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Step into the realm of high adventure and untamed magic with Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman, a seminal collection by the prolific author Gardner Francis Fox. First unleashed upon the world of fantasy literature in 1969, this compilation marks one of Fox's most enduring legacies within his impressive oeuvre of 156 paperbacks. Celebrated for its vibrant energy and boundless imagination, Kothar: Barbarian Swordsman secured its place in the hearts of fantasy enthusiasts and significantly influenced the creation of Dungeons & Dragons, as acknowledged by its creator, Gary Gygax, in Appendix N. This ...

There were other worlds around us before we touched down on Earth again. A blue planet where a massive azure ball glowed, sending out white streamers into a midnight sky, puzzled us. The azure ball seemed to be alive.... We saw a planet where only metal robots moved about. The world on which they lived was barren; perhaps the robots had made it that way.... As a scientist, I grieved for the lack of opportunity to enter and explore these visions of infinity. They went on and on, swinging into view and then out of view glimpses of reality until now shrouded from the eyes of men. On one world ...

This is Gardner F Fox's third classic Sword & Sorcery story for paperbacks. There are 5 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. The Kothar books are listed in Gary Gygax's Appendix N as one of the few books that inspired the creation of Dungeons & Dragons. SHE STALKS IN BEAUTY As a boy, Kothar had been cast upon the desolate shores of Grondel Bay. Since that time, he had grown to lusty manhood, to become the greatest Swordsman in the World. He had well earned the name of Magnificent Barbarian. Nothing ...

This is Gardner F Fox's fifth classic Sword & Sorcery story for paperbacks. There are 5 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. The Kothar books are listed in Gary Gygax's Appendix N as one of the few books that inspired the creation of Dungeons & Dragons THE DEATH OF MAGIC Someone—or something—was systematically killing all the world's magicians. Kothar, the blond barbarian, had to link up with his enemy, the she-devil temptress Red Lori, to find and vanquish the slayer. Beautiful Lori was his ...

This is Gardner F Fox's fourth classic Sword & Sorcery story for paperbacks. There are 5 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. The Kothar books are listed in Gary Gygax's Appendix N as one of the few books that inspired the creation of Dungeons & Dragons. THE MAGIC AMULET Kothar rescued the beautiful gypsy girl Stefanya, helper to the wizard Zoqquanor, and carried her off on a journey filled with danger and mystery. His mission was to deliver a magic amulet to Herklar, the Regent of Phalkar. But ...

STEP DOWN TO THE TOP Jeanne Du Barry flew from the bed after the Count, to catch him in her arms and press herself against him. Her kisses rained on his mouth. “Do you mean it? Do you honestly mean you will take me to Levignac with you?” "I cannot marry you," he said soberly. "Mordieu! Who needs marriage?" She giggled and ran her hand over his chest. "Just give me this and I'll be content." The intriguing saga of Madame Du Barry—from her vulgar beginning to her eventual death on the Guillotine.

This is Gardner F Fox's second classic Sword & Sorcery story for paperbacks. There are 5 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. The Kothar books are listed in Gary Gygax's Appendix N as one of the few books that inspired the creation of Dungeons & Dragons. Four illustrations from Johnny Hazard Artist; Frank Robbins The enchanted sword Frostfire Kothar stole the helix from the fat Emperor of Avalonia. It was the only way he could hope to recover his magic Sword Frostfire from the belly of the Great Eagle...

ASSIGNMENT: LOVE THE ENEMY TO DEATH! "LAY ME ODDS—if you have the guts. My name is Eve Drum. I'm THE LADY FROM LU.S.T.—the wildest, nuttiest Secret agent who ever drove the Kremlin out of its Vodka-guzzling skull. They aren't kidding when they call me the sexiest spy in the World. As Agent Double Oh Sex take on the kind of assignments Jimmy Bond can't handle. All hell breaks loose when I go into action against the sinister forces of H.A.T.E. Don't tangle with me because I'll love you to death. I have a license to kill and I don't care whether I use my body—or a bullet. Sex is my ...

Falsely accused of murder, Kael Carrick had been abandoned on Dakkan planet, without food and water, to face a slow, tortured death. But Carrick was no ordinary man. Before his death, Hannes Stryker, the man Carrick was accused of murdering, had rebuilt Carrick into a superman. When Carrick discovered, on that cosmic graveyard, that Earth was being threatened by the devouring Slarrn terror, he knew that he alone could save the world from total destruction. But first he had to save himself from extinction on dread Dakkan planet!

This is Gardner F Fox's second paperback attempt at writing Sword & Sorcery that would rival Robert E. Howard. There are 4 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. From the world beyond--or past--time Kothar comes. His Sword & Sorcery books read like Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. All they need is a great Game Master to orchestrate the adventure. Kyrik the mighty-muscled Warlock swordsman is a hero for this Or any other age. From Mankind's darkest and most unremembered past he comes Striding, the ever-...

