Talmage Powell (1920-2000) was one of the all-time great mystery writers of the pulp magazines (and later the digest mystery magazines). He claimed to have written more than 500 short stories, and we have no reason to doubt him -- we are working on a bibliography of his work and have documented 373 magazine stories so far...and who knows how many are out there under pseudonyms or buried in obscure magazines? He wrote his first novel, The Smasher, in 1959. He went on to pen 11 more novels u...

The Western Novel MEGAPACK® presents four classic tales of the Old West, by four different writers. Included in this volume are:GUN LAW ON THE RANGE, by Burt ArthurTHE STRANGER IN BOOTS, by A. Scott LeslieTALL IN THE SADDLE, by Chuck MartinTHE CAGE, by Talmage PowellIf you enjoy this volume of classic westerns, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 400+ other entries in this series, covering classic an...

Talmage Powell (1920-2000) was one of the all-time great mystery writers of the pulps (and later the digest mystery magazines). He claimed to have written more than 500 short stories (and I have no reason to doubt him—I am working on a bibliography of his work, and so far I can document 373 magazine stories...and who knows how many are out there under pseudonyms or buried in obscure magazines!)HER DAGGER BEFORE METHE WIND OF FEARMURDER GOES TO THE DOGSTHE BEAUT...

Here for your reading delectation, are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn GarrettTHE WINDOW OF HORRORS, by H.L. MenckenTHE FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIR...

We love ghost stories here at Wildside Press—witness the fact that we have now now reached our eighth volume in this series. Very few other genres are so versatile and enduring as tales of the supernatural. Ghosts can (and have) appeared in literature for thousands of years, in all countries and continents (and times past, present, and future) throughout the world. But the Victorian era particularly seemed to embrace ghost stories, and that’s when Christmas ghost tales became not just a st...

Late summer in a sleepy South Carolina mill town, where heat shimmers and gossip travels faster than truth. A prosperous young bachelor stumbles on a vision he cannot shake: a dark-haired stranger rising from a hidden creek, water beading on her bare skin like diamonds. By nightfall, he has been introduced to her at a neighbor’s dinner table; within weeks, he is utterly lost.The girl carries a shadow. She spent three years in a private sanitarium after a family tragedy, and she fea...

This issue we are headlining the appearance of Norman Spinrad’s masterful short novel, Riding the Torch—one of my favorites of his, and a work that surely deserved more attention than it’s received. (But in a career that has produced such classics as Bug Jack Baron, The Iron Dream, and The Void Captain’s Tale, perhaps it’s understandable that one of Spinrad’s short novels hasn’t received the attention it deserved.) We also have a trio of original mysteries, four Golden Age science fiction ...

They planned to kidnap a little boy, hold him for ransom, and collect a big payoff. Nothing would happen to the kid—Garvin promised. What could possible go wrong with their big score? A classic crime novella ripped from the pages of the Sept. 1960 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine!

Nick Ramey, a gangster money handler, finds himself at the wrong end of a bellhop's gun, when he's robbed of a case full of money. But Nick may have the last laugh after all!

Three frightened people waited in that darkened room. Three, and a grim unwanted guest—Murder! A classic mystery story.

" Jim Lassiter rode his long trail patiently, for he knew that, to an honest man, the time to kill may also be—a time to die!"

Sometimes a criminal is too big for the police to touch, or for any one man to tackle. That’s when murder becomes…