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Dennis Lane spent 14 months in Vietnam back when it was dangerous and during his stint his unit painted a wall -- one they called The Bitch Wall. It tells the stories of Dennis' buddies as they struggle to survive.

Aesop (Aisopos, c. 620-564 BCE) was an Ancient Greek fabulist or story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop's Fables. Although his existence remains uncertain and (if they ever existed) no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day. Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics. Scattered details of Aesop's life can be found in ancient sources, including Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch. An ancient literary work called The Aesop Romance tells an episodic, probably highly fictional version of his life, including the traditional description of him as a strikingly ugly slave who by his cleverness acquires freedom and becomes an adviser to kings and city-states. Older spellings of his name have included Esop(e) and Isope. A later tradition (dating from the Middle Ages) depicts Aesop as a black Ethiopian. Depictions of Aesop in popular culture over the last 2500 years have included several works of art and his appearance as a character in numerous books, films, plays, and television programs.

Ned Anderson, wealthy young playboy of San Francisco, comes back from a trip around the world to find that James Gillespie, whom he had granted power of attorney before leaving on his trip, had swindled him of his fortune. In his attempt to recover his fortune, and to find Gillespie's secretary who has been kidnapped, Anderson hires Simon Crole, private detective. What follows is a most perplexing mystery in which there is a victim who suffers the same fate - twice! Simon Crole and his small agency pull out all stops to beat the police to the solution of the mystery.

Originally published in Startling Stories in 1942, 'Devil's Planet' was Manly Wade Wellman's fourth published science fiction novel, and it combines an adventure story set on Mars with a locked room murder mystery. Dillon Stover lands on Mars with a mission to continue his grandfather's work to bring a sustainable water supply to the parched planet, but before he knows it he finds himself accused of murder and on the run.

It's Yellow Peril time at Ramble House and the two stories introduced by John Pelan in this latest volume bubble over with Celestial inscrutability. The villain is Chu-Sheng, a man of few words - none, actually - who speaks with actions, the more evil the better. Fu Manchu had more publicity but when it comes to enthusiastic malice, Chu-Sheng was without parallel.

J.M.A. Mills is considered to have written only two novels of the occult and this is the first one, from 1937. Ramble House plans to publish the second one in early 2015. In his introduction John Pelan places the author and this suspenseful novel in historical context.

When you get to Volume 4 of an author's collected works, you know he's something special. Wyatt Blassingame is one of John Pelan's favorite weird menace writers and in John's introduction you will find out why. Get ready to be hit with these sordid yarns: They Thirst by Night, Dime Mystery Magazine, June 1935 Gods Never Die, Terror Tales, May 1936 And Only Death Shall Save! Terror Tales, March-April 1937 The Prince of Pain, Dime Mystery Magazine, February 1938 The Invisible Horror, Terror Tales, July 1935 Mistress of Terror, Dime Mystery Magazine, May 1935 Dictator of the Damned, Dime Mystery Magazine, February 1935 Dark Child of Doom, Terror Tales, January 1935 The Blank Face of Horror, Thrilling Mystery, March 1937 The Corroding Death, The Scorpion, April-May 1939

In this original horror novel by Gary Lovisi, set in modern-day Louisiana, the local townsfolk and law-enforcers are confronted with the powers of evil and the horrors that are resurrected.

Written in 1932, this was a controversial novel because of the frankness of its depictions of a morgue. Nowadays it's a real curiosity because of the way the characters obsess about alcohol. There are many parallels between the prohibition-era America and the situation we find ourselves in with marijuana and this book brings them out.

Edmund Snell wrote an almost uncountable number of stories for the pulps, many of them about exotic climes like Borneo. THE BACK OF BEYOND is considered to be the best -- and the hardest to find -- of his Borneo sagas. In it, real people battle the problems of life in the wild and untamed, including the native people. This is a classic of the genre, and a must-have for every serious collector's library. This edition contains an almost-complete bibliography of Edmund Snell's novels and novellas, compiled by John Pelan, who writes the introduction.

Did you know that Bruno Fischer, well-known pulpster who wrote House of Flesh, also wrote under the penname, Russell Gray? This is the second volume from Ramble House presented by John Pelan. It's time to add these stories to your Bruno Fischer library. She-Devil of the Sea, Terror Tales July/August 1938 A Corpse Wields the Lash, Terror Tales Sept/Oct 1937 White Flesh Must Rot, Sinister Stories February 1940 My Touch Brings Death, Horror Stories Dec/Jan 1938/1939 I Said Yes to Satan, Real Mystery July 1940 The Singing Corpses, Terror Tales Sept/Oct 1938 The House that Horror Built, Terror Tales Sept/Oct 1937 Darlings of the Black Master, Terror Tales Nov/Dec 1937 The Devil is our Landlord, Terror Tales Jan/Feb 1938 Valley of the Red Death, Terror Tales Jan/Feb 1938

Ramble House, in a fit of perverse nostalgia, decided to bring back three action-packed novels by James Corbett all at once, and MURDER BEGETS MURDER is the mystery of the group. The other two are aeroplane thrillers. Corbett has a dodgy reputation among the old writers and with that in mind, Bay Area curmudgeon and historian Howard Pearlstein introduces the book with a plea for understanding. But read for yourself. This was the author's 43rd (and last book), published in 1951.