This is Gardner F Fox's second paperback attempt at writing Sword & Sorcery that would rival Robert E. Howard. There are 4 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. From the world beyond--or past--time Kothar comes. His Sword & Sorcery books read like Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. All they need is a great Game Master to orchestrate the adventure. DEMON WORLD Out of the darker shadows in a corner of the crypt came a many-fanged horror. Kyrik leaped and swung up his cloaked arm as fangs tore into the scarlet...

A daring soldier-of-fortune is caught in the web of lust, treachery and intrigue during the time of the Borgias Handsome, ambitious Adrian knew there were only two ways a lowly-born soldier of fortune could win riches in the turbulent days of Renaissance Italy on the battlefield or in the arms of an influential woman. Never one to overlook an opportunity for advancement, Adrian used his incredible strength in both arenas-hoping to find power in his appetite for passion and glory. His daring, dangerous intrigues in love and war make THIS SWORD FOR HIRE! a furiously exciting novel for every ...

Sensualist, hedonist, voluptuary! She lived on the Isle of Lesbos in reckless pursuit of passion's most wanton pleasures. Her mountaintop orgies, her untamed revels lifted men to the peak of ecstasy - or drove them mad. No man meant more to Sappho than an exotic release that flamed briefly, brilliantly, then faded away - until she met Pharon, mighty Athenian warrior: Pharon, a flesh-and-blood man in every sense of the word.... This is a novel of Sappho and Pharon— an intimate love story unmatched in the annals of Erotica. SAPPHO lavished pleasures upon him. such as no man had ever known ...

This is Gardner F Fox's third paperback attempt at writing Sword & Sorcery that would rival Robert E. Howard. There are 4 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. From the world beyond--or past--time Kothar comes. His Sword & Sorcery books read like Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. All they need is a great Game Master to orchestrate the adventure. Kyrik, the great and glorious warrior, had battled the fiercest foes imaginable, drawing on his amazing and incredible warlock powers. His tremendous gifts are put...

IRON LOVER recounts the pageantry, the drama, the chivalry, the cruelty and passion of 14th Century Italy. But this was an era that carried memories of Dante and Beatrice, Héloise and Abélard—hence it was not so strange that a penniless young English adventurer should pursue his impossible dream of possessing an Italian princess. BLAZING - BAWDY - MAGNIFICENT This is the Stormy, heroic saga of Sir John Hawkwood who created the notorious White Company and became the most feared conqueror of 14th Century Europe-all because of a woman. From the moment young Hawkwood set eyes on the dark, ...

This book has both the Warrior of Llarn and the Theif of Llarn. Both stories are complete. These books are Sword & Planet classics from Gardner Francis Fox. Originally published in 1964, written as an homage to Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter of Mars series. Gardner Francis Fox takes us to another world, where Alan Morgan, awakes on a planet countless distances from Earth. He has only his intelligence and his masterful swordplay to keep him alive. Llarn is a world of uncharted deserts where cities of incredible age lay broken and empty, destroyed long ago in the great War which had ...

This is Gardner F Fox's second paperback attempt at writing Sword & Sorcery that would rival Robert E. Howard. There are 4 books in this series. Mr. Fox's was heavily inspired by Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery stories: Conan, Kull & Bran Mak Mor. From the world beyond--or past--time Kothar comes. His Sword & Sorcery books read like Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. All they need is a great Game Master to orchestrate the adventure. SORCERER's SPELL Kyrik, the mighty warrior, met a lovely woman who appeared to be his gypsy lover Myrnis. But then she disappeared, and Kyrik met another woman ...

Slave Masters Melissa Stone ran the Stonehedge Plantation cruelly but carelessly. She indulged her every depravity at the expense of the men and women who were her slaves. When her brother returned from Europe, he was shocked to find his slaves acting sullen and rebellious. He took strong measures to break their spirits. His sister's jealousy at no longer being in control of the plantation grew wildly when Randolph Stone took a beautiful young black girl as his body servant. Their competition led them to even deeper depths of depravity until they were greater slaves than the ones they owned...

OUTCASTS OF THE STARS When Earth's stellar empire was attacked by the Lyanir, a powerful race from the uncharted stars, it was Bran Magannon, High Admiral of Space, who met their battle-challenge. He saved the Empire, but he also fell in love with the beautiful young Lyanirn queen Peganna, and to the people of Empire his name became that of traitor. Now he was a lone, brooding outcast among Empire's outpost worlds, called Bran the Wanderer. Then Peganna of the Silver Hair returned and told him of a fabled cache of deadly weapons left eons ago by the long-dead race of the Crenn Lir. She ...

A BLACK MAGIC NOVEL OF TERROR THE DRUID STONE The supernatural rears its terrifying head in this strange novel of ancient sorcery struggling to deliver the modern world into the hands of the devil himself! Brian Creoghan's fight against this devouring evil in the haunting atmosphere of a contemporary New England village and in a strange barbaric land of thousands of years ago is an experience in the occult that fans of witchcraft and sorcery will find a chilling delight and an unforgettable adventure into the dark unknown.