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The Ambassador of Doom – Secret weapons plans are stolen and behind the scenes, Washington D.C. is in a panic. Secret Agent “X” flies to Washington to hunt down the spies involved in this treason and bring them to justice.

Tiger, Tiger! – An idealist, a gunfighter who is a righter of wrongs, embarks on a path to kill a man for cheating another man, not realizing that he and his ideals were being deceived.

Beast-Gods of Atlantis – Into that lost world, that ancient, terrible land of Timeless Evil, came Ki-Gor, White Lord of the Jungle, and his lovely mate, Helene. They came in peace, offering friendship — and Sha-Topat, High Priest of the Sun-God Raa, greeted them at the Temple-Altar of the Drinking Stone — treachery and death like gifts in his hand!

Visitors – Five stories of aliens and humans, their interactions and their failures to interact. And ultimately, insanity and death. Whether humans visiting other worlds or aliens visiting Earth, each is revealed as “other” to the other.

The Deadly Ones – Three stories about murders and the sociopaths that commit it. A corrupt politician accidentally kills his ex-secretary and has to disappear; an accomplice to fraud gets the the tables turned on her when she tries to kill her partner in crime; and all of the murders surrounding a secret new gunsight.

The Beasts Of Tarzan (T3) – Tarzan and Jane have a son, Jack. Jack has been kidnapped. Tarzan and Jane are then also kidnapped and all are taken to Africa where Tarzan is abandoned on an island. Jane must fight to escape with her son and trek through the unforgiving jungle to freedom.

The Glass Skulls – A murdered man in a limousine leads to a trail of murdered men and a collection of glass skulls.

Desperate Passages – Three stories of the South Seas, treachery, kidnapping, and pearls.

The Jewels of Ling Ti – Various buyers of antiques in China, agents for collectors and dealers, compete with each other to acquire priceless objects. While some are honorable men some are decidedly not.

The Dragoman’s Tales – In these seven stories, Hamed the Dragoman will take tourists who come to his city, to the coffee shop of Silat where he tells tales of his life, his loves, his intrigues and his battles.

The Pool of Life – From out of the primordial ooze comes an entity that plots to conquer the Earth.

The Petals of Lao-Tze – The eighth “petal”, is the final piece needed to recreate the complete golden talisman that is said to have given Lao-Tze long life, perhaps even immortality. Retrieving it from a dead man deep in the Himalayas is the easy part. Bringing it back to a wealthy benefactor is another story.