Prologue Books imprint: 453 books

A decade past, General Damastes swore loyalty to the wizard Tenedos when the seer sought to realize his vision of a peaceful, unified Numantia. But although Tenedos became the Seer King, peace never came. Instead, his enemies were slaughtered and now he prepares for war. Damastes must question...

The Bear Swarthy, hairy, ostracized by others of his tribe, Arnten set off to lead a life of proud an lonely independence in his primitive world of Thule-Ultima Thule-where med huddled in animal skins against the arctic cold, and used crude clubs and spears to kill the giant prehistoric animals...

“What do you want?” they asked, the first time they shot at Walt Slade. “Fork your bronc, or die!” they warned, the second time they fired. The third time they said nothing. What do you say when you blast a Texas Ranger in the back. Outgunned and outnumbered, Slade tries to save a friend, a town, and himself, in a desperate duel with a dozen hired killers.

Don’t Mention Murder It was a vulgar word in the swank millionaire town of San Valdesto. But knocking off a few citizens here and there seemed more than a grave social error to a tough-minded detective like Joe Puma. It made him sore when he discovered the natives would rather protect...

Author’s Note -- Some may think this is a cruel and shocking story. It is cruel, though, only in the sense that men are cruel, for men motivated the events which I have described here. And it is shocking only because few citizens ever stop to give thought to the little drama known as The...

Debra Balmont Sadder was the prodigal daughter of a millionaire. She was devoted to spending money, pampering her beautiful body, and looking for kicks on the wrong side of town. Her plush bayside apartment cost hundreds. Getting rid of her smug blond husband would cost even more. Bored, passionate,...

Under Eddie Burton's management, the ambitious starlet Lorna Maxwell seemed headed for the top of Broadway's glamorous world of make-believe. And then she vanished - through a wall where there was no door. Eddie found himself plunging after her into a city beyond reality. In that weird twin city to...

Tomorrow and Tomorrow begins a hundred years after the Hiroshima A-blast. We meet Joseph Breden, a nuclear physicist chosen as one of the guardians at Uranium Pile Number One. As a member of the Global Peace Commission regulating atomic power, Breden knows his job is vital. But he is troubled with...

Robert Cameron, trained in applied psychology, finds himself being driven insane by a strange, unfathomable force. As an experienced psychometrician he fights the terrifying hallucinations (a doorknob opens a blue eye and looks at him). He, too, knows his job is vital. American, dug into great, shielded...

My name is Ed Rivers. I live in Tampa, Florida, where I work as a private cop. I’m six feet tall, weigh in at about one ninety, and am forty years old. When I look in the mirror I see a heavy, bearish face, dark-tanned and creased, the thick lids giving the brown eyes a lazy look....

Driving to Miami, Scott Daniels paused to rescue a lady in distress. She was in a road house, abandoned by her date, and so Scott offered Valerie a lift. No sooner had they started off, then they spotted the boyfriend’s car smashed in an accident. Valerie begged Scott to save her good name by salvaging...

One of our call girls is missing It sounded like a joke, but the old dame was scared stiff when one of her girls didn’t show up for work that night. And this one was her prettiest - and most profitable. ''Find her, shamus,'' she said. ''And fast!'' ''My pleasure,'' I said. My...

The ship was a seam-splitting, creaking, leaking, stinking barge. It would get by. The captain was a fat, foul-mouthed, drunken bum. He’d do. The crew was cutthroat, cunning, and crooked. It did its work. And the one female passenger was young, lovely, and...

Skyball - popular, challenging, violent . . . and the greatest sport in the universe. Two opposing worlds are neck and neck in the championships, and lately the game’s been a killer. It’s up to the mercenaries of Star Risk, Ltd., to keep the two sides galaxy-friendly. The Star Risk team...