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Moon of Israel (1918) was one of the earliest Haggard books to be
filmed (in 1924, as a silent movie directed by Michael Curtiz). The
movie adaptation has been released both as Moon of Israel and The
Slave Queen. Interestingly, Paramount bought the original film and
suppressed it so it wouldn't complete with the release of DeMille's
original silent version of The Ten Commandments. As a book, it is
an exceptional retelling of the Biblical story of the Exodus. I?m
certain most modern readers will be familiar with the original
story. By selecting an unlikely viewpoint character?the scribe
Ana?Haggard provides a down-to-earth narrator for a story of
fantastic proportion. The novel was first serialized in The
Cornhill Magazine from January through October in 1918 and released
in book for in October 1918. Author and critic Jessica Amanda
Salmonson has called Moon of Israel ?a beautifully written Jewish
legend, ? and adds, ?Haggard was pro-Zionist advocating a Jewish
homeland in Palestine as early as 1915.
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Montezuma's Daughter (Paperback)
H. Rider Haggard; Selected by John Gregory Betancourt
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The strange adventures and escapes of Thomas Wingfield, half
English and half Spanish, in the years after Cortes's conquest of
Mexico.
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Mr. Meeson's Will (Paperback)
H. Rider Haggard; Introduction by John Gregory Betancourt
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If Haggard?one of the greatest adventure writers of all time?is
remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan Quatermain, a
heroic adventurer whose exploits in Africa form the most important
sequence of Haggard's books. Quatermain's adventures are chronicled
in such novels as King Solomon's Mines, Allan Quaterman, She, and
11 others.However, despite the importance of the Quaterman books,
many of Haggard's other novels are interesting in their own right.
Nada the Lily is the first of four books about the Zulus, all of
which are excellent. Eric Brighteyes is rich, fantasy-laden
Icelandic saga. The World's Desire (written with Andrew Lang) is a
fantasy about the characters in The Odyssey. And there are numerous
other titles (many of them reprinted by Wildside Press as part of
the Wildside Fantasy Classics series) which bring undeservingly
lost Haggard books back into print. Mr. Meeson's Will is just such
a book.Here we get a glimpse of what H. Rider Haggard must have
gone through as a starting author, as he slyly takes the reader
inside the British publishing industry, where greed and hack
writers (he calls them ?tame writers?) are prominent. One can
easily see how writers of the day could be ruined by publishers as
ruthless and unscrupulous as Mr. Meeson. Luckily Haggard could call
upon his years of legal training in search of the appropriate
remedy for his heroine's tragic plight!
When one thinks of the classic adventure-story authors of the pulp
fiction era, H. Rider Haggard, Talbot Mundy, and Rafael Sabatini
may come first to mind. But Arthur O. Friel's stellar contributions
-- particularly his stories featuring Lourenco and Pedro, two
workers on a rubber-tree plantation in the Amazon Jungle. Their
adventures in the Amazon's mysterious back-country certainly
deserve honorable mention. Here are tales of peril and last-minute
rescue, brutal savages and men of honor, snake-worshipping armies
and half-ape Lost Races-and many more! For in the shadows of the
rain-forest, many evils lurk . . . human and otherwise! Features a
new introduction by Darrell Schweitzer, eight short stories, and
The Jararaca, a complete novel.
What do the world's most imaginative minds feast upon? Spiderfish
Stew... Shrimp Anarchy... Surrealistic Fudge... Pa's Peasant
Soup... and Marvellous Morphed Meat. How do the world's great
science fiction and fantasy authors feed themselves when they're
not whipping up tales of wonder? What did they eat before they were
famous-and what do they serve to their friends? Compiled and
annotated by best-selling author Anne McCaffrey, Serve It Forth is
an unparalleled collection of recipes submitted by the writers
themselves, so you can eat like Patricia Anthony (The
I've-Been-to-Brazil-I-Know-What-Black-Beans-Are Dip), David Gerrold
(Death to the Enemies of the Revolution Chili), and Poul Anderson
(The Great Pumpkin). Each wonderful, dunce-proof recipe is
accompanied by personal notes from the author-chefs, as they guide
you into the preparation of such repasts as: Sherried Walnut Cake
by Lois McMaster Bujold; Pig by David Drake; Comforting Clam
Chowder by Peter S. Beagle; Night of the Living Meatloaf by Allen
Steele; How (and Why) to Dress and Prepare Texas Armadillo by
Ardath Mayhar; Catfish and Red Meat Flavouring by Larry Niven; And
over 100 more Kurtz, Mercedes Lackey, John Brunner, Joan Vinge, M.
