In Death and the Naked Lady, death is on the passenger list of the luxury liner as it makes its way across the Atlantic. And in The Lady and the Cheetah, an out-of-work newspaper report is mistaken fo
An emotionally charged social drama from 1922 involving an impulsive woman who marries for love, then has to cope with the consequences; plus stories in a similar vein from the same period. From the a
The Haunts of Men was originally published in 1898. It has been reprinted in full, with the addition of three non-supernatural stories each from The King in Yellow and The Maker of Moons, plus a secti
John D. MacDonald created the tremendously popular Travis McGee series. This is the single, most complete biography of MacDonald thus far, available for the first time in paperback.
Reprinted from their original early 1940s unexpurgated editions, these two early thrillers by James Hadley Chase reveal the brutal world of American gangsters and the equally ruthless detective who tr
Two collections of vintage horror stories originally published in 1914 and 1917 from Algernon Blackwood, one of the greatest writers of supernatural fiction in the 20th century.
Three very rare early novels by the "King of the Paperbacks" from the golden age. Like Mink Like Murder has never been published in English in its original format before.
Set against the tough and dangerous world of 1940s New York, two classic noir novels include Sweet Money Girl, in which the lives of three unlikely characters collide in December New York City, and Li
Gil Brewer is one of the modern masters of desperate noir fiction, and this is the first collection of his short stories, expanded to include five stories left out of the original edition.
Originally published in France as Ascenseur Pour l’Échafaud in 1956, this edition was translated to English by R. F. Tannenbaum as Frantic and published by Gold Medal Books in 1961.
Go, Lovely Rose won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1954, and The Evil Wish was an Edgar runner-up in 1963. Both novels have been out of print for over 50 years, and are long overdue for redis
Two gritty New York mysteries, the first involving a young cop who sets out to solve a murder that everyone else thinks is just a random killing, and the second the story of an unlikely detective who
Three noir classics from 1947, 1951 and 1961, the stories of hard-luck losers looking for their last chance at redemption, unlikely gin-joint heroes of the shadowlands.
Originally published by Doubleday & Co. in 1957, END OF THE LINE pairs two disparate railroad detectives together to solve an old crime involving a train wreck and its beneficiaries.
Jay Flynn had a 20-year writing career turning out mostly paperback originals as Jay Flynn and J. M. Flynn. These two hardboiled mysteries are considered his best.
Two gangland crime novels from an author of whom Bill Pronzini said "had few peers among noir writers of the 50s and 60s; he has few peers today." Or as Ed Gorman phrased it in Mystery Scene
William Ard created many detective heroes in the 1950s including Timothy Dane and Lou Largo. YOU'LL GET YOURS is one of two hardboiled novels featuring Barney Glines. Before he passed away in 1960, Ar
Lionel White inspired Stanley Kubrick and was referenced by Quentin Tarantino, but his novels have remained out of print for too long. Stark House proudly re-introduces him to a modern audience with t
Unified by themes of love, hope and freedom, Blackwood explores the implications of the coming Age of Aquarius in two books written after he had experienced the horrors of World War I.
Bill Ballinger wrote incredibly clever mysteries that were very well received when they were originally published in the 1950s and 60s. His return to print is long overdue. As Litchfield says in his i
Two novels from 1959 and 1960, originally published in paperback by Beacon Books, which explore what some critics have labeled "the sleazy side of the street."
Lady of a Thousand Sorrows offers a fictionalized drama of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, being the story of a woman whose president/husband has been assassinated and is now being held in a secluded room
New York City. 1948. Damon Taylor, ace reporter for Crime Weekly, begins to investigate the murder of a dance leader at the Savoy. Soon he is aided by a young Truman Capote and fellow newshound, Walte
Jess Franco was director, cinematographer, writer, composer, editor, producer and actor in a series of fiercely independent films made over a roughly sixty year range.From B-horror films to hardcore s
Ghosts and Shape Shifters Monos and Daimonos by Edward Bulwer Hugenin’s Wife by M. P. Shiel The Far Islands by John Buchan The Ship That Saw a Ghost by Frank Norris The Gray Wolf by George MacDonald T
In the words of one critic, "a turbulent, never-ending nose-dive into the depths of one man’s paranoia that, to his utter and horrifying dismay, repeatedly comes true."
The Body Looks Familiar involves a revenge fantasy that begins with murder, and The Late Mrs. Five finds an innocent man suspected of murdering his ex-wife.
The Perfect Victim is the story of a small town under a siege of hate when a stranger is accused of murder, and Winner Take All is about identical twins who swap identities for a con that is not what
Originally published in paperback in 1950 and 1951 by Gold Medal Books, these two classic westerns depict the life of a young man turned outlaw killer in the Oklahoma territory.
John Silence is a classic collection of supernatural horror tales, and The Wave is a masterful novel of reincarnation played out over the sands of Egypt. Blackwood continues to entrance modern audienc
Three spy novels featuring lawyer Manny deWitt, originally published in paperback by Gold Medal Books. The action is light-hearted and the humor a bit twisted in these slight spoofs of the spy genre,
