Show All Tags

Action/Adventure Stories

Displaying stories 171 through 180 of 222

171 The Pit of the Serpent by Robert E. Howard

A Sailor Steve Costigan Story
Steve gets into a fight over a girl. What else? First published in the magazine 'Fight Stories' July 1929. In the public domain.
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Humor, Pulp Classic
Downloads: 720 Votes: 36 | Score: 7.25
Size: 33KB | 6,571 words | Posted:

172 The Ephalon by JOHNNY SACHU

A disabled craft on an uninhabited planatoid leads to an uncertainfuture for one pilot.
Premier members only
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 2397 Votes: 190 | Score: 7.25
Size: 23KB | 4,399 words | Posted:

173 Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

How He Was Kidnapped and Cast Away; His Sufferings in a Desert Isle; His Journey in the Wild Highlands; His Acquaintance With Alan Breck Stewart and Other Notorious Highland Jacobites; With All That He Suffered at the Hands of His Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, Falsely So Called.
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 901 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 401KB | 80,821 words | Posted:

174 The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan

Adventurer Richard Hannay, just returned from South Africa, is thoroughly bored with London life-until he is accosted by a mysterious American, who warns him of an assassination plot that could completely destabalise the fragile political balance of Europe. Initially sceptical, Hannay nonetheless harbours the man-but one dayreturns home to find him murdered...
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1421 Votes: 22 | Score: 7.22
Size: 208KB | 41,264 words | Posted:

175 Greenmantle by John Buchan

November 1915. Richard Hannay is tasked to undertake a top secret mission to investigate a plot to create a holy war throughout the Muslim world and draw troops and resources from the Western Front.
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Novel-Classic
Downloads: 938 Votes: 11 | Score: 7.22
Size: 505KB | 99,525 words | Posted:

176 Free Rein by GT Dodge

A knight astride a horse with a grudge. Whatever you do, do not give him his head! What Free Rein really means. See Sister story Free Reign for the alternative.
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Coming of Age, Violence, War, Knights
Downloads: 466 Votes: 26 | Score: 7.14
Size: 4KB | 828 words | Posted:

177 Affair in Araby by Talbot Mundy

Jimgrim is an American secret service agent employed by the British and stationed in Jerusalem. With him are his faithful friends, all eager for a fight of any kind. The ambitions of the French in Syria arouse the enmity of King Feisal of the Arabs. The Allies promised him the kingship of Syria, Palestine and Trans-Jordania. This promise they have not kept,and the French are out to kill the Arab chieftain. Feisal orders his Arab adherents, of a massacre of the Jews in Jerusalem.
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Secret Agents, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 714 Votes: * | Score: *
Size: 273KB | 52,457 words | Posted:

178 A Tale of Barsoom by JOHNNY SACHU

On the Mars of Edgar Rice Burroughs, we find life there can be quite harsh in seveal ways.
Premier members only
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 17 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Science Fiction
Downloads: 1103 Votes: 46 | Score: 7.11
Size: 28KB | 5,250 words | Posted:

179 Winner Take All by Robert E. Howard

A Sailor Steve Costigan Story
Steve has to make some quick money so he can get in on a sure-fire investment that will make him rich. First appeared in Fight Stories, July 1930. In the public domain.
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Humor, Pulp Classic
Downloads: 740 Votes: 41 | Score: 7.10
Size: 30KB | 5,887 words | Posted:

180 Blow the Chinks Down! by Robert E. Howard

A Sailor Steve Costigan Story
Steve and a rival pursue the same girl. Mayhem ensues. First appeared in 'Action Stories' October 1931. In the public domain.
[More Info]

Age Rating: Older than 13 | Genre: Action/Adventure
Tags: Humor, Pulp Classic
Downloads: 967 Votes: 65 | Score: 7.06
Size: 41KB | 8,020 words | Posted:
* Not enough votes to show score yet