The Brood of the Dark Moon

Brood of the Dark Moon by Charles Willard Diffin

The Dark Moon is a nearly invisible planet which suddenly appeared close enough to Earth to cause tidelwaves, 'a circle, marked only by the absence of star-points and by the halo of violet glow that edged it about.'

Our two intrepid heroes had already been there before. It takes a good pilot to land a spaceship there. Fortunately, Chet Bullard is a 'Master Pilot of the World' no less.

It seems like a singularly nasty place to me, with zombified ape-men, vampiric birds, hostile plants, noxious gases, then worst of all 'a pit that held something inhumanly horrible—an abomination unto all gods of decency and right.'.

However, Bullard and his pall Walt Harkness want to go back for some reason. This though do, only as prisoners to a shouty German megalomaniac named Schwartzmann who barks "Gott im Himmel!" at every opportunity, yet somehow does better with the natives than the good guys manage.

I no doubt would have loved it back in 1931 if I had picked up a copy ofAmazingStories magazine, but this type of story was soon surpassed in the arrival of science fiction's Golden Age.

Blazing Arrow by Edward S. Ellis

A thrilling tale of Indians and settlers.  Not to be missed by Ellis fans.  Edward S. Ellis has quite a writing history.

Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine.

Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles that he produced by his name and by a number of noms de plume. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include The Steam Man of the Prairies and Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier. Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for his Deerfoot novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s.

Seth Jones was the most significant of early dime novels of publishers Beadle and Adams. It is said that Seth Jones was one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite stories.] During the mid-1880s, after a fiction-writing career of some thirty years, Ellis eventually began composing more serious works of biography, history, and persuasive writing. Of note was "The Life of Colonel David Crockett", which had the story of Davy Crockett giving a speech usually called "Not Yours To Give". It was a speech in opposition to awarding money to a Navy widow on the grounds that Congress had no Constitutional mandate to give charity. It was said to have been inspired by Crockett's meeting with a Horatio Bunce, a much quoted man in Libertarian circles, but one for whom historical evidence is non-existent.

Pseudonyms

Besides the one hundred fifty-nine books published by his own name, Ellis' work was published under various pseudonyms, including:

• "James Fenimore Cooper Adams" or "Captain Bruin Adams" (68 titles)
• "Boynton M. Belknap" (9 titles)
• "J. G. Bethune" (1 title)
• "Captain Latham C. Carleton" (2 titles)
• "Frank Faulkner" (1 title)
• "Capt. R. M. Hawthorne" (4 titles)
• "Lieut. Ned Hunter" (5 titles)
• "Lieut. R. H. Jayne" (at least 2 titles in the War Whoop series)[8]
• "Charles E. Lasalle" (16 titles)
• "H. R. Millbank" (3 titles)
• "Billex Muller" (3 titles)
• "Lieut. J. H. Randolph" (8 titles)
• "Emerson Rodman" (10 titles)
• "E. A. St. Mox" (2 titles)
• "Seelin Robins" (19 titles)

Finkler's Field by Ralph Henry Barbour

A thrilling tale of sportsmanship and coming of age, and of course, a baseball diamond.