John Russell Fearn

"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. The scheme works and Dawlish becomes a power in Carterville. But another phantom arises: one who would avenge all who had died at Dawlish's orders. Now the law of the gun - and justice - would surely...

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 deadly threat to mankind. Val Turner knows the danger, but he is imprisoned, having been framed for Margaret's murder. When Val's eventually released, he's too late to prevent the cataclysm that has engulfed...

A titanic weed whose seed came from Mars enveloped Earth in its grip… but the creeping menace may save mankind from a far greater disaster. Classic pulp science fiction!

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 every precaution, even to sealing himself in a steel, radiation-proof cube surrounded by armed guards - but death overtakes him on the specified day, exactly as forecast! Since no one had entered the cube after...

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 the help of Caroline Gerrard, a pupil at her old College. Impressed, she invited the girl to become her assistant after she left College. Thereafter Caroline assisted the detective in a series of bizarre...

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 life of a fugitive for another, Vincent Grey; as well as the role of a murder-case witness for the third, Tom Clayton. Inspector Morgan and Sergeant Claythorne of the local police investigate the death, and...

There couldn't be a Face in the sky. Not a living one. But there was, and when it spoke, an awe-stricken world rushed to obey its command!

If one fine day, you saw the Sun fall out of the sky and all was dark but for the stars-stars you'd never seen before-would YOU know what might have happened?

Rodney Marlow found a metal city buried beneath his farm, and in it the secret of an amazing menace. Pulp science fiction by a British master.

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 of the Black Maria series!