Exhibit Piece by Philip K. Dick - As curator of the Twentieth Century Exhibit, George Miller felt that to do a good job he had to live his work. Then, one day, somebody got into his exhibit and he went to investigate...
That's a strange suit you have on,' the robot pubtrans driver observed. It slid back its door and came to rest at the curb. 'What are the little round things?'
'Those are buttons,' George Miller explained. 'They are partly functional, partly ornamental. This is an archaic suit of the twentieth century. I wear it because of the nature of my employment.'
He paid the robot, grabbed up his briefcase, and hurried along the ramp to the History Agency. The main building was already open for the day; robed men and women wandered everywhere. Miller entered a PRIVATE lift, squeezed between two immense controllers from the pre-Christian division, and in a moment was on his way to his own level, the Middle Twentieth Century.
'Gorning,' he murmured, as Controller Fleming met him at the atomic engine exhibit.
'Gorning,' Fleming responded brusquely. 'Look here, Miller. Let's have this out once and for all. What if everybody dressed like you? The Government sets up strict rules for dress. Can't you forget your damn anachronisms once in awhile? What in God's name is that thing in your hand? It looks like a squashed Jurassic lizard.'
'This is an alligator-hide briefcase,' Miller explained. 'I carry my study spools in it. The briefcase was an authority symbol of the managerial class of the latter twentieth century.'
Dans la lignée des nouvelles comme Le Ballon d'Edgar Allen Poe ou des ouvrages comme De la Terre à la Lune de Jules Verne, Une visite Nocturne, de Théophile Gautier, fait partie des ces histoires qui précèdent la seconde révolution industrielle et explorent les inventions humaines, se questionnant sur leurs débouchés. Un courant qu'on pourrait sans doute décrire comme ayant inspiré le genre steampunk. Gautier raconte comment son personnage est surpris par un de ses amis, un inventeur, qui s'atèle à la tâche de fabriquer un engin volant.
Poête et romancier français, Théophile Gautier fut un contemporain des Balzac et Beaudelaire, se méritant même l'admiration de ceux-ci. Outre Le Chevalier Double, ses oeuvres les plus connues sont La Cafetière et La Morte Amoureuse.
Escribir sobre este género no es tan fácil como parece, pero a decir verdad ha sido una experiencia interesante, en este libro te comparto sobre cementerios que aterran, además de que cubras todos tus espejos esta noche, porque hay terror en la casa, y presencia en la oscuridad, siguiendo con algunos relatos aterradores, e historias de horror, y culminando con algunas experiencias de terror en tu propia casa. Espero lo disfrutes y compartas con alguien más.
What do you do when it seems like everyone in your family has done something magnificent-everyone, that is, except you? That's Andy's problem. So when his class visits an Egyptian exhibit, he figures it'll be just another field trip. But he's wrong, because somehow a mummy's spirit seems to have given him a weird magic power. Suddenly, Andy's magnificent-all he has to do is wish for whatever he wants! But Andy soon learns to be very, very careful of what he wishes for...
Die 16-jährige Lori verkleidet sich für ein historisches Festival wie ein Mädchen aus der Zeit von Napoleon. Während eines Gewitters verliert sie die Besinnung. Als sie wieder zu sich kommt, begegnet sie dem jungen Engländer Thomas, der ebenfalls historisch kostümiert ist. Wegen seiner altmodischen Ausdruckweise hält Lori ihn für ziemlich verwirrt. Schnell stellt sich jedoch heraus, dass Thomas wirklich aus dem Jahr 1813 stammt. Lori will ihm bei der Rückkehr in seine Zeit helfen, aber dann ist da auf einmal dieses Knistern zwischen ihnen beiden ...
It's Halloween and the ghosts of Victorian London are stirring...
The dark October night is bitter cold as Jake Shillingsworth, serving boy in London's most notorious Inn ‘The Tattered Crow’, discovers a terrible truth. That the hidden eyes he’s felt watching from hidden rooms are real. As is the blood curdling scratching coming from the attic during the dead of night.
As the clock ticks towards midnight, Jake's forced to confront the hidden secret lurking in the shadows of The Tattered Crow like a spider waiting in a ghostly web.
The Ghosts of the Tattered Crow is short spooky story of ghost-hunting and forbidden magic in darkest Victorian London, a tale to unsettle and bewitch readers of all ages. Start this spooky adventure today!
Praise for Eldritch Black:
“Eldritch Black is a superior story teller! Every character is brought fully to life with very few words, and what a delightfully creepy cast of characters he's written”
“Wonderful world building paired with a perfect tone of dark and spooky.”
“(Reviewing on behalf of my 11 yr who read this book)
I absolutely loved it! Just the right amount of scary. It kept me on the edge of my seat!”
Beware it's Halloween and the Pumpkin Men are coming.
It's All Hallow's Eve and Owen Weeks is not having a good day. Something's stirring in the lake by his house, the dead leaves beneath his shoes crunch like bones, and even the brambles seem to twitch when he's not looking.
