Michael Ashley

Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection

Ghost Slayers

The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy

Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Princess of Mars, the Gods of Mars, the Warlord of Mars

John Carter of Mars

Joe Garner

Celebrating the Golden Era of Cartoons 1960s - 1990s

It's Saturday Morning!

Reality and Legend, the Beginning and the End--The Most Complete Arthurian Sourcebook Ever

The Mammoth Book of King Arthur

The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950

The Time Machines

The Mammoth Book of Time Travel

Extraodinary Tales of Victorian Futurism: Steampunk

The mammoth book of Merlin

Andrew Cartmel

Foreign Devils

The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes

The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy

Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond

Menace of the Monster

Gathers stories about King Arthur, Merlyn, and the knights of the round table by Howard Pyle, John Steinbeck, Rosemary Sutcliff, Roger Lancelyn Green, Hilaire Belloc, and Jane Yolen

The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends

A collection of Egyptian murder mysteries, covering two periods in history - the time of Ancient Egypt, and the time of the discoveries during the Napoleonic and Victorian periods of excavation. There are 25 stories by Kate Ellis, Paul Doherty, Elizabeth Peters, Michael Pearce, and others.

The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits

Souls in Metal

Mike Ashley

Examines both historical documents and Arthurian legends to determine if King Arthur really existed, and evaluates the truth behind the king's mythical deeds and separates it from the details of chivalric fantasy.

A Brief History of King Arthur

Magic and adventure from the golden age of Arthurian legend, The Merlin Chronicles is a superb collection of stories by some of fantasy's bestselling writers. Enter into the darker realms of the age of the Knights of the Round Table, times when magic held sway, when Merlin and the old ways struggled and vied with Arthur's heroic new world - times previously explored in Mike Ashley's The Pendragon Chronicles and The Camelot Chronicles. In this volume you will find: Jane Yolen on Merlin's youth and coming of age; Marion Zimmer Bradley on Nimue, Merlin's lover and doom; Charles de Lint on Merlin's influence through the centuries; Darrell Schweitzer on the legends of Merlin birth; plus Tanith Lee, Peter Tremayne, Phyllis Ann Karr and Jennifer Roberson, among many other writers represented here. There are brand-new stories specially written for this collection, rare gems for the Arthurian scholar and a detailed introduction by Mike Ashley on the mystery and magic of Merlin and his world.

The Merlin Chronicles

This collection of criminal conundrums are more than whodunits, they're howdunits and are intended to stretch your powers of deduction to the limits.

The Mammoth Book of Locked-room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes

C. J. Cook

LEETEG,BABES, BARS, BEACHES, and BLACK VELVET ART The sensational story of Leeteg, black velvet artist and party man of Tahiti, who painted nude vahines in his tropical paradise Villa Velour on the Island of Moorea, 1933-1953. The "American Gauguin", Edgar Leeteg, left California in 1933, with oil paints and a few paint brushes, bound for the South Pacific. He was the original "Tiki Man" who started the black velvet painting craze linked to South Pacific themed restaurants. His home in Tahiti allowed him to paint nudes, drink, and party with sensual babes at Quinn's Bar in Papeete, Tahiti. He described himself as a "fornicating, gin-soaked, dope-head" and all the artists and writers of the South Pacific knew of him. He took on the Hawaiian art establishment's, Honolulu Academy of Arts and author James Michener labeled him "Leeteg the Legend" in his book Rascals in Paradise (1957). His many artist and author friends included: Charles Marek, Henry Christian, Robert Lee Eskridge, Willis Shook, Robert Dean Frisbie, Don Blanding, and Mutiny on the Bounty authors, James Hall and Charles Nordhoff helped secure his special place in history. He became one of the wealthiest and most famous artists in the first half of the 20th century. He was the Father of Black Velvet Art and the genesis of a genre which has continued today with Polynesian Pop Art and the Tiki Revolution. This is a story of a most memorable rascal from the South Pacific.

Babes, Bars, Beaches,and Black Velvet Art

Leeteg

Michael Ashley

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