Novel-Classic Stories

There was a reason why his scripts were smash hits--they had realism. And why not? He was reliving every scene and emotion in them!

Leslie Larner, an entomologist borrowed from the Earth, pits himself against the night-flying vampires that are ravaging the inhabitants of Venus.

Four destinies rocket through the strange Time-Space of the Fourth Dimension in Tode's marvelous Atom-Smasher.

Commander John Hanson recalls his harrowing expedition among the giant spiders of FX-31.

Another episode in Dr. Bird's extraordinary duel with the scientific wizard Saranoff.

Edison attempts to stave off a Martian attack on Earth -- with his own invasion of Mars!

We gave this story to competent, and pretty gal artist. We said, "Read this carefully, dream on it, and come up with an illustration." A week later, she returned with the finished drawing. "The hero," she said. We did a double take. "Hey! That's not the hero." She looked us straight in the eye. "Can you prove it?" She had us. We couldn't, and she left hurriedly to go home and cook dinner for her family. And what were they having? Frog legs, what else?

The general was bucking for his other star--and this miserable contraption bucked right back!

The youngster of this story isn't a child monster at all. He's just--a "destructor." And that in itself is somehow unimaginably terrifying!

The punishment had to fit more than just the crime--it had to suit every world in the Galaxy!