| 1959-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Pride of Carrots |
Robert Nathan |
|
|
fantasy (1), satire (1), interplanetary travel (1), two act play (1), intelligent vegetables (1), venus (1), first contact (1), romance (1), humor (1)
|
| 1959-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Terra-Venusian War of 1979 |
Gerard E. Neyroud |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), venus (1), happiness (1), love (1)
|
| 1958-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Levitation |
Joseph Payne Brennan |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), traveling carnival (1), hypnosis (1), levitation (1)
|
| 1958-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
People Soup |
Alan Arkin |
|
|
Merril04 (1), shapeshifters (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), children (1), whimsical (1), shapechangers (1)
|
| 1958-03-08 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
River of Riches |
Gerald Kersh |
|
|
fantasy (1), first person (1), contemporary (1), Amazon River (1), Indians (1), con man (1)
|
| 1957-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Green Wine for Dreaming |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
illness (1), rural America (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), summer (1), oppressive heat (1)
|
| 1957-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Big Trek |
Fritz Leiber |
|
|
Merril03 (1), fantasy (1), hallucinatory (1), aliens (1)
|
| 1956-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
On Camera |
John Novotny |
|
|
civil defense (1), humor (1), telepathy (1), do it yourself (1), television (1), fantasy (1), CBS (1)
|
| 1955-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Funeral |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
contemporary (1), supernatural (1), humor (1), funeral (1), fantasy (1), into-tv (1), Night Gallery (1)
|
| 1955-00-00 |
COLLECTION |
English |
The October Country |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
The Seven-League Shelf (1), supernatural (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1)
|
| 1954-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
5,271,009 |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
Maturity (1), art (1), choices (1), fantasy (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1954-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Off the Map |
Rex Dolphin |
|
|
first person point of view (1), england (1), map (1), village (1), hiking (1), contemporary (1), legend (1), plague (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Disappearing Act |
Alfred Bester |
|
|
time travel (1), near future (1), social commentary (1), satire (1), war (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), fantasy (1), alternate universes (1)
|
| 1953-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Hail and Farewell |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
CBC Radio Workshop (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), perpetual childhood (1)
|
| 1953-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
I Can't Wear White |
Suzanne Pickett |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), phantom hitchhiker (1), romance (1), father (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1)
|
| 1953-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mad House |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
horror (1), contemporary (1), rage (1), marital dissolution (1), inanimate objects (1), emotional energy (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1953-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Parthenope |
Manly Wade Wellman |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), American tourist (1), Mediterranean (1), siren (1), shipwreck (1)
|
| 1953-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Nine Billion Names of God |
Arthur C. Clarke |
|
|
contemporary (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), fantasy (1), computers (1), Buddhism (1), end of the world (1), tibet (1), religion (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1952-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Cat's Cradle |
E. W. Tomlinson |
|
|
Spain (1), cat's cradle game (1), first person storyteller (1), witches (1), witches' familiar (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1952-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Iron Hands of Katzaveere |
David Eynon |
|
|
fantasy (1), Nazi occupation (1), Netherlands (1), horror (1), patriotism (1), spirits of the dead (1), redemption (1)
|
| 1952-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Japanese Tea Set |
Francis J. O'Neil |
|
|
vengeance (1), blindness (1), twist ending (1), jilting (1), psychiatrist (1), Japan (1), tea set (1), haunting (1), American (1), japanese (1), Korean War (1), fantasy (1), suicide (1)
|
| 1951-06-23 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fog Horn |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
first person point of view (1), lighthouse (1), sea monster (1), fantasy (1), science fiction (1)
|
| 1951-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Witch War |
Richard Matheson |
|
|
war (1), witches (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1950-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dark Rosaleen |
Seabury Quinn |
|
|
fairies (1), obsession (1), losing soul (1), painting (1), ireland (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1950-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Night Meeting |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
science fiction (1), mars (1), first contact (1), fantasy (1), surrealism (1)
|
| 1950-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Take the Z-Train |
Allison V. Harding |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), fate (1), childhood memory (1), subway (1), regret (1)
