Fiction Collection (page 14)

SKYLARK THREE (Dr Edward E Smith) The spaceship from Earth slices through the hostile craft from the planet Fenechrone Date: 1930

DIMENSIONAL FATE (A L Burkholder) Earthmen explore the Fouth Dimension Date: 1934

LAND WHALE
THE STEAM GOD (Walter Kateley) The lost aviator, in the hidden valley, is shown the land whales Date: 1929

Masterminds of Venus, Amazing Stories Scifi Magazine Cover
MASTER MINDS OF VENUS - Friendly Venerians [sic] come to help Earthfolk Date: 1934

Masefield / John / Photo
JOHN MASEFIELD English poet, playwriter and fiction writer in old age Date: 1878 - 1967

Death in Stratosphere
DEATH IN THE STRATOSPHERE (Henry J Kostkos) Explorers encounter alarming wildlife up there : the heroine, dressed for golf, defends her spacecraft Date: 1937

A BABY ON NEPTUNE (Harris and Breuer) Safe (they trust !) inside their pressurised capsule, visitors from Earth arouse the curiosity of Neptunes fauna Date: 1929

Liners of Time
LINERS OF TIME (John Russell Fearn) The Atom-and-Time Dissembler will transport you whither- -soever you will, beaming you up, down or sideways. Date: 1935

THE LOST MACHINE (John B Harris) A Martian robot, marooned on Earth, has problems adapting to the terrestrial lifestyle Date: 1932

50TH CENTURY REVOLT (Arthur C Stangland) The Venusian solar power plant is destroyed by Terrestrials wearing appalaron self- propelling space-suits Date: 1932

Jules Vernes Tomb
Jules Vernes tomb at Nantes, featured on the cover of an American science-fiction magazine Date: 1828 - 1905

Flying Saucer
Ralph 124C 41+ [Hugo Gernsback] Domed-disc spacecraft which anticipates to a remarkable degree the flying saucers of twenty years later Date: 1929

Secret of Observatory
THE SECRET OF THE OBSERVATORY (Robert Bloch) Lois is menaced by the Mongol Date: 1938

Beyond the Planetoids
BEYOND THE PLANETOIDS (Edwin K Sloat) As the two pirate ships collide, the escaped prisoners - fortunately wearing space suits - hurtle into the void Date: 1932

Alien Spacecraft 1936
UNCERTAINTY (John W Campbell Junior) An alien space-ship heads towards Earth Date: 1936

Sancho Panza is tossed in a blanket held by many citizens. Date: First published: 1605-1615

Creating a clone to solve a love triangle
Creating a clone of the girl that two men are in love with - illustration to The Four-sided Triangle by William F Temple. Date: 1939

Bewitched book front cover by David Wright
Front cover of a pulp fiction novel by Louis Charles Royer, featuring an illustration by British pin-up artist, David Wright

Julliens Chimes Quadrilles, music sheet
Cover design for a music sheet containing the French conductor Louis Antoine Julliens Chimes Quadrilles, building on the success of Charles Dickens second Christmas book, The Chimes

Kuprin, The Garnet Bracelet
L I Lyubimova, on whom the character of Vera is modelled in Aleksandr Kuprins story, The Garnet Bracelet, first published in 1911

Murder Down Below
Still waters ran deep....deep enough to hide a killer. Illustration by pin up artist, David Wright of a woman, looking not at all suspicious, with a stole slipping seductively from her shoulders

Lady Behave
Fabulous book cover design by pin up artist David Wright for a book entitled, Lady Behave" by Peter Cheney. The artwork depicts a haughty looking woman with auburn hair

Futurist Fiction by Bairnsfather
A prescient view of the future showing two lovers wearing gas masks through which they attempt a romantic kiss. Drawn at the end of World War I

Amazing Stories Plane
A stylised cover showing an aeroplane flying through circles of light

On the Dark Moon
DARK MOON (Charles W Diffin) The scientists from Earth land on the satellite which has approached Earth and entered its orbit, and encounter some fearsome fauna

Henty (Photo)
GEORGE ALFRED HENTY writer of childrens fiction

Changing Pilots / Fiction
Changing Pilots by Ruby M Ayres

City of Singing Flame
THE CITY OF SINGING FLAME (Clark Ashton Smith) The people of the other dimension - and their two visitors from Earth - are lured to leap into the flame

Robinsons Lunaires Cover
(The lunar family Robinson) by G Le Faure. A balloon is carried to the Moon, but make a successful return to Earth

Jovian in Ny / Wonder / 1938
Of Jovian build (Oscar J Friend) - the giant from Jupiter terrifies the inhabitants of New York

Jacket / Balkan Spy
BALKAN SPY By Don Betteridge

Les Exiles De LA Terre
LES EXILES DE LA TERRE (Andre Laurie) Exiled on the Moon, a man gazes at Earth through his telescope and wishes he was back there again

The Double Minds
THE DOUBLE MINDS (John W Campbell junior) The Earthpeople fight the shleath of Ganymede

Carr, Royal Love
ROYAL LOVE (Kathryn Carr) Looks like shes got the young man drunk in order to steal the secret papers she knows hes carrying - but oh dear, heres a man with a gun !

Black, if I should Lose
IF I SHOULD LOSE YOU (Dorothy Black) She thought marriage unnecessary - till she lost him

Peters, Sacrifice
SACRIFICE (Julie Peters) Kisses beneath the palms - this is a romance of Kenya where, as is well known, the white community make their own rules

Currents of Space
THE CURRENTS OF SPACE (Isaac Asimov)

HOLLYWOOD ON THE MOON (Henry Kuttner) The Moons low gravity is a godsend to the special effects department

MAROONED ON ANDROMEDA
MAROONED IN ANDROMEDA (Clark Ashton-Smith) The animal-eating flora of Andromeda are beautiful to look at but not much fun on closer acquaintance

THE MIND MAGNET (Paul Ernst) The duel between the two alien races

THE HOTHOUSE PLANET (Arthur K Barnes) Space travellers from Earth encounter the wildlife of Venus - and find that it is very wild indeed !

VISITORS FROM MLOK (Clark Ashton-Smith) The Earthman is projected back to his planet before the destruction of Mlok

Pointing Fingers 1933
Cast off by the husband she loved, Margaret stumbled down the street past the prying eyes of the neighbours : they, too, believed the wicked lies a jealous girl had spread

The Sheik / Hull Cover 20S
THE SHEIK by E M Hull

Mr. Mrs. Caudle / Fiction
Mr. & Mrs. Caudle in bed: " No! Mr. Caudle, I shall not go to sleep like a good soul! "

Future Scientists
INTO THE SUBCONSCIOUS (Ray Avery Myer) Future scientists develop machines that read the subconscious mind and project its thoughts as images

Margaret Oliphant
MARGARET OLIPHANT (nee Oliphant - married her cousin) Scottish writer, very prolific but including ghost stories and imaginative fiction such as A beleaguered city

Neptune Wildlife
MONSTERS OF NEPTUNE (Henrik Dahl Juve) Visitors to Neptune encounter powerful creatures who trample on their spacecraft

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