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A tenant sees the former owner of his rented house in a room with no exit.
An inventor claims that machines can think, then a visitor hears a struggle inside his workshop.
A hunter dies after an attack by something his companion cannot see.
As invulnerable creatures overrun Earth, a scientist sends ninety-nine volunteers into the fourth dimension to strike at their source.
A pilot risks a solo flight to Mars, where a hidden survivor and a silent alien intelligence reveal why Earth’s missions never came home.
Three friends invent time travel, claim prehistoric America as a nation, and discover that founding a country is harder than reaching the past.
A stranded fugitive boards a living spaceship and begins planning how to make its extraordinary power his own.
A space Scanner temporarily regains his senses and learns that his own guild plans to kill the man who could make their sacrifice obsolete.
Telepath Underhill and his feline Partner, Lady May, must destroy an alien predator in the milliseconds between jumps through interstellar space.
A bored passenger on a future balloon tour writes a letter full of confident errors about the nineteenth century.
A dying skeptic submits to mesmerism and uses the trance to answer questions about God, matter, pain, and life after death.
A group of confident American scholars revives an Egyptian mummy and discovers that he has a low opinion of modern progress.
Two reunited lovers discuss humanity's collapse and what one of them experienced as his body died, decayed, and lost its senses.
Two souls meet after Earth’s destruction, and one explains how a newly discovered comet ended the human world.
A mesmerist tests whether hypnosis can hold a dying man at the point between life and death.
A curious narrator searches for the secret behind a celebrated war hero whose perfect appearance seems too complete to be natural.
Two newly immortal spirits cross the stars while one explains how every word and action continues to shape the universe.
Scheherazade tells one more Sinbad voyage, but the king finds modern science and technology less believable than magic.
A journalist reports that an obscure chemist has found a way to turn lead into pure gold.
A midnight train encounter leads two travelers through unsettling accounts of the dread inspired by things not yet understood.
A man who fears his own hands demonstrates a power over minds and objects that leaves his friend unsure whether either of them is sane.
A dinner-table skeptic challenges tales of telepathy and prophecy, then offers two unsettling examples from his own experience.
The timid inventor of a working flying machine becomes a public hero—and discovers that everyone expects him to risk the first flight.
An inventor descends five miles beneath the ocean in a steel sphere and finds that the abyss is neither empty nor lifeless.
