Ramble House is a small American publisher founded by Fender Tucker

Fender Tucker

Fender Tucker has been a disk magazine editor and publisher, and a self-publisher of books.In 1986 he sold a couple of his home-programmed games to the Loadstar disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer, and in September 1987, applied for and got the job of Managing Editor of the magazine...

 and Jim Weiler in 1999. The press specializes in reprints of long-neglected and rare crime fiction

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 novels, modern crime fiction

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 and scholarly works by noted authors on the crime fiction

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 genre, and a host of other diverse books of a collectible or curious nature. Apart from its main publishing arm, Ramble House has two imprints: Surinam Turtle Press and Dancing Tuatara Press, headed by author Richard A. Lupoff

Richard A. Lupoff

Richard Allen Lupoff is an American science fiction and mystery author, who has also written humor, satire, non-fiction and reviews. In addition to his two dozen novels and more than 40 short stories, he has also edited science-fantasy anthologies. He is an expert on the writing of Edgar Rice...

 and John Pelan respectively.

Ramble House titles were originally handmade by Tucker in small crafted editions, but the growth in the publisher’s list together with print-on-demand technology led to the titles being available online now as trade paperback editions. Gavin L. O’Keefe

Gavin O'Keefe

-Early life:Born in Melbourne. Lived in Sydney from the early-1980s to 1990. During that period, his artwork was included in a variety of non-fiction books, science-fiction and horror magazine and other publications. His earliest covers were for books by Australian writers Jacob G...

 is the cover designer for Ramble House books, creating many original new designs for the books or adapting existing art.

The publisher began with the mission of bringing every novel written by Harry Stephen Keeler

Harry Stephen Keeler

Harry Stephen Keeler was a prolific but little-known American author.- Biography :Born in Chicago in 1890, Keeler spent his childhood exclusively in this city, which was so beloved by the author that a large number of his works took place in and around it...

 into print; these were mostly reprinted, though a number were rescued from unpublished typescripts and published for the first time. The press went on to publish new works of scholarship devoted to Harry Stephen Keeler

Harry Stephen Keeler

Harry Stephen Keeler was a prolific but little-known American author.- Biography :Born in Chicago in 1890, Keeler spent his childhood exclusively in this city, which was so beloved by the author that a large number of his works took place in and around it...

 and Edward D. Wood, Jr., as well as titles focusing on the crime fiction

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 genre authored by Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher

Anthony Boucher was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle...

, Francis M. Nevins, and Jon L. Breen. Other titles have concerned true crime (Bill Johnson’s Satan’s Den Exposed and a collection of contemporary newspaper accounts of the Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

"Jack the Ripper" is the best-known name given to an unidentified serial killer who was active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The name originated in a letter, written by someone claiming to be the murderer, that was disseminated in the...

 murders) and American historical figures (The Amorous Intrigues & Adventures of Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr

Aaron Burr, Jr. was an important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician...

and Diary and Journal of John Surratt

John Surratt

John Harrison Surratt, Jr. was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap U.S. president Abraham Lincoln and suspected of involvement in the Abraham Lincoln assassination. His mother Mary Surratt was convicted of conspiracy and hanged by the United States Federal Government...

, Conspirator).

Other authors published by Ramble House include:

Max Afford

Malcolm Afford

Malcolm "Max" Afford was an Australian playwright and novelist.-Early years:Afford was born at Parkside, Adelaide...

Marcel Allain

Marcel Allain

Marcel Allain was a French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas....

 

Norman Berrow

Wyatt Blassingame

Wyatt Rainey Blassingame

Wyatt Rainey Blassingame , a.k.a. W.B. Rainey, was the author of more than 600 short stories and articles for national magazines, four adult novels and dozens of juvenile nonfiction books. Four of his juvenille nonfiction books were written for the Landmark book series: The French Foreign Legion,...

Robert Campbell Bragg ("The N.R. De Mexico Novels")

John G. Brandon

Jon L. Breen

Gelett Burgess

Gelett Burgess

Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse...

