Henry originated the humorous, energetic tale that ends with an ironic, even shocking twist. In "After Twenty Years," for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into a policeman. Behind the rendezvous lurks a powerful dramatic situation with a fascinating moral dilemma--all in a few brief pages. This is just one of the many literary gems in Selected Stories of O. Henry, a collection of forty-five of O. Henry's most renowned and entertaining short stories. Each one offers insights into human nature and the ways it is affected by love, jealousy, poverty, gentility, and the all-pervading reality of people conning people--themes that ran through the author's own life. Born William Sidney Porter, O. Henry started writing while in prison for embezzlement. Later he moved to New York, and his tales romanticizing the commonplace, particularly the life of ordinary New Yorkers, became highly popular. The most widely read author of his time, O. Henry died penniless but left behind a wealth of short stories that endure as hallmarks of the genre.

    Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths...and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer at a time.Callahan's Crosstime Saloon contains the following stories, virtually all of which were published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact: * "The Guy With the Eyes" * "The Time-Traveler" * "The Centipede's Dilemma" * "Two Heads Are Better Than One" * "The Law Of Conservation of Pain" * "Just Dessert" * "A Voice is Heard in Ramah..." * "Unnatural Causes" * "The Wonderful Conspiracy"

    in the 1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when published in the early 1970s. Eve Babitz is not well known today, but she should be. Her first hand experiences in the L.A. cultural scene, translated into haunting fiction, are an unforgettable glimpse at a lost world and a magical time.

    Seven stories of fantasy and fun by the fantastic Roald Dahl.The Boy Who Talked With Animals - in which a stranded sea turtle and a small boy have more in common than meets the eye.The Hitchhiker - proves that in a pinch a professional pickpocket can be the perfect pal.The Mildenhall Treasure - a true tale of fortune found and an opportunity lost.The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - in which a modern-day Robin Hood brings joy to the hearts of orphans - and fear to the souls of casino owners around the world.

    Light, humerous, and entertaining.

    Two of the stories—later revised for What We Talk About When We Talk About Love—are particularly notable in that between the first and the final versions, we see clearly the astounding process of Carver’s literary development.

    Introduction · Algis Budrys · in The Phantom of Kansas · nv Galaxy Feb ’76 Air Raid [as by Herb Boehm] · ss IASFM Spr ’77 Retrograde Summer · nv F&SF Feb ’75 The Black Hole Passes · nv F&SF Jun ’75 In the Hall of the Martian Kings · na F&SF Feb ’77 In the Bowl · nv F&SF Dec ’75 Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance · nv Galaxy Jul ’76 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank · nv Galaxy May ’76 The Persistence of Vision · na F&SF Mar ’78

    Comprising:Beyond Lies the Wub;Roog;Second Variety;Paycheck;Impostor;Colony;Expendable;The Days of Perky Pat;Breakfast at Twilight;Foster, You're Dead;The Father-Thing;Service Call;Autofac;Human Is;If There Were No Benny Cemoli;Oh, to Be a Blobel!;Faith of Our Fathers;The Electric Ant;A Little Something for Us Tempunauts.

