The lawless days Old West lasted only a short time, but the stories of its outlaws and the havoc they wreaked are legendary. Tough Towns reveals the small American towns that fought back when criminal gangs invaded their quiet streets, making heroes of ordinary citizens and local lawmen who wouldn’t be pushed around by armed hoodlums.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of Oklahoma 2, with compelling legends of the Sooner State's most despicable desperadoes. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, and hiss at lawmen turned outlaws.

Robert Barr was born in Glasgow, Scotland on the 16th September 1849. Five years later the family emigrated to a farm near Muirkirk in Upper Canada.His early years were uneventful as the family settled into their new lives and Barr began his education.A career path as a teacher opened up for him and, by 1874, he had been appointed as headmaster at the Central School at Windsor. Concurrently he also wrote travel and humourous articles for magazines. Within two years their su...

"99 Science Fiction Short Stories" brings together some of the finest sci fi short stories ever crafted. Featuring gems from masters of the genre, such as H.G Wells , Robert Barr , PKD, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Norton, and many, many more!

The theme of this Megapack is classic mystery and crime fiction from the Victorian era. We have taken the liberty of extending the qualifying publication dates to the end of World War I, since that event marked more of a turning point in world literature than the advent of the Edwardian Age. Certainly the spirit of Victorian crime fiction continued beyond Queen Victoria. This volume contains 25 stories and 2 bonus novels, offering hours of reading pleasure.THE LENTON CROFT ROBBERIE...

The second volume of our Victorian Mystery series presents 38 more classic mysteries, including series by Andrew Lang, August Groner, and Robert Barr. Included are: IN THE HOUSE OF SUDDHOO, by Rudyard KiplingTHE CRIME CLUB, by William Holt-WhiteTRACES OF CRIME, by Mary FortuneTHE STAR OF THE "GRASMERE," by E. W. HornungMR. BOVEY'S UNEXPECTED WILL, by L. T. Meade and Robert EustaceTHE ADVENTURES OF SHERLAW KOMBS, by Robert BarrTHE AFFAIR OF THE "AV...

BLOODY, BLOODY CHRISTMAS gathers the festive season's shadow literature: mysteries, thrillers, Gothic visitations, detective puzzles, and ironic seasonal reversals. Against familiar images of hearth, charity, snow, and reunion, these works disclose concealment, danger, crime, and the uncanny. The volume ranges from sensation fiction and supernatural terror to comic misdirection, moral allegory, and the developing logic of detective narrative, making Christmas not merely a setting but a pre...

A collection of rare horror stories that will thrill fans of classic writers such as M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and E. F. Benson.Jerome K. Jerome’s reputation as a humorist, renowned for his comic novel Three Men in a Boat, has thrown into undeserved obscurity his fine efforts in the ghost story genre.Three Men in the Dark collects Jerome’s major horror stories, together with a selection from two of his friends with whom he founded the magaz...

Robert Barr's 'Vintage Mysteries - 70+ Stories in One Volume (Thriller Classics Collection)' is a captivating anthology that showcases the author's mastery in the mystery genre. The collection features a diverse range of thrilling stories that will keep readers engaged from beginning to end. Barr's literary style seamlessly blends suspense, intrigue, and clever plot twists, making each story a delightful puzzle for mystery enthusiasts. Set in various time periods and locations, the book pr...

The Forgotten Art of Courtship: 40 Romance Novels surveys the changing languages of desire, marriage, social ambition, and emotional self-determination across the long nineteenth century and its literary afterlives. Ranging from comedy of manners and epistolary intrigue to Gothic intensity, domestic realism, historical adventure, and psychologically nuanced social fiction, the volume reveals courtship as both private feeling and public negotiation. Its selection juxtaposes witty examinatio...

Mystery Cases For Christmas gathers classic detective and crime tales into a seasonal invitation to test one's powers of inference. Across puzzle mysteries, sensation fiction, comic reversals, courtroom investigations, psychological suspense, and atmospheric tales of rural and urban unease, the volume demonstrates the remarkable elasticity of the genre. Holiday framing heightens the pleasures of concealment and revelation: domestic gatherings, winter isolation, and apparently ordinary fest...

The story is set against the backdrop of espionage and international intrigue in the late 19th century. It follows the adventures of the main character, Peter Klein, a journalist who becomes involved in a complex plot involving spies, political intrigue, and a mysterious rock in the Baltic Sea. The novel combines elements of mystery, suspense, and romance as Klein unravels the secrets and conspiracies surrounding the enigmatic rock.Robert Barr was known for his ability to write engaging an...