Maker of Shadows
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“I didn’t ask,” Miss Brandon said.
“No.” He sounded very thoughtful. “The rest — it was all illusion.”
Gail — Illusion!
RAMBLE HOUSE’s
Harry Stephen Keeler Webwork Mysteries
(RH) indicates the title is available ONLY in the RAMBLE HOUSE edition
The Ace of Spades Murder
The Affair of the Bottled Deuce (RH)
The Amazing Web
The Barking Clock
Behind That Mask
The Book with the Orange Leaves
The Bottle with the Green Wax Seal
The Box from Japan
The Case of the Canny Killer
The Case of the Crazy Corpse (RH)
The Case of the Flying Hands (RH)
The Case of the Ivory Arrow
The Case of the Jeweled Ragpicker
The Case of the Lavender Gripsack
The Case of the Mysterious Moll
The Case of the 16 Beans
The Case of the Transparent Nude (RH)
The Case of the Transposed Legs
The Case of the Two-Headed Idiot (RH)
The Case of the Two Strange Ladies
The Circus Stealers (RH)
Cleopatra’s Tears
A Copy of Beowulf (RH)
The Crimson Cube (RH)
The Face of the Man From Saturn
Find the Clock
The Five Silver Buddhas
The 4th King
The Gallows Waits, My Lord! (RH)
The Green Jade Hand
Finger! Finger!
Hangman’s Nights (RH)
I, Chameleon (RH)
I Killed Lincoln at 10:13! (RH)
The Iron Ring
The Man Who Changed His Skin (RH)
The Man with the Crimson Box
The Man with the Magic Eardrums
The Man with the Wooden Spectacles
The Marceau Case
The Matilda Hunter Murder
The Monocled Monster
The Murder of London Lew
The Murdered Mathematician
The Mysterious Card (RH)
The Mysterious Ivory Ball of Wong Shing Li (RH)
The Mystery of the Fiddling Cracksman
The Peacock Fan
The Photo of Lady X (RH)
The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb
Report on Vanessa Hewstone (RH)
Riddle of the Travelling Skull
Riddle of the Wooden Parrakeet (RH)
The Scarlet Mummy (RH)
The Search for X-Y-Z
The Sharkskin Book
Sing Sing Nights
The Six From Nowhere (RH)
The Skull of the Waltzing Clown
The Spectacles of Mr. Cagliostro
Stand By—London Calling!
The Steeltown Strangler
The Stolen Gravestone (RH)
Strange Journey (RH)
The Strange Will
The Straw Hat Murders (RH)
The Street of 1000 Eyes (RH)
Thieves’ Nights
Three Novellos (RH)
The Tiger Snake
The Trap (RH)
Vagabond Nights (Defrauded Yeggman)
Vagabond Nights 2 (10 Hours)
The Vanishing Gold Truck
The Voice of the Seven Sparrows
The Washington Square Enigma
When Thief Meets Thief
The White Circle (RH)
The Wonderful Scheme of Mr. Christopher Thorne
X. Jones—of Scotland Yard
Y. Cheung, Business Detective
Keeler Related Works
A To Izzard: A Harry Stephen Keeler Companion by Fender Tucker — Articles and stories about Harry, by Harry, and in his style. Included is a compleat bibliography.
Wild About Harry: Reviews of Keeler Novels — Edited by Richard Polt & Fender Tucker — 22 reviews of works by Harry Stephen Keeler from Keeler News. A perfect introduction to the author.
The Keeler Keyhole Collection: Annotated newsletter rants from Harry Stephen Keeler, edited by Francis M. Nevins. Over 400 pages of incredibly personal Keeleriana.
Fakealoo — Pastiches of the style of Harry Stephen Keeler by selected demented members of the HSK Society. Updated every year with the new winner.
Strands of the Web: Short Stories of Harry Stephen Keeler — 29 stories, just about all that Keeler wrote, are edited and introduced by Fred Cleaver.
RAMBLE HOUSE’s Loon Sanctuary
A Clear Path to Cross — Sharon Knowles short mystery stories by Ed Lynskey.
A Jimmy Starr Omnibus — Three 40s novels by Jimmy Starr.
A Niche in Time and Other Stories — Classic SF by William F. Temple
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.
Away From the Here and Now — Clare Winger Harris stories, collected by Richard A. Lupoff
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.
Calling Lou Largo! — Two Lou Largo novels by William Ard.
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.
Corpse Without Flesh — Strange novel of forensics by George Bruce
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.
Dark Sanctuary — Weird Menace story by H. B. Gregory
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.
Evangelical Cockroach — Jack Woodford writes about writing.
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. Recently added is A Gelett Burgess Sampler, edited by Alfred Jan. All are introduced by Richard A. Lupoff.
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.
Hands Out of Hell and Other Stories — John H. Knox’s eerie hallucinations
Hollywood Dreams — A novel of Tinsel Town and the Depression by Richard O’Brien.
Hostesses in Hell and Other Stories — Russell Gray’s most graphic stories
House of the Restless Dead — Strange and ominous tales by Hugh B. Cave
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, Her Ways Are Death, The Kleinert Case and Maker of Shadows.
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.
John Carstairs, Space Detective — Arboreal Sci-fi by Frank Belknap Long
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.
Lady of the Yellow Death and Other Stories — More stories by Wyatt Blassingame.
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.
Library of Death — Ghastly tale by Ronald S. L. Harding, introduced by John Pelan
Malcolm Jameson Novels and Short Stories — Astonishing! Astounding!, Tarnished Bomb, The Alien Envoy and Other Stories and The Chariots of San Fernando and Other Stories. All introduced and edited by John Pelan or Richard A. Lupoff.
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.
Money Brawl — Two books about the writing business by Jack Woodford and H. Bedford-Jones. Introduced by Richard A. Lupoff.
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 Faithful and Other Stories — SF classic tales by Raymond Z. Gallun
Old Times’ Sake — Short stories by James Reasoner from Mike Shayne Magazine.
One Dreadful Night — A classic mystery by Ronald S. L. Harding
Pair O’ Jacks — A mystery novel and a diatribe about publishing by Jack Woodford
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.
Sacred Locomotive Flies — Richard A. Lupoff’s psychedelic SF story.
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.
Sand’s War — More violent fiction from the typewriter of Ennis Willie
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.
Satans of Saturn — Novellas from the pulps by Otis Adelbert Kline and E. H. Price
Satan’s Sin House and Other Stories — Horrific gore by Wayne Rogers
Secrets of a Teenage Superhero — Graphic lit by Jonathan Sweet
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.
Summer Camp for Corpses and Other Stories — Weird Menace tales from Arthur Leo Zagat; introduced by John Pelan.
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.