Ben Tucker
Drug Themes in Science Fiction
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…
Whispering Tunnels
A novelette of Verdun, the World War and Devil-Worship! - Summary by Weird Tales Magazine
Little Stories
Physician and author S. Weir Mitchell brings us a short collection of stories of the human condition. Through diverse settings as the mystic…
Baby Moll
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 Soul Stealers
Wraithlike, they came out of the darkness—deadmen who walked among the living. What grim secret layin their sightless eyes—a warning to all …
The Call from Beyond
Alone, accursed, he set out on the long, dark voyage to the forbidden gateway to worlds beyond life itself—restless forever with an ultimate…
Nightmare
Dark crime fiction author Cornell Woolrich (real name George Hopley) brings us this show-stopping collection of grim and twisted stories of …
Benighted
Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm wi…
The Golem
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 …
Biddy and the Silver Man
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…
Strip, Wench...or Die!
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 …
The Canal, and Leonora
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…
The Haunted Island
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 Grim Thirteen
"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…
Some Chinese Ghosts
Noted writer of Asian folklore Lafcadio Hearn brings us a volume of mysterious and magical folk stories from the country of China. - Summary…
Scanners Live In Vain
This story deals with science-fiction's oldest subject—space-travel. Yet the author's treatment of the subject is so completely different th…
Detour
Alexander Roth is a jazz fiddle player who can't quite seem to catch a break after losing his job and having his best girl Sue leave him to …
The Early Misadventures of Toffee
Included in this collection are the first two stories featuring that wonderfully wacky dream girl temptress Toffee! Stories include:"I…
The Menace from Below
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…
The Smoking Leg and Other Stories
Celebrated science fiction author Brian Stableford has praised John Metcalfe's stories saying they "build up a unique sense of unease&q…