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A house, it has been said, is a machine for living. The house they bought from its previous occupant had, very definitely, been made just that. But—not for human living!

Occult and Supernatural fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world. In its broadest definition, supernatural fiction overlaps with examples of weird fiction, horror fiction, vampire literature, ghost story, and fantasy. Elements of supernatural fiction can be found in writing from the genre of science fiction. Amongst academics, readers and collectors, however, supernatural fiction is often classed as a discrete genre defined by the elimination of'horror','fantasy', and elements important to other genres.The one genre supernatural fiction appears to embrace in its entirety is the traditional ghost story. Contents: E. F. Benson CATERPILLARS THE SANCTUARY THE THING IN THE HALL THE TERROR BY NIGHT Ambrose Bierce AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT Algernon Blackwood THE WILLOWS Ulric Daubeny THE SUMACH Charles Dickens THE SIGNAL-MAN Arthur Conan Doyle THE CASE OF LADY SANNOX Lord Dunsany DISTRESSING TALE OF THANGOBRIND THE JEWELLER William Fryer Harvey ACROSS THE MOORS Nathaniel Hawthorne THE AMBITIOUS GUEST W.W. Jacobs THE MONKEY'S PAW Henry James THE TURN OF THE SCREW Franz Kafka IN THE PENAL COLONY David H. Keller THE THING IN THE CELLAR Henry Kuttner THE GRAVEYARD RATS Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu CARMILLA H.P. Lovecraft AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS THE CALL OF CTHULHU POLARIS THE QUEST OF IRANON THE RATS IN THE WALLS A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON THE SECRET CAVE OR JOHN LEES ADVENTURE THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH THE SHUNNED HOUSE THE SILVER KEY THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST THE STREET THE TEMPLE THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN THE TOMB THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO THE TREE UNDER THE PYRAMIDS THE VERY OLD FOLK WHAT THE MOON BRINGS Arthur Machen THE GREAT GOD PAN M. R. James THE MEZZOTINT THE STALLS OF BARCHESTER CATHEDRAL THE ASH-TREE NUMBER 13 COUNT MAGNUS A WARNING TO THE CURIOUS Vincent O'Sullivan WHEN I WAS DEAD Edgar Allan Poe THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM THE TELL—TALE HEART Margaret Ronan FINGER! FINGER! Saki GABRIEL-ERNEST THE OPEN WINDOW

It was quite a business, too... and it wasn't anything you could prove murder. Murder, after all, is strictly a human affair; this was, on the contrary, an inhuman sort of business! Classic science fiction.

Aeons ago, the science of ancient Atlantis forged the Earth Star in a desperate attempt to save the doomed continent. The fabled jewel holds immense power, and there are those who would use its weird energies for evil. And there are those who would use it to resurrect thelost continent...at any cost!

He was a changeable sort of fellow—and on occasions resembled a piecemeal zombie assembled by someone entirely ignorant of anatomy! Classic dark fantasy from Weird Tales.

When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology—don't do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible?

The Ego Machine: When a slightly mad robot drunk on AC, wants you to join an experiment in optimum ecology—don't do it! After all, who wants to argue like Disraeli or live like Ivan the Terrible? Where the World is Quiet: The life of an anthropologist is no doubt filled much of the time with the monotonous routine of carefully assembling powdery relics of ancient races and civilizations.

Peter Manx annihilates time and history as he streamlines the world of yesterday! Classic pulp fiction.

Black Cat Weekly continues to present a mix of original, modern, and classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery fiction. #71 includes 6 short stories, 3 novels, and a solve-it-yourself mystery. Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:“Friday, February 30th,” by Mark Thielman [Michael Bracken Presents short story]“X Marks the Spot” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]“Secrets in the Snow” by J. M. Taylor [Barb Goffman Presents short story]Ring-a-Ding-Ding, by Frank Kane [novel]The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle [collection] Science Fiction & Fantasy:“The Giftie Gien,” by Malcolm Jameson [short story]“Space-Can,” by Murray Leinster [short story]“The Knowledge Machine,” by Edmond Hamilton [short story]“The Timeless Tomorrow,” by Manly Wade Wellman [novel]Secret of the Earth Star, by Henry Kuttner [novel]

This carefully crafted ebook'House of Terror'is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: I, the Vampire The Salem Horror The Shadow on the Screen The Secret of Kralitz Chameleon Man

Joseph Breden knew it was a dream when he shot his co-guardian, Carolyn Kohl, through the head. It was a recurrent dream. And it wasn't a safe dream to have, when you were one of the nuclear physicists chosen to be a guardian at Uranium Pile Number One, the key-spot of a civilization that existed a hundred years after Hiroshima. There was more to the dream—the nightmare sensation of going down into the very heart of the great sunken ziggurat under the Pacific island, and removing the boron dampers so that the atomic pile approached—and reached!—critical mass. Breden was off beam, and knew it, and knew that the next psych check would betray him to the medical board. Then he'd lose his job, because the guardians at the island had to be perfectly balanced psychologically, His job was vital to him, partly because of Margaret, his wife; partly because of his brother Louis. Louis was one of the mutants born after atomic blasts—there were a number of these. They weren't supermen. They were merely humans extended.

