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The second of five collections containing the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe.

The third of five collections containing the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe.

What would it be like to live in a world which has conquered the near planets but abolished all literature? Bill Gault gives us a look at a world like this—in a not too distant future which finds all our pressure groups united to rule the roost.

Alfred Coppel was a science fiction writer in the middle of the 20th century. He wrote adventurous stories for numerous pulp magazines. Other works by Coppel can be found under his pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman. This is one of those stories.

The trouble with Harrowby Hall was that it was haunted, and, what was worse, the ghost did not content itself with merely appearing at the bedside of the afflicted person who saw it, but persisted in remaining there for one mortal hour before it would disappear. It never appeared except on Christmas...

This third of nine volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.

Orders were orders! The creature had to be killed.But just how does one destroy the indestructible?

This second of nine volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.

This fourth of nine volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights.

Alfred Coppel was a science fiction writer in the middle of the 20th century. He wrote adventurous stories for numerous pulp magazines. Other works by Coppel can be found under his pseudonym Robert Cham Gilman. This is one of those stories.

That was the way the aliens spoke: confused nonsense. If it took reduction or torch hair, the Cirissins wanted a bump. Hokum, thistle, gluck.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare. But this hare was using some dirty tricks to make sure the ending would be different....

To Amos Jordan, Secretary for Cislunar Navigation, no situation was unsolvable. There were rules for everything, weren't there.... Except maybe this thing ...

This story was published in Young Sports of America (10 Aug 1895 - 14 Sep 1895) as "The Wizard of the Deep; or, the Search for the Million Dollar Pearl" by "Theodore Edison." The story was published in hardcover as The Wizard of the Sea by the Mershon Company in 1900. It was reprinted by Chatterton-Peck...