delicate but deadly web of violence, suspicion, and fatal "accidents." Isolated in a gloomy,windswept castle, Cathleen soon found that the secrets she uncovered drew her into a swirling vortex of smoldering hates, strange family relationships, and a past that now threatened her own future. Despite the menace that surrounded her, Cathleen was attracted to the brooding, darkly passionate man who plotted to control the family - the very man who, she feared, might have marked her as the next victim of an "accident..." Readers who enjoy romantic suspense novels in the Gothic tradition will agree that "Miss Eden is an accomplished novelist."
Window on the Square: Window On The Square, Thunder Heights, And The Golden Unicorn
by Phyllis A. WhitneyFrom a New York Times–bestselling author: In nineteenth-century Manhattan, a young woman is hired to care for a child haunted by murder. Having just lost her brother and mother in a tragic accident, dressmaker Megan Kincaid has never felt so vulnerable and alone. Then comes the startling request from the wealthy Brandon Reid of Washington Square to work as a private caretaker to his violently tempered nine-year-old stepson, Jeremy. Megan reluctantly accepts, despite the facts of Jeremy’s troubled past. Two years ago, the boy accidentally shot and killed his own father, a brilliant and esteemed New York district attorney. Everyone in the Reid family tries to bury—and hopefully forget—this fatal incident, but as Megan struggles to help her lost young ward, she begins to fear that her new employers—including Brandon, to whom she is passionately, irresistibly, and dangerously drawn—also have secrets. Now, as Megan delves further into the mysterious Reid family past, she’s torn between a child she must save, a man she’s come to love, and the desire to run for her life. A recipient of the Agatha Award for Lifetime Achievement, Phyllis A. Whitney has once again penned a “superior whodunit” (New York Morning Telegraph). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.
Alien
by John Glasby John E. MullerThey came out of the great abyss which lay around the Earth, from the planet of a star so distant that it could not be seen with the naked eye. Their purpose was survival and the conquest of Earth. They were alien and possessed a mysterious force which lay at the very origin of human comprehension; the ability to enter into a man's mind, to make him think the thoughts they chose, to make him hear and see and feel the things they wanted.Against such a force there seemed no defence; for who could say that the man or woman by his side was not motivated by one of these creatures? Who could say that his own thoughts and senses belonged to him and not to some 'thing' seated in some alien way inside his brain?
Black Light
by Elizabeth HandA decadent tale of ancient darkness that &“does for upstate New York what Stephen King has done for rural Maine,&” from the author of Waking the Moon (Publishers Weekly). Lit Moylan lives what she thinks is an ordinary life. Sure, her town has a few eccentric theater types, but that&’s all. That is until her Warholian godfather, Axel Kern, moves into the big house on the hill. He throws infamously depraved parties, full of drinks, drugs, and sex. But they also have a much more sinister purpose. At one of these parties, Lit touches a statue, and learns she has much more of a role to play in this world than she ever thought possible. Ornate and decadent, Black Light visits an irresistible world of ancient gods and secret societies as enthralling as it is dangerous. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Elizabeth Hand including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
Blue Fire
by Phyllis A. WhitneyA bride is swept up in family secrets and the blood diamond trade when she returns to South Africa in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. When Chicagoan Susan Hohenfield brings her new husband, Dirk, to her childhood home in Cape Town, it’s with the innocence of a young girl. She remembers only the beauty of South Africa—and the pain of being abandoned by her father. Now, with a new perspective, she sees a country destroyed by apartheid. And her father, once accused of diamond smuggling, seems not the ogre she imagined, but a broken man powerless against the prison term that wrenched him from his daughter’s arms. At least that’s the story Susan has been told. But she’ll discover the truth as this intimate family reunion raises grave and troubling new questions. Why is the man responsible for her father’s fate still lingering in the shadows? Why has Dirk’s former lover arrived with threats and incriminations? And why does Susan feel like a stranger in her own home? Now, in a place that is at once strange and familiar, charged with fear and intrigue, Susan must confront a dangerous past that isn’t quite through with her. More than a classic gothic tale, Blue Fire is one of the first novels to deal with the turmoil in South Africa. It was written nearly three decades before the dismantling of apartheid and a half-century before the film Blood Diamond would bring attention to the devastating effects of the smuggling trade. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.
A Cupful of Space: A Heady Brew of Science Fiction Stories
by Mildred ClingermanRecommended ingredients: A few well-chosen characters--human or otherwise, a sprinkle of suspense, a dash of danger, a stitch of peculiarity, one teaspoon of terror. Blend the above with the bygone and beyond, sifting in the supernatural. Mix at the high speed of magic, then season to the taste of science fiction lovers. Now, cook over a low flame of fantasy and allow to cool. Yields: an unmeasurable serving of pleasure in but a Cupful of Space.