Wherein things that can’t happen and ought not to happen do happen...! DASHIELL HAMMETT, in The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, etc., set a new standard for mystery stories. In the present selection he sets up a standard of excellence in stories of the weird, the fantastic, the supernatural, the almost incredible. He has chosen from various writers an honor roll of tales that send thrills to your mind and chills to your spine — none of which has ever before appeared in book form. Mr. Hammett’s introduction presents interestingly the basis of his selections.

Few American scientfiic men can be better known in Great Britain than the subject of this biography. The author has been in close touch with him, and has had every opportunity of gaining authentic information. The book is a popular one, and, as is perhaps natural and inevitable, has less to say about Wood's scientific achievements in developing resonance radiation and resonance spectra than about his personal adventures in various scientific and semi-scientific fields such as the aviation of early days, thawing frozen pipes, war work and scientific detection of crime. We are left with the impression that, successful as he has been as an experimenter, he could have done equally well as a...

"Horrifying ghouls, decaying corpses, body snatchers, grave robbers and flesh-eating monsters. In this gruesome anthology of the living dead, all these and more will try to catch your eye and devour your brain. From the macabre pens of the world's most spine-tingling horror and fantasy writers, the grisliest, goriest, ghastliest stories from the last two centuries have been plucked from the shadows by legendary editor Otto Penzler, to form the most monstrous volume in zombie history. Featuring a cast of world-class writers, including H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe, Joe R. Lansdale, Vivian Meik, Lisa Tuttle, W.B. Seabrook, Karen Haber, Guy De...

Книга является биографией Роберта Вуда — замечательного американского физика. В этой книге читатель найдет рассказ не только о чисто научных исследованиях Р. Вуда, но и его путешествиях, о разгадке тайны пурпурного золота царя Тутанхамона, участии Вуда в раскрытии преступлений и разоблачении «изобретателей» «N-лучей» и «лучей смерти» и о других не менее интересных вещах.