This volume includes "The Stagnant Death," by H. Bedford-Jones (part of his "Trumpets from Oblivion" series) and the novel "The Radio Flyers," by Ralph Milne Farley.

This volume includes "The Stagnant Death," by H. Bedford-Jones (part of his "Trumpets from Oblivion" series) and the novel "The Radio Flyers," by Ralph Milne Farley.

Many of the horror stories of monsters and ghouls, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Mardi Gras, Carnival, the season of parties and parades leading up to Lent. Not even the newly enacted Prohibition could dampen the spirits of the people of New Orleans. But one figure is on everyone's mind, the Midnight Masquer, the mysterious bandit who appears at the stroke of midnight in the costume of an aviator to rob wealthy party goers of their jewels and money. Is he a criminal, or just a joker? The question is up in the air until, on the last night of carnival, things turn tragic and one of New Orleans leading citizens is murdered at the hand of the bandit. But was it the real...

Authorized edition. In a cold November night of the year 1640 three young men coincidentally meet in a Parisian tavern-a musketeer of the king, a poem reciting guardsman and an escapee from the Bastille, the infamous prison of the French king. Soon these three men will be part of an intrigue of Cardinal Richelieu in his struggle for power. Around the mysterious past of the fugitive and a damsel in distress enfolds a swashbuckling adventure by the "King of the Pulps" H. Bedford-Jones, using two immortal heroes of 19th-century French literature, Alexandre Dumas' musketeer d'Artagnan and Edmond...

A strange and mysterious gem named the Sphinx Emerald leaves its trail through history: a witness to many historic events and crosses the paths of both simple folk and famous men such as Alexander the Great, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, Leonardo da Vinci, Cardinal Richelieu-and, for good or bad, exerts its powerful influence....

In this thrilling swashbuckler saga former Jacobite fugitive James O'Brien with his ship and crew roams the seas from the Caribbean to the Barbary Coast in North Africa. Here the dauntless buccaneer captain sets his sharp rapier and his even sharper wits against the will of Mulai Ismael, the bloodthirsty ruler of Morocco, while the English fleet eagerly awaits his return.

Authorized edition. For a second time H. Bedford-Jones picks up musketeer d'Artagnan, the well-known literary creation of 19th-century French writer Alexandre Dumas, Sr. In this swashbuckling drama-placed shortly after the events in Dumas' The Three Musketeers- Bedford-Jones reunites the young Gascon with his old comrades-in-arms Athos, Porthos and Aramis to defend again the honor of the queen in an intrigue of Cardinal Richelieu and to secure the future of a child who will play an important role in Dumas' own continuation The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.