Philip José Farmer Books In Order

World Of Tiers Books In Publication Order

  1. The Maker of Universes (1965)
  2. The Gates of Creation (1966)
  3. A Private Cosmos (1967)
  4. Behind the Walls of Terra (1970)
  5. The Lavalite World (1977)
  6. Red Orc’s Rage (1991)
  7. More Than Fire (1993)

Herald Childe Books In Publication Order

  1. Image of the Beast (1968)
  2. Blown (1969)
  3. Traitor to the Living (1973)

Doc Caliban and Lord Grandrith Books In Publication Order

  1. A Feast Unknown (1969)
  2. Lord of the Trees (1970)
  3. The Mad Goblin (1970)

Opar Books In Publication Order

  1. Hadon of Ancient Opar (1974)
  2. Flight to Opar (1976)

Dayworld Books In Publication Order

  1. Dayworld (1985)
  2. Dayworld Rebel (1987)
  3. Dayworld Breakup (1990)

Riverworld Books In Publication Order

  1. To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971)
  2. The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)
  3. The Dark Design (1977)
  4. The Magic Labyrinth (1980)
  5. Gods of Riverworld (1983)
  6. River of Eternity (1983)

Tarzan Books In Publication Order

  1. Tarzan Alive (1972)
  2. Doc Savage (1973)

Doc Savage (Bantam) Books In Publication Order

  1. Escape from Loki (1991)

Philip Jose Farmer’s The Dungeon Books In Publication Order

  1. Philip José Farmer’s The Dungeon (By:Richard A. Lupoff) (1988)
  2. The Black Tower (By:Richard A. Lupoff) (1988)
  3. The Lake of Fire (By:Robin Wayne Bailey) (1989)
  4. The Valley of Thunder (By:Charles de Lint) (1989)
  5. The Final Battle (By:Richard A. Lupoff) (1990)
  6. The Hidden City (By:Charles de Lint) (1990)
  7. The Dungeon (2003)
  8. Philip José Farmer’s The Dungeon Vol. 6, The Final Battle (By:Richard A. Lupoff) (2017)

SF Authors Choice Books In Publication Order

  1. SF Authors’ Choice 2 (By:Harry Harrison) (1970)
  2. SF Authors’ Choice 3 (By:Harry Harrison) (1973)

The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Books In Publication Order

  1. The Adventure of the Peerless Peer (1974)
  2. War of the Worlds (By:Manly Wade Wellman,Wade Wellman) (1975)
  3. The Giant Rat of Sumatra (By:Richard L. Boyer) (1976)
  4. Sherlock vs Dracula (By:Loren D. Estleman) (1978)
  5. The Stalwart Companions (By:H. Paul Jeffers) (1978)
  6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (By:Loren D. Estleman) (1979)
  7. The Whitechapel Horrors (By:Edward B. Hanna) (1992)
  8. The Seventh Bullet (By:Daniel D. Victor) (1992)
  9. Seance for a Vampire (By:Fred Saberhagen) (1994)
  10. The Angel of the Opera (By:Sam Siciliano) (1994)
  11. The Titanic Tragedy (By:William Seil) (1996)
  12. The Star of India (By:Carole Buggé) (1998)
  13. The Scroll of the Dead (By:David Stuart Davies) (1998)
  14. The Man from Hell (By:Barrie Roberts) (2000)
  15. The Haunting of Torre Abbey (By:Carole Buggé) (2000)
  16. The Veiled Detective (By:David Stuart Davies) (2004)
  17. The Web Weaver (By:Sam Siciliano) (2012)
  18. The Grimswell Curse (By:Sam Siciliano) (2013)
  19. The Devil’s Promise (By:David Stuart Davies) (2014)
  20. The Albino’s Treasure (By:Stuart Douglas) (2015)
  21. The White Worm (By:Sam Siciliano) (2016)
  22. The Ripper Legacy (By:David Stuart Davies) (2016)
  23. Murder at Sorrow’s Crown (By:Steven Savile,Robert Greenberger) (2016)
  24. The Counterfeit Detective (By:Stuart Douglas) (2016)
  25. The Moonstone’s Curse (By:Sam Siciliano) (2017)
  26. The Improbable Prisoner (By:Stuart Douglas) (2018)
  27. The Devil and the Four (By:Sam Siciliano) (2018)
  28. The Instrument of Death (By:David Stuart Davies) (2019)
  29. The Martian Menace (By:Eric Brown) (2020)
  30. The Venerable Tiger (By:Sam Siciliano) (2020)
  31. The Crusader’s Curse (By:Stuart Douglas) (2020)

Thieves’ World Books In Publication Order

  1. Thieves’ World (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1979)
  2. Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1980)
  3. Shadows of Sanctuary (With: John Brunner,Joe Haldeman,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1981)
  4. Storm Season (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1982)
  5. The Face of Chaos (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1983)
  6. Wings of Omen (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1984)
  7. The Dead of Winter (By:Robert Lynn Asprin) (1985)
  8. Lythande (By:Marion Zimmer Bradley) (1985)
  9. Soul of the City (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1986)
  10. Blood Ties (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1986)
  11. Aftermath (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1987)
  12. Uneasy Alliances (By:Robert Lynn Asprin) (1988)
  13. Stealers’ Sky (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin) (1989)
  14. Sanctuary (By:Lynn Abbey) (2002)
  15. Turning Points (By:Lynn Abbey) (2002)
  16. Enemies of Fortune (By:Lynn Abbey) (2004)

