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Tucked away in the northwestern frontier, Portland offered all the best vices: opium dreams, gambling, cheap prostitutes, and drunken brawling. In its early days, Portland was a "combination rough-and-ready logging camp and gritty, hard-punching deep-water port town," and as a young city (established in the late 1840s) it developed an international reputation for lawlessness and violence. In the early 1900s, the British and French governments filed...
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Heroes and Rascals ... Shipwrecks and Lost Gold ... since 2008 the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column has entertained and informed Oregonians with the weirdest, quirkiest, funniest, and most outrageous true stories in the surprisingly long history of their young state. Now, for the first time, those stories have been collected together, re-researched, augmented with freshly discovered information, and presented to readers in book form...
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Shanghaiers ... weird cults ... dumb criminals and clumsy power grabbers ...
Since 2008 the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column has entertained and informed Oregonians with the weirdest, quirkiest, funniest, and most outrageous true stories in the surprisingly long history of their young state.
Now, for the first time, those stories have been collected together, re-researched, augmented with freshly discovered information, and presented...
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What started as a lighthearted flirtation with a beautiful, strangely dressed maiden under the New Orleans moonlight ended with young Ned Minton pledged to eternal love with a girl who had died a century before, a promise enforced by the all-too-real fangs of the demon-serpent who guarded her. Ned's only hope is that French physician and occult investigator Jules de Grandin can get to the bottom of it and end the curse that keeps the lovely Julie...
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This 860-page collection contains all of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian stories published, during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author.
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When the first Conan of Cimmeria story appeared in the pages of Weird Tales magazine in December 1932, nothing quite like it had ever before, appeared in print.
Author Robert E. Howard had been, writing stories broadly similar to it for half a...
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This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft's life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Highlights of this volume include:
• Cool Air
• The Call of Cthulhu
• Pickman's Model
• The Color out of Space
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Dunwich...
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This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft's "apprentice years": roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this volume, from 1917 through 1925.
Highlights of this volume include:
• The Tomb
• Dagon
• The Doom that Came to Sarnath
• The Temple
• The Picture in the House
• The Nameless City
• The Outsider
•...
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From the Master of Cosmic Horror...
Supernatural Horror in Literature, H.P. Lovecraft's "master's thesis," is a tour de force of literary analysis, tracing the origins of the horror genre back to its inception and beyond. In it, Lovecraft follows the development of horror-lit down through the centuries-from Horace Walpole, through Mary Wollstonecraft and Bram Stoker, to Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, and on into his own time.
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This volume is part of the three-book Pulp-Lit Omnibus Collection of all the fiction writing of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. It presents the works of weird fiction which he ghostwrote or on which he collaborated with another author.
Highlights of this volume include:
• Under the Pyramids, with Harry Houdini;
• The Mound, with Zealia Bishop;
• Two Black Bottles, with Wilfred Blanch Talman;
• The Horror in the Burying- Ground, with Hazel...
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This is The Completionist's Edition of the work of H.P. Lovecraft! Literally every weird-fiction story he wrote, revised, or collaborated on, to the best of our knowledge, is in this one enormous tome.
The stories are arranged chronologically and contextualized with a brief running biography of the life of this fascinating author. If you're new to Lovecraft, reading or listening to this book will make you enough of an expert on the life and work...
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This eBook comprises the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovcecraft.
Highlights of this volume include:
• Dagon
• The Doom that Came to Sarnath
• The Music of Erich Zann
• Herbert West, Reanimator
• The Hound
• The Lurking Fear
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Shunned House
• The Horror at Red Hook
• In the Vault
• The Call of Cthulhu
• The Strange High House in the Mist
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
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This is Volume Two of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovcecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1917 through 1935. (Poems, ghost-written material and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.)
Highlights of this volume include:
• The Color out of Space
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• ...
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Although he's best known for his works of weird fiction, H.P. Lovecraft for most of his life considered himself primarily a poet. This cycle of 36 classic-form sonnets, infused with his trademark cosmic dread, represents the pinnacle of Lovecraft's career as a poet, and it's his most well-known and thoroughly-studied body of poetry.
This volume presents Fungi from Yuggoth in the context of Lovecraft's literary life, with examples of his other poetry....
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This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft's "apprentice years": roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this volume, from 1917 through 1925.
Highlights of this volume include:
• The Tomb
• Dagon
• The Doom that Came to Sarnath
• The Temple
• The Picture in the House
• The Nameless City
• The Outsider
• The...
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A gutsy dame, a surly smuggler, a deep and sinister river: If you enjoyed "The African Queen" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark," you'll love this romantic-suspense novel set in the most eldritch corner of the Amazon Basin.
It's February of 1928 - late summer in the Amazon. Prudence McMarion, a film editor at Walter Disney's animation studio in Los Angeles, has taken a leave of absence to travel deep into the Amazon Rainforest with her best friend,...
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In the wild, unexplored coastal jungles of West Africa lives a wild human boy named Tarzan, the adopted son of a tribe of fierce almost-human anthropoid apes - but in reality the unknown heir of a wealthy and titled English noble family. Then one day, a small party of American treasure-seekers is marooned on Tarzan's beach, including a lovely Baltimore belle named Jane Porter. When she leaves, Tarzan quits his jungle life and learns the ways of civilized...
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This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft's life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Highlights of this volume include:
• Cool Air
• The Call of Cthulhu
• Pickman's Model
• The Colour out of Space
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Dunwich...
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It's 2137 A.D. To civilized Americans, Europe exists only as a legend, an ancient mythic land, a civilization that went mad back in 1914 and tore itself to pieces in a blood-mad frenzy, forcing America to cut off all contact for its own protection. No American has seen Europe or any European for more than two centuries.
But now, a combination of bad weather and a subordinate's treachery forces Lieutenant Jefferson Turck of the Pan-American Navy across...
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This volume is part of the three-book Pulp-Lit Omnibus Collection of all the fiction writing of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. It presents the works of weird fiction which he ghostwrote or on which he collaborated with another author.
Highlights of this volume include:
• Under the Pyramids, with Harry Houdini
• The Mound, with Zealia Bishop
• Two Black Bottles, with Wilfred Blanch Talman
• The Horror in the Burying- Ground, with Hazel Heald
•...
20) The John Carter Trilogy of Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Wa
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The original interplanetary swashbuckler:
John Carter is a fighting man of Earth (or is he?) transported suddenly to the surface of a strange planet full of fierce green giants, savage white apes, and noble but warlike humans - including the one he loves. But can he save her from the doom that threatens to destroy the entire planet?
In a little over 100 years, the Martian tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs have changed the literary world, launching science...