Adventure House

Crime's most hideous devices—kidnapping and cocaine are the weapons of a genius of evil in a blood-chilling campaign of terror instigated by greed and the lust for power!  Follow the Phantom on a thrilling trail of murder.

• 128 pages
• 7x10
• ISBN: 1-59798-297-0
• Cover artist: Rudolph Belarski

BEGINNING WITH MURDER — Roger Torrey
All the evidence proclaimed the girl a murderess.  her own lawyer, even the detective who was trying to clear her, thought her guilty.  She had only one friend...

DEATH WALKS IN THE HILLS — E. Hoffman Price
Hardrock Pike came to the Osage Nation to drill an oil lease, not to be distracted by Broken Axe's wife.  Nor could he foresee that he would turn detective.

CORPSE OF CORINNA — Dale Boyd
KILL THAT HEADLINE — Robert Leslie Bellem
RANSOM PAY-OFF — John Phillips
DEATH RIDE — Ken Cooper

• 128 pages
• 7x10
• ISBN: 1-59798-299-7
• Photographic cover image

TRAIL OF THE GOLD SKULLS — Lt. Scott Morgan
Follow Mike Donahue and Andy Wayne as they face savage terrors and flashing knives in the Peruvian Wilds.

EMPEROR OF ASIA — Frederick Painton
A MAN AMONGST MEN — Charles Green
THE WHIRLWIND'S READY BLADE — Johnston McCulley
BANDIT OF HEAVEN — Jean Francis Webb
SINGING STEEL — John Scott Douglas
GUNS AND GOLD — Cpt. Lee Fredericks
LAW OF THE TUNDRA — Chart Pitt
THE FIGHTING LEATHERNECK — Arthur J. Burks

• 162 pages
• 7x10
• ISBN: 1-59798-301-2

 

---

Product Details Paperback: 258 pages Publisher: Off-Trail Publications (July 5, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935031090 ISBN-13: 978-1935031093 Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.5 inches

---

Product Details Paperback: 274 pages Publisher: Off-Trail Publications (July 5, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935031139 ISBN-13: 978-1935031130 Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.6 inches

Cauldron of Death
John Grange
February 1943 issue Super-Detective

"A man who has everything to lose by Jim Anthony's death is trying to kill him!  And the man who killed McQuayde must have been dead when the murder took place!  Nothing made sense!"

Return to the world of the Ancient Mediterranean, a place where men carved empires with their bronze swords and braved any danger for gold.  It is here that the cities of Troy and Crete clash, their fates resting in the hands of:

RAGNARR – the blonde, steel-thewed Warrior Prince of the Northern lands.  He is the  wielder of Tyrfing, the sword forged by the Gods.  Ragnarr leads a daring band of Northmen who are ready to face any danger, fight any foe, and die in the service of their Prince.

KING MINOS – King of the Island Empire of Crete, the Mistress of the Mediterranean.  His mighty fleets rule the waves, exacting tribute from all lands.  Minos ruthlessly suppresses any dissent.  His enemies meet their deaths at the hands of the Minotaur.

KING DARDANUS – the King of Troy, who chafes at his vassalage to King Minos.  He hopes to use the Northern Prince for his own gain.

ILIA – beautiful daughter of King Dardanus.  She gives her heart to one prince, but is loved by two.

AMBROGEOS – Prince of Crete, first-born of King Minos.  His love of Ilia and hatred of Ragnarr will engulf the Mediterranean world in an orgy of death and destruction.

ARIADNE – Princess of Crete, beautiful High Priestess of the Goddess.  She is torn between her love of her country and her love for her country's greatest enemy.

THE MINOTAUR: Horrific beast of legend, to whom the enemies of King Minos are sacrificed in bloody religious rights.

Filled with intrigue, raids, and exciting battles on land and at sea, IN THE GRIP OF THE MINOTAUR will thrill lovers of historical adventure!

First serialized in ADVENTURE in 1916, IN THE GRIP OF THE MINOTAUR marked the first collaboration between Farnham Bishop and Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur.  In addition to being fine fiction writers, both were very capable historians -- Bishop would write non-fiction books on the Panama Canal, submarines and the U.S. wars with Mexico, while Brodeur would become a professor at University of California Berkeley, translate Norse prose eddas and gain scholarly recognition for his work on "Beowulf".  In writing IN THE GRIP OF THE MINOTAUR, they drew upon their backgrounds and research abilities to create a believable tale of historical high adventure.  First time in book form.

Arthur Leo Zagat, having earned his law degree, turned his back on private practice to write weird mystery and horror stories for such magazines as Terror Tales, Dime Detective, Dime Mystery Magazine and others.  This volume assembles the works Zagat authored under the pseudonym "Morgan LaFay" for Spicy Mystery Stories.

Included are: Cargo For Hell Graveyard Honeymoon Her Demon Lover Goat Girl of Lussac Hell's Anteroom The Sharp Teeth of Satan The Man From Hell Bonus stories: By Subway to Hell The Horror In the Crib

FIRST TIME IN BOOK FORM Volume 10 in the BDB Signature Series. Cover art by Rudolph Belarski. Author: Arthur Leo Zagat Price: $14.95 US / Trade paperback

Banished! by William Murray Graydon

Adventure Magazine first appeared in late 1910 and soon, attracting top name authors, became renowned for the type of fiction its name implied. It grew into a powerhouse in the genre fiction field, and was later dubbed by Time magazine, the "No. 1 Pulp." But in its early years, the magazine printed a surprisingly wide variety of fiction types—from westerns to light-hearted comedy, from South Seas tales to adventures set in the deepest jungles—to even works that could be deemed science fiction.