K. Wren, and many more.
When Strange Tales first appeared in 1931 as a pulp magazine, it
was clearly something new. Edited by Harry Bates as a companion to
Astounding Stories, it combined the supernatural horror and fantasy
of Weird Tales with vigorous action plots. Strange Tales rapidly
attracted the most imaginative and capable writers of the day,
including such Weird Tales regulars as Robert E. Howard, Clark
Ashton Smith, Henry S. Whitehead, Hugh B. Cave, Ray Cummings, and
numerous others. Had the Great Depression not intervened and killed
it after seven issues, the whole history of fantastic fiction might
have been different.
The October 1932 issue features work by Clark Ashton Smith
("The Hunters from Beyond"), Victor Rousseau, Henry S. Whitehead,
Hugh B. Cave, Frank Belknap Long, Jr, and many more.
Achmed Abdullah's name was once synonymous with adventure. He
published dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories in the
pulp magazines of the early 20th century, thrilling millions of
readers throughout the world. He wrote with authority about exotic
peoples and places because he had lived a life filled with
adventure, serving in the British army and travelling extensively
to exotic locales before settling down to a literary career. Here
is the first new book of Adbullah's stories in almost seventy
years, sampling a broad range of his work. "A Charmed Life" tells
of one life-changing night in India, when a white man glimpses a
beautiful woman in danger and acts to rescue her. "Framed at the
Benefactor's Club" is a fascinating, intricately plotted mystery
set in Manhattan. "The Yellow Wife" is a chilling look at Chinese
life in Chinatown. "Bismallah!" is a light adventure in Africa, as
crooked traders try to put a successful rival company out of
business. "Light" is a surprisingly effective supernatural tale. "A
Yarkand Survey" tells the story of a corrupt governor sent on a
survey mission that might cost him his life -- if he isn't careful!
And "Fear" is the tale of two thieving white men in Africa and the
weird fates that awaited them. Ranging from mystery to adventure to
outright horror, from the streets of New York to the rooftops of
Calcutta, from London's Chinatown to the jungles of Africa, here
are tales of men caught up by plots and mysteries beyond their
wildest imaginings! Features a new introduction by pulp scholar
Darrell Schweitzer.
Operator No.5, America's Secret Service Ace, appeared in 48 novels
in the classic pulp magazine bearing his name. From April 1934 to
November 1939, Jimmy Christopher fought villains from inside the
United States and invaders from without. With World War II looming
on the horizon, the Operator No.5 novels became a reflection of the
times, showcasing American fears of technology and oppression. In
The Dawn that Shook the World, Jimmy Christopher leads a band of
agents into Europe, battlling a dictator with plans for world
dominations (shades of Adolph Hitler ) One of the bloodiest pulp
magazines ever produced, Operator No.5 has a well-deserved
reputation for thrill-a-minute action and peril. If you like pulp
fiction, you'll love Operator No.5.
Clark Ashton Smith was a prodigy, who wrote Arabian Nights novels
in his mid-teens and was heralded as a major voice in American
poetry by the time he was nineteen. In one frantic burst in the
middle 1930s, he wrote nearly a hundred strange, wondrous, and
grotesque stories, most of which were published in Weird Tales,
Strange Tales, Wonder Stories, and other pulps, but he was by no
means a conventional pulp writer. A direct heir to Edgar Allan Poe
and to the late Romantics and Decadents, a translator of
Baudelaire, Smith wrote in baroque, jeweled prose of distant times
and remote planets, of baleful magics and reanimated corpses, lost
lovers, eldritch gods, and inexorable fate. He is also a writer
whose works refuse to die, even after nearly a century. Think of
him as the sorcerer-poet, alone in his eyrie in the dry California
hills, dreaming his strange dreams and creating his unique
worlds-of Zothique, the Earth's haunted last conti- nent at the end
of time, Hyperborea, a prehistoric land, Posei- donis, the last
foundering isle of Atlantis, and Averoigne, an unhistoried province
of medieval France, thick with vampires. runes, transported from
the sorcerer's lair by in- describable genii or winged spirits. His
stories are altogether unlike anyone else's and quite wonderful,
among the treasures of fantastic literature. This fine collection
of Clark Ashton Smith's work reprints eight of his classic
fantasies, including two set in Hyperborea.