    Henry of science fiction… stories that range from the wryly humorous to the deadly serious, but are always unforgettable.Contents:ix · Introduction · Robert Bloch · in 1 · “Arena” · nv Astounding Jun ’44 31 · Imagine · pp F&SF May ’55 33 · It Didn’t Happen · ss Playboy Oct ’63 47 · Recessional · vi Dude Mar ’60; Portfolio, gp 49 · Eine Kleine Nachtmusik · Fredric Brown & Carl Onspaugh · ss F&SF Jun ’65 69 · Puppet Show · ss Playboy Nov ’62 81 · Nightmare in Yellow · vi Dude May ’61; Five Nightmares, gp 85 · Earthmen Bearing Gifts · vi Galaxy Jun ’60 89 · Jaycee · vi Nightmares and Geezenstacks, Bantam, 1961 91 · Pi in the Sky · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Win ’45 121 · Answer · vi Angels and Spaceships, Dutton, 1954 123 · The Geezenstacks · ss Weird Tales Sep ’43 133 · Hall of Mirrors · ss Galaxy Dec ’53 141 · Knock · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec ’48 153 · Rebound [“The Power”] · vi Galaxy Apr ’60 157 · Star Mouse [Mitkey] · ss Planet Stories Spr ’42 179 · Abominable · vi Dude Mar ’60; Portfolio, gp 183 · Letter to a Phoenix · ss Astounding Aug ’49 193 · Not Yet the End · vi Captain Future Win ’41 197 · Etaoin Shrdlu · nv Unknown Feb ’42 221 · Armageddon · ss Unknown Aug ’41 227 · Experiment · vi Galaxy Feb ’54; Two Timer, gp 229 · The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I, II, & III [“Of Time and Eustace Weaver”] · ss EQMM Jun ’61 237 · Reconciliation · vi Angels and Spaceships, Dutton, 1954 239 · Nothing Sirius · ss Captain Future Spr ’44 257 · Pattern · vi Angels and Spaceships, Dutton, 1954 259 · The Yehudi Principle · ss Astounding May ’44 271 · Come and Go Mad · nv Weird Tales Jul ’49 315 · The End [“Nightmare in Time”] · vi Dude May ’61; Five Nightmares, gp

    The opening stories focus on the fragile nature of youth, exemplified in struggles with a father, a friend, an enemy. In part two, Dubus contends with the military, the police, and fate--and then leaves us with the most wrenching of all emotional challenges in the final novella, Adultery. Poignant as parables, alive as fiction, and compelling as pure narrative, these familiar stories never fail to entertain while, at the same time, leaving the reader breathless with the immediacy and depth of real life in the real America.

    P. Kinsella in 1977.The book contains seventeen stories narrated by Silas Ermineskin and is set on a Cree Indian reserve in Central Alberta and is about what happens in the lives of the people that live on the reserve.

    Steinway · ss Fantastic Apr ’54 113 · The Past Master · nv Bluebook Jan ’55 141 · I Like Blondes · ss Playboy Jan ’56 153 · All on a Golden Afternoon · nv F&SF Jun ’56 185 · Broomstick Ride · ss Super Science Fiction Dec ’57 197 · Daybroke · ss Star Science Fiction Magazine Jan ’58 209 · Sleeping Beauty [“The Sleeping Redheads”] · ss Swank Mar ’58 225 · Word of Honor · ss Playboy Aug ’58 237 · The World-Timer · nv Fantastic Aug ’60 271 · That Hell-Bound Train · ss F&SF Sep ’58 289 · The Funnel of God · nv Fantastic Jan ’60 319 · Beelzebub · ss Playboy Dec ’63 329 · The Plot Is the Thing · ss F&SF Jul ’66 337 · How Like a God · ss Galaxy Apr ’69 355 · The Movie People · ss F&SF Oct ’69 269 · The Oracle · ss Penthouse May ’71 377 · The Learning Maze · ss The Learning Maze, ed. Roger Elwood, Messner, 1974 393 · Author’s Afterword: “Will the Real Robert Bloch Please Stand Up?” · aw

    It received the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and has been adapted into a television film.

    A series of short stories unfolds surrounding Wilgus Collier and his large extended family, as the boy grows to manhood in the eastern Kentucky mountains

    

    If I sit still and don't do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning. We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine."-- Sylvia Plath, from "Notebooks, February 1956"Renowned for her poetry, Sylvia Plath was also a brilliant writer of prose. This collection of short stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her fierce concentration on craft, the vitality of her intelligence, and the yearnings of her imaginaton. Featuring an introduction by Plath's husband, the late British poet Ted Hughes, these writings also reflect themes and images she would fully realize in her poetry. "Jonny Panic and the Bible of Dreams" truly showcases the talent and genius of Sylvia Plath.

    The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only comprehensive collection by this master of the short-story form.Includes all the stories from Böll’s The Mad Dog, Eighteen Short Stories, The Casualty, and The Stories of Heinrich Böll. The 1972 Nobel Laureate, Böll was considered a master 20th century literature, and The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll contains some of his finest work.

    It first appeared in the August 1977 issue of Analog magazine and was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. Although the foundation of the Ender's Game series, the short story is not properly part of the Ender's Game universe, as there are many discrepancies in continuity.

