Ben Tucker

Fantastics and Other Fancies

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Lafcadio Hearn



This posthumous collection of short stories by noted author and historian of weird folklore brings together 36 of his earliest works, many o…

Studies of Death

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Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock



Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock was an eccentric character to say the least. Maintaining a veritable zoo on his estate populated with the lik…

The Thing in the Woods

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Margery Williams



Dr. Haverill is asked to fill in as local physician for the skittish Dr. Lennox in a small Pennsylvania town. The locals seem to be a supers…

Weird Crimes

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Seabury Quinn



Seabury Quinn presents in a series of articles within the pages of Weird Tales magazine various macabre and strange crimes perpetrated throu…

Tales of War

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Lord Dunsany



Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at …

Pillar of Fire

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Ray Bradbury



"We cannot tell you what kind of a story this is. We simply cannot present it as we present other stories. It is too tremendous for tha…

Ten Minute Stories

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Algernon Blackwood



Noted author of weird fiction Algernon Blackwood brings us a collection of shorter stories than some of his more well-known tales of terror.…

The Gargoyle

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Greye La Spina



Springing forth from the pages of Weird Tales comes celebrated author Greye La Spina's exciting tale of black magic and the occult! When pai…

Strange Roads & With the Gods in Spring

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Arthur Machen and Vincent Starrett



The centerpieces of this collection are two essays by Arthur Machen, Strange Roads and With the Gods in Spring. Both use images of journeys …

The Vampire Nemesis and Other Weird Tales of the China Coast

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Dolly



This unjustly forgotten classic collection of grisly horror stories from pseudonymous author Dolly brings us four tantalizing and terrible t…

The House of Dust

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L. A. Borah



The old Lamont House sits still out in the Louisiana swamp, covered in dust and seemingly untouched since that terrible murder that occurred…

Some Chinese Ghosts

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Lafcadio Hearn



Noted writer of Asian folklore Lafcadio Hearn brings us a volume of mysterious and magical folk stories from the country of China. - Summary…

Weird Tales Presents: The Strange World of Harry Houdini

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Various



In 1924, the odd and wonderful Weird Tales Magazine published a series of stories written (or ghost-written in at least one instance) by not…

Moon-Face and Other Stories

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Jack London



Well-known and well-regarded author Jack London, known for adventurous stories of the outdoors such as Call of the Wild and White Fang shows…

Little Stories

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Silas Weir Mitchell



Physician and author S. Weir Mitchell brings us a short collection of stories of the human condition. Through diverse settings as the mystic…

New Bodies for Old

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Maurice Renard



Maurice Renard's little known but delightfully bizarre tale of mad science run amok owes much to H. G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau while…

Ebenezer's Casket

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John Ulrich Giesy and Junius B. Smith



Ebenezer Clay isn't sick. He isn't suicidal. Despite that, he is absolutely sure that he will die tonight at 11:01 pm. The trouble is that n…

Stories of the Rhine

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Émile Erckmann



Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian, more widely known by their joint nom de plume Erckmann-Chatrian, were in their time more recog…

The Woman of the Wood

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Abraham Merritt



Here is a story utterly different from any you have ever read before—a tale of a forest of trees in actual warfare against their human foes—…

The Chain of Destiny

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Bram Stoker



Frank Stanford, strapping young man, heads out to the countryside to visit his old friends Mr. and Mrs. Trevor as the Scarp estate. What beg…

Hauntings

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Vernon Lee



"Hence, my four little tales are of no genuine ghosts in the scientific sense; they tell of no hauntings such as could be contributed b…

The Metal Giants

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Edmond Hamilton



Huge metal monsters spread terror throughout the land... the tale of a Frankenstein that turned on its creator! - Summary by Weird Tales Mag…

The Red Laugh

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Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev



The reader is immersed in the Hellish madness of war through the eyes of a tired soldier losing his grip on reality, scarred physically and …

The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces

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Nathaniel Hawthorne



This post-humous collection of stories, sketches and essays by celebrated quintessential New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne gives us gli…

The Listener and Other Stories

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Algernon Blackwood



Algernon Blackwood, noted maestro of weird fiction, in his second collection of stories gives us some of his best and most well-known tales …

The Last Drive

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Rex Stout



From celebrated crime author Rex Stout, creator of the long-running Nero Wolfe detective stories, comes this early mystery, that served as …

