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Echo of a Curse

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by R. R. Ryan


  House of the Restless Dead — Strange and ominous tales by Hugh B. Cave

  I Stole $16,000,000 — A true story by cracksman Herbert E. Wilson.

  Inclination to Murder — 1966 thriller by New Zealand’s Harriet Hunter.

  Invaders from the Dark — Classic werewolf tale from Greye La Spina.

  J. Poindexter, Colored — Classic satirical black novel by Irvin S. Cobb.

  Jack Mann Novels — Strange murder in the English countryside. Gees’ First Case, Nightmare Farm, Grey Shapes, The Ninth Life, The Glass Too Many, Her Ways Are Death, The Kleinert Case and Maker of Shadows.

  Jake Hardy — A lusty western tale from Wesley Tallant.

  Jim Harmon Double Novels — Vixen Hollow/Celluloid Scandal, The Man Who Made Maniacs/Silent Siren, Ape Rape/Wanton Witch, Sex Burns Like Fire/Twist Session, Sudden Lust/Passion Strip, Sin Unlimited/Harlot Master, Twilight Girls/Sex Institution. Written in the early 60s and never reprinted until now.

  Joel Townsley Rogers Novels and Short Stories — By the author of The Red Right Hand: Once In a Red Moon, Lady With the Dice, The Stopped Clock, Never Leave My Bed. Also two short story collections: Night of Horror and Killing Time.

  John Carstairs, Space Detective — Arboreal Sci-fi by Frank Belknap Long

  Joseph Shallit Novels — The Case of the Billion Dollar Body, Lady Don’t Die on My Doorstep, Kiss the Killer, Yell Bloody Murder, Take Your Last Look. One of America’s best 50’s authors and a favorite of author Bill Pronzini.

  Keller Memento — 45 short stories of the amazing and weird by Dr. David Keller.

  Killer’s Caress — Cary Moran’s 1936 hardboiled thriller.

  Lady of the Yellow Death and Other Stories — More stories by Wyatt Blassingame.

  League of the Grateful Dead and Other Stories — Volume One in the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps series.

  Library of Death — Ghastly tale by Ronald S. L. Harding, introduced by John Pelan

  Malcolm Jameson Novels and Short Stories — Astonishing! Astounding!, Tarnished Bomb, The Alien Envoy and Other Stories and The Chariots of San Fernando and Other Stories. All introduced and edited by John Pelan or Richard A. Lupoff.

  Man Out of Hell and Other Stories — Volume II of the John H. Knox weird pulps collection.

  Marblehead: A Novel of H.P. Lovecraft — A long-lost masterpiece from Richard A. Lupoff. This is the “director’s cut”, the long version that has never been published before.

  Mark of the Laughing Death and Other Stories — Shockers from the pulps by Francis James, introduced by John Pelan.

  Master of Souls — Mark Hansom’s 1937 shocker is introduced by weirdologist John Pelan.

  Max Afford Novels — Owl of Darkness, Death’s Mannikins, Blood on His Hands, The Dead Are Blind, The Sheep and the Wolves, Sinners in Paradise and Two Locked Room Mysteries and a Ripping Yarn by one of Australia’s finest mystery novelists.

  Money Brawl — Two books about the writing business by Jack Woodford and H. Bedford-Jones. Introduced by Richard A. Lupoff.

  More Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Gary Lovisi’s second collection of tales about the unknown sides of the great detective.

  Muddled Mind: Complete Works of Ed Wood, Jr. — David Hayes and Hayden Davis deconstruct the life and works of the mad, but canny, genius.

  Murder among the Nudists — A mystery from 1934 by Peter Hunt, featuring a naked Detective-Inspector going undercover in a nudist colony.

  Murder in Black and White — 1931 classic tennis whodunit by Evelyn Elder.

  Murder in Shawnee — Two novels of the Alleghenies by John Douglas: Shawnee Alley Fire and Haunts.

  Murder in Silk — A 1937 Yellow Peril novel of the silk trade by Ralph Trevor.

  My Deadly Angel — 1955 Cold War drama by John Chelton.

  My First Time: The One Experience You Never Forget — Michael Birchwood — 64 true first-person narratives of how they lost it.

  Mysterious Martin, the Master of Murder — Two versions of a strange 1912 novel by Tod Robbins about a man who writes books that can kill.

  Norman Berrow Novels — The Bishop’s Sword, Ghost House, Don’t Go Out After Dark, Claws of the Cougar, The Smokers of Hashish, The Secret Dancer, Don’t Jump Mr. Boland!, The Footprints of Satan, Fingers for Ransom, The Three Tiers of Fantasy, The Spaniard’s Thumb, The Eleventh Plague, Words Have Wings, One Thrilling Night, The Lady’s in Danger, It Howls at Night, The Terror in the Fog, Oil Under the Window, Murder in the Melody, The Singing Room. This is the complete Norman Berrow library of locked-room mysteries, several of which are masterpieces.

