Until now i used a plugin for the site that fetched the book covers directly from amazon but they decided to mess with the way they stock images so i’m going to have to get them all and stock them locally.
In the meantime using the library you’ll see some broken links where covers should appear, It’s temporary, It’ll take a week or two to recover all of them as I’m doing this in my free time and there is now around 2500 novels/series on the site.
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12 news stories featuring Remo Williams and Chiun!
Edited by Rich Harvey and published by Bold Adventure Press a small publisher specializing in new pulp fiction.
Stories by various authors including Molly Cochran (wife of Warren Murphy and ghostwriter for several of the originals) James Mullaney who wrote some of the later books, Gerald Welch (author of the eight books in the Legacy spin-off) and Will Muray (who’s written several of the new Doc Savage series)
With over 150 books and a movie (starring Fred Ward and Joel Grey) the original Destroyer series started in 1971 and tell the story of Remo, a Newark cop falsely accused of murder and executed. The execution is faked and he wakes up to become an assassin for a secret agency.
He is trained by Chiun, last master of Sinanju the first and deadliest martial art. But Sinanju is very different from karate or any other art. Through training Remo is transformed into a superhuman death machine, capable of impossible feats but unable to enjoy a simple steak, lest his fine-tuned body kill him.
With time he become the last heir to a house whose origin is lost to time immemorial. A house training only one assassin by generation, never using any weapon and selling its services to any emperor who can pay the price – only in pure gold. Thus every year a secret submarine braves the dangerous water around Korea in the middle of the Cold War to deliver its gold to a forgotten village. The safest place on earth as the Korean ruler knows better than anyone that Sinanju’s gold is not to be touched.
The series quickly abandons the classic threats like mafia bosses for more exotic pulp goodness. Remo faces an obsessive android, a biologist using her science to create a cult of cannibal mutants, a supercomputer hell-bent on making money and plenty of other bizarre things.
It’s also famous for its derisive tone, Remo the occidental and Smith the man to whom he is supposed to obey understands little at the beginning of the series of Chiun’s ancestral ways. And the very concept of democracy is equally lost to the old master who believe Smith secretly dream of ruling the U.S.A. But bit by bit Chiun will become a father figure for Remo until later the ex-cop become more an heir of Sinanju than a government assassin.
You can get the book on amazon here.
The originals are also on amazon if you are curious but it is better to start with book 3 or 4 as the first two are not really representative of the series.
It’s the end of all life on Earth unless the Red Menace and Dr. Wainwright can stop a crazed communist colonel’s countdown to Armageddon!
WHO IS THE RED MENACE?
Throughout the 1950s this was the number one question from Moscow to Beijing and in every communist palace and malaria-ridden backwater in between. The mysterious masked figure was a shadow and a whisper. For the Kremlin and its fellow travelers he was a damnable monkey wrench tossed into the gears of the not-so-glorious worldwide revolution. Wherever Reds schemed, the Menace was there to set things right.
And then, just like that, 1960 came and the whisper grew silent.
Twelve years later, Patrick “Podge” Becket, computer tycoon and security expert, thinks he’s hung up his mask and cape for good. He escaped the spy game while still a young man, and none but a select few know about his long-dead secret identity. But into his restless retirement steps a ghost from his past, a bitter Russian colonel with nothing to lose and the means to wreak worldwide destruction.
Aided by his partner, brilliant inventor and physician Dr. Thaddeus Wainwright, the Red Menace is dragged back into the hero game. But it’s a whole new world out there, and if the Menace doesn’t watch his step the swinging Seventies might just find him RED AND BURIED!
A murdered stoolie leaves behind a tip for “Moxie” Donovan, freelance reporter. A glamorous actresses appears too perfect.
Could she be connected to multiple murders and occult magic?
In between takes for a musical version of Alice in Wonderland, Donovan’s wife Maxine (“Maxi”) joins the investigation. Within a strange animation studio lurks an alchemist with a unique method of “remaking” starlets.
E. Hoffmann Price was one of the “Weird Tales Circle” that included H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. In fact, he was the only person to meet both Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft in person.
The stories collected here span multiple genres and multiple decades: detective, western, adventure, and fantasy. The one thing they have in common (aside from some mildly titillating content) is the sure voice of a born storyteller. Once you start reading an E. Hoffmann Price story, you won’t put it down.
The introduction by Darrell Schweitzer, which leads off the collection, provides a lot more information on Ed’s work for the “Spicy” magazines…though quite tame by modern standards, they were considered quite risque in their day.
Journey to the final frontier of sci-fi zombie horror!