 

Miles Burton

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...

 (aka Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories.-Biography:...

 

Phillip Condé

Harle Oren Cummins

Rex Dark

Weed Dickinson

John Douglas

Arlton Eadie

Evelyn Elder

Milward Kennedy

Milward Rodon Kennedy Burge was an English civil servant, journalist, crime writer and literary critic. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He served with British Military Intelligence in World War I and then worked for the International Labor Office and the Egyptian...

 

Bruce Elliott

Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories....

 

Adams Farr

Mort Gerberg

Mort Gerberg

Mort Gerberg is an American cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, and Publishers Weekly, among other magazines...

Richard E. Goddard

Ed Gorman

Edward Gorman

Ed Gorman is an award-winning American author best known for his crime and mystery fiction. He wrote The Poker Club which is currently in post production for a film of the same name directed by Tim McCann....

 

Russell Gray

Mark Hansom

Ronald S. L. Harding

Jim Harmon

Jim Harmon

James Judson Harmon , better known as Jim Harmon, was an American short story author and popular culture historian who wrote extensively about the Golden Age of Radio. He sometimes used the pseudonym Judson Grey, and occasionally he was labeled Mr...

 

Clare Winger Harris

Clare Winger Harris

Clare Winger Harris was an early science fiction writer whose short stories were published during the 1920s. She is credited as the first woman to publish stories under her own name in science fiction magazines...

 

David Hayes ("Muddled Mind: Complete Works of Edward D. Wood, Jr.")

Ernest G.Henham

Fox B. Holden

David Hume

J. W. Brodie-Innes 

Wallace Irwin

Wallace Irwin

Wallace Irwin was an American writer. Over the course of his long career, Irwin wrote humorous sketches, light verse, screenplays, short stories, novels, nautical lays, aphorisms, journalism, political satire, lyrics for Broadway musicals, and the libretto for an opera...

 

Day Keene

David H. Keller

David H. Keller

David H. Keller was a writer for pulp magazines in the mid-twentieth century who wrote science fiction, fantasy and horror. He was the first psychiatrist to write for the genre, and was most often published as David H...

 

Coulson Kernahan

Coulson Kernahan

Coulson Kernahan was an English novelist, born at Ilfracombe, Devon, and educated privately by his father and at St Albans School. He was associated with Frederick Locker-Lampson on a new edition of Lyra Elegantiarum, contributed to many periodicals, wrote humorous verse, and gained wide...

 

John H. Knox

Michael Kurland

Michael Kurland

Michael Joseph Kurland is an American author, best known for his works of science fiction and detective fiction....

 

Dion LeClerq

Gary Lovisi

Richard A. Lupoff

Richard A. Lupoff

Richard Allen Lupoff is an American science fiction and mystery author, who has also written humor, satire, non-fiction and reviews. In addition to his two dozen novels and more than 40 short stories, he has also edited science-fantasy anthologies. He is an expert on the writing of Edgar Rice...

 

Jack Mann (aka E. Charles Vivian

E. C. Vivian

Evelyn Charles Henry Vivian was the pseudonym of Charles Henry Cannell, a British editor and writer of fantasy and supernatural, detective novels and stories.-Biography:...

)

Virgil Markham

Walter S. Masterman

Walter S. Masterman

Walter Masterman was an English author of mystery, fantasy, horror and science fiction.-Biography:...

 

Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley was the author of hundreds of stories, fifty novels, numerous screenplays for film and television, and the creator of the character Zorro...

 

L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace

Robert Eustace

Robert Eustace was the pen name of Eustace Robert Barton , an English doctor and author of mystery and crime fiction with a theme of scientific innovation. He also wrote as Eustace Robert Rawlings. Eustace often collaborated with other writers, producing a number of works with the author L. T....

