Books with author Richard Madison

Wild Bill Hickok was a celebrity before there ever was a Hollywood. And he was dead before he was forty.Now Richard Matheson, Spur Award-winning author of Journal of the Gun Years, delves into the life and times of James Butler Hickok . . . gunfighter, U.S. marshal, legend. The cruelty that turned him violent. The fears that drove him. And the historic events that cause his name to live on more than century later.A compelling vision of the man behind the myth--and an unforgettable journey into the American frontier.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Danged Swamp is Volume 4 in the Richard, the Paperboy series.The Danged Swamp starts on Thanksgiving Day, 1945. This book is Southern Historical fiction set in 1945 during the Second World War. Previous novels of this series have been favorably compared to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The 13 book series has garnered numerous five star Amazon reviews. The series is a nostalgic look at a time when families huddled by the radio, with young boys listening to The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. Later the adults would tune in famous newscaster Walter Winchell; "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea....this just in...General Patton's army continues to march across Germany..." The numerous Amazon Five Star Reviews have all been from adults, but the readers of these books have ranged from teens to senior adults. The series is truly a book for all ages. Several reviewers have called Richard Mason "Americas' New Mark Twain." Yeah, I remember that durn Thanksgiving really, really good, and shoot, who wouldn’t? It started out real quiet. Heck, I thought it was just gonna be one of them dress-up and eat days and that'd be it. Well, I was sure wrong. Dang, that day just went all haywire and none of it was my fault—uh, well, maybe a little bit of it was, but sometimes I get blamed for stuff that just happens, and that’s exactly why I remember that Thanksgiving Day.Heck, that morning I was just laid out in our front porch swing minding my own business, just reading a funny book, when I heard the wildest howling you’ve ever heard in your whole, entire life. ‘Course I just flew outta that swing, chunked my “Captain Marvel” funny book down and ran over to the edge of the porch. Yep, just as I thought, old, worthless Sniffer, my skinny, mixed-breed hound was howling and having a hissy fit, and I could see him running around an old hollow log just across the peach orchard’s barbed wire fence. Talk about a wild and crazy dog; you ain't never seen one more worked up.Something has come up out of the swamp, and old Sniffer has got it treed in that hollow log! I thought. ‘Course, I was just about to hightail it over to the peach orchard to check it out, but then I had one of them "watch out boy, you 'bout to get in trouble!" thoughts. Shoot, I really wanted to get off that front porch, but, heck, I knew there weren’t no way on God’s green earth I was gonna leave. I was stuck in the house because it was Thanksgiving Day, and Momma was gonna make sure I’d be clean for dinner. Yeah, I had my washtub bath last night, and this morning I put on my good white shirt, long pants and new Sunday shoes, and combed my hair. Well, I looked like I was all slicked up and ready for church, but, shoot, I wasn’t going nowheres but to the dining room table. Lemme tell you something right now: I’m 13 years old, and being trapped on your front porch when your dog has something treed in a hollow log is pretty dang hard to take. But, heck, I was gonna sit right there till Momma called me in for dinner. You know why? Well, it’s because Momma had threatened me with the switching of my life if I as much as set foot in the yard, and, whooo, just the thought of one of Daddy’s switchings makes me shake. It ain’t worth it—not by a long shot. That's why I didn't hightail it across the yard to the peach orchard to check out what Sniffer had treed.Richard Mason is the author of The Red Scarf, Lyin' Like a Dog, The Yankee Doctor, "I will drink your blood" The Vampire-Werewolf of Flat Creek Swamp, The Mystery of the Canebrake, The River Rat and a Catahoula Hog Dog and How Me and John Clayton Saved the World. Richard Mason has been dubbed 'Americas' new Mark Twain' for beautifully capturing small town America and boyhood adventure.

[Read by Robertson Dean] The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense. First published in 1954, I Am Legend was Richard Matheson's first SF novel, and established his reputation as a pre-eminent figure in SF. In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

It’s 1944 and in the little village of Norphlet, Arkansas, Richard and John Clayton are making plans for a quiet summer of fun. However, north of their town is a German Prisoner of War Camp, and just when everyone thinks the War with Germany is about over, there is an escape from the camp and a rabid, Gestapo Colonel leads five former SS Soldiers on a mission of destruction. As the POWs race south to attack the South Arkansas oil refineries, they end up camping in Flat Creek Swamp, just a few miles south of Norphlet. After stumbling upon their camp, the boys plot a daring capture of the POWs. However, that wild summer had a lot more going on than just German POWs on the run. A crazy vision by the boy’s good friend, Ears, has everyone in town changing their name to “Jasper”. And while all of that is going on, Homer Ray’s, bullying causes the boys to try and stop the bullying for good with a trick to end all tricks. Yes, all the Norphlet characters are still part of this wild summer, as Big Six, Doc, Bubba, and Marshal Wing fit right into the story.As the summer of 1944 passes, the escapades of the two boys seem to run together as the boys try to balance the startling events in the little village, while plotting to capture the German POWs.this novel is Southern Historical fiction set in 1945 during the Second World War. Previous novels of this series have been favorably compared to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The 13 book series has garnered numerous five star Amazon reviews. The series is a nostalgic look at a time when families huddled by the radio, with young boys listening to The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. Later the adults would tune in famous newscaster Walter Winchell; "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea....this just in...General Patton's army continues to march across Germany..." The numerous Amazon Five Star Reviews have all been from adults, but the readers of these books have ranged from teens to senior adults. The series is truly a book for all ages. Several reviewers have called Richard Mason "Americas' New Mark Twain."

