In the war-torn world of Louis IX’s failed crusades, amidst the secret society called the “Knights Templar,” a young warrior comes of age.
The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L’Abandonné. Jules Verne’s list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes—a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions. L’Abandonné, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a serial through the […]
Improbable and fable-like, the story tells of English adventurers who travel to the interior of a remote African country, a vanished empire with legends of lost treasure.
Kim, aka Kimball O’Hara, is the orphan son of a British soldier and a half-caste opium addict in India. While running free through the streets of Lahore as a child he befriends a British secret service agent. Later, attaching himself to a Tibetan Lama on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life, […]
A rolling tremor passes through the land of Uton signaling a return of long absent magic. Ryson Acumen, purebred delver, senses these changes and learns the Sphere of Ingar is free from its tomb. As violent creatures return to shred the very fabric of reality, the sphere gains awareness and spews corrupt energies to obliterate […]
The sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, is convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, and enslaved on the Caribbean island of Barbados. After his daring escape he becomes a pirate, driven to revenge his enslavement and clear his name.
“Edgar Rice Burroughs’ inner world evokes fantastic images of a world without time and a landscape like no other. He was not the first to utilize a hollow earth to tell a a story, but his is the best and most completely realized of all the inner world tales.”–erblist.com
A sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. English translation by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.
Rath Scampion, outer rim scout, explores the barren landscapes of Fenrir just before a Regency Scientific Council plants the seed of a genetically created “alien”. Once the colony takes hold, researchers discover the Fenrites advancing at an alarming pace, passing quickly through complex stages of industrial and technological growth. As the experiment spirals out of […]