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H. Rider Haggard
Haggard wrote the story Red Eve in six months. In it, we meet Sir Hugh de Cressi, the son of a merchant who is in love with Eve. She, too, is in love with him, but a traitor knight Sir Edmund Acour is caring for her. He realizes that he cannot conquer her feelings and gives her a potion. The result is that she did marry him. But how long will this potion act? Unlike other stories, where events are developing in Africa, here readers will be able to travel around Europe.
Robert E. Howard
Red Nails is the last of the stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936. It is set in the pseudohistorical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. Due to its grim themes of decay and death, the story is considered a classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars as one of his best tales.
Mary Cholmondeley
This is the story of two friends Esther and Rachel who have known each other since childhood and see each other as a kindred spirit. They are both smart, moral and modern in the sense that they want their lives to have meaning. They communicate with each other and with a few good like-minded friends. They have to endure the stupidity and superficiality of others, some of whom are members of their own family.
Robert E. Howard
The moonlight shimmered hazily, making silvery mists of illusion among the shadowy trees. A faint breeze whispered down the valley, bearing a shadow that was not of the moon-mist. A faint scent of smoke was apparent. The man whose long, swinging strides, unhurried yet unswerving, had carried him for many a mile since sunrise, stopped suddenly. A movement in the trees had caught his attention, and he moved silently toward the shadows, a hand resting lightly on the hilt of his long, slim rapier.
Henry Bedford-Jones
The Sphinx Emerald passed into other hands to reappear centuries later when conquering Cambyses came storming into Egypt with his Persian legions... Readers are treated to authentic historical dramas, all centering on the mysterious jewel that seems to contain a miniature image of the sphinx. A great pulp extravaganza!
Eugenie Marlitt
Das Buch Reichsgräfin Gisela enthält alles, was man von einem Roman erwarten kann große Liebe, Verbrechen und Happy End -, aber auch Kritik an korrupter Politik und hochmütigem Adel. Die junge Gräfin Gisela leidet schwer unter den Verhältnissen, die das Leben bei ihren Stiefeltern prägen. Strenge Erziehung, Unterdrückung und Gängelung prägen die Kindheit des Mädchens, das mit den Jahren feststellen muss, dass ihre Stiefeltern sie zudem schamlos ausnutzen. Dann taucht ein fremder, wahnsinnig reicher und natürlich gutaussehender Portugiese auf. Und dieser Fremde hat augenscheinlich eine Rechnung offen mit der Familie des Barons Fleury. Dummerweise hat sich Gisela zu diesem Zeitpunkt bereits in ihn verliebt. Die junge Gräfin Gisela lernt durch die Liebe zu einem geheimnisvollen Unbekannten allmählich ihren Standesdünkel abzulegen und entwickelt sich zu einem mitfühlenden Menschen. Reichsgräfin Gisela gilt als ideologisch interessantestes Buch Marlitts.
Paweł Staśko
Fabuła powieści charakterystyczna dla końcowej fazy twórczości Staśki. Romans pełen klasycyzmu i romantycznych uniesień. Wpisany w kanony literatury dwudziestolecia międzywojennego.
Stanisław Przybyszewski
Na początku była chuć słynne zdanie rozpoczynające Requiem aeternam zapowiada manifest panseksualistycznych poglądów Przybyszewskiego. Głęboko osadzony w młodopolskich nastrojach utwór stanowi wyraz koncepcji filozoficznych autora. W czasach autora bulwersował i szokował, wpisywał się w aurę skandalu otaczającą Przybyszewskiego. Sam autor zaliczał Requiem aeternam do cyklu poematów prozą albo rapsodii.