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The Domino Lady 60 pages, $6.00	The Domino Lady The Domino Lady is pulpdoms only women series character to star in her own magazine. She appeared in six short novelets. Orphaned by corrupt politicians, Ellen Patrick dons the slinky disguise as the Domino Lady to right wrong and fight evil anywhere she finds it.These stories have been collected from their hard to find original pulps into an affordable single volume. Fan Boy's Compliments- The Collected Domino Lady costs only $5. Return to the top
Murray Leinster The Runaway Skyscraper, The Mad Planet and The Red Dust: Three SF Novellas 85 pages, $8.00	The Runaway Skyscraper, The Mad Planet and The Red Dust: Three SF Novellas from Murray Leinster. It's hard to appreciate how much science fiction was being written before Hugo Gernsback published the first issue of Amazing Stories. Murray Leinster, whose career run well into the 60s, began writing SF in1919 for The Argosy, with three striking novellas. In "The Runaway Skyscraper" a modern office building slips on a fault, but instead of sliding sideways, slides through time maybe five hundred years or more. The hero wrestles with many serious issues, like feeding the thousands of people trapped in the past, discovering the cause of the shift and how to return the skyscraper back to the present. In "The Mad Planet" and its sequel, "The Red Dust", Earth has been devastated by massive releases of carbon dioxide from deep within the Earth. 30,000 years later the planet is rules by giant insects and Man is a timid band of ignorant savages. In these stories one of these savages, Burl, is forced to think and by discovering weapons and tools may have started Man's return to the top of the heap. These are narrated stories almost entirely without conversation. While these stories have been reprinted in the past, this is the first time they were reprinted together in one place and I'm kind of proud of that. Return to the top
The Moon Pool and Conquest of the Moon Pool 165 pages, $12.00	A. Merritt "The Moon Pool" and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool", was one of the mosr original and striking science fiction novels of the pre-Gernsback era. A. Merritt rewrote the two stories for book publication as "The Moon Pool". While the original Moon Pool novelette has been reprinted several times, Conquest was not. If you ever wanted to see how the book evolved, here's your chance. The Moon Pool, is structured as pure fantasy. Dr. Walter Goodwin, finds friend and colleague, Dr. Throckmartin onboard his steamer. Throckmartin had been found, alone, on a rowboat in the middle of the ocean, with no good explanation for what happened to the rest of his expedition. Rumors are already flying but the truth, when Throckmartin finally gets around to explaining it to Goodwin is far stranger. His party had found an entrance to an underground world and a strange energy being dwelling there.This stranger dweller had seized the others in Throckmartin's party and now was pursuing him. When Throckmartin disappears, Dr. Goodwin mounts an expedition to rescue Dr. Throckmartin. During his voyage he picks up a Swede sailor named Huldrickson, whose wife and daughter has been carried off , just like Throckmartin, by the malevolent "Dweller in the Moon Pool," and an Irish airman named Larry O'Keefe. They gain entrance via the Moon Pool to a vast subterranean realm where the "Dweller" resides alongside humans and strange, pre-human creatures. Larry O'Keefe soon finds himself the center of a conflict between two women, Yolara, the Voice of the Shining One and Latka,handmaiden to the Silent Ones, vastly ancient intelligences who had created the Dweller. Which ever wins O'Keefe's love will determine the future of the Earth. Return to the top
The Eye of Balamok 57 pages, $6.00	Victor Rousseau Eye of Balamok is a Burroughs inspired tale of menace and thrills in an underground world accessed through a cave in the Australian wastes. It appeared in Famous Fantastic Mysteries but cut down to novelette length. The original story isn't very long either - 54 pages, but here it is complete and unabridged in all its glory. The story opens with a traveler through the Australian Outback, a prospector looking for water. He finds a spring and a nearby cabin. Inside he finds a manuscript from yet another prospector. He reads the story of how this man was lead by an older man on a quest for the motherlode, of the hardship they endured as they wandered from spring to spring. Until they came here and discovered an entrance into an underground world, a hollow earth filled with lands and seas, nations, a glowing sun in the center called Balamok and a beautiful princess, exiled from her throne by a usurper and her evil head priest. A prophecy seems to suggest that the man is fated to lead a revolt to restore her to the throne and claim her as his bride. By betrayal leaves him marooned back on the surface waiting, hoping for his princess to return. The manuscript ends without saying what happens. Did she return. Did he wander off and die. The traveler doesn't care, merely refills his water bottles and trudges off looking for that motherlode. Return to the top

Draft of Eternity 70 pages, $7.00	Draft of Eternity Reefer Madness! That's how Victor Rousseau catapults his hero centuries into the future for an exciting adventure against the Mongol conquerors of New York. Basil Clifford, a physician at Dr, Moreland's sanatarium for rare disorders of the mind is experimenting with the use of cannabis sativa in their treatment. Taking an injection himself, Clifford finds himself travels far into the future, where he has been reincarnated as Ruuf, son of Oz, emperor of Nyork, the ruins of New York City. There he must battle the treachery of Prince Timour, a rival to the throne of Og, and for the hand of Princess Alma, and for the liberation of the enslaved native Nyorkers. Can Clifford / Ruuf thread his way through a maze of deceit, jealousy, twisted prophecies and a mechanical, killing "Buddha" to find love and happiness, or will he love by winning and win by losing? Only Time will tell.

The Curse of Capistrano 93 pages, $9.00	Johnston McCulley The Curse of Capistrano Senor Zorro, the masked champion of the downpressed and exploited, first appeared in the serial, "The Curse of Capistrano" in the pages of All-Story Weekly from August 9, 1919 to September 6, 1919. It lead to a highly successful silent movie, a hard cover reprint (The Mark of Zorro) and a sequel in 1922. Here, exactly as it appeared in All-Story Weekly is Zorro's first adventure. 93 pgs. $9.00 Return to the top
The Labyrinth 69 pages, $7.00	Francis Stevens The Labyrinth A woman's kidnaping leads two young men, her fiancee and her cousin on a quest to find her. The trail leads to the state's governor, for whom she worked as his secretary. They find her at his creepy estate but as they try to rescue her, the two men, the girl and the governor fall through a trap door into an underground maze constructed by the estate's previous owner as a deathtrap for a rival. Will they be able to survive the maze's many deathtraps, will they ever escape from the fiendish labyrinth. A tale of psychological drama and suspense. Return to the top
Fang Tung, Magician 60 pages, $5.00	H. Bedford-Jones Fang Tung, Magician From the pages of All-Story Weekly for xxx xx xxxx, a tale of magic and espionage in contemporary China. Fang Tung, a nationalist revolutionary appears to posssess incredible powers of magic. He plans a civil war to drive the British out of their enclave. An American reporter is recruited to dig into the mystery of Fang Tung, and help a missionary woman, the one person Fang Tung seems to fear. Together they penetrate to Fang Tung stronghold and discover the horrible secret of his power. xx pgs, $5 Return to the top Back to the Beb Books Home Page

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