Novel-Classic Stories

In year 2430, terror spreads when assassins strike down Earth's three major leaders at once. Were the treacherous Venusians behind the crime? Yet the leader of Venus Central State falls, too -- then the leader of Mars. Who is the Tarrano mentioned in the desperate warning?

Don't take your eye off music. there is going to be a lot more to it than meets the ear!

After rescue, revenge was uppermost in Chet Barfield's mind; the hideous, bestial Agvars had to be taught a lesson they'd never forget. His rescuers seemed to disagree, however--until Chet learned his lesson too!

It was a joyous journey Anders set out on. to reach his goal . but look where he wound up!

Women will always go on trying to attract men. even when the future seems to have no future!

The place called Sodom was bad enough. But right down the road was the other town--and that was even worse!

Have you found out about the Big Engine? It's all around us, you know--can't you hear it even now?

I hear a step outside. It is our Targa guide, the man who in three days is to lead us across the unknown plateaus of the mysterious Imoschaoch. The lamp casts a yellow light on the paper. Strange fate, which, I never knew exactly why, decided one day when I was a lad of sixteen that I should prepare myself for Saint Cyr, and gave me there André de Saint-Avit as classmate. A great insect has flown in through the window. It is an African May bug, big, black, with spots of livid grey...

Sound the fanfare! Beat the drums! Shout hosannas! Here he comes....

A manuscript is found: filled with small, precise writing and smelling of pit-water, it tells the story of an old recluse and his strange home - and its even stranger, jade-green double, seen by the recluse on an otherworldly plain where gigantic gods and monsters roam.