John Russell Fearn

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  • Bibliography:
    248 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    March 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Clayton Drew

1 - Emperor of Mars (Jun-2015)
2 - Warrior of Mars (Jun-2015)
3 - Red Men of Mars (Jun-2015)
4 - Goddess of Mars (Jun-2015)

The Golden Amazon Saga

1 - World Beneath Ice (Oct-2012)
2 - Lord of Atlantis (Nov-2012)
3 - Triangle of Power (Nov-2012)
4 - The Amethyst City (Dec-2012)
5 - Daughter of the Amazon (Jan-2013)
6 - Quorne Returns (Apr-2013)
7 - The Central Intelligence (May-2013)
8 - The Cosmic Crusaders (May-2013)
9 - Parasite Planet (May-2013)
10 - World Out of Step (May-2013)
11 - The Shadow People (May-2013)
12 - Kingpin Planet (Jun-2013)
13 - World in Reverse (Jul-2013)
14 - Dwellers in Darkness (Oct-2013)
15 - World in Duplicate (Jan-2014)
16 - Lords of Creation (Dec-2013)
17 - Duel with Colossus (Feb-2016)
18 - Standstill Planet (Jun-2016)
19 - Ghost World (Jun-2016)
20 - Earth Divided (Aug-2017)

Liners of Time

1 - Liners of Time (Nov-2016)
2 - Zagribud (Aug-2017)

Book List in Order: 248 titles

  • The Golden Amazon

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    Harlequin Romance - 218

    A FICTION HOUSE PRESS REPRINT: An outlaw of space, she was, with the strength of ten men. Here is an interplanetary story that will fill you with enthusiasm. She whipped the man she loved ... then rescued him from death. This is the Golden Amazon in ...

  • Merridrew Follows the Trail

  • Manton's World

    Randle Manton has brought the Earth back from the brink of nuclear disaster, painstakingly rebuilding a nearly destroyed civilization, even reaching out to space. But now he's told that the clouds covering the world will soon unleash upon the ree...

  • Liquid Death and other Stories

    JOHN RUSSELL FEARN began his writing career as a pioneer in the science fiction field, appearing in all of the American pulp science fiction magazines in the early 1930s. However, many of his fans don't know that Fearn was also a prolific and success...

  • The Tattoo Murders

    'Mary,' 'Ian,' 'Lil.' Three rather ordinary names. But when these names are each found tattooed on the backs of three murder victims, they are steppingstones on a murder trail that baffles Scotland Yard investigators. A story that grips from first pa...

  • Flashpoint

    Gordon Drew's return to his home town coincides with a baffling series of fires and murders. Drew finds himself secretary to a Dr. Carruthers, an eccentric scientist and investigator, who helps the police solve the mystery of the fires. Meanwhile, ...

  • The Intelligence Gigantic

    Three scientists proposed to construct a synthetic man, endowed with some five times the intelligence of the ordinary human being. This creature matures quickly, and eventually there steps into being a synthetic man -- "The Intelligence Gigantic." Hi...

  • Maria Marches on

    John Russell Fearn (1908-1960) was an extremely prolific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective storie...

  • Deadline

    Gordon Fryer finds employment as a scientific guinea pig and assistant to the scientist Dr. Royd. But the result of the experiment predicts the hour and day of his death - a mere thirteen years hence. Fryer makes a deadly enemy of Royd's butler, Bles...



  • Stranger in Our Midst

    After being rescued from an attacker by a mysterious man who called himself 'Thomas Smith', ace newspaper reporter Glenda Carlyle scented a story. Who was he? And what was he doing in London? She found him to be a man of contradictions - at times dif...

  • Framed in Guilt

    William Barridge, meek and mild solicitor's clerk, is found lying on the floor of his employer's locked office with a knife in his back. But how could a man so innocuous have had any enemies...? When Superintendent Henshaw investigates, however, it b...

  • The Master Must Die

    Gyron de London, a powerful industrialist of the year 2190, receives a letter warning him of his doom on the 30th March, three weeks hence. Despite his precautions - being sealed in a guarded, radiation-proof cube - he dies on the specified day, as f...

  • The Lonely Astronomer

    The great Metropolitan Observatory is the pride of 22nd century engineering and science. When the astronomer Dr. Henry Brunner is found there, battered and strangled to death, there are four suspects with reasons to hate him. Scientific detective Ada...

  • Man in Duplicate

    Playboy millionaire Harvey Bradman is set an ultimatum by his fiancée: before she marries him, he must carry out some significant, courageous act. Amazingly, the next day the newspa­pers carry a full report of Harvey's heroic rescue of a woman from...

  • Hell's Acres

    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 wanders until he stumbles into the town of Hell's Acres....

  • Rattenbury Mystery

    When the infamous theatrical agent Amos Rattenbury is found stabbed to death in his London office, the weight of suspicion falls on Dorene Grey, a young actress. Assistant Commissioner, Sir Digby Hilton of Scotland Yard, is assigned to find the missi...

  • Black Maria, M.A.

    When Ralph Black, chain store magnate, is found shot by his own gun in his locked library in his palatial home, the New York Police Department pronounces it suicide. However, his family members believe he was murdered. His sister in England, Maria Bl...

  • One Step Too Far

    Claire Escott had ignored her father's warning against involvement with her fiance, Mark Rowland. However, she little realized the extent of the scientist's corroding ambition. And it was not long after their marriage that Rowland's ruthless pursuit ...

  • The Thirty-First Of June

    There were six people in millionaire Nick Clayton's limousine when it left a country house party to return to London: Clayton himself, and his girlfriend Bernice Forbes; Horace Dawlish, his imperturbable servant and driver; the unhappily married fina...



  • The Frozen Limit

    Defying the edict of the Medical Council., Dr. Robert Cranston, helped by Dr. Campbell, carries out an unauthorised medical experiment with a 'deep freeze' system of suspended animation. The volunteer is Claire Baxter, an attractive film stunt-girl. ...

  • One Remained Seated

    Maria Black, M.A., Principal of Roseway College for Young Ladies, does not expect to come face to face with murder in her favorite cinema, when a stranger seated in Number 11 on Row A is found to be dead--shot through the head with a copper bullet! T...

  • Secret of the Ring

    On his release from Newgate jail, Dick Palmer rides off to seek a new life outside London. However, when he arrives in the village of High Beach to rest, he is framed for murder. Jeanette aids his escape, but like his father, he is forced to become a...

  • Other Eyes Watching

    Plunging into the dark mysteries of the fourth dimension, Dr. Douglas Ashfield and a beautiful girl find themselves beset by the cosmic chaos which sweeps Manhattan in 1970!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first Br...

  • I Spy...

    When Curtis Drew discovers 'pure' television - invisible Z-rays which have the potential to receive and record any situation, anywhere - nothing is private anymore. Immoral acts and hidden crimes can all be exposed. Soon, Drew becomes a scientific 'p...

