John Russell Fearn

When gambler Smoke Cavendish is attacked and robbed of his poker winnings, his assailants leave him to die in the desert. Determined to survive, he stumbles into Hell's Acres--a town of desolation--where the townsfolk are under the boot of Mark Tarlton and his ruthless gunhawks. There, Smoke meets beautiful Trixie Lee, but soon he clashes with Tarlton and finds himself gambling for the highest stakes--his life and the life of the woman he loves.

> Professor Renhard dies accidentally whilst experimenting with a machine that destroys dust. Meanwhile, when Dr. Anderson operates on a young woman, an accidental slip of the surgeon's knife leads to more than her death. The girl's brother, Gaston Renhard's manservant, festers with revenge and incriminates Anderson, who is eventually judged as certified insane. When he is then incarcerated in an asylum, Gaston's revenge is complete. However only Dr. Anderson could avert the catastrophic consequences of Renhard's mad experiments....

For his latest invention, physicist Mason Brooks needs financial backing. To this end he invites his wealthy sister Vera and her fiancé Dr. Douglas Ashfield to witness a demonstration. There is an explosion and the experiment goes horribly wrong. Vera is not only blinded but has lost her eyes entirely. Then, to restore her sight, Vera undergoes a dangerous surgical experiment which results in plunging all three of them into an astonishing web of mystery and intrigue.

A rediscovered classic of cosmic horror by John Russell Fearn. The obscure village of Coxwold had suddenly become the centre of attention of every daily newspaper. People from all over had descended upon it, investigating, questioning, and sending reports to London. Something had happened in a nearby wheat field which had reduced two normal, healthy men to insanity and death. The police, suspecting foul play, lacked any evidence. So what could it be that had driven the victims to madness?

Betty Shapley was a local beauty, for whose charms three young men fell heavily. But her coquetry would lead to death for one of her admirers, Herbert Pollitt; a fugitive's life for another, Vincent Gray; and becoming a murder-case witness for the third, Tom Clayton. Inspector Morgan and Sergeant Claythorne investigate the death, and suspect Vincent Grey. So Betty, former pupil of Roseway College for Young Ladies, asks Maria Black--the headmistress detective--to prove Grey's innocence.

When Ralph Black, chain store magnate, was found shot by his own gun in his locked library, the New York police pronounced it as suicide. However, family members believe it was murder. His sister in England, Maria Black, M.A., Headmistress of a girls' school, wants to discover the truth. She travels to America, and with her penchant for solving crimes, sets to work to trace the mysterious plot against her brother to the final unmasking of the amazing truth.

> Dr. Bland retires to his office to rest, complaining of a headache. But later, his fellow scientists find him slumped over his desk - dead. In his forehead is a round hole, edged with burn marks. He has apparently shot himself but there is no sign of a gun. The only clue is a copper bullet, of the type used in a .38 revolver. There is no cartridge cover - indicating that the bullet has been fired, and then put there ...

Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads, by Mary A. Turzillo Food for Friendship, by E.C. Tubb The Life Work of Professor Muntz, by Murray Leinster Tiny and the Monster, by Theodore Sturgeon Beyond Lies the Wub, by Philip K. Dick Pictures Don't Lie, by Katherine MacLean The Big Trip Up Yonder, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Storm Warning, by Donald A. Wollheim The Application of Discipline, by Jason Andrew Tom the Universe, by Larry Hodges Wild Seed, by Carmelo Rafala Tabula Rasa, by Ray Cluley The Eyes of Thar, by Henry Kuttner Regenesis, by Cynthia Ward Not Omnipotent Enough, by George H. Scithers and John Gregory Betancourt Plato's Bastards, by James C. Stewart Pen Pal, by Milton Lesser Living Under the Conditions, by James K. Moran The Arbiter, by John Russell Fearn The Grandmother-Granddaughter Conspiracy, by Marissa Lingen Top Secret, by David Grinnell Sense of Obligation, by Harry Harrison Angel's Egg, by Edgar Pangborn Youth, by Isaac Asimov Anthem, by Ayn Rand

In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, a provocative and often startlingly funny memoir about the cataclysm of motherhood. Widely acclaimed, the book started hundreds of arguments that continue to this day. Now, in her most personal and relevant book to date, Cusk explores divorce's tremendous impact on the lives of women. An unflinching chronicle of Cusk's own recent separation and the upheaval that followed―"a jigsaw dismantled"―it is also a vivid study of divorce's complex place in our society. "Aftermath" originally signified a second harvest, and in this book, unlike any other written on the subject, Cusk discovers opportunity as well as pain. With candor as fearless as it is affecting, Rachel Cusk maps a transformative chapter of her life with an acuity and wit that will help us understand our own.