The Swine-Gods and Other Visions

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Regina Miriam Bloch



Regina Miriam Bloch is a somewhat enigmatic figure in the world of Weird Fiction, having written only two slim volumes (The Swine-Gods and O…

The Moon Men

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Edgar Rice Burroughs



The second book in the Moon Maid trilogy, this novel details the exploits of a descendant of the protagonist of the first novel as he leads …

A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories

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M. R. James



From a master of weird fiction comes this collection of ghost stories rooted in the antiquarian pursuits. A doll's house that reveals more t…

Whispering Tunnels

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Stephen Bagby



A novelette of Verdun, the World War and Devil-Worship! - Summary by Weird Tales Magazine

The Red One

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Jack London



Famous American author Jack London brings us four more tales of adventure. "The Red One" is the story of an explorer who tangles …

Servants of Satan

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Seabury Quinn



Noted weird fiction author Seabury Quinn brings to life true tales of witch trial persecution within the pages of Weird Tales magazine! - Su…

Tales of Mystery and Horror

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Maurice Level



Maurice Level was a French writer of supremely twisted and macabre fiction with demented plotting and gruesome violence reminiscent of Edgar…

The Scarecrow and Other Stories

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G. Ranger Wormser



G. Ranger Wormser was a forgotten master of horror fiction, specializing in a kind of creeping dread and subtle psychological horror that wo…

The Creatures That Time Forgot

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Ray Bradbury



Mad, impossible world! Sun-blasted by day, cold-wracked by night—and life condensed by radiation into eight days! Sim eyed the Ship—if he on…

Scream at Midnight

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Joseph Payne Brennan



Thrill to a collection of terrifying stories from famed pulp horror writer Joseph Payne Brennan, author of "Slime", the story that…

The Shrine of Death and Other Stories

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Emilia Francis, Lady Dilke



Lady Emilia Dilke was a renowned author, art historian and women's activist whose supernatural weird tales often had a haunting dreamlike qu…

Big Sur

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Jack Kerouac



This classic of the beatnik era from famous bohemian traveller Jack Kerouac focuses on Jack Dulouz, a thinly veiled Kerouac surrogate, and h…

David Poindexter's Disappearance and Other Tales

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Julian Hawthorne



Julian Hawthorne, son of famed author Nathaniel Hawthorne, brings together a collection of stories of tragedy, lost love and occasionally of…

The Canal, and Leonora

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Everil Worrell



Everil Worrell was one of the few female writers of weird fiction in the early days of Weird Tales magazine and 1927 marked a seminal year f…

Prince Zaleski

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Matthew Phipps Shiel and M. P. Shiel



Weird fiction author M. P. Shiel brings us a most unusual detective in Prince Zaleski in his first published book. Ensconced within his orn…

The Devil-Ray

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Joel Martin Nichols, Jr.



George Ferris is a master thief with amnesia. He and his two partners in crime concoct a plan to break into the famed Castle Blennerhof in a…

Fables

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Robert Louis Stevenson



Master storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped) brings us an entrancing and at times quite…

Bratton's Idea

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Manly Wade Wellman



Bratton, a humble old janitor at a Hollywood film studio, has a secret passion... Mad Science! He has made it his life's ambition to create …

The Haunted Island

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Edward Harold Visiak



Being the History of an Adventure to an Island in the Remote South Sea. Of a Wizard there. Of his Pirate Gang; His Treasure ; His Combustibl…

The Fantasy Fan Magazine Presents: Writings of Clark Ashton Smith

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Clark Ashton Smith



Collected here are all of Clark Aston Smith's writings he submitted to The Fantasy Fan Magazine. The Fantasy Fan Magazine was a periodical d…

The Unholy Three

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Tod Robbins



Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up and put your eyes on the most bizarre crime spree you will ever bear witness to! See the broad-shouldere…

Lukundoo and Other Stories

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Edward Lucas White



Edward Lucas White was a well-regarded author of weird fiction, admired by the likes of H. P. Lovecraft. The title story of this collection…

The Man with a Thousand Legs

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Frank Belknap Long



Ripped from the pages of legendary magazine Weird Tales comes this epistolary novelette of unspeakable, oozing horror! In this bizarre tale …

