"Think of this collection as a literary grab-bag…chances are there's at least one story you'll like/love/enjoy, others which will amuse you, still others which might disturb, and perhaps one or so which you probably won't like. While the bulk of my fictional output over the years has been roughly divided between horror/dark fantasy, science fiction and erotica (of various types), a few pieces have either slipped through the g ...
In five short stories and one long novelette, Rufus King introduces Colin Starr, a young physician whose medical knowledge enables him to detect murder where a less able doctor would have signed a certificate of death from natural causes. Because of his shrewd understanding of human psychology as well as his application of scientific knowledge to seemingly unrelated facts, Dr. Starr is a unique detective in the annals of crime. Included in this ...
The Johnston McCulley MEGAPACK™ collects 15 tales of mystery, detection, and adventure by the creator of Zorro – more than 500 pages of great reading. Included are:<P> THE MAN WHO CHANGED ROOMS<BR> DIAMONDS, DIRT, AND DUTY<BR> A CROOK WITHOUT HONOR<BR> PODDIN'S MISTAKE<BR> INITIATING NOGGINS<BR> ETERNAL ASSETS<BR> SLAVE OF MYSTERY<BR> THE OBVIOUS CLUE<BR> RUN TO GROUND<BR> ...
Emil Petaja (1915 – 2000) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer whose career spanned seven decades. He was the author of 13 published novels, nearly 150 short stories, numerous poems, and a handful of books and articles on various subjects. Though he wrote science fiction, fantasy, horror stories, detective fiction, and poetry, Petaja considered his work part of an older tradition of «weird fiction.» You can find echoes not only of ...
Kurt was raised by his father's werewolf pack after his human mother abandoned him. Or had she been eaten? When he returns to the area from which she came, seeking answers, he does not anticipate falling in love with a woman. But what can he possibly offer her, especially when he realizes she is engaged to an heir of the wealthy family that now occupies the land? ...
George T. Wetzel (1921-1983) was, for decades, the leading researcher into the life and works of H.P. Lovecraft. His scholarly essays (which Wildside Press is working on collecting) appeared in numerous books and magazines from the 1940s through the 1970s. All the time he dabbled in writing weird fiction on his own, but never pursued it beyond the occasional contribution to a small press anthology or fan-produced magazine. Like his idol, H.P. Lo ...
Baffling robberies from locked rooms, cunning crimes and mysterious murders…these were all part of the stock-in-trade of Miss Victoria Lincoln, private detective. Called in to investigate the case of the Haunted Gallery, she had occasion to call on the help of Caroline Gerrard, a pupil at her old College. Impressed, she invited the girl to become her assistant after she left College. Thereafter Caroline assisted the detective in a series of biza ...
Tabaea the Thief stole something more precious than Dragons' Blood from the enchanted old house: evesdropping on the doddering wizard who owned the place, she stole the secret of wizardry itself. ...
Dumery of Shiphaven was a lad with a love of wizardry–and no magic at all. He dreamed of apprenticing himself to a great wizard, but because he had not even a touch of the talent, it was a dream he could never fulfill. He would never apprentice himself to a great wizard, nor even a meager one; no matter how he loved magic and the magical arts, he would never work with wizards or wizardry. That's what Dumery was beginning to think, anyway–un ...
