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A Roland Daniel Double: The Signal and The Return of Wu Fang — Classic thrillers from the 30s.
A Shot Rang Out — Three decades of reviews and articles by today’s Anthony Boucher, Jon Breen. An essential book for any mystery lover’s library.
A Smell of Smoke — A 1951 English countryside thriller by Miles Burton.
A Snark Selection — Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark with two Snarkian chapters by Harry Stephen Keeler — Illustrated by Gavin L. O’Keefe.
A Young Man’s Heart — A forgotten early classic by Cornell Woolrich.
Alexander Laing Novels — The Motives of Nicholas Holtz and Dr. Scarlett, stories of medical mayhem and intrigue from the 30s.
An Angel in the Street — Modern hardboiled noir by Peter Genovese.
Automaton — Brilliant treatise on robotics: 1928-style! By H. Stafford Hatfield.
Beast or Man? — A 1930 novel of racism and horror by Sean M’Guire. Introduced by John Pelan.
Black Hogan Strikes Again — Australia’s Peter Renwick pens a tale of the 30s outback.
Black River Falls — Suspense from the master, Ed Gorman.
Blondy’s Boy Friend — A snappy 1930 story by Philip Wylie, writing as Leatrice Homesley.
Blood in a Snap — The Finnegan’s Wake of the 21st century, by Jim Weiler.
Blood Moon — The first of the Robert Payne series by Ed Gorman.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Novels featuring Charlie Moon — Ogilvie, Tallant and Moon, Music When the Sweet Voice Dies, Poisonous Fruit and Dead Mice. An Ojibwa detective in SF.
Cornucopia of Crime — Francis M. Nevins assembled this huge collection of his writings about crime literature and the people who write it. Essential for any serious mystery library.
Crimson Clown Novels — By Johnston McCulley, author of the Zorro novels, The Crimson Clown and The Crimson Clown Again.
Dago Red — 22 tales of dark suspense by Bill Pronzini.
David Hume Novels — Corpses Never Argue, Cemetery First Stop, Make Way for the Mourners, Eternity Here I Come. 1930s British hardboiled fiction with an attitude.
Dead Man Talks Too Much — Hollywood boozer by Weed Dickenson.
Death Leaves No Card — One of the most unusual murdered-in-the-tub mysteries you’ll ever read. By Miles Burton.
Death March of the Dancing Dolls and Other Stories — Volume Three in the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps series. Introduced by Bill Crider.
Deep Space and other Stories — A collection of SF gems by Richard A. Lupoff.
Detective Duff Unravels It — Episodic mysteries by Harvey O’Higgins.
Dime Novels: Ramble House’s 10-Cent Books — Knife in the Dark by Robert Leslie Bellem, Hot Lead and Song of Death by Ed Earl Repp, A Hashish House in New York by H.H. Kane, and five more.
Don Diablo: Book of a Lost Film — Two-volume treatment of a western by Paul Landres, with diagrams. Intro by Francis M. Nevins.
Dope and Swastikas — Two strange novels from 1922 by Edmund Snell
Dope Tales #1 — Two dope-riddled classics; Dope Runners by Gerald Grantham and Death Takes the Joystick by Phillip Condé.
Dope Tales #2 — Two more narco-classics; The Invisible Hand by Rex Dark and The Smokers of Hashish by Norman Berrow.
Dope Tales #3 — Two enchanting novels of opium by the master, Sax Rohmer. Dope and The Yellow Claw.
Double Hot — Two 60s softcore sex novels by Morris Hershman.
Dr. Odin — Douglas Newton’s 1933 racial potboiler comes back to life.
Evidence in Blue — 1938 mystery by E. Charles Vivian.
Fatal Accident — Murder by automobile, a 1936 mystery by Cecil M. Wills.
Finger-prints Never Lie — A 1939 classic detective novel by John G. Brandon.
Freaks and Fantasies — Eerie tales by Tod Robbins, collaborator of Tod Browning on the film FREAKS.
Gadsby — A lipogram (a novel without the letter E). Ernest Vincent Wright’s last work, published in 1939 right before his death.
Gelett Burgess Novels — The Master of Mysteries, The White Cat, Two O’Clock Courage, Ladies in Boxes, Find the Woman, The Heart Line, The Picaroons and Lady Mechante. All are introduced by Richard A. Lupoff who is singlehandedly bringing Burgess back to life.
Geronimo — S. M. Barrett’s 1905 autobiography of a noble American.
Hake Talbot Novels — Rim of the Pit, The Hangman’s Handyman. Classic locked room mysteries, with mapback covers by Gavin O’Keefe.