The Tarzan Twins

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Edgar Rice Burroughs



Dick and Doc aren't actual twins. They're technically cousins, being the sons of twin sisters. But having been born on the same day and look…

The Human Drift

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Jack London



The Human Drift is a posthumous collection of famous author Jack London's miscellaneous writings, including multiple essays of one of his fa…

The Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories

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Algernon Blackwood



Renowned author of weird fiction Algernon Blackwood, in collaboration with unknown author Wilfred Wilson, brings us a magical, sinster and e…

The Whistling Monsters

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Bruce Wallis



Frightful beasts that were neither flesh nor fish, neither bird nor reptile, but combined the hideous qualities of all four! - Summary by We…

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

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Dorothy Scarborough



Scholar of the macabre Dorothy Scarborough provides us with the first comprehensive overview of supernatural fiction in literary history, a …

Conjure Wife

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Fritz Leiber



Norman Saylor is a logical, practical fellow with a bright future at the college he teaches at and a loving wife who supports him in every w…

The Little Room and Other Stories

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Madeline Wynne



Woman of Weird Fiction Madeline Yale Wynne took to writing later in life but produced some truly unique and strange pieces of literature suc…

Knock Three-One-Two

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Fredric Brown



A serial killer is on the loose and is thirsting for another kill. Meanwhile sad sack loser Ray Fleck, compulsive gambler, has racked up a …

The Call from Beyond

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Clifford D. Simak



Alone, accursed, he set out on the long, dark voyage to the forbidden gateway to worlds beyond life itself—restless forever with an ultimate…

At the Mountains of Madness

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H. P. Lovecraft



In the most cold and remote region of the planet lies mountains towering higher than the Himalayas and containing abominable secrets the min…

Something About Eve: A Comedy of Fig-leaves

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James Branch Cabell



Would-be author of romance Gerald Musgrave, southern gentleman and member of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America…

Three Midnight Stories

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Alexander W. Drake



Alexander W. Drake was a well-regarded illustrator and engraver, spending much of his career at the vaunted Scribner's Monthly magazine (whi…

The Face in the Abyss

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Abraham Merritt



Our narrator tells us of the time he met Nicholas Graydon in a small village in the Peruvian uplands of the Andean mountains, feverish and a…

The Smoking Leg and Other Stories

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John Metcalfe



Celebrated science fiction author Brian Stableford has praised John Metcalfe's stories saying they "build up a unique sense of unease&q…

Weird Tales Double Feature: The Shadows & The Projection of Armand Dubois

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Henry S. Whitehead



Gather 'round for a pair of West Indies folk horror stories ripped from the pages of Weird Tales Magazine brought to you by master of the we…

The Flight of the Shadow

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Laura M. Dake



The original printing of The Flight of the Shadow is a highly sought novel among collectors and tells the tale of an Astral soul who tells a…

Corpus Earthling

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Louis Charbonneau



Paul Cameron is an English literature teacher at a local college and seems to be living a relatively content but somewhat lonely life in his…

The Snarl of the Beast

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Carroll John Daly



Carroll John Daly, enormously popular in his day but has since faded into obscurity, is often credited with penning the first hard-boiled cr…

The Mantle and Other Stories

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol



Celebrated Ukranian-born author Nikolai Gogol brings us this collection of masterfully grotesque and fantastical stories. These tales are fi…

The Grim Thirteen

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Various



"We began to call a roll of American story-tellers, and as name after name was mentioned, the question arose in our minds as to whether…

Weird Tales Double Feature: The Skull and The Bodymaster

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Harold Ward



Horror author Harold Ward is perhaps most well-known for his Doctor Death series of stories published in the 1930s. Before that, Ward relea…

Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu



Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu...was in his own particular vein one of the best story-tellers of the nineteenth century; and the present volume con…

The Enormous Room

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H. L. Gold



When an ethnically diverse group of people are suddenly transported from a rollercoaster in an amusement park to a stark and alien room peop…

The Horror Expert

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Frank Belknap Long



"She'll insert the knife so delicately that the man won't feel any pain at all. Just a warm gratefulness, an intoxicating sort of happi…

Night Fears and Other Stories

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L. P. Hartley



When one thinks of fear, terrors in the night creeping upon you may come to mind. L. P. Hartley does feature some of these kinds of fears. I…