  • Fool's Paradise

    When Milly Morton, confidential secretary to industrialist Mortimer Bland, deliberately smashes several astronomical plates created by Anton Drew, she does more than express her pique against Bland's Chief Scientist. She also destroys irreplaceab...

  • The Spiked Boy

    Dick Palmer and Will Snell become fugatives from the law when members of a mysterious gang of murderers and kidnappers use their names to frame them. Then, when the gang kidnap Palmer's wife, the two friends are plunged into a deadly struggle to resc...

  • The Slitherers

    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 ...

  • Man of Two Worlds

    What happened to Walter Cardish, epicenter of a freak storm in the Lake District? The source of the strange lightning that struck him was a complete mystery, but only until its curious mental effect on Cardish became apparent....

  • The Atlantic Tunnel

    Deep beneath the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, scientists and engineers attempt the most daring and audacious scientific project of all time: the construction of an undersea tunnel between Great Britain and Canada; linking Land's End with Labrador. Ca...



  • Nebula

    Physicist Lance Barley couldn't explain the presence of a half naked woman in his laboratory. The consequences would be serious for him. He knew the laboratory had been securely locked. However, following completion of his experiment, the lights had ...

  • The Lie Destroyer

    Did it ever occur to you what might happen if you found yourself compelled to tell the truth for the rest of your life, because all power of telling a lie was gone? It would seem that since a great bulk of our society is built upon sham and pretense,...

  • Prisoner of Time

  • Miracle Man

    When the President elect of the Bureau of Advanced Science, Dr. Mark Haslam, encounters Esau Jones, he's astonished to learn that Jones can perform apparent miracles. Yet, despite his amazing gifts, Jones is content to remain anonymous, living the li...

  • Fires of Vengeance

    When Clem Dawlish and Amos Grant discover a valuable oil field near the town of Carterville, they plan to eliminate the ranchers and homesteaders in order to stake their claim. They create a phantom to head a gang of outlaws and destroy the ranchers....

  • Multi-Man

    Arising from the startling experiments of research biologist Jeffrey Dexter there emerges a creature capable of endless reproduction, but possessing none of reservations of a natural human being. Dexter and his friend, Hal Walsh, are soon murdered, s...

  • The Red Insects

    Nick Hansley and his young wife and father-in-law soon find that The Cedars, the isolated country house Ena has inherited, has more than just a sinister appearance -- it radiates a positively evil aura. Soon after moving in, they are visited by a str...

  • The Gold of Akada

    When Harry Perrivale wanted to find the legendary lost city of Akada, his expedition to the African jungle included his native bearers, his wife Rita and trader Caleb Moon. But Harry faced mortal danger as Moon had his own dark plans for the treasure...

  • Return to Akada

    Rich widow Rita Perrivale returns to the coast of West Africa on a new expedition to the legendary lost city of Akada and its treasures. She only survived the first, disastrous expedition due to the help of Anjani, a white man, raised in the jungle b...

  • Glimpse

    When Jeffrey Collins stops his car to help an injured motorcyclist, the hurt man vanishes before his eyes! Collins approaches a scientist, Dr. Whittaker, for an explanation. But when Whittaker is found dead from poisoning, Collins is accused of murde...



  • A Thing of the Past

    Something is wrong in England. In and around the London area, people are suddenly becoming bad-tempered, with a rapid increase in crime and murder, and a clear decline in self-respect. Linked to this strange behavior is an excavation site, now a migh...

  • The Black Terror

    Troubled man Martin Clegg has always suffered from dreams which seem intensely real. In them, bizarrely, he's another person - not of this Earth He's finally forced to confide in his fiancee, Elsie Barlow, and they consult Martin's scientifically in...

  • Death Asks the Question

    A Complete Novelette of Ticking Doom. The Tortured Beat of a Palpitating Heart Tolls the Tocsin of Disaster!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazine...

  • A Case for Brutus Lloyd

    Dr. Brutus Lloyd is no more than four feet ten inches tall, an amazingly gnome-like man. He's not a dwarf, simply vest-pocket size. His head has a brow like a baby cliff, capped by a tuft of jet-black hair that curled down the immense forehead. H...

  • Here And Now

    At the height of a thunderstorm, Chris Danvers, amateur TV broadcaster, witnesses on his screen the vision of a gorgeously beautiful woman--a woman who doesn't speak English or any known foreign language. When he manages to reach her again, he ma...

  • 1,000-Year Voyage

    The Dictator of Earth and his retinue have been banished into deep space on a 1,000-year voyage of no return to Alpha Centauri. The spacecraft has been completely automated to prevent tampering with the controls, and in any case, all of the original ...

  • Lonely Road Murder

    Rosemary Lennox is horrified to find her best friend and neighbour, Mary Francis, strangled in her flat and it's not long before her husband, John Francis, is also murdered there too. When Rosemary attempts to investigate, she discovers that all the ...

  • Haunted Gallery

    Baffling robberies from locked rooms, cunning crimes and mysterious murders...these were all part of the stock-in-trade of Miss Victoria Lincoln, private detective. Called in to investigate the case of the Haunted Gallery, she had occasion to call on...

  • What Happened To Hammond? A Scientific Mystery

    How could a dead body travel some fifty miles almost instaneously through a mist-enshrouded winter night? The dour British police Inspector Garth can deal effectively enough with more mundane problems, but the riddle of Hammond's transportation is be...

  • From Afar

    Richard Shaw thinks he's been blessed when he and his new bride Beryl survive a car smash. Both make rapid recoveries from their injuries, both have apparently fully recovered. But Beryl is strangely changed. As the doctor tells Richard: “As far as...



  • The G-Bomb

    Despite being the cleverest man on Earth, Jonas Glebe becomes the unwitting tool of a baleful intelligence. He hopes that his new invention, the G-Bomb, will bring riches to himself and his daughter Margaret--but instead, it brings death, and a deadl...

  • The Space Warp

    In Annex 10 in the Adirondack Mountains in New York, the scientists under the leadership of astronomer Dr. Gray can hardly believe the things their instruments are telling them; but, because their equipment is absolutely reliable, they HAVE to believ...

  • Bury the Hatchet

    George Carter and his wife and two teenage daughters are just an ordinary family, living peacefully in the small British town of Uphill. But then they hear a bulletin that a homicidal maniac is in the area, reportedly toting a suitcase with a broken ...

  • Into the Unknown

    A laboratory accident suddenly sends four modern-day humans backwards in time, their individual organic bodies almost untouched by the phenomenon, while the physical world around them gradually retreats through the ages. Onward and onward they caree...

  • One Way Out

    On a train trip to Scotland with his chief clerk Martin Lee, London financier Morgan Dale is suddenly confronted by his embittered ex-Secretary, whom he's recently sacked. Janice Elton had once been obsessed with him, but the happily married Dale...

