Our 57th issue opens with an original tale by Mark Thielman, courtesy of acquiring editor Michael Bracken. It does triple-duty as a crime story, a science fiction story, and a dystopian story. All with a great punch. As for our other acquiring editors—Barb Goffman has selected a great tale by Dee Long, and (not to be outdone) Cynthia Ward has a real winner from Chris Willrich. We will have a contribution from Darrell Schweitzer next issue.As if that’s not enough (when is it ever fo...

Everyone’s favorite detective finds himself embroiled in two related investigations—one with a connection to a giant rat—in this clever Sherlock Holmes pasticheIn deference to Sherlock Holmes’ wishes, Dr. Watson kept the details of “The Giant Rat of Sumatra” a secret. However, before he died, he arranged that the bizarre story of the giant rat should be held in the vaults of a London bank until all the protagonists were dead . . . At long last, discover the tale “f...

The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a rich young girl—a case of love at first sight and a precipitate marriage; a marriage bitterly opposed by the girl's widowed father.Jacob Fuller, the bridegroom, is twenty-six years old, is of an old but unconsidered family which had by compulsion emigrated from Sedgemoor, and for King James's purse's profit, so everybody —some maliciously— the...

“I’ll never rest until I’ve seen his murderer hanged!”But Dick Blake didn’t know what he was letting himself in for. Not only did he have to contend with the strangely complicated network of intrigue which surrounded the passionate, neurotic Malvery clan, but more baffling still, somehow or somewhere, he had to discover the secret of The Hushing Pool-that turbulent, whirling body of water from which no man or woman had ever returned alive.Was Richard Malve...

The story of the poor policeman who saw a house numbered thirteen where no thirteen ought to be and a murdered man where no one has been murdered. Lord Peter helps him prove that he wasn't drunk nor delusional.

This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - estimated 8300 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Stranded in Arcady • The Taming of Red Butte Western • The Master of Appleby • The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • The Real Man • The Quickening • The King of Arcadia • Pirates' Hope • The Price • Empire Builders • The Wreckers • Branded • A Romance in Transit • A Fool for Love • The Grafters • The Helpers • The City of Numbered Day...

Gertrude Barrows Bennett, known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. In spite of a short career of seven years between 1917 and 1923, which ended suddenly for unknown reasons, Stevens produced original and startling fantasies, leading many to name her the creator of dark fantasy. Her highly imaginative tales went on to inform the works of prominent weird and horror writers, including H. P. Lovecraft and A. Merritt. For this first...

The Thrill Book Collection is a four volume collection of all fiction, non-fiction, and art published in The Thrill Book, the legendary "Holy Grail" of pulp magazine collectors. The Thrill Book is widely regarded as the first of the "fantastic fiction" pulps, and is very rare and hard to find (a complete run of all 16 issues would cost $30,000 or more...if you can find them for sale). Shellysbooks is proud to bring the complete collection to everyone for the first time since publication in...

Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Miss Emily and Mandalay the cat return in this new mystery novella!Once again, Miss Emily Jackson’s brown Burmese cat, Mandalay, returns from his wanderings with a prize—an old leather bag containing… a bar of soap. But the soap hides a secret that proves dangerous. Miss Emily calls in Holmes and Watson, and the mystery turns into murder.A family tragedy and a series of burglaries and assaults spark a desperate hunt to find the killers. Can Miss...

For this week's Black Cat Weekly, Michael Bracken has acquired an original mystery by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier, Barb Goffman found a tale by SJ Rozan that will surely satisfy crime fans, and Cynthia Ward tracked down a Matthew Hughes story. Plus, for the sheer silliness of it all, there’s a Mickey Spillane parody from 1954 (which manages to be both a mystery and fantasy…but wasn’t everything of Spillane’s?) and classics from R. Austin Freeman (a Dr Thorndyke story), a Nick ...

ContentsA Romance in Transit (1897)The King of Arcadia (1909)Stranded in Arcady (1917)The Wreckers (1920)The City of Numbered Days (1914)Branded (1917)The Price (1911)The Master of Appleby (1902)A Fool For Love (1905)The Quickening (1906)The Real Man (1915)Empire Builders (1907)The Grafters (1906)The Taming of Red Butte Western (1910)The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush (1913)A Roma...

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. He began a four-year apprenticeship as a cabin boy...