Before Egypt

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Robert Bloch



It was Mallison's strangest assignment. The weird little professor wanted to go to Egypt. That meant a trip back to Earth so far as Mallison…

Weird Tales Double Feature: Kull of Valusia

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Robert E. Howard



Before Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard created Kull the Conqueror, revealed later by Howard to be an ancestor of Conan. Kull, like Co…

Clean Break

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Lionel White



Johnny Clay has a masterful plan to rob a racetrack on the busiest day of the year. To pull it off, he will recruit not hardened profession…

Through the Gates of the Silver Key

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H. P. Lovecraft



"Through the Gates of the Silver Key," published complete in this issue, is an utterly amazing novelette. It is much more than a m…

Dream Tales and Prose Poems

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Ivan Turgenev



World-renowned Russian author Ivan Turgenev brings us a collection of stories that traffic in the world of dreams, stories of lost love, of …

Destiny Times Three

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Fritz Leiber



Thorn and Clawly seek to present to the World Executive Committee some most disturbing findings, findings that indicate that we may not be a…

Nothing More Than Murder

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Jim Thompson



Joe Wilmot is a big fish in a small pond, running the premiere movie house in town with a wife who hates him and a housemaid who wants to ge…

The Great Return

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Arthur Machen



The small Welsh town of Llantrisant has experienced something unusual... Something wonderful... Something even miraculous. It only lasted a …

The Souls of the Streets and Other Little Papers

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Arthur Ransome



Acclaimed British author Arthur Ransome presents us with a small collection of charming and wistful sketches on the character of the street,…

Twelve Times Zero

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Howard Carleton Browne



It was a love-triangle murder that made today's headlines but the answer lay hundreds of thousands of light years away! - Summary by If: Wor…

The Cinema of Orson Welles

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Peter Bogdanovich



Acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) was, early in his career, a film critic. It was during this time t…

Nightmare

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Cornell Woolrich



Dark crime fiction author Cornell Woolrich (real name George Hopley) brings us this show-stopping collection of grim and twisted stories of …

Weird Tales Double Feature: The Death Pit & In Kashla's Garden

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Oscar Schisgall



Incredibly prolific author Oscar Schisgall, who contributed over 4,000 stories to publications like Reader's Digest and Colliers, published …

Incredible Adventures

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Algernon Blackwood



"In the volume titled Incredible Adventures occur some of the finest tales which the author has yet produced, leading the fancy to wild…

The Fixed Flight

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Maurice Renard



M. Maurice Renard is a modern French author with a wide reputation won by his imaginative scientific romances. This story of a thrilling adv…

Bullet Proof

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Frank Kane



Johnny Liddell, the fast-moving New York private eye, is hired to investigate a murder which everyone but the client calls a suicide. The cl…

Nightmare Tales

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky



Madame Blavatsky is perhaps most well known as a scholar of Theosophy and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. Her studies of religion, m…

Sinister House

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Leland Hall



What is it about that old house down the road that bothers Pierre and his wife Annette so much? The owners, Eric and Julia, seem like nice p…

Blood on My Jets

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Algis Budrys



They were the hired gun-rabble of the System, engaged in the dirtiest, most thankless racket in all the worlds. But Ash Holcomb was doing al…

The Door with Seven Locks

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Edgar Wallace



Dick Martin is on his last day on the job at Scotland Yard, having planned to retire early due to an inheritance windfall, when he becomes e…

The Monster and Other Stories

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Stephen Crane



From the celebrated author of the Red Badge of Courage comes this final collection of stories released in Crane's lifetime. These stories of…

Thieves Like Us

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Edward Anderson



Thieves Like Us (later re-released as Your Red Wagon) is the thrilling Depression-era tale of Bowie Bowers, a young convict who has escaped …

Revolt of the Birds

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Melville Davisson Post



As the butterfly is drawn by instinct over thousands of miles to its mate, so the man Hudson is drawn to a deadly island of terrors to the w…

The Cosmic Junkman

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Rog Phillips



After the war, Earth stored away its robot armies or sold them for scrap—because fighting machines were dangerous. But more deadly was— THE …

The House of Skulls

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H. Bedford-Jones



A slick car and scenic and bountiful ranch to be had for a steal and Yorke Desmond wonders only briefly what the catch is. The man who sold…

December Tales

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William Harrison Ainsworth



December is a time of winding down and of nature resetting itself. In this volume of so-titled December Tales, we listen to stories of human…