|
| 1950-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Illustrated Man |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
murder (1), tattoos (1), carnies (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), witchcraft (1)
|
| 1950-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Ylla |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
female protagonist (1), married couple (1), near future (1), only aliens (1), fantasy (1), mars (1), first contact (1), precognition (1)
|
| 1949-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
None Before Me |
Sidney Carroll |
|
|
contemporary (1), dollhouse (1), fantasy (1), power corrupts (1), divine will (1), sadism (1)
|
| 1949-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Other Santa |
Thorp McClusky |
|
|
contemporary (1), Christmas Eve (1), social commentary (1), satire (1), fantasy (1), shared belief (1), manifestation (1), child who needs operation (1), Santa Claus (1), marketing (1), public relations stunt (1), broadcasting (1), first person point of view (1), Christmas (1)
|
| 1948-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Pillar of Fire |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
social commentary (1), only Earth (1), vampire (1), fantasy (1), 24th century (1), gothic (1), anger (1), resurrection (1), Librivox (1)
|
| 1948-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Cracks of Time |
Dorothy Quick |
|
|
first person point of view (1), floor tiles (1), Pan (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), obsession (1), marriage (1), music (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1948-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hidden Talent of Artist Bates |
Snowden T. Herrick |
|
|
disgruntled employee (1), irony (1), magic (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), commercial artist (1)
|
| 1948-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lonesome Place |
August Derleth |
|
|
first person point of view (1), spooky place (1), childhood fears (1), manifestation (1), horror (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1948-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Professor's Teddy-Bear |
Theodore Sturgeon |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), juvenile (1), teddy bear (1), time travel (1)
|
| 1947-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Extra Passenger |
August Derleth |
|
|
england (1), mage (1), retribution (1), contemporary (1), witness (1), alibi (1), train (1), perfect murder (1), fantasy (1), nephew (1), reanimated corpse (1), reanimation (1)
|
| 1947-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man Upstairs |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
contemporary (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), vampires (1)
|
| 1947-05-10 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Uncle Einar |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
fantasy (1), paranormal abilities (1), grotesque (1)
|
| 1946-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Mr. Bauer and the Atoms |
Fritz Leiber |
|
|
Geiger-Muller counter (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), nuclear chain reaction (1), psychosomatic effects (1), doctor (1), X-rays (1)
|
| 1946-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Homecoming |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
fantasy (1), monsters (1), family (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1946-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Threshold of Endurance |
Betsy Emmons |
|
|
fantasy (1), murder (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), ghost (1), marital strife (1)
|
| 1945-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Skeleton |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), psychological disorder (1)
|
| 1944-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Lake |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
Radio City Playhouse (1), ghosts (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1944-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
There Was an Old Woman |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
contemporary (1), fantasy (1), death (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1943-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Crowd |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
contemporary (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), ghosts (1)
|
| 1943-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Scythe |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
fantasy (2), horror (1), fate (1)
|
| 1943-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Wind |
Ray Bradbury |
|
|
Radio City Playhouse (1), supernatural (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), horror (1)
|
| 1943-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Yiddish |
Tsvey meysim geyen tantsn |
Isaac Bashevis Singer |
|
|
fantasy (1), devil (1), first person (1), Yiddish (1), translation (1), Poland (1), Jewish (1), revenants (1)
|
| 1939-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Cross of Fire |
Lester del Rey |
|
|
contemporary (1), vampire (1), vampirism cure (1), servants (1), lightning (1), first person point of view (1), Europe (1), fantasy (1), amnesia (1)
|
| 1939-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Fifth Candle |
George R. Hahn and Richard Levin |
|
|
vengeance (1), murder (1), contemporary (1), candelabrum (1), father and sons (1), first person point of view (1), Kirghiz (1), ghost (1), fantasy (1), fate (1)
|
| 1939-04-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The High Places |
Frances Garfield |
|
|
fantasy (1), air travel (1), love (1), ghosts (1), 1930s (1), first person point of view (1), female protagonist (1), United States (1), dead ex-lover (1)
