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The Wolf-Men: A Tale of Amazing Adventure in the Under-World

The Wolf-Men: A Tale of Amazing Adventure in the Under-World

Frank Powell | Fiction
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SILAS K. HAVERLY, millionaire and explorer, settled himself comfortably back in the corner of a first-class smoker. He had ten minutes to wait ere the express—which was to bear him sixty miles across country to Stanwich, the nearest station to Garth Hilton’s place—was timed to start.

Lud-in-the-Mist

Lud-in-the-Mist

Hope Mirrlees | Fiction
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The Free State of Dorimare was a very small country, but, seeing that it was bounded on the south by the sea and on the north and east by mountains, while its centre consisted of a rich plain, watered by two rivers, a considerable variety of scenery and vegetation was to be found within its...

The Play That Won

The Play That Won

Ralph Henry Barbour | Fiction
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When the knock came Ted was slumped on his spine in the Morris chair, the green-shaded lamp beside him and a magazine propped on his chest. It was Saturday night and study was not imperative, for which he was grateful. The baseball game with Prospect Hill in the afternoon had been a hard one, and...

Trouble on Titan

Trouble on Titan

Henry Kuttner | Fiction
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Whenever Von Zorn, chief of Nine Planets Films, ran into trouble he automatically started the televisors humming with calls for Anthony Quade. The televisors were humming now. In fact they were shrieking hysterically. Quade’s code number bellowed out through a startled and partially deafened...

The Principal Girl

The Principal Girl

J. C. Snaith | Fiction
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The great Proconsul stood on one of Messrs. Maple’s best hearthrugs in Grosvenor Square. A typical payer of the super-tax, a pink and prosperous gentleman in a morning coat and striped trousers, his appearance had long commanded the admiration of his country.

The Samovar Girl

The Samovar Girl

Frederick Ferdinand Moore | Fiction
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It was the music of chains. A column of unfortunates from the big prison on the hill swung down the road and turned into the wide street between the log houses. They were on their way out into the taiga to cut wood and hew timbers under a guard of Cossacks.

Godsend to a Lady

Godsend to a Lady

B. M. Bower | Fiction
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Casey waved good-by to the men from Tonopah, squinted up at the sun, and got a coal-oil can of water and filled the radiator of his Ford. He rolled his bed in the tarp and tied it securely, put flour, bacon, coffee, salt, and various other small necessities of life into a box, inspected his...

Eris

Eris

Robert W. Chambers | Fiction
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THE baby was born at Whitewater Farms about nine in the morning, April 19, 1900. Two pure-breed calves,—one a heifer, the other a bull,—were dropped the same day at nearly the same hour.

The Adam Chaser

The Adam Chaser

B. M. Bower | Fiction
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Abington harried the starter with vicious jabs of his heel, then crawled reluctantly out into the blistering wind which felt as if it were driving down the sunlight with sharp needle points of heat that stung and smarted the skin where they struck.

A Floating City, and The Blockade Runners

A Floating City, and The Blockade Runners

Jules Vernes | Fiction
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On the 18th of March, 1867, I arrived at Liverpool, intending to take a berth simply as an amateur traveller on board the “Great Eastern,” which in a few days was to sail for New York. I had sometimes thought of paying a visit to North America, and was now tempted to cross the Atlantic on...