Romance has endured for centuries as the most popular genre in entertainment, even in the era of classic pulp! Three stories that look at the blessed curse that has plagued men and women since time began through a pulp prism. Authors Mark Bousquet, Bonnie J. Sterling, and Phillip Drayer Duncan put their hearts on the line with three tales of lust, passion, love, hate, and more.

Ten women, each one between a rock that might be her tombstone and a hard place that it may take a gun to blast her way out of. Author Thad Brown's collection of hard bitten, bullet paced fiction centered on women embroiled in violence and danger takes pulp to a whole new level. Being a woman often means fighting against all odds. And the women in Brown's tales are charter members of The Smoking Gun Sisterhood.

Dr. John Watson discovers that his friend, Sherlock Holmes, has gone missing while hunting fairies in Norfolk with Ulysses K. Todd and his secretary, Mrs. Bernardine Dowell. Concerned that his friend is on a drug induced bender, Watson goes with the pair to Almertune to help his friend, only to discover something more sinister is afoot. What appears a frivolous excursion into myth hunting takes on a different tone when Watson discovers encrypted notes from the Diogenes Club to Holmes.

In 1868, six people sought refuge at a hidden enclave in the high desert of eastern Oregon: A brilliant female doctor dying of a rare disease. A Confederate deserter. Two refugees from a lynch mob. A former slave. A womanizing shootist. These were the first acolytes of Stonegarden Abbey, learning the secrets of Hermetic magic under the tutelage of mysterious prophet Ezekiel Reardon. But their time at Stonegarden ended in fire and tragedy. Those left alive thought the tragedy was behind them. But the dark power they believed was gone and buried only slept....

A world where heroes and villains existed since the day the market crashed and the world almost collapsed. Common people granted great powers and awesome responsibility. A world where one of them knew all the secrets, good and bad, and put them down in a book. A world where that man and that manuscript disappeared. Until now.

The gods are at war, the land of Argethlam is beset by hard times, and Atreyavahl is near collapse because of the assassination of their Queen Viesha a century before. A prophecy tells that the god of darkness, Ardeth Anubace's Black Wolf, will bring the fall of the inner kingdom and then Argethlam, leading the world into Ardeth's rule. But Ramos Ra, the sire-god, created his own champion, the White Wolf to defeat the Black Wolf and purge the land of Ardeth's curse.

Flesh-eating zombies invade a biker bar! Is it an isolated incident or a ghastly foretaste of a nationwide plague of zombies? Harry Black and his girlfriend, Irena, have to survive the first zombie onslaught in order to find out while society crashes and burns all around them.

He hunts the most dangerous prey alive! His mission: To fight criminals and villains who are out to destroy our society! Beware all who commit evil! For you shall feel the sting of the Silver Manticore! Created and written by P.J. Lozito, The Sting of the Silver Manticore is an homage to classic pulp masked heroes and other such archetypes that populate pulpdom!

In the middle of the South Seas is the island of Motugra, so named by the natives. It has the only deep water port in this island chain. On Motugra you'll find The Hanging Monkey, an inn and bar owned and operated by Irish ex-patriot Corky O'Brien. Here gather some of the most colorful rogues, scalawags, and pirates ever to ply the trade routes of the Pacific during the late 1930s.

When the evil Captain Blackeye unleashes his deadly new weapon on the city of Norfolk, Virginia, it's up to Tommy One, the so-called eternal teenager, to stop the horrific plot. After the fiendish pirate-scientist shoots the teen hero dead, Blackeye thinks that at long last his plucky enemy is done. But that's not how Tommy One works! Behind every Tommy One, there's a Tommy Two waiting to replace him - an exact duplicate with all the skills and memories of his predecessor.

Children from the town of Patterson, Oregon are disappearing. And it does not appear to be ending anytime soon. Until two sisters rise to the challenge of the bizarre mystery. A friendless science geek and a feisty sci-fi fanatic, Rowan and Nova are cut from a different bit of cloth. They don't always get along, but they may be the only ones with enough guts and smarts to save their missing classmates from something straight out of Nova's imagination. All they need is the right motivation. And to not disappear themselves.

Casey Fremont is on her way to interview for a temp job when a falling body nearly lands on her. Three days later, a second man, this one from her own office, dies in a similar manner and Casey is drawn into the intrigue. She confirms her suspicions, but one of her friends ends up in the hands of kidnappers. Casey must solve the mystery before she becomes the third body to go over the railing.

As a follow-up to that novel and a special Halloween treat, this month we present another title from the Wagner list, this time from the Science Fiction category. One of the famous Creeps series published in England, it is a unique horror story that describes a vampire invasion from outer space. The monsters are definitely Vampires Overhead! The author of this forgotten classic of horror fiction was Alan Hyder. As best as can be determined, Vampires Overhead was Hyder's only work of horror fiction.

The daughter of a Texas mayor is kidnapped. Enter private investigators Kate McHaney and Craig Dawson. Their job: Find the kidnappers and get the girl home safely. But murder happens. Twice. And bullets fly, both at and from the tumultuous partnership of McHaney and Dawson. A partnership that has led them through marriage, divorce, in and out of each other's arms, and may just end up getting them killed!

From Sovereign City roars yet another hero! Derrick Ferguson's The Adventures of Fortune McCall brings a seafaring gambling-ship owner and adventurer to the shores of Sovereign and flings him and his circle of companions feet first into murder, mystery, and madness! Four stories of Fortune and his team are featured here, all penned by Ferguson, the man behind Fortune McCall!