Theodore Cogswell

Contents: Introduction: Malevolence - essay by Isaac Asimov The Curse - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke Julia Cahill's Curse - shortstory by George Moore The Red Swimmer - novelette by Robert Bloch The Doom of the Griffiths - novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell ] You Know Willie - shortstory by Theodore R. Cogswell Trouble with Water - shortstory by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold ] Mad Monkton - novella by Wilkie Collins Long Chromachy of the Crows - shortstory by Seumas MacManus The Little Black Train - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman The Curse of the Catafalques - novelette by F. Anstey A Séance in Summer - shortstory by Thomas F. Monteleone [as by Mario Martin, Jr. ] Transformations - shortstory by Christopher Fahy In Dark New England Days - shortstory by Sarah Orne Jewett The Messenger - novelette by Robert W. Chambers Or the Grasses Grow - shortstory by Avram Davidson The Dollar - shortstory by Morgan Robertson A Hunger in the Blood - novelette by Talmage Powell

Dictionaries - essay by Isaac Asimov Too Soon to Die - novelette by Tom Godwin A Museum Piece - short story by Roger Zelazny Why Johnny Can't Speed - short story by Alan Dean Foster Man in a Quandary - short story by Joseph Wesley [as by L. J. Stecher, Jr.] The Cabbage Patch - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell A Touch of Grapefruit - short story by Richard Matheson Answer - short story by Fredric Brown A Gun for Dinosaur - novelette by L. Sprague de Camp A Pail of Air - short story by Fritz Leiber The Odor of Thought - short story by Robert Sheckley The Last Monster - short story by Poul Anderson (variant of Terminal Quest) History Lesson - short story by Arthur C. Clarke The Troublemaker - short story by Christopher Anvil The Game of Rat and Dragon - short story by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger [as by Cordwainer Smith] Let's Be Frank - short story by Brian W. Aldiss The Easy Way Out - short story by G. Harry Stine [as by Lee Correy] All Cats Are Gray - short story by Andre Norton The Man from Earth - short story by Gordon R. Dickson Dream Damsel - short story by Evan Hunter The Underdweller - short story by William F. Nolan (variant of Small World) Top Secret - short story by Eric Frank Russell One Love Have I - short story by Robert F. Young The Snowball Effect - short story by Katherine MacLean The Santa Claus Problem - short story by J. W. Schutz The Ship Who Sang - novelette by Anne McCaffrey No Harm Done - short story by Jack Sharkey There Will Come Soft Rains - short story by Ray Bradbury In the Jaws of Danger - short story by Piers Anthony In the Abyss - (1896) - short story by H. G. Wells Custer's Last Jump - novelette by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop Game Preserve - short story by Rog Phillips Life Hutch - short story by Harlan Ellison The Silk and the Song - novelette by Charles L. Fontenay Down to the Worlds of Men - novelette by Alexei Panshin Robbie - short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of Strange Playfellow 1940) The Man with English - short story by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold] Transstar - novelette by Raymond E. Banks Open Warfare - novelette by James E. Gunn The Long Way Home - short story by Fred Saberhagen Skirmish on a Summer Morning - novella by Bob Shaw Gantlet - short story by Richard E. Peck Saucer of Loneliness - short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of A Saucer of Loneliness) The Mother of Necessity - short story by Chad Oliver The Great Secret - short story by George H. Smith The Draw - short story by Jerome Bixby For the Sake of Grace - novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin A Death in the House - novelette by Clifford D. Simak Creature of the Snows - short story by William Sambrot A Criminal Act - short story by Harry Harrison The Cage - short story by A. Bertram Chandler

A collection of nine science fiction stories about children who have traveled in space. "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth ..." - short story by Arthur C. Clarke Berserker's Prey - short story by Fred Saberhagen Call Me Proteus - novelette by Edward Wellen Teddi - novelette by Andre Norton The Gambling Hell and the Sinful Girl - short story by Katherine MacLean Invasion Report - novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell A Start in Life - short story by Arthur Sellings Big Sword - novelette by Pauline Ashwell The Gift - short story by Ray Bradbury