Weird Heroes Books In Publication Order

  1. Weird Heroes Volume 1 (1975)
  2. Weird Heroes, A New American Pulp (By:Fritz Leiber) (1975)
  3. Weird Heroes Volume 2 (By:Steve Englehart) (1975)
  4. Weird Heroes: Nightshade (By:Byron Preiss) (1976)
  5. Quest of the Gypsy (By:Ron Goulart) (1976)
  6. Weird Heroes Volume 6 (By:Robert Bloch) (1977)
  7. Weird Heroes, Volume 5 (By:Ted White) (1977)
  8. Eye of the Vulture (By:Ron Goulart) (1977)
  9. Weird Heroes Volume 8 (By:Byron Preiss) (1977)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Green Odyssey (1957)
  2. A Woman a Day / The Day of Timestop / Timestop! (1960)
  3. Flesh (1960)
  4. The Lovers (1961)
  5. Cache from Outer Space (1962)
  6. Fire and the Night (1962)
  7. Inside Outside (1964)
  8. Tongues of the Moon (1964)
  9. Dare (1965)
  10. Night Of Light (1966)
  11. The Gate of Time / Two Hawks from Earth (1966)
  12. The Day of Timestop (1968)
  13. Lord Tyger (1970)
  14. The Stone God Awakens (1970)
  15. Love Song (1970)
  16. Time’s Last Gift (1972)
  17. The Other Log of Phileas Fogg (1973)
  18. The Wind Whales of Ishmael (1973)
  19. Venus on the Half-Shell (1975)
  20. Ironcastle (With: J.H. Rosny Aîné) (1976)
  21. Jesus on Mars (1979)
  22. The Unreasoning Mask (1981)
  23. Stations of the Nightmare (1982)
  24. Greatheart Silver (1982)
  25. A Barnstormer in Oz (1982)
  26. Nothing Burns in Hell (1988)
  27. The Caterpillar’s Question (With: Piers Anthony) (1992)
  28. The City Beyond Play (2007)
  29. The Evil in Pemberley House (2009)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. They Twinkled Like Jewels (1954)
  2. Strange Relations (1960)
  3. Alley God (1962)
  4. Down in the Black Gang (1971)
  5. The Book of Philip José Farmer (1973)
  6. Riverworld War (1980)
  7. Father to the Stars (1981)
  8. The Cache (1981)
  9. The Purple Book (1982)
  10. The Grand Adventure (1984)
  11. The Classic Philip Jose Farmer 1952-1964 (1984)
  12. The Classic Philip Jose Farmer 1964-1973 (1984)
  13. Riders of the Purple Wage (1992)
  14. The Best of Philip José Farmer (2006)
  15. Pearls from Peoria (2006)
  16. Up From The Bottomless Pit And Other Stories (2007)
  17. Venus on the Half-Shell and Others (2008)
  18. Tales of the Wold Newton Universe (2013)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Queen of the Deep (1954)

Oz-Story Magazine Books In Publication Order

  1. Oz-Story 1 (By:L. Frank Baum) (1995)
  2. Oz-Story 2 (With: Harlan Ellison,L. Frank Baum) (1996)
  3. Oz-Story 3 (By:) (1997)
  4. Oz-Story 4 (By:Eric Shanower) (1998)
  5. Oz-Story 5 (By:Eric Shanower) (1999)
  6. Oz-Story 6 (With: Harlan Ellison,L. Frank Baum) (2000)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Dangerous Visions (1967)
  2. Backdrop of Stars (1968)
  3. Continuum 1 (1974)
  4. Shadows of Sanctuary (1981)
  5. Tales Of Riverworld (1993)
  6. The Science Fiction Century (1997)
  7. Naked Came the Farmer (1998)

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Philip José Farmer Books Overview

The Maker of Universes

The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world. Separately and together, the two heroes contend against the Lords who rule the separate universes, of which the marvelous many leveled World of Tiers is the center. Mythological and legendary creatures and characters abound: centaurs and harpies, mermaids and Indians, aliens and beautiful women.

The Gates of Creation

COVER TEXT: Imagine a whole series of separate universes, made to suit the whims of a race of super beings. Imagine these universes with their own laws, cultures, creatures and ecologies all existing only to please the fancies of their individual master. Then imagine one such universe constructed as a diabolical trap to destroy a single person the man called Robert Wolff, one of the race of universe makers, and once of Earth. When the satanic Master Lord, Urizen, kidnaps Wolff’s wife, he forces Wolff to enter the deadly universe of ambushes, filled with every kind of tortuous snare that the evil mind of the Master Lord can devise. Wolf has only his courage and his wits which to combat this cosmic maze unless he can perform a miracle, he and Chrysalis are doomed.