In Keeler News #82, John Herrington quoted a blurb from The Sun, 1932, stating that Damning Trifles, though listed as by Maurice C. Johnson, is actually by Harry Stephen Keeler. Can this be true? Now you can judge for yourself as Damning Trifles is now available for the first time in decades. It's a locked-room mystery and has plenty of charms but is it really by our beloved Harry?

Written in 1924, this may be the first exotic thriller written by Edmund Snell, who again takes us into the exotic jungles of Borneo in THE CRIMSON BUTTERFLY. This novel tells a weird tale of hypnotism and sorcery, and features a mysterious insect whose sting is death to man, and whose wings look like pieces of raw beef. It takes all the wiles and courage of the English officials, the natives, and a visiting professor and his daughter, to get beyond the superstition surrounding the Butterfly and to track it to its lair!

Trade paperback. This revised edition of THE RAMBLE HOUSE MAPBACKS reproduces all the mapback titles released by Ramble House to date. The mapbacks are reproduced in color, alongside their front cover designs and notes on their creation by Gavin L. O'Keefe, the designer of the covers.

In the mid 70s Francis M. Nevins, writer and literary savant, wrote two political thrillers featuring lawyer Loren Mensing. Dedicated to two of Nevins' personal heroes, Frederic Dannay and William Witney, they were timely mysteries involving copyright and murder and established Nevins as the icon he is today. Now, both books (Publish and Perish, 1975, and Corrupt and Ensnare (1978) are yours to enjoy in one volume, with a cover by Ramble House artist, Gavin L. O'Keefe.

Now that you've dipped your toe into the raging torrent of Richard A. Lupoff's life as an inkslinger with WRITER Volume 1, it's time for 320 more pages of memoir, criticism, interview, and sheer literary joy. This time he tackles SF controversies, gives a speech or two, and dishes out some of the most intriguing gossip about the good ol' days of SF.

It all starts with a stroke of incredibly good luck -- Detective-Inspector Bobby Owen and his wife, Olive, find an almost perfect home in the country to rent. But then they meet the neighbors, including Miss Bellamy, whose piano stylings seem to affect everyone in the village, and Mr. Fielding, whose manic cheerfulness makes everyone nervous. The music brings everyone out at night, and murder follows close behind.

Back in the 60s and 70s writer Richard A. Lupoff knew his SF. He knew it so well he put out two books called WHAT IF? each consisting of stories that were eligible for Hugo awards and in his opinion should have won. He had a third volume in this fascinating series ready to go, but technical problems caused it to never see the light of day -- until now. Here it is, the legendary third volume in the WHAT IF? series, personally introduced by Richard A. Lupoff. The stories are: LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS - 1966 Bob Shaw THE STAR-PIT - 1967 Samuel R. Delany THE BARBARIAN - 1968 Joanna Russ SUNDANCE - 1969 Robert Silverberg THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR DEATH AND OTHER STORIES - 1970 Gene Wolfe VASTER THAN EMPIRES AND MORE SLOW - 1971 Ursula K. Le Guin PAINWISE - 1972 James Tiptree, Jr. MY BROTHER LEOPOLD - 1973 Edgar Pangborn

When you're a writer who's been doing it for over 60 years, traveling to exotic places for research, meeting interesting people for interviews and letting your mind wander wherever the hell it wants, you end up with a lot of stories, just as Richard A. Lupoff has done -- in spades. This 280-page volume contains the first four dozen of the tales that Dick Lupoff has written down for us. There's even a few pictures. If you've enjoyed the novels, short stories and non-fiction masterpieces that he's written over the years, here's your chance to find out what was going on behind the scenes.

SOMEWHERE IN SPACE is Volume One of John pelan's new series of novellas and stories by C.C. MacApp. It contains ten stories from the 60s by this traditional SF author who blazed so brilliantly then died too soon. The stories are: The Mercurymen, Galaxy Magazine, December 1965 Tulan, Galaxy Magazine, For Every Action, Amazing Stories3, May 1964 Trees Like Torches, Worlds of Tomorrow, May 1966 A Pride of Islands, If, May, 1960 The Fortunes of Peace, If, September 1967 A Flask of Fine Arcturan, Galaxy Magazine, February 1965 The Drug, Galaxy Magazine, February 1961 All That Earthly Remains, If, July 1962 Somewhere in Space, Worlds of Tomorrow, November1964