Nothing's right.
But things get a lot worse as Owen discovers a terrifying stranger hiding in an abandoned farmhouse. A dark spell is cast. Old magic, magic that raises a terrifying horde of nightmarish creatures.
As the monsters descend upon the village, Owen realizes there's only one place left to go...across the lake. But can he survive the horror of the legends said to live below its muddy waters?
The clock's ticking toward midnight, and soon it will be the hour of the Pumpkin Men and ancient terrors from a distant land.
One Dark Hallow's Eve is a lost tale from Eldritch Black's The Book of Kindly Deaths. Read it now and slip into a timeless world of dark fantasy and Halloween horror.
A Traveler in Time by August Derleth - You can't always escape evils by running away from them... but it may help!
'Tell me what time is,' said Harrigan one late summer afternoon in a Madison Street bar. 'I'd like to know.'
'A dimension,' I answered. 'Everybody knows that.'
'All right, granted. I know space is a dimension and you can move forward or back in space. And, of course, you keep on aging all the time.'
'Elementary,' I said.
'But what happens if you can move backward or forward in time? Do you age or get younger, or do you keep the status quo?'
'I'm not an authority on time, Tex. Do you know anyone who traveled in time?'
Harrigan shrugged aside my question. 'That was the thing I couldn't get out of Vanderkamp, either. He presumed to know everything else.'
'Vanderkamp?'
'He was another of those strange people a reporter always runs into. Lived in New York—downtown, near the Bowery. Man of about forty, I'd say, but a little on the old-fashioned side. Dutch background, and hipped on the subject of New Amsterdam, which, in case you don't know, was the original name of New York City.'
'Don't mind my interrupting,' I cut in. 'But I'm not quite straight on what Vanderkamp has to do with time as dimension.'
'Oh, he was touched on the subject. He claimed to travel in it. The fact is, he invented a time-traveling machine.'
Christmas on Ganymede by Isaac Asimov - Consider the problems of miners who work on Ganymede, moon of Jupiter, 390,000,000 miles from earth: isolated on a world so different from our own, surrounded by beings who know nothing of our traditions, how might these men teach their alien work-mates how we celebrate Christmas?
Olaf Johnson hummed nasally to himself and his china-blue eyes were dreamy as he surveyed the stately fir tree in the corner of the library. Though the library was the largest single room in the Dome, Olaf felt it none too spacious for the occasion. Enthusiastically he dipped into the huge crate at his side and took out the first roll of red-and-green crepe paper.
What sudden burst of sentiment had inspired the Ganymedan Products Corporation, Inc. to ship a complete collection of Christmas decorations to the Dome, he did not pause to inquire. Olaf’s was a placid disposition, and in his self-imposed job as chief Christmas decorator, he was content with his lot.
He frowned suddenly and muttered a curse. The General Assembly signal light was flashing on and off hysterically. With a hurt air Olaf laid down the tack-hammer he had just lifted, then the roll of crêpe paper, picked some tinsel out of his hair and left for officers quarters.
Commander Scott Pelham was in his deep armchair at the head of the table when Olaf entered. His stubby fingers were drumming unrhythmically upon the glass-topped table. Olaf met the commander’s hotly furious eyes without fear, for nothing had gone wrong in his department in twenty Ganymedan revolutions.
The room filled rapidly with men, and Pelham’s eyes hardened as he counted noses in one sweeping glance.
'We’re all here. Men, we face a crisis!'
There was a vague stir. Olaf’s eyes sought the ceiling and he relaxed. Crises hit the Dome once a revolution, on the average.
What would you do if the Gods Kidnapped your sister and you are their Slave-Hunter?
In a dystopic world, the Senoca, the People of the Sea have been enslaved by the Golden Gods. They live within the limits of the Boundary, for only one purpose: produce for the Gods or die. Kyra, a seventeen-year-old girl, is selected, along with other young girls, and taken to the Gods. Her brother Ikai will move heaven and earth to find her. They will fight for survival, confronting a society constituted to serve the masters, and even the Gods themselves in their eternal dwelling.
A story of love, survival, sacrifice, and the fight for freedom.
Time Travel and Nothing But Time Travel - Sixteen Lost Sci-Fi Short Stories from the 1940s, 50s and 60s
- Stop, You're Killing Me! by Darius John Granger
- Forsyte's Retreat by Winston Marks
- Prominent Author by Philip K. Dick
- The Skull by Philip K. Dick
- Prison of a Billion Years by C. H. Thames
- Meddler by Philip K. Dick
- Let The Ants Try by Frederik Pohl
- The Beachcomber by Damon Knight
- Nice Girl with 5 Husbands by Fritz Leiber
- A Traveler in Time by August Derleth
- Hall Of Mirrors by Fredric Brown
- Exhibit Piece by Philip K. Dick
- The Queen of Space by Joseph Slotkin
- The Man Who Liked Lions by John Bernard Daley
- Z by Charles L. Fontenay
- The Turning Wheel by Philip K. Dick