|
| 1939-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hunch |
Gene Lyle, III |
|
|
train (1), ghost (1), fantasy (1), reporter (1), hunches (1), New Mexico (1), contemporary (1), warning (1)
|
| 1938-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Escape |
Paul Ernst |
|
|
fantasy (2), escape (1), contemporary (1), reporter (1), mental patient (1), first person point of view (1), imagination (1)
|
| 1938-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Black Monk |
G. G. Pendarves |
|
|
ghost (1), first person point of view (1), island (1), monastery (1), treasure (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1938-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Teakwood Box |
Johns Harrington |
|
|
fantasy (1), magical box (1), Shanghai (1), thief (1), contemporary (1), Los Angeles (1), widow (1), curse (1)
|
| 1937-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Masquerade |
Mearle Prout |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), soul transfer (1), infatuation (1), masquerade (1), damsel in distress (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1937-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Murder Mask |
Edgar Daniel Kramer |
|
|
murder (1), mask (1), magic (1), greed (1), justice (1), horror (1), fantasy (1), sibling rivalry (1), irony (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1937-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh |
H. Sivia |
|
|
Librivox (1), maid (1), will and testament (1), ghost (1), fantasy (1), good master, bad mistress (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1937-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Man in the Taxi |
Leslie Gordon Barnard |
|
|
contemporary (1), murder (1), guilt (1), taxi (1), ghost (1), fantasy (1), horror (1)
|
| 1937-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Ocean Ogre |
Dana Carroll |
|
|
monster (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), shipwreck survivor (1), becalmed (1), sailing ship (1), diary (1), epistolary (1), first person point of view (1)
|
| 1936-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Visitor from Far Away |
Loretta Burrough |
|
|
wife (1), ghost (1), solitude (1), vengeance (1), infidelity (1), murder (1), blizzard (1), fantasy (1), connecticut (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1936-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Rendezvous |
Richard H. Hart |
|
|
new orleans (1), ferry (1), doctor (1), ghost (1), drowning (1), alcoholism (1), contemporary (1), Cajun (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1935-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Muggridge's Aunt |
August Derleth |
|
|
london (1), nephew (1), poor cousin (1), callousness (1), death (1), inheritance (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), lobelias (1), decor (1), dream (1)
|
| 1935-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Sealed Casket |
Richard F. Searight |
|
|
adultery (1), will and testament (1), antique box (1), betrayal (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), horror (1)
|
| 1935-11-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Top of the World |
Tarleton Collier |
|
|
Miami (1), paternal love (1), magic ring (1), precognition (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), wealth (1)
|
| 1934-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Disinterment of Venus |
Clark Ashton Smith |
|
|
pagan (1), Benedictines (1), idol (1), abbey (1), venus (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1934-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Nightmare Road |
Florence Crow |
|
|
white hair (1), first person point of view (1), story within a story (1), Hartz Mountains (1), halloween (1), cross (1), contemporary (1), Satanic creatures (1), fantasy (1), horror (1), hiking (1)
|
| 1934-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Pale Man |
Julius Long |
|
|
first person point of view (1), hotel (1), death (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), supernatural (1)
|
| 1933-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Pair of Swords |
Carl Jacobi |
|
|
first person point of view (1), swords (1), museum (1), Louis III (1), duel (1), musketeers (1), vision of the past (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), dueling (1)
|
| 1933-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Closed Door |
Harold Ward |
|
|
room (1), murder (1), unhappy marriage (1), contemporary (1), irony (1), justice (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1933-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Drive |
Carl Jacobi |
|
|
contemporary (1), fantasy (1), crash (1), coffin (1), truck driver (1), snowstorm (1), race car driver (1), horror (1), weird (1)
|
| 1932-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Dream Justice |
E. W. Mayo |
|
|
fantasy (1), contemporary (1), electric chair (1), justice (1), diary (1), dream (1), murderer (1), epistolary (1), first person storyteller (1)
|
| 1932-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
No Eye-Witnesses |
Henry S. Whitehead |
|
|
subway (1), fantasy (1), twist ending (1), vision of the past (1), woodsman (1), werewolf (1), 1930s (1), New York City (1), forest (1)
|
| 1932-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Archfiend's Fingers |
Kirk Mashburn |
|
|
horror (1), devil (1), drunkenness (1), marijuana (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), new orleans (1), Mardi Gras (1)
|
| 1932-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Death Mist |
Captain George H. Daugherty, Jr. |
|
|
fantasy (1), cowardice (1), American soldier (1), Argonne forest (1), WWI (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1932-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Under the Eaves |