  • Robbery Without Violence

    In "Robbery Without Violence," gold worth fifty million pounds vanishes overnight from an impregnable bank vault, Chief Inspector Hargraves of Scotland Yard finds himself completely baffled. And when the owner of the bank then dies under myst...

  • Slaves of Ijax

    A scientist’s vengeance propels Peter Curzon seven hundred years into the future, where he finds himself in a very mysterious world. Science has banished the need to work in order to earn money, and people only pursue activities as a vocation and b...

  • Within That Room! A Mystery Of Horror

    "Dick opened the door again swiftly, Vera clinging to him--and they were so astounded at what they saw that he forgot for the moment to slam the door shut again. For the phantom was there--clearly visible in the sunlight, which now blazed across the ...

  • Dynasty of the Small

    Mankind was being assailed by a disease that made the Bubonic Plague seem insignificant. People were dying by the thousands, especially in America and in England. They would choke, strangle to death, and then, horribly, burst apart as if blown up by ...

  • The Time Trap

    There are six people in millionaire Nick Clayton's limousine when it leaves a country home to return to London: Clayton himself; his girlfriend, Bernice; Dawlish, his driver; the unhappily married financier Harvey Brand and his wife, Lucy; and th...

  • The Man from Hell

    This volume collects four classic tales from the SF pulp magazines by a master of the genre! THE MAN FROM HELL... From top to bottom the Brant Building became insubstantial, like the illusion of a dream world. It hung transparent, incredible, for a...

  • Last Conflict

    This first book publication of three exciting novelettes from science fiction’s Golden Age includes: LAST CONFLICT, in which an artificial storm of incredible violence--a storm that destroys London and all its environs--reveals the rise of a ruthle...

  • Rule of the Brains

    This volume collects four classic SF tales from the pulp era! THE RULE OF THE BRAINS... After many years spent in wars and struggle, mankind had achieved a perfect civilization. But this Utopia was going directly against the adaptive strain Nature ...

  • Something from Mercury

    It came originally from the merciless, frost-bound wilderness of the night side of Mercury, the hellish planet nearest to the Sun. But when space explorer Harry Dagenham brings a long-dead, petrified snake--or something--back to Earth from Mercury, h...

  • The Copper Bullet

    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 o...

  • Fugitive of Time

    Gordon Fryer, a young, unemployed engineer, finds a post as a scientific guinea pig and assistant to an elderly scientist, Dr. Royd. But the result of Royd’s experiment predicts the exact hour and day of Gordon's death--a mere thirteen years hence-...

  • Legacy from Sirius

    When a young scientist discovers how to foreshorten space by using higher dimensions, it opens up the possibilities for almost instantaneous interstellar travel, initially using unmanned probes. The first probe returns with stellar gas samples from a...

  • Anjani the Mighty

    Anjani returns! in this direct sequel to The Gold of Akada, Rita Perrivale, widow of an English explorer, goes back to the coast of West Africa. Having inherited her husband's fortune, she spares no expense on this new venture to loot the legendary l...

  • The Man Who Stopped the Dust

    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....

  • World Beneath Ice

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 1

    The sun is dying. Astronomers can see that the Earth will soon become a frozen planet. All life will vanish from the surface, and the sea and air will freeze, as the light of the sun dwindles to that of a full moon. Mankind is forced to retreat under...

  • The Genial Dinosaur

    Clifford Brooks and his wife Joan believe that 'Herbert,' the frisky dinosaur who'd saved their lives in A THING OF THE PAST, has been lost forever in the Earth's underworld. But to their amazement, he returns to the surface of the Ea...

  • Lord of Atlantis

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 2

    Way out in the Atlantic, a gigantic ridge of land has arisen from the ocean floor, causing America and Europe to be hit with massive tidal waves. But this is only the prelude to an even more unprecedented event: an invasion of both continents by hord...

  • Triangle of Power

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 3

    To the peoples of Earth, it had seemed the perfect marriage when Violet Ray Brant--better known as The Golden Amazon--and Abna of Atlantis were wed in Westminster Abbey. But it was nothing of the kind, and before long Abna found himself betrayed and ...

  • Thy Arm Alone

    Betty Shapley was a local beauty, for whose charms three young men fell heavily. But she never expected that her coquetry would lead to the sudden and horrifyingly brutal death of one of her admirers, the shy, inoffensive Herbert Pollitt--plus the li...

  • The Amethyst City

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 4

    The human-occupied planets in the Solar System, Earth and Mars, are suddenly threatened with a space-borne plague that rusts and destroys all metals. If the "disease" continues unchecked, all of civilization is threatened. Behind this insidio...

  • Daughter of the Amazon

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 5

    Tarnec Brodix, super-mathematician from an external cosmos, accidentally destroys his universe. The destruction begins to spread into our own cosmos in the form of a Dark Tide of Absolute Nothingness, destroying all light and heat. Stars, nebulae, ga...

  • Quorne Returns

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 6

    The bacterial intelligences of Neptune plan to conquer Earth by replacing humans in key positions with alien duplicates. A disturbing new element is introduced when the Neptunians themselves fall under the dictates of the sinister Sefner Quorne, whom...

  • Valley of Pretenders

    The ship suddenly jolted slightly and became still. The throbbing of the tremendous rocket engines ceased; the vessel lay in the half-shade of towering trees that stretched upwards to surprising heights against the slight gravity. The multiple lights...

  • World Without Chance

    SF Author Stanley G. Weinbaum died from cancer at 33, in December 1935. Short though his career was, his scientific imagination, smooth characterization, and humor completely revolutionized the field, and profoundly influenced his contemporaries. Amo...

  • The Central Intelligence

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 7

    The Golden Amazon’s arch-enemy, Sefner Quorne, discovers that all mental gifts, such as memory and creativity, are not inherent in human brains and mental make-up, but are something that is broadcast throughout the universe by a Central Intelligenc...

  • The Cosmic Crusaders

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 8

    The unfolding story of the Golden Amazon enters a new phase when she renounces all ties with the Earth, the planet of her birth. Together with her husband Abna, former Lord of Jupiter, and their daughter Viona, she sets off in the Ultra on an explora...

  • Parasite Planet

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 9

    Reaching another solar system, the three Cosmic Crusaders discover a fantastic world of mental parasites drawing form and substance from our own Earth, fifty light years away. The planet is ruled by a being identical to the Golden Amazon herself--but...

  • The Shadow People

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 11

    The Cosmic Crusaders discover a planet whose people are subject to a baleful influence from outer space that sweeps across their world once a month, affecting every man, woman, and child. It stirs the emotions of the sexes against each other: men wan...

  • World Out of Step

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 10

    The Cosmic Crusaders find themselves on a truly strange world--a misfit planet that seems mysteriously cursed. Instead of evolving naturally from birth to death, it's a world out of step with the universe, leaping ahead into the future at unexpected ...

  • Kingpin Planet

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 12

    The Cosmic Crusaders are plunged into a strange new space, where all the probabilities of electronic law are strangely altered, a complete and stunning inversion of all so-called natural laws. They discover the mysterious silver planet of Tuca, and d...

