Blood Red Shadows

About Tom:

I was born July 26, 1940 in Seymour, Texas, located in West Texas . From an early age, I was a voracious reader, this most likely due to my mother reading exciting stories to me as a baby. By age 10, I had found all of the old classics. By age 12 I had found science fiction and was fascinated by the possibilities the sci-fi writers gave a young reader. As I became a teenager, I discovered Mickey Spillane and was hooked on the tough-guy private eye. It wasn’t until the early 1960s that a friend turned me on to Edgar Rice Burroughs, and from there to Doc Savage and the many pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s. I loved to read, and eventually turned to writing.

My first fiction novel was Gryphon Double Novel #23, published by Gryphon Books (Gary Lovisi) in New York. This contained two short novels in my created series, The Masked Avenger: “Dark Streets of Doom” and “Crime’s Last Stand.” Gryphon Double Novel #23 was published in January 2001. Second would be “Jur: A Story of Pre-dawn Earth” with James Reasoner, published by Novel Books Inc. (NBI), July 3rd, 2002. My third novel is “Savage Land of Jur”, published by NBI, November 28th, 2002.

My nonfiction books include the following: “Secret Agent X: A History” with Will Murray, 1980; “From Shadow to Superman”, 1991; “The History of the Purple Wars” (as by Harrison Stievers), 1991; “The Green Ghost,” 1991; “The Black Bat”, 1990; “Dan Fowler: Ace of the G-Men”, 1997; “The Original Masked Marvel, 1996. In addition , I have been involved in several other anthologies: Mike Cook‘s “Monthly Murders” in 1982; and Mike Cook’s “Mystery, Detective, And Espionage Magazines” in 1983. I have assisted in several other anthologies without credit. The Masked Avenger, The Black Ghost, and Stuanofu are my creations, which I hope to see in anthologies some day. I have also written some short story fiction.

You can find my interview at: http://bloodredshadow.com/2009/06/09/interview-with-prolific-author-tom-johnson/

Starship Invasions costs $16.50 plus $3.59 standard shipping. Copies are also available through Amazon, Kindle, and Nook

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Barbara Custer and Tom Johnson bring their respective experiences to the printed page, blending it into tales of intergalactic adventure.

Johnson introduces us to Eddy Edwards, a UFO hunter searching for alien life. In the process he meets Stuanofu, the pilot of a flying saucer! Plus, return to the 1940s, when three young men discover that dinosaurs have found an opening to the world above. Can they be returned to Earth’s hidden pocket?

Custer’s characters live in a world where a person must have a job and health insurance; otherwise they forfeit the right to medical treatment. All of them struggle with painful pasts as they compete in cutthroat work environments. They must seek help from aliens when an exploding star threatens to incinerate the earth. These aliens challenge their world views, and the lessons come hard when they learn that sometimes humans make the worst enemies.

Alien Worlds cost $16.50 plus $8.99 shipping. Copies are also available through Amazon, Kindle, Nook, and Barnes & Noble.

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Barbara Custer and Tom Johnson team up to explore the possibilities of intergalactic adventure. The action and suspense in these stories will keep you turning the pages. Does intelligent life exist on other worlds? Some people believe that God didn’t create the vast universe just for humans. Are they gentle friendly beings, or are they monsters that prey on weaker species.

Custer explores heroic aliens bent on rescuing the human race, and evil aliens intending to destroy it. Humans will be in the crossfire! Brothers will also be at odds in their desire to save or destroy mankind.

Johnson gives us two views of the galactic frontier, with his Captain Danger, a superman of the future who keeps law and order among the spaceways, and a master thief, who operates as a future Robin Hood of the star systems.

Together, Custer & Johnson present their fantastic tales of SF in the first of several anthologies from NTD.

Cold War Heroes costs $13.50 plus $3.60 shipping and handling. Copies are also available through Amazon, Kindle,  Nook, and Barnes & Noble.

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Pulp goes Top Secret in this military comedy drama set in Europe during the height of the Cold War. A group of misfit MPs must confront spies and the black market while dealing with a boxing tournament on Post! Not since M*A*S*H* and Soldier In The Rain have we been treated to an inside look at military life with a touch of humor by a soldier who actually experienced it.

COLD WAR HEROES by Tom Johnson is loosely based on the author’s experience with the 202nd Military Police Company in France during the 1960s.

Second Edition

Three Go Back costs $12.97 plus $8.99 shipping . Copies are also available through Amazon, Kindle, Smashwords, Nook, and Barnes & Noble.

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When their teleport vehicle malfunctions, becoming a time machine, it sends three young girls back in time on a journey of discovery they never expected. From the Ice Age through the Cretaceous, Permian, Carboniferous, and finally to the beginning of the Earth’s evolution of life, they experience their world’s prehistoric past in all its splendor and terror, coming away with the joy of knowledge and adventure!

SECOND EDITION

The Spider’s Web is available through Amazon, Kindle, Nook, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

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In 1980, a treacherous Chinaman created a web of events that culminated thirty years later in a reign of terror and death. As the streets of his city run red with blood, The Black Ghost searches for the mysterious killer, who is motivated by revenge, and this time the city’s paladin may be faced by his greatest foe, the Spider! An evil mastermind, trained in the deadly mysteries of the Ninja, and a desire to kill!

PULP ECHOES presents seven new stories in the pulp tradition, both new and original characters: The Bat returns in “Blind As A Bat.” The Crimson Clown returns in “The Crimson Clown.” Killer, and Nibs Holloway battles Dr. Death in “Till Death Do Us Part.” The Black Ghost is back in “Carnival of Death,” Captain Anthony Adventure in “Terror in the North Country,” The Black Cat in “A Cat among Dogs,” and Senora Scorpion in “Senora Scorpion.”

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Continuing in a great tradition, five stories in pulp action, adventure, and thrills are included in this anthology! “The Hooded Hunter” by Max Scarlatti, “Prophet of Peril” (a Masked Avenger story) by Lamont Wentworth, a new Crimson Mask story, “The Crimson Mask’s Justice” by Frank Johnson, Doc Atlas returns in “His Master’s Voice” by Michael A. Black and Ray Lovato, and Tom Johnson’s Black Cat story, “Partners In Crime” rounds out the issue. With a great cover by Matt Lovato. If you like PULP this is the place to be!

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A young French girl disappears in the jungles of Africa in the early 1930s. A young American adventurer hears about the missing girl and goes in search of her, only to follow her through a time portal, where they end up in the Jurassic period of Earth’s prehistory.

Here they discover adventure and danger as they search for the Ancient Ones, who had built the time portals, encountering dinosaurs and other creatures that should not have existed in the Jurassic period.

They learn that the Ancient Ones were stocking this prehistoric time with animals from throughout the ages. But the old race is nowhere to be found, so the young couple must search on their own, and soon fall in love.

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Trapped in the Jurassic period of Earth‘s predawn, Ron and Odette search for the Ancient Ones and a time portal that will return them to their own time. But even as they encounter an Ancient One, more danger threatens them in the savage world of Jur.

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Tom and Ginger Johnson