Beyond Bedlam

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Wyman Guin



However fantastic it may seem, the society so elaborately described in this story has its seeds in ours. Just check the data.... - Summary b…

The Early Misadventures of Toffee

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Henry Farrell



Included in this collection are the first two stories featuring that wonderfully wacky dream girl temptress Toffee! Stories include:"I…

Over My Dead Body

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Rex Stout



It all began one day when two beautiful "females" as Archie called them, arrived in Nero Wolfe's. office with a problem Wolfe didn…

They Return at Evening

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H. Russell Wakefield



The Author of The Ghost Stories of an Antiquary in the preface to one of his books expressed his lively distaste for benevolent ghosts, and …

When the World Screamed

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



A new Professor Challenger Story! When Mr. Peerless Jones, artesian borer, is contact by the great but eccentric Professor Challenger with …

Deliver Me from Eva

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Paul Bailey



When a frequently published writer of historical novels lays a masterpiece of uninhibited, spine-chilling horror on a publisher's desk, the …

The Space-Eaters

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Frank Belknap Long



"A tremendous menace closed in upon the earth from outside the solar system—a powerful story of uncanny horror."Frank Belknap Long…

The Perfect Frame

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William Ard



T.N.T. packed in satin!Lorena Dahl had her fingers on the straps of the halter and Dane knew she was going to rip them away. "Cut it o…

The Shining Pyramid: The Definitive Edition

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Arthur Machen



For the first time ever, the complete contents of both the 1923 and 1925 editions of The Shining Pyramid are brought together in a single co…

The Syndic

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C. M. Kornbluth



There have been a thousand tales of future Utopias and possible civilizations. They have been ruled by benevolent dictatorships and pure dem…

Weird Tales Presents: Dark Stories of Stark, Unreasoning Terror

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Robert E. Howard



Grandmaster of weird fiction Robert E. Howard is perhaps most well-known as the forefather of dark fantasy via creations like Conan the Barb…

Ye of Little Faith

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Rog Phillips



It matters not whether you believe or disbelieve. Reality is not always based on logic; nor, particularly, are the laws of the universe.... …

A Fiend in Need

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Milton K. Ozaki



There were no tell-tale traces of blood, no traces of struggle, no clues that Lieutenant Phelan could put his fingers on-yet someone had plu…

Seven Footprints to Satan

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Abraham Merritt



One wrong step and you owe Satan a service. Two wrong steps and you are his slave for a year. Three wrong steps and your are HIS, body and s…

Yesterday's Doors

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Arthur J. Burks



Did you ever find yourself with amnesia, no clue as to who you are or what the secrets of your past holds, confronted by cops trying to beat…

The Son of the Wolf

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Jack London



The Son of the Wolf is Jack London's first published collection of stories and features tales chronicling the harsh realities of living in t…

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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H. P. Lovecraft



Unspeakable monstrousness overhung the crumbling, stench-cursed town of Innsmouth... and folks there had somehow got out of the idea of dyin…

Toffee Takes A Trip

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Henry Farrell



Marc Pillsworth decided he needed a vacation—so he went on a trip. But where Marc went, Toffee followed—with trouble. - Summary by Fantastic…

To Kiss or Kill

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Day Keene



It was big Barney's luck to marry a girl from the social register. He knew the kind of luck when he found himself in a ring where a double c…

The Feasting Dead

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John Metcalfe



Colonel Hapgood, our narrator, has been sending his son Denis to a chateau of a distant relative in the French countryside where the boy has…

Exploration Team

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Murray Leinster



"If you took a spitting cobra and crossed it with a wildcat, painted it tan-and-blue and then gave it hydrophobia and homicidal mania a…

Drug Themes in Science Fiction

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Robert Silverberg



Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is preci…

Killing Time

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Donald E. Westlake



From Donald Westlake, author of the hard-biting Parker novels (as Richard Stark), comes the story of Tim Smith, the local private eye of a s…

The Diamond Lens with Other Stories

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Fitz-James O'Brien



Irish-born author Fitz-James O'Brien is a underrated genius of weird fiction, serving as the missing link between Edgar Allan Poe and later …

The Red Hawk

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Edgar Rice Burroughs



This third book in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Moon Sequence (preceded by The Moon Maid and The Moon Men) finds Julian 20th, The Red Hawk, leading…

