The other day, someone asked my about the reading order for my books. As always, I answered that you can read them in any order you like. Each is a standalone, with hints and Easter eggs within that might help you figure out the overarching plot I'm slowly spooling out.
But then it occurred to me that what he really wanted was a timeline, not a reading order.
So, to that end, here's the story so far. In chronological order.
Swords In The House of Horus: A Lost Scroll of Kull of Atlantis
Set in the prehistory of Stygia, the land that would one day become known as Egypt, the future King of Valusia encounters a strange, possibly immortal wizard who seeks a power from beyond the stars.
Battling the god Horus himself, Kull must vanquish foes from every quarter!
The Gauntlet of Nabu: A Solomon Kane Tract
Set in colonial Massachusetts, Solomon Kane encounters an entity that hungers for the very souls of an innocent family. Can he discover the secret of the Gauntlet of Nabu and use it to once again imprison the evil it held at bay, before it escapes and unleashes its evil upon this new land?
Red SonYa of Rogatino The Shadow of Tanaghaara
Set in an unnamed time of flintlocks and sabres, Red SonYa, warrior, mercenary and adventuress is blackmailed into escorting a young nobleman through a dangerous mountain pass to his betrothal. The pass is plagued by wild creatures, bandits and something far worse.
When Lady Raven arrives, will it be as friend or foe? Red SonYa must battle an evil from beyond the stars and her own nature to prevail!
Red SonYa of Rogatino The Secrets of the Amazons
Travelling to the shores of the Indian Ocean, Red SonYa seeks a mythical tribe of warrior women who share her penchant for battle and adventure. What she finds is a secret that might reshape the world!
The Beast of Borneo
It is the dawn of the 20th Century. In the heart of Africa, an infant has grown to near adulthood in the care of a tribe of intelligent apes. Viscount Greystoke, Huishi Zijue of China, better known to the world as Tarzan, encounters a man from Europe, the first he has met.
Captured by a strange man swathed in bandages, this man, Sherlock Holmes has come to Africa to recruit the young Tarzan for a mission far more important than stopping the gold smugglers who have taken him prisoner. Can Tarzan free Holmes before his mysterious captor does the unthinkable?
The Rock of Eternity: The Challenger Papers.
It is the early part of the 20th Century. Professor George Edward Challenger is the darling of the day for returning from his South American adventure with actual dinosaur eggs in hand. The media and scientific community are in an uproar, but those eggs are not the only thing Challenger brought back from his quest.
The inconceivably ancient knowledge he was burdened with after encountering a strange, buried, alien vessel at the base of the plateau where dinosaurs yet roam in the modern age, forces him into new adventures that will re-write the history of the universe.
The Mongo Machine
Buck Rogers, John Carter and Crash Corrigan within!
The world is at war, once again. The Nazis have recovered a machine that could turn the tide of history and it's up to a small team of warriors, Major John Carter, Captain Buck Rogers and Lieutenant Crash Corrigan to find and destroy the machine before the Axis can use it to secure weapons of unimaginable power from an incredible alien ally.
The Metropolis of Mongo
Awakening in a strange, alien city, Captain Buck Rogers and Colonel Wilma Deering find themselves thrown from a world war to a galactic one. Besieged by the Empire of Mongo, the city planet of Theopolis fights for its very survival.
Have Buck and Wilma travelled to the future? Everything, including their very biology, seems to indicate they are 500 years in their own future, but regardless of where or when they are, there's a war on and they are spoiling for a fight.
The Marine Moon of Mongo
Crash Corrigan finds himself flat on his back. Above him, a massive glass dome holds back an ocean in the sky. Is this fabled Atlantis? Where has the the strange Nazi machine sent him? When?
Before he can find the answers he needs, Corrigan is thrown into a life and death struggle in an arena that echoes ancient Rome, where life is cheap and death is entertainment. Befriended by a strange, alien creature he names Penny, Crash must fight for his life and the freedom of those who are pitted against him!
The Martian Monsters of Mongo
John Carter has returned to Barsoom. Somehow the alien machine spits him out on the sands of the planet he's been trying to return to for 25 years. But he's far from anything and anyone he knows and he's not alone.
A team of Nazi soldiers has come through as well and they're hunting him. Can he evade their pursuit, while fighting off the giant apes and banths that hunt him as well? And what of this strange woman who he meets in the desert? Is D'ahn J'onn a friend, a foe or something else entirely?
Operation Paperclip
Spy Smasher & Hop Harrigan within!
In the early days after WWII, Spy Smasher is on the trail of Dr. Satan, a notorious Nazi war criminal. In the jungles of South America, the evil Dr. has burrowed in like a tick and Spy Smasher, aided by ace pilot Hop Harrigan, must expose his operation to the light of day before he can bring his plans to fruition.
There's only a couple of problems. Dr. Satan knows he's there and he has an army and a giant robot!
Dr. Satan and the Element of Evil
Silk City, 1948. The Spider is trying to find a lost girl who might be in more trouble than she can handle. At the same moment, on the intelligence sent by Spy Smasher, Captain Midnight has tracked Dr. Satan to a warehouse in the seediest part of Silk City. The two heroines will collide in a maelstrom of drugs, henchmen and giant robots.
Can they work together to defeat the Doctor and save the girl?
Snakes & Ladders
Ouroboros City, a few years after WWII. Bob Wayne's mentor, the state's governor, has been murdered in the most gruesome way imaginable, leaving almost no evidence. The police are baffled, so Wayne dons the mask of The Copperhead, once worn by his grandfather to right wrongs in the Old West. Copperhead must navigate the underbelly of the city and climb the ladder to find the man responsible for the governor's death.
What he finds is not what he expected.
The Sizzling Spider and the Sinister Skull
The Sizzling Spider, Minute Man, The Shield, Uncle Sam, Fighting American & Miss Victory within!
A group of star-spangled heroes, known collectively as the Patriot Corps, has tracked a potentially dangerous relic, The Skull of Nabu, to Silk City. They enlist the assistance of the Spider and her team to recover the skull at any cost, before it falls into the hands of Illyria the spy queen.
Say the Magic Word!
It's 2026 and Billy Batson is a young girl, living a quiet life in Fawcett Bluff, a reserve in northern Manitoba, Canada. She dreams of bigger things, a life of adventure and wonder, like she sees in the action movies she loves.
An encounter with Ibis the Invincible places Billy on a path even she cannot imagine, gifting her with the magic of SHAZAM, a mantle which is only bestowed upon those who seek to protect above all.
Burdened suddenly with power beyond imagining, Billy must navigate the powers of Captain Marvel and save her family from an equally powerful entity who covets what she's been given.
Never, Mind!
Freddy Freeman isn't alone. Inside his head, an evil, bio-engineered parasite who calls himself Mr. Mind has taken root and is trying to hijack the young man's psyche.
When a plot to steal Captain Marvel's power goes awry, suddenly Freddy Freeman finds himself controlling the power of SHAZAM, just like his best friend, Billy Batson.
But is Freddy in control, or is Mr. Mind?
And I've only just begun.
I keep reminding everyone, there's a clock on this.
While I have plans to add characters to the universe through 2051 and the end of the Golden Age of Comics as it enters the public domain, the plot I'm currently unspooling in the background will begin to close off this universe on January 1, 2039.
Don't miss it!
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