  • World in Reverse

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 13

    Continuing their cosmic crusade among the stars, the Golden Amazon and her three companions discover a planet in another space where intelligent beings are being created, not through normal biological processes, but spontaneously, fully-grown, fashio...

  • Account Settled

    When financier Emerson Drew's hired killer pushes scientist-inventor Rajek Quinton down an abandoned mineshaft, Drew and his conspirators believe that the way's clear to exploit Quinton's amazing new invention, which will make them millio...

  • Dwellers in Darkness

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 14

    Voyaging into a sector of interstellar space that is plunged into total darkness with an absolute absence of any light, the four Cosmic Crusaders encounter their most powerful and sinister enemy yet--an alien mastermind who is regarded as a God by th...

  • Ghost Canyon

    When drifter Terry Carlton encounters the little town of Verdure in Arizona, he’s only seeking hospitality and shelter for the night before moving on. But what he learns from his hosts, old man Marchland and his daughter Hilda, piques his curiosity...

  • Lords of Creation

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 16

    At first, it appeared to be a sun, forming in space where none had existed before. It kindled as an atomic fire, sustaining itself by the breakdown of fusion energies. Then, even as the Cosmic Crusaders watched, the newly-created sun was no longer ju...

  • World in Duplicate

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 15

    In the depths of the Milky Way, the Cosmic Crusaders encounter yet another mysterious planet-this time a world that appears to be a duplicate of Earth, birthplace of the Golden Amazon! Their investigations uncover a sinister plot by an alien race, th...

  • Chamber of Centuries

    After their whirlwind marriage and honeymoon, Jane and Dick went to their new home in rural England...a gloomy place rumored to be haunted. A creepy house, strange neighbors, and newlyweds -- quite a mix! A classic tale by John Russell Fearn, author ...

  • Adam Quirk #1

    Gyron de London, most powerful--and most hated--industrialist of the year 2190, is warned by a mysterious letter that his doom is due on the 30th March, three weeks hence. Further anonymous letters repeat the message. The frightened tycoon takes ever...

  • Before Earth Came

    BEFORE EARTH CAME launches a new series collecting the early pioneering pulp magazine novelettes of John Russell Fearn, with the first-ever reprinting of "Before Earth Came" and "Subconscious." Both stories abound with unbridled imagination and a sen...

  • The Master Must Die

    Gyron de London, most powerful--and most hated--industrialist of the year 2190, is warned by a mysterious letter that his doom is due on the 30th March, three weeks hence. Further anonymous letters repeat the message. The frightened tycoon takes ever...

  • Adam Quirke #2

    The great Metropolitan Observatory is the pride of 22nd century engineering and science. When the astronomer Dr. Henry Brunner is found there, battered and strangled to death, there are four suspects present with reason to hate him: his immediate ass...

  • 2000 Years On

    Jeremy Clyde is a young scientist who discovers that Time is a circle, and that deep within the human brain is a memory 'hangover' of future and past events. He carries out an experiment on himself and succeeds in mentally projecting his body 2,000 y...

  • The Avenging Martian

    A cosmic atrocity of the ancient past-the murder of the planet Mars by Venusian super-scientists who strip the planet of its air and water, leaving only a handful of survivors on a dying world! Martian scientist Jad Inicus embarks on am amazing schem...

  • Black Bargain

    Earth is enveloped in what seems at first to be to be a harmless cloud of cosmic dust. But it leaves behind a deadly disease, dooming every human being on Earth unless an antidote can be found. Medical experts strive to find this antidote, but have t...

  • Black-Wing of Mars

    Max Harborn and his wife Eva, the first space explorers to visit Mars, discover an almost dead world of endless deserts. Lifeless, that is, except for a few curious Martian moths, paradoxically existing in the absence of vegetation and water. Two of ...

  • The Black Avengers

    Dayton Raslor, owner by inheritance of a successful spaceship corporation, is imprisoned in a penal colony on Jupiter for a crime he didn't commit. He had been framed by three ruthless industrialists on Earth who are plotting to take over his Spacel...

  • Cataclysm

    Troubled Martin Clegg has always suffered from dreams which seem intensely real. In them, bizarrely, he's another person not of this Earth! He's finally forced to confide in his fiancée, Elsie Barlow, and they consult Martin's scientifically incline...

  • Cosmic Exodus

    Following a civil war in 1971, England is a dystopia controlled by a ruthless dictator whose fiendish schemes include turning cadavers into robots with the help of Dr. Azimov of Vienna. But the dictator's plans pale before those of Brenda Norcross, a...

  • Deadline to Pluto

    The remains of an exploded radio-active planet reach the outer solar system in the course of their plunge across interstellar space. A massive fragment crashes into Pluto. Earth's scientists determine that it is set to mutate into pure energy which w...

  • Decreation

    When Dr. Mark Haslam encounters Esau Jones, he's astonished to learn that Jones can perform apparent miracles. But despite his amazing gift of complete mastery of mind over matter, Jones is content to remain anonymous, living the life of a country ru...

  • The Devouring Fire

    The advent of space travel with a prototype spaceship using atomic propulsion ignites the Earth's upper atmosphere, causing hot invisible gases to sweep down and make contact with the Earth's surface. Every area touched becomes incandescent. A young ...

  • Earth 2

    Into a world armed to the teeth there suddenly comes a strange gospel of disarmament. Briefed to investigate the intrigue is Sidney Boyd of MI5, and from a murdered diplomat his adventures take him to the fantastic Earth Two, an exact duplicate of ou...

  • I Came - I Saw - I Wondered

    An imaginative satire, telling of a benign Martian explorer comes to Earth to observe humanity-and is amazed to discover how Hollywood films and popular literature have engendered an irrational xenophobia and hatred of alien visitors. Befriended by a...

  • Inner Cosmos

    The experiments of an alien race who have migrated to Mars result in the death of their leader and lead to the Martians being overwhelmed by an invasion of beings from the microcosm...and, ultimately, to the creation of life on Earth! Exciting pulp a...

  • The Interloper

    Warfare between Earth, Venus and Mars is brewing, their hates being fanned by the sinister intrigues of a power-drunk armament baron, Chester Candris. Candrris is enamoured of Ann Urslor, the fiancée of a government official, Ken Hargraves. When Ha...

  • Laughter in Space

    Dr. Cranley is sentenced to exile in space for murdering a rival scientist, and swears revenge... Later, across the world people suddenly start behaving like lunatics, culminating in their being gripped by hysterical laughter until they collapse-dead...

  • The New Satellite

    The mysterious disintegration of the planet Mercury presaged mutational changes in the solar system. Next, the Moon followed Mercury into oblivion, bombarding Earth with giant meteors and causing more earthquakes. Then a giant metal globe that had ap...