  Old Faithful and Other Stories — SF classic tales by Raymond Z. Gallun

  Old Times’ Sake — Short stories by James Reasoner from Mike Shayne Magazine.

  One Dreadful Night — A classic mystery by Ronald S. L. Harding

  Pair O’ Jacks — A mystery novel and a diatribe about publishing by Jack Woodford

  Perfect .38 — Two early Timothy Dane novels by William Ard. More to come.

  Prince Pax — Devilish intrigue by George Sylvester Viereck and Philip Eldridge

  Prose Bowl — Futuristic satire of a world where hack writing has replaced football as our national obsession, by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg.

  Red Light — The history of legal prostitution in Shreveport Louisiana by Eric Brock. Includes wonderful photos of the houses and the ladies.

  Researching American-Made Toy Soldiers — A 276-page collection of a lifetime of articles by toy soldier expert Richard O’Brien.

  Reunion in Hell — Volume One of the John H. Knox series of weird stories from the pulps. Introduced by horror expert John Pelan.

  Ripped from the Headlines! — The Jack the Ripper story as told in the newspaper articles in the New York and London Times.

  Rough Cut & New, Improved Murder — Ed Gorman’s first two novels.

  R.R. Ryan Novels — Freak Museum and The Subjugated Beast, two horror classics.

  Ruby of a Thousand Dreams — The villain Wu Fang returns in this Roland Daniel novel.

  Ruled By Radio — 1925 futuristic novel by Robert L. Hadfield & Frank E. Farncombe.

  Rupert Penny Novels — Policeman’s Holiday, Policeman’s Evidence, Lucky Policeman, Policeman in Armour, Sealed Room Murder, Sweet Poison, The Talkative Policeman, She had to Have Gas and Cut and Run (by Martin Tanner.) Rupert Penny is the pseudonym of Australian Charles Thornett, a master of the locked room, impossible crime plot.

  Sacred Locomotive Flies — Richard A. Lupoff’s psychedelic SF story.

  Sam — Early gay novel by Lonnie Coleman.

  Sand’s Game — Spectacular hard-boiled noir from Ennis Willie, edited by Lynn Myers and Stephen Mertz, with contributions from Max Allan Collins, Bill Crider, Wayne Dundee, Bill Pronzini, Gary Lovisi and James Reasoner.

  Sand’s War — More violent fiction from the typewriter of Ennis Willie

  Satan’s Den Exposed — True crime in Truth or Consequences New Mexico — Award-winning journalism by the Desert Journal.

  Satans of Saturn — Novellas from the pulps by Otis Adelbert Kline and E. H. Price

  Satan’s Sin House and Other Stories — Horrific gore by Wayne Rogers

  Secrets of a Teenage Superhero — Graphic lit by Jonathan Sweet

  Sex Slave — Potboiler of lust in the days of Cleopatra by Dion Leclerq, 1966.

  Sideslip — 1968 SF masterpiece by Ted White and Dave Van Arnam.

  Slammer Days — Two full-length prison memoirs: Men into Beasts (1952) by George Sylvester Viereck and Home Away From Home (1962) by Jack Woodford.

  Slippery Staircase — 1930s whodunit from E.C.R. Lorac

  Sorcerer’s Chessmen — John Pelan introduces this 1939 classic by Mark Hansom.

  Star Griffin — Michael Kurland’s 1987 masterpiece of SF drollery is back.

  Stakeout on Millennium Drive — Award-winning Indianapolis Noir by Ian Woollen.

  Strands of the Web: Short Stories of Harry Stephen Keeler — Edited
and Introduced by Fred Cleaver.

  Summer Camp for Corpses and Other Stories — Weird Menace tales from Arthur Leo Zagat; introduced by John Pelan.

  Suzy — A collection of comic strips by Richard O’Brien and Bob Vojtko from 1970.

  Tales of the Macabre and Ordinary — Modern twisted horror by Chris Mikul, author of the Bizarrism series.

  Tales of Terror and Torment #1 — John Pelan selects and introduces this sampler of weird menace tales from the pulps.

  Tenebrae — Ernest G. Henham’s 1898 horror tale brought back.

  The Amorous Intrigues & Adventures of Aaron Burr — by Anonymous. Hot historical action about the man who almost became Emperor of Mexico.

  The Anthony Boucher Chronicles — edited by Francis M. Nevins. Book reviews by Anthony Boucher written for the San Francisco Chronicle, 1942 – 1947. Essential and fascinating reading by the best book reviewer there ever was.