The Martian Way - novelette by Isaac Asimov Earthman, Come Home - novelette by James Blish Rogue Moon - novella by Algis Budrys The Spectre General - novella by Theodore R. Cogswell (variant of The Specter General) [as by Theodore Cogswell] The Machine Stops - novelette by E. M. Forster The Midas Plague - novella by Frederik Pohl The Witches of Karres - novelette by James H. Schmitz E for Effort - novelette by T. L. Sherred In Hiding - novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras The Big Front Yard - novella by Clifford D. Simak The Moon Moth - novelette by Jack Vance

Introduction - essay by Martin H. Greenberg Strikebreaker - short story by Isaac Asimov Omnilingual - novelette by H. Beam Piper The Mile-Long Spaceship - short story by Kate Wilhelm Call Me Joe - novelette by Poul Anderson You Know Willie - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell Hunting Machine - short story by Carol Emshwiller World of a Thousand Colors - short story by Robert Silverberg Let's Be Frank - short story by Brian W. Aldiss The Cage - short story by A. Bertram Chandler The Education of Tigress McCardle - short story by C. M. Kornbluth (variant of The Education of Tigress Macardle) The Tunesmith - novelette by Lloyd Biggle, Jr. A Loint of Paw - short story by Isaac Asimov Game Preserve - short story by Rog Phillips Soldier - novelette by Harlan Ellison The Last Man Left in the Bar - short story by C. M. Kornbluth

Wolf pack / Walter M. Miller, Jr. No one believed me / Will Thompson Perforce to dream / John Wyndham The Laocoön complex / J.C. Furnas Crazy Joey / Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides The golden man / Philip K. Dick Malice aforethought / David Grinnell The last séance / Agatha Christie Medicine dancer / Bill Brown Behold it was a dream / Rhoda Broughton Belief / Isaac Asimov The veldt / Ray Bradbury Mr. Kinkaid's pasts / J.J. Coupling The warning / Peter Phillips The ghost of me / Anthony Boucher The wall around the world / Theodore R. Cogswell Operating instructions / Robert Sheckley Interpretation of a dream / John Collier Defense mechanism / Katherine MacLean.

"The Big Holiday" by Fritz Leiber "Crucifixus Etiam" by Walter M. Miller, Jr. "Four in One" by Damon Knight "A Saucer of Loneliness" by Theodore Sturgeon "The Liberation of Earth" by William Tenn "Lot" by Ward Moore "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke "Warm" by Robert Sheckley "Impostor" by Philip K. Dick "The World Well Lost" by Theodore Sturgeon "A Bad Day for Sales" by Fritz Leiber "Common Time" by James Blish "Time is the Traitor" by Alfred Bester "The Wall Around the World" by Theodore R. Cogswell "The Model of a Judge" by William Morrison "Hall of Mirrors" by Fredric Brown "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby

Never-before-published stories by Neil Gaiman, Eoin Colfer, Garth Nix, and a magical lineup of writers.Throughout the ages, the wizard has claimed a spot in human culture-from the shadowy spiritual leaders of early man to precocious characters in blockbuster films. Gone are the cartoon images of wizened gray-haired men in pointy caps creating magic with a wave of their wands. Today's wizards are more subtle in their powers, more discerning in their ways, and-in the hands of modern fantasists-more likely than ever to capture readers' imaginations.In Neil Gaiman's "The Witch's Headstone," a piece taken from his much-anticipated novel in progress, an eight-year-old boy learns the power of kindness from a long-dead sorceress. Only one woman possesses two kinds of magic-enough to unite two kingdoms-in Garth Nix's "Holly and Iron." Patricia A. McKillip's "Naming Day" gives a sorcery student a lesson in breaking the rules. And a famished dove spins a tale worthy of a meal, but perhaps not the truth, in "A Fowl Tale" by Eoin Colfer.

