The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World by Harlan Ellison

Fan fiction. It’s usually considered to be stories written by amateurs about licensed characters (usually from film or TV) without Continue reading →

A Toy for Juliette by Robert Bloch

Juliette is a seventeen year old girl in the far future. Her bedroom walls are covered with many panes of Continue reading →

Two Perfect Thefts from Seamark and Sinclair Lewis

Here are two stories so similar to each other it makes me wonder whether there’s a decades-old case of plagiarism Continue reading →

The Rag Thing by Donald A. Wollheim

It would have been all right if spring had never come. During the winter nothing had happened and nothing was Continue reading →

A Birch Tree, A White Fox by Elena Arsenieva

There is a planet on which you cannot speak. It is a desert with a breathable atmosphere, speckled with oases. Continue reading →

Skull-Face by Robert E. Howard

This is the best Fu Manchu story I’ve come across so far. Oh, technically it’s not about Fu Manchu, but Continue reading →

The Gift of the Prodigal by Peter Taylor

This appears to be a story studied in class, given that a couple of Q&A websites have posted questions like: Continue reading →

The Million-Dollar Wound by Dean Whitlock

While technically taking place in Bolivia, the feel of the setting oozes Vietnam. The U.S. has a draft in place, Continue reading →