This early work by Tom Curry was originally published in 1930 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'From an Amber Block' is a short story about an amber block that conceals a ravenous creature. The Cryptofiction Classics series contains a collection of wonderful stories from some of the greatest authors in the genre, including Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London. From its roots in cryptozoology, this genre feat...

A giant amber block at last gives up its living ravenous prey.

Professor Lambert deliberately ventures into a Vibrational Dimension to join his fiancée in its magnetic torture-fields.

An experiment in to swap the souls of humans.

Carefully, cautiously, with his full force of his underworld spies did Tao the Chinese fence keep an eye on the newest recruit among his clients, and right up to the final act he could not be sure whether or not this O'Brien was of the Police.

Madly the three raced for their lives up the shaft of the radium mine for behind them poured a stream of hideous monstersgiants of the ray!

Navigating the marketplace of ideas can be difficult when there is so much bullshit to wade through. This book helps connect the underlying arguments used by charlatans and gives readers a skeptic's toolkit to identify the logical traps and pitfalls of different types of nonsense, and to discard each of them using critical thinking practices. From paranormal and medical quackery, to conspiracy theories and religion, the authors unpack the Grand Unified Theory of Bullshit, pulling out the c...

Set in the eponymous botanic garden in London on a hot July day, the narrative gives brief glimpses of four groups of people as they pass by a flowerbed. The story begins with a description of the oval-shaped flowerbed. Woolf mixes the colors of the petals of the flowers, floating to the ground, with the seemingly random movements of the visitors, which she likens to the apparently irregular movements of butterflies.

Without a doubt, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was one of the most quirky and unusual authors every to work in science fiction. That's saying a lot. His stories are often unusual, challenging, uncategorizable, and brilliant. This collection assembles 18 of them, including his very first story. Included are: ALOYSADAM HAD THREE BROTHERSSEVEN-DAY TERRORDAY OF THE GLACIERSODOM AND GOMORRAH, TEXASTHROUGH OTHER EYESTHE WEIRDEST WORLDTHE S...

Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions.This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Roald Dahl, Wolcott Gibbs, Robert Graves, Emily Hahn, Ted Hughes, Jamaica Kincaid, Steven Millhauser, Ha...

In 1912, the small mill town of Byng Inlet in northern Ontario burned to the ground. Very little of the original settlement remains to this day. Recently discovered letters tell the chilling story of how this once-thriving logging community became the ghost town it is now.

Professor Wroxton had disappearedbut in the bottom of the mysterious crystal cage lay the diamond from his ring.