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Book Synopsis The Citadel of Fear (Sci-Fi Classic) by : Francis Stevens
Download or read book The Citadel of Fear (Sci-Fi Classic) written by Francis Stevens and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Citadel of Fear is a lost world story and focuses on a forgotten Aztec city, which is "rediscovered" during World War I.Excerpt:"The sun, he thought, had grown monstrous and swallowed all the sky. No blue was anywhere. Brass above, soft, white-hot iron beneath, and all tinged to redness by the film of blood over sand-tormented eyes. Beyond a radius of thirty yards his vision blurred and ceased, but into that radius something flapped down and came tilting awkwardly across the sand, long wings half-spread, yellow head lowered, bold with an avid and loathsome curiosity. "You!" whispered the man hoarsely, and shook one great, red fist at the thing. "You'll not get your dinner off me nor him while my one foot can follow the other!"
Book Synopsis The Citadel of Fear by : Francis Stevens
Download or read book The Citadel of Fear written by Francis Stevens and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Citadel of Fear (1918) is a science fiction novel by Francis Stevens. Using her well-known pseudonym, Gertrude Barrows Bennett published some of the twentieth century’s greatest science fiction stories and novels. The Citadel of Fear, her debut novel, has been recognized as a powerful tale of the lost world genre of adventure and remains central to Stevens’ reputation as a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. As the Great War rages on, two Irish American prospectors journey across the Mexican desert in search of fortune. Lucky to survive the heat and harsh conditions, they discover a dense jungle rumored to be the home of a lost tribe of Aztecs devoted to the serpent god Quetzalcoatl. Despite their fears, Kennedy and Colin O’Hara remain determined to complete their mission, no matter the cost. Venturing through the darkness of the jungle, they find the underground city of Tlapallam, where a group of assailants takes Kennedy prisoner. Left to return alone through the desert, O’Hara vows to return for his friend. Published at the height of Stevens’ career as a popular storyteller in the nation’s leading fantasy magazines, The Citadel of Fear is a lost world novel in the tradition of H. Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs that continues to entertain and astound over a century after it appeared in print. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Francis Stevens’ The Citadel of Fear is a classic work of American science fiction reimagined for modern readers.
Book Synopsis Citadel of Fear by : Gertrude Barrows Bennett
Download or read book Citadel of Fear written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Barrows Bennett was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Citadel of Fear is considered Francis Stevens' masterpiece, by Lovecraft's acclaim. Two adventurers discover a lost city in the Mexican jungle. One is taken over by an evil god while the other falls in love with a woman from the ancient Mexican city of Tlapallan. Citadel of Fear was first published as a serial in Argosy Magazine in 1918-1919. It was eventually republished as a novel in 1970. It is now considered a "lost classic".An interesting book is Francis Stevens' The Citadel of Fear. Reprinted by Armchair Fiction as part of their Lost World-Lost Race series, this novel was originally serialized in The Argosy in 1918.This particular edition had a short select of artwork from her other works (covers of their appearances in pulp magazines), as well as the wrap-around artwork for the Paperback Library reprint of Citadel. It also had a short bio of Stevens and it was interesting.Francis Stevens was really Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1884-1948), an early author of fantasy and science fiction that some call the "woman who invented dark fantasy." She actually dropped out of school after the eighth grade and later became a stenographer. Her first published work of fiction was a short story "The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar," published in The Argosy in 1904. She later married and had a daughter, but her explorer husband died on an expedition. During World War I, her father died, and Gertrude had to help support her invalid mother.To make more money, she turned to fiction writing, and between 1917 and 1923, she wrote various short stories and longer works that appeared in several pulp magazines at the time. Several are considered excellent to this day, which is pretty high praise for someone who didn't even finish high school. Her first work was "Nightmare," which told of an island where evolution went in a different direction, similar to Edgar Rice Burrough's "The Land That Time Forgot" that appeared a year later. Bison Books has a collection of all of her short fiction in a collection titled The Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy.
Book Synopsis Citadel of Fear, Special Armchair Fiction Illustrated Edition with Cover Gallery by : Francis Stevens
Download or read book Citadel of Fear, Special Armchair Fiction Illustrated Edition with Cover Gallery written by Francis Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Francis Stevens' "The Citadel of Fear" is the fourth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. During a gold-finding expedition to South America, and American and an Irishman stumble upon the entrance to the lost Aztec city of Tiapallan. There they find not only the remains of an ancient Aztec race, but a black stone containing an unspeakable evil. Before long this ancient evil brings horror to the shores of America in a way that only H. P. Lovecraft could have imagined. "The Citadel of Fear" is a brilliant combination of science fiction, fantasy, and supernatural horror. It is a true masterpiece by one of the most important female sci-fi and fantasy authors of the 20th Century, Francis Stevens.
