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Stories Read (listed by author)

AUTHOR	TITLE	CAT	SUBJECT	C
Abernathy Robert	Rotifers	SF	boy believes things under microscope can think and don't like him watching	U
Adams Sara Nisha	Night Music	F	woman plays violin in middle of night becauses foxes keep waking her	B
Aiken Conrad	Impulse	F	Man shoplifts to see what it feels like, gets caught, life ruined
	Smith And Jones	F	Two guys walking down a rural road at night - one kills other
Akutagawa Ryunosuke	Autumn Mountain	F	painting masterpiece	Jap
Albee George Sumner	The Top	SF	satiric allegory of American business	U
Alber Lisa	Paddy O'Grady's Thigh	F	Irish gypsy needs dead person's skin	U
Aldis Brian W	But Who Can Replace a Man?	SF		U
	Hothouse	SF
Aldrich Thomas Bailey	Mlle. Olympe Zabriski	F	Aristocrat falls for trapeze artist who turns out to be a man
Algren Nelson	Bottle Of Milk For Mother	F	Young Pollock kills - story focuses on the interrogation	U
Allen Marijane	Neanderthal	SF	poem	U
Allende Isabel	Two Words	F	Gives people magic words	Chile
	Wicked Girl	F	Drawn to mother's lover, a musician staying at their boarding house; then sent away for it
	Clarissa	F	Saintly woman has a couple sons on the side
	Toad's Mouth	F	Sole female amongst shepherds invents games to win time with her
	The Gold of Tomas Vargas	F	Bigamist's wife and lover kick him out and steal his gold
	If You Touched My Heart	F	Idiot woman kept as slave in abandoned sugar mill
	Gift for a Sweetheart	F	Circus owner uses it to win a woman after expensive gifts fail
	Tosca	F	Opera singer leaves husband for doctor who works in jungle
	Walimai	F	Death ritual as told by a primative
	Ester Lucero	F	Nat'l rebel hero falls for 12 yr old and saves her life using jungle medicine
	Simple Maria	F	Innocent girl finds sex with a sailor and becomes most famous prositute because she loves each man
	Our Secret	F	A day in bed with two former electric shocked prisoners
	Little Hiedelberg	F	Norweigian dances with woman for 40 years without saying a word
	The Judges Wife	F	Outlaw can't stop lovemaking to judge's wife knowing he will be caught
	The Road North	F	Deaf-Mute boy sold to rich Yankee as adoptee, but instead body parts are used
	The Schoolteacher's Guest	F	Teacher's son killed when stealing mangoes - many years later she kills the murderer and whole town keeps it a secret
	The Proper Respect	F	Woman fakes kidnapping to gain notariety
	Interminable Life	F	Dr fights for euthenasia and power love...kills terminal wife but can't kill himself
	A Discreet Miracle	F	Blind doubting priest eyesight restored when his sister brings him to a doubtful "Saint" shrine
	Revenge	F	Woman falls in love with man who killed her father and raped her, so day of her wedding she kills herself
	Letters of Betrayed Love	F	Husband didn't write letters to her - she recognizes handwriting as her son's teacher's
	Phantom Palace	F	Old dictator kidnaps ambassador's wife and keeps her in the jungle in an overgrown palace - and she loves it there
	And of Clay We Are Created	F	Reporter stays with girl buried in mud - no one will supply a pump
Allen Marijane	Neanderthal	SF	poem	U
Alpert Mark	My Life With Joanne Christiansen	F		U
Anderson Poul	My Object All Sublime	SF	in the future the police will throw criminals back in time rather than in jail	U
	Night Piece	SF	scientist whose sketchily explained experiments with ESP have caused him to start slipping back and forth from reality into a strange primordial plane of existence
	Epilogue	SF	star-faring humans who originally left Earth for the stars return 3 billion yeasr later
Anderson Sherwood	The Egg	F	Family fails at chicken raising and then opens a cafe	U
Andreyev Leonid	Seven Who Were Hanged	F	3 stories of people end up sentenced to hang	R
Anon	1,000,000 A.D	SF
Arthur Robert	Attractive Family	F	Parents plot to kill daughter
	Call For Help	F	Old ladies burn house thinking relatives out to kill them
Arlen Michael	The American Gentleman	SF	Rich American visits London, and bets 1000 pounds that he can spend the night in a room that is said to be haunted	B
Asimov Isaac	The Dead Past	SF	ability to view the past	U
	Foundation of Science Fiction Success	SF	Gilb & Sull parody pokes fun at the conventions of the genre and practioners
	Franchise	SF	Multivac. It is the first story in which Asimov dealt with computers as computers and not as immobile robots
	Gimmicks Three	SF	Welby sells the soul to the devil, and when the devil appears to collect, Welby is given a test to pass
	Kid Stuff	SF	Fantasy writer, who has always been a little ashamed of how he pays the mortgage, finds himself confronted with a real-life fairy with a real-life demand
	The Watery Place	SF	flying saucer landed on April 14, 1956, a day before the tax was due. So it wasn’t a fit time for extraterrestrials to arrive that day for the sheriff, Bart Cameron, was unapproachable. Because of this, they misunderstood each other. And finally Cameron got very angry and drove them away. So ever since no extraterristrial ever appears. As the author has stressed over and over, it was because of this stupid mistake that we lost the chance of communicating with e t civilization
	Living Space	SF	one alternate-Earth proves to be housing a colony of Nazis from yet another alternate-Earth
	The Message	SF	Kilroy Was Here
	The Dying Night	SF	murder mystery - Mercury has no day
	Spell My Name with an "S"	SF	changing first letter of name sets off consequences
	The Feeling of Power	SF	re-discovery pf mathematics after computers did everything
	Satisfaction Guaranteed	SF	robot kisses housewife
	The Last Question	SF	computer eventaully becomes God
	The Gentle Vultures	SF	Hurrians repair planets and take some natives for slaves
	I'm In Marsport Without Hilda	SF	anti-nausea med made into narcotic
	Hell Fire	SF	A movie of a nuclear explosion is viewed in slow-motion.
	The Last Trump	SF	the angel Etheriel is speaking to the archangel Gabriel about the writings of the book of Daniel and the Bible in general and questions their authenticity after being copied by scribes: "I wonder if two words in a row are left unchanged"
	The Fun They Had	SF	girl in the future ponders how enjoyable the 20th century school-based education system was, in comparison with the automated home-tutoring system of her time
	Victory Unintentional	SF
	The Jokester	SF	offers a theory on the origin of humor
	The Immortal Bard	SF	Shakespeare brought to present and fails a uni course on Shalkespeare
	Someday	SF	the little computer knew then that computers would always grow wiser and more powerful until someday-- someday-- someday-- . . . "
	The Author's Ordeal	SF	using the Lord Chancellor’s "Nightmare Song" as a guide, verse on how distracted one is as one thinks incessantly of plots.
	Dreaming is a Private Thing	SF	virtual reality, with emotions, smells and other sensations avialable for instant experience via a headset
	The Ugly Little Boy	SF	a Homo neanderthalensis child which is brought to the future by means of time travel
	Nightfall	SF	the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated at all times
	Green Patches	SF	A planetary collective intelligence attempts to invade Earth.
	Hostess	SF	humans are hosts to a parasitic life-form which is deadly to all the non-human races of the Galaxy.
