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Apocalypse Library: The Ultimate Collection of World-Ending Horror


Iain Rob Wright - 2017
    Save over 50% compared to buying the titles separately. What would you do if the world ended? Could you trust your neighbours? Your family? Yourself? Step into the apocalypse with 9 full-length novels by British horror master Iain Rob Wright. From Flesh-eating zombies to world-ending experiments, this collection has the apocalypse in all flavors. Get a quick peek at the books included below. Ravaged World Trilogy 1. Sea Sick - Something man-made and evil has escaped aboard the luxury cruise liner, The Spirit of Kirkpatrick. There's nowhere to escape in the middle of the ocean. 2. Ravage - Everyone seems to be getting sick. Then they change. Follow Rick's journey as he struggles to survive at a hilltop amusement park during the end of the world. 3. Savage - Conclusion to the epic story beginning with Sea Sick and ending with a fight for humanity's survival at a fortified pier. Hell on Earth Saga 4. The Gates - All over the world strange gates have appeared, and something awful is about to come through. 5. Legion - The world is at war and the enemy is getting stronger. Humanity must win or become extinct. The Final Winter 6. The Final Winter - It's snowing all over the world. Something evil lurks in the cold, something ancient. Something unimaginable. Tar 7. Tar - In the Australian outback, a science experiment goes awry. Now the world is disappearing and time is about to run out. 2389 8. 2389 - Communication has just been lost with humanity's biggest amusement park, built on the moon. Someone needs to go up there and check things out. Animal Kingdom 9. Animal Kingdom - The animals have changed. No longer are they willing to be pets or dinner. Now we are the pets. We are the dinner. Humanity just fell to the bottom of the food chain. "Iain Rob Wright scares the Hell out of me." - Jack Kilborn, author of Origin and Afraid. "Iain Rob Wright is sick and twist." - David Moody, author of the Autumn series.

Room to Swing


Ed Lacy - 1957
    First appearance of Toussaint Moore, a black private investigator from New York, framed in his own city for a white man's murder. Moore ends up in a small Ohio town, close to the Kentucky border, trying to prove his own innocence and dealing the attitudes of the time. Fascinating novel, written by Lacy (Len Zinberg), a politically active author from the '30s whose knowledge of the culture is derived from his marriage to an African-American woman. Toussaint "Touie" Moore is considered the first credible black detective.

The Praetorians


Jean Lartéguy - 1961
    Mentioned by General Peter Pace as one of the inspirations for his surge strategy in Iraq.

The Best of Poul Anderson


Poul Anderson - 1976
    Contents:The Longest Voyage (1960)The Barbarian (1956)The Last of the Deliverers (1958)My Object All Sublime (1961)Sam Hall (1953)Kyrie (1968)The Fatal Fulfillment (1970)Hiding Place (1961)The Sky People (1959)

We Always Treat Women Too Well


Raymond Queneau - 1947
    Set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter rebellion, it tells of a nubile beauty who finds herself trapped in the central post office when it is seized by a group of rebels. But Gertie Girdle is no common pushover, and she quickly devises a coolly lascivious strategy by which, in very short order, she saves the day for king and country. Queneau's wickedly funny send-up of cheap smut—his response to a popular bodice-ripper of the 1940s—exposes the link between sexual fantasy and actual domination, while celebrating the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pleasure pure and simple.

Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window


Raymond Chandler - 1933
    Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent.In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive—and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler’s phrase) “down these mean streets” among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire.In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler’s personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe’s search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling driveStories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel—thirteen in all, among them such classics as “Red Wind,” “Finger Man,” The King in Yellow," and “Trouble Is My Business.” Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine—with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue—to his own emerging vision of 20th-century America.

The Murderous Affair At Stone Manor: a completely gripping cozy murder mystery


Laura Stewart - 2021
    Helped by her brother, her best friend and a documentary maker, who is determined to turn Amelia's new life into a hit tv show, Amelia throws herself into renovating the house and unravelling old secrets. When an unknown saboteur starts ruining her plans, Amelia doesn’t know who to trust. Everyone around her is acting strangely and soon Amelia finds herself in the center of her very own murder mystery…

Night in Bombay


Louis Bromfield - 1940
    Set in Bombay during the 1930s, it looks at the lives of ex-pats and Indian royals--and the Indians who work for them.

The Ambassador


Morris L. West - 1965
    

Another Rainy Night


Patrick Goodman - 2013
    Every day blood is spilled. Every place that rain falls, it washes away some of the red that stains the streets.Eliminating every killer in the Sixth World is as impossible as drying up every raindrop in a storm, but Thomas McAllister doesn’t want to get rid of all of them. Just one. He’s been on this killer’s trail for a while, and he knows he’s getting closer. The only question is if he’ll be able to handle getting as close as he’s about to be, or if his blood will join the stream that regularly flows into the gutters of the sprawls.

Suedehead


Richard Allen - 1971
    Phased out. Home had never appealed. All his life he had dreamed about a plush flat somewhere in the West End of London. So now he would make the leap from poverty street into the affluent society. In one gigantic jump. Fresh out of stir after kicking a police sergeant’s head in, former skinhead Joe Hawkins is heading for the big time – a job in a firm of stockbrokers, a swanky flat and (hopefully) plenty of money. A whole new style is called for – so Joe becomes a Suedehead. The hair is a few millimetres longer, the uniform a velvet-collared crombie coat, bowler hat and neatly-furled umbrella – with razor sharp tip. For while Joe might be playing the establishment pet, he remains the unrepentently vicious, cunning hooligan from Skinhead, intent on pulling women, stealing and putting the boot in. It’s not long before he finds some other Suedes willing to commit mayhem under cover of respectability... but can Joe and respectability ever really get along? Suedehead is the second of Richard Allen’s era-defining cult novels featuring anti-hero Joe Hawkins. First published in 1971, this new edition features an introduction by Andrew Stevens.

The Three Roads


Ross Macdonald - 1948
    Years ago, Paula and Brett whirled through a sizzling love affair. Now Paula tries to nurse amnesiac war veteran Brett back to health--and restore his memories of murder and betrayal.

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark


Campbell Black - 1981
    But now the very future of the world depends on his finding one special relic.With a bullwhip in his hand and a beautiful lady at his side, Jones journeys from Nepal and Cairo to the Mediterranean, dodging poisons, traps and snakes, battling rivals old and new, all in pursuit of an ancient artifact said to give invincible power to its possessor.It's a battle to a startling finish, a finish dictated by the magic, the light—and the power—of the Lost Ark.

Thuglit Issue 1


Todd RobinsonMike Wilkerson - 2012
    McCauleySPILL SITE by Matthew C. FunkA CLEAN WHITE SUN by Mike WilkersonLUCK by Johnny ShawPLUS: an exclusive first look at Tyrus Books upcoming novel from Todd Robinson, THE HARD BOUNCE

Fortress of Solitude / The Devil Genghis


Kenneth Robeson - 1938
    In this issue, he confronts "The Devil Genghis", a mad genius armed with incredible scientific inventions stolen from Doc Savage's "Fortress of Solitude". This volume reprints both appearances of Doc Savage's greatest enemy, the diabolical John Sunlight, and features the classic pulp cover art, along with the original interior illustrations by Paul Orban.