Book Synopsis The Citadel of Fear by : Francis Stevens
Download or read book The Citadel of Fear written by Francis Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderful and tragic allegory ... amazing and thrilling scenes ... masterful ... huge mystery, gigantic tragedy, and original and extraordinary situations..." so raved H. P. Lovecraft when The Citadel of Fear first appeared. Here is one of the greatest of all classics of dark fantasy, a gorgeously written and imaginatively conceived masterpiece by the mysterious woman author who wrote as Francis Stevens. Talapallan, lost city of the ancient Aztecs, still survives in, hidden safely in an eerie underground world. And among its many temples is the black fetid shrine where the dark god Nacoc-Yaotl is worshiped, the Citadel of Fear. When two men from the modern world stumble into Talapallan, the evil in one allows Nacoc-Yaotl to escape when they return to civilization. Soon two of Steven's trademark strong women and three very different but likable men find themselves pitted against a dark god of immense powers. Before the conflict is over, North American will be the scene of an epic battle against the mightiest gods of the Aztec pantheon. Romance, magic, meaning, adventure, and scrumptious writing are all here in this long unavailable fantasy masterwork."In a career that spanned a mere three years, Gertrude Barrows Bennett (writing as Francis Stevens) published half a dozen books that came to define the genres that followed on. she is most popularly known as the woman who invented dark fantasy, but on the way she also invented a new, creepier kind of dystopian Sci Fi.Book versions illustrated with images by Virgil Finlay, from the original editions of Stevens' work.
Book Synopsis Citadel of Fear by : Francis Stevens
Download or read book Citadel of Fear written by Francis Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens
Book Synopsis The Citadel of Fear by : Gertrude Barrows Bennett
Download or read book The Citadel of Fear written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Francis Stevens - Citadel of Fear: "and Under the Stars Cool Night-Winds Roved, Like Stealthy, Invisible Prowlers" by : Francis Stevens
Download or read book Francis Stevens - Citadel of Fear: "and Under the Stars Cool Night-Winds Roved, Like Stealthy, Invisible Prowlers" written by Francis Stevens and published by Sci-Fi Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett Gertrude Barrows Bennett was born in Minneapolis on 18th September 1884. She completed school up to the eighth grade, then switched to night school to study illustration, unfortunately she was never able to achieve a career in this. As a fall-back she began working as a stenographer, a career which she would keep to for the rest of her life. But Gertrude had talent, writer's talent. Her first short story was written when she was 17. Not you would think the usual subjects of curious teenage girls with headstrong ambitions but a science fiction story entitled 'The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar'. She mailed the finished story to Argosy, one of the most well known of the pulp magazines. The story was published in the March 1904 issue. Whilst her career was to be short and not at all prolific she is best remembered for her excellent ideas, many of which were way ahead of their time. By the time of her death in 1948 her pseudonym of 'Francis Stevens' could lay claim to being a respected and much admired author of science fiction and dark fantasy short stories and novels.
Download or read book Claimed written by Francis Stevens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Bennett's most famous novel, Claimed, narrates the tale of a supernatural artifact which summons an ancient and powerful god to early 20th century New Jersey. Augustus T. Swift called the novel, "One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read"). Excerpt: "From where we stood the illusion of ruins was nearly perfect, and indeed — who knows? — we may to-day have looked upon the last surviving trace of some ancient city, flung up from the abyss that engulfed it ages before the brief history we have of the race of man began. I would have liked to investigate the "ruins" more closely, but thought best not to attempt it. From many fissures hot, ill-smelling, and probably poisonous vapor is still pouring up, and though the rock is sufficiently cool so that it is possible to walk on it, I deemed it safer to confine exploration to a comparatively small space near our landing-place."
Book Synopsis Citadel of Fear by : Francis Stevens
Download or read book Citadel of Fear written by Francis Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stupendous fantasy of the Aztec hounds turned loose on the modern world!" A lost world story that focuses on a forgotten Aztec city rediscovered during World War I.Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]
Book Synopsis Unseen Unfeared by : Francis Stevens
Download or read book Unseen Unfeared written by Francis Stevens and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883-1948) was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. She completed school through the eighth grade then attended night school in hopes of becoming an illustrator, a goal she never achieved. She began working as a stenographer, a job she held on and off for the rest of her life. She began to write a number of short stories and novels, only stopping when her mother died in 1920. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923. Her first published story, the novella Nightmare!, appeared in All-Story Weekly in 1917. Among her most famous books are Claimed! (1920) and the lost world novel The Citadel of Fear (1918). Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, The Heads of Cerberus (1919). She has been recognized in recent years as a pioneering female fantasy author. Amongst her other works are Unseen - Unfeared (1919), Serapion (1920) and Elf Trap. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Book Synopsis The Heads of Cerberus by : Francis Stevens
Download or read book The Heads of Cerberus written by Francis Stevens and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Heads of Cerberus (1919) is a science fiction novel by Francis Stevens. Originally serialized in The Thrill Book, a popular pulp magazine, The Heads of Cerberus was recognized as “perhaps the first science fiction fantasy to use the alternate time-track, or parallel worlds, idea” by anthologist and critic Groff Conklin. Noted for its satirical tone and dystopian themes, The Head of Cerberus remains central to Stevens’ reputation as a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. In 1918, three friends from Philadelphia discover a strange powdery substance. Before they can find out what it is or where it came from, they are transported to the year 2118. Somehow, the city has come under complete totalitarian control, forcing the vast majority of its poor citizens to live in constant fear of death and imprisonment. Names have been replaced by identification numbers and annual contests run by the ruthless overseer leave families torn apart by violence and death. With her eye on the present, writing at a time of war and increasing political division, Stevens tells a story about a future both strange and all too familiar, warning her readers about the dangers of unchecked power through the guise of fantasy and adventure. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Francis Stevens’ The Heads of Cerberus is a classic work of American science fiction reimagined for modern readers.
