Ben Tucker
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 Early Misadventures of Toffee
Included in this collection are the first two stories featuring that wonderfully wacky dream girl temptress Toffee! Stories include:"I…
The House of Skulls
A slick car and scenic and bountiful ranch to be had for a steal and Yorke Desmond wonders only briefly what the catch is. The man who sold…
Ye of Little Faith
It matters not whether you believe or disbelieve. Reality is not always based on logic; nor, particularly, are the laws of the universe.... …
The Little Room and Other Stories
Woman of Weird Fiction Madeline Yale Wynne took to writing later in life but produced some truly unique and strange pieces of literature suc…
Satan's Garden
The story of a terrific adventure in Bayonne, two ravishingly beautiful girls, occult evil and sudden death in the lair of the hasheesh-eate…
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…
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 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 Enormous Room
When an ethnically diverse group of people are suddenly transported from a rollercoaster in an amusement park to a stark and alien room peop…
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…
Detour
Alexander Roth is a jazz fiddle player who can't quite seem to catch a break after losing his job and having his best girl Sue leave him to …
The Canal, and Leonora
Everil Worrell was one of the few female writers of weird fiction in the early days of Weird Tales magazine and 1927 marked a seminal year f…
Weird Tales Double Feature: The Death Pit & In Kashla's Garden
Incredibly prolific author Oscar Schisgall, who contributed over 4,000 stories to publications like Reader's Digest and Colliers, published …
Drug Themes in Science Fiction
Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is preci…
The Haunted Island
Being the History of an Adventure to an Island in the Remote South Sea. Of a Wizard there. Of his Pirate Gang; His Treasure ; His Combustibl…
Brink of Madness
C.I.B. Agent Pell used his head, even if he did rely on hunches more than on the computer. In fact, when the game got rough, he found that t…
Revolt of the Birds
As the butterfly is drawn by instinct over thousands of miles to its mate, so the man Hudson is drawn to a deadly island of terrors to the w…
Stories of the Rhine
Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian, more widely known by their joint nom de plume Erckmann-Chatrian, were in their time more recog…
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…