  The Barclay Catalogs — Two essential books about toy soldier collecting by Richard O’Brien

  The Basil Wells Omnibus — A collection of Wells’ stories by Richard A. Lupoff

  The Beautiful Dead and Other Stories — Dreadful tales from Donald Dale

  The Best of 10-Story Book — edited by Chris Mikul, over 35 stories from the literary magazine Harry Stephen Keeler edited.

  The Black Dark Murders — Vintage 50s college murder yarn by Milt Ozaki, writing as Robert O. Saber.

  The Book of Time — The classic novel by H.G. Wells is joined by sequels by Wells himself and three stories by Richard A. Lupoff. Illustrated by Gavin L. O’Keefe.

  The Case in the Clinic — One of E.C.R. Lorac’s finest.

  The Strange Case of the Antlered Man — A mystery of superstition by Edwy Searles Brooks.

  The Case of the Bearded Bride — #4 in the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps series

  The Case of the Little Green Men — Mack Reynolds wrote this love song to sci-fi fans back in 1951 and it’s now back in print.

  The Case of the Withered Hand — 1936 potboiler by John G. Brandon.

  The Charlie Chaplin Murder Mystery — A 2004 tribute by noted film scholar, Wes D. Gehring.

  The Chinese Jar Mystery — Murder in the manor by John Stephen Strange, 1934.

  The Cloudbuilders and Other Stories — SF tales from Colin Kapp.

  The Compleat Calhoon — All of Fender Tucker’s works: Includes Totah Six-Pack, Weed, Women and Song and Tales from the Tower, plus a CD of all of his songs.

  The Compleat Ova Hamlet — Parodies of SF authors by Richard A. Lupoff. This is a brand new edition with more stories and more illustrations by Trina Robbins.

  The Contested Earth and Other SF Stories — A never-before published space opera and seven short stories by Jim Harmon.

  The Crimson Query — A 1929 thriller from Arlton Eadie. A perfect way to get introduced.

  The Curse of Cantire — Classic 1939 novel of a family curse by Walter S. Masterman.

  The Devil and the C.I.D. — Odd diabolic mystery by E.C.R. Lorac

  The Devil Drives — An odd prison and lost treasure novel from 1932 by Virgil Markham.

  The Devil of Pei-Ling — Herbert Asbury’s 1929 tale of the occult.

  The Devil’s Mistress — A 1915 Scottish gothic tale by J. W. Brodie-Innes, a member of Aleister Crowley’s Golden Dawn.

  The Devil’s Nightclub and Other Stories — John Pelan introduces some gruesome tales by Nat Schachner.

  The Disentanglers — Episodic intrigue at the turn of last century by Andrew Lang

  The Dog Poker Code — A spoof of The Da Vinci Code by D.B. Smithee.

  The Dumpling — Political murder from 1907 by Coulson Kernahan.

  The End of It All and Other Stories — Ed Gorman selected his favorite short stories for this huge collection.

  The Fangs of Suet Pudding — A 1944 novel of the German invasion by Adams Farr

  The Finger of Destiny and Other Stories — Edmund Snell’s superb collection of weird stories of Borneo.

  The Ghost of Gaston Revere — From 1935, a novel of life and beyond by Mark Hansom, introduced by John Pelan.

  The Girl in the Dark — A thriller from Roland Daniel

  The Gold Star Line — Seaboard adventure from L.T. Reade and Robert Eustace.

  The Golden Dagger — 1951 Scotland Yard yarn by E. R. Punshon.

  The Great Orme Terror — Horror stories by Garnett Radcliffe from the pulps

  The Hairbreadth Escapes of Major Mendax — Francis Blake Crofton’s 1889 boys’ book.

  The House That Time Forgot and Other Stories — Insane pulpitude by Robert F. Young

  The House of the Vampire — 1907 poetic thriller by George S. Viereck.

  The Illustrious Corpse — Murder hijinx from Tiffany Thayer

  The Incredible Adventures of Rowland Hern — Intriguing 1928 impossible crimes by Nicholas Olde.

  The Julius Caesar Murder Case — A classic 1935 re-telling of the assassination by Wallace Irwin that’s much more fun than the Shakespeare version.

  The Koky Comics — A collection of all of the 1978-1981 Sunday and daily comic strips by Richard O’Brien and Mort Gerberg, in two volumes.

  The Lady of the Terraces — 1925 missing race adventure by E. Charles Vivian.

  The Lord of Terror — 1925 mystery with master-criminal, Fantômas.

  The Melamare Mystery — A classic 1929 Arsene Lupin mystery by Maurice Leblanc

  The Man Who Was Secrett — Epic SF stories from John Brunner

  The Man Without a Planet — Science fiction tales by Richard Wilson

  The N. R. De Mexico Novels — Robert Bragg, the real N.R. de Mexico, presents Marijuana Girl, Madman on a Drum, Private Chauffeur in one volume.

