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“The Witching Time” by Fayrene Preston
Something strange was going on in Hilary, Virginia -- Noah Braxton felt it the moment he arrived when a golden-haired, blue-eyed witch cast a spell and stole his heart! RhiannonYork…
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“London Tangle” by Clarice Peters
A Bewitching Hypnotist and a Cynical Rake Discover There’s More to Love Than Mere Suggestion!
Besieged with requests by social lionesses wanting to be considered au courant, Rowena Morely’s talent for hypnotism was dazzling the ton. Lord Barlow, skeptical of her abilities, watched with growing alarm as both his mother and young ward spent entirely too much time with the green-eyed charlatan.
Rowena could not resist a challenge, and Barlow’s ill-mannered cynicism dared her to hypnotize the confirmed bachelor that he would soon become enslaved in marriage.
Of course, it was all a trick, but the unsuspecting Barlow quickly discovered her spell was wreaking havoc on his mind and heart. For the woman who had ensnared him was the bewitching Rowena herself!
Lord Barlow is in a quandry: ever since he allowed the lovely young hypnotist with the enchanting green eyes place him under her spell, he is completely uncertain whether the attraction he feels toward her is the truth or just a trance.
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“The Green Master” by Kenneth Robeson
In a secret fortress high in the Andes, Doc and his crew are enslaved by a race of extrasensory super-blondes who worship a green stone with a life of its own!
In this Doc Savage novel, Doc and his aides Ham and Monk face a race of beings with the power to influence anyone they meet, and who are in New York with a mission that brings them into conflict the the Man of Bronze!
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“Trance” by Kelly Meding
[amtap book:isbn=1451620926] Fifteen years ago, Teresa “Trance†West was a skilled telepath and a proud member of the Ranger Corps. But ever since the Rangers were inexplicably rendered powerless at…
A Holiday Treat — The (Physical) Hypnosis in Media Collection
As a special Holiday present, I present the (physical) Hypnosis in Media collection in its semi-entirety. The bookshelf unit here holds the main part of the Collection. As you can…
“The Devil’s Night” — David Jacobs
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They only come out at night
Cloth tearing, she spread-eagled her arms and legs, tautening the leathery folds of swelling batwings. The wings were part of arms, growing out of the shoulders, attached to the long thinning skeletal arms and legs with scalloped leathery black bat membranes.
Batwings beat the air frantically, trying to stop or at least slow the fall.
Among the Undead, only the most powerful vampires can muster the occult force needed for shapeshifting, to become a giant bat, a wolf, or mist that can drift through solid walls.
Such a queen vampire was Marya Zaleska.
Countess Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s Daughter.
The Universal Monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolfman, Dracula’s Daughter. All returning, just as they returned in so many Universal horror movies, this time in fictional form.
The Science Fiction Encyclopedia — Online
A website that I will be investigating further is the Science Fiction Encyclopedia website. An outgrowth of the 1995 encyclopedia of the same name edited by John Clute and Peter…
Fa Lo Suee — “Master of Kung Fu”
Daughters of Evil World Conquerors really have only two options in life: be their father’s adoring minion who ultimately falls for the Hero and helps him defeat her father, or strike out on your own and try to out-conquer him. Fah Lo Suee, daughter of the inscruitable Mandarin Fu Manchu, is entirely the latter. But while Fah Lo Suee in the novels was more the former, only once really acting in the role of conqueror in place of her father, in the Marvel comic “Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu”, she was a re-occurring character with her own agenda who battled her father as much as she battled her own half-brother Shang-Chi.
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The “Deryni” stories by Katherine Kurtz
They have mental and physical powers beyond the human norm: they can entrance with a glance, create light, heal wounds, and even teleport long distances.
They are mutants. They live among normal humans, distinguished only by their powers, otherwise undistinguishable from any one else, distrusted and even hated by both the general populace and people in authority because of their gifts. Some try to use their gifts for good, others for evil: some just try to exist.
But they’re not the X‑Men and they’re not superheroes: they’re the Deryni, a fantasy race and the subject of several books and short stories by author Katherine Kurtz.
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‘The City of Doom’ by Maxwell Grant
“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” — The Shadow knows!
A Maxwell Grant (aka Walter B Gibson) tale of The Shadow.
One by one, the industries around the town of Hampsted have suffered impossible accidents, and each apparently at the hands of their most trusted employees. The toll in human lives is frightful, and the psychic toll on the citizens of Hampsted is even more oppressive. Such an implausible array of accidents draws the attention of The Shadow, especially when one of his most valued agents, Harry Vincent, has disappeared investigating the scene.