The alien ship landed and the things emerged...

They were about six feet tall, and at a rough classification could have been described as mammalian bipeds. Their forelimbs terminated in digital extremities; they possessed primary optical organs; and the respiratory orifice was subdivided. The oral orifice was provided with an articulated mandible at its lower extremity, and to sum up--insofar as anything as weird as the alien could be summed up--they bore a striking resemblance to homo sapiens. (Sample excerpt from Down the Badger Hole, originally from Hand of Doom by R. L. Fanthorpe)

STRANGE.WEIRD.EERIE

    Like Alice following the white rabbit, young R. Lionel Fanthorpe went down the badger hole to enter a bizarre world of publishing. For twelve years, the British author cranked out stories for the notoriously penny-pinching publisher, John Spencer & Co., under the imprint of Badger Books.

    Learn how those books were written. Read in Fanthorpe's own words what he thinks of them today. Enjoy many humourous excerpts from the Badgers, as well as a full length story. Also included is an introduction from science fiction author and humourist David Langford and a detailed bibliography.

    Read this book and be entertained, amused, delighted, put in good humor, be made merry, and have a smile brought to your face!

Wrigley-Cross Books has published two books about R. L. Fanthorpe and Badger Books.

Down the Badger Hole includes:

• Many of  the funniest excerpts from the dozens of books Lionel Fanthorpe penned for the penny pinching publisher, John Spencer
• A bibliography of Fanthorpe's Badger books as well as many of his more current works
• An introduction by writer David Langford
• An introduction by Debbie Cross
• An introduction by Lionel Fanthorpe himself
• Curse of the Kahn, a complete short story

Down the Badger Hole Bibiographic Supplement includes:

• Updated Bibliographic material including foreign language editions
• New humorous excerpts
• Full color center page featuring 18 of the vintage Badger covers

Down the Badger Hole

Only $12.50 plus S&H

Down the Badger Hole Bibliographic Supplement

Only $4.50 plus S&H

Buy Both for Only $18 including S&H

Paul M. Wrigley and Debbie Cross edited Gifts of Blood by Susan C. Petrey. It includes:

• All seven of Petrey's Varkela stories
• Hugo nominee, Spidersong
• Essays on the writers' workshop experience by Ursula Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre and Kate Wilhelm

Gifts of Blood is limited to five hundred copies of which there 474 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies that were never available for sale. All are signed by Le Guin, McIntyre, and Wilhelm.

Gifts of Blood

by Susan C. Petrey

Only $20 plus S&H

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