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The Stars, My Brothers is a classic science fiction novella by American author Edmond Hamilton first published in Amazing Stories 1962. The Stars, My Brothers is considered one of ...

The World Beyond is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Cummings. Out of nowhere came these grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them ...

Phantoms of Reality is a science fiction novella by american author Ray Cummings. ”Red Sensua's knife came up dripping—and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution ...

The Repairman and Other stories is a science fiction short story compilation by Harry Harrison. This is a collection of 3 of Harry Harrison marvelous early stories that were publis ...

Arm of the Law is a science fiction short story by Harry Harrison first published in 1958. How could a robot—a machine, after all—be involved in something like law application and ...

The K-Factor is a science fiction short story by Harry Harrison, first published in 1960. The human race has reached the stars, colonized many planets and done amazing things in al ...

The Misplaced Battleship is a science fiction short story by Harry Harrison first published in 1960. The world class con man and thief known as the Stainless Steel Rat (diGriz) has ...

They Twinkled Like Jewels by Philip José Farmer is a science fiction short story, first published in 1954. The story begins with Jack Crane lying in vacant lot. He seems a bit wors ...

Rastignac The Devil is a science fiction novella by Philip José Farmer first published in Fantastic Universe May 1954. Here is high fidelity fiction at Philip José Farmer's story-t ...

The Last Evolution is a science fiction short story by John W- Campbell, first published in 1932. A classic tale of pulp super-science by the man who shaped the Golden Age of SciFi ...

The World That Couldn't Be is a science fiction short story by American author Clifford D. Simak. Layard was a curiosity to sociologists. The planet supported thriving tribes of na ...

Project Mastodon is a science fiction short story by Clifford D. Simak, first published in March 1955 in the Galaxy magazine. Clifford Simak deals with the implications of time tra ...

Hellhounds of the Cosmos is a science fiction short story by Clifford D. Simak, from Astounding Stories of 1932. Earth is being attacked by horrible black monsters that appear from ...

Sir Edmund Orme is a short novel by Henry James, first published and included in the collection The Lesson of the Master, published in 1892. Henry James wrote a number of ghost sto ...

The Jolly Corner is a short story by Henry James published first in the magazine The English Review of December, 1908. One of James' most noted ghost stories, The Jolly Corner desc ...

Yllättäviä välähdyksiä, joissa Huovinen nostaa maailmannäyttämön etualalle usein pieniä, mutta merkitykseltään sitäkin suurempia ilmiöitä. Veikko Huovisen Lyhyet erikoiset avartava ...

Owen Wingrave is a novella by Henry James, first published in The Graphic in 1892 A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not ...

His Last Bow is a collection of eight Sherlock Holmes stories (seven in some editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, first in The Strand Magazine September 1908 to December 1913, plus the ...

The Lifted Veil is a horror novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. The novella explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life af ...

The Elixir of Life is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published 1830, about eternal life. However, this is an eternal life story with a horrific twist. The Elixir of Life ...

Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell ...

Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the case ...

These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrecting him some ten years later. The swash ...

Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim – and then finds out there are strange things going on – ...

24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. S ...