She’d now carried the imagined pregnancy—the product of rape and a mental breakdown—through the two years of padded cells, shock treatment, chemotherapy, and psychoanalysis. So powerful was her obsession that her menstrual periods had altered and her abdomen had that visible bulge.<P> Of all the doctors, only Gramling had helped her to a measurable degree. And to him, the case was a chaffing frustration, a challenge to his science, his in ...
Ted Wilford, as editor of his high school paper and school correspondent for the local weekly, is eager for a scoop on the story of who took $13,000 from the school safe after the money had been raised for charity by a carnival. How could the money have been stolen from a locked safe whose combination was known only to three reputable school officials? <P> Ted works hard for his scoops and comes up with some very surprising leads. The work ...
A facsimile reprint of the April 1933 issue of «Weird Trails» magazine, featuring M.M. Moamrath's «Riders of the Purple Ooze,» and many more Lovecraft-inspired stories. ...
August is just crazy in Greenwich Village when you're a cop—a full moon, an exceptionally heat wave, missing handcuffs, and all the drama of a police station and the lives—and wives—of the officers…all leading up to murder! ...
A mugger released on parole rankles against the indignities of his new job and despises the cruel heel of his parole manager. What's a guy to do? Run away with his girlfriend—but only after one last job… ...
Thomas Burnett Swann (1928-1976) earned a distinguished reputation among writers of science fiction, one that caused his enthusiastic following to nominate him again and again for awards. Unique in his talent, his novels dealt not with the far future, but with the enigma of the past. Prior to the dawn of human history, the Earth did not belong solely to humanity – there were other intelligent species still fighting a last-stand battle against ex ...
