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Step into the realm of high adventure and untamed magic with Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman, a seminal collection by the prolific author Gardner Francis Fox. First unleashed upon the world of fantasy literature in 1969, this compilation marks one of Fox's most enduring legacies within his impressive oeuvre of 156 paperbacks. Celebrated for its vibrant energy and boundless imagination, Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman secured its place in the hearts of fantasy enthusiasts and significantly influenced the creation of Dungeons & Dragons, as acknowledged by its creator, Gary Gygax, in Appendix N. This ...

From 1944 to 1953 Gardner F. Fox wrote for the pulp publishers while writing for comic books as well. This is a collection of his 10 best science fiction pulps he wrote for Planet Stories. The stories are like reading comic books but without the pictures. Gardner F. Fox was one of the most prolific writers during the golden and silver age of comic books. These pulp short stories are playgrounds for what he would ultimately contribute to such DC comics characters as the Flash and Adam Strange. The Stories are; The Last Monster, Man nth, Engines of the Gods, The Man the Sun-Gods made, Sword ...

STEP DOWN TO THE TOP Jeanne Du Barry flew from the bed after the Count, to catch him in her arms and press herself against him. Her kisses rained on his mouth. “Do you mean it? Do you honestly mean you will take me to Levignac with you?” "I cannot marry you," he said soberly. "Mordieu! Who needs marriage?" She giggled and ran her hand over his chest. "Just give me this and I'll be content." The intriguing saga of Madame Du Barry—from her vulgar beginning to her eventual death on the Guillotine.

This is Gardner F Fox's fifth classic Sword & Sorcery story for paperbacks. There are 5 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. The Kothar books are listed in Gary Gygax's Appendix N as one of the few books that inspired the creation of Dungeons & Dragons THE DEATH OF MAGIC Someone—or something—was systematically killing all the world's magicians. Kothar, the blond barbarian, had to link up with his enemy, the she-devil temptress Red Lori, to find and vanquish the slayer. Beautiful Lori was his ...

This is Gardner F Fox's second classic Sword & Sorcery story for paperbacks. There are 5 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. The Kothar books are listed in Gary Gygax's Appendix N as one of the few books that inspired the creation of Dungeons & Dragons. Four illustrations from Johnny Hazard Artist; Frank Robbins The enchanted sword Frostfire Kothar stole the helix from the fat Emperor of Avalonia. It was the only way he could hope to recover his magic Sword Frostfire from the belly of the Great Eagle...

Slave Masters Melissa Stone ran the Stonehedge Plantation cruelly but carelessly. She indulged her every depravity at the expense of the men and women who were her slaves. When her brother returned from Europe, he was shocked to find his slaves acting sullen and rebellious. He took strong measures to break their spirits. His sister's jealousy at no longer being in control of the plantation grew wildly when Randolph Stone took a beautiful young black girl as his body servant. Their competition led them to even deeper depths of depravity until they were greater slaves than the ones they owned...

This book has both the Warrior of Llarn and the Theif of Llarn. Both stories are complete. These books are Sword & Planet classics from Gardner Francis Fox. Originally published in 1964, written as an homage to Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter of Mars series. Gardner Francis Fox takes us to another world, where Alan Morgan, awakes on a planet countless distances from Earth. He has only his intelligence and his masterful swordplay to keep him alive. Llarn is a world of uncharted deserts where cities of incredible age lay broken and empty, destroyed long ago in the great War which had ...

Barbaric India, land of languor, intrigue, strange appetites, exotic women, cruel and scheming men! It was in this India that the woman of Kali spun her silken web. She was Sharita, high priestess of the cult of death, mistress of forbidden rites, who used her strange powers in a plot to seize the throne of this great Eastern empire and destroy the foreign invaders. Then she met the tall, blond Pritchard, captain of the Madras Light Horse, whose great strength and fame as a soldier had traveled the length and breadth of India. In her pagan temple, with every wile of the Orient, Sharita ...

This is Gardner F Fox's second paperback attempt at writing Sword & Sorcery that would rival Robert E. Howard. There are 4 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. From the world beyond--or past--time Kothar comes. His Sword & Sorcery books read like Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. All they need is a great Game Master to orchestrate the adventure. Kyrik the mighty-muscled Warlock swordsman is a hero for this Or any other age. From Mankind's darkest and most unremembered past he comes Striding, the ever-...

This book is #1 of 23. They were published in the late 1960's using the James Bond super spy model. BLOW YOUR MIND My name is Eve Drum—The Lady From L.U.S.T.—the sexiest spy in the world. Anything you do I can do better. They call me Double Oh Sex, because sex is my favorite weapon, but I'm just as good at Karate, safe-cracking, knife throwing, scuba diving—you name it. Don't tangle with me: I have a license to kill and I don't care if I use my body—or a Beretta. Swing along as I go into action against a super-villain who wants to wreck N.A.T.O. and heat up the Cold War to the flash...