  • Odyssey of Nine

    Ward Jackson and his wife make an incredible spaceship journey, exploring every planet in the solar system from Mercury to Pluto, in an attempt to unravel the cosmic mathematical mystery of the number 9 by finding machines and clues buried on each pl...

  • Operation Venus

    Two pilots crash their plane in the Brazilian jungle, becoming the prisoner of an English explorer who is ruling by fear the superstitious unknown race who inhabit the city. The fabulous city, protected by scientific means, had given rise to the lege...

  • Scourge of the Atom

    Martin Bond had an intriguing theory of Cosmic Descent, believing that the first intelligent life in the solar system evolved on the Moon, with the Selenites later migrating to Mars, after they had destroyed their civilization and the Moon following ...

  • A Time Appointed

    On her maiden voyage to Venus, the space liner Cosmic Cloud encounters a mysterious voice speaking through the void. The language is alien-but it is realised that danger threatens. Hardly has a recording been sent to Earth for expert interpretation b...

  • To The Ultimate

    The universe a creation of thought, a series of mathematical equations being worked out against a background of figurative abstract ether! Three men set out on an incredible voyage to the beginning of Time in search of the Supreme Mathematician who h...

  • Ultra Spectrum

    Under the cover of darkness and a violent storm, electrical engineer Sidney Cassell thought he'd committed the perfect murder. But immediately after pushing his rival to his death from atop a pylon, he himself is struck by a live high-voltage cable. ...

  • Worlds To Conquer

    Claire Escott had ignored her father's warning against involvement with her fiancé Mark Rowland. However, she little realised the extent of the scientist's corroding ambition when he invents a method of matter transmission. And it was not long after...

  • The Others

    Between the atoms of apparent solids there are spaces as comparably vast as those between this world and the nearest galaxy. Nature has ordained it that the atoms of countless worlds fit exactly into the spaces which are left between, in a great inte...

  • Emperor of Mars

    Clayton Drew - 1

    Snatched to Mars, captive of a flying saucer, Clayton Drew smashes his way through the forces of evil! In the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Emperor of Mars is the first volume of the Clayton Drew Quartet....

  • Goddess of Mars

    Clayton Drew - 4

    Drew and Princess Thalia conclusively defeat the evil warlord Lexas, foiling his plan to transfer his brain into her body. In the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Goddess of Mars is the final volume of the Clayton Drew Quartet....

  • Red Men of Mars

    Clayton Drew - 3

    Mars' Earth-born Emperor battles for survival! Mars is at peace for the first time in generations but its old warlord is still alive and a hidden race of Martians makes itself known, adding to the complexity of the situation threatening that peace. I...

  • Warrior of Mars

    Clayton Drew - 2

    Earthman Clayton Drew battles against the Martian Warlords who would destroy the world. In the grand tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warrior of Mars is the second installment in the Clayton Drew quartet....

  • Aftermath

    Suppose the war took a sudden turn for the worse from the scientific point of view? Suppose some bright scientist on the enemy side found a truly terrible weapon?" This was John Russell Fearn's main premise for Aftermath , written two years before t...

  • Born of Luna

    A deadly meteor swarm approaching the Earth activates ancient Lunar technology buried beneath Earth's surface that results in the birth of Raquilo, the last Selenite, who will save some humans from the meteor storm that millions of years ago destroye...

  • The Catalyst

    The planet Mercury. Forty million miles from the Sun, following his eccentric orbit, one side of him solid with the frost of untold cycles of time, the other molten whereon metals boiled and sizzled in the incredible heat of the sun. A world utterly ...

  • The Cosmic Flame

    Another classic tale from British SF pulp author John Russel Fearn, here writing as Vargo Statten. Originally published in 1950....

  • Dark Boundaries

    When Commander Herries of the Space Line began to sell the water of Mars as a 'potion' for lengthening life he had no idea that he was going to create the world's greatest thirst and produce havoc among the two social grades of Earth - the Inelligent...

  • The Eclipse Express

    Herbert Broadbent - 'Bart' to his colleagues of the Astronomical Photographic Division - frowned at the cryptic official radio message which had just been sent to him. It said briefly:Prepare for departure to Ceylon on February 26 to photograph total...

  • Exit Life

    "Hello Earth! Hello London!" But no reply was forthcoming to the message sent out by the spaceship in which the four pioneers had been exploring all the planets en route to Pluto, and which was now on its way back to London after two long years. Even...

  • The Grand Illusion

    Dudley Carnforth, gifted beyond the average with the 'gift of the gab', and also a 'jack-of-all-trades' scientific and master of none, decides that the time has come to end his grasshopper leaping from one job to another and do something really arres...

  • The Hell Fruit

    An interplanetary criminal (reminiscent of Leslie Charteris' character, The Saint) tries to foil a plot to flood Earth with an addictive Venusian fruit. Classic space opera!...

  • Inferno!

    In the year 2150 A.D. immortal Atlanteans living underground on the planet Saturn help a stranded astronaut and his girl friend overthrow the ruthless Earth dictator who tried to kill them....

  • The Last Martian

    Originally published in 1952, John Russell Fearn writes another classic pulp SF novel as Vargo Statten....

  • The Micro Men

    An intense human quietness was upon the laboratory. Annexed though it was to the rambling reaches of the Research Council Building, wherein experimental analyses from atomic power to weed-killer were taking place twenty-four hours a day, no external ...

  • Moons For Sale

    To believe in a scientific theory strongly enough to be willing to use one's own son as the 'guinea pig' is faith indeed!...

  • The Petrified Planet

    A super computer asked to answer the question "what is time?" freezes Earth and everything on it in a single moment in time....

  • Pioneer 1990

    From the ether came mysterious messages announcing that a hitherto unknown Englishman had conquered space, flown to Venus, and is now on his way back to Earth. The fact that science's most highly developed range and frequency finders are unable to pi...

  • The Purple Wizard

    To satisfy the belief of Professor Addison that Entropy can be controlled, to produce a backward and forward movement through the condition known as Time, Kitty Addison and her fiance, Arthur Davis, consent to being projected to the year correspondin...

  • The Renegade Star

    When the Solar System is doomed to absolute destruction by the close passage of a renegade star, super scientist Evelyn Stokes is Earth's only chance of survival....

  • The Sun Makers

    A dangerous experiment in physics to create a sun in miniature results in a strange invasion from the fourth dimension....

  • Wanderer of Space

    John Russell Fearn writing as Vargo Statten. An SF variant of Alexandre Dumas's The Man in the Iron Mask....

  • Wealth of the Void

    That a planetoid of solid gold might exist in the Solar System is not beyond scientific possibility, insofar that our own Earth is basic nickel-iron, so might another world - of smaller size perhaps - be of basic god. Such a world is ZK/70, a planeto...

  • Z Formations

    Using the secret motive power of a lost a lost flying saucer, physicist Micael Arnott, three companions and an escaped convict are flung into the void at eight times the speed of light to eventually land, after the oblivion of acceleration, upon a wo...