Behind the Walls of Terra

In one volume, here are the last three novels in the classic SF adventure series, The World of Tiers: Behind the Walls of Terra, The Lavalite World, and More Than Fire. These are the great originals of universe hopping adventure that later writers, including Roger Zelazny in his Amber Series, used as models. Zelazny himself says, ‘I admire his sense of humor and facility for selecting the perfect final sentence for everything he writes. He can be stark, dark, smoky, bright, and any color of the emotional spectrum…
put quite simply, he arouses awe,’ The tierworld books are full of non stop action and typify Farmer’s boundless imagination. Who else would have thought of stacking up pocket universes like a ziggurat or the layers of a cake? Join Earthlings Robert Wolff and Paul Janus Finnigan alias Kickaha on an unforgettable adventure to big for any single world.

Red Orc’s Rage

Sent into the world of Tiers by a well meaning doctor in the mental hospital where he is incarcerated, teenage troublemaker Jim Grimson finds himself in a world of fantasy and danger.

More Than Fire

Kickaha, a freedom seeking wanderer from the planet Earth, meets his archenemy, the most powerful of the decadent interstellar lords, Lord Red Orc, in a final battle that will determine the fate of the universes. AB.

Image of the Beast

Award winning author Philip Jos Farmer’s 1960s Science Fiction po*rn epic. Comprising The Image of the Beast An Exorcism, Ritual One, and Blown An Exorcism, Ritual Two. This mind blowing classic conjures a universe of unrelenting sexual degradation and horror. Private dick Herald Childe is sent a snuff movie of his partner being hideously murdered. His pursuit of the killers leads him into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality and supernatural besti*ality, as he becomes entangled with sex starved she ghosts, libidinous snake women, a filthy human sow, and a she creature who gives birth to an ectoplasmic simulacrum of Satanic child killer Gilles de Rais.

Dayworld Rebel

First edition. Followed by a book club edition. Second book in the ‘Dayworld’ trilogy, which also includes ‘Dayworld’ 1985 and ‘Dayworld Breakup’ 1990.

Dayworld Breakup

William Duncan, the rebel daybreaker, and his lover, Panthea Snick, set out to reveal the dark secrets of Dayworld and the formula for long life and to end the repressive hegemony.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

All those who ever lived on Earth have found themselves resurrected healthy, young, and naked as newborns on the grassy banks of a mighty river, in a world unknown. Miraculously provided with food, but with no clues to the meaning of their strange new afterlife, billions of people from every period of Earth’s history and prehistory must start again. Sir Francis Bacon would be the first to glimpse the incredible way station, a link between worlds. This forbidden sight would spur the renowned 19th century explorer to uncover the truth. Along with a remarkable group of compatriots, including Alice Liddell Hargreaves the Victorian girl who was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, an English speaking Neanderthal, a WWII Holocaust survivor, and a wise extraterrestrial, Burton sets sail on the magnificent river. His mission: to confront humankind’s mysterious benefactors, and learn the true purpose innocent or evil of the Riverworld…

The Fabulous Riverboat

Resurrected on the lush, mysterious banks of Riverworld, along with the rest of humanity, Samuel Langhorne Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain has a dream: to build a riverboat that will rival the most magnificent paddle wheelers ever navigated on the mighty Mississippi. Then, to steer it up the endless waterway that dominates his new home planet and at last discover its hidden source. But before he can carry out his plan, he first must undertake a dangerous voyage to unearth a fallen meteor. This mission would require striking an uneasy alliance with the bloodthirsty Viking Erik Bloodaxe, treacherous King John of England, legendary French swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac, Greek adventurer Odysseus, and the infamous Na*zi Hermann G ring. All for the purpose of storming the ominous stone tower at the mouth of the river, where the all powerful overseers of Riverworld and their secrets lie in wait…

The Dark Design

Years have passed on Riverworld. Entire nations have risen, and savage wars have been fought all since the dead of Earth found themselves resurrected in their magnificent new homeworld. Yet the truth about the Ethicals, the powerful engineers of this mysterious ‘afterlife,’ remains unknown. But a curious cross section of humanity is determined to change that situation…
at any cost. Intrepid explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton leads the most remarkable voyage of discovery he has ever undertaken. Hot on his heels are Samuel Clemens, King John of England, and Cyrano de Bergerac. Spurred by the promise of ultimate answers, they chart a course across the vast polar sea and toward the awesome tower that looms above it. But getting there will be more than half the battle. For death on Riverworld has become chillingly final…

The Magic Labyrinth

Reissued to follow the Syfy Channel film of Riverworld, this fourth book in the classic Riverworld series continues the adventures of Samuel Clemens and Sir Richard Francis Burton as they travel through Farmer’s strange and wonderful Riverworld, a place where everyone who ever lived is simultaneously resurrected along a single river valley that stretches over an entire planet. Famous characters from history abound. Now Burton and Clemens, who have traveled for more than thirty years on two great ships, are about to reach the end of the River. But there is a religion, The Church of the Second Chance, that has grown up along the River and its adherents, possibly inspired by aliens, are determined to destroy the riverboats. A coming battle may destroy Burton and Clemens, but even if they survive, how can they penetrate the alien tower of the Ethicals, who created this astonishing world? What can humans do against a race capable of creating a world and resurrecting the entire human race on it?