	Breeds There a Man...?	SF	convinced that humanity is being run through a bizarre experiment by some nearly-omnipotent aliens who are determined to prevent excessive intellectual or technological development on mankind’s part
	C-Chute	SF	civilians is taken captive on the spaceship - it might be possible to leave their stateroom via its C-chute (aka casualty-chute, used for jettisoning dead bodies) and sneak into the control room
	Martian Way	SF	pioneer human settlers on the planet Mars are faced with the denial of water supplies when a demagogic Earth politician conducts a campaign against wastage of water as a spaceship propellant
	Profession	SF	kids taught to read but not think - thoise whoi can think are locked aweay
	Youth	SF	appeal against human physical anthropocentrism
	The Deep	SF	alien race with telepathic abilities, living underground on a planet with rapidly depleting energy resources, who decide to teleport themselves to a new planet, which happens to be Earth
	Sucker Bait	SF	an assertion of the unity of knowledge
	All the Troubles of the World	SF	computer predict who will commit a crime
	Does A Bee Care?	SF	alien race leaves an ovum which eventually goes back home
Ayme Marcel	The Ubiquitous Wife	F		Fr
Bailey H C	The Long Dinner	MM	Man kills children with infections	U
Ballantyne David	Other Gardens	F	Day in life of kiwi couple in London after WWII - wife bored	N
	A Leopard Yarn	F	Leopard escapes zoo, grandfather takes airgun to shoot, but gets drunk
Ballard J G	Billenium	SF
Barham Richard	Grey Dolphin: A Legend of Sheppey	Myth	Knight kills monk	B
Barnes Linda	Catch Your Death	MM	laced with references to Sherlock cases/quotes	U
Barnes Julian	The Stowaway	F	alternate version of Noah	B
	The Visitors	F	terrorists take over a tourist ship
	The Wars of Religion	F	woodworms taken to religious court
	The Survivor	F	woman fabulates about post apocalypse
	The Shipwreck	F	ship sinks in 1816 survivors on raft becoems a painting
	The Mountain	F	Irish lady climbs Mt Ararat
Barrett Julie	Invasion	F	smalltown radio station	U
Batistich A E	Gusla, The	F	Immigrant's daughters growing up as kiwis and he don't like it	N
Baxter John	The Hands	SF		A
Benet Stephen Vincent	Gentleman of Fortune	F		U
Bennett Margot	No Bath For the Browns	F
Besant and Rice	The Case of Mr Lucraft	F	Man buys men's appetites	B
Bester Alfred	My Private World of Science Fiction	SF
Bixby Jerome	Share Alike	SF		U
Blake Nicholas	Assassins' Club	MM	One of the mystery writers is stabbed at group's meal	U
Blish James	A Work of Art	SF	In 2161 a mind sculpture brings the composer Richard Strauss back to life in the body of a healthy man	U
Bloch Robert	The Living End	F	Man discovers potion for eternal life, kills wife and gets sentenced for....	U
	The Head Hunter	F	Nazi axe man steals two heads and ends up getting the chop
	Impractical Joker	F	Bartender thinks he is slipping poison into drink to kill rival, but it was water (joke's on him)
	Pride Goes	F	Wife pushes husband off balcony, only to have him land on her lover
	The Screaming People	F	Crazy people retrained to be zombies for mad scientist, eh?
	Fat Chance	F	Husband tries to poison wife, but his lover gets it instead
	The Unpardonable Crime	F	Woman undresses to seduce ex-lover not knowing he is blind.
	Method for Murder	F	Woman has friend haunt husband and kill him only to find out it really is a ghost.
	Two of a Kind	F	Millionaire builds ship and wants a "perfect" couple to sail with him, they turn him down - and then it rains, and rains...
	Untouchable	F	Racist actor rapes girl in India declared "untouchable" only to find she has cholera
	Beelzebub	F	Fly drives man crazy and to his death
	Frozen Fear	F	Man kills voodoo wife chops her and puts her into freezer - then she does same to him
	The Feast in the Abbey	F	Man shelters at an abbey where monks are greedy eaters/drinkers - dessert is his brother's head
Blochman Lawrence	Rum For Dinner	MM	jewel thief dies from ackees because he didn't drink alcolhol	U
Block Lawrence	A Blow For Freedom	MM	man buys a gun for protection	U
Blocker Dan	Best-Kept Secret	F	deaf-dumb man's invention	U
Bond Stephanie	Bump In The Night	MM	lover killed in middle of night - neighbor did it	U
Bone J F	On the Fourth Planet	SF		U
Borges Jorge Luis	The Zahir	SF	Zahir has the power to create an obsession in everyone who sees it	Arg
Boucher Anthony	The Ambassadors	SF		U
	The Quest for Saint Aquin	SF	a robot saint
Bradbury Ray	October Game	SF	Wife killed - witch game in dark basement - chicken guts, but ...	U
	The Dwarf	SF	carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy is fulfilled night after night (mirror that makes him tall)
	The Next in Line	SF
	The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse	SF
	The Jar	SF	glass jar holds memories and nightmares
	Skeleton	SF	man's skeleton wars against him
	The Lake	SF
	The Strawberry Window	SF
	The Dragon	SF	knights fight what turns out to be a train engine with aheadlight
	Frost and Fire	SF	people ona planet die in 8 days time
	Uncle Einar	SF
	The Time Machine	SF
	The Sound of Summer Running	SF
	The Rocket	F	mock rocket to fool family
	The Rocket Man	SF	men spend 3 months in space with 3 days off on Earth
	The Long Rain	SF	Attempt to get5 a dome after crashing on Venus
	The Exiles	SF	as books are burnt, authors die on Mars
	Here Be Tygers	SF	palnet is alive
	R is for Rocket	SF
	The End of the Beginning	SF
	The Garbage Collector	SF
	The Great Fire	SF
	Hail and Farewell	SF
	The Golden Apples of the Sun	SF
	The Meadow	F	movie sets to be destroyed
	I See You Never	F	Illegal immigrant being sent back to Mexico
	Powerhouse	SF
	En La Noche	SF
	Sun and Shadow	F	photoshoot of a house
	Embroidery	F
	The Big Black and White Game	F
	A Sound of Thunder	SF	Time tyravel to dinosaurs
	The Great Wide World Over There	F
	The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind	F	two towns in CHine rebuild walls to shapes that will conquer other town
	The Murderer	F	Everyone on multiple devices - man destroys devices for peace and quiet
	The Flying Machine	F	Chinese man killed for inventing a flying machine
	The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl	F	Murderer worried about fingerprints
	The Wilderness	F	wife to join husband on Mars
	The Emissary	F	faithful dog was the sick boy''s only connection with the world outside--and beyond. . .
	Touched With Fire	F	run down tenement building
	The Small Assassin	F	woman's newborn child plots murder
	The Crowd	F
	Invisible Boy	F
	Jack-in-the-Box	F
	The Scythe	F	Erickson inherited a farm from a stranger! And with the bequest came deadly responsibilities. . .
	Uncle Einar	F
	The April Witch	F	witch will lose powers if marries a human
	The Pedestrian	F	2053: man arrested for walking - something no one else does
	The Wind	F	neurotic man fears the wind
	The Man Upstairs	F	dark stranger who lives upstairs
	There Was an Old Woman	F
	The Fog Horn	F	fog horn attracts sea monster once a year
	The Cistern	F	boy in a well
	Homecoming	F	city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited
	The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone	F	remarkable case of murder--the deceased was delighted!