  • Deluge!

    There can only be one winner…Jeff Alroyd, a restless mining engineer, and the son of a renowned poker player, rides into Double Peak Valley seeking shelter for the night.He stumbles upon the hospitality of Morton Kemp, an old cattle farmer, and his...

  • Earth's Mausoleum

    "Another Wildside paperback original, continuing this new series collecting the early pioneering pulp magazine novelettes of John Russell Fearn, presenting the first-ever reprinting of ""Earth's Mausoleum,"" ""Metamorphosis,"" and ""Dark Eternity."" ...

  • Duel with Colossus

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 17

    From outside the universe comes a terrifying threat. A colossal spaceship materializes in the void, crewed by master scientists who have only one aim: the total destruction of the Earthly universe which, to them, is but a molecule in their macrocosm....

  • War of the Scientists

    Divided into six Zones, Mars became a giant scientific laboratory to advance Earth science. Then without warning furious warfare broke out... Classic pulp science fiction by a British master!...

  • The Dust Destroyer

    In cars, trains, buses and tube, the one topic of conversation was the black sky and mysterious disappearance of dust. It was remarkable, too, how incredibly well washed and neat everybody looked, from the grimiest labourer to the proprietress of a b...

  • Ghost World

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 19

    Continuing their interstellar voyages, the Cosmic Crusaders find a strange planet whose inhabitants are held in thrall by a baleful hypnotic influence, reinforced by a gigantic luminescent "face" in the sky, stretching across thousands of miles of...

  • Standstill Planet

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 18

    In their latest cosmic adventure, the Golden Amazon and her fellow Cosmic Crusaders fight to save the inhabitants of the planets of an alien solar system from destruction at the hands of the Zonians. Known as 'the Accursed Ones,' the Zonians are atte...

  • Liners of Time

    Liners of Time - 1

  • The Multillionth Chance

    Physicist Grant Mayson re-creates Iana, the wonder girl of long ago, out of scattered atoms -- but between them stands the memory of Anrax, long-dead master of science!...

  • The Man Who Sold the Earth

    Jacob Mastervil, money-master of the world, carefully planned his masterdeal -- the sale of an entire world! But a primeval race of super-scientists, long thought to be vanished from the surface of the Earth, aids Bruce Calthrop in revealing the true...

  • Earth Divided

    The Golden Amazon Saga - 20

    Centuries had passed by on Earth since the Golden Amazon, Abna and Viona -- the original Cosmic Crusaders -- had set off on the interstellar quest. Their adventures had led them to travel in time, and their breaking of the light-barrier had also a...

  • Zagribud

    Liners of Time - 2

    In this sequel to John Russell Fearn’s classic Liners of Time, Time Liner Pilot Sandford Lee continues his battle against Elnek Jelfel, the Jovian wizard of science intent on galactic domination. Zagribud carries out their contests against an inter...

  • Twilight of the Tenth World

    On the silent wings of thought flashed the monstrous message that panicked an already doomed and crumbling world -- “Earthlings! We, your masters have failed!”John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writ...

  • Interlink

    It's hard being a cop. It's even harder being a space cop. And it's especially difficult being a space cop when your fiancée is a space pirate!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in Am...

  • Space Trap

    When his fellow space-travelers revert to apes and his lovely fiancee vanishes, Ken Richmond grimly buckles on his ray gun and goes forth to break up an alarming conspiracy!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first Br...

  • Trap for a Killer

    JOHN RUSSELL FEARN (1908-1960) sold his first novel to the pulp magazine Amazing Stories, and quickly became a prolific and popular contributor to all of the American science fiction magazines of the day. Later he switched to the U.K. market, writing...

  • Laughter Out of Space

    It was a plague of laughter fits -- fits that left the sufferers dead. But what was the origin? And -- how could it be stopped?A classic science fiction tale by master John Russell Fearn, originally published in the July, 1940 pulp magazine Future F...

  • Microbes From Space

    There was no reason for buildings to fall, yet they did, filled with a weird murmuring... A science ficton classic, first published in the July 1939 issue of Amazing Stories magazine.John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one ...

  • A Summons from Mars

    Long-distance engagements are tricky even when both parties are on Earth. They're even more complicated when one of them lives on Earth, but the other on Mars!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers ...

  • Sweet Mystery of Life

    The lovely plant-girl who blossomed in the greenhouse of Harvey Maxted was an enigma that no human could fathom!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction maga...

  • The Ultimate Analysis

    Just as ruthless invaders from a far-off cosmic frontier are poised to invade the Earth, out of a curious experimental machine darts the perfect mathematical equation, loaded with potential destruction!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British a...

  • The Unbroken Chain

    Braving countless dangers, across hundreds of centuries and through a myriad past lives, Drath Gofal seeks knowledge!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction...

  • Vampire Queen

    “I’m mightier than the law!” Valeine Drew, Vampire Queen of the Starways, flung her challenge at the Interplanetary Patrol. Curt Stanley accepted the challenge -- and stepped directly into a Jovian space-trap from which there was no escape.John...

  • The Vicious Circle

    A young man caught in an ever widening circle of time with no hope of escape, tells of his desperate journey. Classic pulp science fiction from the author of the Golden Amazon series!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of th...

  • Wedding of the Forces

    The strange power that flowed through the brain of Ralph Davis was not of earthly origin, and he soon finds his own personality submerged under the influence of an alien enemy with dire plans for the enslavement of a world!John Russell Fearn (1908"...

  • Wings Across the Cosmos

    The last surviving member of a mghty race speeds through the void on a strange quest!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prol...

  • After the Atom

    Dr. Oswald Salsback believes that he holds in his grasp the vital genetic secret of preventing war for all time. But when an unexpected atomic blast hurls him into the future, he learns the bitter consequences of his discovery…John Russell Fearn (1...

  • The Arbiter

    The thing was of metal -- but it walked and thought like a man, and was a grim object of deadly peril and menace!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction mag...

  • Beast of the Tarn

    Revil Draycott had never really liked the cat, anyhow. It was too clever, too intelligent, and seemed to hurl constant reminders at him of the time when he had slain his wife and thrown her body into the bottomless depths of Gilpin’s Tarn. She had ...

  • Before Atlantis

    To a world surfeited with the majesty of advancing accomplishment war had come -- and gone. It had left but five million survivors scattered across the planet...John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writer...

  • Brain of Venus

    The malignant brain of a condemned criminal comes to life on another planet and radiates force-rays of madness and death.John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fic...

  • Chaos

    A young man's Physics experiment runs amok and destroys Atlantis. John Russell Fearn (1908–1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Always a highly prolific author, he...

  • The Cosmic Derelict

    The Voitrix was doomed. A derelict caught in the grip of some strange power. Faster...Faster...flashing beyond unguessed-at Systems to cosmic annihilation!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to a...

