'Talented people often go a bit barmy,' Chancey said, lighting a cigarette. 'Especially if they've had concussion and all the rest of it. Periwinkle – well, she behaves barmily most of the time. But she's – she's got the spark.
“No, they set us on this quest to see if you could manage to reach Birth Mountain,” responded Erith, with his usual failure to understand irony. “Unless they plan to reunite you with your soft mate and breedyou two, itmaybe thatthey ...
Jowett repeated, trying not to sound vague. “And where is Earth Two?” “Behind the moon,” Carson answered, giving again that faintly contemptuous smile. “Now look here,” Jowett breathed, “we want the truth! Not a fairy tale.
As Norhala's guests, Goodwin and his team witness the mind-boggling marvels that are the Metal Monster's way of life, and the unspeakable horrors it commits when Norhala takes it to war against her persecutors.
These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published.
These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published.
When he was nine years old he joined Jack Hoefler's five cent circus. That was in Appleton, his own home town. Then he got apprenticed to a mechanic, and at last went off to see the great big outside world.
The young mechanic gave the news that he'd got a job to his bored companions. They all envied him, for they themselves could find little to do until the rocket was almost ready. For the twentieth time Chris went over Sir George Benson's ...
It was Sid's mother who thought she'd seen a newspaper report that Mr. Godfrey had just returned to this country. ... He disappeared for at least a quarter of an hour, returning then with a bespectacled young man who had several paper ...
When the deaths of the four young men had been reported so many weeks before, everyone had mourned their loss, for they had long been heroes to millions. ... “We'd better report to Control,” he said in a strangled whisper.
These stories have lost none of their power to unsettle and disturb.
Swiftly, the beams probed out into the blackness, touched hard metal and fled back to the ship, bringing their wordless warning with them. Delicate antennae picked up the vibrations, transformed them into light on the circular tube, ...
Colino remembered how he'd felt when the Huey had dropped out of the sky in front of their car two days ago. By the time Colino reached them, Tanner's interrogation was already underway and his man wasfeeling themfor weapons.
SoI demanded that thePort Authorities should immediately undertake criminal proceedings against himfor boat stealing,and in any case,withsuch an important and valuable cargo clearing, and with one of the most important merchants of the ...
You can prove a point in law; you can prove a mathematical concept; but of what value are law and mathematics when ... enlarged a millionmillionfold, 701 —NIGHTMARE — HATCHER — SIX This, too, decided Milo,was an interesting line of ...
Barefooted, he hurried to answer it, convinced it would be Karen.The instant he openedthe door a fist thudded against his cheek. He reeled back from the blow, glimpsing a dark, thickset young man who immediately fled.
Under the cover of darkness and a violent storm, electrical engineer Sidney Cassell thought he'd committed the perfect murder.
Near 10,000 steel lance heads glinted in the sun, like the sudden smile of a hungry shark. In an instant of fear, Jarvo knew he had fallen into Kane's trap. There was no turning back. The earth shock beneath their charge.
In the booty captured in a savage raid, Kane discovers a ring, a bloodstone, which is key to the power that lies buried, inactive but not dead, within the forest.
"My God!" he yelled.