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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 ...

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...

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.

Planet Stories returns in these vintage pulp tales, reissued for today’s listeners in electronic format.

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 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 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 ...

This is Gardner F Fox's fourth 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 MAGIC AMULET Kothar rescued the beautiful gypsy girl Stefanya, helper to the wizard Zoqquanor, and carried her off on a journey filled with danger and mystery. His mission was to deliver a magic amulet to Herklar, the Regent of Phalkar. But ...

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-...

All 10 short stories have finally been collected. Originally published in Dragon magazine, this was Gardner F. Fox's final attempt of capturing the magic that is Sword & Sorcery. Before creating Niall, Fox had created two other Conan clones, Kothar and Kyrik, in addition to the suspiciously named Crom the Barbarian for comic books. Mr. Fox was well regarded by Gary Gygax and he's listed in Gygax's Appendix N. Appendix N was a list of authors that inspired Mr. Gygax to create Dungeons & Dragons. These short stories are all Sword & Sorcery classics. He came into Angalore from the eastern ...

ASSIGNMENT: LOVE THE ENEMY TO DEATH! "LAY ME ODDS—if you have the guts. My name is Eve Drum. I'm THE LADY FROM LU.S.T.—the wildest, nuttiest Secret agent who ever drove the Kremlin out of its Vodka-guzzling skull. They aren't kidding when they call me the sexiest spy in the World. As Agent Double Oh Sex take on the kind of assignments Jimmy Bond can't handle. All hell breaks loose when I go into action against the sinister forces of H.A.T.E. Don't tangle with me because I'll love you to death. I have a license to kill and I don't care whether I use my body—or a bullet. Sex is my ...

"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 ...

Falsely accused of murder, Kael Carrick had been abandoned on Dakkan planet, without food and water, to face a slow, tortured death. But Carrick was no ordinary man. Before his death, Hannes Stryker, the man Carrick was accused of murdering, had rebuilt Carrick into a superman. When Carrick discovered, on that cosmic graveyard, that Earth was being threatened by the devouring Slarrn terror, he knew that he alone could save the world from total destruction. But first he had to save himself from extinction on dread Dakkan planet!

Commander John Craig is a new kind of science-fiction hero: worldly, daring, incredibly ingenious. Beyond The Black Enigma presents him with one of his most devilish challenges: to pierce and destroy an insidiously growing menace to the future of Earth itself. Even the most jaded science-fiction reader will thrill to Commander Craig's dangerous exploits as he risks his life in strange worlds never before invaded by men from earth! The black Enigma could be anything from a mere vibration to the gaping maw of a hideous space beast. Whatever it was, special agent John Craig of the Alert ...

This is Book #4 in Gardner Francis Fox's Sexecutioner Series. ABOUT CHERRY DELIGHT: N.Y.M.P.H.O. AGENT N.Y.M.P.H.O. (The New York Mafia Prosecution and Harassment Organization) is the secret organization dedicated to the wiping out of crime in general and the Mafia in particular. Its most effective executioner is a gorgeous red-headed sexpot named Cherry Delight. Cherry is a crack-shot and has a black belt in judo. But her most effective Weapon is sex. If she can't lick the enemy one way, she'll lick them another way. LONDON LAMBAST This caper has Cherry Delight operating out of her London ...

Originally printed in 1965. HELEN Queen of Sparta, daughter of Aphrodite, a disciple of Eros “Never has there been such a woman as you...? Words whispered in the perfumed shadows of a palace bedchamber, before the altar of a pagan god, within the seclusion of a forest glade ... words were spoken in awed adoration by kings and generals and heroic warriors, to a woman whose uncontrollable passion would change the course of history! Cover illustration by Kurt Brugel

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 ...

MOMENT OF TRUTH Anne did not want money, he thought. She wanted marriage ... as Beth wanted affection, as Janet wanted confidence in herself as a woman, as Veronica wanted the violent release of passion. And he, Willard Remsen? He was the other man in every woman's life, the lover who kissed their bruises and salved their pride. There was no substance behind such a man. He was superficial, surface bright, lacking character and responsibility. He was something to each of these women in the instant of their need, but nothing to himself ... He rumpled the paper in quick irritation. “It's the...

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.