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21) Black Cat Weekly
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #37.
Another hefty issue is in hand, featuring novels and novellas by some of the greats of the mystery and science fiction fields. And, as expected, our acquiring editors have found some true gems. Michael Bracken has selected an original suspense tale from from N. M. Cedeño, Barb Goffman has a mystery from the always-superb Janice Law, and Cynthia Ward has Naomi Kritzer's "Evil Opposite"-a great alternate-universe tale...
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From Washington Irving (1783—1859) to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940), the authors represented in this expansive American short story anthology invite you to see the world as they saw it.
Irving's culture-defining tales of American life-"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"-offer a turn of events that both surprises and chills the reader. In "Bartleby," Herman Melville introduces us to a lawyer whose easy way of life is upended by...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science August 1931 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Danger From The Deep" by Ralph Milne Farley: Marooned on the Sea-Floor, His Hoisting Cable Cut, Young Abbot Is Left at the Mercy of the Man-Sharks, "Brood Of The Dark Moon" by Charles Willard Diffin: Once More Chet, Walt and Diane Are United in a Wild Ride to the Dark Moon. But This...
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Astounding Stories of Super Science July 1930 features seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Beyond The Heaviside Layer" by Capt. S.P. Meek: For Eighty Vertical Miles Carpenter and Bond Blasted Their Way-Only to Be Trapped by the Extraordinary Monsters of the Heaviside Layer. "Earth, The Marauder" by Arthur J. Burks: Out of Her Orbit Sped the Teeming Earth-A Marauding Planet...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science May 1931 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Into The Ocean's Depth's" by Sewell Peaslee Wright: To Save Imee's Race of Men-Who-Returned-To-The-Sea, Two Land-Men Answer the Challenge of the Dreaded Rorn, Corsairs of the Under-Seas, "Murder Madness" by Murray Leinster: Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service Men Had Completely Disappeared....
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science May 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Dark Moon" by Charles W. Diffin: Mysterious, Dark, Out of the Unknown Deep Comes a New Satellite to Lure Three Courageous Earthlings on to Strange Adventure. (A Complete Novelette.) "When Caverns Yawned", by Captain S.P. Meek: Only Dr. Bird's Super-Scientific Sleuthing Stands in the Way...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science January 1930 features seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Beetle Horde" by Victor Rousseau: Only Two Young Explorers Stand in the Way of the Mad Bram's Horrible Revenge-the Releasing of His Trillions of Man-sized Beetles upon an Utterly Defenseless World. (Part One of a Two-part Novel), "The Cave Of Horror" by Captain S.P. Meek: Screaming,...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science June 1931 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description:
"The Man From 2071" by Sewell Peaslee Wright: Out of the Flow of Time There Appears to Commander John Hanson a Man of Mystery from the Forgotten Past.
"Manape The Mighty", by Arthur J. Burks: High in Jungle Treetops Swings Young Bentley-His Human Brain Imprisoned in a Mighty Ape. (A...
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Astounding Stories of Super Science September 1930 features seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "A Problem In Communication" by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.: The Delivery of His Country into the Clutches of a Merciless, Ultra-Modern Religion Can Be Prevented Only by Dr. Hagstrom's Deciphering an Extraordinary Code, "Jetta Of The Lowlands" by Ray Cummings: Fantastic and Sinister Are...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science March 1930 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Man Who Was Dead" by Thomas H. Knight: As Jerry's Eyes Fell on the Creature's Head, He Shuddered-for the Face Was Nothing but Bone, with Dull-brown Skin Stretched Taut over It. A Skeleton That Was Alive!, "Monsters Of Moyen" by Arthur J. Burks: "The Western World Shall be Next!"...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science January 1931 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Dark Side Of Antri" by H.W. Wesso: Commander John Hanson Relates an Interplanetary Adventure Illustrating the Splendid Service Spirit of the Men of the Special Patrol, "The Sunken Empire" by Sewell Peaslee Wright: Concerning the Strange Adventures of Professor Stevens with the...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science October 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Stolen Brains" by Captain S.P. Meek: Dr. Bird, Scientific Sleuth Extraordinary, Goes After a Sinister Stealer of Brains. "The Invisible Death", by Victor Rousseau: With Night-Rays and Darkness-Antidote America Strikes Back, at the Terrific and Destructive Invisible Empire. (A Complete...
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Steam engines and mechanical advances abound ushering in the Industrial Revolution, while in the deserts of Egypt, archaeologists are uncovering lost secrets.
In 19th century England, an unlikely pair of siblings discover a connection between the advances of Ancient Egypt's architectural achievements and man's leap forward in mechanical engineering. It's a race to discover if this new knowledge is due to evolution or the tinkering of the gods.
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science March 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Cold Light" by Captain S.P. Meek: How Could a Human Body Be Found Actually Splintered--Broken into Sharp Fragments Like a Shattered Glass! Once Again Dr. Bird Probes Deep into an Amazing Mystery, "Brigands Of The Moon" by Ray Cummings: "Black Mutiny and Brigandage Stalk the Space-ship...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science February 1930 features eight Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Old Crompton's Secret" by Harl Vincent: Tom's Extraordinary Machine Glowed-and the Years Were Banished from Old Crompton's Body. But There Still Remained, Deep-seated in His Century-old Mind, the Memory of His Crime, "Spawn Of The Stars" by Charles Willard Diffin: The Earth Lay...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science March 1931 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "When The Mountain Came To Miramar": It is Magic against Magic As Garry Connell Bluffs for His Life with a Prehistoric Savage in the Heart of Sentinel Mountain, by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond The Vanishing Point": The Tale of a Golden Atom-an Astounding Adventure in Size. (A Complete...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science August 1930 features seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Planet Of Dread" by R.F. Starzl: A Stupid Blunder-and Mark Forepaugh Faces a Lifetime of Castaway Loneliness in the Savage Welter of the Planet Inra's Monster-ridden Jungles, "The Lord Of Space" by Victor Rousseau: A Black Caesar Had Arisen on Eros-and All Earth Trembled at His...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science June 1930 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Out Of The Dreadful Depths" by C.D. Willard:Robert Thorpe Seeks Out the Nameless Horror That Is Sucking All Human Life Out of Ships in the South Pacific, "Murder Madness" by Murray Leinster: Bell, of the Secret "Trade," Strikes into the South American Jungle to Find the Hidden Stronghold...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science November 1930 features six Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "The Wall of Death" by H.W. Wessolowski: Out of the Antarctic It Came-a Wall of Viscid, Grey, Half-Human Jelly, Absorbing and Destroying All Life That It Encountered, "The Pirate Planet", by Charles W. Diffin: A Strange Light Blinks on Venus, and Over Old Earth Hovers a Mysterious...
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Astounding Stories Of Super Science December 1930 features five Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age of Science Fiction". Contents and short description: "Slaves Of Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis: Fate's Retribution Was Adequate. There Emerged a Rat with a Man's Head and Face, "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin: It is War. Interplanetary War. And on Far-Distant Venus Two Fighting Earthlings Stand Up Against a Whole Planet Run Amuck....
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