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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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“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. 

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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.

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