  • The Cosmic Juggernaut

    No being may play God. Valno, benevolent Lord of Ixonia, tried. He tampered with Creation’s basic law to avoid the cosmic chaos of a world gone wild.... Here is a truly momentous story; the strange record of a second Genesis.John Russell Fearn (190...

  • The Devouring Tide

    Convinced of his own power, scientific wizard Richard Carr takes Muriel Clegg into outer space, ready to create new universes beyond the horizons of civilization!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British write...

  • Domain of Zero

    Spacemen gave tiny, far-flung Callisto a wide berth. For it was the domain of the shrunken, ice-skinned brain who called himself “Zero.”--intro.John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear i...

  • The Flat Folk of Vulcan

    An accidental landing upon the fiery planet Vulcan is a horrible enough fate, but at least it’s better than a plunge into the sun! Paul and the Professor find themselves in the midst of a weird adventure amidst the outlandish beings of the planet n...

  • Glass Nemesis

    Barry Blake wife refuses to divorce him so he can marry his lover, so he poisons her drink, and as she dies she hurls her glass through her hotel window. It lands in the back seat of an open car, and by a twist of fate causes a traffic accident that ...

  • Lords of 9016

    Dick and his scientist friend Ladbrook take a helicopter into the giant hole that has opened in the ground near two cities where all people and animals have disappeared, only to find giant ants from the future.John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a B...

  • Lunar Intrigue

    “Ace” Durkan, most dangerous criminal on Earth, allows himself to be captured and sent to Luna Prison for life. But he has a good reason for it -- the stakes are high.John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first Brit...

  • The Man Who Bought Mars

    After buying Mars Hal Bailey was plunged into suspended animation for a century and a half, and when he awoke he was told the planet was worthless. But why then did oligarchs wish to buy it?John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and on...

  • Mark Grayson Unlimited

    Defying the scorn of fellow scientists, Dr. Grayson builds a strange device that sends his image marching on!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazin...

  • Martian Avenger

    A baby born of two worlds was this Martian, but even after thousands of years he remembered that revenge was his mission on Earth!John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp sc...

  • Menace from the Microcosm

    Science fiction novella, not about giant worlds in outer space, but about microworlds closer to us. "It seemed to me," wrote the author, "that the conception of intra-atomic worlds, though by no means novel, had not so far been explored in all its po...

  • Portrait of a Murderer

    A man is hypnotized into gruesomely murdering another man’s wife, hurling her body into the chasm at the foot of Coniston Crag, for which he is sentenced to death. But after his execution he exerts vengeance from beyond the grave…John Russell Fea...

  • A Saga of 2270 A.D.

    A rogue asteroid of neutronium -- densely heavy matter -- enters the solar system and crashes into the sun, causing its collapse into a white dwarf. A doomed humanity uses super science to capture another sun, but has to fight an alien race for survi...

  • Science from Syracuse

    The long-dead city of Syracuse sends to the New York of 1960 A.D., Archimedes -- greatest scientific mind of all the ages! He promises to bring the world to a state of super-civilization -- but why then did he cause the world’s most terrible war?...

  • Men Without a World

    Professor Grant Denham, the famous archaeologist, had sent a desperate radio call from the remotest part of Peru for help. He swore he had discovered something of enormous interest, but was lost and needed assistance immediately.His daughter and two ...

  • Merridrew Rides Again

    No-one who read Valley of the Doomed is likely to forget Jenkinson Talbot Merridrew, the gun-toting butler of Double Peak. Now Merridrew is back again, bowler hat in place, and ready as ever to give the Young Master and the Young Mistress the benefit...

  • Valley of the Doomed

    Rancher Calvin Wood becomes the victim of brutal outlaws who are terrorizing a remote district of Arizona. On his arrival from England, young Brad Wood undergoes a dramatic transformation when he travels to Calvin’s ranch, only to find his cattle h...

  • White Mouse

    The girl from Venus -- the man from Earth. Would such a mixed marriage be a success? -- Even though they were both humans?...

  • Across the Ages

    Len was the visionary type of person -- and they thought him crazy when he spoke of visiting Mars without a space-ship -- then came the call Across the Ages!...

  • Phantom from Space

    Space-Death was horrible and agonizingly painful. But was it final? The Venusian masters of the Earth in the year 2314 had cause to wonder when Eward Hilto, whom they had executed for treason, came back to avenge!...

  • She Walked Alone

    “Don’t kill it!” my wife screamed as the bat-thing flew at me. Why should she prefer the life of a monster to my own? What horrible secret did she hold?...

  • Thoughts That Kill

    Kilran, super-scientist of the dim future, finds that the destruction of life on Venus is essential to the continuance of the human race -- it seems a simple accomplishment for this great master, until the hordes of Venus hurl forth a death on the wi...

  • Solar Assignment

    The planet Pluto may be what it seems, but two roving reporters in space find a different answer.John Russell Fearn (1908"1960) was a British author and one of the first British writers to appear in American pulp science fiction magazines. Prolific...

  • It Came From Outer Space

    In 1954, Universal-International licensed story rights to It Came from Outer Space to Vargo Statten Science Fiction Magazine, British master John Russell Fearn (the man behind the "Vargo Statten" pseudonym) responded with his usual alacrity, penning ...

  • Martian Miniature

    Professor Thorp wanted to create Martian life, but he got Martian death instead!A pulp science fiction tale by John Russelll Fearn, one of the most popular British science fiction authors of his day. Originally published in Amazing Stories magazine i...

  • Leeches from Space

    The world scoffed at Mathison’s wild theories -- an approaching cosmic cloud did not frighten the peoples of Earth -- until it started raining leeches!...

  • The Mental Gangster

    Murder took place on this ship in space over a treasure -- a perfect crime. But then the dead man came to life to confront his killer!--intro....

  • Ice Maiden

    After their whirlwind marriage and honeymoon, Jane and Dick went to their new home in rural England...a gloomy place rumored to be haunted. A creepy house, strange neighbors, and newlyweds—quite a mix!...

  • The Silver Coil

    A startling thing came out of the weird box Bill Dawlish found on Venus. What was its grim purpose? Classic pulp fiction!...

  • The Wailing Hybrid

    Billed as "a novelet of eerie thrills," British pulp master John Russel Fearn tells a tale of Jeff Rowland, a young man in love with a circus snake-charmer. But when he spots her unconscious and gagged in a speeding car, it launches him into an adven...

  • Alice, Where Art Thou?

    “Rod, I’m frightened! This business is still going on even though I haven’t worn the ring. I’ve lost dimensions again in the night -- I had some terrible dreams too. I seemed to be flying through space or something...”Classic British pulp s...

  • The Case of the Mesozoic Monsters

    Brutus Lloyd had never faced a more amazing mystery than the one that confronted him when he saw those incredible dinosaur footprints! Classic pulp science fiction!...

  • The Case of the Murdered Savants

    Even the scientific detective, Brutus Lloyd, was baffled by the mystery that surrounded the murders of America’s finest men of science...or was it something other than murder?...