    Set in coal mines and remote farm cabins, in hidden hollows and on mountain tops, some of these stories look back to the days when West Virginia was first settled; others reflect the rancor and brutality of the Civil War. But most of these tales guide us through the recent past of the uncommonly rich folk heritage of West Virginia. This

    • (1971)• Some Notes Concerning a Green Box • (1971)• Why Johnny Can't Speed • (1971)• The Emoman • [Humanx Commonwealth • 4] • (1972)• Space Opera • (1973)• The Empire of T'ang Lang • (1973)• A Miracle of Small Fishes • (1974)• Dream Done Green • (1974)• He • (1976)• Polonaise • (1976)• Wolfstroker • (1977)• Ye Who Would Sing • (1976)

    These were her very own planets, with such fascinating features as the Sea of Morning Opals, the Mountains of White Cloud, wicked Canal cities, and lost lands full of magic and mystery.That girl's name is Leigh Brackett. And today, more than 35 years after selling her first science fiction story, she continues to thrill and excite all lovers of imaginative writing. Her haunting tales of ancient Mars, wind-swept Venus, and remote worlds beyond human technology have become almost instant classics in the genre; and now Edmond Hamilton, Leigh's husband and a great SF writer in his own right, has personally collected ten of her best stories into a beautiful hardcover anthology. Here's a preview of the amazing tales:THE JEWEL OF BAS. There's an ancient legend passed down among the people of the outermost planet. It tells of Bas the Immortal, possessor of the Stone of Destiny—a jewel of such power that owning it gives a man rule over the whole world. Ciaran and Mouse, two unscrupulous gypsies, only half-believed the story until they found themselves at the mercy of Bas's fierce android army ... pawns in a sinister plan to enslave the human race.THE VANISHING VENUSIANS. For years the space colonists had wandered the hellish eternal seas of Venus, seeking the home that was their birthright, death constantly stalking in their wake. And now they were making their final bid—three of their bravest fighting toward a promised land guarded by nightmare creatures. Who would emerge victorious? Close to 4000 desperate people waited anxiously for the answer...THE VEIL OF ASTELLAR. Tough, hardbitten Steve Vance ... once he was human! But three hundred years ago he betrayed his homeland for a race of alien vampires who fulfilled his every desire in return for a small "favor." All he had to do was lure innocent Earth spaceships to their doom on the vampires' world. He knew his soul was forever damned. But there was one way in which he might atone...THE QUEER ONES. Hank Temple was at the editor's desk when the hospital called him in to see the X-rays. They were of a hill girl's illegitimate baby, and they showed insides like no child ever had. That was the beginning ... and the end came on an enshrouded Ozark mountain, with deadly green lightning flickering and a sound in the sky that was not wind or thunder...

    Three centuries later, Angela Carter, widely regarded as one of England’s most imaginative writers, adapted them for contemporary readers. The result is a cornucopia of fantastic characters and timeless adventures, stylishly retold by a modern literary visionary.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    A family Sunday, a holiday in Rome, a maternity hospital...territory as familiar and as unsafe as an earthquake zone.Author of The Pumpkin Eater and The Handyman, Penelope Mortimer writes with brilliant precision and quivering tension of the tides of passion and despair that lurk at the bottom of everyday life.

    Bambara's characteristic vigor, sensibility and winning irony. The stories range from the timid and bumbling confusion of a novice community worker in "The Apprentice" to the love-versus-politics crisis of an organizers wife, to the dark and bright notes of the title story about the passengers on a refugee ship from a war-torn Asian nation.Young girls, weary men, lovers, frauds and revolutionaries -- Toni Cade Bambara handles them all the expertise, passion and huge talent. As the Chicago Daily News said, "Ms. Bambara grabs you by the throat...she dazzles, she charms."

    The new material enables the reader to fully appreciate the rich diversity of the writings of this 95-year-old midwestern radical and feminist. This volume won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1991.

    The 13 interlinked stories in this book depict every aspect of life in Glasgow, evoking the slums and their inhabitants, both young and old, Catholic and Protestant, hopeful and disillusioned.

    Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and first brought fire . . . and death. Barry Lopez -- National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and recipient of the John Burroughs Medal for his bestselling masterwork Of Wolves and Men -- has collected sixty-eight tales from forty-two tribes, and brings to life a timeless myth that abounds with sly wit, erotic adventure, and rueful wisdom.

    One is Flo, practical, suspicious of other people's airs, at times dismayingly vulgar. The other is Rose, Flo's stepdaughter, a clumsy, shy girl who somehow leaves the small town she grew up in to achieve her own equivocal success in the larger world.

    Most of them first appeared in The New Yorker, and all of them appear here in book form for the first time. They are crowded with irrepressible, living characters and even more animated objects and incidents. There are stories of romantic love and the mysteries of marriage; of artists who speak the truth even as they distort reality; of gardens and houses and very fine things and of those who fancy themselves their owners. The centerpiece of the collection is a series of five linked stories about an eccentric establishment, the Abbey Antiques Gallery, and its singular proprietor, the urbane Mr. Edom -- not to mention its uncontrollable inventory, staff, and clientele.

     In America, where “old” is a dirty word, people over sixty-five are often shut out as if growing old were some kind of contagious disease. But you cannot shut the Sunset Gang out of your heart. If you let them in, they will teach you a lot about living-a subject on which, after all, they are the experts. With time running short, these intrepid residents of Sunset Village in Florida continue to thirst for life and love. “The Sunset Gang” is as lively, fun, and courageous a group as you’ll find anywhere this side of the Last Reward. The fact that you’ll find them at Sunset Village, a condominium retirement community in Florida – where an ambulance siren is the theme song and cycling at a stately pace is strenuous exercise – does not mean that they are ready to pack it all in. Not by a long shot. Sex and romantic love keep Sunset Village bubbling with activity. If you were to walk down one of its well-tended paths, you might spot Jenny and Bill sitting on a bench, acting like young lovers, and never suspect that they are married – to other people! And at the pool, Max Bernstein, with an expertise that comes from five decades of skirt chasing, is singling out attractive widows. But the true beating heart of Sunset Village is the love of family and friends. Widowed Molly Berkowitz learns that although her son and daughter may be failures in the eyes of the world, they are well worth bragging about, and Isaac Kramer begins to feel truly at home when the gray-haired boys down at the Laundromat start calling him by his old neighborhood nickname, “Itch.”

    For a Single Yesterday" - (1975)200 • And Seven Times Never Kill Man - (1975)

    Set mostly in Nashville and Memphis amid Taylor's fictional genteel Tennessee society, these tales belie serene manners and lovely neighborhoods with undercurrents of irony, violence, disgrace, sexual transgressions, and generational divide. Often shadowing male despair in the modern world, they describe the power of unleashed passion once the restraint of custom has given way.

    Collectively, these nineteen stories are representative of Machado's unique style and world view, and this translation doubles the number of his stories previously available in English.The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism. If he had continued to produce the moralistic love stories and parlor intrigues of his earlier fiction, Machado's legacy would have been an entertaining but inconsequent body of work. However, by 1880 he had begun a devastating satirical assault on society through his fiction. In spite of his ruthlessness, Machado does at times reveal an ironic sympathy for his characters. He is not indifferent to human conflict but uses humor and irony to stress the absurdity of these conflicts, acted out against the backdrop of an indifferent universe. Such a spectacle creates a sense of helplessness that can only inspire wistful amusement.In his technical mastery of the short story. Machado was decades ahead of his contemporaries and can still be considered more modern than most of the modernists themselves. That his stories elicit such strong and diverse reactions today is a tribute to their richness, complexity, and significance.

    

    The ruling classes engage in such pursuits as patronizing the arts or hunting with the Royal Pack of Werewolves, while the lower orders take pleasure in conducting brutal raiding parties into the world to torment mortals.The Kingdoms of Elfin are more diverse and widely scattered than is often thought; from the Welsh Elfins who, though constitutionally incapable of faith, remove mountains, and the elegant and witty French Court of Brocéliande where castration almost becomes a vogue, to the Kingdom of Zuy in the Low Countries, trafficking suppositories and religious pictures.Sylvia Townsend Warner's richly exuberant imagination combined with the calm precision of her language conjures up a sublunary realm that is entirely convincing.