Contains: Hop frog / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Rappaccini's Daughter]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Squire Toby's will / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The squaw / Bram Stoker -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- "Man overboard!" / Winston Churchill -- The hand / Theodore Dreiser -- The valley of the spiders / H.G. Wells -- The middle toe of the right foot / Ambrose Bierce -- Pickman's model / H.P. Lovecraft -- Yours truly, Jack the ripper / Robert Bloch -- The screaming laugh / Cornell Woolrich -- [A rose for Emily]( / William Faulkner -- Bianca's hands / Theodore Sturgeon -- The girl with the hungry eyes / Fritz Leiber -- Shut a final door / Truman Capote -- Come and go mad / Fredric Brown -- The scarlet king / Evan Hunter -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Sardonicus / Ray Russell -- A teacher's rewards / Robert Phillips -- The roaches / Thomas M. Disch -- The jam / Henry Slesar -- Black wind / Bill Pronzini -- The road to Mictlantecutli / Adobe James -- Passengers / Robert Silverberg -- The explosives expert / John Lutz -- Call first / Ramsey Campbell -- The fly / Arthur Porges -- Namesake / Elizabeth Morton -- Camps / Jack Dann -- You know Willie / Theodore R. Cogswell -- The mindworm / C.M. Kornbluth -- Warm / Robert Scheckley -- Transfer / Barry N. Malzberg -- The doll / Joyce Carol Oates -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Mass without voices / Arthur L. Samuels -- The oblong room / Edward D. Hoch -- The party / William F. Nolan -- The crate / Stephen King.

I'm Dangerous Tonight - novella by Cornell Woolrich The Devil in Exile - short story by Brian Cleeve The Cage - short story by Ray Russell The Tale of Ivan the Fool - novelette by Лев Толстой (trans. of Сказка об Иване-дураке и его двух братьях: Семене-воине и Тарасе-брюхане, и немой сестре Маланье, и о старом дьяволе и трех чертенятах) [as by Leo Tolstoi] The Shepherds - short story by Ruth Sawyer He Stepped on the Devil's Tail - short story by Winston K. Marks Rustle of Wings - short story by Fredric Brown That Hell-Bound Train - short story by Robert Bloch Added Inducement - short story by Robert F. Young The Devil and Daniel Webster - short story by Stephen Vincent Benét Colt .24 - short story by Rick Hautala The Making of Revelation, Part I - novelette by Philip José Farmer The Howling Man - short story by Charles Beaumont Trace - short story by Jerome Bixby Guardian Angel - novelette by Arthur C. Clarke The Devil Was Sick - short story by Bruce Elliott Deal with the D.E.V.I.L. - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell Dazed - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon

Asimov's Ghosts Ghosts - essay by Isaac Asimov Lost Hearts - short story by M. R. James On the Brighton Road - short story by Richard Middleton Poor Little Saturday - short story by Madeleine L'Engle The Lake - short story by Ray Bradbury A Pair of Hands - short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch] An Uncommon Sort of Spectre - short story by Edward Page Mitchell The House of the Nightmare - short story by Edward Lucas White The Shadowy Third - novelette by Ellen Glasgow The Twilight Road - short story by H. F. Brinsmead The Voices of El Dorado - short story by Howard Goldsmith The Changing of the Guard - short story by Anne Serling and Rod Serling (variant of Changing of the Guard 1985) [as by Anne Serling] Asimov's Monsters The Power of Evil - essay by Isaac Asimov Homecoming - short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming 1946) Good-by, Miss Patterson - short story by Phyllis MacLennan The Wheelbarrow Boy - short story by Richard Parker The Cabbage Patch - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell The Thing Waiting Outside - short story by Barbara Williamson Red As Blood - short story by Tanith Lee Gabriel-Ernest - short story by Saki Fritzchen - short story by Charles Beaumont The Young One - novelette by Jerome Bixby Optical Illusion - short story by Mack Reynolds Idiot's Crusade - short story by Clifford D. Simak One for the Road - short story by Stephen King Angelica - short story by Jane Yolen

