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Madmen of Mars
by Erik FennelAll this time we've kept quiet as a whole cageful of mice. And with good reason. During the Big Scare, while everyone was afraid that the Exclusion Ultimatum meant the Martians wanted an interplanetary war, the Earth Governments would have been only too ready to hang, shoot, stab, gas, electrocute, freeze, burn, poison, impale and/or defenestrate t..
The Adventures of Captain Balgonie
by James GrantA cold day in the middle of April had passed away; a pale and cheerless sun, that had cast no heat on the leafless scenery and the half-frozen marshes that border the Louga in Western Russia, had sunk, and the darkness of a stormy night came on rapidly. The keen blast of the north, that swept the arid scalps of the Dudenhof (the only range of hills..
Bratton's Idea
by Manly Wade WellmanOld Bratton, janitor at the studios of Station XCV in Hollywood, was as gaunt as Karloff, as saturnine as Rathbone, as enigmatic as Lugosi. He was unique among Californians in professing absolutely no motion picture ambitions. Once, it is true, a director had stopped him on the street and offered to test him for a featured role, but old Bratton had..
Lord of the Silent Death
by Robert Moore WilliamsSamuel Morton found the box in Asia Minor, in a niche in the tomb of a forgotten Sumerian king, and not being able to open it, brought it back to this country with him. Morton was an archeologist, on the staff of the Asia Museum, located in South Chicago.After months of effort, he succeeded, one hot August afternoon, in opening the box. But the dea..
Tickets to Paradise
by D. L. JamesIt all started at Bandar Shahpur. You see, I'm a railroad construction man. Our job was finished, and the whole outfit was waiting at Bandar Shahpur, which is on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, for a boat to take us back to America.And there, out of nowhere, this Dr. Champ Chadwick showed up. He seemed to be starving for a little good old ..
Buffalo Bill's Still Hunt
by Prentiss IngrahamBuffalo Bill's Still Hunt is a western story written by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, who is also the author of the celebrated “Buffalo Bill” stories published in the Border Stories. It is now some generations since Josh Billings, Ned Buntline, and Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, intimate friends of Colonel William F. Cody, used to forgather in the of..
Equation for Time
by R. R. WinterbothamThe secret of time travel has been discovered. No one has traveled through time as yet, although man has explored the universe for more than twenty light years from the sun. But the day of time travel is not far distant. It had simple beginnings. All great things began in simple ways. Newton and the apple were the beginnings of modern understanding..
In the Earth's Shadow
by John L. ChapmanIt took a few minutes for Ferris to recover. Replacement! After six years of service at the number one fuel station between the Earth and Moon. Why, he was the only man who could handle Station 12! And Galsworth was sending Brooks, a green kid barely out of SM school. What was the guy thinking of?Angered, Ferris got up from his stool and paced the ..