Ramble House

The word may be getting out that Day Keene, author of those great noir novels of the 40s and 50s, also wrote a lot of stories for the pulps -- and that John Pelan and Ramble House are bringing all of...

A collection of mystery criticism and essays from the reviewer of books for Ellery Queen Magazine. Jon Breen is the worthy successor of Anthony Boucher and his hundreds of reviews of books and...

Sean M'Guire wrote this lost race novel in 1930 when such stories were mired in racism and formula. But BEAST OR MAN? is more in the mold of H. Rider Haggard and addresses deeper themes, and at the...

This is the first of the Robert Payne series, written in 1994. Payne is an ex-FBI profiler who gets offered $10,000 in an unmarked envelope to find the killer of a young girl. If only it were that...

'City of the Tiger' is the second volume of stories selected by Damien Broderick and John Boston from the British magazine 'Science Fantasy'. In this volume are stories by Jonathan Burke, Martin...

Over the decades Francis M. Nevins has written dozens of articles and essays on the major influences of crime literature and here he collects them in 450+ pages. Coupled with some current essays on...

Bill Pronzini invades the Ramble House Sanctuary of Loons with a collection of 22 excursions into the darkest heart of noir. From the perils of familial love in "Dago Red" to the deadly TV sports of...

In Keeler News #82, John Herrington quoted a blurb from The Sun, 1932, stating that Damning Trifles, though listed as by Maurice C. Johnson, is actually by Harry Stephen Keeler. Can this be true? Now...

Trade paperback. WHEN DEATH PAYS A CALL he generally leaves a card behind ... even if it sometimes takes a pathologist to find it. But on the morning that he visited the bathroom at Forstal Farm, he...

DEATH MARCH OF THE DANCING DOLLS is the third volume of the series: Day Keene in the Detective Pulps. It is introduced by Texas' own Bill Crider and has a cover by Gavin L. O'Keefe. Day Keene is...

John Pelan knows what he's talking about when he gets into the shudder pulps. Last year we came out with SATAN'S SIN HOUSE and Other Stories, the first volume in the Weird Tales of Wayne Rogers...

Originally published in Startling Stories in 1942, 'Devil's Planet' was Manly Wade Wellman's fourth published science fiction novel, and it combines an adventure story set on Mars with a locked room...

Tiffany Thayer, who was prominent in the Fortean Society, wrote many unusual novels in the first half of the 20th century but DOCTOR ARNOLDI is one of the most elusive. Now, for the first time since...

ECHO OF A CURSE is the third novel by the mysterious R.R. Ryan that Ramble House has published. The first two, Freak Museum and The Subjugated Beast, are classics of horror and Echo of a Curse...

In the final year of his life (1939) Ernest Vincent Wright decided to write a complete novel, and just to make it interesting, he decided to do it without using the letter E. This amazing masterpiece...

Jack Moskovitz, veteran of the old days when censorship reigned and writers were threatened with prison for being too sexy, has written a neo-noir about a retired arson cop getting together with an...

Day Keene wrote these eight hardboiled tales for the pulps, particularly Detective Stories, in the 40s. John Pelan has selected these for Volume #1 of the Day Keene in the Detective Pulps series. The...

Marblehead is a huge work, encompassing all of 1927, a year in which H.P. Lovecraft, researching a book he'd been hired to write for the Nazis, travels the East Coast in the company of Charles...

Francis James was known for writing novella-length potboilers as headliners for various pulp magazines back in the 30s and John Pelan has collected a few of his best. No one could write preposterous...

When you get to Volume 4 of an author's collected works, you know he's something special. Wyatt Blassingame is one of John Pelan's favorite weird menace writers and in John's introduction you will...

Ramble House, in a fit of perverse nostalgia, decided to bring back three action-packed novels by James Corbett all at once, and MURDER BEGETS MURDER is the mystery of the group. The other two are...

MURDER IN SHAWNEE contains two of John Douglas' mystery novels about the Appalachian town of Shawnee as it was back in the 80s: SHAWNEE ALLEY FIRE and HAUNTS. Each book is a love song to the place...

It all starts with a stroke of incredibly good luck -- Detective-Inspector Bobby Owen and his wife, Olive, find an almost perfect home in the country to rent. But then they meet the neighbors,...

Did you know that Bruno Fischer, well-known pulpster who wrote House of Flesh, also wrote under the penname, Russell Gray? This is the second volume from Ramble House presented by John Pelan. It's...

One Dreadful Night presents a mystery that is deftly woven into the underlying web of supernatural horror. From the moment that a strange face is glimpsed peering from the window of the laboratory at...

In the mid 70s Francis M. Nevins, writer and literary savant, wrote two political thrillers featuring lawyer Loren Mensing. Dedicated to two of Nevins' personal heroes, Frederic Dannay and William...

For the first time, Richard O'Brien has collected hundreds of articles and features he wrote for various toy soldier collecting magazines in one compelling book. Filled with pictures and information...

The seven stories in this collection were written between 1935 and 1937 and appeared in various pulp magazines. The introduction by John Pelan describes the fascinating character, John H. Knox, who...

Hake Talbot wrote only two mystery novels and Ramble House is proud to bring both of them back into print for modern readers. RIM OF THE PIT is his masterpiece of an "impossible crime" that takes...

For the first time since the 60s a collection of Sand's stories are being reprinted. Written by Ennis Willie, these are hardboiled tales that will take you back to the days when men were stoic and...