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 Ed Huffstetler
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  R. Thomas McPherson
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The far future and the underwater civilization of the planet Pacifica must find the missing ship, critical to mankind at any cost! Darkness is coming!

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 Russell C. Connor
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HELLBENDER by Robert William Grofe
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The Gray Conspiracy by J. S. Hunsaker
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Ackermanthology compiled by Forrest J Ackerman
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65 Astonishing Rediscovered Sci-Fi Shorts
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Anarquìa by Brad Linaweaver and J. Kent Hastings
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Commonality by R. T. Hitchcock
Mars comes a courtin' but the shot-gun wedding was a surprise to all.
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Dinosaur Valley Girls: The Novel  by Donald F. Glut
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Dr. Acula's Thrilling Tales of the Uncanny compiled by Dr. Acula (aka Forrest J Ackerman)
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HorroShort Story Collection— Golden Age to the present
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Expanded Science Fiction Worlds of Forrest J Ackerman
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The First Migration by Dan Logan
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Famous Forry Fotos  by Forrest J Ackerman
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A God For The Earth by Blaine Readler
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Lon of a 1000 Faces by Forrest J Ackerman
Biography, Horror, Films Essays Mystery
1100+ photos. Essays by: Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Lon Chaney, Jr., Vincent Price, 

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Magic Ball from Mars and Starboy by Carl L. Biemiller
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Martianthology edited by Anne Hardin complied by Forrest J Ackerman
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The Meri by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
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Metropolis by Thea van Harbou, edited by Forrest J Ackerman
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Rainbow Fantasia compiled and edited by Forrest J Ackerman
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Sci-Fi Womanthology edited by Forrest J Ackerman and Pam Keesey
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Timeless Tales of Reginald Bretnor compiled by Fred Flaxman
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Collected Short Stories of Reginald Bretnor
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The Visitors by Donald Wilson
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Who Goes There compiled by James. A. Rock
A Bibliographic Dictionary of Pseudonymous Literature in the Fields of Science Fiction and Fantasy 1588-1978 .
Bibliography, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
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At Wolfe's Door: The Nero Wolfe Novels of Rex Stout
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This wonderful guide to the Nero Wolfe stories of Rex Stout was first published in 1991. Now, with additional material, this indispensable guide is available again. Included are synopses of every mystery novel and short story published from the beginning of Stout's Nero Wolfe series in 1934 to Stout's death in 1975. Each entry includes information on characters, a non-spoiler plot synopsis and trenchant commentary. Also included are short essays on Stout's Wolfe series on his other mystery works, and on his place in the genre. All these elements combine to form an appealing and useful companion for Wolfe neophytes and for those to whom Rex Stout's Wolfe canon has become a perennial addiction.

 

 

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Lon of  1000 Faces
The story, in pictures, of  Lon Chaney, Sr., The World's Greatest Actor

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Forrest J Ackerman's long out-of-print and sought after classic on silent film great Lon Chaney, Sr., "The Man of 1000 Faces." This is the definitive still photograph collection of scenes from the great man's life and work, Contains 289 pages on the silent film master. Includes tributes, biographical sketches, and appreciations by Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Lon Chaney, Jr.,  and 15 others. Cameo by Vincent Price.

 

BIOGRAPHY/MYSTERY

Rex Stout:
A Majesty's Life the "Edgar" award winning biography of the creator of "Nero Wolfe."

by John McAleer
with a Foreword by
P. G. Wodehouse
xliv + 621pp, Illustrated

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The definitive account by a master biographer.
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This is a superb book. . .All friends of Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe, and Archie Goodwin are in John McAleer's debt.  --Norman Cousins,
Saturday Review of Literature
 
A worthy effort in every respect. . . [John McAleer] does his subject justice--Fine research, a clear judicious eye, a keen critical sense, a felicitous style. . .there's never a dull moment in his perceptive opus. --Publishers Weekly
 

 

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Sherlock Holmes and the Cocaine Habit

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True Vampires of History
by DONALD F. GLUT


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Arsène Lupin vs Holmlock Shears

by Maurice Leblanc
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Arsène Lupin, the "Gentleman Burglar" of France, appeared from the pen of Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941) in 1905. In the words of a prominent critic, Leblanc brought to the character "the skill of Sherlock Holmes, the resourcefulness of Raffles, the refinement of a casuist, the epigrammatic nimbleness of La Rouchefoucauld and the gallantry of Du Guesclin."

Within the twenty-odd volumes of Lupin’s exploits are several delightful clashes with the pseudonymously disguised Sherlock Holmes. Two of these meetings are chronicled here, "The Fair Lady" and "The Jewish Lamp," in which Lupin outrageously tweaks the nose of his English conundrum, but with respect and savoire faire!

This volume (a facsimile copy of the 1909 Grant Richards edition from the Lilly Library at Indiana University) dubs Holmes as Holmlock Shears. In other English versions of Leblanc's works Holmes  frequently appears as Herlock Sholmes.

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The Dorrington Deed-Box

by Arthur Morrison

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Arthur Morrison (1863–1945) was born and raised in London. As a young man he was clerk for the Charity Trust of the East End of London and then worked as a journalist. In later life he had a successful career as an art dealer. He is best remembered in the mystery field for his casebook stories (à la Conan Doyle) of the detective "Martin Hewitt" (1896). Outside the genre he is known for his realistic short stories depicting the slums of London, Tales of the Mean Streets (1895). Morrison grew up in the slums and chronicled his experiences in the novel, A Child of the Jago (1896).

Less well-known than his Martin Hewitt tales, but far more ground-breaking, was Morrison’s The Dorrington Deed-Box, in which he chronicles the exploits of Horace Dorrington, a raconteur and scoundrel who hails from a very different social strata than the typical Victorian detective. In this collection of short stories, Dorrington is introduced in a recounting of his arrest for the attempted murder of one of his clients. Dorrington, an anti-hero before his time, is not the upholder of law and order that normally graced the pages of The Strand. Dorrington is as likely to pre-empt a criminal plot as he is to solve it. He is more a precursor of Donald Westlake’s hit-man protagonist "Parker" than he is the model for any other modern genre figure, however "hard boiled." Many Victorian mystery buffs just weren’t ready for this type of iconoclastic realism in their detective fiction.

In creating this unconventional protagonist, Morrison took a path that few writers in the genre have trod in the century since this book first appeared—and fewer still genre detectives have relished their lack of scruples with the angst-free abandon exhibited by the disreputable Horace Dorrington.

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An African Millionaire

by Grant Allen

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Grant Allen (1848–1899) was one of the most prolific writers of the Victorian era. Born in Ontario, he lived in both the U.S. and France. Later, following graduation from Oxford, Allen served a stint at an ill-fated college in Jamaica, after which he returned to England. Allen was close friends with and sometime collaborator of A. Conan Doyle (Hilda Wade). His free-thinking novel, The Woman Who Did, notoriously featured a protagonist who refused to marry her lover because of her belief in the unfairness of marriage law (the novel was dedicated to Allen’s wife). His novels Miss Cayley’s Adventures and the aforementioned Hilda Wade feature two of the earliest female detectives.

Grant’s most enduring character, however, is "Colonel Clay," the gentleman rogue and thief who steals repeatedly from the corrupt "African millionaire," a victim who is repeatedly led astray by the clever Colonel while fueled by his own greed. A delightful early entry in the British "rogue" gallery of gentlemen crooks, appearing two years before the introduction of the much more famous character, "Raffles," the creation of E. W. Hornung.

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