	A Miracle of Rare Device	F	two vagrants who come across a desert mirage that becomes any city the visitor wants it to be, allowing him to walk around and experience it,
Brennan Allison	A Capitol Obsession	MM	female lobbyist murder in California Capitol building
Brennan Joseph	Slime	SF	gray-black voracious amorph speed from ocean floor able to move at nightmarish that eats frogs, snakes, mammals, Humans
Broun Heywood	Fifty-First Dragon	F	Dumb knight thinks magic word slays dragons
Brown Fredric	Earthmen Bearing Gifts	SF	Martians anticipate the arrival of the first explorers from Earth	U
	Blood	SF	vampires who use a time machine to hunt new prey
	Placet Is a Crazy Place	SF
Brunner John	Stimulus	SF		B
	Badman	SF
	Speech is Silver
Budrys Algis	Riya's Foundling	SF		Fr
	Due Process	SF
Bulwer-Lytton Edward	Haunted and Haunters	F	Ghost story	B
Byron Lord	Darvell	F		B
Campbell John	Who Goes There?	SF	The Thing - spaceship found in Antarctica	U
	Twilight	SF	man from future tells about it
Capote Truman	Miriam	SF	old widow has a girl (that no one else can see) take over her apt
Carter Nick	Sraight to the Goal	F	Nick against the Golden Scarab	U
Cassill R V	The War in the Air	SF
Cather Willa	Sculptor's Funeral	F	Body back to small town where people moan and groan
Chain Julian	The Captives	SF		U
Chandler Bertram	The Cage	SF		B
Charteris Leslie	Fish Story, The	SF		B
Chaucer Geoffrey	Pardoner's Tale	F		B
Cheever John	Torch Song, The	F	Guy and gal move to NYC and lives intertwine - she's with losers	U
Chekhov Anton	Anna On The Neck	F	Poor girl marries clerk and society falls in love with her	R
	Lady With The Dog, The	F	Womanizer falls in love
Chesterton G K	Blast Of The Book	F	Father Brown - open book, person disappears	B
	Blue Cross, The	F	Father Brown - outwits the master criminal Flambeau
	Arrow of Heaven	F	Father Brown -
	Doom of Darnaways	F	Father Brown -
	Flying Stairs	F	Father Brown -
	Ghost of Gideon Wise	F	Father Brown -
	Hammer of God	F	Father Brown -
	Head of Caesar	F	Father Brown -
	Oracle of the Dog	F	Father Brown -
	Purple Wig	F	Father Brown -
	Secret of Flambeau	F	Father Brown -
	Sign of the Broken Sword	F	Father Brown -
	The Invisible Man	F
Chit Khin	Thirteen Carat Diamond	Bio	describes the author's own experiences in war-time Myanmar	Burma
Chopin Kate	Beyond the Bayou	F	colored lady fears to go across the water	U
	Desiree's Baby	F	Louisiana mulatto child - mother accused but it is the father
	Ma'ame Pelagie	F	mansion in ruins, daughter can't let it go
	A Respectable Woman	F	wife resists husband's friend - or does she
	The Kiss	F	woman gets what she wants
	A Pair of Silk Stockings	F	woman pampers herself over her needy children
	The Locket	F	soldier's locket stolen - girl thinks he died
Christie Agatha	Four-And-Twenty Blackbirds	MM	killer gives his disguise away by ordering different food	B
Christopher John	Colonial	SF		B
	Cry of Children	F
Clark Walter Van Tilbu	Portable Phonograph	F	Post WWIII; once a week man plays one of ten records
Clarke Arthur C	Rescue Party	SF	Combined master races try to save earthmen from super nova
	The Wall of Darkness	SF
	Transience	SF
	History Lesson	SF
	Hide and Seek	SF
	The Forgotten Enemy	SF
	Braking Strain	SF
	Inheritance	SF
	The Nine Billion Names of God	SF	Monks use computer to list all possible names which when found the universe ends
	The Fires Within	SF
	The Curse	SF
	Castaway	SF
	Technical Error	SF
	Loophole	SF
	Whackey	SF
	The Awakening	SF	man returns to earth millions of years later
	Breaking Strain	SF
	Inside the Comet	SF
	Travel By Wire!	SF
	Retreat From Earth	SF
	Who's There?	SF
Collier John	Witch's Money	F	Artist buys house in Sp, villagers kill him thinking blank checks worth $$	U
	Evening Primrose	F	poet takes refuge from the world by hiding out in a dept store after it closes. He finds an entire community of night people who live in the store	U
Connell Richard	Most Dangerous Game, The	F	Man on island hunts men for sport
Conrad Joseph	Secret Sharer	F	Capt stows a murderer on board a sailing ship	B
	Outpost of Progress, An	F	2 guys in middle of Africa at ivory trading post for 6 months
Coon Carleton	The Future of the Races of Man	Bio	believes Negroids are inferior bcause of genetics and that the white race will die out because of birth control	U
Coppard A. E.	Third Prize, The	F	Boy finishes third and get prize twice	B
Cornish Michael	They'll Have to Go	F		X
Cortez John	Fair Game	F	Girl tricks boy to kill another
Courage James	No Man Is An Island	F	Nursing home - woman who had tried to jump from a bldg	N
Craig Jonathan	Stop Calling Me "Mr"	F	Kills wife in bed only to have witness find her dead from gas
Crane Stephen	Open Boat	F	Four men in a lifeboat just off shore for days	U
	Bride Comes to Yellow Sky	F	Marshall weds and meets town bully upon returning with her
	A Great Mistake	F	boy steals from fruit vendor
Cummings Ray	The Right Thing	F	Girls love almost accused of killing her father	U
Dahl Roald	Lamb to the Slaughter	F	Wife kills husband with a frozen leg of lamb and feeds it to detectives	B
Das Rijula	Mature Adults In Your Area	SF	woman with tail dates man wirth wings	NZ
Daudet Alphonse	The Three Low Masses	SF	Priest tempted by devil to zip thru Mass so as to get to the feast
Davis H. L.	Open Winter	F	Old timer and green kid drive horses across bleak country
Davidson Avram	Now Let Us Sleep	SF
Deford Miriam Allen	Walking Alone	F	Man lets innocent man die because he didn't want to lose his job
Dehan Richard	The Compleat Hosuewife	F	Ghost needs to be freed by a descendent eating a battaglio pie
Del Rey Lester	The Dwindling Years	SF
	And It Comes Out Here	SF
	Instinct	SF
	No Place Like Home	SF
	The Seat of Judgment	SF
	Return Engagement	SF
	The Course of Logic	SF
	Spawning Ground	SF
	And the Truth...	SF
	Lady of Space	SF
	Recessional	SF
	The Years Draw Nigh	SF
	Renegade	SF
	Still Waters	SF
Deming Richard	Blackout	F	Wife kills lover then convinces drunk husband that he did it
Derleth August	"Who Shall I Say Is Calling?"	SF		U
	A Dinner at Imola	F	Borgia has magician make image in wax candle. The traitor dies when it is burnt out	U
	A Battle Over Tea-Cups	F		U
Dexter Ralph	Eltonian Pyramid	SF		U
Dick Philip K.	Roog	SF	Garbage men appear as aliens from a dog's point of view	U
Di Donato Pietro	The Fireplace	F	Bricklayer and doctor and women	U
Dinesen Isak	Young Man With The Carnation	F		Den
Dostoevsky Fyodor	Crocodile, The	F	Man eaten by a croc, is alive and becomes cocky about it	R
	Gentle Spirit, A	F	Pawnbroker weds poor girl who almost kills him
Doyle Roddy	The Curfew	F	A partial day of Irish bloke	I
Doyle Sir Arthur Conan	Adventure Of The Dancing Men,The	F	American weds Brit and they are killed by a Yankee gangster	B
Dresner Hal	Room With A View	F	Invalid sees fiance with another, gives her gun to have it cleaned
Dubus Andre	Colonel's Wife	F	veteran depends on his wife for everything after breaking his legs in a freak accident
Duckworth Marilyn	Loops of Her Hair	F	Boy takes up with an Indian girl to his uptight mother's distress	N
Dudley Ernest	Escaped Wolf Spiders	MM	wife and lover kill arachnid specialist	B
	Eccentric Mrs Beaumont	MM	secluded widow drowned by gardener
	Case of the Jeep Driver	MM	left handed drive doesn't jive
	Case of the Man Overboard	MM	imposter on cruise ship
	Case of the Secret Heart	MM	old man keeps changing will
	Case of the Perfect Wife	MM	husband kills wife to keep competition money coming
Duggan Maurice	Along Rideout Road That Summer	F	Boy works on farm, has affair with girl and leaves	N
	In Youth Is Pleasure	F	Dunce in trouble in Latin class
Du Maurier Daphne	The Blue Lenses	F	Sees each person with animal head according its nature, with a twist	x
Dwight H G	Like Michael	F	Man decides to change everything including religion in order to live	U
	Henrietta Stackpole	F	Man meets American woman in Venice
	The Pagan	F	Loner ostracised by holier than thou town
	White Bombzine	F	Rich guy, friend and a woman take ship to Norway
	Unto the Dsy	F	Man meets American woman in Florence
	Mrs Derwall and the Higher Life	F	Man off street buys a house on a whim
	The Bathers	F	Painter and fisherman chat on Italian beach
	Retarded Bombs	F	Man proposes 4 times over 20 years
	Susannah and the Elder	F	Italian mans futily woos an American girl
	The Emerald of Tamerlane	F	American lady gets a special emerald the hard way and her husbands loses it
	Studio Smoke	F	Two fellows who knew Venice in detail bump into each other in Alaska
	Behind The Door	F	Newlyweds end up in a decrepit Italian castle with odd owner
	The Bald Spot	F	Barber tells man he has a bald spot - it drives him crazy
Einstein Charles	Let The Sucker Beware	F	Swindlers get swindled	x
Ellin Stanley	Specialty of the House	MM	Don't go into the kitchen	x
Elliott Bruce	Wolves Don't Cry	SF		x
Elliott George	FAQ	SF		x
Ely David	The Human Factor	SF
Engstrom Elizabeth	Playing Powerball	F	Son who never wnated anything from parents gets exactly that in will	U
Fallon Jane	The Perfect Holiday	F	First holiday without the kids	B
Farrar Stewart	Girl in Question	F		B
Fast Howard	The First Men	SF	idyllic world is one tenth of second behind ours	x
	The Cold, Cold Box	SF
Faulkner William	Bear, The	F	Boy learns way of hunting and tracking the big old bear for years	U
	Barn Burning	F	Man gets in trouble, burns barn and moves on to repeat it over again, again
Felsen Henry	Spaceman Cometh	SF	Keep this nasty Earth to yourself, saucerman	U
Finlayson Roderick	Bulls, The	F	Old man replaces old bull with young one with help of his son	N
Fischer Bruno	Dog Died First	F	Man kills wife's lover, his lover protects him thinking she'll get off
Fitzgerald F. Scott	Winter Dreams	F	Young poor boy becomes rich man - rich girl re-enters and changes his life	U
Fleming Ian	From a View to a Kill	F	investigates the murder of a dispatch-rider from SHAPE	B
	For Your Eyes Only	F	revenges murder of M's friends in Jamaica
	Quantum of Solace	F	relationship between a former employee of the Governor's, Phillip Masters, and an air hostess named Rhoda Llewellyn
	Risico	F	investigate a drug smuggling operation based out of Italy
	The Hildebrand Rarity	F	search for a rare fish named "The Hildebrand Rarity."