    Called Draperville for purposes of anonymity, the setting of the stories is in fact Lincoln, Illinois. The stories are: "The Trojan Women," "What Every Boy Should Know," "A Final Report," and "The Value of Money."CONTENTS: Over By the River.--The Trojan Women.--The Pilgrimage.--The Patterns of Love.--What Every Boy Should Know.--The French Scarecrow.--Young Francis Whitehead.--A Final Report.--Haller's Second Home.--The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel.--The Value of Money.--The Thistles in Sweden.

    

    When a Spectral glove points an empty, ghostly finger at the guilty and the doomed...When amphibious vampires slither and writhe at the exhilarating scent of fresh blood...When a withered nameless crone administers her foul caress in the name of unholy seduction...When half-dead monstrosities rise up from subterranean depths in search of sacrificial flesh...THEN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR IS UPON US.WHEN WHISPERS TURN INTO SCREAMS...

    Retells ten traditional tales from several countries about the adventures of a variety of kings and queens.Selim and the snake queen (Greek isles) --The queen's children (Russia) --Dough (Sicily) --King Eagle (Russia) --The monster with seven heads (Madagascar) --King Josef (Czechoslovakia) --Vanooshka (Russia) --The two enemy kings (Pomerania) --What happened to Ivan (Bosnia) --The teapot spout (Ireland)

    This excellent collection includes works by Truman Capote, James Agee, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Reynolds Price, and many others.

    

    Part of the Masterpieces of Mystery series.

    

    Out in the corn, something is watching them, and help is nowhere to be found.From the unrivaled master of horror and the supernatural, Stephen King. “Children of the Corn,” first collected in the extraordinary collection Night Shift in 1973 and then adapted into a horror film franchise of the same name, is a terrifying and unforgettable classic of the genre.

    

    *** These stories were selected (and edited) by his wife Leigh Brackett, an author and a screenwriter. Her screen-writing credits include works on such films as The Big Sleep, Rio Bravo, The Long Goodbye and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. I*** This collection spans nearly half a century of Edmond Hamilton's work and was selected from a repository of hundreds of stories that he had written over that period.Contents:The Monster-God of Mamurth (1926)The Man Who Evolved (1931)A Conquest of Two Worlds (1932)The Island of Unreason (1933)Thundering Worlds (1934)The Man Who Returned (1934)The Accursed Galaxy (1935)In the World's Dusk (1936)Child of the Winds (1936)The Seeds from Outside (1937)Fessenden's Worlds (1937)Easy Money (1938)He That Hath Wings (1938)Exile (1943)Day of Judgment (1946)Alien Earth (1949)What's It Like Out There? (1952)Requiem (1962)After a Judgement Day (1963)The Pro (1964)Castaway (1969)

    Twelve intriguing stories span a year in the career of Detective Inspector Patrick Petrella, officer in charge of Patton Street police station.

    Barker, the translator of these stories, "critics, in attempting to assess Sologub as an important figure in the modernist movement, have named him Russia's only true decadent, Russia's Baudelaire, Russia's Marquis de Sade."

    JamesThe Undead One by E. Everett EvansThe Horror Undying by Manly Wade WellmanThe Bat is My Brother by Robert BlochBlood Brother by Charles BeaumontSomething Had to be Done by David DrakeNight Life by Stephen UtleyFurther Rivals of Dracula. Vampires of the Silver Screen.A Checklist of Vampire Films.

    Here, a priceless piece of furniture is the subject of a deceitful bargain . . . Parson's Pleasure is taken from the short story collection Kiss Kiss, which includes ten other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who pawns the mink coat from her lover with unexpected results; the young man in need of room who meets a most accommodating landlady; a wronged wife taking revenge on her dead husband, and others. 'Unnerving bedtime stories, subtle, proficient, hair-raising and done to a turn.' (San Francisco Chronicle ) This story is also available as a Penguin digital audio download read by Derek Jacobi. Roald Dahl, the brilliant and worldwide acclaimed author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, and many more classics for children, also wrote scores of short stories for adults. These delightfully disturbing tales have often been filmed and were most recently the inspiration for the West End play, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales by Jeremy Dyson. Roald Dahl's stories continue to make readers shiver today.

