Phil Chenevert
The Cowardly Lion of Oz
The Cowardly Lion, always fearful, has become even more afraid than usual and is convinced that he has lost the courage the Wizard of OZ gav…
Planet of the Gods
Far, far in the future Earth has achieved real peace and is sending out interstellar expeditions, not to conquer, but to explore. The third …
The Practice of the Presence of God (version 2)
Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman around 1610 in Herimenil, Lorraine, a Duchy of France. His birth records were destroyed in a fire …
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 2)
The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz. As Baum says in the introduction "It aspires to bei…
The Willows (version 2)
The Willows is a masterful exploration of the uncanny, set against the backdrop of a remote wilderness. Two friends embark on a canoe trip a…
The World with a Thousand Moons
Other than boasting of having a thousand moons, this nasty planet could only brag of having the most numerous, vicious, mean, death dealing …
St. Francis of Assisi
For Chesterton, Francis of Assisi is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved th…
Just So Stories (version 5)
The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So S…
Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie the Pooh, the loveable little bear with a great big heart (and only a slightly less large appetite for honey), has fun and adventures…
Handy Mandy in Oz
On many a day had Handy, the Goat Girl of Mern, pursued her goats up and down the rocky eminences of her native mountain. And never—NEVER—in…
Ribbon in the Sky
Med Service man Calhoun and his little sidekick Murgatroid run into another sizeable speed bump on their assigned visits to the planets of t…
A Matter of Importance
The importance of a matter is almost entirely a matter of your attitude. And whether you call something "a riot" or "a war&qu…
The People of the Black Circle (version 2)
In "The People of the Black Circle," Conan the Cimmerian embarks on a perilous quest that intertwines magic, treachery, and the fa…
The Night of the Long Knives
"I was one hundred miles from Nowhere—and I mean that literally—when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping …
A Spaceship Named McGuire
Can a spaceship go crazy? Well, yes it can if it has a brain. And the new MG (magnetogravitic drive) experimental robot space ship does inde…
That Sweet Little Old Lady
Randall Garrett had this story first published in Astounding Science Fiction September and October of 1959. His twisted sense of humor and g…
Herbert West: Reanimator
Herbert West: Reanimator is a chilling tale that delves into the dark realms of life, death, and the boundaries of science. Written by H. P.…
Gods of the North
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is, arguably the earliest chronological story by Robert E. Howard in terms of Conan's life. The brief…
The Colour Out of Space
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” This creepy horror…
3 Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert
As the title indicates, here are three SF stories by Frank Herbert, Missing LInk, originaly purlished in Astounding SF, 1959; Operation Hays…