THEMED SPECULATIVE FICTION ANTHOLOGIES

Tropical and sun-drenched climates have their fair share of haunts and high strangeness, whether emanating from ancient landmarks, incongruous cultures, or the ubiquity of human tragedy. Twenty short tales are included here, running the gamut of ghosts and haunted places to curses, strange beasts, and primeval spirits.

• Ballairai Durg, Anonymous
  
• The Recrudescence of Imray, Rudyard Kipling
  
• Some Australian Ghost Stories, T. J. B.
  
• The Mark of the Beast, Rudyard Kipling
  
• Caulfield’s Crime, Alice Perrin
  
• Guarded by a Ghost, David Ker
  
• The Haunted Station, Hume Nisbet
  
• The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor, Bithia Mary Croker
  
• “To Let”, Bithia Mary Croker
  
• A Malagasy Ghost-Story, C. P. Cory
  
• The North Devonshire Ghost Story, A. Louis Paul
  
• Pollock and the Porroh Man, H. G. Wells
  
• The Square Diamond, Clinton Ross
  
• The Tiger-Charm, Alice Perrin
  
• The Grove of Ashtaroth, John Buchan
  
• The Red Bungalow, Bithia Mary Croker
  
• The Nameless City, H. P. Lovecraft
  
• The Horn, Hilton Brown
  
• The Abu Laheeb, Lord Dunsany
  
• The Tree-Man, Henry S. Whitehead
  

Sometimes geography is no match for metaphysics. Uncanny of Place: Cities, Streets, Shops, and Spaces in Classic Speculative Fiction collects seventeen stories of magical shops, vanishing rooms, sentient streets, and other transitory or perplexing locations.

• The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
• Germelshausen (Friedrich Gerstäcker)
• Mysterious Disappearances (Charles Bierce)
• The Hall Bedroom (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)
• The Magic Shop (H. G. Wells)
• Number 13 (M. R. James)
• A Somewhat Improbable Story (G. K. Chesterton)
• The Door in the Wall (H. G. Wells)
• The Madness of Andelsprutz (Lord Dunsany)
• Space (John Buchan)
• The Never-Ending Road (Anonymous)
• The Bureau d’Echange de Maux (Lord Dunsany)
• The Street (H. P. Lovecraft)
• The Blue City (Frank Owen)
• The Theater Upstairs (Manly Wade Wellman)
• The Street That Wasn’t There (Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacobi)
• Tunnel Terror (Allison V. Harding)

This anthology collects a varied group of nineteen short stories where feet, hands, fingers, or toes make their mark: supernatural, psychological, or physical. Whether a haunting hand, a missing toe, a lost foot, or a malevolent finger, limbs and digits exert their influence in death as well as life.

• The Spectre Hand (Anonymous)
  
• The Severed Hand (Wilhelm Hauff)
  
• The Mummy’s Foot (Théophile Gautier)
  
• Some Odd Facts about . . . the Ghost of a Hand (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
  
• Mrs. Corbet’s Amputated Toe (Alexander Leighton)
  
• The Flayed Hand (Guy De Maupassant)
  
• The Hand (Guy de Maupassant)
  
• Let Loose (Mary Cholmondeley)
  
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (Ambrose Bierce)
  
• The Haunted Hand (Henry Seton Merriman)
  
• The Skeleton Hand (Agnes Macleod)
  
• The Story of the Brown Hand (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
  
• The Monkey’s Paw (W. W. Jacobs)
  
• The Mummy Hand (Adeline Sergeant)
  
• A Dead Finger (Sabine Baring-Gould)
  
• The Beast with Five Fingers (W. F. Harvey)
  
• The Call of the Hand (Louis Golding)
  
• The Hand (Theodore Dreiser)
  
• The Hand of Saint Ury (Gordon MacCreagh)
  

Graven Images collects 19 classic short stories and 2 longer stories involving paintings, statues, and other art (or artists) where reality clashes with the unreal and surreal. Ghostly portraits, possessed effigies, and haunted artists fill these stories of the strange and supernatural.

• La Vénus d’Ille by Prosper Mérimée
  
• The Prophetic Pictures by N. Hawthorne
  
• Schalken the Painter by J. S. Le Fanu
  
• The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
  
• Man-size in Marble by Edith Nesbit
  
• The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit
  
• The Phantom Model by Hume Nisbet
  
• The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet
  
• The Mezzotint by M. R. James
  
• The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson
  
• The Picture in the House by H. P. Lovecraft
  
• A Square of Canvas by Anthony M. Rud
  
• The Sinister Painting by Greye La Spina
  
• The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture by W. Irving
  
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  
• and more . . .
  

