Short Story Books

Direct Wire

  [english | 1943]  

Clee Garson

Summary: [Mort and Mike got strange calls on this phone they didnt come through Central!]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 435

The Chameleon Man

  [english | 1943]  

William Mcgivern

Excerpts: [... the?Daily Standard?building and sometimes when things are slow in my line???theatrical bookings???I drift upstairs and talk to the guy who writes the ...... breath. I'm sorry if I frightened you, a familiar voice said apologetically. But, you see, I can't help it. I stood up warily and peered about the ...... to trust my eyes. The young man seemed to blend into the background, ...]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 258

Larson Luck

  [english | 1943]  

Gerald Vance

Summary: [Larson S Luck by Gerald Vance. Larson s Luck appeared in the January 1943 issue of Amazing Stories. Larson couldn t possibly have known what was going on in the engine room yet he acted....]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 138

The Giant Has Fleas

  [english | 1947]  

Caroll John Daly

Excerpts: [... big man put the cigar back into his mouth and studied Blair. There wasn't quite two years difference in their ages and yet he might ...... that matter.. And Ben Fitsgerald and old Jacob Swartz and-. Yes, yes, the big man cut in. All those things in your head, live men that you ...... little Polish boy who knew it all. I copied from him in the examinations. He didn't like it, but it ...]
Genres: [short story | mysterydetective | pulp] Downloads: 121

The Plotters

  [english | 1948]  

Alexander Blade

Summary: [He came from a far planet to find some of the Earths secrets. But Marko found other things too?like his love for beautiful Beth.]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 39

Death Of A B E M

  [english | 1948]  

Berkeley Livingston

Summary: [A Death in White Bear Lake is a true crime book by journalist Barry Siegel published in 1990. The book recounts one of the most notorious cases of child abuse ever prosecuted in the United States the murder of three year-old Dennis Jurgens by his adopted mother Lois Jurgens. The case was significant because the murder was committed in 1965 yet Lois Jurgens was not charged with the crime until ...]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 41

Oogie Finds Love

  [english | 1948]  

Berkeley Livingston

Excerpts: [... his nose almost touching the muscled shoulder of Oogie who was underneath the Russian Bear. The two wrestlers were almost in the center of the ring ...... called in greeting. His nose sniffed appreciatively at the aroma of coffee. Hi Oogie, Sam Grogan replied without turning from what he was doing, ...... who had performed surgery on him. The next day it was found the surgeon was ...]
Genres: [short story | post 1930] Downloads: 284

Cold Ghost

  [english | 1948]  

Chester Geier

Summary: [Cold Ghost by Chester S Geier. In the valley with the sheltering hills now behind them the bitterly cold wind drove at the sled with unchecked ferocity. Gusts of snow came with the wind thick and dry the separate particles of it stinging on contact. ]
Genres: [short story | post 1930 | horror] Downloads: 476

Castle Of Terror

  [english | 1948]  

E Liston

Summary: [Castle Of Terror by E J Liston. This title has fewer than 24 printed text pages. Castle of Terror is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by E.J. Liston is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of E.J. Liston then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.]
Genres: [short story | horror | post 1930] Downloads: 286

The Eye Of Wilbur Mook

  [english | 1948]  

H Hickey

Summary: [Antony Hickey (born in the Barony of Islands Co. Clare Ireland in 1586 died in Rome 26 June 1641) was an Irish Franciscan theologian.]
Genres: [short story | post 1930] Downloads: 37

Once Upon A Planet

  [english | 1948]  

J Allerton

Summary: [BlackBerry Planet is a business history of Research In Motions mobile device the BlackBerry written by Canadian writer and historian Alastair Sweeny. The hardback edition was published by John Wiley Canada in 2009.]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 127

Regeneration

  [english | 1951]  

Charles Dye

Summary: [It was bound to happen sooner or later. Not because man failed to understand his fellow man but because he failed to understand himself. There wasnt much left afterwards--after the golden showers of deadly dust and the blinding flashes that blotted out the light from the sun. And all because man continued to confuse emotion with reason. But somehow as before man survived....]
Genres: [science fiction | post 1930 | short story] Downloads: 435

Each Man Kills

  [english | 1951]  

Victoria Glad

Summary: [X-Men: God Loves Man Kills (Marvel Graphic Novel]
Genres: [horror | short story | post 1930] Downloads: 326

Operation R S V P

  [english | 1951]  

H Beam Piper

Summary: [Both very funny and very clever. The Russians and the Chinese keep bluffing each other with worse and worse nukes and plagues but then AFGHANISTAN calls their bluff and ends the Cold War!]
Genres: [short story | post 1930 | audiobook] Downloads: 456

Marley Chain

  [english | 1952]  

Alan Nourse

Summary: [Tams problem was simple. He lived in a world that belonged to someone else.]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 390

Acid Bath

  [english | 1952]  

Vaseleos Garson

Excerpts: [... did he see the half-dozen steel-blue creatures slide out of the peculiar vessel's airlock. It was only as he crawled out of the depths of the rocket ...... ripped out great gobs of the sheltering bushes. But running naturally, bent close to the bottom of the ravine, Jon Karyl dodged the bare spots. The oxygen ...... hips, they were straight up and down. They had no legs, just ...]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 313

Mcilvaine Star

  [english | 1952]  

August Derleth

Summary: [Old Thaddeus McIlvaine discovered a dark star and took it for his own. Thus he inherited a dark destiny--or did he?]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 28

Derelict

  [english | 1953]  

Alan Nourse

Summary: [What was the mystery of this great ship from the dark deep reaches of space? For within its death-filled chambers?was the avenue of life!]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 334

Infinite Intruder

  [english | 1953]  

Alan Nourse

Summary: [When Roger Strang found that someone was killing his son?killing him horribly and often?he started investigating. He wasnt prepared to find the results of another investigation?this time about his own life.]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 75

The Invader

  [english | 1953]  

Alfred Coppel

Summary: [Magic--theres no such thing. But the crops were beginning to grow backwards]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 108