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DROUGHT AND DISHONESTY ARE A DANGEROUS COMBO

When the land goes bad, men turn sour and mean…and that is just what

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LONG BEFORE STAR WARS JOHNNY MAYHEM RULED PULP SCI-FI

To save the universe Johnny Mayhem risked his life―over and over and over. He could travel anywhere mentally and enter the body of anyone on any planet. But if he stayed longer than 30 days, Mayhem died. An encounter with aliens had given him an extra-human power. But it had also put him beyond the pale of love and friendship forever.

For the first time ever in audiobook form, here are the never reprinted adventures of one of the most popular and notable pulp science fiction series heroes of the mid-1950s. Mayhem is literally "the man who saved the universe"―and the price he pays for it is a terrible one.

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BOOK I IN A CLASSIC HORROR TRILOGY

This is the first spellbinding novel in multi-fantasy award winner Manley Wade Wellman's classic horror trilogy about Judge Hilary Pursuivant, the jurist so deeply seeped in the lore of deviltry and supernatural evil - that no one or thing, not even the most powerful of dark forces, can stand against him.

Talbot Wills, a skeptic, gave up his career as a stage magician to study psychic phenomena - and once and for all prove or disprove its existence to himself. Learning this, his friend Doctor Otto Zoberg, an expert in occult subjects, brings him to an isolated hamlet to attend a séance at the home of a spirit medium whose powers are legendary. There Talbot meets Susan Gird, an intelligent and likable young woman, and after an afternoon together finds himself attracted to her. The séance is held that night - and though everyone is handcuffed to someone else, a strange wolf-like shape moves in the dark. When Susan Gird's father cries out some sort of accusation, the shape leaps upon him and slaughters him.

The town constable investigates and, since Wills is a magician and escape artist, arrests him for the crime. Later, while Talbot is locked in jail, an angry mob gathers to lynch him. With his knowledge of locks, Talbot breaks out his cell and in eluding his pursuers finds himself in the Devil's Croft, a mysterious grove which most locals are afraid to approach. As he enters it, Wills falls, exhausted. What happens next shatters his skepticism for good.

Fleeing, Talbot meets Judge Pursuivant, a giant of a man both physically and mentally, and a man with an almost uncanny knowledge of the occult who promises to help him and Susan. Soon Susan and Talbot find their only hope of saving themselves from sudden and frightful death is to battle side-by-side with Judge Pursuivant against the frightful thing that lives in the Devil's Croft. Thus begins this classic novel of hideous, stark horror from Weird Tales.

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His partner was death-branded by six bullets from a ghost gun.

It was Curt Traynor's birthday, and Curt was a young man who liked to celebrate the occasion with a drink and a friendly brawl. Curt had been working like a dog and his partner in the Tomahawk ranch, Frank Ballard, felt Curt had earned the right to blow off a little steam.

What worried Ballard was Del Hudspeth, who owned the Crazy K. Hudspeth wanted the Tomahawk and recently had been hiring men who seemed to have more experience with six-shooters than herding cows. But Ballard figured if they hit the local saloon for a few quick ones and headed back to the Tomahawk, he could avoid the Crazy K bunch and keep Curt shy of any trouble. But Ballard figured wrong.

Someone, probably from the Crazy K lured Curt outside and when Ballard went out to check on things that someone shot Curt six times from the darkness, making his birthday his death day as well. Worse, whoever pulled the trigger framed things to make it look like Ballard had fired the shots and murdered his own best friend.

Ballard shot back and when the sheriff arrived, Ballard was standing over Curt's body with the smoke still rising from his gun. Since Ballard inherited Curt's share of the Tomahawk, he had a good motive for the killing and most folks fingered him for the murderer. Unless Ballard acted fast he knew he would face a murder trial and a public hanging.

Somehow he had to escape and find the ghost gun that killed his partner and the man who had pulled the trigger. And even if he did, Ballard knew Hudspeth and the Crazy K riders would be waiting on the open plains to intercept him with loaded guns. For on a range where he could no longer tell friend from foe, Ballard's fight to save Tomahawk had become a total struggle for survival - for his life as well as Tomahawk ranch.

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AN INTENSE THRILLER FULL OF DANGER, DEATH, AND FEAR

MI6 spies, Russian FSB, Chechen terrorists, Abkhaz Separatists, the 1992 Georgian war.

This breathtaking and brutal novel is a gripping tale set in the magnificent Caucasus Mountains during Georgia's ill-fated invasion of Abkhazia in 1992. The Caucasus Cauldron gives a vivid focus to a historical moment left out of the history books, a world ripping itself apart and ravaged by never-ending hatred and blood feuds.

Can our hero, Mac, trust the attractive Russian FSB officer, Kris, who befriends him? How will she react to Doctor Anna, a Separatist rabble-rouser who holds the key to his secret mission? And what about the mysterious Sergei, a former British agent, who seems to have disappeared?

How will Mac cope with the Chechen terrorist who has vowed to kill him? 'You are a dead man, English. We know who you are. You are spying on our people. Now you die.'

The result is an intense action-packed thriller full of danger, death, and fear but a story full of quiet humor and surprising twists and turns.