    Ms. Schram, who believes that stories form 'the link between the generations, ' helps forge that link with this book, ensuring that these stories will continue to live and breathe in the modern world. The life force animating these tales is almost tangible. The printed words seem to vibrate, as if the author possessed the voices of various tellers and lent their lilting tones and ripe inflections to the printed page. Furthermore, the laughter, sobs, and delighted cries of countless listeners also echo in these pages. Schram, who has written a thoughtful, informative introduction for each story, demonstrates on every page her belief that the stories 'connect to our lives.' And when the lifelike characters woven into Schram's magic tapestry suffer or enjoy the fates they most deserve, we rejoice, secure in their storybook world?a world where justice, however incomprehensible, is always done, and where we attain happiness by living in accordance with Jewish law and in harmony with the world's natural order. Jewish Stories One Generation Tells Another abounds in a gentle wisdom that presses itself upon our complex and often self-contradictory lives, infusing us with patience, tolerance, and hope. We identify with the kings and princes, fools and beggars, heroes and leaders, villains and witches of yesteryear because, though our lives are vastly different from theirs, we share their moral choices and experience their dilemmas. Schram joins Jewish storytellers throughout the ages, linking past to present and preserving an invaluable legacy for generations yet unborn

    Presents more than 20 Afro-American folktales featuring the escapades of Brer Rabbit and more than 10 tales describing the lives of Afro-American slaves.

    Wells- The Machine Stops (1909) by E.M. Forster- The Lost Machine (1932) by John Wyndham- The Man from Beyond (1934) by John Wyndham - Old Faithful (1934) by Raymond Z. Gallun- Madness from Mars (1939) by Clifford D. Simak- The First Martian (1939) by A.E. van Vogt- Dormant (1948) by A.E. van Vogt- The Star Ducks (1950) by Bill Brown- Coming Attraction (1950) by Fritz Leiber- And the Moon Be Still as Bright (1948) by Ray Bradbury- The Fly (1952) by Arthur Porges- Youth (1952) by Isaac Asimov- The Deep (1952) by Isaac Asimov- Zero Hour (1947) by Ray Bradbury- Kaleidoscope (1949) by Ray Bradbury- Second Variety (1953) by Philip K. Dick- The Ruum (1953) by Arthur Porges- Worrywart (1953) by Clifford D. Simak- The New Wine (1954) by John Christopher- Survival (1952) by John Wyndham- Hobson's Choice (1952) by Alfred Bester- Between the Dark and the Daylight (1958) by Algis Budrys- The Short Life (1955) by Francis Donovan- Repeat Performance (1971) by Bob Shaw- The Voices of Time (1960) by J.G. Ballard- Green Thumb (1954) by Clifford D. Simak- Before Eden (1961) by Arthur C. Clarke- Call Me Dumbo (1966) by Bob Shaw- Far From This Earth (1970) by Chad Oliver- Wife to the Lord (1970) by Harry Harrison- The Life Preservers (1970) by Harry Harrison- The Hunter at His Ease (1970) by Brian W. Aldiss- We All Die Naked (1969) by James Blish- The Wicked Flee (1971) by Harry Harrison- Transit of Earth (1971) by Arthur C. Clarke- Rammer (1971) by Larry Niven- A Little Knowledge (1971) by Poul Anderson- Process (1950) by A.E. van Vogt- We Purchased People (1974) by Frederik Pohl- Esmeralda (1975) by Daphne Castell- The Hibbie (1975) by James Alexander- Let's Go to Golgotha! (1974) by Garry Kilworth

    

    

    Trott scored the biggest hit at Lords [sic] by driving the ball over the pavilion. The year was 1899 and saw the birth of A.J. Raffles, Esq., that most gentlemanly thief in E.W. Hornung's 'The Amateur Cracksman'.Working from Philip Mackie's witty and evocative television scripts, David Fletcher has been able to recreate vividly the character and crimes of Raffles. Assisted by the faithful and honest 'Bunny' Manders, Raffles maintains them in the style to which they are accustomed while being feted by the British public for his exploits on the cricket field; exploits which ensure invitations to the wealthiest houses in the land.Titled ladies consequently relieved of their exquisite jewels, the property of the nation vanishes from the British Museum and no bank strong room is secure. Suave and elegant, the darling of society, Raffles flourishes in his criminal activities among which the more impossible challenges attract him most.David Fletcher has accurately and delightfully captured the world of A.J. Raffles and will bring great pleasure to the countless admirers of the most famous 'amateur cracksman'.

