Serial Novels

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

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!

Sunfire – Five explorers travel by canoe to the headwaters of the Rio Silencioso, to a hidden lake with an ancient pyramid. There they are seduced and trapped, and are fated to become human sacrifices to an ancient god.

The Portal To Power – a cult of Devil worshipers in a hidden valley in the Rocky Mountains seek the Philosopher’s Stone, as well as a Priestess to bring the Ancient Gods back to this plane of existence.

The Moon Terror and Other Stories was originally sold by Weird Tales but was eventually given away free with a subscription to the magazine. Published in 1927, the book reproduces one novel, one novelette and two short stories from the beginnings of the magazine’s run.

When attorney Jim Daniels takes a mid-winter vacation to Southern California to placate his wife, he steps into a nightmare of murder and a years-old secret of fraud and corruption.

My Brother’s Widow – For four years Gevan Dean was in self-imposed exile from his family business, the business he had run until his brother stole his fiancee. Now his brother had been murdered and Gevan needed to know why.

Voodoo Express by Theodore Roscoe – two novelettes about Haiti, voodoo, zombies, shrunken heads and drums – the incessant drumming from the hills that drives men mad.