Arthur O. Friel – författare

The Steampunk Megapack collects 26 tales of high adventure through Victorian and Edwardian eras--past, present, and future! Included are:

MIDNIGHT AT VALDOSTA''S, by Jay LakeTHE CASE OF THE PECULIAR SAFECRACKER, by G. D. FalksenTHE ACQUISITION OF MANDRAKES AND ASSISTANTS, by Jillian VentersTHE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS, by H. P. LovecraftTHE BRASS GOGGLE FACTORY WORKER, by John LeavittTHE PATH OF PROGRESS, by Brian StablefordTHE TAILED MEN, by Arthur O. FrielTHE IMPOSSIBLE MISTER LAPIN INVESTIGATES: THE AFFAIR OF THE TERRIBLE BOAR, by Peter WordworthTHE WAR EFFORT, by Austin H. WilliamsHERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR, by H. P. LovecraftA CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT, by Mark TwainTHE TRUMPETER, by Arthur O. FrielTHE MACHINE STOPS by E. M. ForsterTHE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL, by Edgar Allan PoeTHE LOST WORLD, by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleTHE GATEWAY OF THE MONSTER, by William Hope HodgsonA PRINCESS OF MARS, by Edgar Rice BurroughsTHE MID-WATCH TRAGEDY, by Vincent StarrettMUSTERED OUT, by H. Bedford-JonesPAYABLE TO BEARER, by Talbot MundyTHE DEVIL’S HEIRLOOM by Anthony M. RudDOCTOR OX''S EXPERIMENT, by Jules VerneTHE TRIAL FOR MURDER, by Charles DickensANGEL OF THE REVOLUTION, by George GriffithTHE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY, by G. K. ChestertonTHE HORROR OF THE HEIGHTS, by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Jungle stories have been a part of popular literature since Tarzan swung out of the trees in 1913. We aren''t including "Tarzan of the Apes" or any of its numerous sequels -- which are easily available elsewhere -- and are focusing on standalone tales, plus a rival of Tarzan''s ... Jan of the Jungle! Here are tales of Jungle vudu, adventure, and mystery stories sure to entertain. Included are:

THE CALL OF THE SAVAGE, by Otis Adelbert KlineAN ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS, by Arthur LaneA CREEPING TERROR, by Douglas M. DoldAIR TRAIL, by Arthur O. FrielJUNGLE PLOY, by Bryce WaltonJUNGLE WIRES, by Carl JacobiRED WATER, by B. W. WatkinSKIN-DEEP, by Sherman RipleyTHE CROWN JEWELS, by Robert Carlton BrownBLOOD-FLAME FOR THE JUDU, by Al StormTHE JUNGLE, by Paul EardleyTHE WOOD DEVIL THING, by Gordon McCreagh

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When Dugan follows an odd jungle messenger, he nearly finds death on the Air Trail! A jungle crime story by one of the greatest adventure writers of all time.

Excerpt: “Scouts in America have a high honor to maintain, for the American scout has always been the best in the world. He is noted as being keen, quick, cautious, and brave. He teaches himself, and he is willing to be taught by others. He is known and respected. Even in the recent war in South Africa between Great Britain and the Boers, it was Major Frederick Russell Burnham, an American, once a boy in Iowa, who was the English Chief of Scouts. Major Burnham is said to be the greatest modern scout. The information in this book is based upon thoroughly American scoutcraft as practiced by Indians, trappers, and soldiers of the old-time West, and by mountaineers, plainsmen, and woodsmen of to-day."

Excerpt: “In the estimate of the affable brakeman (a gentleman wearing sky-blue army pantaloons tucked into cowhide boots, half-buttoned vest, flannel shirt open at the throat, and upon his red hair a flaring-brimmed black slouch hat) we were making a fair average of twenty miles an hour across the greatest country on earth. It was a flat country of far horizons, and for vast stretches peopled mainly, as one might judge from the car windows, by antelope and the equally curious rodents styled prairie dogs. Yet despite the novelty of such a ride into that unknown new West now being spanned at giant’s strides by the miraculous Pacific Railway, behold me, surfeited with already five days’ steady travel, engrossed chiefly in observing a clear, dainty profile and waiting for the glimpses, time to time, of a pair of exquisite blue eyes. Merely to indulge myself in feminine beauty, however, I need not have undertaken the expense and fatigue of journeying from Albany on the Hudson out to Omaha on the plains side of the Missouri River; thence by the Union Pacific Railroad of the new transcontinental line into the Indian country. There were handsome women a-plenty in the East; and of access, also, to a youth of family and parts. I had pictures of the same in my social register. A man does not attain to twenty-five years without having accomplished a few pages of the heart book. Nevertheless all such pages were—or had seemed to be—wholly retrospective now, for here I was, advised by the physicians to “go West,” meaning by this not simply the one-time West of Ohio, or Illinois, or even Iowa, but the remote and genuine West lying beyond the Missouri."