    It would have been disastrous if a magnificent vampire story like Carmilla, or tales dealing with ghouls (Pickman's model), a werewolf (Gabriel-Ernest) and Black Magic (Casting the runes), had been excluded for the sake of adhering to a category which is at best imprecise. Any supernatural element in a story made it eligible for inclusion - those finally selected are the best.Contents:- Introduction (1977) by Charles Fowkes- The House and the Brain (1859) by Edward Bulwer-Lytton- The Masque of the Red Death (1842) by Edgar Allan Poe- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) by Edgar Allan Poe- Ligeia (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe- Carmilla (1872) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu- Was It a Dream? (1887, La morte) by Guy de Maupassant- The Horla (1887, Le Horla) by Guy de Maupassant- Count Magnus (1904) by M.R. James- An Episode of Cathedral History (1914) by M.R. James- The Diary of Mr. Poynter (1919) by M.R. James- Casting the Runes (1911) by M.R. James- The Furnished Room (1904) by O. Henry- The Monkey's Paw (1902) by W. W. Jacobs- The Novel of the White Powder (1895) by Arthur Machen- The Great God Pan (1894) by Arthur Machen- The Novel of the Black Seal (1895) by Arthur Machen- How Love Came to Professor Guildea (1897) by Robert Hichens- Lukundoo (1907) by Edward Lucas White- The Man Who Went Too Far (1904) by E.F. Benson- Negotium Perambulans (1922) by E.F. Benson- The Willows (1907) by Algernon Blackwood- The Glamour of the Snow (1911) by Algernon Blackwood- The Decoy (1921) by Algernon Blackwood- Ancient Sorceries (1908) by Algernon Blackwood- Gabriel-Ernest (1909) by Saki- The Music on the Hill (1911) by Saki- All Hallows (1926) by Walter de la Mare- Mr. Kempe (1925) by Walter de la Mare- The Beckoning Fair One (1911) by Oliver Onions- The Story of a Panic (1904) by E.M. Forster- The Story of the Siren (1920) by E.M. Forster- The Sailor-Boy's Tale (1942) by Karen Blixen- Pickman's Model (1927) by H.P. Lovecraft- The Dunwich Horror (1929) by H.P. Lovecraft- The Music of Erich Zann (1922) by H.P. Lovecraft- The Rats in the Walls (1924) by H.P. Lovecraft- The Shout (1929) by Robert Graves- Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early? (1951) by John Collier- A Woman Seldom Found (1956) by William Sansom

    In "One for the road" a man arrives at Tucky's Bar seeking help for his family, snowbound in the sinister Salem's Lot.

    Written by two leaders of the Jewish Renewal movement, these interpretive stories address important issues such as spirituality, tyranny, and feminism.

    This book includes only 5 of the 15 stories in the original.Contents:Ship of Shadows (1969) by Fritz LeiberIll Met in Lankhmar (1970) by Fritz LeiberSlow Sculpture (1970) by Theodore SturgeonThe Queen of Air and Darkness (1971) by Poul AndersonInconstant Moon (1971) by Larry Niven

    Can they join forces and survive in a world of destruction?First appeared in Hunting Dog magazine, 1977.

    McIntyreThe Warlord of Saturn's Moons (1974) by Eleanor ArnasonThe Triumphant Head (1970) by Josephine SaxtonThe Heat Death of The Universe (1967) by Pamela ZolineSongs of War (1974) by Kit ReedThe Women Men Don't See (1973) by James Tiptree Jr.Debut (1970) by Carol EmshwillerWhen It Changed (1972) by Joanna RussDead In Irons (1976) by Chelsea Quinn YarbroBuilding Block (1975) by Sonya DormanEyes of Amber (1976) by Joan D. VingeFurther Reading (1977), uncreditedWhen It Changed by Joanna Russ won the Nebula Award for best short story in 1972.Eyes of Amber by Joan D. Vinge won the Hugo Award for best novelette in 1978.

