Phyllis Ann Karr

• Apr-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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This merry tale of love, adventure, and deception plays out the tangled romance of pretty young Deirdre Chevington, who is engaged to one man and hopelessly in love with another. When Deirdre's lovely and clever aunt, Cassandra, decides to take a ...

• Oct-1980
• / Traditional Regency
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These three works - one novel unpublished in her lifetime and two unfinished fragments - reveal Jane Austen's development as a great artist.Lady Susan, with its wicked, beautiful, intelligent and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama in letters...

• Nov-1980
• / Fantasy
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SWORDSWOMAN & SORCERESS The Sorceress Frostflower could bring a babe from seed to term in the course of a winter's afternoon. The Swordswoman Thorn could strew a field with corpses in a moment's battle rage. Outcasts, both of them. Hunted by the fa...

• Sep-1981
• / Traditional Regency
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"HE HAS ALREADY DECIDED IT IS NOT WORTHWHILE TO TEACH ME!" Sally Merryn was very pretty and almost eighteen. And all her life, her one passion had been to play the flute. The fact that she had little talent for such a sensitive instrume...

• Apr-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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HE WAS AN IRRESISTIBLE ENEMY... When young Perola set out to avenge the death of her dear departed sister, she had no idea what to expect. She only knew that no matter what the cost, she would repay the rogue who had deserted her sister and left h...

• Jun-1982
• / Traditional Regency
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"ALICE, I'VE JUST HAD THE MOST FAMOUS IDEA ABOUT MY COUSIN AND YOUR GUARDIAN DRAGON. IF WE WERE TO WAGER WHICH OF THEM COULD BE FLUSTERED FIRST..." Two lovely and most mischievous maidens cook up a scheme to force their stony-visaged guardians int...

• Sep-1982
• / Fantasy
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She had been a God, lord of all forests and the creatures that dwell within, until a small and thoughtless act of cruelty brought heavenly justice upon her, sentencing her to the worst punishment of all: to become human....

• Oct-1982
• / Fantasy
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JOURNEY OF THE SORCERI The sorceress Frostflower had the power to guide the lightning through the air, and leave her body to roam the Tanglelands. But her fellow sorcerer, Windbourne, blamed for the murder of a farmer-priest, carried a monstrous gui...

• Sep-1985
• / Science Fiction
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The arrangements for the dinner party were overseen by Queen Quenevere herself. She selected the apples with her own hands. And before the evening ended, a young knight lay dead...and Arthur's beloved, unfaithful queen stood branded as a murderess an...

• Dec-1986
• / Fantasy
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At the last fair of the season, the toymaker Torin proposes to the beautiful sorceress Sharys, and watches his world shatter. Sharys refuses his marriage token because she has just accepted the proposal of his best friend, the adventurer Valdart. Tor...

• 2001
• / Fantasy
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• Dec-2001
• / Fantasy
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Pity poor Sir Harald! It isn't easy being a villain in King Arthur's Britain, particularly when the opposition is so formidable and even the furniture in your castle is dead set against you. After six long years of struggle, the Quillerstone Couch st...

• Jan-2002
• / Historical
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Ann Karr has found a historical precedent to create a female Sheriff of Nottingham for this retelling of the Robin Hood legend … A remarkable work which recasts the traditional roles and sheds new light on the relationship between the famous charac...

• Jul-2011
• / Science Fiction
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The further adventures of Pon, the Gardener's Boy, from L. Frank Baum's THE SCARECROW OF OZ. One of Phyllis Ann Karr's best... NOT to be missed. Fully illustrated by Melody Grandy's finest art! Pon and his fellow adventurers travel to the other side ...

• Jan-2013
• / Historical
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Spanish Inquisitor Don Felipe considers himself a loyal servant of Holy Church. Despite his lifelong friendship with the Jewish Gamito, despite the courtly love for their Islamic playfellow's sister that inspired him to celibacy and the priesthood (n...