Fletcher Lucille	Sorry, Wrong Number	F	Couple hours of phone calls - man killed by mafia
Flora Fletcher	Most Agreeably Poisoned	F	Two men one woman a poisoned bottle of port
Fogarty Patricia	Back to School Essay	F	boy spends summer working in a laundromat	U
Forster E M	Story of the Siren	F	hypocrisy of the Christan morality
Francis Leonora	The Way We Were	F	woman confesses her past life to her lover
Freeman Mary E. Wilkins	Revolt Of Mother	F	Wife moves family into new barn when husband away for a few days
Fryer Barbara	Runaway Camel	F	Female lawyer has a crush on pro basketballer	U
Gabaldon Diana	Lord John and the Hellfire Club	F	Perverse group blackmails men into being a member	U
	Lord John and the Succubus	F	Town in Germany believes a female spirit is on the prowl
	Lord John and the Haunted Soldier	F	Exploding cannon investigation
Gallico Paul	Adventurers of Joe Smith, American	F	ll American 'Joe' who won't spill his guts about a secret bomb sight to the bad guys--even after being tortured and threatened with death	U
	Enchanted Doll	F	Dr buys doll - falls in love
	Lost Hour	F	Man on boat needs to make a deal - clocks stop for an hour each night (time zone correction)
	Chef d'Oeuvre	MM	Chef feeds "killer" until police can arrive - with a twist
Galouye Daniel	Sitting Duck	SF		U
Garland Hamlin	Return Of A Private	F	Civil war vets return to Wisc farm	U
Garrett Randal/td>	Needler	SF	enemy able to affect frontal lobe	U
Gee Maurice	The Losers	F	An evening at the races with several main characters	N
George Elizabeth	Lusting For Jenny, Inverted	F	$200000 stamp - used to send husband news of lover, who just wanted the stamp	U
Gilbert Michael	The Uninvited	F
	A Case For Gourmets	F	Man ripping poster in subway, but at an abandoned closed off station
Gilbert W. S.	My Maiden Brief	F	Flatmates helps build defence, only to end up being prosecuter	B
Gilford C.B.	Forgiving Ghost	F	Ghost convinces killer to commit suicide so can be together
Gold Herbert	City of Light	F		U
Goldsmith Oliver	Vicker of Wakefield Sells a Horse	F		B
Goodwin John	The Cocoon	SF
Gordimer Nadine	A Journey	F	Person imagines what a fellow traveler does once he departs plane	SA
Gorky Maxim	In The Steppes	F	3 starving men kill a dying man for his food	R
Graves Robert	Steinpilz Method, The	F	WWII couple compost everything including humans for war cause	B
	The Shout	F	Man learned (from someone like a witch doctor) to produce a “terror shout”, that would kill anyone who heard it unprotected
Greene Graham	Across The Bridge	F	Embezzler sits at U.S. border, finally crosses over and is nabbed	B
	A Discovery in the Woods	SF
Gunn James E	Wherever You May Be	SF
Guyan Alexander	An Opinion on the Ballet	F	wife becomes argumentative and mean	N
Hall William	A Medal for Horatius	Humor	Roman beauracracy and political correctness	U
Hall R Andrew	Split Image	F		X
Hamilton Alex	Flies on the Wall	F		B
Hardy Thomas	Three Strangers	F	Runaway criminal and executioneer seek shelter in same place	B
Harris Herbert	The Escort	F
Hart Carolyn	Your Turn	F	wife scared into death by dead husband	U
Harte Brett	Outcasts Of Poker Flats	F	1800's western - end up dying in a snowstorm	U
Hartely L P	Three or Four, For Dinner	MM	Venice - two Brits have dinner with an Italian - body in canal	U
Harvey William Fryer	August Heat	F	Man draws his murderer, then runs across the man & his own tombstone
Haston Sharon	Digging For Glory	F	Remote Scot islanders cable to top of mountain so can watch World Cup
Hawthorne Nathaniel	Birthmark	F	Scientist removes birthmark but kills wife in search of perfection	U
	Minister's Black Veil	F	Study of what happens when he dawns veil and will not say why
	The Haunted Mind	F	wake up in middle of night/td>
	Young Goodman Brown	F	Goes with devil and finds all the good people are actually bad
Heinlein Robert A.	Let There Be Light	SF	Invents solar power	U
	Man Who Sold The Moon	SF	Entrepreneur markets moon so he can fly to it
	Gulf	SF	secret society of geniuses protect world
	Jerry Was a Man	SF	genetically modified chimp wants human rights
	Lost Legacy	SF	telepathy and telekinesis
	Elsewhen	SF	Time travel and parallel universes
	Requiem	SF	'Man who sold moon' gets there illegally and dies
	Roads Must Roll	SF	Revolution by techies who keep mechanical roads moving
	They	SF	Man is positive that whole world is contrived just for him...and he is right
	Life-Line	SF	Man can determine when a person will die - insurance companies kill him
	Blowups Happen	SF	First nuclear plant must be shut down and moved into space
	Delilah and the Space-Rigger	SF	First woman on Space station
	Ordeal in Space	SF
	Space Jockey	SF	Rocket pilot lands a job on moon
	Long Watch, The	SF	Engineer locks himself in with nuclear bombs to stop miltary on moon from blasting towns on earth
	Gentlemen, Be Seated	SF	Airlock on moon has a leak - plug it by sitting on it and freeze
	Dark Pits of Luna	SF	Little kid gets lost on moon
	Panadora's Box	Essay	Predictions and science
	Free Men	SF	Post nuclear war - freedom fighters hiding underground
	Situation Unsatisfactory	SF	Nuclear powder and the attempt to submit world to total peace or else...
	Its Great to Be Back	SF	After 3 years on moon return to earth and find they can't stand it
	We Also Walk Dogs	SF	Company that does anything creates anti-gravity device
	Searchlight	SF	Use laser to send sound so blind girl can be rescued on moon
	Green Hills of Earth	SF	Pilot blinded by nuclear drive, becomes a busker with his accordian
	Logic of Empire	SF	Two guys get drunk and sign on to work on Venus
	Menace From Earth	SF	Boy falls for a pretty tourist lady and gets his girl jealous
	If This Goes On...	SF	Rebellion against The Prophet
	Conventry	SF	Social outcasts set loose in land where anarchy rules
	Misfit	SF	Trouble maker sent to an asteroid to work but he proves to be a genius and saves the day
	Methuselah's Children	SF	people who live long escape from earth and end up at a couple strange places before returning
	Goldfish Bowl	SF	a pair of massive pillars of water in the Pacific which may be natural phenomena or they may be formed by aliens.
	All You Zombies	SF	man who is taken back in time and tricked into impregnating his younger, female self (before he underwent a sex change), and who turns out to be the offspring of that very union, with the paradoxical result that he is both his own mother and father. In fact, as it turns out, all the major characters in the story are the same person, at different stages of her/his life.
