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A newly imported King of England finds a harsh - but effective - way of dealing with the country's feminists.
The great king Hkrikros - a devout worshiper of the sacred and esteemed serpants - depairs as his favourite nephew begins to show signs of Christianity.
When Clovis overhears a middle-aged man bemoaning the lack of excitment in his life, he decides to help out. And then some.
Spending a night in the library of an old friend and scholar of the black arts, the narrator becomes curious about the object in question.
A pioneering aviator begins to suspect that the official explainations cannot account for the constant stream of in-air deaths and disappearances.
The story of a destructive rivalry between two brilliant scientists.
An excerpt from the life of a resident at a Californian mental institution. Told in the first person, the story offers a glimpse through another's eyes and mind.
Seeking shelter for the night, a wounded man breaks into a bizarre, abandoned chateau decorated by an unusually large number of paintings.
The misadventures of a group of reluctant soldiers during the American civil war - in many ways, this story anticipates Catch 22.
Two kidnappers fail to heed the old adage - never work with children.
A young man searches for his lost love around the filthy bedsits of New York.
The inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow include Ichabod, the lovely Katrina and very possibly a headless ghost.
The story of a man's encounter with a painstakingly mysterious girlfriend.
Witty and insightful tale of a memorable day in the life of a determined child.
The original gothic tale of madness, death and the atmospheric possibilities of an old house.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