 

Sean M'Guire

Chris Mikul

Cary Moran

Jack Moskovitz

Francis M. Nevins

Douglas Newton

Richard O'Brien

Harvey O’Higgins

Nicholas Olde

Rupert Penny

Bill Pronzini

Bill Pronzini

Bill Pronzini is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories....

 & Barry N. Malzberg

Barry N. Malzberg

Barry Nathaniel Malzberg is an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and fantasy.-Overview:Initially in his post-graduate work Malzberg sought to establish himself as a playwright as well as a prose-fiction writer. His first two published novels were issed by Olympia Press...

 

E. R. Punshon

Robert J. Randisi 

James Reasoner

James Reasoner

American author James Reasoner specializes in historical military novels, westerns, and mysteries. He also writes under the pseudonyms "Mike Jameson" and "Dana Fuller Ross." He has written more than 40 novels. His spouse, Livia Washburn Reasoner, is also a prolific writer of westerns, mysteries,...

 

Mack Reynolds

Mack Reynolds

Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. His pen names included Clark Collins, Mark Mallory, Guy McCord, Dallas Ross and Maxine Reynolds. Many of his stories were published in Galaxy Magazine and Worlds of If Magazine...

 

Tod Robbins

Tod Robbins

Clarence Aaron "Tod" Robbins was an American author of horror and mystery fiction. Robbins attended Washington and Lee University and—along with Mark W...

 

Joel Townsley Rogers

Joel Townsley Rogers

Joel Townsley Rogers , American writer who wrote science fiction, air-adventure, and mystery stories and a handful of mystery novels....

 

Wayne Rogers

Sax Rohmer

Sax Rohmer

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward , better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr...

 

Robert O. Saber (aka Milton K. Ozaki)

Joseph Shallit

M. P. Shiel

M. P. Shiel

Matthew Phipps Shiel was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name....

 

Edmund Snell

Jimmy Starr

Jimmy Starr

Jimmy Starr was an American screenwriter and columnist.Starr worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood during the 1930s. From the 1940s he worked as a film writer and columnist, providing reviews and insights into the film world, and made occasional appearances in cameo roles in film...

 

John Stephen Strange

Hake Talbot

Hake Talbot

Hake Talbot was an American writer chiefly known for his impossible crime mystery novel Rim of the Pit . His real name was Henning Nelms , which he reserved for writing non-fiction about showmanship .During a poll by experts in 1981 arranged by Edward D...

 

Ralph Trevor

Dave van Arnam & Ted White

Ted White (author)

Ted White is a Hugo Award-winning American writer, known as a science fiction author and editor and fan, as well as a music critic...

 

George Sylvester Viereck

George Sylvester Viereck

George Sylvester Viereck was a German-American poet, writer, and propagandist.-Biography:...

 

Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells

Carolyn Wells was an American author and poet. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, she was the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942....

 

H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...

 

Edward Lucas White

Edward Lucas White

Edward Lucas White was an American author and poet. Born in Bergen, New Jersey, he attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in which city he did most of his work...

 

Ennis Willie

Cecil M. Wills

Herbert Emerson Wilson

Jack Woodford

Jack Woodford

Jack Woodford was a successful pulp novelist and non-fiction author of the 1930s and 1940s. He wrote unique books on writing and getting published...

 

Cornell Woolrich

Cornell Woolrich

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley....

 

Ernest Vincent Wright

Ernest Vincent Wright

Ernest Vincent Wright was an American author known for his book Gadsby, a 50,000 word novel which, except for the introduction and a note at the end, did not use the letter "e".-Biography:...

 ("Gadsby

Gadsby (novel)

Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E" is a 1939 novel by Ernest Vincent Wright. The plot revolves around the dying fictional city of Branton Hills, which is revitalized thanks to the efforts of protagonist John Gadsby and a youth group he organizes.The novel is written...

")

Wade Wright

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

-Biography:She was born in Berkeley, California. She attended Berkeley schools through high school followed by three years at San Francisco State College .In November 1969 she married Donald Simpson and divorced in February 1982...