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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1934
  • Latest Book:
    April 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Secret Agent "X"

The Fear Merchants ()
The Torture Trust ()
Hand of Horror (Aug-1934)
Curse of the Waiting Death (Feb-1935)
Talons of Terror (Apr-1935)
The Man of a Thousand Faces (Jun-1935)
G-Trap (Oct-1936)
The Corpse That Murdered (Jun-1938)
The Legions of the Living Dead (Aug-2004)
Claws of the Corpse Cult (Jan-2005)
The Hooded Hordes (Sep-2005)
The Assassins' League (Jul-2007)

Book List in Order: 14 titles



  • HAND OF HORROR by Brant House A metropolis writhed in the clutch of horror's hand. The mightiest of the mighty fled in stark terror before its groping fiendish fingers. And the wake was a trail of macabre milestones, marking the way with bloated dead...



  • SECRET AGENT X - 02/35 CURSE OF THE WAITING DEATH Underworld fangs were bared. Underworld guns sounded a hideous tatoo of death. And Satan's signals gave the clue to a murderous bandit pack, with a power of an unseen curse behind them-a curse that ma...



  • Talons of Terror In ten days there were ten murders. Bestial terror talons ripped the heart and soul from a city, and in the funeral wake of these awesome claws lay the dried, bloodless husks of a what once were men. Alone, bucking this mad march ...



  • Secret Agent "X" - The Man of a Thousand Faces. His identity a mystery. His task is to fight crime. Pure pulp and one of the small handful of hero pulp titles produced by its publisher Magazine Publishing Co., Inc. THE CORPSE CAVALCADE by Brant House...



  • Horror's Handclasp by Brant House The Fury, a master criminal of diabolic genius, was able to checkmate even the brillant Agent X. Then he made famous men and gorgeous women his pawns to play Satan's grotesque game of hopscotch upon a gigantic chess ...



  • Secret Agent X - 06/38 THE CORPSE THAT MURDERED by Brant House Master of a thousand faces and a thousand cases, Secret Agent X found he was up against a foe impervious to human weapons. For the sinister Golden God mercilessly draining the purses of t...



  • Ripped from the pages of the September, 1935 issue of Secret Agent "X" magazines comes this sensational novel, Legion of the Living Dead! From nowhere hurtled that black death car. And from nowhere came its grisly occupants. They were not of ...



  • With the dogs of war snarling at the door of the United States, Secret Agent "X" goes where other investigators dare not follow ... to the cesspits of Hawaii, where spies and plots abound, where a secret Hindu cult does the bidding of a foreign gover...



  • Ripped from the pages of the October, 1934 issue of Secret Agent 'X' magazine, here is the lead novel, 'The Hooded Hordes'!

    With boiling lead that stilled men's tongues, and bombs that mangled human bodies, the hooded hordes threatened America. T...






  • Ripped from the pages of the October, 1937 issue of Secret Agent "X" magazines comes this sensational novel, The Assassins' League! When a wealthy arms manufacturer and a powerful gang lord both kill themselves -- when each had the world by the tail ...



  • “When your people need you most... When Death walks the earth like a man...” spoke Mar-lar-delan, Richard Wentworth’s counsellor in the ancient mysticism of the East, “... in that hour, my son — you will die!” Had ...



  • Screams of terror throttled by a ghostly garroter! Lips sealed by a death so awful that men turned their eyes away! A genius of evil flung a challenge in the path of Secret Agent X. And, with all the resources at his command, he played Death's Lotter...



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    Ripped from the pages of the March 1936 issue of Secret Agent "X" magazine, here is "The Fear Merchants," a thrilling pulp novel Includes the great original magazine art.

    Flame demons swept across the city. And in their scorching wake came a new...



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    "The Torture Trust" they called themselves--that unholy trio who met in a hidden room in a deserted part of the city. Brilliant men by day, leading scholarly and productive lives as far as the police and the outside world were concerned, secr...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brant House has published 14 books.

Brant House does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Spectral Strangler, was published in April 2021.

The first book by Brant House, Hand of Horror, was published in August 1934.

Yes. Brant House has 1 series.