Five stories. Five very different excursions into the imaginative worlds of vintage science fiction, where interplanetary conflict, deadly mysteries, strange technology, and unexpected twists are waiting.Battle of the Solar System by Ray Cummings launches into a sweeping adventure on a cosmic scale, carrying readers into a future where danger stretches across the planets and the stakes could not be higher.The Grip of Death by Robert Bloch b...

Five stories. Five very different excursions into the imaginative worlds of vintage science fiction, where interplanetary conflict, deadly mysteries, strange technology, and unexpected twists are waiting.Battle of the Solar System by Ray Cummings launches into a sweeping adventure on a cosmic scale, carrying readers into a future where danger stretches across the planets and the stakes could not be higher.The Grip of Death by Robert Bloch b...

Five stories. Five very different excursions into the imaginative worlds of vintage science fiction, where interplanetary conflict, deadly mysteries, strange technology, and unexpected twists are waiting.Battle of the Solar System by Ray Cummings launches into a sweeping adventure on a cosmic scale, carrying readers into a future where danger stretches across the planets and the stakes could not be higher.The Grip of Death by Robert Bloch b...

Graham Dean, a young artist living alone in an inherited house near San Pedro, is plagued by vivid dreams of the sea that feel less like nightmares than a summons. As his work falters and a doctor dismisses his fears, he senses a sinister force in the house's history, one tied to his ominous ancestor Morella Godolfo, whose beauty, sorcery, and rumored transformation into something not quite human have long haunted local legend. When his uncle Michael Leigh, an occult scholar, warns him to ...

Robert Bloch's "Founding Fathers" begins as a riotous time-travel caper, with Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Thomson recast as wisecracking gangsters barging into Independence Hall to rewrite history. Franklin nervously takes charge, coaching the others through a frantic, slang-filled version of the signing of the Declaration, while the comedy sharpens the contrast between patriotic legend and criminal hustle. The story then shifts into harder crime-fiction ...

Some doors should never be opened. Some bargains should never be made. And some mysteries wait patiently across centuries for the next curious soul.Lost Sci-Fi Books 506 thru 510 delivers five unforgettable journeys into the strange, the supernatural, and the farthest reaches of imagination. Stephen Marlowe’s Divvy Up turns greed into a dangerous game where every choice carries unexpected consequences. Robert Bloch’s chilling The Shambler F...

Some doors should never be opened. Some bargains should never be made. And some mysteries wait patiently across centuries for the next curious soul.Lost Sci-Fi Books 506 thru 510 delivers five unforgettable journeys into the strange, the supernatural, and the farthest reaches of imagination. Stephen Marlowe’s Divvy Up turns greed into a dangerous game where every choice carries unexpected consequences. Robert Bloch’s chilling The Shambler F...

Some doors should never be opened. Some bargains should never be made. And some mysteries wait patiently across centuries for the next curious soul.Lost Sci-Fi Books 506 thru 510 delivers five unforgettable journeys into the strange, the supernatural, and the farthest reaches of imagination. Stephen Marlowe’s Divvy Up turns greed into a dangerous game where every choice carries unexpected consequences. Robert Bloch’s chilling The Shambler F...

Some doors should never be opened. Some bargains should never be made. And some mysteries wait patiently across centuries for the next curious soul.Lost Sci-Fi Books 506 thru 510 delivers five unforgettable journeys into the strange, the supernatural, and the farthest reaches of imagination. Stephen Marlowe’s Divvy Up turns greed into a dangerous game where every choice carries unexpected consequences. Robert Bloch’s chilling The Shambler F...

CRIME AND MYSTERY STORIES BY20 VENDORS OF VILLAINYMystery Writers of America is pleased to present this sinister volume of larceny, deception, and murder, brought to you by the very finest purveyors of perfidy.Donald E. Westlake tells a tale of a cheating wife who tries to turn the tables on her blackmailer, only to find herself caught in a bigger web of lies than she could have imagined. From Robert Bloch comes a story of a man whose ve...

Imagination and Social Criticism3rd EditionA spectacular analysis of science fiction by the masters of the genre!Based on a 1957 lecture series at the University of Chicago.Does science fiction have any real effect as a force of social criticism? This question has been given much thought and discussion, but until the publication of this volume there was no definitive inquiry available in book form. Here are four sharply different analyses of the question: a ...

Robert Bloch's classic first novel, the precursor to Psycho***, a chilling look into the mind of a serial killer***Dan Morley is an aspiring novelist who is well liked by everybody, but most of all by women. But nobody knows that he struggles with a dark and forbidden urge, an irresistible impulse to kill. And when the lust for murder comes over him and he twists his scarf around his victim's neck, there is no escape ...Robert Bloc...