When Conan learns his rescuers are the daring Rebels of the White Rose, he joins their blood-soaked insurrection.But Conan's struggles are only beginning, for the road to the throne is defended by the Final Guard--indestructible warriors made of stone. Conan must draw steel against these indomitable foes and pray that Krom will guide his blade both strong and true.

    The pristine and often savage beauty of the killer rainforest is described in lush detail; the reader is right there, watching. Once the reader has been snagged, he'll be as much a captive of the magnificent forest as is Sarah Francis and just as intent as she to survive in a paradoxically terrifying and beautiful environment. The reader cannot help by hold his breath!"-Cincinnati Enquirer

    But rather than collecting untold riches for their rare treasure, they are betrayed by a ruthless tyrant and his evil mage.Conan has faced many mortal dangers, perils of magic and perils of steel. But when the treacherous prestidigitator unleashes the bloodthirsty Sword of Skelos, a weapon of both magic and steel-a sword that can fight on its own-Conan faces one of his most dire challenges.How will Conan survive this battle, when there is no foe to slay?

    

    FellLuck Is No LadyThe CureThe Screaming PeopleThe Big KickThe MasterpieceTalentThe Final PerformanceLife In Our TimeUndergroundA Case Of The StubbornsThe HeadWhat You See Is What You GetNinaAuthor's Afterword

    The adventures of a young ensign assigned to frogman duty during World War II.

    No collection of tales featuring Breckinridge Elkins could be, for Breck Elkins is a giant of a man with the strength of an ox and the modesty of a Munchausen.His uproarious and fantastic adventures reflect a whole new side to the somber creator of Conan, Kull, and Solomon Kane.

    Contents:Tandy's Story (1961)Rule of Three (1951)The Education of Drusilla Strange (1954)Granny Won't Knit (1954)When You're Smiling (1955)The Claustrophile (1956)The Other Man (1956)The Stars Are the Styx (1950)Occam's Scalpel (1971)Dazed (1971)

    In your heart you are one or us. I want you for your Convolution. The Master of Time. I want you because we share race, language, nation, philosophy."Ian Douglas of 1980, discoverer of the knot in Time, became Captain Gart of 2170 by accident. Once in that role, he dared not change, for the world was fighting a desperate battle for survival.The shattered remnants of the American East were hanging on grimly in the face of maniacal attacks of bestial men. Across the seas a matriarchal order had grasped the fallen reins of science and provided the last hope for a civilized future. Gart/Douglas, with his forgotten skills, could be their best tool. But as a tool he held martial capabilities and scientific abilities they could not suspect.

    But Liz Ambler senses what lies beneath its placid surface, as her interest in the romantic past draws her helplessly towards the deep-buried secrets of a crueller age.While his wife is obsessed with the past, Roger Ambler is totally involved in the EKO 6 computer, the key to the future and the culmination of his research. Now EKO 6 is ready for trials, waiting for the vital pulse of the electrons to throb through its circuits and awaken—what?

    In one ordeal, he suffers hallucinations and believes the monsters have come to life. But were they really hallucinations?

    Tells the stories of the Black Death, a Le Mans car crash, the destruction of the Hindenburg, an Illinois mining disaster, the New York City blackout, and Buffalo's 1977 blizzard

    In the aftermath of a terrorist A-bomb, private investigator Keith Savage searches for the missing daughter of a crime-busting politician. Tracking her down leads him to a place where her fascination with insects collides with his fears.Ever since the Brooklyn Blast in 2021, the human bedbugs and cockroaches of a traumatized society have crawled out of the woodwork. Cash-strapped and struggling with his own PTSD, New York investigator and exterminator-for-hire Keith Savage suddenly catches a case.A beautiful LA journalist wants him to retrieve a younger sister who’s vanished from their Long Island home. Runaway or kidnapped, there’s a huge find-and-return fee to get Marielle back home before the weekend when her father, who’s running for mayor, returns from a strategy retreat to launch his anti-corruption campaign.But it’s complicated. Marielle is paraplegic, a reclusive artist whose in-demand paintings feature insects. The housekeepers on whose watch she disappeared are an odd couple with a hidden agenda. Her only online friends are an astrologer and an angry young chess devotee, a paraplegic who recently underwent experimental limb replacement.New York in 2026 is nasty and brutish. Between the toxic environment, turf wars between corrupt police and Russian mobsters, and a semi-deranged populace swinging from shakedown to breakdown, Savage is bitten and stung everywhere he turns. Within a day, he stirs up a wasp’s nest of trouble. From poisonous jumping spiders to a swarm of giant Asian hornets, the trail of insects leads to a clinic where a radical entomologist is pushing the frontiers of science and morality by using 3D printing to build human limbs with insect tissue.Savage’s mission: extract Marielle from the web that binds her before she submits to a metamorphosis of no return.

    Minutes later he is alive again, and completely well.A miracle? Perhaps, because event the most noted doctors cannot explain his recovery.As the minister returns to his parish in the village of North Branford, strange questions linger about life and death.

    An unthinkable passion for a man she could never have had sent her fleeing from her home to the isolated village of Willow Grove.Olivia knew the danger of Brad Fowler as well. Villagers warned her of this seemingly ideal man, so handsome, wealthy, almost fearfully charming. They told her to avoid him and the hideous fate of all the other women who had loved him and been forever lost.Yet despite all this, Olivia found herself defenseless in his arms...and helpless as she was borne down a path of lies to the terrifying truth...the unholy evil behind the heavenly ecstasy...

    Shapely American heiress Harper Deneuve must spend seven days and nights within the haunted walls of Grimstack Manor before claiming her inheritance. But somebody is trying to kill her.Could it be Festering, the sinister butler? Or one of the other unwholesome members of the staff: Quint, Grip and Blight? Perhaps the beautiful but deranged Lady Antonia? Or pert little Fanny, the aptly named undermaid? Maybe the mysterious 'Mad Black' Jack Deneuve, or easily aroused Fiona Frenzy? As Timmy and Brother-in-law Sid struggle to get to the bottom of everything, the mystery deepens and the incorrigible pair are hurtled towards a stunning and unexpected climax.

    a mad mutilator (Brando would be great with an English accent) in an asylum for the criminally insane near Staffordshire. Margaret Hayes arrives at Brockley Old Hall, a hospital prison that appears to specialize in mass murderers; her job is to be a kind of effective Miss Lonelyhearts for the 250 inmates, or at least for those who are still reachable. Hayes is soon a towering figure of strength for the prisoners, a woman of enormous resource. And she needs all her resources in dealing with a glorious gallery of case after strange case of murderous dementia, most of whom are touching. . . but hopeless. Especially hopeless is catatonic, hideously ugly Michael Loft, ex-artist, who has hardly spoken a word of English in ten years since he was jailed for leading his beast-sect in several ritual drug murders--including the skinning alive of Margaret's 15-year-old daughter in a crazed attempt to change her into a bird. And for ten years Margaret has lived for the day that she will kill him; only he now has a maniacally warm identification with beasts that charms her.(Kirkus)

    

    Having seen his patrolman father killed by a crazed drug addict and his older brother blasted by a Mob hit, Jake bends the rules to take down the Organization. He makes plenty of enemies, which forces the Mob to put an end to Jake their top priority. They set him up to take the fall for a murder rap and Jake is sent to prison for five long years. When our boy gets out he's got one thing to live for... and he sets out to even the score.

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