It all started with mysterious writing on the town's water tank. There is a specter amongst you. Richard and John Clayton were puzzled, but like the rest of the town they just thought it was schoolboys fooling around. But as the days passed and more messages appeared everyone realized the "specter" or Phantom was evil, and was out to destroy the little village. When FBI agents arrived in town, and a huge reward was posted, the boys could only see dollar signs, and they joined the hunt for the Phantom. It's a madhouse of FBI agents, 14-year-old boys, and the towns’ characters colliding in hilarious series of mis-adventures that will keep you enthralled and laughing until the shocking ending.This novel is Southern Historical fiction set in 1945 during the Second World War. Previous novels of this series have been favorably compared to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The 13 book series has garnered numerous five star Amazon reviews. The series is a nostalgic look at a time when families huddled by the radio, with young boys listening to The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. Later the adults would tune in famous newscaster Walter Winchell; "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea....this just in...General Patton's army continues to march across Germany..." The numerous Amazon Five Star Reviews have all been from adults, but the readers of these books have ranged from teens to senior adults. The series is truly a book for all ages. Several reviewers have called Richard Mason "Americas' New Mark Twain."

It’s the summer of 1944 and Richard, the Norphlet Paperboy, John Clayton, and Ears are in one heck of a mess. Yeah, there was an ‘accident’ involving a small herd of 10 Chihuahuas, which has sent the whole state into an uproar, and the three boys are right in the middle of it. An attack by the Chihuahuas on Richard, the paperboy has left the brown, award-winning Chihuahuas with white spots, and as Richard will tell you, “It was all a danged accident, but we’re in big trouble, and if lying won’t get us off, then maybe the Norphlet Mafia is gonna hafta do something really, really bad. You know, like dognapping, or something so gross it will run the Little Rock private eye right out of town.”The series are Southern Historical fiction set in 1945 during the Second World War. Previous novels of this series have been favorably compared to Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The 13 book series has garnered numerous five star Amazon reviews. The series is a nostalgic look at a time when families huddled by the radio, with young boys listening to The Lone Ranger and The Green Hornet. Later the adults would tune in famous newscaster Walter Winchell; "Good evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships at sea....this just in...General Patton's army continues to march across Germany..." The numerous Amazon Five Star Reviews have all been from adults, but the readers of these books have ranged from teens to senior adults. The series is truly a book for all ages. Several reviewers have called Richard Mason "Americas' New Mark Twain."

As a young boy, Richard Mason lived the life of the paperboy, ‘Richard, in the novel. His interactions with the people in the small town of Norphlet, Arkansas, and the surrounding woods and swamps, form the basis of his seven-book Richard, the Paperboy series. It was a time of brown, sunburned feet and shirtless summers, when a boy’s only entertainment was his imagination. This book recounts the tale of how Richard and his best friend John Clayton saved the world. PRAISE FOR RICHARD MASON'S PREVIOUS BOOKS“….The Red Scarf is a wonderful Tom Sawyer type of adventure with all the background, humor and whimsy of that notable work.” - D. Blankenship (The Ozarks, USA)“[The Red Scarf]…is absolutely amazing in its capturing a time and place that has long since passed. The ending is perfect. I would recommend it to readers of all ages. Richard Mason may well be this generation's Mark Twain.”- Edwin B Alderson“'Lyin' Like A Dog is a well written and highly entertaining story of young boys growing up in the South in the 1940s….This novel has some of the same feel as a couple of highly acclaimed novels set a hundred years before - Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.” - S.Peek (Rocky Mountains, USA)“Lyin’ Like a Dog is cheerful and mischievous little work that has an old world charm and playfulness ala the adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.” - Brian Wallace (Author)“….I particularly enjoyed their Tom Sawyer-like adventures told in the childish vernacular of the narrator, Richard Mason.”- Betty L. Dravis (Silicon Valley, CA)“….He is a poor boy from rural Arkansas in 1945, a kind of son-of-Tom-Sawyer.” - David Bryson (Derbyshire, England)

Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, the family cat becomes a predatory menace, and Scott must struggle to survive in a world that seems to be growing ever larger and more perilous--until he faces the ultimate limits of fear and existence.

Imagine for a minute; a ghostly theater, a historic gunfight, a lawless oil boom, and a cast of scoundrels. Now add thirty brothels, characters such as H. L. Hunt—who got his start in Downtown El Dorado—some racy women, and finally sprinkle it all with gobs of money as a roaring 1920s oil boom swept over this little community of 3500 and blossomed it to 40,000 in 18 months. You’ll find an “OK Corral” gunfight, mules drowning in muddy streets, and yes, most importantly, you’ll find an old 1920s theater surrounding by numerous other old buildings.—and they’re all filled with spirits! Is Downtown El Dorado, Arkansas the most haunted town in the country?

1954 book club edition, hardcover. Tight straight spine! Pages and boards in overall excellent condition - a couple spots of price sticker residue remnants on inside blank page and on top board. Otherise, near mint. Jacket intact with bright colorful artwork! Jacket has some surface markings, corner, edge creases, wear and a few minor edge tears. Jacket protected in brand new clear plastic brodart protective cover! See photos provided by Planet of Pop for images of actual book for sale!

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.By day, he is the hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn.How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?