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October 2002 Catalog - Pulps & Mystery
* METAL MONSTER by A. Merritt - Hippocampus Press Tpb. In the wilds of the Trans-Himalayan region, adventurers stumble upon a tribe of human primitives forgotten since the age of Alexander the Great, and an awesome being of living metal. This edition reprints for the first time the tale as it was originally published, restoring close to 10,000 words of text. This is the first title in the Hippocampus Press series Lovecraft's Library, reprinting a number of Lovecraft's favorite books. I was debating with myself whether to list this here or in HORROR. ... $15.00
* SPIDER #2, Tpb. Gene "The Dean" Colan has pencilled a wordless Spider story where the Spider faces off against The Bat Man. Not part of the regular Spider reprint series, but it seemed an interesting item anyway. ... $5.00
SPIDER #31 THE CHOLERA KING, Tpb. THE CHOLERA KING, a full-length Spider novel by Norvell Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge along with "Doc Turner's Doom Dose" by Arthur Leo Zagat and "Death Between the Acts" by Emile C. Tepperman as well as Rich Harvey's informative editorial "The Web". ... $10.00
SPIDER #50 MASTER OF THE FLAMING HORDE, Tpb. A full-length Spider novel MASTER OF THE FLAMING HORDE by Norvell Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge, along with short stories "Death O'Clock Joy-Ride" by Wayne Rogers and "Doc Turner and the Crimson Coffin" by Arthur Leo Zagat, topped off with "The Web" by Christopher R. Yates. ... $10.00
SPIDER #69: RULE OF THE MONSTER MEN by Norvell Page - Bold Venture Tpb. The Spider vies against one of the strangest foes New York City has ever faced - the Wreck, who mutilates captives, then sends them out to loot and terrorize. Also includes the short story "Doc Turner and the Winged Terror" by Arthur Leo Zagat. ... $10.00
HIGH ADVENTURE#66. Thrill to the three classic adventures of the Suicide Squad - long before the knock off DC comics series. ... $7.95
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT by Edgar Rice Burroughs - Modern Library Tpb. Torpedoed by a German U-boat in the South Pacific during World War I, a group of adventurers find themselves marooned on Caprona, a hidden and impregnable island seemingly suspended in time, inhabited by dinosaurs, Neanderthals, scattered bands of humans, and cities of fierce humanoids. ... $12.95
* LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE: THE BUSINESS OF GIVING by Harold Gray - Tpb. A fine collection of strips from 1928 and 1929 which include both Thanksgiving and Christmas. ... $9.50
* LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE: THIS SURPRISING WORLD by Harold Gray - Tpb. ... $9.50
also available, all in Tpb
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE SHIPWRECKED ... $9.50
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE AND UNCLE DAN ... $9.50
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE NEVER SAY DIE! ...
$9.50
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE A WILLING HELPER ... $9.50
Mystery
* SOUVENIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES by Gary Lovisi - Gryphon Books Tpb. Gary Lovisi presents the combination of two of his passions: everything Sherlockian and book collecting, both hardcover and paperback. This collects articles on the Canon and the Pastiches, copiously illustrated with B&W cover reproductions. ... $15.00
* SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE SECRET ALLIANCE by Larry Millett - Penguin pb. On the eve of President McKinley's visit to Minneapolis in 1899, the body of a union activist is found strung from a tree, with a placard bearing the ominous words "The Secret Alliance Has Spoken". Shadwell Rafferty, a local saloonkeeper with a passion for the detectin' game, uncovers more questions than answers. Just in time, he is joined by his old friends Holmes and Watson. ... $7.00
* HUNTER AND HUNTED by Fredric Brown - Stewart Masters HC. Very high quality omnibus of THE FABULOUS CLIPJOINT (1947) (which remains one of my all time favorite mysteries), THE DEAD RINGER (1948), THE BLOODY MOONLIGHT (1949) and COMPLIMENTS OF A FIEND (1950). Limited to 500 copies and signed by both publishers. No Discount ... $100.00
also available: HUNTER AND HUNTED, HC ... $29.95
* CRUSH DEPTH by Joe Buff - Morrow HC. The world is at war again, as coordinated reactionary coups in South Africa and Germany catch America completely unprepared. Especially against the deep-diving German submarine Voortrekker, which carries more onboard tactical nuclear weapons than many of the world's nations. Captain Jeffrey Fuller works to bring the crippled ceramic-hulled USS Challenger back into service in time to do something about it. ...$24.95
* THE MAN WHO FOUGHT ALONE by Stephen R Donaldson - Forge Books pb. Though best known for his fantasy series about Thomas Covenant, Donaldson now branches out into this new mystery/ thriller. Mick Axbrewder has enough problems to kill ten lesser men. He's a recovering alcoholic, slowly healing from a gunshot wound that nearly killed him and his old partner and lover left him after he accidentally shot and killed a cop ... who happened to be his brother. Now, Axbrewder has work handling security for the city's booming martial arts industry. But his real job is regaining his own self-respect. ... $8.00
* CASTLE ROUGE by Carole Nelson Douglas - Forge/ Tor HC. Irene Adler: operatic diva, femme fatale, adventuress, and the only woman to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes. Now she is on the hunt for Jack the Ripper. Now her companion/ biographer, Nell Huxleigh has been abducted in Paris and her barrister husband Godfrey Norton has vanished in the wilds of Bohemia. Irene land up relying on Pink, an American prostitute and Bram Stoker, a theatrical manager, for help in her search. ... $25.95
* ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR: OTORI #1 by Lian Herne - Riverhead HC. Set in Young Takeo has been brought up in a remote mountain village among the Hidden, a reclusive and spiritual people who have taught him only the ways of peace. But, unbeknownst to him, his father was a celebrated assassin and a member of the Tribe, an ancient network of families with extraordinary, preternatural skills. When Takeo's village is pillaged, he is rescued and adopted by the mysterious Lord Otori Shigeru, and learns that he too possesses the skills of the Tribes. This leads him to a journey to the black-walled fortress at Inuyama, and the famous nightingale floor that sings with the tread of each human foot. ... $24.95
* BONE WALKER by Kathleen &
W. Michael Gear - Tor pb. Eight hundred years have passed since the
Mogollon holy man was murdered in Flowing Waters Town, but the threads of
evil spun by Two Hearts are drawn across time to ensnare modern archaeologists
Dusty Stewart and Maureen Cole. Th e "Wolf Witch" has killed a
man, and Dusty and Maureen must unmask the murderer before he strikes again.
... $8.00
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