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This is a story about a man, his son, and their three-day mission to cheat death. Sometimes funny, often sardonic, with shifting perspectives and unpunctuated dialogue, Nearly Dead in North Dakota is a fast and loose journey through history, science, religion, pop culture, and a closer examination of the kind of world we live in but never get enough time to really think about.

It gets better every time you listen to it, and it’s the kind of book you have to buy over and over again, because you keep lending it out to people and then feel awkward about asking for it back. That’s totally okay and not a personality flaw at all.

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FOUR STORIES PROVING THAT LOVE IS GRAND, SOMETIMES UTTERLY WILD, AND OFTEN TOTALLY UNEXPECTED!

Katy yearns for the ultimate bad boy, and the Devil grants her wish…sort of.

Can a monumental underachiever of a demon and a “good girl” find true love?

Lisa helps an old gypsy woman and is given a black cat and a wish charm that works…at the wrong moment.

Who knew Tomas the Cat had an agenda of his own?

When her android lover’s brain is stolen, Lena Powell hires would-be rival Luc Kai’leel to find it.

Can Luc convince Lena that a living man is better than a “perfect” artificial one?

Gabriel Marsh is a Federation agent with a dilemma. His partner can change sex at will, and Gabriel’s fallen in love with his “other half.”

What do you do when the girl of your dreams is also the man from your waking life?

Love will always find a way but not often the one expected.

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Someone is planning an international incident that would set off a revolution in one of the U.S.'s closest South of the Border allies, plus provoke a shooting war between the U.S. and Mexico – and it's up to McHugh, the two-fisted secret agent who always travels with a briefcase containing a fifth of Scotch and a .45, to stop it.

McHugh is built of muscle, brain and go-to-hell guts, and he answers only to a Pentagon general – who answers only to himself. Now McHugh is in Ajijic, Mexico. Assignment: retrieve a couple of AWOL Navy fly-boys, who have defected to the enemy and stolen a top-secret jet fighter strictly CoD. Add a hacienda bristling with Tommy guns, an idealistic politician who only wants to conquer Mexico to save it, garnish with an alluring brunette, an incendiary blonde, and a bevy of Russian spies – and you've got McHugh's favorite dish – trouble.

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NINE SCIENCE FICTION TALES THAT AMAZE AND AMUSE

Nine To Eternity: A Science Fiction Anthology began when editor M.Christian invited the authors to submit “a personal favorite story: one that also, sadly, didn't get the love they'd put into it.” And so Ernest Hogan, Emily Devenport, Cynthia Ward, and Arthur Byron Cover have been joined by Ralph Greco, Jr., David Lee Summers, Jean Marie Stine, and Jody Scott, as well as M.Christian himself, to make a memorable reading experience. Full of not just endearing characters, vivid worlds, and thrilling adventures, this anthology is also a touching examination of what these celebrated authors consider their best work.

Skin Deep, a wistful science fiction melody of love and longing – by Emily Devenport: author of Shade, Larissa, Scorpianne, EggHeads, The Kronos as well as many other novels and stories

Spitzhkov Red, a haunting tale as real as tomorrow's headlines of comradeship and service – from Jody Scott: author of Passing For Human; I, Vampire; and Devil-May-Care.

Bombastic Christ, a controversial story of what happens when DNA from the Shroud of Turin is cloned – by Ralph Greco, Jr., author of Far Out Within and stories in anthologies that include The Infinite Spectacle: Short Stories of Displaced Reality.

The Great Mars-A-Go-Go Mexican Standoff, a rollicking future-shock interplanetary Chicano delight – by Ernest Hogan, the father of Chicano science fiction and author of High Aztech and Cortez on Jupiter.

A Murder, a lyrical, but heart-wrenching story of futuristic murder – by Arthur Byron Cover: author of East Wind Coming, The Platypus of Doom & Other Nihilists, and Autumn Angels.

Whoever Fights Monsters, a ferociously powerful reinterpretation of Nina Harker from Dracula – by Cynthia Ward: editor of anthologies that include Lost Trails: Forgotten Tales of the Weird West, author of The Adventure of the Incognita Countess, and stories in Analog and Weird Tales.

An Asteroid by Any Other Name, a classically inspired tale of rapidly approaching doom – by David Lee Summers: editor of anthologies such as A Kepler's Dozen, Kepler's Cowboys and Maximum Velocity: The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales, and author of numerous novels.

Why Are There Buildings, Daddy? a not-far-from-home work of spec fic about a depressed young man who only ever wanted to be a writer – by M.Christian: editor of Love Without Gun Control, Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica Of M.Christian, Bachelor Machine, and others. His novels include Me2, The Very Bloody Marys, Running Dry, and Finger’s Breadth.

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FROM AD AGENCY WHIZ TO MASTER SPY OF THE RED PLANET

Jery Delvin had a most unusual talent. He could detect the flaws in any scheme almost on sight - even where they had eluded the best brains in the ad agency where he worked. So, when the chief of World Security told him that he had been selected as the answer to the solar system's greatest mystery, Jery assumed that it was because of his mental agility.

But when he got to Mars to find out why 15 boys had vanished from a spaceship in mid-space, he found out that even his quick mind needed time to pierce the maze of out-of-this-world double-dealing. For Jery had become a walking bomb, and when he set himself off, it would be the end of the whole puzzle of The Secret Martians - with Jery as the first to go!