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THE SMOKY GOD is an Edwardian era «hollow earth» fantasy novel, presented as a true story. The narrator, Olaf Jansen, voyages through a polar opening in 1829 and spends 2 years in a strange underground world, believed to be the original Garden of Eden. This inner Earth is lit by its own sun, and here underground civilization has diverged from the ways of the surface. Here are giants, monsters, omnipotent High Priests, and lost races that speak Sanskrit – a world of wonders, which Olaf will be lucky to survive! Includes the original color illustrations from the serialization in The National Magazine (1907-8). <P>"Fictional reconciliation of hollow-earth theories with eclectic Fundamentalism." – Science-Fiction: The Early Years

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Lyn McConchie transports us to Victorian London, where Sherlock Holmes and John Watson must solve two cases involving Poisonous People.<P> A POISONING AT THE PUBLISHER: Maid and occasional cook Mary Fellowes has been accused of attempting to poison her employers and the evidence against her is damning – or is it? Is she the scheming and vengeful woman that others describe? Or is she innocent, caught in a web of deceit? Holmes and Watson must follow the evidence, exposing long-buried family secrets and hidden conflict, in order to discover the truth and prevent a deadly injustice.<P> THE DREADFUL DIARY: Who murdered successful businessman Gerald Barnes Wimbledon, and why? Stymied by the case, Scotland Yard calls in Holmes and Watson. Their investigations unearth a hidden diary – a journal whose pages provide motives for several business rivals, as well as for the woman he loved and who spurned him publicly. As Holmes and Watson dig deeper into Wimbledon's past, they must question everything they have learned about the man calling himself Gerald Barnes Wimbledon, including how he died.

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Alan Nelson was not a prolific writer, and as far as I know he wrote (or at least had published) only short stories. No novels. However, these stories are true gems. They originally appeared in some of the most prestigious venues for short fiction of the 1940s and 1950s. Many of Nelson's fantasy tales first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, where they were very popular, but his stories also appeared in Bluebook, Weird Tales, and even Cosmopolitan. Wherever these appeared, readers could always be assured that any Alan Nelson story would be something special, something that would be great fun to read and eminently entertaining-often thoughtful-always wonderful!" – GARY LOVISI

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When Sterling Seabright is found strangled in the woods outside the small farming community of Abundance, Wisconsin, even her closest friends are shocked to learn of her secret life. When a second body is found murdered in a cabin by the lake, it's up to Deputies Robely Danner and Frack Telusky to discover the link. Sterling's classmates hold various pieces of the puzzle, and although they may be talking among themselves, Robely and Frack are unable to break their code of silence.

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The definitive 10-volume set of Robert E. Howard's weird fiction and poetry (with all texts meticulously restored to the original versions as published in Weird Tales and other magazines) continues with volume 7! This collection of classic Howard fiction begins with the story «The Grisly Horror» and also includes «Jewels of Gwahlur,» «Beyond the Black HIlls,» «The Challenge from Beyond» (cowritten with C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, H.P. Lovecraft, and Frank Belknap Long), and «Shadows in Zamboula.»

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Fantasy novel by the World Fantasy Award-winning editor and author. «Few writers can genguinely touch the quality of nightmare…the fear that formless and almost banal stems from the sleeping mind. John Bellairs did it with THE FACE IN THE FROST… James Blaylock can do it. And now there is also THE SHATTERED GODDESS.» –Mary Gentle

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The Thubway Tham MEGAPACK™ presents 22 classic tales by Johnston McCulley (creator of Zorro) featuring his series antihero, a pickpocket named Thubway Tham. Included in this volume are:<P> THUBWAY THAM, FASHION PLATE<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S DOG<BR> THUBWAY THAM TUNES IN<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S HONESTY<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S HOODOO ROLL<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S OPERATION<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S CURIOSITY<BR> THUBWAY THAM MEETS A GIRL<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S ENGAGEMENT<BR> THUBWAY THAM GOES TO THE RACES<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S RAFFLE TICKET<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S SENSE OF HONO<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S INSANE MOMENT<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S THANKSGIVING DINNER<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S UNDERSTUDY<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S BAGGAGE CHECK<BR> THUBWAY THAM, PHILANTHROPIST<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S CHRITHTMATH<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S GLORIOUS FOURTH<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S HOLDUP<BR> THUBWAY THAM AND MR. CLACKWORTHY<BR> THUBWAY THAM'S INTHULT<BR> HAS WORSE LUCK THAN «THUBWAY THAM»<P> If you enjoy this volume of classic mystery and crime stories, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see all the other entries in this series, covering mysteries, classic and historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror – and much, much more!

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The first two bodies were found in Lovers' Lane. The man was dead. His girlfriend, still alive, described the stick-up artist as of medium build, wearing glasses, mild-mannered, and courteous. If was a description that fit half the male population of Los Angeles. It was almost the only clue Joe Friday and Frank Smith had to catch the murderer. <P>Then the courteous killer struck again – and again! The last time Joe Friday was waiting for him with a gun. When the criminal escaped with only a bullet wound, he vowed revenge – and mailed an unsigned, misspelled note that read: YOU THINK YOUR A SMART BADGE. NOBODY BURNS ME AND LIVES, COP. START SWEATING.

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It was perhaps natural, after a thousand years of celibacy, that the Immortal Jade Lady should petition the Moon Goddess for a lover. The trouble was that he was a mortal and she was a spirit–which made for certain difficulties. Then she had to fall in love with him! <P> Ju-hai had troubles enough without spirit entanglements. He had a powerful enemy, seeking to destroy his family to seize their lands. Somehow, Ju-hai had to rescue his father, illegally impressed to fight a distant war, even though success meant outlawry. Then he had to win justice and vengeance against the enemy. It was a task to confound a mighty warrior and magician. And, of course, there was the matter of Hsi-feng, the little slave-girl… <P> But the Jade Lady meant to save him and to make him an Immortal, too–whether he wanted to be on not!

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Meet Centurion Gaius Hesperian; a reflective and compassionate member of Emperor Nero’s palace guard with a knack for detective work. (He’s considered rather odd by his fellow officers because he doesn’t torture witnesses.) When Odysseus Memnon, a Greek-Egyptian shipping magnate, is found murdered in his Alexandrian mansion after annoucing his conversion to an evangelistic cult to which he plans to donate all of his worldly goods, it's up to Gaius Hesperian to solve the crime.

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