Ben Tucker
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…
Prince Zaleski
Weird fiction author M. P. Shiel brings us a most unusual detective in Prince Zaleski in his first published book. Ensconced within his orn…
The Fixed Flight
M. Maurice Renard is a modern French author with a wide reputation won by his imaginative scientific romances. This story of a thrilling adv…
The Black Drama
A strange weird story about the eery personality known as Varduk, who claimed descent from Lord Byron, and the hideous doom that stalked in …
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…
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 Feasting Dead
Colonel Hapgood, our narrator, has been sending his son Denis to a chateau of a distant relative in the French countryside where the boy has…
Tales Grotesque and Curious
Here collected are eleven of the over 200 stories that Ryūnosuke Akutagawa wrote during his all-too-brief lifetime and give a sample of the …
The Place Called Dagon
A strange romantic tale of a cult of evil descended from early witchcraft days. Mirroring an unusual element of New England society, it tell…
Death Talks Out of Turn
...A high-powered mystery of strange and evil happenings in the nation's capital! - Summary by Front cover
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…
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 …
The House of Moonlight
As a boy living in Sac Prairie, Wisconsin, with his grandfather Jasper, Steve goes to visit up-and-coming pianist Joel Merrihew and his moth…
Unutterable Horrors and Loathsome Entities: Early Frank Belknap Long
Of the early Weird Tales Magazine contributors, Frank Belknap Long was one of the most prolific with a career in genre fiction spanning seve…
Yesterday's Doors
Did you ever find yourself with amnesia, no clue as to who you are or what the secrets of your past holds, confronted by cops trying to beat…
The Souls of the Streets and Other Little Papers
Acclaimed British author Arthur Ransome presents us with a small collection of charming and wistful sketches on the character of the street,…
The Time Mirror
Here was a strange mirror indeed! It reflected an image all right, but not an image from the same era in history! - Summary by Amazing Stori…
It Walks By Night
A ghastly crime... Monsieur de Saligny was found in a card-room of a gambling palace and secret opium den, knelt in supplication, the bloody…
The Great Return
The small Welsh town of Llantrisant has experienced something unusual... Something wonderful... Something even miraculous. It only lasted a …
The Hours After Midnight
When Julie gets in a fight with her beau Phil, she is thrown into the arms of the greasy, long-haired delinquent Nolan who has plans for Jul…