Hemingway Ernest	In Another Country	F	WWII Italy - officers being rehabilitated in a hospital	U
Henderson Zenna	Things	SF	U
Henry O.	Third Ingredient	F	Woman with meat joins up with one with potatoes and a man w/onion
Hesketh Peggy	A Madness of Two	F	Delusory Parasitosis	U
Hickman Christine	So Dark the Rose	F		X
High Phillip E	Bottomless Pit	SF		U
Highsmith Patricia	Sauce for the Goose	MM	wife kills husband only to be trapped in walk-in freezer with him	U
Hilbourne Alyson	A Little Excitement	F	stolen jewels scam in 1920s	U
Hill Ernest	Atrophy	SF
Hilliard Noel	A Piece of Land	F	Couple Maori told they have land, big dreams of a new life only to find out it is postage stamp size	N
Hood Hugh	After the Sirens	SF	6 survivors' struggles	C
Horgan Paul	Surgeon And The Nun	F	Old west, they do appendectomy on Mexican in a hot shed next to railway	U
Hooton Ernest	Apology for Man's Physique	SF		U
Hornsby Wendy	The Violinist	F	Jack London	U
Hunt Violet	Corsican Sisters	SF		U
Hunter Evan	Not A Laughing Matter	F	Man in Santa suit kills boss but forgot his beard
Ironside Virginia	The Young Squire	F		B
Ingrassia Anthony	Ronnie Bayne Sails At Dawn	F	loose fellow wonders if anyone really loves him	U
Inman Vanda	One Lost Piece	F	family does jigsaws	U
Irving Washington	Devil And Tom Walker	F	Sells soul and becomes moneylender	U
	Governor Manco And The Soldier	F	Spanish tales of armies in mountains
	Rip Van Winkle	F	Man sleeps for 20 years
	Guests from Gibbet	F	Dutch pirate from New England with a negro mate
Jackson Shirley	Little League	F	First game as seen through a mother's eyes	U
James E R	Six-Fingered Jacks	SF		U
James P D	A Very Commonplace Murder	MM	man knows boy didn't kill lover and keeps finding reasons for not telling anyone - turns out he was the murderer	U
James Henry	The Tree of Knowledge	F	Fellow goes back and forth to Paris and States	U
Jenkins Alan C	The Blind Man	F		X
Jenkins Will	Doomsday Deferred	SF		U
Jewett Sarah Orne	Winter Courtship	F	Old bachelor and widow engage during a wagon ride	U
Jones Elis Gwyn	When the Engines Had to Stop	SF		U
Joyce James	Araby	F	Boy gets to fair too late to buy gift for girl	I
	The Boarding House	F	Boarder knocks up landlord's daughter and ....
	The Sisters	F	priest Father Flynn dies, and a young boy and his family deal with it only superficially
	An Encounter	F	Two schoolboys play hooky and are confronted by an elderly man
	Eveline	F	A young woman abandons her plans to elope with a sailor
	After the Race	F	College student tries to fit in with his wealthy friends.
	Two Gallants	F	Two con men trick a maid into stealing from her employer
	A Little Cloud	F	man realizing his baby son has replaced him as the center of his wife's affections.
	Counterparts	F	frustrated copy clerk, takes out his frustration in pubs and on his son
	Clay	F	A maid celebrates Halloween with her former foster child and friend Joe Donnelly and his family
	A Painful Case	F	Mr. Duffy rebuffs Mrs. Sinico, then four years later realizes he's lost the only chance for love in his life
	Ivy Day in the Committee Room	F	Minor Irish politicians fail to live up to the memory of Charles Stewart Parnell
	A Mother	F	Mother tries to create a perfect piano recital for her daughter but fails miserably because she had no support from others
	Grace	F	fellow injures himself in a bar fall, and his friends try to get him to go on a Catholic retreat to try to convert him
	The Dead	F	passionless people like himself are already dead
Kafka Franz	The Metamorphosis	SF	man turns into a bug	Rus
Kapp Colin	The Railways Up on Cannis	SF		U
Kelley	Anything Helps	F	poor mother helped by a "street person"	U
Kilmer Joyce	Whitemail	F		U
Kipling Rudyard	Miss Youghal's Sais	F	Brit disguises himself as low caste	B
	Mowgli's Brothers plus.....	F	Wolves raise a human
	Return of Imray	F
	Mary Postgate	F	governess to 10-year-old who dies in WWI and she comes to loath Germans
Kippax John	Friday	SF		U
	The Dusty Death	SF
Kirkwood Carol	The Lavender Summer	F	couple out of uni meet on train in Frnace	B
Klass Morton	In The Beginning	SF	Scientists are blamed for the Atomic War, but one of them pursues his project of reviving Neanderthal man from a fossil, arguing that the Homo sapiens replaced the earlier race, but was not truly superior to it	U
Knight Damon	Be My Guest	F	Potion makes you invisible and allows you to see creatures that inhabit your body	U
	Second Class Citizen	SF	a man who teaches dolphins tricks escapes underwater when the holocaust comes
	Babel II	SF	trader from another dimension whose visit unwittingly threatens a Biblical doom
	Four In One	SF
	World Without Children	SF
Koller Anna Eady	Handful of Hungarian Dirt	His	1956 Hungarian Uprising through letters	UK
Kunstler James	Hoogyly Moogly	F	Trying to live having two women	U
Kuprin Alexander	Outrage, The	F	Thieves and con-artists complain to judges they are being picked on	R
La Farge Oliver	La Specialite de M Duclos	MM	Chef kills man who steals recipe adn is acquitted in France
Lafferty R. A.	Six Fingers of Time, The	SF	Man w/ 6 fingers masters time - speeds up and grows into old age within a year
Lang Allen K	Underground Movement	SF	underground tube suddenly stopped by a body out window	U
Lardner Ring	Liberty Hall	F	Famous composer hates visiting - tales of what happens	U
Lasswell Harold	Men in Space	Soc		U
Lawrence D H	The Horse Dealer's Daughter	F	Car ends business, daughter tries to drown herself, saved by doctor	U
	The Blind Man	F		U
LeGuin Ursula	Nine Lives	SF	9 clones crew a space ship	U
Leiber Fritz	Smoke Ghost	SF	The thing that Mr Catesby Wran sees on the roof as he travels to and from work on the Chicago elevated railway is as terrible, amoral, and world-overturning as anything found in Barchester Cathedral or invoked by the unwise.	U
	The Night He Cried	SF	hilarious spoof of Mickey Spillane
	When the Last Gods Die	SF
	Last	SF
Leinster Murray	Aliens, The	SF		B
	The Middle of the Week After Next	SF
	Ribbon In The Sky	SF	Med ship finds isolated planet where people fear illness
Lemarchand Elizabeth	Time to be Going	F		B
Lemmon Robert S.	Bamboo Trap, The	F	Man inside bamboo mass - where giant meateatspiders gather at night	U
Lermontov Mikhail	Taman	F	Officer ends up with a blind boy, young girl and smuggler	R
Leroux Gaston	A Terrible Tale	F	men on a lifeboat eat each others legs and arms and develop a taste for human flesh	FR
Lewis Roy	The Evolution Man	Humor	a few hectic years in the life of a family of Pleistocene humanoids. They've learned to walk upright and now they're ready for the big stuff -- fire, cookery, music, arts and the remarkable discovery that you shouldn't mate with your sister	B
Lewis Sinclair	Virga Vay & Allan Cedar	F	Lovers try to kill themselves, but wife stops them	U
Light John	Five elderly Gentleman	F	only 4 of 5 ever dine together	B
	Pink Punk	F	robber changes into Krisha disguise
	Sound of the Sea	F	man records sea and becomes rich only to become rich and hate the sound
	Expensive Daub	F	art forger covers work with bad art which then sells - scam
	Man Who Wrote Letters	F	Lonely Hearts uses info in novels
	Indian Ladder Trick	F	from roof Desai sees model Taj and leaves for real thing
	Opus Posthumous	F	ghost works through woman to finish his last work
	Bequest	F	man dying of cancer through sunflower seeds along railway line
	Artistic License	F	Artist bribes chem co to turn sea to green
	Proof?	F	clairvoyant produces photos of what people will look like in future
	Allergy	F	plants increasing pollen potency to kill off animals
	A 19th Century Dream	F	predicts 20th century and end of world
Linscott Gillian	Enough to Stay the Winter	F	lady gets cat impregnated by pedigree ($$$) and then it runs off	U
Lloyd Josie	Waving Not Drowning	F	sailboat widow meets winemaker widower in Majorca	b
Lippman Laura	Cougar	F	friend of 42 year old mother kills her deadbeat son	U
London Jack	All Gold Canyon	F	Process of finding gold - with a killer to try to take it away	U
	To Build a Fire	F	Stranded in Yukon storm and only warmth is from his dog
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth	Notary Of Perigueux	F	Hangs out with wine guy who dies from scarlet fever - thinks he has it as punishment	U
Loran Martin	An Ounce of Dissention	SF		U
Lovecraft H P	The Call of Cthulhu	F	strange idol and monsters	U
Lucas Victor	Here Comes a Candle	F		B
Lustig Arnost	Beginning and the End	F		CZ
MacApp C. C.	A Pride of Islands	SF		U
	The Impersonators	SF
MacDonald John D.	The Big Contest	SF		U
Mansfield Katherine	Her First Ball	F	Country bumpkin goes to ball with city cousins	N
	Marriage a la Mode	F	Husband visits wife on weekends, but she spends time with friends
Marquis Don	ghosts [from Archie and Mehitable]	SF	Archy is a cockroach with the soul of a poet, and Mehitabel is an alley cat who traces her lineage back to Cleopatra	U
Malcolm Donald	Twice Bitten	SF		U
Mansfield Katherine	Marriage Ala Mode	F		NZ
Martino Joseph	To Change Their Ways	SF		U
Masefield John	Raines Law Arrest	F	Bar serves drinks on Sundays - cops on make	B
Matheson Richard	Children Of Noah	SF	Picked up for speeding in small town...ends up being meal for townspeople
	Lemmings	SF	Twist = its humans
	Girl of My Dreams	SF
	Shipshape Home	SF	very low cost apartment house but of good quality, and the strangest machinery in the basement...