He was a changeable sort of fellow—and on occasions resembled a piecemeal zombie assembled by someone entirely ignorant of anatomy! Or a gorilla. Or a dozen beautiful fashion models... A classic fantasy from the legendary pulp magazine, Weird Tales.

Terry Shawn and his Eagle crew raged through the interstellar spaces bent on avenging Earth's destruction by spaceships of another planet—and faced the strangest destiny ever encountered by man. Classic space opera!

In a fabulous Brazilian valley, Jim Ferguson and Dr. Cairns battle against walking rocks and cannibal plants in their strange quest of a mysterious and fascinating girl goddess!

Deep in his fourth dimensional lair crouches the hungry monster—while only a band of children guards helpless adult victims from his grim and insatiable exactions!

Ghosting out of the dismal north swamp, a batrachian horror howls through monk's hollow in a witch's holocaust! Classic pulp horror from a master of the macabre (and a member of the Lovecraft Circle). Introduction by Eileen Hammond.

Trance-borne to a far distant age, Pilot Ethan Court is plunged into peril and adventure on a strange new world where his courage and idealism are put to a stern test! Classic pulp adventure.

Jim Harry knew how to tame a horse, but he didn't know being able to ride the winged steed was a perilous sort of joy.Das E-Book Pegasus wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: fantasy;pegasus;mythology;horse;historical;adventure;short story

The strange, alien woman he called Circe had done it. The slow horror of remembrance crept across his face. Out there, in space, something had happened. Something frightful to leave such traces on Arnsen...

The problem of getting away with murder is an old one. But with the Eye to watch your every move for fifty years back, it was a new and apparently insolvable one! But there was, actually, an infinitely tougher problem…

When the outmoded spaceship “La Cucaracha” battles against the inroads of space transmission, Logger Hilton must choose between a bright future or a daring venture for a lost cause!

When Dr. Horace Danton is transported to Burma and made the high priest of a Tibetan deity, he becomes the startling storm-center of a series of fantastic events! A fantastic World War II tale by a master of pulp fiction.

Gallegher, the Mad Scientist who plays it by ear, is back! Only the news is devistatingly bad—a “small brown animal” Gallegher couldn't see has kept him in a horrid state of sobriety by drinking all his liquor!

A ghastly horror from the witchcraft days of three centuries ago reared its dreadful form in the Witch Room of that old house in Derby Street.Das E-Book The Salem Horror wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: cthulhu;lovecraft;mythos;horror;dark fatnasy;weird tales;short story

It's James Fenwick versus the Devil, with a soul at stake. You wouldn't think it's going to be a fair fight. And you'd probably be right! A classic deal-with-the devil story.

The Blow-Up was coming. It was near, near... Johnny Dyson knew he would see it soon. One minute, Earth. The next...little Nova, weeping radioactive dust into the void. Then Johnny and the Robot would build an Eden on Mars...

The sub-human denizens of Saturn's largest moon were said to be harmless—but when the ace director of Nine Planets Films was sent to photograph them, he was in for a shock!

