The Spear of Goliath Back in Africa once more Hardluck Hannigan is trying to forget the loss of the two women he had loved. In a waterfront dive on the western coast of Africa, Hannigan hears a tale of a fabulous lost city deep in the jungle. But the city itself is not what catches his attention. The city is said to be the repository of the legendary Spear of Goliath. According to the local legends, the spear was carried there after Goliath's defeat at the hands of David and that it has been guarded by descendants of Goliath's people. As Nazis arrive in the small African settlement, Hannigan...

Theses are some of the collected works of New Pulp Author Bill Craig, featuring tales of fantasy, hard-boiled mystery, masked heroes, cowboys, and things that go bump in the night. So pour a shot of whiskey, turn down the lights and crank up some Jazz and settle in for some edge of the seat fun

When her baby sister shows up on Scorpion Cay, Police Chief Monica Sinclair is initially pleased. Until she finds out that her sister is on the run from a drug deal gone bad in Columbia. Monica knows she needs unofficial help if she wants to keep her little sister alive and out of jail. Monica does the only thing she can and enlists the help of her former lover, Ex-DEA agent turned Private Investigator Sam Decker to help her sister out of her deadly fix. Pursued by Columbian hit men sent to recover the drugs or the money, Decker and Julia Sinclair must track down her wayward boyfriend who has...

In 1880, Ah Puch, an evil Mayan god, is determined to take over the State of California and turn it into his own personal empire. Vagabond barber turned lawman Miles O'Malley is determined to stop him. Along the way, Miles is frequently distracted by run ins with everything from shipwrecked ghosts to sea monsters to little green men in flying saucers. To further complicate his life he is befriended by some very sexy fallen angels who can cause him even more trouble. The west was never this wild 400 pages of Wild West adventure.

Max fears that his family will disapprove of his friendship with Darla, a common girl from the village outside his uncle's fortress walls. That's why they meet secretly to read together from an old book, which she has found in a dusty room near the fortress laundry where she works. They read about a lost lake and feel adventurous when they slip out of the fortress to go swimming there; but the trouble begins when they find that, in the meantime, the fortress has been sealed and they can't get back in. It's lucky that they have the book with them, to guide them through the many dangers that...

Explore the worlds of Mad Science with Tales of the Talisman. The Large Hadron Collider provides scientists an opportunity to test predictions made by particle and high-energy physics. Lee Clark Zumpe shows us what could happen if an elder god chose to use it as a gateway. Charles Chapman and David Van Houten imagine scientists building an artificial heart in the nineteenth century to pulse-pounding and maddening effect. In the future, the wealthy might have the ability to reenact the space flights of the 60s. Mike Wilson shows us that such games are not without peril. Erin K. Wagner asks...