Gods of Riverworld

Thirty billion people from throughout Earth’s history have been resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Riverworld. Most began life anew accepting without question the sustenance provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebellious handful, including Mark Twain, Richard Burton, and Peter Jairus Frigate, burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their fate and these few launched an invasion that will ultimately yield the mind boggling truth. The story was chronicled in four previous volumes, and is now concluded in Gods of Riverworld. Riverworld s omnipotent leaders must finally be confronted, and the renegades of Riverworld led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis Burton will control the fantastic mechanism that rules them. But the most awesome challenge lies ahead. For in the vast corridors and secret rooms of the tower stronghold, an unknown enemy watches and waits to usurp the usurpers…
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Tarzan Alive

Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes. In this biography Philip Jos Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting Burroughs’s errors and deliberate deceptions and tracing Tarzan’s family tree back to other extraordinary figures, including Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, and Bulldog Drummond. Tarzan Alive offers the first chronological account of Tarzan’s life, narrated in careful detail garnered from Burroughs s stories and other sources. From the ill fated voyage that led to Greystoke’s birth on the isolated African coast to his final adventures as a group captain in the RAF during World War II, Farmer constructs a comprehensive and authoritative account. Farmer s assertion that Tarzan was a real person has led him to craft a biography as well researched and compelling as that of any character from conventional history. This definitive Bison Books edition also includes Farmer s Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke as well as Extracts from the Memoirs of Lord Greystoke first anthologized in Mother Was a Lovely Beast.

Escape from Loki

Mass Market Paperback, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Philip José Farmer’s The Dungeon (By:Richard A. Lupoff)

The return of a classic ‘shared world’ fantasy series created by Philip Jose Farmer, award winning author of the Riverworld saga! Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs, and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi leveled collection of beings from the hidden folds of time and space. Trapped somewhere inside is Neville Foliott, Clive’s twin brother, and no creature in the Dungeon will stop Clive from finding him…

The Black Tower (By:Richard A. Lupoff)

The return of a classic ‘shared world’ fantasy series created by Philip Jose Farmer, award winning author of the Riverworld saga! Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs, and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi leveled collection of beings from the hidden folds of time and space. Trapped somewhere inside is Neville Foliott, Clive’s twin brother, and no creature in the Dungeon will stop Clive from finding him…

The Valley of Thunder (By:Charles de Lint)

The epic conclusion of the classic fantasy series ‘The Dungeon’. It falls into two parts: ‘The Hidden City’ and ‘The Final Battle’.

The Dungeon

The return of a classic ‘shared world’ fantasy series created by Philip Jose Farmer, award winning author of the Riverworld saga! Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs, and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi leveled collection of beings from the hidden folds of time and space. Trapped somewhere inside is Neville Foliott, Clive’s twin brother, and no creature in The Dungeon will stop Clive from finding him…

The Adventure of the Peerless Peer

Holmes and Watson take to the skies in the quest of the nefarious Von Bork and his weapon of dread…
A night sky aerial engagement with the deadly Fokker nearly claims three brilliant lives…
And an historic alliance is formed, whereby Baker Street’s enigmatic mystery solver and Greystoke, the noble savage, peer of the realm and lord of the jungle, team up to bring down the hellish hun!This edition also contains a brand new afterword by Win Scott Eckert and a bonus preview of the new Kim Newman novel, Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles.

War of the Worlds (By:Manly Wade Wellman,Wade Wellman)

Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger and Dr. Watson meet their match when the streets of London are left decimated by a prolonged alien attack. Who could be responsible for such destruction? Sherlock Holmes is about to find out…
Manly and Wade Wellman’s novel takes H.G. Wells’s classic story of Martian invasion and throws Holmes into the mix, with surprising and unexpected results. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

Sherlock vs Dracula (By:Loren D. Estleman)

THE ADVENTURES OF THE SANGUINARY COUNT The year is 1890. A ship is discovered adrift off the English coast, its crew missing, its murdered captain lashed to the wheel, and its only passanger is a sinister black dog. This impenetrable mystery is clearly a case for the inimitable Sherlock Holmes, but for the first time in his illustrious career the great detective is baffled. Clearly the crew have been murdered and dumped overboard, but what can account for the captain’s expression of imponderable terror and his acute loss of blood, or the ship’s strange cargo fifty boxes of earth? The game is affot, and Sherlock Holmes, aided as ever by the faithful Dr. Watson, finds himself on the trail of no mortal enemy, but the arch vampire himself Count Dracula…
From the impalement of the ‘Bloofer Lady’ to the abduction of Watson’s belowed wife, Mary, from the death of a harmless prostitute to a terrifying conclusion on a lonely beach, this unique case is at once a glorious celebration of two of the most famous literary genres, a riveting thriller with sensational climaxes, and a tale guaranteed to delight all Holmes and Dracula lovers everywhere.