  The Night Remembers — A 1991 Jack Walsh mystery from Ed Gorman.

  The One After Snelling — Kickass modern noir from Richard O’Brien.

  The Organ Reader — A huge compilation of just about everything published in the 1971-1972 radical bay-area newspaper, THE ORGAN. A coffee table book that points out the shallowness of the coffee table mindset.

  The Poker Club — Three in one! Ed Gorman’s ground-breaking novel, the short story it was based upon, and the screenplay of the film made from it.

  The Private Journal & Diary of John H. Surratt — The memoirs of the man who conspired to assassinate President Lincoln.

  The Ramble House Mapbacks — Recently revised book by Gavin L. O’Keefe with color pictures of all the Ramble House books with mapbacks.

  The Secret Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Three Sherlockian pastiches by the Brooklyn author/publisher, Gary Lovisi.

  The Shadow on the House — Mark Hansom’s 1934 masterpiece of horror is introduced by John Pelan.

  The Sign of the Scorpion — A 1935 Edmund Snell tale of oriental evil.

  The Singular Problem of the Stygian House-Boat — Two classic tales by John Kendrick Bangs about the denizens of Hades.

  The Smiling Corpse — Philip Wylie and Bernard Bergman’s odd 1935 novel.

  The Spider: Satan’s Murder Machines — A thesis about Iron Man

  The Stench of Death: An Odoriferous Omnibus by Jack Moskovitz — Two complete novels and two novellas from 60’s sleaze author, Jack Moskovitz.

  The Story Writer and Other Stories — Classic SF from Richard Wilson

  The Strange Case of the Antlered Man — 1935 dementia from Edwy Searles Brooks

  The Strange Thirteen — Richard B. Gamon’s odd stories about Raj India.

  The Technique of the Mystery Story — Carolyn Wells’ tips about writing.

  The Threat of Nostalgia — A collection of his most obscure stories by Jon Breen

  The Time Armada — Fox B. Holden’s 1953 SF gem.

  The Tongueless Horror and Other Stories — Volume One of the series of short stories from the weird pulps by Wyatt Blassingame.

  The Town from Planet Five — From Richard Wilson, two SF classics, And Then the Town Took Off and The Girls from Planet 5

  The Trac
er of Lost Persons — From 1906, an episodic novel that became a hit radio series in the 30s. Introduced by Richard A. Lupoff.

  The Trail of the Cloven Hoof — Diabolical horror from 1935 by Arlton Eadie. Introduced by John Pelan.

  The Triune Man — Mindscrambling science fiction from Richard A. Lupoff.

  The Unholy Goddess and Other Stories — Wyatt Blassingame’s first DTP compilation

  The Universal Holmes — Richard A. Lupoff’s 2007 collection of five Holmesian pastiches and a recipe for giant rat stew.

  The Werewolf vs the Vampire Woman — Hard to believe ultraviolence by either Arthur M. Scarm or Arthur M. Scram.

  The Whistling Ancestors — A 1936 classic of weirdness by Richard E. Goddard and introduced by John Pelan.

  The White Owl — A vintage thriller from Edmund Snell

  The White Peril in the Far East — Sidney Lewis Gulick’s 1905 indictment of the West and assurance that Japan would never attack the U.S.

  The Wizard of Berner’s Abbey — A 1935 horror gem written by Mark Hansom and introduced by John Pelan.

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Gavin L. O’Keefe

  Through the Looking Glass — Lewis Carroll wrote it; Gavin L. O’Keefe illustrated it.

  Time Line — Ramble House artist Gavin O’Keefe selects his most evocative art inspired by the twisted literature he reads and designs.

  Tiresias — Psychotic modern horror novel by Jonathan M. Sweet.

  Tortures and Towers — Two novellas of terror by Dexter Dayle.

  Totah Six-Pack — Fender Tucker’s six tales about Farmington in one sleek volume.

  Tree of Life, Book of Death — Grania Davis’ book of her life.

  Triple Quest — An arty mystery from the 30s by E.R. Punshon.

  Trail of the Spirit Warrior — Roger Haley’s saga of life in the Indian Territories.

  Two Kinds of Bad — Two 50s novels by William Ard about Danny Fontaine

  Two Suns of Morcali and Other Stories — Evelyn E. Smith’s SF tour-de-force

  Ultra-Boiled — 23 gut-wrenching tales by our Man in Brooklyn, Gary Lovisi.

  Up Front From Behind — A 2011 satire of Wall Street by James B. Kobak.

  Victims & Villains — Intriguing Sherlockiana from Derham Groves.

  Wade Wright Novels — Echo of Fear, Death At Nostalgia Street, It Leads to Murder and Shadows’ Edge, a double book featuring Shadows Don’t Bleed and The Sharp Edge.

 

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