• Jan-2014
• / Space Opera
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A Fantasy Historical Romance of the First Decade of Papa's Pride, by Clea Ortiz Newcome -- but actually a Gilbert & Sullivan Fantasy in Space Opera Framework, by Phyllis Ann Karr! Some have told me that the events of Ship Years 8 and 9 were far ...

• Jul-2015
• / Fantasy
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In this, her first novel penned as a widow, Phyllis Ann Karr (Mrs. Clifton Alfred Hoyt) imagines herself and her late husband as characters in a dialogue novel after the pattern of Thomas Love Peacock, giving them a new meeting in an alternate timeli...

• Jan-2016
• / Science Fiction Romance
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The four members of Dante's Delight Purgatorio do not consider what they do to be in any sense sado­masochistic. Of course, society at large takes a different view. And society at large includes Julie Whitcomb's new­met lover, Police Detective Dave...

• Feb-2016
• / Science Fiction
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The Timelines Keep Trying to Realign! Our neighboring timeline also had its 20th-century warfare. But Act II of their Last Great War, 1939-1945, lined up somewhat differently, with Russia, India, Spain, and Japan versus England, France, Germany, and...

• Sep-2022
• / Dark Fantasy
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The little pueblo of Nuestra Señora del Desierto survived by being a stop on the stage line out west. Bart Maverel, looking as always to keep moving and keep playing poker, made the acquaintance of Count Czerknikowski, who has been to the pueblo bef...

• Nov-2022
• / Science Fiction
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Rejected Extraneous Subhuman Offal. That's what a Reso means to Devin Newcome, forget that the Committee calls it a free license for Recreational Sex ONLY. That's what they gave him, while the young lady he worships from afar, Astra Ortiz, got a Gene...

• Nov-2022
• / Fantasy
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Bart Maverel has a most unusual series of encounters late one night. It's the stuff tall tales are made of, and Bart—inveterate gambler and saddle tramp that he is—will no doubt be telling this story for years around the poker table....

• Jan-2023
• / Horror
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Count Czarny came to the New World to escape the madness that was Europe. Here, in a new land, he thought he could live in a quieter, less supertitious place. But what he found was just as barbaric, even among the Native American tribes, even by the ...

• Mar-2023
• / Mystery
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   Our 80th issue has some great tales for you, starting with an original mystery by Hugh Lessit (thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and a great reprint by Jim Thomsen (thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman). Plus we have a ...

• Apr-2023
• / Mystery
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Our 85th issue is quite the treat -- three original tales by three top authors, a time-travel story, a fantasy bar story, two novels, and more! I leave it to you to explore this issue and find out what’s what, which is whose, and whodunit. (Or did ...

• May-2023
• / Fantasy
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 Our 90th issue is another great one -- 3 original short stories, 8 modern and classic short story reprints, a novella, and a pair of novels. That’s a lot of reading!   Where to start with the highlights?On the mystery side, Acquiring Edi...

• May-2023
• / Fantasy
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From the start, this Yuletide had been overshadowed by dread. After the last New Year’s Day, in Camelot, would Sir Mordred return to keep his word? And would the Green Knight find them again in Caerleon? How could he fail? The annual progressions o...

• Jul-2023
• / Mystery
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A widow in 17-Century England leaves a note on the grave of her husband. The note also contains a testimony, and a confession...

• Oct-2023
• / Horror
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When a curious professor insists on exploring a remote cave marked by local superstitions, he and his students uncover something ancient and evil. Now they must escape with their lives and find a way to re-seal the terrifying power they've unleashed,...

• / Christian
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Killed in a car-motorcycle collision, young Deborah Kennicut finds Heaven very different from what her ultra-Fundamentalist Bible creed had prepared her for. But it must be Heaven, because even while dying herself, she watch the motorcyclist plummet ...

• / Christian
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A buxom lady and her handmaid arrive in Arthur's court at Carlisle seeking relief from Jaheli, a religious zealot who is making life miserable in her Wasted Land between the Walls, by claiming to host and worship there the Holy Grail. The party of kn...