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John Glasby
Books in Order: 46 titles
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Beyond the Bourne
A Haunting in Britain...And now the unmistakable sound of footsteps just outside the door...She pushed back her chair and walked hesitantly towards the door, checking her watch. It was too early for Mrs. Manley. She would not arrive for another quart...
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The Shadow of Terror
He had to bring his spirit back from the dead -- and he didn't care how he did it. A classic dark fantasy with mystery elements by John Glasby....
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Sphero Nova
They came out of the star-strewn wilderness around Sol, these alien creatures. And their object was the vicious, total destruction of the Federation of Worlds.Earth was one of the last pf the planets to be attacked and here they were opposed by the E...
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Dawn of the Old Ones
“His output was incredible, and maintained a very high standard.” -- Philip Harbottle, Editor, Fantasy Adventures.
The Old Gods were ancient myths and legends from a time lost. But now there are whispers that they may rise again…A mys... -
Cosmic Echelon
The vast federation of outworld states that formed the Terran Empire smarted under the unjust, evil influence of the Emperor Jrun. Daily, his tax-gatherers swooped down on the member planets, wringing the people dry of money and goods. But away from ...
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Dark Andromeda
Earth was threatened with attach from the huge space-fleets of the Hundred Suns of Andromeda - an attack that the Terran Fleet could not hope to defeat.Only one chance remained to prevent Earth's destruction, and that was the chance that a skilled an...
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Satellite B.C.
The crew of the interstellar exploration ship Ultima Thule is menaced by a brain-eating alien....
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This Second Earth
The world that Man has known for close on twenty thousand years had been overthrown in a holocaust of atomic fire and annihilation. The immense and complex system of civilisation had been utterly destroyed almost overnight and only a scant handful of...
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Dark Centauri
"My God!" he yelled. "What's happening now?" Stevens stared. Then he started abruptly to his feet. Even afterwards, when he looked back on the incident, he could never actually decide what really happened. He had a persistent, oddly unshakable memory...
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The Dark Millenium
Planet Earth was finished, its surface seared by nuclear heat, its great cities obliterated, its billions of inhabitants dying or dead. Only a few pockets of survivors remained. For all but a few it was only a matter of time. Then into the poisoned a...
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No Dawn and No Horizon
All the known planets had been conquered and colonized. Pluto was the last - as far as man could go into space. Beyond the frozen planet lay an immeasurable gulf of light years which no man could cross in a single lifetime. But one man kept trying to...
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Time and Space
There were many reasons why the Time Kings sent their warrior hordes back through the endless corridors of Time. The ancient spaceships had been destroyed by the wrath of a people smarting under the aftermath of the Galactic War. But though the lanes...
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The World Makers
Earth had been destroyed, but man had built his colonies on Mars and Venus and the far-flung moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mutation and forced breeding had changed these people so they were no longer human. Clyde Lester, the last man on Earth, had a s...
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Barrier Unknown
The logical outcome of the space race, and the preliminary step towards the Moon, was the manned satellite, the Big Wheel moving in a stable orbit about the Earth, integrating the data necessary for a landing on the Moon, and eventually acting as a f...
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When The Gods Came
Men had fought wars throughout history, but never such a war as the one which destroyed the cities of earth and turned vast areas into badlands, stretches of intense radioactivity where nothing could grow and no one could live. It also produced the d...
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Zero Point
Over the long years, ships of the Interplanetary Confederation had scoured the empty wastes surrounding Sol, searching desperately for a sister planet; a companion for the isolated worlds of the Solar System. Of the ships that were sent out, many ret...
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Black Abyss
With the discovery of the hyperdrive, mankind at last possessed the means of going out to the stars. Four expeditions had already gone by the fine the fifth starship left Pluto for Vega. Carrying its complement of scientists and military personnel, t...
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Day of the Beasts
Earth was a crowded world of vast cities, manned by robots who carried out all of the menial tasks, who saw to it that everything contained functioning normally. Interplanetary travel was now an established fact. The planets favourable to Man's exist...
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Edge of Eternity
These were the last weeks and days before the end of the world, before total destruction overwhelmed Earth and every living thing on the surface of the planet. No one knew exactly how long they had before the sun turned nova and destroyed not only Ea...
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Hydrosphere
The Colony on Rigel IV had been founded seven hundred years earlier but for the past six centuries, they had been forced to exist on the bottoms of the great oceans of the planet, kept there by the tremendously potent weapons of the alien star-race w...
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Space Void
They came out of the void, from Venus, only to find there was no answer to their radio signals. Earth seemed dead. And on the Moon, Man's greatest achievement, the Lunar Military Base was a mass of rubble and blasted wreckage.Here, the crew of the St...
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The Time Kings
They came out of the long grey ages of Time, killing and plundering, and their object was to take back captives to appease the blood-thirsty mobs. The city was burning when Paul Sanders drove into it that wet and foggy evening, the streets filled wit...
