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The Whistling Monsters
Frightful beasts that were neither flesh nor fish, neither bird nor reptile, but combined the hideous qualities of all four! - Summary by We…
Twelve Times Zero
It was a love-triangle murder that made today's headlines but the answer lay hundreds of thousands of light years away! - Summary by If: Wor…
An Essay Upon Wind
Purported to be written by noted British Parliamentarian Charles James Fox as a result of a wager, this important and engaging essay is a me…
Fearful Rock
A tale of the War between the States, and dark, evil powers! - Summary by Weird Tales February 1939
Cue for Quiet
After too many years, T. L. Sherred returns with a story that gets our SPACE SPECIAL rating. It's the story of a man with a headache—who fou…
Bring the Jubilee
Hodgins "Hodge" Backmaker, a bumbling but curious and fiercely intelligent bookworm who has never felt at home with his family, le…
The Strange Case of Dr. M. K. Jessup
"At 6:30 P.M. on April 20, 1959, the body of Dr. M. K. Jessup, astronomer, researcher and writer on the subject of "Flying Saucers…
The Horror Expert
"She'll insert the knife so delicately that the man won't feel any pain at all. Just a warm gratefulness, an intoxicating sort of happi…
Weird Tales Double Feature
Incredibly prolific author Oscar Schisgall, who contributed over 4,000 stories to publications like Reader's Digest and Colliers, published …
The Flying Eyes
The National Guardsmen waited for the Flying Eyes, restlessly fingering their rifles and machine guns. Then they came-eight of them-diving s…
The Mark of the Monster
A vivid thrill-tale of the black altar on the hill-top, and the dark doom thathung over two lovers like a living horror! - Summary by Weird …
My Lady Greensleeves
In a future where everyone is assigned profession-based classifications, defying your place in society can land you in prison. Captain Liam …
The Secret Rose
Celebrated poet and author William Butler Yeats has graced us, in The Secret Rose, with a hauntingly beautiful collection of mystical storie…
Bratton's Idea
Bratton, a humble old janitor at a Hollywood film studio, has a secret passion... Mad Science! He has made it his life's ambition to create …
Transient
Governor Alman Lampley makes an unplanned stop in a small town on the way to his destination. Everything looks familiar yet slightly off. He…
The Set-Up
The Set-Up is the classic epic hard-edged poem of an aging African American boxer who is set up to take a fall in the ring against a younger…
The Cinema of Orson Welles
Acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon) was, early in his career, a film critic. It was during this time t…
Blackmailer
First, the sultry babe stormed into his office and demanded fifty grand, as if making a deal with her butcher. That night two mugs spoiled R…
Dream Tales and Prose Poems
World-renowned Russian author Ivan Turgenev brings us a collection of stories that traffic in the world of dreams, stories of lost love, of …
Jazz
Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” em…