	'Tis the Season to Be Jelly	SF
	Return	SF
	The Jazz Machine	SF
	The Disinheritors	SF
	Slaughter House	SF
	Shock Wave	SF
	When the Waker Sleeps	SF
	Witch War	SF	woman repels tiny invaders to her planet, with nothing but her broom
	First Anniversary	SF
	Miss Stardust	SF
	Full Circle	SF
	Nightmare at 20,000 Feet	SF	man sees a gremlin tearing at the wing
Maugham W Somerset	Verger, The	F	Verger fired because he can't read - becomes wealthy once fired	B
	Outpost, The	F	Old boy snob in charge and gets on with Malay natives, colonial treats them badly and is killed
	Book Bag, The	F	equates addicition to books as to narcotics
de Maupassant Guy	Who Knows?	F	Man furniture leaves of its own accord	Fr
May Julian	Dune Roller	F
Mayne Ethel	The Separate Room	F		U
	Man of the House	F		U
McCarthy Carson	Cruel and Barbarous Treatment	F	Woman has an affair, tells husband loses both	U
McCullers Carson	Ballad Of The Sad Cafe	F	Strange relationship between a tough woman, a hunchback & a criminal	U
	Sojourner	F	Man has a meal with ex-wife and her new family
	Wunderkind	F	Relation between piano teacher and his star pupil who just can't do it
	Jockey, The	F	Jockey gets drunk
	Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland	F	New music teacher is a liar - there is no king
	Domestic Dilemma, A	F	Typical evening with an alcoholic and her husband and kids
	Tree, A Rock and A Cloud	F	Drunk tells youth his science of love
McIntosh J T	Immortality..For Some	SF		U
	Machine Made	SF
	Mind Alone	SF
McIntosh William	The Filling of the Joneses	F	starving family given a picture to improve their life	U
McLaughlin Dean	For Those Who Follow After	SF		U
Meadows Stephen	Frances	F		X
Merril Judith	That Only a Mother	SF	mutated babies by radiation	U
	Peeping Tom	SF
	Lady Was a Tramp	SF
	Whoever You Are	SF
	Connection Completed	SF
	Dead Center	SF
	Death Cannot Wither	SF
Michener James	Mr Morgan	F	Beachcomber and Minister on an atoll	U
	Povenaa's Daughter	F	Tahiti - daughter keeps bringing home losers
	Mynah Birds	F	Fiji - American hangs out with Indian woman
	The Story	F	Guadalcanal
	Good Life	F	Espiritu Santo
	Until They Sail	F	WWII - American soliders and NZ women
	The Jungle	F	American whimp loses wife to Australian man
	Fossickers	F	New Guinea - going up the Sepik
Middleton O. E.	Reservoir, The	F	Children go to the forbidden reservoir	N
	Saving The Breed	F	Loner shepherd has the best dogs, leaves it too late to get another batch of pups
	The Doss-House and The Dutchess	F	Kiwi sailors out of work in England and can't get dole
Millay Edna St Vincent	Murder in the Fishing Cat	MM		U
Miller Walter	The Triflin' Man	SF		U
	Memento Homo	SF	farewell to a man whose decrepit body lies in bed while his mind and his yearnings remain in space.
Minor Horace	Body Ritual Among the Nacirema	Humor	Nacirema is AMERICAN spelled backward. He’s talking about bathrooms, brushing one’s teeth, men shaving and women having their hair done once a week at a beauty shop.	U
Montague C E	Action	F	Man attempts impossible climb ready to die, only to survive
Moore George	Albert Nobbs	F	Woman lives as a male butler
Marcia Muller	Contemporary Insanity	F	Internet scam	U
Nash Ogden	THREE D's	F	Girl's initiation - read tombstone at midnight	U
Nelson Ray	Eight O'Clock in the Morning	SF	Humans' minds controlled by aliens.	U
Newman Andrea	She'll Be Company For You	F		B
Nielson Helen	Your Witness	F	Unreliable witness so wife kills husband while witness ...
O'Connor Frank	My Oedipus Complex	F	Father returns from war and competes for mother's attention - both lose to new baby	I
O'Faolain Sean	Fur Coat	F	Wife wants coat but doesn't want coat	I
	Innocence	F	young boy's confession - to a dotty old priest
O'Hara John	Graven Image	F	down-at-heels Harvard man, member of swank Porcellian Club, begs for a Wash. job from Under Secretary who had been snubbed by Porcellians. He gets along fine, is promised the job, then spoils everything by expansively recalling college-club days.	U
	The Radio	F	husband slaps his wife, tells her he has discovered her infidelities, and that he can hit her "as much as I want to, because, Baby, you're stuck."
	Leave	F	a sailor home from the Pacific finds his girl married, bruises his knuckles on her husband when the husband invites him to take her out.
	Respectable Place	F	drunken cop shoots up Matty bar and the police benefit society gives him $175 to repair it. Then the cops pass Matty without speaking, his daughter gets a parking ticket, a beer truck unloading at his place gets a summons for obstructing traffic, and when he tries to return the $175, he is accused of bribery.
	King of the Desert	F	two wise cracking pansies torment a stolid football player in a bar until he knocks one of them out
Okhotnikov Vadim	The Fiction Machines	SF		R
Olesha Yury	Love	F		R
Oliver Chad	Boy Nextdoor, The	F		U
	Of Course	F
Pain Barry	End of the Show, The	F		U
Parker Dorothy	Nightingales Sing, The	F	woman spends evening with ranchers in mountain	U
Parker Richard	The Wheelbarrow Boy	SF		U
Parks Lucas	The Moon	SF		U
Parsons Elizabeth	Waltz, The	F	What goes on in girl's head while dancing with an oaf	N
Pearson Bill	At The Leicester's	F	English lady runs tours in Egypt (post WWII)	N
Pederson Con	Pushover Planet	SF		U
Penman MArie	Between The Lines	F	women's book group	B
Peters Ellis	Golden Girl	F	Gold hidden in life jacket, boat sinks, so does smuggler
Pickard Nancy	Dark Chocolate	F	Woman bakes and eats a cake	U
Piper H Beam	Omnilingual	SF	Archaeologists excavating the remains of a humanoid Martian civilization find an entire library, but lack a Rosetta Stone.