Download or read book Claimed written by Francis Stevens and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claimed (1920) is a science fiction novel by Francis Stevens. Using her well-known pseudonym, Gertrude Barrows Bennett published some of the twentieth century’s greatest science fiction stories and novels. Claimed, her final novel, has been recognized as a powerful tale of dark fantasy for its combination of nautical adventure and the occult, and remains central to Stevens’ reputation as a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. “From where we stood the illusion of ruins was nearly perfect, and indeed—who knows?—we may to-day have looked upon the last surviving trace of some ancient city, flung up from the abyss that engulfed it ages before the brief history we have of the race of man began.” On a voyage at sea, a merchant vessel chances upon a recently formed volcanic island. Unable to stay for long, mesmerized by the geometric rock formations reaching their pinnacle at its smoldering center, they take a memento of their discovery: a small, rectangular block of a metallic green color, perfect for carving into a sea chest. Eventually, the artifact makes its way into the collection of Jesse J. Robinson, a famous antiquarian from Tremont, a town located along the Delaware River. When Robinson and his niece Leilah fall victim to powerful hallucinations, Doctor John Vanaman is brought in to help. Soon, he launches an investigation into the nature of the box, tracking down its original owner and the dealer who sold it to Robinson. To his horror, they seem to have succumbed to the same madness plaguing the antiquarian’s home. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Francis Stevens’ Claimed is a classic work of American science fiction reimagined for modern readers.
Book Synopsis Captain Hazzard - The Citadel of Fear by : Wild Cat Books
Download or read book Captain Hazzard - The Citadel of Fear written by Wild Cat Books and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAPTAIN HAZZARD - THE CITADEL OF FEAR... Presenting the first NEW Captain Hazzard Action-Adventure Thriller in almost 70 years! Written by Ron Fortier & Martin Powell, this is a slam-bang page turner from start to finish, and is pulp fiction at its glorious best! From mind-controlled zombies to exotic locales with a fiendish villain known only as the Green Dragon, this is one book you must not miss out on! Interior art by Rob Davis, with a great cover by Tom Floyd, this edition also includes an Afterword by Ron Fortier and an Interview with Martin Powell. All presented in a great-looking package by ace designer Anthony Schiavino...
Book Synopsis Nightmare (Sci-Fi Classic) by : Gertrude Barrows Bennett
Download or read book Nightmare (Sci-Fi Classic) written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The story is set on an island separated from the rest of the world, on which evolution has taken a different course. "The Nightmare" resembles Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot, which was published a year later. While Bennett had submitted "The Nightmare" under her own name, she had asked to use a pseudonym, Jean Vail, if it was published. The magazine's editor instead chose to use Francis Stevens, which she stuck to for rest of her writings as well.Excerpt:"I never met a burglar, but if I ever should it would be embarrassing to point a pistol at him and not be able to fire it off. I admire the heroes of burglar stories. They're always such efficient people."
Book Synopsis Captain Hazzard: Citadel of Fear by : Ron Fortier
Download or read book Captain Hazzard: Citadel of Fear written by Ron Fortier and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Citadel of Fear When the world's leading scientists begin disappearing without a trace, Captain Hazzard and his team of adventurers find themselves on the trail of a mastermind known only as the Green Dragon. Battling an army of minid-controlled zombies, their adventure leads them to a fantastic hidden fortress of wonder and terror and a final confrontation with the forces of evil. Horror and thrills await them at every turn. Join the fighting five: cowboy sharpshooter Jake Cole, playboy-surgeon Martin Tracey, noted physicist Washington MacGowen, ace piolot Tyler Randall and crime reporter William Crawley, as they follow their leader, the relentless Champion of Justice, Captain Hazzard in a brand new, never before published pulp saga! Contains all new art by Rob Davis. Also included in this volume, a special afterword by pulpsmith, Ron Fortier.
Download or read book A Year of Fear written by Bryan Senn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eclectic overview of horror cinema offers up a collection of horror films for practically any occasion and literally every day of the year. For example, the author recommends commemorating United Nations Day (October 24) with a screening of The Colossus of New York, whose startling climax takes place at the U.N. Building. Each day-by-day entry includes the movie title, production year, plot summary and critique, along with a brief explanation of how the film fits into the history of that particular day and interesting anecdotes on the film's production.