The Stalwart Companions (By:H. Paul Jeffers)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out of print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

Written by future President Theordore Roosevelt long before The Great Detective s first encounter with Dr. Watson, Holmes visits America to solve a most violent and dispicable crime. A crime that was to prove his most taxing of his brilliant career…

Recently discovered in the baseme*nt of the New York Police Department, The Stalwart Companions is one of Holmes most exciting and unusual chronicles.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes (By:Loren D. Estleman)

Accompanied by Dr. Watson, master sleuth Sherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the wealthy, respectable London doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on the case of the savage murder of Sir Danvers Carew the blackest mystery of his career! Although Robert Louis Stevenson published his tale of Jekyll and Hyde as fiction, the hideous facts were true, insofar as Stevenson knew them. Here, then, is the entire firsthand account of that devilish crime as recorded by Dr. Watson, with an explanation of why Holmes’s personal involvement had to be kept secret until now…
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The Whitechapel Horrors (By:Edward B. Hanna)

Grotesque murders are being committed on the streets of Whitechapel. Sherlock Holmes comes to believe they are the skilful work of one man, a man who earns the gruesome epithet of Jack the Ripper. As the investigation proceeds, Holmes realizes that the true identity of the Ripper puts much more at stake than just catching a killer

The Seventh Bullet (By:Daniel D. Victor)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out of print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective. Sherlock Holmes desire for a peaceful life in the Sussex countryside is dashed when true life muckraker and author David Graham Phillips is assassinated, leaving behind little clues as to why he was murdered. The pleas of his sister draws Holmes and Watson to the far side of the Atlantic, where a web of deceit, violence and intrigue unravels as they embark on one of their most challenging cases.

Seance for a Vampire (By:Fred Saberhagen)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out of print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective. When two suspect psychics offer Ambrose Altamont and his wife the opportunity to contact their recently deceased daughter, the wealthy British aristocrat wastes no time in hiring Sherlock Holmes to expose their hoax. He arranges for the celebrated detective and Dr. Watson to attend the family’s next seance, confident in Holmes’ rationalist outlook on the situation. But what starts as cruel mockery becomes deadly reality when young, beautiful Louisa Altamont appears to her parents in the flesh as one of the nosferatu a vampire! The resulting chaos leaves one of the fraudulent spiritualists dead. Sherlock Holmes missing, and Dr. Watson alone and mystified. With time running out, Watson has no choice but to summon the only one who might be able to help Holmes’ vampire cousin, Prince Dracula. Alternately narrated by Watson and the charismatic Dracula himself, Seance for a Vampire demonstrates that heroes are sometimes found in the most unlikely places. Saberhagen has recast Bram Stoker’s paragon of evil into a noble, witty and chillingly powerful character.

The Angel of the Opera (By:Sam Siciliano)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. The Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

The Scroll of the Dead (By:David Stuart Davies)

Holmes attends a seance to unmask an impostor posing as a medium, Sebastian Melmoth, a man hell bent on obtaining immortality after the discovery of an ancient Egyptian papyrus. It is up to Holmes and Watson to stop him and avert disaster…
In this fast paced adventure, the action moves from London to the picturesque Lake District as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson once more battle with the forces of evil. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

The Man from Hell (By:Barrie Roberts)

In 1886, wealthy philathropist Lord Backwater is found beaten to death on the grounds of his estate. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must unravel the mystery by pitting their wits against a ruthless new enemy, taking them across the globe in search of the killer. By turns both thrilling and daring, The Man From Hell braves dark new territories in the Holmes mythology and is an invaluable addition to the library of any Holmes fan. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

The Haunting of Torre Abbey (By:Carole Buggé)

‘Watson, do you believe in ghosts?’ With this question, Sherlock Holmes shatters the calm of a quiet evening in their London flat and, with Dr. John Watson at his side, embarks upon a particularly strange case. Holmes has received a request for aid from Lord Charles Cary, whose family is seemingly being threatened by ghosts in and around the family manor. The manor is Torre Abbey, a twelfth century monastery in Torquay, Devon, and it has a long history of hauntings. While skeptical of the supernatural, Holmes does believe that the Cary family is in danger a belief which proves to be horrifyingly accurate when, shortly after they arrive at Torre Abbey, a household member dies suddenly, mysteriously, and seemingly of fright. As strange sightings and threatening apparitions become almost commonplace, Holmes must uncover the secrets of the haunted abbey and the family that lives there if he is to have any hope of protecting the living and avenging the dead. In a case that taxes his wits, and seems beyond the reach of his usual methods, Holmes must grapple with his most deadly and unforgiving foe.

The Veiled Detective (By:David Stuart Davies)

A young Sherlock Holmes arrives in London to begin his career as a private detective, catching the eye of the master criminal, Professor James Moriarty. Enter Dr. Watson, newly returned from Afghanistan, soon to make history as Holmes companion…
By turns both shocking and exciting, David Stuart Davies controversial take on the Holmes mythology is a modern classic in crime fiction that will defy all expectations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes career to his astonishing encounters with Martian invaders, the Further Adventures series encapsulates the most varied and thrilling cases of the worlds greatest detective.

The Web Weaver (By:Sam Siciliano)

When a mysterious gypsy places a cruel curse on the guests at a ball and a series of terrible misfortunes begin to affect those who attended that night, Mr. Donald Wheelwight engages Sherlock Holmes to find out what really happened that fateful evening. With the help of his cousin Dr. Henry Vernier and his wife Michelle, Holmes endeavors to save Wheelwright and his beautiful wife Violet from the devastating curse. As the threats to the captivating Violet mount, Holmes is drawn in deeper and deeper, finding himself entangled in a vast dark web involving prostitution, perversion, theft, and blackmail. A brand new, never before published addition to the Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.

Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (By:Lynn Abbey,Robert Lynn Asprin)

Fantasy Anthology sequel to Thieve’s World. Includes: Maps of Sanctuary; Introduction; and: 1. Spiders of the Purple Mage by Philip Jose Farmer; 2. Goddess by David Drake; 3. The Fruit of Enlibar by Lynn Abbey; 4. The Dream of the Sorceress by A. E. van Vogt; 5. Vashanka’s Minion by Janet Morris; 6. Shadow’s Pawn by Andrew J. Offutt; 7. To Guard the Guardians by Robert Lynn Asprin; and Essay: The Lighter Side of Sanctuary. 299 pages.

Sanctuary (By:Lynn Abbey)

From the Bestselling Fantasy Adventure Series, Thieves’ World tmCreated by Robert Lynn Asprin & Lynn AbbeyReturn To The City That Would Not Die!Return To Thieves’ World!Return To Sanctuary!Thieves’ World was the bestselling and first of the shared world phenomenon, selling well over a million copies of anthologies detailing the exploits and intrigues of the high born and low born denizens of Sanctuary, a city that has seen many masters. The Age of Ranke and the reign of Kadakithis, the occupation of the Beysib, the war of the gods and indeed the erstwhile Renaissance are now all in the past. Memories of heroes and villains, glory and savagery have all been relegated to the shadows of yesteryear as present day residents once again apply themselves to the task at hand: survival. Only Molin Torchholder, architect of Sanctuary’s glory and master of her secrets. knows the whole truth, but he is dying…
He must hold on until he can pass along the city’s hidden history of empires come and gone and blood shed for reason and naught. Aiding him are a lowly laborer named Cauvin, himself a survivor of one of the city’s darkest moments, and a young boy named Bec. So many secrets and so little time. And as Molin s chronicles of the past unfold, even darker forces return, an evil that jeopardizes the very survival of a city that until now has always refused to die. Sanctuary An Epic Novel of Thieves’ World ushers in a whole new age of tales, a whole new age of Thieves’ World.

Turning Points (By:Lynn Abbey)

This is the first of a new series of shared world anthologies that continues Sanctuarys story with tales of necromancers and assassins, urchins and knaves, and of course the thieves who lurk in its alleys and shadows. This volume will include new stories by Raymond E. Feist, Dennis L. McKiernan, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Diana Paxson, Lynn Abbey and others. Sanctuary, a lawless city governed by evil forces, powerful magic, and political intrigue, where survival is an unexpected bonus. The Age of the Rankan reign of Kadakithis, the occupation of the Beysib, and even the erstwhile Renaissance are all in the past. It is years later and the heroes of the pastJubal, Tempus, Shadowspawn, and the Stormchildrenare memories, myth, and rumor. Now outsiders rule with an iron hand and a bloody dagger. Molin Torchholder, the secret guardian of the city, is dead, his mantle and staff secretly passed to another. But Sanctuary and its inhabitants carry on. The city has reached a turning point…
and only the fates know where it will lead.

Enemies of Fortune (By:Lynn Abbey)

Empires rise and fall, but Sanctuary lives on. Sanctuary, a lawless city governed by evil forces, powerful magic, and political intrigue where survival is an unexpected bonus.A recent storm has left a ship filled with exotic cargo and arcane secrets wrecked off the shore of Sanctuary in this second of a new series of shared world anthologies. Thieves’ World: Enemies of Fortune continues the story with tales of necromancers and assassins, urchins and knaves, and of course, thieves. This unexpected booty leads to boons and curses for the world weary residents as well as the usual power struggle among factions wishing to take deadly advantage at any new turn of events. All new stories by Lynn Abbey, Stephen Brust, C.J. Cherryh, Jeff Grubb, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Dennis McKiernan, Andrew Offutt, Robin Wayne Bailey, Diana Paxson, Jody Lynn Nye, Selina Rosen, and Jane Fancher.

Weird Heroes Volume 1

An illustrated blend of fantasy and science fiction.

Weird Heroes Volume 6 (By:Robert Bloch)

An illustrated blend of fantasy and science fiction.

Weird Heroes Volume 8 (By:Byron Preiss)

An illustrated blend of fantasy and science fiction.

The Green Odyssey

The Green Odyssey has been called ‘rollicking science fiction adventure,’ ‘uproarious,’ ‘swashbuckling,’ and ‘sheer fun,’ and described by science fiction critic Sam Moskowitz as ‘filled with engaging humor.’ The adventure begins when Alan Green arranges passage on a ‘wind roller,’ a sailing vessel of the plains, by dazzling the captain with a financial scheme that offers rich profits to overcome his reluctance to help a fugitive. Setting ‘sale’ with the captain, Green thinks he’s escaped from his dominating wife but he’s wrong. Throw in pirates, floating islands, and a black cat goddess with a taste for beer, picked up after shipwreck on one of the wandering Islands of the Xurdimur, and you have the recipe for science fantasy adventure as irresistible as Riverworld itself. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6 by 9 inch format by Waking Lion Press.

A Woman a Day / The Day of Timestop / Timestop!