Planner William	Child of Queen Victoria	F		U
Poe Edgar Allan	Cask Of Amontillado	F	Bricks man in a wine cellar	U
	Man Of The Crowd	F	While "reading" people he decides to follow a man
	Pit And Pendulum	F	Spanish inquisition
	Tell-Tale Heart	F	Murderer hears victims's heart beating
	The Black Cat	F	Hangs cat, another comes and drives him to kill his wife - hides body behind wall, but cat is in there too
	The Masque of the Red Death	F	Prince retreats to palace with 1000 to wait out plague, but it comes to a masquerade ball
	The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar	F	Man hynotized at death, can speak while dead
	Hop-Frog	F	Midget joker revenge kills king and court at masquerade party
	Fall of the House of Usher	F	Man buries his sister but she's not dead and gets out of crypt and he dies of fright
	A Descent into the Maelstrom	F	How a man survives the worst storm area in Norweigian waters
	Murders in the Rue Morgue	F	Ourang-Outang kills 2 women - fellow deduces it from clues
Porges Arthur	Mop-Up	SF		U
	Ruum	SF
Porter Katherine Anne	Flowering Judas	F	Yankee lady in Mexico works with revolutionists and teaches English to children	U
Powers J. F.	Valiant Woman	F	Priest stuck with an overpowering housekeepr	U
Presslie Robert	Another Word for Man	SF
Pushkin Alexander	Queen Of Spades	F	Old lady knows secret of 3 cards - young soldier wants to know	R
Priestly J B		SF	Once-great opera star is now reduced to playing The Demon King in a pantomime regional musical theater "Jack and Jill"	B
Pritchett V S	Sense of Humor	F
Pushkin Alexander	The Coffin Maker	F	Invites all he has buried to a feast	R
Rackham John	Advantage	SF		B
Ray Robert	The Heart of Blackness	SF
Rankine John	Six Cubed Plus One	SF
Rusch Kristine Katherine	E-Male	F	Ex breaks into girl's email and discovers foul happenings to her	U
Reed Kit	The Wait	F	town where they don't "do" doctors, and young girls are left out in a field at night, to have their virginity taken, anonymously, by one or other of their male neighbours.
Ritchie Jack	Bomb No. 14	F	Policman is bomber
	For All The Rude People	F	Man kills all the rude people he meets one day
Rendell Ruth	Bribery and Corruption	MM	Man see fellow with babe - promise to not tell
Roberts R Ellis	The Narrow Way	SF		B
Roberts Keith	The Inner Wheel	SF	Groups developed gestalt brains	B
S J Rozan	Cold, Hard Facts	F	man setup to take rap for murder	U
Ruhen Olaf	My First Whale	F	Describes encounters w/whales off S.I.	N
Rukeyser Muriel	Club, The	F	Man kills wife and then certain people know that he has done it	U
Runyun Damon	So You Won't Talk!	MM	Rich man killed and reporter thinks parrot knows who did it - with a twist at the end	U
Russell John	Fourth Man, The	F	3 convicts suffer lack of water on raft while native has no problem
Russell Eric Frank	Take A Seat	SF		U
Saki	Easter Egg, The	F	Terrorists trick town into presenting an egg (bomb) to prince	B
	Interlopers, The	F	Wolves eat enemies trapped under a tree
	Mrs Packletide's Tiger	F	Woman misses tiger but it dies from shock
	Schartz-Metterklume Method	F	Lady pretends to be expected tutor
	Seventh Pullet	F	Man makes up stories to gain his moment of attention
	Story Teller	F	Man on train tells a pointed story to keep kids quiet
	Toys Of Piece	F	Woman has brother give sons non-war toys
	Open Window	F	Man goes to country to rest, girl tells him a story why window kept open when it happens he runs off
	Unrest Cure	F	Man pretends boy scouts are going to kill the bishop
Sambrot William	Substance Of Martyrs	F	Nazi makes a Christ out of Jew's gold
Sampington T L	The Sociable Sand Witch	F	Boy goes under sand with a witch
Salinger J. D.	Uncle Wiggily in Connectitcut	F	two women drinking away	U
Saltikov Mikhail	"How a Muzhik* Fed Two Officials"	F	Satire - peasant takes care of bigwigs	R
Sargeson Frank	Undertaker's Story	F	Married couple who don't speak, son dies	N
Scott Jeffry	He Said I Could	F		U
Scott Sir Walter	Two Drovers, The	F	Scot murders best friend after being beaten in pub	S
Seabright Idris	White Goddess	F	Old lady puts thief into a shake-snow paperweight	U
	An Egg a Month from All Over	F
Sellings Arthur	Jukebox	F		B
Serling Rod	Midnight Sun	SF	Woman dreams earth moving to sun - wakes earth moving away	U
	Night Of The Meek		Drunken Santa finds a bag of gifts that never empties
	Rip Van Winkle Caper		Robbers sleep 100 years to be free men, but trouble within
	Shelter, The		Neighbors turn to hatred of Dr who has a bomb shelter
	Showdown With Lance McGrew		Good guy cowboy actor is dealt to by Jesse James' ghost
	Whole Truth		Haunted car makes owner tell the truth
	Big Tall Wish
	A Thing About Machines
	Dust
	The Lonely
	A Stop at Willoughby		train stops at a town that is 100 years ago
	Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Sestanovich Clare	Old Hope	F	young lady emails old professer	U
Shadbolt Maurice	People Before, The	F	Dairy farm up a valley, Maori come and leave old man behind to die	N
Shaw Lao	Everybodyovskyism in Cat City	SF
Sharkey Jack	To Each His Own	SF
Shaw Lao	Everybodyovskyism in Cat City	SF
Sheckley Robert	Proof of the Pudding	SF		U
	Human Man's Burden	SF
	Meeting of the Minds	SF
Shelton Jerry	Culture	SF		U
Shepherd Jean	Return of Smiling Wimpy Doll	F	man's childhood toys	U
	Miss Bryfogel and the Case of the Warbling Cuckold	F	book reports - porno	U
	Old Man Pulaski and the Infamous Jawbreaker Blackmail	F	penny candy store	U
	Fistful of Fig Newtons	F	uni laxative challenge	U
	Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories	F	first prom	U
	Secret Mission of Blue-Assed Buzzard	F	test radar on a jet	U
	Scut Farkas and Murderous Mariah	F	dueling tops	U
	Lost at C	F	algebra	U
	Star-Crossed Romance of Joephine Cosnowski and her Friendly Neighborhood Sex Maniac	F	date with Polish girl	U
	Banjo Butt Meets Julia Child	F	F Company gets fed gourmet meals	U
	A Christmas Story	F	Red Rider bb rifle	U
Silverberg Robert	Point of Focus	SF		U
	Collecting Team	SF	3 search planets for species
	At the End of Days	SF	end of earth and into space
	The Pardoner's Tale	SF	Hacker changes people's work assignments
Simak Clifford	Desertion	SF	future of human evolution (and that of robot intelligences, dogs, and, finally, ants) through incidents in the future history of one family and its robot servants	U
	Condition of Employment	SF	Homesickness inducement cycle
Simenon Georges	Under the Hammer	MM	Murder in country inn on eve of cash only farm auction	U
Sinclair May	Nature of the Evidence	SF	Dead wife won't let him sleep with new wife	U
Skinner Charles	Model of a Statesman.	F	Wax image replaces assessor
Slesar Henry	Something Short Of Murder	F	Gambler lady ends up killing to get a few $ to payoff bookie
Smiley Patricia	The Offer	F	Woman ends up getting a job by mistake
Smith Cordwainer	The Ballad of Lost C'mell	SF	cat-derived humncula, one of the underpeople, is a girly girl, an Earthport hostess. She is approached by a Lord of Instrumentality, who wants to help the underpeople secure an improvement in their legal status. C'Mell provides a conduit to her leader E-telekeli and helps to conspire to give him asscess to the central computer of civilization	U
	Alpha Ralpha Boulevard	SF	experiment - back to old days
Smith George O	In The Stars	SF	Zonium created when universes collide
Spencer William	Horizontal Man	SF	Men no longer need their bodies
Sprague de Camp L	Throwback	SF	devolution by selective breeding
St Clair Margaret	Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes	F	Boy who predicts earthquake, forced to do one more - sun to nova tmw
Stabenow Dana	Gold Fever	F	couple pull off perfect murder to get a gold stake	U
Stafford Jean	Country Love Story	F	Couple spend winter in a remote forest spot and grow apart
Stark Richard	Curious Facts Preceding My Execution	F	Many interuptions as man tries to commit a murder
Stead C. K.	A Fitting Tribute	F	Man builds wings and flies off as told by his lover	N
Steele Wilbur Daniel	Footfalls	F	Blind man hears son killed and waits 9 yrs for revenge
Stegner Wallace	Traveler	F	Salesman stranded in snow storm runs into himself 30 yrs ago
Steinbeck John	Miracle Of Tepayac	F	Story of our Lady of Guadalupe	U
	Flight	F	Mexican kills then is tracked down in mountains
	The Chrysanthemums	F	Lady finds work for a tinker
	The White Quail	F	Man kills quail but tells wife he killed a cat
	The Snake	F	starfish embryos ruined by woman who eats like a snake
	Breakfast	F	Breakfast with cotton pickers
	The Raid	F	"Forgive them" vs. "opium of the people."
