Ben Tucker
Fearful Rock
A tale of the War between the States, and dark, evil powers! - Summary by Weird Tales February 1939
Transient
Governor Alman Lampley makes an unplanned stop in a small town on the way to his destination. Everything looks familiar yet slightly off. He…
My Lady Greensleeves
In a future where everyone is assigned profession-based classifications, defying your place in society can land you in prison. Captain Liam …
The Horror Expert
"She'll insert the knife so delicately that the man won't feel any pain at all. Just a warm gratefulness, an intoxicating sort of happi…
The Enormous Room
When an ethnically diverse group of people are suddenly transported from a rollercoaster in an amusement park to a stark and alien room peop…
The Black Drama
A strange weird story about the eery personality known as Varduk, who claimed descent from Lord Byron, and the hideous doom that stalked in …
Detour
Alexander Roth is a jazz fiddle player who can't quite seem to catch a break after losing his job and having his best girl Sue leave him to …
The Canal, and Leonora
Everil Worrell was one of the few female writers of weird fiction in the early days of Weird Tales magazine and 1927 marked a seminal year f…
Clean Break
Johnny Clay has a masterful plan to rob a racetrack on the busiest day of the year. To pull it off, he will recruit not hardened profession…
Drug Themes in Science Fiction
Science fiction is more often a reflection of existing societal trends than a prediction of trends to come. The upsurge in drug use is preci…
The Syndic
There have been a thousand tales of future Utopias and possible civilizations. They have been ruled by benevolent dictatorships and pure dem…
The Haunted Island
Being the History of an Adventure to an Island in the Remote South Sea. Of a Wizard there. Of his Pirate Gang; His Treasure ; His Combustibl…
Brink of Madness
C.I.B. Agent Pell used his head, even if he did rely on hunches more than on the computer. In fact, when the game got rough, he found that t…
Ye of Little Faith
It matters not whether you believe or disbelieve. Reality is not always based on logic; nor, particularly, are the laws of the universe.... …
The Little Room and Other Stories
Woman of Weird Fiction Madeline Yale Wynne took to writing later in life but produced some truly unique and strange pieces of literature suc…
Stories of the Rhine
Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian, more widely known by their joint nom de plume Erckmann-Chatrian, were in their time more recog…
Satan's Garden
The story of a terrific adventure in Bayonne, two ravishingly beautiful girls, occult evil and sudden death in the lair of the hasheesh-eate…
Twelve Times Zero
It was a love-triangle murder that made today's headlines but the answer lay hundreds of thousands of light years away! - Summary by If: Wor…
The Place Called Dagon
A strange romantic tale of a cult of evil descended from early witchcraft days. Mirroring an unusual element of New England society, it tell…
Fables
Master storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped) brings us an entrancing and at times quite…