A collection of the best stories by one of fantasy and science fiction's most evocative writers, including Sea-Kings of Mars, which combines high adventure with a strongly romantic vision of an ancient, sea-girt Martian civilisation.
I didn't realize quite how good this collection would turn out to be. There is a literary quality to the writing that shines through even when the stories themselves are rather preposterous. These are all shorter works, most seem novella length, and Brackett wrote these during the golden age of s...
Greed pulls the archaeologist Matt Carse into the forgotten tomb of the Martian god Rhiannon and plunges the unlikely hero into the Red Planet's fantastic past, when vast oceans covered the land and the legendary Sea-Kings ruled from terraced palaces of decadence and delight.
Part two of the Eric John Stark trilogy.Eric drove North to the enemy citadel to rescue his friend in the first volume. In this volume they move South by a different route toward the Spaceport. This time Stark has new allies, namely several very powerful war dogs he commands with telepathy. This ...
Before Eric John Stark can escape from the dying planet of the ginger star, he is betrayed by the starship captain Penkawr-Che. Abandoned by friends and besieged by enemies, Stark is a fugitive once more. Running from all those who hunt him, he embarks on a nightmare journey through deadly jungle...
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang-someone! About: A book written to cash in on the success of film actor George Sanders, and ghost-written by Leigh Brackett, whom the supposed author claims never to have met. Stranger at Home is the story of Mike Vickers, back home from the dead, and trying t...
Carey knocked and then he waited, stooped a bit under the lintel-stone, fitting his body to the meagre shadow as though he could really hide it there. A few yards away, beyond cracked and tilted paving-blocks, the Jekkara Low-Canal showed its still black water to the still black sky, and both wer...
If he called from his office Grace Vitelli would inevitably know it and he did not want her to. Miss Brewer had a slightly hard, matter-of-fact voice that he liked. “Lorene asked me about that,” she said. “I’m pretty sure I tucked that number away s...
He reeled backward into the black interior. As he staggered for balance the door suddenly slammed shut again. He heard a bar fall and then a low, throaty chuckle from beside him. "That will hold them for a while. But we'd better get out of here quic...