Culled from its first 26 issues, this collection brings together 24 of the best tales that appeared therein, including rarely or never-before reprinted works by Talbot Mundy, Damon Runyon, Rafael Sabatini, William Hope Hodgson, R. Austin Freeman, James Francis Dwyer, Frank L. Packard and others.

Selected and with an introduction by Doug Ellis.

Included are:

• Introduction by Doug Ellis
• Adventure by H. Bedford-Jones
• The Soul of a Regiment by Talbot Mundy
• The Luck of the Annie Crosby by Frederick William Wallace
• A Soft Answer From the Kid by Willett Stockard
• Brethren of the Beach by H.D. Couzens
• The Pretender by Rafael Sabatini
• A Pair of Mules by Nevil G. Henshaw
• The Mate’s Log by Arthur Somers Roche
• The Pied Piper, Junior by Damon Runyon
• From the Book of Fate by George E. Holt
• The Preacher and the Gun-Man by Hapsburg Liebe
• The Master by George Buchanan Fife
• The Plot of Signor Salvi by Marion Polk Angellotti
• The Hate of Ismail Bey by Bertram Atkey
• The White Queen of Sandakan by James Francis Dwyer
• McQuinn, Sheriff by William Tillinghast Eldridge
• The Albatross by William Hope Hodgson
• The Rug of Imam by Adele M. Donovan
• 31 New Inn by R. Austin Freeman
• Two On Trinity by Frank Lillie Pollock
• That Prodigious Postscript by John Lewis
• The Bravery of Bertie McDodd by George B. Seitz
• Captain Curlew’s Atonement by C. Langton Clarke
• The Final Average by Frank L. Packard
• The End by Stephen Allen Reynolds
• The Outriders by H. Bedford-Jones

A Transaction in Diamonds assembles all of Talbot Mundy's stories and articles published during 1911, his first year as a professional writer. Included are his first published story, as well as his first British military tale, "The Phantom Battery," along with twelve other classic works of fiction and non-fiction.

With an introduction by Brian Taves (Talbot Mundy—Philosopher of Adventure).

Edited by Gene Christie.

Cover art by Tom Roberts

The Talbot Mundy Library, volume 1.

Stories include:

• A Transaction in Diamonds
• Pig Sticking in India
• The Lady and the Lord
• Single Handed Yachting
• Kitty Burns Her Fingers
• Vengeance Is Kitty's
• The Phantom Battery
• Jansen and Jansen—Twins
• Cornelia's Englishman
• Sentence of Death
• The Fire-Cop
• An Offer of Two to One
• Kitty and Cupid
• The Blooding of the Ninth Queen's Own

With an appendix by Tom Roberts discussing Mundy's payment rates for his early stories.

"In general . . . the Munsey publications did more to publish weird fiction than any other magazine enterprise of the early 20th century."
H.P. Lovecraft to Richard F. Seawright, March 31, 1932

Long before the stories in Weird Tales sent shivers down the spine, far in advance of the groundbreaking Dracula, Frankenstein and similar Universal horror films of the 1930s, Frank A. Munsey's pulp magazines were thrilling their millions of readers with edge-of-your-seat tales of terror by fledgling authors who would go on to dominate American popular literature.

Collected within these pages are 15 thrillers by A. Merritt, Francis Stevens, Sax Rohmer, Tod Robbins, Damon Runyon, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Talbot Mundy, George Allan England and others, many reprinted for the first time since their original magazine appearances as long as a century ago.

Included are:

• The People of the Pit by A. Merritt
• Behind the Curtain by Francis Stevens
• Number Thirteen (excerpt) by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Orchid Horror by John Blunt
• The Tenth Question by George Allan England
• Disappointment by Achmed Abdullah
• The Pretty Woman by Owen Oliver
• The Living Portrait by Tod Robbins
• An Offer of Two to One by Talbot Mundy
• Beyond the Violet by J.U. Giesy
• The Elixir of Life by C. Langton Clarke
• The Mystery of the Shriveled Hand by Sax Rohmer
• Fear by Damon Runyon
• Monsieur de Guise by Perley Poore Sheehan
• The Ship of Silent Men by Philip M. Fisher, Jr

With a foreword by Robert Weinberg, (author of Horror of the 20th Century)

Edited and with an introduction by Gene Christie.

Cover art by Harry T. Fisk

"For anyone who imagines Mundy's stories are simple-minded adventure melodramas, "The Letter of His Orders" shows Mundy to be a first-class observer of real world politics and human nature. In a very real sense, a story like "The Letter of His Orders" presages . . . Graham Greene. Where Greene makes fun of colonial intelligence officers in novels like Our Man in Havana, Mundy shows us the other side of that most mundane of heroes, the British colonial civil servant ... [as he]  fulfills the noble promise of unquestioning loyalty . . ."  —Gerry Conway, from this introduction

This title reprints three classic short novels from the pages of Adventure, Mundy's primary American market during the early years of his career.  With an introduction by Gerry Conway (writer/producer Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Father Dowling Mysteries, Diagnosis Murder, etc.)

Novels Include: The Guzzler's Grand Prix Hookum Hai The Letter of His Orders

The Letter of His Orders— Three Short Novels from Adventure, 1913 ISBN: 978-1-928619-75-8 Cover art by Walter M. Baumhofer. Price: $19.95 / Trade paperback / 188 pages