Hollywood Dreams — A novel of Tinsel Town and the Depression by Richard O’Brien.
I Stole $16,000,000 — A true story by cracksman Herbert E. Wilson.
Inclination to Murder — 1966 thriller by New Zealand’s Harriet Hunter.
Invaders from the Dark — Classic werewolf tale from Greye La Spina.
J. Poindexter, Colored — Classic satirical black novel by Irvin S. Cobb.
Jack Mann Novels — Strange murder in the English countryside. Gees’ First Case, Nightmare Farm, Grey Shapes, The Ninth Life, The Glass Too Many.
Jake Hardy — A lusty western tale from Wesley Tallant.
Jim Harmon Double Novels — Vixen Hollow/Celluloid Scandal, The Man Who Made Maniacs/Silent Siren, Ape Rape/Wanton Witch, Sex Burns Like Fire/Twist Session, Sudden Lust/Passion Strip, Sin Unlimited/Harlot Master, Twilight Girls/Sex Institution. Written in the early 60s and never reprinted until now.
Joel Townsley Rogers Novels and Short Stories — By the author of The Red Right Hand: Once In a Red Moon, Lady With the Dice, The Stopped Clock, Never Leave My Bed. Also two short story collections: Night of Horror and Killing Time.
Joseph Shallit Novels — The Case of the Billion Dollar Body, Lady Don’t Die on My Doorstep, Kiss the Killer, Yell Bloody Murder, Take Your Last Look. One of America’s best 50’s authors and a favorite of author Bill Pronzini.
Keller Memento — 45 short stories of the amazing and weird by Dr. David Keller.
Killer’s Caress — Cary Moran’s 1936 hardboiled thriller.
League of the Grateful Dead and Other Stories — Volume One in the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps series. In the introduction John Pelan outlines his plans for republishing all of Day Keene’s short stories from the pulps.
Man Out of Hell and Other Stories — Volume II of the John H. Knox weird pulps collection.
Marblehead: A Novel of H.P. Lovecraft — A long-lost masterpiece from Richard A. Lupoff. This is the “director’s cut”, the long version that has never been published before.
Master of Souls — Mark Hansom’s 1937 shocker is introduced by weirdologist John Pelan.
Max Afford Novels — Owl of Darkness, Death’s Mannikins, Blood on His Hands, The Dead Are Blind, The Sheep and the Wolves, Sinners in Paradise and Two Locked Room Mysteries and a Ripping Yarn by one of Australia’s finest mystery novelists.
More Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Gary Lovisi’s second collection of tales about the unknown sides of the great detective.
Muddled Mind: Complete Works of Ed Wood, Jr. — David Hayes and Hayden Davis deconstruct the life and works of the mad, but canny, genius.
Murder among the Nudists — A mystery from 1934 by Peter Hunt, featuring a naked Detective-Inspector going undercover in a nudist colony.
Murder in Black and White — 1931 classic tennis whodunit by Evelyn Elder.
Murder in Shawnee — Two novels of the Alleghenies by John Douglas: Shawnee Alley Fire and Haunts.
Murder in Silk — A 1937 Yellow Peril novel of the silk trade by Ralph Trevor.
My Deadly Angel — 1955 Cold War drama by John Chelton.
My First Time: The One Experience You Never Forget — Michael Birchwood — 64 true first-person narratives of how they lost it.
Mysterious Martin, the Master of Murder — Two versions of a strange 1912 novel by Tod Robbins about a man who writes books that can kill.
Norman Berrow Novels — The Bishop’s Sword, Ghost House, Don’t Go Out After Dark, Claws of the Cougar, The Smokers
of Hashish, The Secret Dancer, Don’t Jump Mr. Boland!, The Footprints of Satan, Fingers for Ransom, The Three Tiers of Fantasy, The Spaniard’s Thumb, The Eleventh Plague, Words Have Wings, One Thrilling Night, The Lady’s in Danger, It Howls at Night, The Terror in the Fog, Oil Under the Window, Murder in the Melody, The Singing Room. This is the complete Norman Berrow library of classic locked-room mysteries, several of which are masterpieces.
Old Times’ Sake — Short stories by James Reasoner from Mike Shayne Magazine.
Perfect .38 — Two early Timothy Dane novels by William Ard. More to come.
Prose Bowl — Futuristic satire of a world where hack writing has replaced football as our national obsession, by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg.
Red Light — The history of legal prostitution in Shreveport Louisiana by Eric Brock. Includes wonderful photos of the houses and the ladies.