  • Destroyer From the Past

    Something was desperately wrong out in the void of space, and Gregg had the unfortunate assignment to track it down -- and fix the problem, whatever it might be!...

  • The Last Secret Weapon

    “Too barbaric for modern warfare,” the diabolic device had been branded, and only Val Turner knew that here was the simplest and yet the most brilliant invention of all time, the secret weapon to end all secret weapons -- the fiendish instrument ...

  • Lunar Concession

    Ann was a foolish heiress, and her desire to own a mining claim brought tragedy and disaster into the lives of herself and Clem, manager of her Lunar Concession -- for Randi, the war-monger, meant business when he learned of the power hidden beneath ...

  • The Master Mind

    It was at the Fantasy Club where the notion was born; all that was needed to master a planet was ingenuity and absolute calm of manner, according to Harrigan, who takes up the offer of fifty thousand pounds to prove the world could be ruled by the ap...

  • Reverse Action

    If the precious Canthite did not get to Pluto within the given time limit it would reach that certain stage of its evolution when it would explode with shattering force. The whole thing was a desperate gamble -- a race against time!...

  • The Voice Commands

    Neither Cassell nor Moss remembered how many days and nights elapsed on the ocean. At times squalls hit them, but in the main, the weather was warm and sunny. Food, carefully rationed, lasted out -- and the reckless generosity of the guards was a thi...

  • Arctic God

  • Earth Asunder!

    Rodney Dawson matches his wits with the power-mad Volan, conqueror of the world! Blindly, Dawson assists the emperor in the construction of underground cities as protection against an asteroid doom—until he learns of Volan's mad plan to split t...

  • Face in the Sky

  • The Jewels From the Moon

    The huge fortune in gems that Bull Cassell finds on Luna undergoes a strange transformation in the atmosphere of Earth—a change that unlocks the past and brings forth a threatening horde that should have perished ages ago!...

  • Mystery of the Martian Pendulum

  • Outcasts of Eternity

  • Queen of Venus

    Machines must reduce all mankind to matter, a disintegrator must transform their lovely golden-haired Eveta into a mass of electrons and energy, for Hilt Read and Cranby Doyle knew their plucky stratoplane could only fall to pieces before the radio-v...

  • Special Agent to Venus

    To Paul Wayne, being wrecked meant only that his comrades faced extermination…...

  • The Stain That Grew

    Calver Mason’s daughter had been murdered. Seeking vengeance Calver is bludgeoned to death too, but as he dies he vows his blood and soul will return to crush the killer to perdition....

  • Black-Out

  • Mathematica

    To commence my story properly I must return to a scorching day in July, 1980. At that time I was an analyst in the New York Institute of Scientific Research, and a firm friend of Dr. Farrington's. He, by far my superior in knowledge, was directly con...

  • Moon Heaven

    A meteor disables a small ship of the void, and Brig Dean is forced to land his party on a wild, unexplored satellite! But their safety seems assured—until the primeval inhabitants begin to resent the presence of Earthmen......

  • The Last Hours

  • White Outcast

  • Seeds from Space

  • Secret of the Buried City

  • Climate Incorporated

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    When meteorologist Alvin Brook invents a means of controlling the weather, he imagines it will lead to his becoming a world benefactor, with riches for him and his family. Instead, Brook and his wife are murdered, and his invention stolen and misused...

  • The Crimson Rambler

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    When Warner Darnworth is shot through the back of his head in his study while seated at his desk, Chief Inspector Gossage is called in to investigate. But the study door is securely locked on the inside with the only key, the closed window is tamper-...

  • Death in Silhouette

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    Maria Black, the woman's school headmistress who doubles as a detective, is invited to attend the engagement celebrations of an ex-pupil of her college. There she finds herself involved in the mysterious suicide of the prospective bridegroom, Kei...

  • Except For One Thing

    • / General Fiction
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    Many criminals have often believed that they'd committed the 'Perfect Crime', and blundered. Chief Inspector Garth of Scotland Yard is convinced that modern science gives the perfect crime even less chance of success. However, Garth's friend, scien...

  • The Five Matchboxes

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    After the police receive a warning of his impending murder, stockbroker Granville Collins is found shot dead in his office. The windows were closed, the door locked. The building was under police observation: no one except Collins entered, and no o...

  • The Glowing Man

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    Under the cover of darkness and a violent storm, electrical engineer Sidney Cassell thought he'd committed the perfect murder. But immediately after pushing his rival to his death from atop a pylon, he himself is struck by a live high-voltage cable. ...

  • The Man Who Was Not

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    Gerald Dawson was the first to die -- in an apparent road accident. But when other members of his family receive mysterious telephone calls informing them of their own imminent demise, and the predictions come true, Scotland Yard soon realizes that a...

  • Merridrew Follows the Trail

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    From the author of NAVAJO VENGEANCE. The only disturbance to Sheriff Brad Wood's siesta is the arrival of a telegram from a singer asking for a job. Why should anyone want to come to a one-horse, dead-and-alive cow town like this? Soon, a whole gang ...

  • Navajo Vengeance

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    Cal Rutter had been convicted of a murder he didn't commit, and had been forced to leave town. Chance takes him and his side-kickto an almost buried Navajo temple - full of gold. With the help ofthe Navajo medicine men Cal returns to town to drive o...

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    When rising young artist Clive Hexley, R.A., vanishes, his friends suspect foul play. Chief-Inspector Calthorp of Scotland Yard is called upon to look into the disappearance, and his investigations lead him to question Hexley’s ex-fiancée, Elsa Fa...

  • Shattering Glass

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    The girl had been lying dead all night. There'd been a terrible struggle, but in the end, the woman had lost her life to the jagged top of a cologne bottle--her jugular vein severed. Suspicious immediately falls on Richard Lane, who'd planned...

  • The Silvered Cage

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    For an illusionist to make a woman vanish from a cage is merely a parlor trick, because the person must go somewhere; but in this instance the woman really DOES disappear, in full view of an audience, and cannot be found afterwards. This seeming impo...

  • Thunder Valley

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    When the Drew City authorities discover parcels of illicit gold are being despatched to the city from Thunder Bend, Arizona, they send Marshal Brad Morrison, disguised as a miner, to find the culprits. When Brad visits Thunder Bend's saloon, he sets ...

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  • Voice of the Conqueror

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    VOICE OF THE CONQUEROR Forsythe reeled back into the missile's instrument room, his skull torn with blinding pain. Sight and hearing had been destroyed in those few seconds. He was only a shell of a man, life deserting him in the half minute that ens...

  • Within That Room!

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    "Dick opened the door again swiftly, Vera clinging to him--and they were so astounded at what they saw that he forgot for the moment to slam the door shut again. For the phantom was there--clearly visible in the sunlight, which now blazed across the ...

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John Russell Fearn has published 248 books.

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The first book by John Russell Fearn, The Golden Amazon, was published in January 1953.

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