Jim Pike was the world’s biggest Star Trek fan—until two tours of duty in Afghanistan destroyed his faith in the human race. Now he sleepwalks through life as the assistant manager of a small hotel in downtown Houston.
But when hundreds of Trekkies arrive in his lobby for a science-fiction convention, Jim finds himself surrounded by costumed Klingons, Vulcans, and Ferengi—plus a strange virus that transforms its carriers into savage, flesh-eating zombies!
As bloody corpses stumble to life and the planet teeters on the brink of total apocalypse, Jim must deliver a ragtag crew of fanboys and fangirls to safety. Dressed in homemade uniforms and armed with prop phasers, their prime directive is to survive. But how long can they last in the ultimate no-win scenario?
From the annals of the ancient Hittite king, Suppiluliumas, from the Amarna letters of Egypt and the court records of a wealth of “lost” civilizations, comes this saga of kingship and greatness, love and death, politics and treachery in the second millennium, B.C.
Beyond a few cursory references to the Hittites in the Bible, for thousands of years nothing has been known of this first mighty Indo-European culture. Now, based on translations of the ancient texts themselves, comes the story of Suppiluliumas, Great King, Favorite of the Storm God, King of Hatti, who by his own count fathered forty-four kings and conquered as many nations, who brought even mighty Egypt to her knees. Tutankhamun’s widow sent him an urgent letter begging for a son of his to make her husband. The earliest Hebrews knew him as their Protector. The entire Mediterranean world revered and feared him.
But though he conquered armies, countries, and even foreign gods, he could not conquer his love for the one woman fate denied him, the Great Queen Khinti.
With the exception of a single slave girl, every prince and general, mercenary and scribe, princess and potentate in these pages actually lived, loved and died nearly fourteen hundred years before Christ. Now they live again in I, the Sun.
High Couch of Silistra is a story of sex, power, metaphysics and adventure told from the perspective of one world’s most desirable courtesan.
FOR ADVENTUROUS READERS ONLY
“We are all bound,” is the great truth of Silistra: Bound by biological necessity and genetics, the men and women of Silistra struggle to sort Nature from Nurture – where Nature always wins.
Welcome to Silistra, a glimpse of a far distant future wherein a civilization proclaims the greatest feat an individual can perform is to produce one child, yet distrusts the sciences that brought them to the verge of extinction. Here women and men coexist uneasily in a society ravaged by war, technology, and infertility, each vying for power, seeking dominion over one another.
Be warned, if your tastes run to simplistic plots, throbbing organs, swooning damsels or kick-boxing women in men’s armor, Silistra may be too challenging. Misogynists, misanthropes, misandrists, or fans of political diatribe, this is not the book for you.
High Couch of Silistra, first of the notorious Silistra Quartet, brings us to a realm where thought alters probability, where creativity is inextricably linked to the urge to own and dominate, and where the universe itself is amenable to a focused mind. Rooted deeply in humanity’s mythic past yet unaware of the planet Earth, High Couch of Silistra begins one woman’s quest for self-knowledge – with surprising results.
For Jason Graham, the world ends not with a bang, not even with much of a whimper.
One second, he’s sitting in a restaurant in Mobile, Alabama, chatting with a server, the next he finds himself in a strange room, rescued by mysterious alien benefactors. Seems the world did end, though how and why are something of a mystery.
Now, Jason—and five hundred million other humans—are in orbit around an Earthlike world that is abundant in natural resources and totally untamed. For the newly awakened humans, this is a chance to start society with a clean slate and a bright future. For Jason, who has knocked about aimlessly in several different careers in his Earth life, it’s an opportunity to unleash his creativity and ambition and see what he can really do.
In this true Western classic Jack Schaefer tells the story of a mysterious stranger who finds himself in the Wyoming Territory joining local homesteaders in their fight to keep their land and avoid the intimidating tactics of cattle driver Luke Fletcher. While trying to leave his gunslinging days behind him, the mysterious stranger, Shane, is tested by Fletcher and his men. In Shane, Schaefer executes a perfect Western narrative while exploring the overarching themes of virtue, the human condition, and a man’s search for self.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jack Schaefer was a journalist and writer known for his authentic and memorable characters set in the American West. Schaefer received the Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award in 1975 and the Saddleman Award in 1986 from the Western Writers of America. His popular Western novels include Shane (1949) and Monte Walsh (1963).
ACCLAIM
“A real superiority here, narrative and literary.” — Kirkus Reviews
“The author has created a tale that captivates the reader’s attention from beginning to end. His skill in depicting a character, a situation, or a mood, with a minimum of words, gives the story a tightly woven quality. . . . The book almost demands completion in one sitting.” — Library Journal