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

The Lovers

Escaping the religious tyranny of a 31st century Earth by a fluke assignment to the planet Ozagen, linguist Hal Yarrow found that the worst of Earth had followed him Po*rnsen, his personal Guardian Angel, vigilant for any evidence of sin or wrong thinking. Conditioned by a lifetime of submission, Yarrow would have accepted Po*rnsen’s constant spying as an unpleasant necessity and lost himself in the study of the language of Ozagen’s intelligent dominant race, the Wogglebugs…
but then, hidden in ancient ruins built by humanoids long vanished from the planet, he found Jeanette, a not quite human fugitive. For a Believer like Yarrow, unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden and love for an alien was unthinkable. But to Yarrow, in every way that counted, Jeanette was warmly and bountifully human. So Yarrow sought the aid of the amiably tolerant Wogglebugs to keep his harboring of Jeanette a secret and at the same time concealed from his alien allies Earth’s farreaching plans for them and their unexploited planet. Yet there was one secret Yarrow did not know and could not imagine…
the very special nature and needs of the woman he loved!

Dare

Though Earthmen first landed on the planet Dare 300 years earlier, they were still bound by the same standards of snobbery and fear…
until Jack Cage, eldest son of a wealthy human, found himself strangely drawn to a spectacularly beautiful native. To consort with her meant death. But why? And what were humans doing on the planet anyway? Philip Jose Farmer’s award winning masterpiece is brought back to life in this beautiful package.

The Gate of Time / Two Hawks from Earth

In this classic of alternate history by grand master Philip Jose Farmer, Native American bomber pilot Roger Two Hawks bails out over enemy territory in WWII, only to find himself on another Earth one in which the American continents never rose from the waters, and the ancestors of the American Indians remained in Asia and Europe an Earth embroiled in a world war of its own, with Two Hawks caught in the middle.

The Other Log of Phileas Fogg

About a hundred years ago, a group of mutant supermen began playing a major role in our affairs. It is no accident that Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Doc Savage were are? contemporaries. Nor was it accidental that their biographers titillated their public with hints of their true natures while not daring to part the veil. Just what was it that restrained them from telling all?

The Unreasoning Mask

Philip Jos Farmer, the wildly creative author of the bestselling Riverworld series, here delights his wide readership with a compelling new novel. All the skills and the soaring imagination which have won Farmer over a million dedicated fans are abundant in this highly charged, far future, space adventure story. The Unreasoning Mask is the story of Ramstan, captain of al Buraq, a rare model starship. It is capable of alaraf drive: instantaneous travel between two points of space. Three of these special ships were built to explore and make contact with the many sentient races inhabiting the universe. Suddenly, one of the ships mysteriously disappears. And then it is discovered that an unidentifiable ‘creature’ is marauding through the universe, totally annihilating intelligent life on planet after planet. Ranstan, a thoughtful and moral man, becomes a fascinated yet reluctant pawn in the hands of the strange forces which arise to fight the deadly destroyer. Ultimately, he is the one man who, in a fearful race against time, can stop the destruction. But what price must he pay for becoming the savior of intelligent kind? The Unreasoning Mask is Farmer at his best fast paced, complex, slightly mystical, high action adventure.

Nothing Burns in Hell

This one is for fans of Quentin Tarantino and of the ever present gratuitous violence of Robert Altman. It is a direct descendant of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer and the mystery action pulps epitomized by Black Mask. Philip Jos Farmer, now one of the great living SF writers, who has published many varieties of pulp fiction, who has written novels of Tarzan, Doc Savage, and Oz, now turns his hand to the detective novel, with colorful, violent results.A self obsessed private detective married to a sincere wiccan is hired to witness an illegal transfer of money in a rainy cemetery that goes bloody wrong. Chasing the bad guys, he ends up the prisoner of a grusome threesome in their Dogpatchy cabin in the woods. His escape involves nudity, blood, death, and a terrible snapping turtle. That’s how the mystery begins, leading him through all the levels of Peoria society, geography, and history. Absurdly funny things happen continually in the peripheral vision of the story. No violence is left out. Greed, venality and hatred are unleashed. Unpleasant family history is brought to light. All the sex is offstage. The body count mounts steadily, with occasional mutilations. Nothing Burns in Hell is pulp fiction at its most gorgeously excessive.

The Evil in Pemberley House

For over thirty years, readers have marveled at Philip Jos Farmer’s inventive integration of popular fiction and literature’s most beloved characters, in a mythical web known as the Wold Newton Family. First described in the fictional biographies Tarzan Alive: The Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, Farmer expanded his Wold Newton mythos in novels such as The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, Time’s Last Gift, Hadon of Ancient Opar, Flight to Opar, The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel, and Escape from Loki: Doc Savage’s First Adventure. The Evil in Pemberley House, an addition to the Wold Newton cycle, plays with the Gothic horror tradition. Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and ’40s, Dr. James Clarke ‘Doc’ Wildman, is all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England old, dark, and supposedly haunted. But Farmer, characteristically, turns convention on its ear. Is the ghost real, or a clever sham? In Patricia Wildman, Farmer creates an introspective character who struggles to reconcile the supernatural with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to work through unresolved feelings about her late parents. He sets the action at Pemberley from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and ingrains the various mysteries in the Canon of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The Evil in Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with broad appeal to readers of pulp and popular literature, particularly followers of Doc Savage, Sherlockians, and fans of Farmer’s own celebrated Wold Newton Family.

