The Secret History Omnibus Volume 1
The Secret History Omnibus Volume 1

Author: Jean-Pierre Pecau

Publisher: Archaia

Published: 2010-03-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781932386783

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Four immortal brothers and sisters are entrusted with ivory cards in the dawn of prehistory by a dying shaman, and told never to use the cards together. Four immortal brothers and sisters, four archons, leaping through time, consumed in an epic struggle to influence and shape the history of Western civilization. From Moses’ challenge to the Pharaoh to the origin of the Grail myth; from the Pope’s extermination of the Cathars to Nostradamus’ travels in Italy; from the Spanish Armada and the Great Fire of London to Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt; and finally to the Angel of Mons appearing over the trenches of World War I. A secret occult history of the world told in seven chapters. Collects the first Secret History series in preparation for the second, coming in 2010.

The Secret History of Marvel Comics
The Secret History of Marvel Comics

Author: Blake Bell

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2013-11-16

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1606995529

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The Secret History of Marvel Comics digs back to the 1930s when Marvel Comics wasn't just a comic-book producing company. Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman had tentacles into a publishing world that might have made that era’s conservative American parents lynch him on his front porch. Marvel was but a small part of Goodman’s publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalistic story books (known as “pulps”) and magazines, featuring sexually-charged detective and romance short fiction, and celebrity gossip scandal sheets. And artists like Jack Kirby, who was producing Captain America for eight-year-olds, were simultaneously dipping their toes in both ponds. The Secret History of Marvel Comics tells this parallel story of 1930s/40s Marvel Comics sharing offices with those Goodman publications not quite fit for children. The book also features a comprehensive display of the artwork produced for Goodman’s other enterprises by Marvel Comics artists such as Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, Alex Schomburg, Bill Everett, Al Jaffee, and Dan DeCarlo, plus the very best pulp artists in the field, including Norman Saunders, John Walter Scott, Hans Wesso, L.F. Bjorklund, and Marvel Comics #1 cover artist Frank R. Paul. Goodman’s magazines also featured cover stories on celebrities such as Jackie Gleason, Elizabeth Taylor, Liberace, and Sophia Loren, as well as contributions from famous literary and social figures such as Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and L. Ron Hubbard.

The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot
The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot

Author: Junichiro Tanizaki

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2003-03-11

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0375719318

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From a Japanese master of romantic and sexual obsession come two novels that treat traditional themes with sly wit and startling psychological sophistication. In The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi, Junichir Tanizaki reimagines the exploits of a legendary samurai as a sadomasochistic dance between the hero and the wife of his enemy. Arrowroot, though set in the twentieth century, views an adult orphan’s search for his mother’s past through the translucent shoji screen of ancient literature and myth. Both works are replete with shocking juxtapositions. Severed heads become objects of erotic fixation. Foxes take on human shape. An aristocratic lady loves and pities the man she is conspiring to destroy. This supple translation reveals the full scope of Tanizaki’s gift: his confident storytelling, luminous detail, and astonishingly vital female characters.

Rex Mundi Omnibus Volume 1
Rex Mundi Omnibus Volume 1

Author: Arvid Nelson

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 1621155072

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Paris, 1933. Europe is still in the grip of feudalism, sorcerers stalk the streets at night, and secret societies vie for power. When a medieval scroll disappears from a Paris church, Dr. Julien Saunière begins uncovering a series of horrific ritual murders connected to the Catholic Church. His investigation turns into a one-man quest to uncover the deepest secrets of Christianity, a trail of conspiracy that extends all the way to the walls of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. *Collects Rex Mundi Volumes #1-3.

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1
Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-04-10

Total Pages: 5717

ISBN-13: 3968587553

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This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.

Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1
Best Short Stories Omnibus - Volume 1

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2019-02-18

Total Pages: 5998

ISBN-13: 8577770699

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This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.

Andrew Doran Omnibus: Volume 1
Andrew Doran Omnibus: Volume 1

Author: Matthew Davenport

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published: 2021-11-18

Total Pages: 972

ISBN-13:

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FROM ARKHAM TO THE ANTARCTIC. FROM BERLIN TO NAMIBIA. ANDREW DORAN IS ALL THAT STANDS BETWEEN US AND ANNIHILATION. Andrew Doran’s life has been plagued by knowledge. The knowledge that we are not alone in this universe or the next hindered by the knowledge that the things we share our universes with are malevolent and manipulative. What does one do with that knowledge? That power? Dr. Andrew Doran uses that knowledge to spend every moment of his life keep the world safe from the horrors that creep at the edge of your dreams. With the resources of Miskatonic University and a ragtag team of misfits and adventurers, he travels the globe to secure threats to our reality. Nightmares might plague him, threaten his friends and family, or drive him mad, but he won’t stop. He cannot stop. ***** “A great combo of Urban fantasy and a period thriller.” -The Bookwyrm Speaks “Plenty of Pulp Action.” -MarzAat “A fantastically pulpy, fists-swinging, guns-blazing, magical lightning-hurling action-adventure that readily proves that not all Mythos tales need to be grim, foreboding and often achingly depressing in order to be successful or authentic.” -Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer “Always Entertaining.” -Booknest.eu

The Sixth Gun Omnibus Vol. 1
The Sixth Gun Omnibus Vol. 1

Author: Cullen Bunn

Publisher: Oni Press

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 1637152663

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The ultimate collection for obsessive fans and new readers alike—Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s iconic western, The Sixth Gun, is available for the first time in newly redesigned softcover omnibus editions! The last and most powerful of six magical revolvers—and the key to unlocking unstoppable power—has fallen into the hands of an innocent girl, Becky Montcrief. The gunslinger Drake Sinclair stands between Becky and the evil Confederate General Oliander Hume, his wicked bride, ands four twisted horsemen in pursuit of the Sixth Gun . . . but Drake is no white knight himself. Collecting The Sixth Gun #1–17 from master storytellers Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Empty Man), Brian Hurtt (The Damned, Manor Black), and Tyler Crook (Harrow County, Petrograd), and The Sixth Gun: Sons of the Gun #1–5, illustrated by Brian Churilla (Godzilla, Hellbreak).

The Great Game
The Great Game

Author: Frederick P. Hitz

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0307428702

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In this riveting insider’s account, a former inspector general of the CIA compares actual espionage cases and practices with classic and popular spy fiction, showing that the real world of espionage is nearly always stranger and more complicated than even the best spy fiction.Exploring everything from tradecraft and recruitment to bureaucracy and betrayal, The Great Game contrasts fictional spies created by such authors as John Le Carr?, Tom Clancy and Joseph Conrad with their real-life counterparts from Kim Philby to Aldrich Ames. Drawing on his thirty year career with the CIA, Frederick P. Hitz shows that even the most imaginative authors fail to capture the profound human dilemmas raised by real-life cases. Engaging and insightful, The Great Game shines a fascinating light on the veiled history of intelligence.