	The Harness	F	wife dies - man wants to plant sweet peas
	The Vigilante	F	Lynching as told by a man who didn't want to do it
	Johnny Bear	F	fellow in bar imitates people
	The Murder	F	kills man in be with his wife - life goes on
	Saint Katy the Virgin	F	pig become a saint
Stephenson Carl	Leiningen Versus The Ants	F	Army ants swarm water moat and burning oil moat defences
Stern G B	The Man Who Couldn't Taste Pepper	F	Man puts cayenne into an omlette as a joke
Stetson Charlotte Perkins	The Yellow Wallpaper	F	Woman haunted by moving wallpaper
Stevenson Robert Louis	Suicide Club	F	each night a member kills the chosen member	S
	Rajah's Diamond	F	wife steals husband's jewels to pay a debt, a minister steals the RD, and on it goes
	Markheim	F
	The Pavilion of the Links	F	Fraudster being chased by Italians
	Lodging for the Night	F
	The Beach of Falesa	F	two copra agents duke it out
	Sire De Maletroit's Door	F
	The Bottled Imp	F	Sell the bottle for less or go to hell
Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde	F	Potion turns man into evil counter-part
Stoker Bram	The Squaw	F	Black cat - Iron Maiden
Stout Rex	Invitation to Murder	MM	Client is killed while Archie is investigating at a mansion	U
	The Zero Clue	MM	Future teller leaves a clue (with pencils) to his murderer
	This Won't Kill You	MM	4 Giants drugged to fix World Series game
	Poison a la Carte	MM	one of 12 Actresses poisons a Broadway backer
Stuart William	Star-Crossed Lover	SF
Sturgeon Theodore	A Way of Thinking	SF
	A Saucer of Loneliness	SF	first contact with alien life to examine the phenomenon of isolated souls reaching out to each other
	Granny Won't Knit	SF
	The Nail and the Oracle	SF	relationship develops between scientist and microbes
Sturm Jacqueline	For All the Saints	F	Alice, Maori hospital worker, uneducated and out of place
Suggs Robert	The Kon-Tiki Myth	Anthro
Takher Helen	A Helping Hand	F	lady thinks she founda friend, but ends up being a cleaner	B
Talley Marcia	The Danger Signs	F	female lifeguard whose father loves bacon	B
Taylor Elizabeth	Red Letter Day	F	Mother visits son at boarding school	B
Taylor Peter	Spinster's Tale	F	Young girl terrified of old drunk who repeatedly walks past her house	B
Teicher Albert	The Junkmakers	SF
Temple William F	Coco-Talk	SF
Tenn William	Child's Play	SF	a lawyer who creates people with his Build-A-Man kit, a Christmas gift intended for a child of the future.	U
	The Sickness	SF
	Winthrop Was Stubborn	SF
Theroux Paul	Dietrologia	F	Old man tells kids stories and gives them cookies	U
Thomas Dylan	Old Woman Upstairs	F	Servant kills old lady for money under the bed - walks out window	B
Thurber James	You Could Look It Up	F	Baseball mgr puts a midget in to bat	U
Tolstoy Leo	Kholstomer	F	A piebald horse's life from its point of view	R
	What Men Live By	F	Angel comes to live with a cobbler to learn 3 lessons
	Death of Ivan Ilych	F	Powerful, inciteful rendering of a life and then the slow cancer death
	Family Happiness	F	Young girls falls in love with older man, marry and love changes
	Kreutzer Sonata	F	Man on train tells story of why he killed wife (jealousy)
	Master and Man	F	Master saves servant's life in snow storm
	Porcelain Doll	F	Man's wife tunrs to porcelain
Tripp Miles	Snow	F		B
E C Tubb	The Seekers	SF	a strange illusion on an uninhibited planet	B
	Little Girl Lost	F
Tunis John R	Two Mile Race	F		U
Ullman James Ramsey	Top Man	F	Conquest of K3
unknown	Sawney Bean And His Family	SF	Family in cave, kills and eats passerbys
Van Doren Mark	Testimony After Death	S	Detective thinks dead man's face tells him something	U
	The Strange Girl	SF
Van Vogt A.E.	Discord In Scarlet	SF	Unkillable armed and armored thing	C
	Expendables		5th generation colonists on ship with an alien invader
	Heir Unapparent		Emperor of earth has 4 day poison
	M33 In Andromeda		Death mist fills universe
	Seige Of The Unseen		Man with a third eye
	Weapon Shop		Shop appears out of nowhere and sells gun for suicide
Vance Jack	Men of the Ten Books	SF
	The Gift of Gab	SF
	Guyal of Sfere	SF	famous among his people for endlessly asking questions seeks fabled Museum of Man in order to ask questions of legendary, all-knowing Curator
Vickers Roy	Dinner For Two	MM	Murderer wanting to help police says too much
Wallace F L	Tangle Hold	SF
Wallace Penelope	Tell David	F		B
Walton Alexander	Clegson's Folly	F		X
Watson Beth	Poolside Paradise	F	family holiday in backyard	B
Wellen Edward	I O U	SF		U
Wells H G	Apple, The	SF	Is it really the forbidden fruit as the stranger claims	B
	Country Of The Blind		In the land of the blind a one-eyed man is king = not true
	Flowering Of The Strange Orchid		Boring man grows a man-eating orchid
	Inexperienced Ghost		Man claims to have seen a ghost and learnt the trick to disappear
	Magic Shop		Shop which gives away genuine magic appears/disappears
	Man Who Could Work Miracles		By thinking can make anything happen - tells earth to stand still
	Pollock And The Porroh Man		Man haunted by the head of a native he had killed
	Purple Pileus		Meek man eats mushrooms then scares wife into submission
	Slip Under A Microscope, A		Poor boy cheats to beat rich boy on exam
	Stolen Body, The		Man trying to leave his body has it stolen by evil spirit
	The Cone		Man pushed into a cauldron
	Man of the Year Million		giagantic brains
	The Invisible Man
Welty Eudora	Visit Of Charity	F	Girl scout visits two old ladies in a resthome	U
	Why I Live at the P.O.	F	Daughter moves out after sister moves back home
Wellman Manly Wade	O Ugly Bird	SF	Evil country sorcerer has a giant buzzard-like creature, but bigger that carries away children and small adults	U
Westlake Donald E.	Best-Friend Murder	F	Couple suicide - friend burns note and lets himself be caught
White E B	The Hour of Letdown	SF
White James	Fast Trip	SF		U
	The Trouble with Emily	SF
	Second Ending	SF
Wiggs Susan	Other People's Clothing	F	Dry cleaner uses dress to go to fancy place, thinks car valet is owner of car - they marry	U
Whitman Walt	One Wicked Impulse!	F	Young man kills his benefactor who had been cheating him	U
Williams Eric	The Garden of Paris	SF		B
Williams Frances	Coffee Break	F	couple breakup	B
Williams William Carlos	Use of Force	F	Doctor tries to see girl's throat	U
Williamson Ian	Chemical Plant	SF		U
Williamson-Ellis Amabel	Changeling	SF		U
Wilson Phillip	End Of The River	F	Last fishing trip before friend goes off to Oxford	N
	It Was Easter	F	Man sees man dead hanging in a barn, barkeep doesn't believe him
Woolf Virginia	New Dress	F	Wears new dress to party and is spurned	B
	Lappin and Lapinova	F	married couple treat themselves as rabbits
Wyndham John	No Place Like Earth	SF
Yeats William Butler	Crucifixion Of The Outcast	F	Gleeman stays at abbey, complains about it and so is crucified	B
Young Robert F	Thirty Days Had September	SF	man buys out of date robotic teacher	U
Zelazny Roger	Final Dining	SF	Self-portraits talks fellow into killing a woman
Zhuravleva Valentina	The Astronaut	SF		Rus