A biography of Doc Savage, the golden giant who fought his way valiantly through 181 adventures in his fight against crime.

Clark Savage, Jr, was raised from birth to become the perfect human specimen. Almost from birth, a team of scientists assembled by his father trained his mind and body to near-superhuman abilities, giving him great strength and endurance, a photographic memory, a mastery of the martial arts, and vast knowledge of the sciences. The result: Doctor Clark Savage, Jr. - physician, surgeon, scientist, adventurer, inventor, explorer and researcher - best known to the world as , the man of Bronze. Doc Savage. Philip José Farmer, biographer of Lord Greystoke (better known to the world as Tarzan), has turned his superb research and narrative skills to one of the most famous heroes of our time.

In his classic biographies of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life), Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author Philip Jose Farmer introduced the Wold Newton family, a collection of heroes and villains whose family-tree includes Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu, Philip Marlowe, and James Bond. In books, stories, and essays he expanded the concept even further, adding more branches to the Wold Newton family-tree. MYTHS FOR THE MODERN AGE: PHILIP JOSE FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE collects for the first time those rarely-seen essays. Expanding the family even farther are contributions from Farmer's successors-scholars, writers, and pop-culture historians-who bring even more fictional characters into the fold.

A collection of Wold Newton-inspired short stories by Farmerphiles, experts, and the Grand Master of SF himself.A real meteorite fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, and was found to be radioactive, causing genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good, or, as the case may be, evil deeds.

Venture into the treacherous Canadian wilderness alongside the legendary Doc Savage and his captivating cousin Pat Savage, as they embark on a perilous quest. In the wake of their uncle Alex's tragic demise, they are determined to unearth the truth behind his murder. Their path intertwines with a cryptic ivory cube, a haunting werewolf symbol that signifies impending doom, and the elusive treasure of the notorious pirate Henry Morgan. As the stakes rise, Doc Savage's ingenuity and Pat Savage's unwavering spirit combine in a high-stakes adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

Patricia Wildman, the daughter of the world-renowned adventurer and crimefighter of the 1930s and 40s, Dr. James Clarke Doc Wildman, is all alone in the world when she inherits the family estate in Derbyshire, England in true Gothic tradition, old, dark, and supposedly haunted. But is the ghost real, or a clever sham perpetrated by others to scare her off? As Patricia contends with the questionable motives of her distant relatives, attempts to discern friend from foe, and battles to overcome mysterious attackers, she struggles to reconcile the supernatural with her rational scientific upbringing, while also attempting to work through unresolved feelings about her late parents. Set at Pemberley from Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice and deeply ingrained in worlds of Sherlock Holmes and Lord Greystoke as well as the bronze champion of justice, Doc Wildman The Evil in Pemberley House is a darkly erotic novel with broad appeal to readers of pulp and popular literature, and fans of Philip Jose Farmer s own celebrated Wold Newton Family."

WHERE HIS STORY ENDED... HER STORY BEGINS! Everyoneknows the story of how ADVENTUREMAN, the greatest pulp hero of ended in aheartbreaking CLIFFHANGER with our hero facing execution an the eve of theMACABRAPOCALYPSE... now learn the startling truth about how, eighty years afterhis seeming demise, single mother Claire and her Adventurefan son Tommy seem tospark his RESURRECTION! Can these inheritors of the Adventureman legacy rise upto face down the evil that bested the original?