The Land That Time Forgot is the first book in the Edgar Rice Burroughs Caspak trilogy followed by The People That Time Forgot and Out of Time's Abyss. Set in World War I the story begins as a narrative of Bowen J. Tyler, an American passenger on a ship sunk in the English Channel by the U-33, a German U-boat. He is rescued by a British tugboat with survivor, Lys La Rue. The tug is then sunk, but its crew manages to capture the submarine when it surfaces. Unfortunately, all other British craft continue to regard the sub as an enemy, and they are unable to bring it to port. Sabotage to the...

The year is 2137, over 160 years ago the "Great War" was fought in Europe. The Western Hemisphere stayed out of the conflict, as much as possible, using the slogan: "The East for the East...The West for the West." For all this time the USA did not go past 30 degrees or 175 degrees latitude. Until... The aero-submarine, "Coldwater" in command of Lieutenant Jefferson Turck is blown past the 30 in a raging storm. Damaged, the ship landed in Europe only to find that it was not the enemy that was expected but something entirely different. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for...

"The beautiful young daughter of a wealthy family is robbed of her money and jewels, and she herself disappears soon after... A young man fleeing a band of murderous hobos becomes the target of a lynch mob... Frozen to silent rigidity, they sat straining every faculty to catch the minutest sound from the black void where the dead man lay. As they listened there came up to them, mingled with inexplicable footsteps, a hollow reverberation from the dank cellar- a hideous dragging of chains behind the nameless horror which had haunted them through the interminable eons of the ghastly night. Up,...

The People That Time Forgot is the second book in the Edgar Rice Burroughs Caspak trilogy along with The Land That Time Forgot and Out of Time's Abyss. The People That Time Forgot is the sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and continues the lost world saga. Burroughs continues the revelation of his lost world's unique biological with a slow progress of evolution. The People That Time Forgot begins with the organization of an expedition to rescue Bowen J. Tyler, Lys La Rue, and the other castaways marooned on the large Antarctic island of Caprona, whose tropical interior, known to its...

The Return of the Mucker - The Mucker spent his life fighting. He fought his way out of the worst of Chicago's slums, he fought his way out of a jail sentence for a murder he didn't commit. Then, forced to fight for his freedom, destiny led him through a startling series of further adventures to Mexico -- and a fight for his life in the middle of a bloody revolution. Like two thieves they crept along in the shadow of the canyon wall. Inwardly Billy cursed the darkness of the night which hid from view everything more than a few paces from them. Yet it might have been this very darkness which...

The Mucker begun as a series in All-Story Weekly followed by The Return of the Mucker. The book version was first published in 1921. In 1917, Burroughs wrote a third Mucker story entitled The Oakdale Affair featuring the Return of The Mucker sidekick, Bridge. The Mucker is the story of Billy Byrne who was born in Chicago's ghetto and grows up as a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He chooses a life of robbery and violence, disrespecting those who work for a living. The Return of the Mucker - The Mucker spent his life fighting. He fought his way...

A Princess of Mars is the first book in Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series. It is also his first novel, predating his Tarzan series. John Carter, a Confederate veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the end of the Civil War. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of Apaches. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity. He soon falls in with the Tharks, a nomadic tribe of Green Martians....

The Gods of Mars is Edgar Rice Burroughs second of the Barsoom series. It begins with John Carter's arrival on Barsoom, Mars, after a ten year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child and the people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, "Lost worlds" and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter.

The Warlord of Mars is the third of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series. John Carter's wife, the princess Dejah Thoris, has been imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun by the vile pretender goddess Issus. In an effort to rescue her he follows the Holy Hekkador Matai Shang to liberate his beloved wife and Holy Thern's daughter. The rescue takes Carter to the Northern polar regions of Mars where he discovers fantastic creatures and ancient Martian races where he is ultimately victorious in battle and proclaimed Warlord of Barsoom by his allies. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best...

Thuvia, Maid of Mars is the fourth of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom seriesfeaturing Carthoris, Son of John Carter and Thuvia of Ptarth. Cathoris is implicated in the kidnapping of Martian princess Thuvia who he is in love with but is promised to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol. Cathoris sets out to find Thuvia. The rescue finds them at ancient Lothar, home of an ancient fair-skinned human race gifted with the ability to create lifelike phantasms from pure thought. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan, "Lost worlds" and the heroic...