I mentioned to BCW's acquiring editor Michael Bracken that I was enjoying the mystery/science fiction crossover stories he had been selecting for BCW, many of them originals, and he confessed to challenging writers to come up with stories that mixed the two genres. I thought, Aha! So that's where they have all been coming from! It's a Good Thing in my opinion. And this issue we have another one—“For Blood,” by Eve Fisher, which works well as both science fiction and mystery. Another of our acquiring editors, Barb Goffman, was nominated for not one, but two Agatha Awards at the Malice Domestic mystery convention last weekend. It's hard to win when you have two stories up at the same time in the same category, as she did. I kept my fingers crossed for a tie, so she'd have two Agatha Awards this year, but it wasn't to be. Next year! The good news is, she affirmed her enthusiasm for editing for BCW, and this issue she has yet another great mystery story: “Death of a Bible Salesman,” by Sarah R. Shaber (who I suspect of watching Paper Moon in part for her inspiration. I have a fondness for stories about grifters and conmen.) And speaking of conmen, we have another rare tale by Christopher B. Booth featuring conman deluxe Mr. Amos Clackworthy. Plus mysteries by Hulbert Footner and Hal Charles (a solve-it-yourself puzzler). Plus a historical adventure by western author W.C. Tuttle. On the science fiction front, we have Darrell Schweitzer's 1979 interview with Fred Saberhagen. If you're a fan of his Berserker series, there's a lot here about it. Michael Swanwick returns to our pages with “The House of Dreams,” a fantasy tale selected by Cynthia Ward. Plus we have classics by Malcolm Jameson and Lester del Rey (both from the Golden Age of Astounding Science Fiction) plus a dark science fiction tale by Henry Kuttner from Weird Tales. This issue also has the final 3 episodes of Mel Gilden's novel, The Case by Case Casebook of Emily Silverwood. Great Fun. Here's the lineup: Non-Fiction: Speaking with Fred Saberhagen, an Interview by Darrell Schweitzer [interview] Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: For Blood, by Eve Fisher [Michael Bracken Presents short story] Booked For Murder, by Hal Charles [solve-it-yourself mystery] Death of a Bible Salesman, by Sarah R. Shaber [Barb Goffman Presents short story] The Case of Luke Darrow, by Hulbert Footner [novel] When Mr. Clackworthy Needed a Bracer, by Christopher B. Booth [novelette] Cinders, by W.C. Tuttle [short story] Science Fiction & Fantasy: For Blood, by Eve Fisher [Michael Bracken Presents short story] The House of Dreams, by Michael Swanwick [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] Tricky Tonnage, by Malcolm Jameson [short story] Raider of the Spaceways, by Henry Kuttner [novelette] The Renegade, by Lester del Rey [short story] The Case by Case Casebook of Emily Silverwood, by Mel Gilden (Part 4 of 4) [Serial Novel]

The old man dallied with evil magic, and sought to double his span of life at his nephew's expense, but the world ended for him at the Towers of Silence in a Persian cemetery

Embark on a thrilling journey to the dark side of Venus with Dal Kenworth and Thona Trenton as they face the ruthless space pirate known as the Raider. Stranded on a world of eternal night, they must outwit the Raider and unravel the mysteries of an alien landscape. But an ancient horror lurks in the shadows, waiting to ensnare them with its telepathic powers. Can Dal and Thona survive the Night Side and find their way back to the light?

Those fabulous Hogbens defy space and time just to get old Yancey Tarbell's debts paid!Das E-Book See You Later wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: science fiction;sci-fi;pulp;classic;historical;adventure;classic

This is a great collection of action short stories by Henry Kuttner from'The Golden Age of Science Fiction'. Featured here:'The Big Night', and'The Power and the Glory'.

On that fog-shrouded Venusian mountaintop lay an eternal Pool, where icy diamonds and blood-red rubies, emerald idols and rich yellow gold sparkled seductively in darkling depths... and striding confidently up the strange path toward that island in the sky came Red Rohan, thief of Venus. But the treasure, of course, had a Guardian: a Monster... or possibly a god...

From'Avengers Of Space'-'Then he was in the temple, empty save for the alter and its dreadful tenant.As Shawn raced forward he felt a blast of power rush out to meet him, the mighty thoughts of Droom tearing at his brain.Blazing agony blinded him.A thousand fingers of steel seemed to be plucking, tearing, wrenching his head, pulling it apart bit by bit.The flames within the alter were blinding. Staggering,he kept on, hearing the bellowing of the beastmen growing louder behind him....

Kent Woodley awakened to find a dead man's throat between his hands, in a body he didn't recognize as his own, in a world that was subtly wrong. What was he doing here, with no memories of what had happened or where he was—or whose body he now inhabited? Was it amnesia? Or something more sinister?

Terence Macduff, a cunning intergalactic swindler, finds himself in a high-stakes game of wits aboard the spaceship Sutter. With a priceless plant, a mysterious beauty, and a vengeful lobster-like creature in the mix, Macduff must use every trick up his sleeve to come out on top. As tensions rise and hidden agendas unravel, can Macduff pull off the ultimate con, or will his own clever schemes finally catch up with him?

Man has learned many tricks to make his environment fit his needs. There is another approach—better, perhaps, but full of blind alleys…Das E-Book Promised Land wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: science fiction;pulp;sci-fi;short story;classic;American;golden age

When the Pughs become a mite too troublesome, Grandpaw Hogben proves himself a creature of infinite resource!Das E-Book Cold War wird angeboten von Alien Ebooks und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: science fiction;pulp;sci-fi;short story;classic;hogbens;adventure

When the Druid priest Dalan tells Elak that the Northmen have invaded Cyrena and King Orander, Elak's brother, is now a captive, Elak knows his duty as a prince of Cyrena. Abandoning his life as a wandering adventurer of Atlantis, he sets off with his companions for Dalan's ship. For only he can rally his people, raise an army, and rescue his brother!