Lurking Shadows collects 25 stories of supernatural fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and adventure that incorporate shadows as a theme. Menacing shadows, avenging shadows, and warning shadows meet shadows of things outside time and space.

• The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen
• Shadow--A Parable by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Shadow of a Shade by Tom Hood
• A Story of a Shadow by Rebecca Harding Davis
• The Shadow in the Corner by M. E. Braddon
• The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London
• The Shadows on the Wall by M. E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Portent of the Shadow by Edith Nesbit
• The Shadow-Dance by Bernard Capes
• The Shadow by G. Ranger Wormser
• The Shadow of the Tower by Mihaly Babeti
• The Shadows by Henry S. Whitehead
• Devouring Shadows by N. J. O'Neail
  
• The Shadow on the Screen by Henry Kuttner
  
• and more . . .

Other Life collects 13 classic science fiction tales involving creatures from other planets (or possibly from beyond our universe). Man meets mystery, and is rarely unchanged. There are tales of exploration and discovery, as well as love, revenge, and outright horror.

• The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
• The Green Splotches by T. S. Stribling
• The Thing from-Outside by George Allan England
• Spawn of the Comet by Otis A. Kline
• The Planetoid of Peril by Paul Ernst
• Hunt the Hunter by Kris Neville
• Tree, Spare That Woodman by Dave Dryfoos
• In the Forest by Leslie Perri
• The Anglers of Arz by Roger Dee
• Green Thumb by Clifford D. Simak
• Tabby by Winston Marks
• The Night of Hoggy Darn by R. M. McKenna
• The Botticelli Horror by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.

Bacillus includes 13 classic short stories of bacterial and microbial organisms, diseases, and plagues by authors like Jack London, H. G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood, and others. Tales include apocalytic stories, plague ships, and scientific discoveries. Also included is the 1918 science fiction novel The Blue Germ, by Martin Swayne.

• The Masque of the Red Death (1842), Edgar Allan Poe
• The Microbe of Death (1894), Rudolph de Cordova
• The Stolen Bacillus (1895), H. G. Wells
• The Purple Death (1896), William Livingston Alden
• The Plague Ship (1897), Jack London
• The Plague Ship Tupisa (1899), George Griffith
• Dr. Cox's Discovery (1903), Herbert D. Ward
• Max Hensig: Bacteriologist and Murderer (1907), Algernon Blackwood
• The Golden Rat (1908), Alexander Harvey
• The Sheriff of Kona (1909), Jack London
• The Scarlet Plague (1915), Jack London
• The Beautiful Bacillus (1931), Patrick Dutton
• Noekken of Norway (1934), Bob Olsen

Out of the Sand is an anthology of 20 classic short stories focusing on Egyptology, from mummies to curses, artifacts to pyramids.

• The Mummy's Foot (1840), Theophile Gautier
• Some Words with a Mummy (1845), Edgar Allan Poe
• Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse (1869), Louisa May Alcott
• My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies (1880), Grant Allen
• The Ring of Thoth (1890), Arthur Conan Doyle
• Lot No. 249 (1892), Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Professor of Egyptology (1894), Guy Boothby
• The Story of Baelbrow (1898), E. and H. Heron
• The Mysterious Mummy (1903), Sax Rohmer
• The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt (1904), C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
• Mustapha (1904), S. Baring-Gould
• The Nemesis of Fire (1908), Algernon Blackwood
• Sand (1912), Algernon Blackwood
• Smith and the Pharaohs (1912), H. Rider Haggard
• In the Valley of the Sorceress (1916), Sax Rohmer
• The Death-Ring of Sneferu (1917), Sax Rohmer
• The Wings of Horus (1917), Algernon Blackwood
• Lord of the Jackals (1918), Sax Rohmer
• The Ape (1920), E. F. Benson
• Black Coffee (1929), Jeffery Farnol

16 stories are collected that explore the scope of invisibility in classic science fiction and fantasy. Stories range from the humorous to the horrific, with explanations for invisibility ranging from a variety of scientific miracles to natural enigmas.