This is Gardner F Fox's third classic Sword & Sorcery story for paperbacks. There are 5 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. The Kothar books are listed in Gary Gygax's Appendix N as one of the few books that inspired the creation of Dungeons & Dragons. SHE STALKS IN BEAUTY As a boy, Kothar had been cast upon the desolate shores of Grondel Bay. Since that time, he had grown to lusty manhood, to become the greatest Swordsman in the World. He had well earned the name of Magnificent Barbarian. Nothing ...

This historical Romance is set during the American Revolutionary War. Once she posed as a camp trollop to pry a colonel's secrets loose between kisses. At splendid balls she—redcoats-traitors unaware for the promise in her eyes. As a ragged boy she fled through swamps, desperately eluding the King's death regiment—minutes ahead of her executioners. She was Mistress Debby Treat, the reckless, golden-haired Virginia beauty who gambled all of herself in the cause of liberty. Except for her heart. She gave that to a rebel soldier—who himself belonged to a Tory belle. . . . The Colonel ...

A BLACK MAGIC NOVEL OF TERROR THE DRUID STONE The supernatural rears its terrifying head in this strange novel of ancient sorcery struggling to deliver the modern world into the hands of the devil himself! Brian Creoghan's fight against this devouring evil in the haunting atmosphere of a contemporary New England village and in a strange barbaric land of thousands of years ago is an experience in the occult that fans of witchcraft and sorcery will find a chilling delight and an unforgettable adventure into the dark unknown.

This is Gardner F Fox's third paperback attempt at writing Sword & Sorcery that would rival Robert E. Howard. There are 4 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. From the world beyond--or past--time Kothar comes. His Sword & Sorcery books read like Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. All they need is a great Game Master to orchestrate the adventure. Kyrik, the great and glorious warrior, had battled the fiercest foes imaginable, drawing on his amazing and incredible warlock powers. His tremendous gifts are put...

This is Gardner F Fox's second paperback attempt at writing Sword & Sorcery that would rival Robert E. Howard. There are 4 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. From the world beyond--or past--time Kothar comes. His Sword & Sorcery books read like Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. All they need is a great Game Master to orchestrate the adventure. SORCERER's SPELL Kyrik, the mighty warrior, met a lovely woman who appeared to be his gypsy lover Myrnis. But then she disappeared, and Kyrik met another woman ...

He ruled by the sword—She by her caresses His sword for love- Out of the grandeur and pageantry of 14th-Century England, a master storyteller weaves this powerful tale of a lonely titan and the woman who loved him. Men spoke in awe of The Black Prince, the greatest swordsman of his day women whispered in wonder of the man who could claim the thrones of England and France, but who would trade both for one forbidden night in the arms of a raven-haired goddess. Love Has A Wild Cry The Black Prince lay staring vacantly upward at the tent pole. "Broth,” the gypsy whispered. "Take it away; I ...

This is Book #1 in Gardner F. Fox's Sexecutioner Series. I double as call girl and killer, spy and seductress. I have been trained to crack a safe or a skull, pick a pocket like a pro, or to fight in a variety of ways, including judo, karate, and even Burmese boxing. I can speak six languages. Using a revolver or automatic, I can hit a bullseye nine times out of ten. Against me, the Mafia doesn't have a chance. My name is Cherry Delight. I am just what the name implies, a delightful redhead. I work for N.Y.M.P.H.O. (The New York Mafia Prosecution and Harassment Organization) N.Y.M.P.H.O. is...

In the swirling London fog, Adele Putnam witnessed a very real murder-but when the killer and his victim later vanished, she began to doubt her senses. Her brother Michael told her to forget the incident and to accompany him to Brittany, where he intended to study the ancient monoliths of Carnac, similar to Stonehenge. Adele was happy to go. Not only would she aid Michael in writing his book, but she could visit her girlhood friend Lysette, who had married the Count de Kerceval. But to her horror, she found that Lysette was dead, and the handsome grieving husband was none other than the man...

"I AM RUSSIA!" the young giant cried, and he set out to bathe the land in blood... This was Red Ivan, Russia's first Tsar, a tempestuous titan not yet out of his teens, yet spoken of in awe and fear throughout the world. - Ivan the Terrible, a savage dreamer clutched in the cruel hand of destiny, a man as wild and mysterious as the land he ruled – A devoted husband who led his court in frenzied orgies that scandalized the world - A seeker after wisdom and justice who destroyed an entire Russian town to punish a threat of defiance. Saint, madman, lover, tyrant, he smashed his enemies with ...

THE COXEMAN GETS A BUG UP HIS BRAIN Rod Damon – The Coxeman – learns of an enemy plot to murder world leaders by planting a remote-controlled "bug' in the brain of a number of agents. The "bugs” are programmed to have the agents kill on demand. Rod's job is to try to join the enemy force, HECATE, in order to destroy it. But first, he must pass a series of tests, one of which is a test of virility. Rod is finally accepted and "bugged" for murder. But HECATE has outsmarted Rod. He finds that he cannot neutralize the assassination orders. More important, he finds that he has lost his ...