In the hot weather at the height of the Long Vacation, solitary don Dr. Wiston observes his colleagues Born and Thomas conducting experiments in ESP on a room overlooking the college court. The devil finds work for idle hands and Dr. Wiston, with nothing better today, invites the melancholy Born to a sinister meal at which he introduces a darker element to his innocent colleague's unconscious. Now Born is haunted by the black stone mirror, the Devil's Looking-Glass, once owned by - among others - the Elizabethan magus Dr. John Dee. As Thomas loses control of his subject to Wiston, events move helter-skelter to a terrifying climax in the British Museum. Cover art by Alan Powers.
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Guardian: John Saul
$12.00MaryAnne Carpenter, newly separated and raising her two children, receives the news that her friends the Wilkersons have died suddenly and their only child - MaryAnne's god child - is orphaned. Was it a chance, tragic mishap that took their lives? Or was it murder? Joey Wilkerson is a sad, silent adolescent harbouring secrets that are nightmarish beyond MaryAnne's imaginings and as early winter closes in on the Wilkersons' beautiful, lonely ranch, Joey's sly secretiveness and volatile temper begin to fill MaryAnne with fear. Soon a series of horrific murders draw ever closer to the family, killings that defy solution by a desperate police force and MaryAnne begins to know the true meaning of terror. Cover art by Danilo Ducek.
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On a planet at the edge of a galaxy long torn by devastating wars, a man is assigned to monitoring duties - to detect any sign of aggressiveness that might trigger another conflict. In fulfilling this task, Lewis Orne, interplanetary troubleshooter, discovers within himself extrasensory powers of awesome potential. His new powers get him an invitation to join the company of 'gods' and he must face complex and perilous rites of passage in deep space. Cover art by Bruce Pennington. -
2010 - almost the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. The remains of the great ocean liner lie 4 kilometres down on the Grand Banks of the Atlantic Ocean, an endless reminder of man's technological frailty in the face of natural perils. But now, the urge to raise the wreck is irrestistible. From the West comes one solution; from the East another. Both are marvels of technological imagination; both can succeed. But there are other powers at work and the wreck may yet hold a surprise or two for those who would return her to the eyes of the world. -
If the Black Death of 1948 had killed three-quarters of the population of Europe instead of one-quarter - what would have happened to the world? Europe, weakened by such a catastrophe, would probably have been conquered by the Turks and the Americas would have remained in the hands of the Aztecs, Incas and other tribes. In this alternate world, 18 year-old Dan Beauchamp of New Istanbul (London) sets off the make his fortune in Mexico where the mighty Aztecs rule. When he arrives he hears that the nephew of King Moctezuma XII will reward followers who help him build a new empire and he joins the expedition to the Upper Hesperides, travelling in coal-powered Aztec automobiles. When this mad venture turns out badly, Dan becomes involved in other glittering schemes for winning golden empires, bringing him many marvellous and funny adventures on the way. Cover art by Terry Oakes. -
A book about the author's journey to find Fiji - the REAL Fiji, not that which is presented to the tourists. He found a gold mine beneath an extinct volcano; the annual sugar can harvest; the copra plantations; he saw Fijians, Indians and Chinese studying together in technical college to gain skills that would speed the development of their community. He bargained with merchants in duty-free shops and discovered the romantic legends of Fiji and conversed with wood carvers and a Fijian public servant charged with the duty of developing tourist industry to help the progress of the people. He spent time with island trading boat captains, Sugar Queens and royal Fijian chiefs. With black and white photographs. -
This 1959 omnibus edition features three Gregory Sallust adventures: Black August: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. X: England, involved through the ruin of other countries, is faced with financial collapse and revolution, bringing panic, street-fighting and an uncontrolled exodus from the cities to the countryside, where bands of starving people wander, pillaging for food. Out of the terror and the bloodshed steps Gregory Sallust, to take the leadership of a group of men and women seeking only to survive: to lead them through bitter hardship and terrible hazard to a rural settlement which they fortify against invasion, and which, at first, seems reasonably secure...N.B. This is the first Gregory Sallust adventure published but it comes in at 10 for chronological order. Contraband: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. I. There was menace in the night skies over England: an international smuggling racket with far-reaching political implications. Gregory Sallust knew nothing of this when, in the Casino at Deuville, he first saw the beautiful Sabine Sventy. Even the presence beside her of Lord Gavin Fortescue - a man as rich as he was evil - gave him no warning of the violence and danger to which he was committed from that very moment, nor that he would have to save Sabine from a retribution that she ha surely earned. The Island Where Time Stands Still: Gregory Sallust Adventure No. IX. On a pleasure cruise in the South Seas, Sir Pellinore Gwaine-Cust's yacht hits a coral reef and sinks. Only one survivor is washed ashore - Gregory Sallust. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself among a community of Chinese, ruled by the descendants of the ancient Imperial House. Within days, the throne becomes vacant and Gregory joins an expedition to find the true heir - a hazardous search that takes him deep into the forbidden heart of China. -
Young Robert Lomax, fed up with working on a rubber plantation in Malaya, takes a year off to live in Hong Kong and paint. He doesn't know if he's got what it takes, but he wants to try. He takes a room at the Nam Kok Hotel - it's cheap, clean and on the waterfront. And it's interesting. He's the only resident who rents his room by the month - the Nam Kok is host to a group of bar girls who ply their trade in rooms rented by the hour. The American sailors, their customers, are their 'boyfriends' who give them 'presents' of money. Suzie's imagination is such that she is sometimes 'Mei-Ling' - a daughter of a very old, very wealthy Chinese family. To have such dreams makes her life tolerable. Robert begins dating an English nurse but finds himself comparing her reserve to Suzie's lively personality and intriguing mix of worldliness and naivety. Suzie, together with the other girls in the bar are his muses but it's Suzie that he loves. However, will love be enough to overcome the prejudice they will encounter in the English and Hong Kong society of the 1950s? A classic modern novel. Cover art of this edition by Harry Toothill. -
Tetherstones: Ethel M. Dell
$25.00An aging spinster has her head turned by a charismatic opportunist and is initially flattered - but misgivings soon set in. One night she finds herself lost in the cold, wet fog alone with him and through the help of a blind girl makes her escape. She is taken in to convalesce at a farm called Tetherstones, located near some old druid stones, a scene of a past tragedy and home to family secrets. The master of Tetherstones is a large brute of a man, more gladiator than farmer, and the heroine finds herself strangely attracted by him. Is a new start possible for either one of them or will the past win out?