Researching American-Made Toy Soldiers — A 276-page collection of a lifetime of articles by toy soldier expert Richard O’Brien.
Reunion in Hell — Volume One of the John H. Knox series of weird stories from the pulps. Introduced by horror expert John Pelan.
Ripped from the Headlines! — The Jack the Ripper story as told in the newspaper articles in the New York and London Times.
Robert Randisi Novels — No Exit to Brooklyn and The Dead of Brooklyn. The first two Nick Delvecchio novels.
Rough Cut & New, Improved Murder — Ed Gorman’s first two novels.
Ruled By Radio — 1925 futuristic novel by Robert L. Hadfield & Frank E. Farncombe.
Rupert Penny Novels — Policeman’s Holiday, Policeman’s Evidence, Lucky Policeman, Policeman in Armour, Sealed Room Murder, Sweet Poison, The Talkative Policeman, She had to Have Gas and Cut and Run (by Martin Tanner.) Rupert Penny is the pseudonym of Australian Charles Thornett, a master of the locked room, impossible crime plot.
Sand’s Game — Spectacular hard-boiled noir from Ennis Willie, edited by Lynn Myers and Stephen Mertz, with contributions from Max Allan Collins, Bill Crider, Wayne Dundee, Bill Pronzini, Gary Lovisi and James Reasoner.
Satan’s Den Exposed — True crime in Truth or Consequences New Mexico — Award-winning journalism by the Desert Journal.
Gelett Burgess Novels — The Master of Mysteries, The White Cat, Two O’Clock Courage, Ladies in Boxes, Find the Woman, The Heart Line, The Picaroons and Lady Mechante. All are edited and introduced by Richard A. Lupoff.
Sam McCain Novels — Ed Gorman’s terrific series includes The Day the Music Died, Wake Up Little Susie and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Sex Slave — Potboiler of lust in the days of Cleopatra by Dion Leclerq, 1966.
Shadows’ Edge — Two early novels by Wade Wright: Shadows Don’t Bleed and The Sharp Edge.
Sideslip — 1968 SF masterpiece by Ted White and Dave Van Arnam.
Slammer Days — Two full-length prison memoirs: Men into Beasts (1952) by George Sylvester Viereck and Home Away From Home (1962) by Jack Woodford.
Sorcerer’s Chessmen — John Pelan introduces this 1939 classic by Mark Hansom.
Star Griffin — Michael Kurland’s 1987 masterpiece of SF drollery is back.
Stakeout on Millennium Drive — Award-winning Indianapolis Noir by Ian Woollen.
Strands of the Web: Short Stories of Harry Stephen Keeler — Edited and Introduced by Fred Cleaver.
Suzy — A collection of comic strips by Richard O’Brien and Bob Vojtko from 1970.
Tales of the Macabre and Ordinary — Modern twisted horror by Chris Mikul, author of the Bizarrism series.
Tenebrae — Ernest G. Henham’s 1898 horror tale brought back.
The Amorous Intrigues & Adventures of Aaron Burr — by Anonymous. Hot historical action about the man who almost became Emperor of Mexico.
The Anthony Boucher Chronicles — edited by Francis M. Nevins. Book reviews by Anthony Boucher written for the San Francisco Chronicle, 1942 – 1947. Essential and fascinating reading by the best book reviewer there ever was.
The Best of 10-Story Book — edited by Chris Mikul, over 35 stories from the literary magazine Harry Stephen Keeler edited.
The Black Dark Murders — Vintage 50s college murder yarn by Milt Ozaki, writing as Robert O. Saber.
The Book of Time — The classic novel by H.G. Wells is joined by sequels by Wells himself and three timely stories by Richard A. Lupoff. Lavishly illustrated by Gavin L. O’Keefe.
The Case of the Little Green Men — Mack Reynolds wrote this love song to sci-fi fans back in 1951 and it’s now back in print.
The Case of the Withered Hand — 1936 potboiler by John G. Brandon.
The Charlie Chaplin Murder Mystery — A 2004 tribute by film scholar, Wes D. Gehring.
The Chinese Jar Mystery — Murder in the manor by John Stephen Strange, 1934.
The Compleat Calhoon — All of Fender Tucker’s works: Includes Totah Six-Pack, Weed, Women and Song and Tales from the Tower, plus a CD of all of his songs.
The Compleat Ova Hamlet — Parodies of SF authors by Richard A. Lupoff. This is a brand new edition with more stories and more illustrations by Trina Robbins.
The Contested Earth and Other SF Stories — A never-before published space opera and seven short stories by Jim Harmon.
