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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 ...

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 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...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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!

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

BY PASSION OBSESSED Women called him Captain Firebrand because he fought and loved with a hot-headed passion. His real name was Michele di Cadogna, a loyal friend of Casanova and casual seducer of countless women. He swore that sensation-seeking Countess Margarita would be his last mistress when her husband used her to bait a trap that nearly cost Michele his life. But innocent and seductive Princess Tea proved just as deadly a snare. For, when Michele carried her off into the wild mountains of Italy, her wantonness not only maddened his senses but plunged him into the savage War of the ...

Fleet Commander Alden Slater came to Gothon to recuperate and found himself on the side of a minority · in a full-scale civil rights battle. All he did was come to the defense of a pretty girl named Aldatha Te—who happened to be a colly. And collys, the original human settlers of Gothon and worshipers of a god called Dromm, had always been treated as slaves by the Terran representatives. Slater learned, soon enough, that he was making powerful enemies in the monolithic Interplanetary Development Corp. who "ruled” Gothon, and wanted lands that the collys held sacred to Dromm. But he ...

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 ...

Carty was a loner, the man they called “the Indian.” A white man raised Kiowa, he was wise in the ways of the ancient tribesmen, a man who could live close to the earth. He was also a man of honor and, if he had to, he would kill when it was time for killing. Carty owed an outlaw named Morgan Chance for a bad debt. At first, Carty thought Chance would simply back-shoot him in repayment. Instead, Chance offered Carty a proposition: If Carty would accompany Chance's sister to the Checkerboard Ranch, the debt would be forgotten. Carty accepted. The trip to the Checkerboard Ranch was a long...

DO or DIE! This is a tale of epic proportions, its action spanning two continents. The Liberty Sword follows the struggles of Benjamin Franklin and his first “spies” as they seek to turn the tide of the revolution against the British. Action, intrigue and romance are set against the backdrop of the greatest revolution in the world in this rich and powerful novel.