Short Story Books

At the Emperor's Wish - A Tale of the New Japan

Oscar K. Davis

  Money is not yet everything in Japan, however rapidly its power may be advancing. But it is something to the Commoner and it was little better than nothing to the Eta. Kutami was proud of himse..

A Soldier's Home Is Battle

Lowell Stone

Jerry crawled back to the protection of the bulwark. He had a hazy glimpse of movement around him, but he couldn't see well enough out of his blinded eyes to make out what the others were doing. Thing..

The Disembodied Man

Jack Owen Jardine

George was silent, thinking now in visual images instead of words. A brain in a glass jar, surrounded by fantastic machinery to perform the functions of the human body. And a woman's voice being piped..

The Man Who Made the World

Richard Matheson

Don't be absurd, Nurse Mudde. Look at me. Can you honestly say that.... (He stops talking. She cannot honestly say anything. She is not there. Doctor Janishefsky who is not really Doctor Janishefsky f..

Birthday Present

Arnold Marmor

Diane got out first and made sure the way was clear. "We'll use the back stairs," she said when she got back. "We both can manage him." It was dark and it was late and we didn't see anybody. We went t..

The Battle of the Bells

Jerome Bixby

The three old men turned and saw a tall, handsome, blond young man, dressed in a neat and utterly clean white suit, standing in the center of the yard. His face wore an expression of perfect peace and..

The Dangerous Scarecrow

Stewart Culin

The boy lowered the glass, wiped the lens on his sleeve, and carefully focused again. A puzzled frown furrowed his face. Save for the flapping of his trousers in the wind, Mr. Maudsley stood motionles..

The Queen of Space

Stewart Culin

She had begun an enticing—indeed, fascinating wiggle of as excellently rounded a pair of hips as I had ever seen, and then, without warning of any sort, she had vanished. Well, you can imagine how per..