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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.

Fungi from Yuggoth is a sonnet cycle of 36 sonnets by H. P. Lovecraft. Most of the sonnets were written in the nine day span between December 27, 1929 and January 4, 1930; thereafter individual sonnets appeared in various magazines such as Weird Tales.

Guns of Destiny – two novelettes about the expansion of the West, up the Missouri River by paddlewheel to the gold fields, and out along the Santa Fe Trail in a wagon train.

Focus On Death – Five Stories from the Casebook of Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective. Dan Turner deals with the usual assortment of lowlifes in Hollywood: actors, agents, thieves, blackmailers and murderers.

A hock-shop relic leads Tony Gregg on a Journey to Barkut, a riotous land of djinns and sins, dragons and dreams, walking castles and talking sand.

An American woman searches for her step-father in the countryside of England while a band of revolutionaries threaten to use breakthroughs in alchemy to destroy the value of gold. These two threads of a story come together at The House of Death.

Kraal Of The Walking Dead – Two novelettes about adventurers in Africa, stolen secrets, voodoo, and the walking dead.

Roverton, also known as the Captain Volmar stories, are two novelettes and an unfinished fragment of the spacefarer James Roverton and his encounters with alien plants, animals, and intelligent beings. Clark Ashton Smith writes of the utter alienness of alien worlds.