The Fourth Murray MEGAPACK® explores the works of Murray Leinster (the pseudonym used by William F. Jenkins for much of his genre work). If you’ve made it this far in the series, we assume you have already read the intros in previous volumes about Jenkins/Leinster and know how prolific he was, penning more than a thousand short works and dozens of novels over his long career. This volume showcases 3 of his science fiction novellas and 9 of his m ...
Through the shadows Gordon saw the tall man, a head taller than anyone else on the street. Lamplight spilling from the store fronts made the gunslinger’s eyes bright yellow as they settled on him.<P> Gordon had thought about it over a hundred campfires. He had known it would happen sooner or later – that he would be facing this man who was standing now in the center of the street. That he would reach for his gun and beat the fastest draw ...
TEXAS GUNSMOKE!<P> When Dr. Nicholas Blasingame joins his cousin Alicia and her husband in East Texas, he is scarred from political battles in Baltimore, where he lost his efforts at reform. In this new place he hopes to practice medicine and rebuild his life without conflict. Unfortunately, he finds political corruption as deeply entrenched in Moreno, Texas, as it was in Baltimore, this time in the hands of the elected officials, includi ...
When their parents, the owners and performers of the Gannelli Family Circus, are murdered by a Yankee Captain in rural Arkansas during the Civil War, young Gian-Carlo and his cousin Magda barely escape with their lives into the surrounding woods. From then on, they have only one purpose in life: a VENDETTA against the Union officer. Their cat-and-mouse game finally reaches its climax in East Texas. Will this be their final performance? ...
The author of sixty-two books, more than forty of them published commercially, Ardath Mayhar (1930-2012) began her career in the early 1980s with science fiction novels from Doubleday and TSR. Atheneum published several of her young adult and children’s novels. Changing focus, she wrote westerns (as Frank Cannon) and mountain man novels (as John Killdeer), four prehistoric Indian books under her own name, and historical western High Mountain Win ...
The Western Romance MEGAPACK™ selects 20 classic novels with romantic elements, by some of the top Western authors of all time. Included in this volume are:<P> A DAUGHTER OF THE DONS, by William Macleod Raine<BR> THE DUKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE, by G. W. Ogden<BR> RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE, by Zane Grey<BR> THE RAINBOW TRAIL, by Zane Grey<BR> DESERT GOLD (1913)<BR> THE BORDER LEGION, by Zane Grey<BR> WI ...
The Charles Alden Seltzer MEGAPACK™ assembles 11 classic westerns by American author Charles Alden Seltzer (1895-1942). Seltzer wrote prolifically for magazines and the book market, creating numerous stories with a western theme. Included in this volume are:<P> SQUARE DEAL SANDERSON<BR> THE RANCHMAN<BR> THE RANGE BOSS<BR> "FIREBRAND" TREVISON<BR> THE TRAIL HORDE<BR> ‘DRAG’ HARLAN<BR> THE COMI ...
Andy Adams (1859-1935) was an American writer of western fiction, the son of pioneers. In the early 1880s he went to Texas, where he stayed for 10 years, spending much of that time driving cattle on the western trail. He began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book, The Log of a Cowboy, in 1903. The Log of a Cowboy is an account of a five-month drive of 3,000 cattle from Brownsville, Texas, to Montana in 1882 along the Gre ...
When drifter Terry Carlton encounters the little town of Verdure in Arizona, he's only seeking some hospitality and shelter for the night, before moving on. But what he learns from his hosts, old man Marchland and his daughter Hilda, piques his curiosity. <P> Their home, like all the others in town, is boarded up at night; the entire community is living in fear of four ghostly horsemen, who ride only at night. Refusing to share the ...
