Join Our Gang? is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Sterling E. Lanier is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Sterling E. Lanier then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

The remarkable Brigadier Ffellowes, whose exploits are legend, has returned, and along with him comes a sense of wonder that is increasingly difficult to find in contemporary fantasy.Ffellowes of course is the retired British general who is a link between our bustling twentieth century and a world that is full of the bizarre and fantastic.The Curious Quests of Brigadier Ffellowes is a collection of six episodes gathered here for the first time, in hardcover form. Among them are tales of Arthurian legend, Roman remains, and Atlantean survivals.

Seven Against the Unknown For centuries the human outcasts of Mars lived wild, independent lives in the Martian outback called the Ruck. But then the mysterious men of the "New Clan" came to preach total rebellion against the Mother Planet—and that Earth's U.N. Command could not allow. So it sent a team of its best officers to learn the secrets of the "New Clan." Unfortunately, to do the job right, the Terrans would have to cooperate with their worst enemies—the Ruckers!

Who is Brigadier Ffellowes? To quote one of his listeners at the club, "He seemed to have served in every branch of Her Majesty's forces at one time or another, including all knows forms of Intelligence." The Brigadier himself will admit only to an artillery commission, yet none of his stories has anything to do with artillery. They are however, about the unnatural, about strange gods forgotten by recent civilizations, about drums beating under the tropical moon, weird cries, and eldritch howls and rites that civilized men thought had died with the building of the pyramids. Ffellowes is a catalyst, a focal point of dark forces, a man to whom things happen. Wherever he goes, on vacation or on routine business, he enters a world most people never see, except in their darkest dreams. Monsters pursue him, humans lay traps for him, supernatural beasts seek his destruction while the kindly, urbane, bluff soldier threads his way through a labyrinth of hideous perils like a tightrope walker, his iron nerve and years of experience his only defense against the powers and beings that prowl the lost fringes of the world. Sometimes the menace is physical, but sometimes the soul itself is in danger. For Ffellowes has tackled powers beyond any physical law, powers whose aim is to obliterate the human spirit. Those to whom the retired soldier tells his stories often start by trying to scoff. But, as the tale continues, the room silences, save for the tense breathing of men who cannot believe what they are hearing, and who cannot stop listening either, until the soft voice stops. Then, slowly, the real, everyday world comes back into focus. Listen to Ffellowes and see how well you sleep afterward.

The long-awaited sequel to “Hiero’s Journey” reveals new and even more fascinating wonders about the world of the far future when the unclean seek to destroy man and civilization.

This volume includes all 7 short Science Fiction and Fantasy stories written and published by Sterling E. Lanier during his career. The primary source of the bibliography is the information provided from http://www.isfdb.org/  All stories are proofed to the original published version, most commonly scans from the pulp magazines. 

Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath—and a highly trained killer. Together with his great riding moose and the young bear who was his friend, he was on an extraordinary mission. For this was five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death. Now the evil Brotherhood of the Unclean was waging all-out war against the few remnants of normal humanity, determined to wipe out all traces of its emerging civilization. Hiero’s task was to bring back a lost secret of the ancients that might save the humans. But his path lay through the very heart of the territory ruled by the Unclean and their hordes of mutated, intelligent, savage beast followers. And the Unclean were waiting for him!