• The Ring of Gyges (300 BC) from Plato's Republic
  
• What Was It? A Mystery (1859) Fitz-James O'Brien
  
• Manmat’ha (1876) Charles DeKay
  
• The Crystal Man (1881) Edward Page Mitchell
  
• The Horla (1887) Guy de Maupassant
  
• My Invisible Friend (1897) Katharine Kip
  
• The Invisible Man (1897) H. G. Wells
  
• The Damned Thing (1898) Ambrose Bierce
  
• A Human Chameleon (1900) Newton Newkirk
  
• My Crank Client (1900) Warren B. Hutchinson
  
• The Whereabouts of Mr. Moses Bailey (1901) James B. Nevin
  
• The Gift of Fernseed (1902) Sir Harry Perry Robinson
  
• The Shadow and the Flash (1903) Jack London
  
• The Face of Air (1912) George L. Knapp
  
• From the Darkness and the Depths (1913) Morgan Robertson
  
• Sister Hannah (1926) Charles Loring Jackson
  

Time travel stories date back to the 1700s. This anthology collects some of the earliest short stories that explore the fascinating subject of time through fantasy and science fiction. The 15 time travel stories here include popular classics and rarely-seen gems. This enjoyable collection is for the science fiction enthusiast who wants to investigate the roots of time travel, time slips, and other temporal anomalies.

• Rip Van Winkle (1819), Washington Irving
  
• Peter Rugg, the Missing Man (1824), William Austin
  
• An Anachronism, or Missing One’s Coach (1838), Anonymous
  
• A Christmas Carol in Prose (1843), Charles Dickens
  
• A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844), Edgar Allan Poe
  
• An Uncommon Sort of Spectre (1879), Edward Page Mitchell
  
• The Clock That Went Backward (1881), Edward Page Mitchell
  
• Newton’s Brain (1892), Jakub Arbes
  
• John Bartine’s Watch (1893), Ambrose Bierce
  
• The Hour-Glass (1898), Robert Barr
  
• The New Accelerator (1901), H. G. Wells
  
• “Wireless” (1902), Rudyard Kipling
  
• Phantas (1910), Oliver Onions
  
• Accessory Before the Fact (1914), Algernon Blackwood
  
• Enoch Soames (1916), Max Beerbohm
  

Shadows from a Veiled Creation provides a collection of classic supernatural short stories that ranges to the depth of its subject, yet are enjoyable stories to read. What is meant by a Christian tradition? These are stories that were written by authors who recognized that a spiritual and moral landscape exists along with the physical. A Christian perspective notes that while we may encounter the supernatural, and it may bewilder or shock, it is not unbounded or unaccountable to the Creator. God created the visible and the invisible, and rules all within.

• A True Relation of the Apparation of One Mrs. Veal..., Daniel Defoe
• The Brownie of the Black Haggs, James Hogg
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Tapestried Chamber, Sir Walter Scott
• The Devil and Tom Walker, Washington Irving
  
• The Cruel Painter, George MacDonald
• A Dead Finger, Sabine Baring-Gould
  
• The Gray Man, Sarah Orne Jewett
• A Somewhat Improbable Story, G. K. Chesterton
• The Perfect Game, G. K. Chesterton
• The Green Robe, Robert H. Benson
  
• The Man with the Roller, E. G. Swain
  
• Casting the Runes, M. R. James
  
• The Bowmen, Arthur Machen
  
• The Soldiers’ Rest, Arthur Machen
  
• The Seventh Man, Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
  
• A Gentle Ghost, Mary Wilkins
  
• Passing of a God, Henry S. Whitehead
  
• Et in Sempiternum Pereant, Charles Williams
  
• And more . . .
  

Monstrum is an anthology of 20 classic short stories involving a variety of monsters from myth and imagination. From ghouls to sirens, cannibals to rat-people, there are plenty of creepy creatures to unsettle a few evenings of reading. One story, "The Cube," is worth highlighting, as it is a precursor to the "pod people" science fiction story, involving identity take-overs by strange doppelganger creatures.

• Henric Van Kaarten or, The Valley of Spirits (1856), Anonymous
  
• The Devil of the Marsh (1893), H. B. Marriott-Watson
  
• The Basilisk (1894), R. Murray Gilchrist
  
• The Upper Berth (1894), F. Marion Crawford
  
• The Gorgon’s Head (1899), Gertrude Bacon
  
• Medusa (1902), Phil Robinson
  
• The Man Who Went Too Far (1904), E. F. Benson
  
• Amina (1907), Edward Lucas White
  
• Lukundoo (1907), Edward Lucas White
  
• The Wendigo (1910), Algernon Blackwood
  
• The Derelict (1912), William Hope Hodgson
  
• Fishhead (1913), Irvin S. Cobb
  
• The Mollmeit of the Mountain (1913), Cynthia Stockley
  
• The Yarn of Lanky Job (1913), John Masefield
  
• The People of the Pit (1918), A. Merritt
  
• The Song of the Sirens (1919), Edward Lucas White
  
• The Thing that Smelt (1921), Christopher Blayre
  
• Negotium Perambulans (1922), E. F. Benson
  
• The Ghoul (1922), Sir Hugh Charles Clifford
  
• The Cube (1926), Charles Loring Jackson