Strange Relations

Two complete novels and five novelettes that broke new ground in science fiction and established Philip Jose Farmer as a master of the genre:

The Lovers: One of the most controversial and groundbreaking novels in science fiction. Sent by the religious tyranny of a future Earth to the planet Ozagen, Hal Yarrow met Jeanette, an apparently human fugitive, hiding in ancient ruins built by a long vanished race. Unconsecrated contact with any female was forbidden to Yarrow and love for an alien female was an unspeakable abomination. But Yarrow’s lifelong conditioning was no match for his strange attraction to Jeanette.

Flesh: The starship captain had been on a voyage lasting 800 years, and returned to find an Earth ruled by revived ancient pagan rituals. He was crowned the Sunhero, which was a very dubious honor…
and unless he could escape, he would be the guest of honor at a fertility rite which would conclude with his very unpleasant death.

Strange Relations: Five novelettes of unbounded imagination telling of strange and often deadly encounters between human and alien.

Venus on the Half-Shell and Others

Venus on the Half Shell and Others collects for the first time the best of the best from Philip Jos Farmer’s scintillating ‘fictional author period.’In the mid 1970s a fever pitched furor was created when an actual novel purported to be by Kilgore Trout the sadsack science fiction writer who appears as a character in the works of Kurt Vonnegut materialized on the bookracks, complete with a mysterious back cover photo of the author looking like a bearded vagabond sage. Debate raged as to who had truly written Venus on the Half Shell. Was it Vonnegut himself, or perhaps Theodore Sturgeon, rumored to have been the inspiration for Trout? Or did Kilgore Trout really exist? Just as one respected newspaper published an article ‘proving’ that Vonnegut had written the book, the Hugo Award winning science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer announced he was the true author. The controversial Kilgore Trout episode was neither the first nor the last time Farmer would impishly slip out of his own skin and assume the persona of another author. In Venus on the Half Shell and Others, Philip Jose Farmer transforms himself into fictional personalities as compelling as they are diverse: Cordwainer Bird, Paul Chapin, Rod Keen, Harry ‘Bunny’ Manders, Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor, John H. Watson, M.D. and even the real life author William S. Burroughs writing his own version of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jungle Lord!. Also included is the original version of Farmer’s classic Sherlock Holmes/Lord Greystoke pastiche The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, back in print for the first time in over thirty years.A unique collection, Venus on the Half Shell and Others showcases the grand imagination of one of science fiction’s most resourceful and creative minds.

Dangerous Visions

Anthologies seldom make history, but Dangerous Visions is a grand exception. Harlan Ellison’s 1967 collection of science fiction stories set an almost impossibly high standard, as more than a half dozen of its stories won major awards not surpising with a contributors list that reads like a who’s who of 20th century SF: Samuel D. Delany, Philip K. Dick, Brian Aldiss, Roger Zelazny, Philip Jose Farmer, Fritz Leiber, Larry Niven and Robert Silverberg. Unavailable for 15 years, this huge anthology now returns to print, as relevant now as when it was first published.

Tales Of Riverworld

In a collection of new Riverworld stories, all the world’s dead awaken in Riverworld and play out the grand saga of human history by a new set of rules along the banks of the ten million mile river.

The Science Fiction Century

‘Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.’ So says David G. Hartwell in his introduction to The Science Fiction Century, an anthology spanning a hundred years of science fiction, from its birth in the 1890s to the future it predicted. David G. Hartwell is a World Fantasy Award winning editor and anthologist who has twice before redefined a genre first the horror field with The Dark Descent, then the subgenre of hard science fiction with The Ascent of Wonder, coedited with Kathryn Cramer. Now, Hartwell has compiled the mother of all definitive anthologies, guaranteed to change not only the way the science fiction field views itself but also the way the rest of literature views the field. The Science Fiction Century includes stories from the founding fathers of the field, such as H.G. Wells, C.S. Lewis, Jack London, and Rudyard Kipling; beloved mainstays of the genre, such as Philip Jos Farmer, Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, and Poul Anderson; noted female writers, including Connie Willis, Nancy Kress, and James Tiptree, Jr.; and writers who have hit their stride in the last two decades, such as Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Michael Swanwick, and James Morrow. Hartwell has also included writers widely recognized outside the genre, such as E.M. Forster, Michael Shaara, and John Crowley; and translations of foreign writers’ formative works, including Dino Buzzati and Wolfgang Jeschke. This is must have anthology for all literary interests.

Naked Came the Farmer

‘A human head crashes through a window. A naked woman zooms by on a motorcycle. A sleazy lawmaker gets an arrow in the back. ‘That’s life in central Illinois or at least the twisted version of central Illinois concocted by 13 writers collaborating on a tongue in cheek mystery.’ So writes Christopher Wills of the Associated Press in his recent article covering the new serial book, Naked Came the Farmer. Building on the success of NAKED CAME THE STRANGER a collaborative effort of 20 Newsday staffers back in 1969 and on the success of NAKED CAME THE MANATEE a suspense thriller cooked up by 13 Miami based writers in 1995 now comes Naked Came the Farmer, a satirical, round robin murder mystery drawing on the talents of some of Illinois’ top writers.

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