Punishment Without Crime by Ray Bradbury

Sometimes it’s difficult to appreciate old classics. For example, I have trouble with Robert A. Heinlein’s ‘Orphans of the Sky.’ Continue reading →

The Chill Clutch of the Unseen by Kim Newman

In the quiet backwaters of Connecticut there is a small train station. And every day, as his father and his Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Graves by Joe Haldeman

You can get used to anything, the old saying goes. No matter how unusual or repugnant, if you do the Continue reading →

The Adder by Fred Chappell

In most Lovecraftian fiction the cosmic horror is either played straight – and therefore horrific – or played for laughs, Continue reading →

The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle

I love this. I remember exactly when I first read this, because I ran downstairs to my pilot housemate and Continue reading →