Arthur Leo Zagat

• Jan-2004
• / Fantasy
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• Nov-2005
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-2011
• / General Fiction
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What would you do if you and a handful of other people were the only lucky ones to have survived an apocalyptic nightmare -- and half of your fellow survivors were your sworn enemies? That's the question at the center of Arthur Leo Zagat's tightly pl...

• May-2011
• / General Fiction
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Trapped in the great dome, Darl valiantly defends Earth's outpost against the bird-man of Mars and his horde of pigmy henchmen....

• Feb-2012
• / General Fiction
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They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America. During the last two decades of his life, Zagat wrote short stories prolifically. About 500 pieces appeared in a variety of pulp magazines, including Thrilling Wonder Stories, Argosy, Dime Mys...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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The experiment was going well, until Professor Lanson died and took his secrets with him! ExcerptHarry Osborn, First Lieutenant U. S. Army Air Corps, banked his wide- winged bombing plane in an easy, swooping curve. In the distance New York's white p...

• Oct-2012
• / Horror
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SUMMER CAMP FOR CORPSES and Other Stories is a collection of horror tales by Arthur Leo Zagat and introduced by John Pelan. Zagat was one of the most prolific of the pulpsters and these nine stories from the 30s show his mastery of the weird menace f...

• May-2013
• / Horror
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A corpse thrust forth from its grave . . . a bewitching Lolita who steals an artist's soul . . . lovers reincarnated after centuries to resume their forbidden affair . . . a strange coffin aboard a honeymoon cruise . . . . These are but a few of the ...

• Feb-2014
• / Action Adventure
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• Mar-2014
• / Horror
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Arthur Leo Zagat wrote some of the goriest stories ever written back in the 30s when times were bad for just about everybody. They became known as "weird menace" tales which, as a genre, reached its peak with Zagat. John Pelan tells you all about the...

• Jul-2014
• / Science Fiction
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Nestled in the Heidelberg Hills of New York State lies Lake Wankoona. Beneath its tranquil blue surface broods another world, a place inhabited by a race of beings unknown in human history. Impelled by an eerie summons he cannot comprehend, archeolog...

• Aug-2014
• / Science Fiction
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The complete saga of Dikar and The Bunch concludes here. Volume 2 contains the following stories: “Sunrise Tomorrow”: The road to liberty is long and perilous, but Dikar must lead his warrior Bunch down it swiftly -- if America is to see again th...

• Aug-2014
• / General Fiction
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The complete saga of Dikar and The Bunch is collected for the first time. Set in a decimated post-invasion United States, Volume 1 contains the following stories: “Tomorrow”: What will they be like -- those Lost Children of Tomorrow, the survivor...

• Nov-2014
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Atkins fumbled in his pocket with shaking fingers, pushed the paper across the desk to the chief of the Silver Eagle. The red lines on it leered at him again, the ominous design that had pronged him with knowledge of the catastrophe that had overtake...

• Feb-2018
• / General Fiction
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Arthur Leo Zagat was born February 15th, 1896 in New York City.A graduate of City College, he served in Europe for the US military during World War I. From there he studied at Bordeaux University and then graduated from Fordham Law School.Although no...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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Hoof-beats followed her — even though the thing that made them had been born of womanHorror Stories! The dark companion to Dime Mystery Magazine. Created to showcase stories too horrible for Terror Tales. The third of the triumvirate of fear pu...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mystery-terror magazines, horror-terror magazines — weird menace is the sub-genre term that has survived today. Terror Tales magazine was one of the most...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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What secret horror was it that forced that group of fear-frozen people to hurl themselves, one by one, into the storm-lashed maw of the canyon far below?...In 1934 a new type of magazine was born. Known by various names — the shudder pulps, mys...

• Oct-2019
• / General Fiction
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Ever since Sheila, in girlhood, was saved from the monstrous attack of Crazy Charlie, her obsession grew — her obsession that the madman, long dead, was reaching from the grave to take her. When lovely Connie’s severed head was flung from...

• Jul-2020
• / Science Fiction
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It took a crackpot genius like Parker to appear in a room that he could not enter -- and then prove he was not there!...

• Aug-2020
• / Mystery
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A jail cell held the answer to the murder of Vic’s policeman father, and the price of learning it would be -- Vic’s own life!...

• Aug-2022
• / Science Fiction
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Jay Silton returned to Earth looking like the 20-year-old he had been when he left aboard the spaceship Luna 30 years ago -- a spaceship that had been lost with all hands aboard.Now Jay had a strange tale to tell of another world in a different unive...

• Aug-2022
• / Dystopian
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In a world run by an authoritarian government and enforced by the Special Police, scientists are kept virtual prisoners, made to run the atomic plants that power the great cities. Secretly, a small number of scientists have been plotting a revolution...

• Jan-2023
• / Police Procedural
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Der Rote Finger! the foreign spy gasped as he came face to face with America's top agent. Ford Duane, a mild mannered bookstore owner is, in truth, the dreaded Red Finger, top agent of P.A.T., hunter and destroyer of foreign spies. Carrying only a st...

• Feb-2023
• / Thriller
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Starting in 1934, editor (and publisher) Harry Steeger unveiled Terror Tales: perhaps the flagship magazine in Popular Publications' so-called Weird Menace lineup of titles. Running for almost 50 issues, Terror Tales showcased some of the best suspe...

• Mar-2023
• / Dark Fantasy
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• Mar-2023
• / Mystery
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Starting in 1934, editor (and publisher) Harry Steeger unveiled Terror Tales: perhaps the flagship magazine in Popular Publications' so-called Weird Menace lineup of titles. Running for almost 50 issues, Terror Tales showcased some of the best su...

• May-2023
• / Horror
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Starting in 1934, editor (and publisher) Harry Steeger unveiled Terror Tales: perhaps the flagship magazine in Popular Publications' so-called Weird Menace lineup of titles. Running for almost 50 issues, Terror Tales showcased some of the best su...