If Haggard?one of the greatest adventure writers of all time?is
remembered now, it is for his novels featuring Allan Quatermain, a
hero whose exploits form the most important sequence of his books.
Quatermain's life is chronicled in such novels as King Solomon's
Mines, Allan Quaterman, She, and many others. However, despite the
importance of the Quaterman books, many of Haggard's other novels
are interesting in their own right. Nada the Lily is the first of
four books about the Zulus, all of which are excellent. Eric
Brighteyes is rich, fantasy-laden Icelandic saga. The World's
Desire (written with Andrew Lang) is a fantasy about the characters
in The Odyssey. And there are numerous other titles (many of them
reprinted by Wildside Press as part of the Wildside Fantasy
Classics series) which bring undeservingly lost Haggard books back
into print. The Yellow Idol, originally published in 1908, is
another of Haggard's African novels, and it features many elements
of the fantastic, such as a magic mask and fetish objects, a lost
race, reincarnation, and an immortal woman whose many husbands she
has preserved as mummies It certainly deserved a place alongside
Haggards other African novels and more than stands its own as a
thrilling adventure novel.
Eleven of George Allan England's stories from the pulp magazines.
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The Masked Woman (Paperback)
Johnston McCulley; Edited by John Gregory Betancourt
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The masked woman called herself Madame Madcap, and she gathered a
gang of cutthroats determined to loot high society of all its
riches... starting with the notorious womanizer Hamilton Brone. She
worked her criminal magic... and grew rich as millionaires swooned
at her feet. Members of her gang worshipped her. She could do no
wrong. And yet a curious pattern began to emerge, and a strange
vengeance took shape - not just against the men of high society,
but against the men of her own brave band of criminals!
Oberon, newly-crowned King of Amber, finds himself in the middle of
deadly political machinations, as his father tries to turn him into
a puppet ruler. Meanwhile, rumors abound of a Shadow Amber in the
sea, where a distorted version of Oberon sits on an onyx throne. To
make matters worse, Oberon's sister is trying to marry him off to a
grasping would-be queen, at least two siblings are out for his
blood, and the entire Shadow-universe is starting to unravel.
What's a new king to do? Seek help from an unlikely new ally!
Weird Tales has always been the most popular and sought-after of
all pulp magazines. Its mix of exotic fantasy, horror, science
fiction, suspense, and the just plain indescribable has enthralled
generations of readers throughout the world.Collected here are 13
of the best short stories published in Weird Tales' first year of
publication, 1923 -- classics by many who would later play an
integral part in the Unique Magazine, such as H.P. Lovecraft, Frank
Owen, and Farnsworth Wright.
"It's a Cherokee Rose. The story is that when American soldiers
were moving Indians off their land on the Trail of Tears, the
Cherokee mothers were grieving and crying so much 'cause they were
losing their little ones along the way from exposure and disease
and starvation. A lot of them just disappeared. So the elders, they
said a prayer; asked for a sign to uplift the mothers' spirits,
give them strength and hope. The next day this rose started to grow
where the mothers' tears fell. I'm not fool enough to think there's
any flowers blooming for my brother. But I believe this one bloomed
for your little girl." -Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus), The Walking
Dead, 2011 "The Cherokee Rose" Celebrating the strange and unusual,
some of the best-known authors of the fantastic explore the myths
and legends surrounding a creature both dead and undead...the
zombie! From Anne Rice's chilling portrait of a woman more dead
than alive to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's future where nobody dies
forever, from Nina Kiriki Hoffman's powerful story of the dead
returned for love to Gene Wolfe's tale of computer-driven
corpses-here are the spectacular undead tales of the modern age!
Including stories by: Kevin J. Anderson, John Brunner, Matthew J.
Costello, Don D'Ammassa, Harlan Ellison, Lionel Fenn Karen Haber,
Rick Hautala, Brian Hodge, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Geoffrey A. Landis,
D.F. Lewis Frances A. McMahan, A.R. Morlan, William Relling, Jr.,
Anne Rice, Alan Rodgers Robert Silverberg, S.P. Somtow, Larry
Tritten, Lawrence Watt-Evans Robert Weinberg, Gene Wolfe, Chelsea
Quinn Yarbro
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The Red House Mystery (Paperback)
A.A. Milne; Introduction by Karl Wurf; Illustrated by John Gregory Betancourt
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