The Last Answer - short story by Isaac Asimov Package Deal - short story by Donald Franson Lycanthrope - short story by Norm Hartman [as by Norman E. Hartman] Gemini 74 - short story by Jack Ritchie Geever's Flight - short story by Charles E. Fritch Lost and Found - short story by Phyllis Eisenstein Pattern - short story by Fredric Brown Discovering a New Earth - short story by Robert Mattingly Varieties of Technological Experience - short story by Barry N. Malzberg Listen, Love - short story by Jack Dann and George Zebrowski That Strain Again - short story by Charles Sheffield Take Me to Your Leader - short story by George H. Smith [as by George Henry Smith] Put Your Head Upon My Knee - short story by Jack Ritchie The Big Fix - short story by Robert F. Decker Speed of the Cheetah, Roar of the Lion - short story by Harry Harrison Just Call Me Irish - short story by Richard Wilson Renaissance Man - short story by T. E. D. Klein Pulpworld - short story by Richard K. Lyon [as by R. K. Lyon] The Other Tiger - short story by Arthur C. Clarke Little William - short story by Patricia Matthews Steel - short story by Alan Brennert Appointment on the Barge - short story by Jack Ritchie And So On, and So On - short story by James Tiptree, Jr. Nellthu - short story by Anthony Boucher Taste of Battle - short story by Donald Franson Deflation 2001 - short story by Bob Shaw Do Androids Dream of Electric Love? - short story by Walt Liebscher Dog Star - short story by Mack Reynolds The Great Judge - short story by A. E. van Vogt 2001: A Love Story - short story by Paul Dellinger Answer - short story by Fredric Brown Hadj - short story by Harlan Ellison Good Morning! This Is the Future - short story by Henry Slesar A Shape in Time - short story by Anthony Boucher Linkage - short story by Barry N. Malzberg Murder in the Nth Degree - short story by Ron Montana [as by R. A. Montana] Useful Phrases for the Tourist - short story by Joanna Russ The Burning - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell One Small Step - short story by Marcia Martin and Eric Vinicoff Dead End - short story by Mack Reynolds Paths - short story by Edward Bryant Woman's Work - short story by Garen Drussaï? Death Double - short story by William F. Nolan Tag - short story by Helen M. Urban [as by Helen Urban] Nightmare in Time - short story by Fredric Brown (variant of The End 1961) The Nature of the Place - short story by Robert Silverberg True Love - short story by Isaac Asimov The Game of the Name - short story by Alice Laurance Down the Digestive Tract - short story by Robert Sheckley (variant of Down the Digestive Tract and Into the Cosmos with Mantra, Tantra, and Specklebang) Upon My Soul - short story by Jack Ritchie Drawing Board - short story by Charles A. Spano, Jr. Shell Shock - short story by Donald Franson Speak - short story by Henry Slesar Your Cruel Face - short story by Craig Strete The Best-Laid Plans... - short story by Rick Conley Devil to Pay - short story by Mack Reynolds Who Else Could I Count On? - short story by Manly Wade Wellman (variant of Who Else Could I Count On 1962) The Rat and the Snake - short story by A. E. van Vogt The Finest Hunter in the World - short story by Harry Harrison Life - short story by Dennis R. Caro Love Story - short story by Eric Frank Russell Exile in Lakehurst - short story by Robert Payes The Bait - short story by Fritz Leiber The Humanic Complex - short story by Ray Russell Friends? - short story by Roberta Ghidalia Take a Deep Breath - short story by Arthur C. Clarke The Quest of the Infidel - short story by Sherwood Springer Legal Rights for Germs? - short story by Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr. [as by Joe Patrouch] Blood - short story by Fredric Brown The Diana Syndrome - short story by Ron Montana [as by R. A. Montana] Emergency Rations - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell Buy Jupiter! - short story by Isaac Asimov The Old Man - short story by Henry Slesar Exile's Greeting - short story by Roland J. Green The Biography Project - short story by H. L. Gold [as by Dudley Dell] The Grapes of the Rath - short story by Jan Howard Finder Mr. Lupescu - short story by Anthony Boucher What I Did During My Park Vacation - short story by Ruth Berman A Fragment of Manuscript - short story by Harry Harrison The Boy with Five Fingers - short story by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn] The King of Beasts - short story by Philip José Farmer (variant of The King of the Beasts) Displaced Person - short story by Eric Frank Russell A Clone at Last - short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini X Marks the Pedwalk - short story by Fritz Leiber The Mission - short story by Arthur Tofte Proof - short story by F. M. Busby Dreamworld - short story by Isaac Asimov The Reunion - short story by Paul J. Nahin The Futile Flight of John Arthur Benn - short story by Richard Wilson [as by Edward Halibut] Servants of the Lord - short story by James A. Stevens [as by James Stevens] Mattie Harris, Galactic Spy - short story by Rachel Cosgrove Payes Changeover - short story by Juleen Brantingham Hometown - short story by Richard Wilson The Penalty - short story by Henry Slesar The Pill - short story by Maggie Nadler The Final Battle - short story by Harry Harrison Earthbound - short story by Lester del Rey Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation - short story by Larry Niven The Voice in the Garden - short story by Harlan Ellison If Eve Had Failed to Conceive - short story by Edward Wellen