The House of Moonlight

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August Derleth



As a boy living in Sac Prairie, Wisconsin, with his grandfather Jasper, Steve goes to visit up-and-coming pianist Joel Merrihew and his moth…

Ivan Brodsky, The Surgeon of Souls

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Victor Rousseau



Dr. Ivan Brodsky more than merely a traditional doctor. Rather than trafficking in the healing of human ailments by means of conventional me…

The Vanisher

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Michael Shaara



He was expendable, this Web Hilton, this young officer with the strange heritage. And so it was that he was ordered out into space where he …

Killers Are My Meat

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Stephen Marlowe



Private Eye Chester Drum is thrust into a dark web of intrigue when he witnesses fellow detective Gil Sprayregan run down by a speeding car.…

Fearful Rock

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Manly Wade Wellman



A tale of the War between the States, and dark, evil powers! - Summary by Weird Tales February 1939

The Soul Stealers

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Chester S. Geier



Wraithlike, they came out of the darkness—deadmen who walked among the living. What grim secret layin their sightless eyes—a warning to all …

Biddy and the Silver Man

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Harlan Ellison



A man came out of the sky and they took him and hanged him from the nearest tree thinking that they lynched a devil. But perhaps they crucif…

Murder Mistress

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Robert Colby



Scott Daniels is a washed up showbiz announcer who hit the bottle a few too many times and blew his big chance. But he starts to think his l…

The Dark Chamber

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Leonard Cline



"...this is an absolutely magnificent work of art! Poetry — song — & the ultimate quintessence of atmospheric morbidity & horro…

Rain Magic

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Erle Stanley Gardner



From the deck of a ship the sea snatched him and hurled him into a weird adventure and romance such as few men experience! - Summary by Argo…

The Early Adventures of Don Everhard

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Gordon Young



Before Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op and before Carroll John Daly's Race Williams, there was Don Everhard, hard-boiled professional gamb…

The Weird Fiction of Fantasy Fan Magazine

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Various



The Fantasy Fan was a fanzine edited by Charles D. Hornig that featured exclusive works by many seminal figures from the golden period of we…

The Time Dissolver

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Jerry Sohl



WAS IT MENTAL SUICIDE...OR MENTAL MURDER? He awoke one morning in a strange motel beside a beautiful woman he'd never seen before. The cloth…

The Mystery of Black Rock Creek

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Jerome K. Jerome



A mysterious dying man! A hidden diamond! Conspiracy to murder! Ghostly visitations! All this in more in this intriguing and unique story wr…

Jazz

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R. P. Jones



Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” em…

The Hairy Ones Shall Dance

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Manly Wade Wellman



"A novel of a hideous, stark horror that struck during a spirit seance — a tale of terror and sudden death, and the frightful thing tha…

Cue for Quiet

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Thomas L. Sherred



After too many years, T. L. Sherred returns with a story that gets our SPACE SPECIAL rating. It's the story of a man with a headache—who fou…

Case Pending

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Elizabeth Linington



A girl found dead in an empty lot, beaten with an eye gouged out... Lieutenant Mendoza feels like there must be a connection between this vi…

The Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica

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William Butler Yeats



Celebrated poet and author William Butler Yeats has graced us, in The Secret Rose, with a hauntingly beautiful collection of mystical storie…

Bring the Jubilee

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Ward Moore



Hodgins "Hodge" Backmaker, a bumbling but curious and fiercely intelligent bookworm who has never felt at home with his family, le…

Grave Danger

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Frank Kane



Johnny Liddell cleans up the crime-ridden New York water front by making a dope charge stick against the head of the "organization"…

An Essay Upon Wind, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peuters

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Charles James Fox



Purported to be written by noted British Parliamentarian Charles James Fox as a result of a wager, this important and engaging essay is a me…

Pan's Garden, a Volume of Nature Stories

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Algernon Blackwood



Titan of Weird Fiction Algernon Blackwood brings to us a captivating collection of stories that shows the power and glory of Nature and the …

The Black Drama

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Manly Wade Wellman



A strange weird story about the eery personality known as Varduk, who claimed descent from Lord Byron, and the hideous doom that stalked in …

Scanners Live In Vain

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Cordwainer Smith



This story deals with science-fiction's oldest subject—space-travel. Yet the author's treatment of the subject is so completely different th…

333: A Bibliography of the Science-Fantasy Novel

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Joseph H. Crawford, Jr.



