This latest collection in the popular Mammoth Series collects 40 of the best ghost stories ever written from the genre's golden age--1839 to 1910. Readers will find traditional 19th-century English and American supernatural yarns, chilling fireside tales,
Selected from the works of American, British, and French writers, 21 rare and seldom-anthologized stories include "A Bottomless Grave" by Ambrose Bierce, "The Ship that Saw a Ghost" by Frank Norris, Guy de Maupassant's "The Tomb," Richard Marsh's "The Hau
The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collects 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, including 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees. Featured this time are:AGAPE AMONG THE ROBOTS, by Allen SteeleTHE STARSHIP
Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short): UNKNOWN THINGS, by Reginald BretnorCAPTIVES OF THE FLAME, by Samuel R. DelanyEX
The Man Who Made Friends with Electricity - Fritz LeiberTime Bum - C.M. KornbluthThe Human Equations - Dave CreekThe Gun - Philip K. DickNot Stupid Enough - George H. ScithersJackpot - E.C. TubbThe Killing Streets - Colin HarveyCharon’s Curse - John Gla
With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both an educat
This anthology is the largest ever selection from the Decadent and Symbolist writers of the French fin-de-siècle — a period whose social and spiritual ills had so much in common with those of today.The selection is based on a series of essays on contem
"Take one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed with a selfish and spiritually bankrupt woman; stir together with a Faustian pact to create the perfect woman - and voila! Tommorrow's Eve