Arthur Leo Zagat wrote some of the goriest stories ever written back in the 30s when times were bad for just about everybody. They became known as "weird menace" tales which, as a genre, reached its peak with Zagat. John Pelan tells you all about the man and his time in his introduction. The stories in this collection are: The Corpse Factory, Dime Mystery Magazine, Mary 1934 A Lodging in Hell, Horror Stories, February/March 1936 Death Lands a Cargo, Dime Mystery Magazine, October 1935 Death's Mistress, Dime Mystery Magazine, September 1934 Madman's Bride, Dime Mystery Magazine, January 1935 Satan's Bedchamber, Dime Mystery Magazine, August 1936 Soft Blows the Breeze from Hell, Dime Mystery Magazine, December 1937 The Little Walking Corpses, Dime Mystery Magazine, November 1934

As the Great Depression lingered on, and the situation in Europe got worse, the readers of America longed for adventure, especially in far-off, exotic places. And no one could write about such places more credibly than Edmund Snell. In this series of vignettes, disguised as short stories, you will find yourself in mortal danger at every turn from the forces of the unknown. Who knows? Maybe the Finger of Destiny is pointing at you?

ECHO OF A CURSE is the third novel by the mysterious R.R. Ryan that Ramble House has published. The first two, Freak Museum and The Subjugated Beast, are classics of horror and Echo of a Curse follows closely behind. Ramble House has another R.R. Ryan thriller slated: Death of a Sadist.

Tiffany Thayer, who was prominent in the Fortean Society, wrote many unusual novels in the first half of the 20th century but DOCTOR ARNOLDI is one of the most elusive. Now, for the first time since its initial publication in 1934, it's available. The story is an old one -- what happens when death is defeated -- but no one has ever written about it as Thayer has.

John Pelan knows what he's talking about when he gets into the shudder pulps. Last year we came out with SATAN'S SIN HOUSE and Other Stories, the first volume in the Weird Tales of Wayne Rogers series and here we have the second volume. John's introduction to this book tells you even more about Rogers the writer and prepares you for yet even more volumes in this series. Here are the stories that await you in volume 2: Daughters of Pain, Dime Mystery Magazine, November 1934 Killer Blood for Sale, Dime Mystery Magazine, November 1936 Doom Flowers, Terror Tales, May 1935 Satan Stole my Face, Horror Stories, February/March 1936 Hell Welcomes Lonely Wives, Terror Tales March/April 1937 Her Lover from the Grave, Terror Tales, November 1935 Dead Man's Kiss, Dime Mystery Magazine, July 1936 Fresh Blood for Golden Cauldrons, Dime Mystery, September 1934 Her Suitor from Hell, Terror Tales, April 1936 Death Rocks the Cradle, Horror Stories, February/March 1937 Satan's Love Bazaar, Terror Tales, July/August 1937

Francis James was known for writing novella-length potboilers as headliners for various pulp magazines back in the 30s and John Pelan has collected a few of his best. No one could write preposterous weird menace tales like Francis James and these will prove it: Mark of the Laughing Death, Dime Mystery Magazine, November 1936 Monster's Death Song, Terror Tales, December 1935 Slaves of the Midnight Caverns, Dime Mystery Magazine, July 1937 Arms of the Flame Goddess, Dime Mystery Magazine, April 1938 The Women Who Killed for Satan, Horror Stories June/July 1939 The Unwelcome Dead, Terror Tales, July 1935 Brides for the Half-Men, Sinister Stories, February 1940 Merry Christmas from the Dead, Dime Mystery, January 1937

The word may be getting out that Day Keene, author of those great noir novels of the 40s and 50s, also wrote a lot of stories for the pulps -- and that John Pelan and Ramble House are bringing all of them back for re-reading. Many of these stories were written during WWII and you can tell emotions are burning. Here are the stories in this fifth volume of the series: A Corpse Walks in Brooklyn-Detective Tales, October 1945 The Stars Say Die!-Detective Tales November 1941 Herr Yama from Yokohoma-Ace G-Man February 1943 Seven Keys to Murder-Dime Mystery, September 1944 I'll Be Seeing You-Dime Mystery, November 1946 Three Dead Mice-Flynn's, March 1944 A Corpse for Cinderella-Dime Mystery May 1945 Claws of the Hell Cat-Dime Mystery, January 1946

This new edition of L. Frank Baum's classic tale is illustrated by Gavin L. O'Keefe. The illustrator has reflected the author's interest in Theosophy, providing a new perspective on this established icon of literature. With an Introductory Note by Fender Tucker and a Foreword by John Algeo.

The Library of Death begins at a leisurely pace, and a tone that seems to set the stage for a light romance. But then Ronald S.L. Harding deftly builds the mystery and from the moment we learn of the legend of a headless spectre that purportedly stalks the grounds and rumors of hereditary vampirism the novel undergoes another transformation with the light tone of the early chapters forgotten as horror is piled upon horror . . . So says John Pelan's introduction to this 1938 horror classic.