A boldly different Star Trek experience. A defective mind link turns the logical Mr. Spock into a fiery revolutionary who sets out to convert the planet Kryos with fire, sword and a forbidden philosophy. Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew must summon all their skill and cunning in a race against time on a hostile planet. Can they destroy the fiendish mind that holds Spock captive before it destroys them?

Introduction / Isaac Asimov My mother was a witch / William Tenn A message from charity / William M. Lee The witch / A. E. van Vogt The witches of Karres / James H. Schmitz Spree / Barry N. Malzberg Malice in Wonderland / Rufus King Operation salamander / Poul Anderson Wizard's world / Andre Norton Sweets to sweet / Robert Bloch Poor little Saturday / Madeleine L'Engle Squeakie's first case / Margaret Manners The Ipswich phial / Randall Garrett Black heart and white heart / H. Richard Haggard Introduction / Isaac Asimov Mazirian the magician / Jack Vance Please stand by / Ron Goulart What good is a glass dagger? / Larry Niven The eye of tandyla / L. Sprague de Camp The white horse child / Greg Bear Semley's necklace / Ursula K. Le Guin And the monsters walk / John Jakes The seeker in the fortress / Manly Wade Wellman The wall around the world / Theodore Cogswell The people of the black circle / Robert E. Howard

The children in these stories have one thing in common--they are all young monsters. Some of them are horrid. Some are grotesque. And still others are diabolically clever at disguising their awful desires. Some of the monsters are unwitting captives of their fates. Others relish what they are--horrible as it may be. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh have selected stories by Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, H.H. Munro, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, among others, that will evoke both sympathy and horror. All will chill you to your very bones. Contains: Homecoming / by Ray Bradbury Good-by, Miss Patterson / by Phyllis MacLennan Disturb not my slumbering fair / by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro The wheelbarrow boy / by Richard Parker The cabbage patch / by Theodore R. Cogswell The thing waiting outside / by Barbara Williamson Red as blood / by Tanith Lee Gabriel-Ernest / by Saki (H.H. Munro) Fritzchen / by Charles Beaumont The young one / by Jerome Bixby Optical illusion / by Mack Reynolds Idiot's crusade / by Clifford D. Simak [One for the road]( / by Stephen King Angelica / by Jane Yolen