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This 1929 potboiler, subtitled Or How the Squid Got Besuckered, introduces a villain known as the Crimson Query because he leaves, Zorro-like, a sign of his machinations. In this case, a bright red question mark. All in all, this hard-to-find detective story stands alongside the more horrific novels Eadie is known for.

The man who used the pseudonym Mark Hanson wrote this eerie supernatural novel in 1935. It's extremely hard to find and John Pelan, in his introduction, tells you about the author and John's project of getting his novels back in print. As in many of Hansom's novels, there is a villain who simply can't seem to stay dead.

Hake Talbot wrote only two mystery novels and Ramble House is proud to bring both of them back into print for modern readers. RIM OF THE PIT is his masterpiece of an "impossible crime" that takes place in the far north where snow surrounds a group of desperate people, one of whom is bent on murder. The mapback cover from the 1950's Dell paperback is one of the best crime maps ever drawn and we reproduce it here for you. In addition, this book ...

When Rogan Kincaid arrived at the mysterious island known as The Kraken, he expected to find a lavish party thrown by Jackson B. Frant for a dozen guests. Instead he found only young Nancy Garwood, who had been drugged and left in her bedroom. The rest of the mansion was completely deserted and all Nancy could remember was that somebody died at dinner-and she thought it was the host! It doesn't take long before Rogan starts to wonder if there ...

The first volume of the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps Series from Ramble House. It contains the following stories: League of the Grateful DeadAs Deep As the Grave Fry Away, Kentucky BabeCrawl Out of That CoffinMarry the Sixth for MurderNothing to Worry AboutDance with The Death House DollDead As in Mackereland has an introduction by John Pelan.

This huge book contains the original short story upon which THE POKER CLUB was based ("Out There in the Darkness"), the complete novel which was first published in 1999, and the screenplay by Rich Chizmar and Johnathon Schaech. Ed Gorman provides the introduction and you, the reader, get to see the whole story unfold in three ways.It's a classic plot, and one that was meant for Ed Gorman's take-no-prisoners style. Four buddies are playing poke...

Walter S. Masterman, known for his oddball horror/mystery novels about demonic toads and toxic mistletoe, wrote 16 novels between 1926 and 1938. Ramble House is proud to bring back THE FLYING BEAST (1932) to go with last year's THE GREEN TOAD. Once you enter his universe of ordinary citizens aiding exceptional detectives you'll wonder why his action-packed books haven't been reprinted before.

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Sherlock Holmes is such a well-defined character it's no wonder that many authors have written Holmesian stories of their own. And those that didn't, wish they had. Richard A. Lupoff, one of America's foremost pastichers, makes up for this lack and written stories in the style of a dozen famous authors for them. Authors like Dashiell Hammett, Philip Jose Farmer, Philip K. Dick, and even Jack Kerouac! There's even a recipe for Giant Rat stew.Al...

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This book presents a selection of fantasy illustrations, many published here for the first time, created by Gavin L. O'Keefe over a span of four decades. Designs inspired by the macabre stories of H. P. Lovecraft, Tod Robbins and Edgar Allan Poe, illustrations for science-fiction works by Richard A. Lupoff, Robert Sheckley and Philip Jos Farmer, drawings for the 'nonsense' stories of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, magazine covers, drawings ins...

DEATH MARCH OF THE DANCING DOLLSand Other StoriesVolume #3 in the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps Seriesby Day KeeneWith an Introduction by Bill CriderDay Keene wrote these eight hardboiled tales for the pulps, particularly Dime Mystery Magazine, Dime Detective, Short Stories and Detective Tales Magazine, in the 40s. John Pelan has selected these for Volume #3 of the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps series and Bill Crider, bestselling author ...

James Kobak has been in the money business for years, prowling the back alleys of the financial district of Manhattan in search of the almighty dollar, and now he's written a novel that shatters every illusion you may have had about the men who call themselves "masters of the universe."No, it's not a "tell-all" story. It's a humorous take on the vagaries of life in the financial fast lane by someone who knows what he's writing about. It may sc...

Two years ago Gary Lovisi came out with his first collection of unknown stories about Sherlock Holmes in THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Now, Gary adds three more tales to the canon with "The Notorious Crosby Murders, " "A Study in Evil" and "The American Adventure." These reveal sides of the great detective you may not be familiar with, for instance, his obsession with blood spatter evidence almost a century before Dexter and CSI go...

PERFECT .38 is the first volume of an ambitious project by Ramble House to bring back all of the excellent hardboiled mysteries written by William Ard. It collects two of the earliest Timothy Dane novels, THE PERFECT FRAME and .38. Ard scholar Francis M. Nevins introduces the first book and Gavin L. O'Keefe provides the cover art.William Ard wrote like no one else -- when everyone was writing like Mickey Spillane -- and the charm of these firs...

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These seven novellas were written between 1934 and 1935 and published in the pulps, Dime Mystery Magazine and Terror Tales. They are introduced by horror scholar, John Pelan, and fully deserve the subtitle that John gave them: The Weird Tales of Wyatt Blassingame. The seven stories are: THE TONGUELESS HORRORSATAN SENDS A WOMANSONG OF THE DEADHOURS OF THE VANISHED BOARDERSATAN'S THIRSTY ONESVILLAGE OF THE DEADMODELS FOR MADNESS

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