A witty solution to a mystery similar to a “murder in a locked room.” Unfortunately, to create it, the author had to come to terms with the obvious implausib...

Fredric Brown (1906-1972), one of science fiction’s greatest masters from the Golden Age, is famous for his many classic short stories -- quite a few of w...

Fredric Brown (1906-1972) is perhaps best remembered for his use of humor and his mastery of the "short-short" form (these days called flash fiction) — st...

The separation of a person or group of people from civilization is what characterizes Robinsonade stories. Daniel Defoe with his “Robinson Crusoe” opened a s...

You are holding in your hands a very unusual collection. It consists of stories in which the main characters are cruel children. The phrase “children’s cruel...

A new generation of people has been bred on Earth to live on Mars. Using a substance called daptin, the bodies of ten-year-old children were rebuilt in accor...

A traveling tent circus across America is haunted by a curse - a string of strange, frightening events seems endless. It all started with the murder of an un...

Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singul...

This unique collection of vampire stories includes the best examples of the genre, the roots of which are lost in ancient myths and legends of all peoples of...

A young and not very successful actor enters into an agreement with a stranger, according to which he receives a comfortable future, and the stranger gets 10...

The collection includes novels and stories by contemporary American science fiction writers with excellent command of the pen and the topic.

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