This volume of Wildside Press's best-selling MEGAPACK® series focuses on tales first published in the "Spice" line of pulp magazines. Here are 25 mystery tales considered quite titillating in their day, but mild by modern standards.

The Thrills of Horror! Romantic Tales of the Eerie and Occult! You'll find them in Spicy Mystery--stories of red-blooded men and lovely girls in dangerous situations, in an atmosphere of chills and thrills. Real life is never so tense and dramatic as when a girl is in peril--or as when a siren as deadly as she is beautiful sets her snare for a man....Are you bored of typical weird menace plots, many of which crept into Spicy Mystery? Then sample these tales which b...

Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time is back with an all-new story by the creator of Doc Savage, Lester Dent. Also featuring classic hard-boiled detective stories by Horace McCoy, Wyatt Blassingame, Day Keene, Herbert Koehl, Kent Richards, Stephen McBarron, Dwight V. Babcock, Hugh B. Cave, and Edgar Franklin, all from the golden age of pulp fiction. With vintage brush illustrations by Arthur Rodman Bowker, as well as a previously-unpublished in...

A World Fantasy Award-winning editor brings together the works of today’s most talented Lovecraftian writers in this horror anthology inspired by The Shadow Over InnsmouthFor decades, H. P. Lovecraft's masterpiece of terror has inspired writers with its gripping account of a village whose inhabitants have surrendered to an ancient and hideous evil. In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Steph...

Draugr's Saga - The Zombie Apocalypse in the Viking AgeRich in Viking-era history and mythology, and exploding off the pages with gut-wrenching action, comes the next riveting installment in the serial about Viking Zombies, from the Best Selling Author of the Yggdrasil Codex.After battling a storm in the North Sea, a horde of Vikings make landfall on a mysterious island, only to discover an Evil far more terrible than themselves!It's Erik Ragnarsson...

40% off price of individual books!The first three books in the Tribes of Yggdrasil series, plus the Best Selling PrequelThe Tribes of Yggdrasil series begins just over a century in our future, but it’s a time you might not recognize. A century has been shaped by contact with mankind’s mythological past and the intervention of ancient alien races. It’s a time where starships ply the stars, where Alfar build great living-cities on their planets, and ...

A provocative study of contemporary Tantra as a dynamic living tradition.Tantra, one of the most important religious currents in South Asia, is often misrepresented as little more than ritualized sex. Through a mixture of ethnography and history, Hugh B. Urban reveals a dynamic living tradition behind the sensationalist stories. Urban shows that Tantric desire goes beyond the erotic, encompassing such quotidian experiences as childbearing and healing. He traces the...

An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, businesspeople, and community activists answ...

Scientology's long and complex journey to recognition as a religionScientology is one of the wealthiest and most powerful new religions to emerge in the past century. To its detractors, L. Ron Hubbard's space-age mysticism is a moneymaking scam and sinister brainwashing cult. But to its adherents, it is humanity's brightest hope. Few religious movements have been subject to public scrutiny like Scientology, yet much of what is written about the church is sensationa...

Horns? We don’t need no stinkin’ horns!Long before Marvel and the fat lady singing, there were Northmen who went Viking. They carried axes and swords, worshipped gods such as Odin, Freyja, Thor, and Tyr, and they didn’t have horns on their helmets. Check out some of the most imaginative stories by authors such as Erin Lale, L.J. Bonham, Tyree Kimber, Cynthia Ward, Tony Thorne MBE, Hugh B. Long. Gerri Leen, among others. Sharpen your axes and jump in your longboats, because there ar...

From 1994 to 2003, Hugh Price served as president and CEO of the National Urban League. During his tenure, he tripled the League’s endowment, restructured its board of directors and staff; conceived and launched the League’s Campaign for African-American Achievement; established the League’s Institute for Opportunity and Equality, and established its headquarters on Wall Street. Price’s role at the League was just one aspect of his long and impressive life. In This African-American Life, P...

The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed in order to manipulate consumer preferences and voting outcomes. We have become accustomed to thinking about secrecy in political terms and personal privacy terms. In this bracing, new work, Hugh Urban wants us to focus these same powe...