The Crimson Query — A 1929 thriller from Arlton Eadie. A perfect way to get introduced.
The Curse of Cantire — A classic 1939 novel of a family curse by Walter S. Masterman.
The Devil Drives — An odd prison and lost treasure novel from 1932 by Virgil Markham.
The Devil’s Mistress — A 1915 Scottish gothic tale by J. W. Brodie-Innes, a member of Aleister Crowley’s Golden Dawn.
The Dumpling — Political murder from 1907 by Coulson Kernahan.
The End of It All and Other Stories — Ed Gorman selected his favorite short stories for this huge collection.
The Fangs of Suet Pudding — A 1944 novel of the German invasion by Adams Farr
The Ghost of Gaston Revere — From 1935, a novel of life and beyond by Mark Hansom, introduced by John Pelan.
The Gold Star Line — Seaboard adventure from L.T. Reade and Robert Eustace.
The Golden Dagger — 1951 Scotland Yard yarn by E. R. Punshon.
The Hairbreadth Escapes of Major Mendax — Francis Blake Crofton’s 1889 boys’ book.
The House of the Vampire — 1907 poetic thriller by George S. Viereck.
The Incredible Adventures of Rowland Hern — Intriguing 1928 impossible crimes by Nicholas Olde.
The Julius Caesar Murder Case — A classic 1935 re-telling of the assassination by Wallace Irwin that’s much more fun than the Shakespeare version.
The Koky Comics — A collection of all of the 1978-1981 Sunday and daily comic strips by Richard O’Brien and Mort Gerberg, in two volumes.
The Lady of the Terraces — 1925 missing race adventure by E. Charles Vivian.
The Lord of Terror — 1925 mystery with master-criminal, Fantômas.
The N. R. De Mexico Novels — Robert Bragg, the real N.R. de Mexico, presents Marijuana Girl, Madman on a Drum, Private Chauffeur in one volume.
The Night Remembers — A 1991 Jack Walsh mystery from Ed Gorman.
The One After Snelling — Kickass modern noir from Richard O’Brien.
The Organ Reader — A huge compilation of just about everything published in the 1971-1972 radical bay-area newspaper, THE ORGAN. A coffee table book that points out the shallowness of the coffee table mindset.
The Poker Club — Three in one! Ed Gorman’s ground-breaking novel, the short story it was based upon, and the screenplay of the film made from it.
The Private Journal & Diary of John H. Surratt — The memoirs of the man who conspired to assassinate President Lincoln.
The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Three Sherlockian pastiches by the Brooklyn author/publisher, Gary Lovisi.
The Shadow on the House — Mark Hansom’s 1934 masterpiece of horror is introduced by John Pelan.
The Sign of t
he Scorpion — A 1935 Edmund Snell tale of oriental evil.
The Singular Problem of the Stygian House-Boat — Two classic tales by John Kendrick Bangs about the denizens of Hades.
The Smiling Corpse — Philip Wylie and Bernard Bergman’s odd 1935 novel.
The Stench of Death: An Odoriferous Omnibus by Jack Moskovitz — Two complete novels and two novellas from 60’s sleaze author, Jack Moskovitz.
The Time Armada — Fox B. Holden’s 1953 SF gem.
The Tongueless Horror and Other Stories — Volume One of the series of short stories from the weird pulps by Wyatt Blassingame.
The Tracer of Lost Persons — From 1906, an episodic novel that became a hit radio series in the 30s. Introduced by Richard A. Lupoff.
The Trail of the Cloven Hoof — Diabolical horror from 1935 by Arlton Eadie. Introduced by John Pelan.
The Triune Man — Mindscrambling science fiction from Richard A. Lupoff.
The Universal Holmes — Richard A. Lupoff’s 2007 collection of five Holmesian pastiches and a recipe for giant rat stew.
The Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman — Hard to believe ultraviolence by either Arthur M. Scarm or Arthur M. Scram.
The Whistling Ancestors — A 1936 classic of weirdness by Richard E. Goddard and introduced by John Pelan.
The White Peril in the Far East — Sidney Lewis Gulick’s 1905 indictment of the West and assurance that Japan would never attack the U.S.
The Wizard of Berner’s Abbey — A 1935 horror gem written by Mark Hansom and introduced by John Pelan.
Wade Wright Novels — Echo of Fear, Death At Nostalgia Street, It Leads to Murder and Shadows’ Edge, a double book featuring Shadows Don’t Bleed and The Sharp Edge.
Welsh Rarebit Tales — Charming stories from 1902 by Harle Oren Cummins