Queen of the Martian Catacombs by Leigh Brackett - First Eric John Stark tale. Gaunt giant and passionate beauty, two dragged thirst-crazed across endless crimson sands in terrible test of endurance. One knew where cool life-giving water lapped old stones smooth - a place of secret horror, death to reveal
S.O.S. Aphrodite by Stanley Mullen - No wonder that signal stabbed out into the icy void from a ship of hate and evil. IP patrolman Steve Coran trusted only one person aboard - after strapping her in her bunk