    Contents:Apollo (1976)The Asian Shore (1970)The Birds (1973)The Colors (1968)Death and the Single Girl (1976)Displaying the Flag (1974)Feathers from the Wings of an Angel (1971)Getting into Death (1974)The Joycelin Shrager Story (1975)Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory (1970)The Master of the Milford Altarpiece (1968)The Persistence of Desire (1974)The Planet Arcadia (1971)Quincunx (1969)Slaves (1967)[X] Yes (1969)

    People on strike; people on relief; people waiting for Sacco and Vanzetti to die; a young girl, pregnant, hungray yet somwhow assuged by the pear tree outside her window. Le Suer describees them with a passionate and convincingg partisianshipMiss Le Suer has developed a personal style, is moved by tremendous themes of the modern world and suffuses her work with a rather rare quality of reverence for humanity, of intimacy and pride regarding women and motherhood. Her 'Annunciation' is the evocation of an original artist beautifully reverent, with high solemnity, gravely achieved affirmations of life, an approach too infrequent amomng the realist and naturalist school of writers.

    Since 1970 this acclaimed series has presented the most provocative and challenging science fiction writing. Here is number 7 in this library of SF masterpieces.

    He introduces each individually, aiming to convey to the reader some of the pleasure that acting in the films associated with the tales has given him.Included are The Mortal Immortal by Mary Shelley, Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker, >The Ring of Thoth by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and six other classic talswe of horror and suspense. With 8 pages of illustrationsCover Illustration: Colleen Payne

    For here is a truly alarming brood of tales pulsating with delicious evil, the macabre, and all the mystery and suspense for which you crave.Ross Macdonald, Theodore Sturgeon, Harold Q. Masur, Talmage Powell - as you turn the pages, and the house darkens, you will hear the Master chuckling in the shadows. Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin...

    David Young is the author of several collections of poetry, including Field of Light and Shadow(Knopf, 2010); Black Lab (2006); At the White Window (2000); Night Thoughts and Henry Vaughan(1994), which won the Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry; The Planet on the Desk: Selected and New Poems 1960-1990 (1991); Foraging (1986); Earthshine (1988); The Names of a Hare in English (1979); Work Lights: Thirty-Two Prose Poems (1977); and Boxcars (1972).

    HochDeath watch Michael GilbertLaughter before dying Nedra TyreJericho and the unknown lover Hugh PentecostNight crawlers Joyce HarringtonThe kidnapping Henry SlesarRaffles and the enigma of the admiral's hat Barry PerowneThe right perspective Ursula CurtissDry spell L.E. BehneyHercule Poirot in the year 2010 Jon L. BreenNightmares Dick FrancisLittle note nor long remember Henry T. ParryBianca and the seven sleuths James PowellOld friends Dorothy Salisbury DavisTrick or treat Judith GarnerAmerican gothic M.A. LyonReflections in a window Hilary StevensThe adventures of the odd lotteries Robert L. FishThe New Jersey flying machine S.S. RaffertyA corner of paradise Stanley EllinIf you can't beat them Avram DavidsonThe secret in the woodpile Michael InnesThe Euthanasian Jacob HayTo the smallest detail Marjorie RiddellHot summer night Julian SymonsMeeting in the park Ruth RendellThe spy and the mysterious card Edward D. Hoch

    Carefully sequenced, this collection of stories gives special focus to village people from independence-era Botswana and the status and position and plight of women.

    Contents:• The Metamorphosis of Earth• Phoenix• The Necromantic Tale• The Venus of Azombeii• The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake• The Supernumerary Corpse• The Mandrakes• Thirteen Phantasms• An Offering to the Moon• The Monster of the Prophecy• The Malay Krise• The Ghost of Mohammed Din• The Mahout• The Raja and the Tiger• Something New• The Justice of the Elephant• The Kiss of Zoraida• The Tale of Sir John Maundeville• The Ghoul• Told in the desert