January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely, and desperate to change his life, so when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedi…
A gennaio (circa 1900, presumibilmente), la gente della Terra si è svegliata alla notizia che uno strano oggetto luminoso è esploso, nel Sistema Solare , dopo aver disturbato la normale orbita del pia…
"The Possibility of Evil" is about an old lady named Miss Strangeworth. She treasures her roses, passed down from her grandmother, and those roses are her pride. In order to keep a town, which she thi…
Tre dei racconti qui riuniti hanno come protagoniste quelle creaturine infide, pericolose, enigmatiche che Shirley Jackson conosceva molto bene per aver cresciuto quattro «demoni», come chiamava – sch…
The tale tells the story of Stephen Elliott, a young orphan boy, who is sent to stay with his much older cousin, Mr Abney, at a remote country mansion. His cousin is a reclusive alchemist obsessed wit…
"The Music of Erich Zann" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922.
Through the progress of science, human lifespans have been extended indefinitely, leading the government to enact strict rules to keep the earth's population under control. So when Edward K. Wehling, …
He awoke—and wanted Mars. The valleys, he thought. What would it be like to trudge among them? Great and greater yet: the dream grew as he became fully conscious, the dream and the yearning. He could …
Two friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately thr…
The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his neck. In a moment he will meet his fate: DEATH BY HANGING. There is no escape. Or is there? Find out i…
