Lon Thomas Williams (1890 – 1978) was an American author best known for publishing a large number of traditional and weird western stories in the pulp magazines. One of Williams' most popular series featured Deputy Marshal Lee Winters (a series of «weird westerns,» containing fantastic or outre elements) which are collected in this volume. Included are: <P>KING SOLOMON'S THRONE<BR> FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH<BR> SATAN' ...
As a young boy Atilus Cindras had been taken from Britain to Rome as a slave, and trained in the gruesome arts of the gladiators. Fueled by his hatred for Rome, he'd risen to the top of his killing trade with his fierce and deadly skill, and won the coveted Rudis, the wooden sword that gave him his freedom. But he wants more from Rome than this, and gambles all of his money on a commercial venture that fails. Now deeply in debt, he's p ...
From the cold, misty shores of Britain, which the Emperor Claudius had invaded, Atilus Cindras was taken as a boy slave to work and fight for the greater glory of the Roman Empire. Eventually, he was sent to a gladiator school, and there trained to fight–and perhaps die–in the arena. But Atilus survives the years of decadent slaughter, and gradually gains power and riches as he navigates through the steamy politics of ancient Rome under the Empe ...
The arrangements for the dinner party were overseen by Queen Quenevere herself. She selected the apples with her own hands. And before the evening ended, a young knight lay dead…and Arthur's beloved, unfaithful queen stood branded as a murderess and condemned to death! <P> Phyllis Ann Karr has taken Celtic legend and given it a fresh new twist in this magical murder-mystery of knights and sorcery, romantic entanglements and courtly ...
The Talbot Mundy Megapack assembles 28 novels and short stories by the classic author of «King—Of the Khyber Rifles,» including 12 entries in the Jimgrim series. Great adventure reading! <P> Included are: <P> JIMGRIM AND ALLAH'S PEACE<BR> THE «IBLIS» AT LUD<BR> JIMGRIM AND THE SEVENTEEN THIEVES OF EL KALIL<BR> THE LION OF PETRA<BR> THE WOMAN AYISHA<BR> JIMGRIM AND THE LOST TROOPER<BR> ...
An autobiographical narrative, BEHIND THE SCENES traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House during Abraham Lincoln's administration. It was quite controversial at the time of its release–an uncompromising work that transgressed Victorian boundaries between public and private life, and lines of race, gender, and society. ...
Thomas Burnett Swann was a brilliant fantasy writer who died in 1976. He wrote primarily about the ancient Greek and Roman world, blending myth with romance and adventure. A reviewer in the Village Voice sums his work up well: «Swann's neo-romantic fantasies of the past are unique. He uses the stuff of myth but with twists and inventions of his own.» Swann's last published novel, Queens Walk in the Dusk is a retelling of the r ...
In DAY OF THE MINOTAUR, modern readers at last have an opportunity to rediscover the imaginative genius of Thomas Burnett Swann, a writer whose works have been compared with the marvel-packed sagas of J.R.R. Tolkien, the sweeping adventure-tales of Mary Renault, and the sheer story-telling magic of Jack Vance and Edgar Rice Burroughs. This is the novel of Eunostos, the last of an ancient and powerful race of bull-men; of the Achaean conqueror Aj ...
James Barash is a psychiatrist with a unique ability to place copies of himself into other people with just a touch. This makes him an unusually effective therapist. Over the centuries Barash has lived within the bodies of many men and women, yet he does not know his own origins. A sensitive person who has seen too much misery, he suppresses his memories of the past in order to fully live only in present, trying to do as much good as he can. Whe ...