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Wreath For A Lady
When Mike Torlin takes on the job of investigating the strange happenings at Pete Donati's carnival ground, he figures it's a straightforward case of somebody wanting to put Donati out of business. Then a peculiar chicken is produced out of an egg: a...
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The Substance of a Shade
Soon after moving into Mexton Grange, an old Georgian country house in the Cotswolds, Alice hears disquieting stories and rumours about her new abode: the previous owners had been driven out by a strange, oppressive atmosphere in the house. It was no...
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A Time for Murder
The murder of Carlos Galecci, a kingpin of organized crime, was not unexpected. Only three days earlier, fearing for his life, he'd hired Los Angeles private eye Johnny Merak to discover who was threatening him. Then he's found seated in his ...
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Rackets, Inc.
Small-time crook Johnny Merak is determined to get Maxie Temple, a former crime boss who'd framed him for a three-year stretch in San Quentin, and is now returning home from Mexican exile. But the 1950s Los Angeles Underworld wants Temple and Merak d...
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The Dark Boatman
After Dexter inherits the old family mansion in Tormouth, on the death of his uncle, he visits the main library. Here he peruses the old records pertaining to Tormouth, and finds several references to the Dexter family. The documents trace their hist...
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The Lonely Shadows
The midnight moon rode high in the sky above the storm clouds sweeping in from the west, and the house seemed to transmute the moonlight into something terrible and evil. The broken chimneys stretched up like hands to the heavens, the eyeless sockets...
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Mystery Of The Crater
When medical Dr. John Naysmith reports to his new assignment on Mars, he's immediately confronted by a crisis: the outbreak of an alien virus among several men who've been exploring the Martian landscape. The entire base is quarantined, and the Secur...
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Project Jove
Norbert Donner and Project Director Stanton work on Project Jove, observing the robots in the Jupiter surface lab by means of the Fly, a remote-controlled exploratory ship. Then Senator Clinton Durant arrives from Earth convinced Stanton is hiding so...
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Guntrail to Condor
For Seth Claybourne, still wearing the grey uniform of the defeated Confederates, there was no point in returning home, for his family had been forced to quit their land by carpetbaggers from the east. He then encounters a man called Dawson and is so...
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Roses for a Lady
Edith Somerville, great-granddaughter of a wealthy banker in L.A., received two-dozen red roses with a note attached: she would receive one rose less every day and on receipt of the last rose she would die... Private Detective Johnny Merak sets out t...
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The Wheel Spins Thirteen
In Sharky Dexter's casino in Los Angeles, a man beats the crooked roulette wheel and wins a million dollars When Sharky hires Johnny Merak to find the man who's taken his money there's a spate of murders with Johnny himself a candidate for death....
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Dark Legion
When Malcolm Amberley is found dead clutching the curiously ornamented hilt of a strange dagger, driven into his heart, a curtain of evil hangs over the village. Did Malcolm commit suicide, or did some evil force still remain viable in the area, forc...
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Murder Is My Shadow
LA private investigator Johnny Merak accepts the diminutive Charles Henning as his client, little realising the danger he will face. When a series of brutal gangland murders begins, Lieutenant O'Leary is not pleased to find Merak at each of the murde...
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Death Comes Calling
Angela Cliveden, girlfriend of Tony Minello of the local Mafia, hires Johnny Merak to investigate the life-threatening phone calls that she has been receiving. But when she is found murdered in her apartment, Marek is trapped in a potential Mob war a...
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The Undead
On the lonely moor stands five ancient headstones, where a church points a spectral finger at the sky. The de Ruys family are buried there, the last of whom died 300 years ago leaving the manor house deserted. Until Angela de Ruys comes from America,...
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Dark Conflict
Simon Merrivale owns a mask and headdress, and the legend is that whoever comes into contact with them will find their body taken over by the long-dead Shaman at full moon. Merrivale is dragged from his home, and he and the relics are taken to an iso...
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Death Never Strikes Twice
Suspecting his wife Janine of having an affair, businessman Charles Jensen hires private eye Johnny Merak to follow her. Merak learns that Jensen had divorced his first wife Arlene - who has since disappeared... Convinced that Jensen had arranged A...
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The Thing in the Mist
When a team of archaeologists unearths a mysterious burial site Iin a quiet English village, they unleash a terror beyond imagining. As bodies are discovered, horribly mutilated, whispers of an old legend sweep through the town -- a legend of a monst...
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The Dark Destroyer
Dark forces are at work in Redforde. Something terribly old and infinitely evil has woken - something that is thirsty for blood. There are rumours of human sacrifice, devil worship and the extinct De Vernis family....
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The Savage City
She was the kind of woman a man always noticed, mostly because of her eyes: deep and dark, they'd held a warmth that could easily kindle a fire in one's soul. Now they were staring sightlessly up from the sidewalk. It was a killing without a motive, ...