"333" is concerned with those novels which are generally considered the best efforts in Science-Fantasy up to and including 1950. …

Sin In Their Blood

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Ed Lacy



He Never Looked for Trouble - It Came to Him Naturally! MATT ISN'T LOOKING FOR TROUBLE in spite of his reputation as the toughest private ey…

The Place Called Dagon

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Herbert Gorman



A strange romantic tale of a cult of evil descended from early witchcraft days. Mirroring an unusual element of New England society, it tell…

Shadow Forms: A Collection of Occult Stories

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Manly P. Hall



This collection of strange and exotic stories offers adaptations and modern updates of folk tales and legends as well as original horror sto…

The Flying Eyes

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J. Hunter Holly



The National Guardsmen waited for the Flying Eyes, restlessly fingering their rifles and machine guns. Then they came-eight of them-diving s…

Strip, Wench...or Die!

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Arthur Jean Cox



Rip Austin knew that curvaceous Sally Vaughn had been murdered for her insurance money, but how could he prove it when the local vice lords …

Men of the Deep Waters

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William Hope Hodgson



Directly afterwards, a shrill, yelling noise seemed to fill the whole sky with a deafening, piercing sound. I glanced hastily over the port …

Brink of Madness

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Walt Sheldon



C.I.B. Agent Pell used his head, even if he did rely on hunches more than on the computer. In fact, when the game got rough, he found that t…

Hardcase

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Luke Short



Meet HARDCASE-DAVE COYLE! When you meet up with Dave Coyle-outlaw-you'll know why no jail can hold him, no sheriff outsmart him. You'll see …

Weird Tales Double Feature: The Haunter in the Dark and The Thing on the Door-S…

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H. P. Lovecraft



In this thrilling and horrific installment of the Weird Tales Double Feature, we have the final two novelettes published within the Cthulhu …

Newshound

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Stephen Marlowe



The Fourth Estate was highly specializedin the 22nd Century; for example, a good newsmanpredicted coming events—and made them happen.... - S…

Little Poems in Prose

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Charles Baudelaire



Noted macabre poet Charles Baudelaire later in life wrote this collection of brief sketches, what he deemed "little poems in prose"…

Steppenwolf

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Hermann Hesse



This controversial literary classic paints the portrait of a man who perceives himself to live in two worlds, that of the idealist, cowed an…

Worlds Within

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Rog Phillips



Lin Carter, engineer engaged in top secret research at Lockheed, was shaving when the knock came at his apartment door. It could mean an int…

Murder Makes Me Mad

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Ferguson Findley



REVENGE IS FOR MEMurder makes me mad. Me, Rex Howard, private eye. And when a tough waterfront boss killed my kid sister, I swore I'd get my…

The Purple Sapphire, and Other Posthumous Papers: Complete Edition

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Christopher Blayre



This collection features a creepy and mysterious array of weird fiction, compiled under the fictional guise of being collegiate papers depos…

Someone to Watch Over Me

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Floyd C. Gale and H. L. Gold



In the awfulness of hyperspace, everything was the nightmare opposite of itself... and here was where Len Mattern found his goal! - Summary …

Rich Crooks

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Gordon Young



"Seated in a restaurant in New York City, Don Everhard suddenly finds himself involved in an insidious plot, the entanglements of which…

The Lost Valley and Other Stories

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Algernon Blackwood



In this collection of otherworldly and mystifying stories from the master of weird fiction Algernon Blackwood, we are treated to the classic…

The Menace from Below

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Harl Vincent



An entire subway train full of passengers seems to disappear into thin air in the tunnels of the New York subway system! A murdered man's b…

Baby Moll

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John Farris



MY NAME IS PETE MALLORY and I used to play smart gun for a big-time operator named Macy Barr. But I quit. Now Macy's empire was crumbling an…

The Golem

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Gustav Meyrink



Pernath is a man without a past, a cutter of stones, living in the Jewish Ghetto in the city of Prague and interacting with a strange cadre …

The Lost Warship

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Robert Moore Williams



A boat of survivors cast adrift in the South Seas is picked up by the US Naval battleship The Idaho. They think their prayers have been ans…