Helen M. Reid |
|
|
fantasy (1), wife (1), rain (1), marital strife (1), ghost (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1931-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Opening the Door |
Arthur Machen |
|
|
fantasy (2), transcendence (1), horror (1)
|
| 1931-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Finishing Touches |
Renier Wyers |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), image of evil (1), contemporary (1), painting comes to life (1), ironic (1)
|
| 1930-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Burnt Things |
Robert C. Sandison |
|
|
first person point of view (1), train (1), fire (1), retribution (1), contemporary (1), ghosts (1), horror (1), arson (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1930-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Boat on the Beach |
Kadra Maysi |
|
|
contemporary (1), widow (1), ghost (1), ship sinking (1), seashore (1), young boy (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1930-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Haunted Wood of Adoure |
Elliott O'Donnell |
|
|
first person storyteller (1), 1900 (1), France (1), bicycle accident (1), executioner (1), haunted woods (1), New Year's Eve (1), murder (1), prophetic dreams (1), fantasy (1), house in the woods (1), May-December marriage (1), prophetic dream (1)
|
| 1930-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Last Incantation |
Clark Ashton Smith |
|
|
fantasy (2), necromancy (1), fantasy kingdom (1), magician (1), long-lost love (1), old age (1), viper familiar (1)
|
| 1930-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Phantom Bus |
W. Elwyn Backus |
|
|
Cincinnati (1), bus (1), recurring dream (1), contemporary (1), death of fiance (1), crash (1), horror (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1930-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Tree of Life |
Paul Ernst |
|
|
first person point of view (1), dead daughter (1), dead mother (1), dead rat (1), Tree of Life (1), resurrection (1), winter (1), fantasy (1), blindness (1), dependency (1)
|
| 1929-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Warning Wings |
Arlton Eadie |
|
|
story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), moth (1), Atlantic Ocean (1), rescue (1), ship’s captain (1), fantasy (1), sailor's yarn (1)
|
| 1929-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead |
Robert Peery |
|
|
first person point of view (1), sailor (1), Carolina (1), ghosts (1), shipwreck (1), fantasy (1), finger ring (1), woman (1), grave desecration (1), vengeance (1)
|
| 1928-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Outside the Cabinet-Makers |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
|
|
princess (1), ogre (1), father (1), daughter (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), king (1), queen (1), fairies (1), 6 year old girl (1)
|
| 1928-06-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Hate |
Wilford Allen |
|
|
murderous hate (1), war (1), evil (1), fantasy (1), Spain (1), Franks (1), trench warfare (1)
|
| 1928-12-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Witch-Ball |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
first person point of view (1), crystal ball (1), ghost (1), murder (1), house (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1927-09-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Colour Out of Space |
H. P. Lovecraft |
|
|
Cthulhu Mythos (2), space seeds (2), cosmic horror (2), fantasy (2), horror (2), into-tv (1), into-movie (1), alien invasion (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1)
|
| 1927-02-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Girdle |
Joseph McCord |
|
|
horror (1), belt (1), werewolf (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1926-05-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Across the Gulf |
Henry S. Whitehead |
|
|
mushrooms (1), poison (1), mother (1), dream (1), contemporary (1), Adirondacks (1), summer camp (1), fantasy (1)
|
| 1926-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Rocking-Horse Winner |
D. H. Lawrence |
|
|
betting on horse races (1), imagination (1), luck (1), poverty (1), juvenile protagonist (1), into-movie (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), tragedy (1)
|
| 1925-10-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
Japanese |
|
|
|
|
fantasy (1), eerie (1), realism (1)
|
| 1925-08-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
A Warning to the Curious |
M. R. James |
|
|
horror (1), fantasy (1), Britain (1)
|
| 1925-00-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
French |
Le tableau |
Jean Ray |
|
|
fantasy (2), horror (2), revenge (1), curse (1), painting (1), moneylender (1), greed (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1)
|
| 1925-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Dream of Death |
Elwood F. Pierce |
|
|
mind control (1), mentally handicapped (1), psychologist (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), dream (1), murder (1)
|
| 1925-07-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Stranger from Kurdistan |
E. Hoffmann Price |
|
|
Black Sabbath (1), Satan (1), jesus (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1), good vs evil (1), twist ending (1)
|
| 1924-03-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
The Rats in the Walls |
H. P. Lovecraft |
|
|
fantasy (1), horror (1), cannibalism (1), hereditary madness (1), rats (1), into-movie (1)
|
| 1923-01-00 |
SHORTFICTION |
English |
Machaon |
E. F. Benson |
|
|
spirit writing (1), early twentieth century (1), first person point of view (1), fantasy (1), cancer (1), greek mythology (1), england (1), X rays (1), X-rays (1)
|
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