Serial Novels

Serial novels have parts in two or more issues of a magazine

Lady of the Legion – She came in over the wall of a lonely French fort in the Sahara one night. And the commander decided to sacrifice himself and his men, rather than give her up to an Arab chieftain who wanted to kill her.

The Horror From the HiIls – A stone idol, brought to New York from China, unleashes the Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn upon the world. And Chaugnar Faugn is hungry.
The Horror From the HiIls incorporates a dream H. P. Lovecraft related to the author in a letter.

Blood and Iron – “One way only—Death.” This was the message that Walt Devon intercepted by chance in the gold-crazy town of West London. A murder was being arranged and Devon intended being around when the shooting started. What Devon didn’t know was that he was supposed to play the part of the corpse.

After his horrific adventures described in The Moon Pool, Dr. Walter T. Goodwin goes on expedition to study the flora of the Himalayas. Tranquility eludes him though because there he finds The Metal Monster.

The Phantom Hand – Don Wenworth, aided by Sudh Hafiz, a Babist priest, battles Godfrey Moore, power mad practitioner of black magic. An astounding novel of Black Magic, eery murders, and weird occult happenings occasioned by The Phantom Hand.

A hidden underground city has been established, deep in the earth, underneath Chicago. Ruled by Osiris, this city is the gateway to the Karneter, the afterlife, from which no man returns. Into this hidden realm, a woman is brought — she who will become The Bride of Osiris.

Two great early space opera novels, Brigands of the Moon (1930), and its sequel, Wandl, the Invader (1932) in which Gregg Haljan saves the world first from space pirates and then from space invaders.

In this sequel to “Brigands of the Moon”, Gregg Haljan tries to save the Earth, Mars and Venus from being destroyed by the giant brains of the planet Wandl.

The Opium Ship – Two Irishmen, one a drunk, the other consumptive, are shanghaied into becoming crew on a schooner that has been hijacked to smuggle opium in the South China Sea. Between a typhoon, a shipwreck, a mid ocean rendezvous with a smuggler’s junk, and attending to two kidnapped women, this is not a leisure cruise.

The classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds was first serialized by Pearson’s Magazine in the UK between April and December of 1897. It is one of the earliest stories about an invasion of the Earth by extraterrestrials.

The Intelligence Gigantic – With the best of intentions, three scientists come together to make an artificial man with extraordinary intelligence, to run society with efficiency and remove the petty problems people face on a daily basis. However, this artificial man has no soul.

Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. So Bell, of the secret “Trade,” plunges into South America after The Master—the mighty, unknown octopus of power whose diabolical poison threatens a continent!