A name you know. A mood you’re in. Ten minutes to yourself. Start anywhere.
Recurring elements in the story’s premise.
A hunted mutant slips past Pluto’s quarantine and finds a dead scientist, a false disaster, and a doorway to a world remembered only in nightmares.
A stranded fugitive boards a living spaceship and begins planning how to make its extraordinary power his own.
A mesmerist tests whether hypnosis can hold a dying man at the point between life and death.
A journalist reports that an obscure chemist has found a way to turn lead into pure gold.
A London psychical researcher leaves his body during an experiment—and returns to find it occupied by something else.
A poor medical student accepts an old philosopher’s inheritance offer and wakes to find that far more than a name has changed hands.
A struggling writer befriends a reclusive doctor who can survive only in a refrigerated room, then learns why the cold is essential.
A scientist activates a machine that reveals forms of life hidden beside us, trapping his former friend in the experiment.
A solitary count faces a family curse as his thirty-second birthday nears and hidden rooms in his ruined château reveal an old revenge.
After drinking an alchemist's unfinished elixir, a lovesick young man begins to outlive everyone he knows.
Autonomous machines built to prevent murder begin expanding their definition of whom and what they must protect.
A government animal inspector discovers that one engineered pet can think and speak like a child, forcing him to decide who counts as human.
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