Slithering from these pages are never-before-collected tales of suspense and wonder by the woman who invented modern-day dark fantasy: A man goes quietly to bed aboard the doomed Lusitania and awakens on a magical South Pacific Island just as the passenger liner is torpedoed. In a future where women rule the world, a sentient island becomes murderously jealous of a shipwrecked couple. Dire consequences await a human swept into the dark, magical world of elves. A deadly labyrinth coils around the dark heart of a picturesque landscape garden. Within an Egyptian sarcophagus lies the horrifying...
Slithering from these pages are never-before-collected tales of suspense and wonder by the woman who invented modern-day dark fantasy: A man goes quie...
A curious box is found on the site of a newly erupted volcano. Before long, all those who come in contact with the mysterious oblong meet horrible fates. But that's nothing compared to what happens when the true owner of the box comes calling to claim what is his.
A curious box is found on the site of a newly erupted volcano. Before long, all those who come in contact with the mysterious oblong meet horrible fat...
Francis Stevens was the pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennet (1883 - 1948). Her works influenced Science Fiction and Horror, and is one of the very first writers of Urban Fantasy.
The Heads of Cerberus is a dystopian novel set in Philadelphia in 2118 in an alternate timeline.
Francis Stevens was the pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennet (1883 - 1948). Her works influenced Science Fiction and Horror, and is one of the very...
Capped by a silver figure of Cerberus, the three-headed hound that guards the gates of Hell, an ancient glass vial contains ordinary-looking dust. Once inhaled, however, the dust exhibits extraordinary powers, transporting a trio of adventurers from the early twentieth century to the year 2118. The time-travelers emerge into Philadelphia's brutal totalitarian state, where the city hall is a temple, a statue of William Penn is worshipped as an idol, and the citizens are crushed under the religious tyranny of the Penn Service and its Superlatives. This 1919 classic was the first...
Capped by a silver figure of Cerberus, the three-headed hound that guards the gates of Hell, an ancient glass vial contains ordinary-looking dust. Onc...