Thrillers and fantasy

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come"; "The Man who could Work Miracles"

“Star Maker”, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxie

The Right is the supreme good, and includes all oth-er goods. In seeking and adhering to it, we secure our true and only happiness. All prosperity, not founded on it, is built on sand.

A contemporary realistic fiction story blending urban drama, psychological life struggles, modern city hardship, and a deep emotional character journey. “Before Everyone Falls” follows ordinary people facing loss, grief, and unexpected time‑shift ad

A contemporary urban drama exploring psychological life struggles, everyday pressure, loss, and the emotional journey of ordinary people trying to survive modern city hardship. A realistic, character‑driven story about how quiet moments and hidden battl

A realistic urban drama exploring psychological life struggles, everyday pressure, loss, and the quiet battles people face in a modern city. A grounded contemporary story that follows one man’s emotional journey through hardship, grief, and the weight o

A gripping jungle mystery thriller blending Egyptian mythology, ancient secrets, and a lost civilization hidden deep in the African forest. When Ahmed’s search for meaning leads him to a mythical giant tied to the pyramids, he is thrust into a psycholog

The Unfolding is a gripping science fiction epic that blends cosmic horror with a gritty, dystopian struggle for survival. A colony descending into chaos as a deeper threat is rising from the planet’s living fungal network as first contact.

Some years ago I, the editor, was stopping with a friend, "vir doctissimus et amicus neus," at a certain University, which for the purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much struck with the appearance of two persons.

A glorious vision is Gloucester harbor, whether seen under the radiant sun of a clear June morning or through the haze and smoke of a mellow October afternoon. Gloucester town lies on a range of hills around the harbor, and fortunate..

The Stain, Eli grows up in a house that never wanted him, marked by neglect and fear long before the war ever touched him.

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict

Hawkes jerked upright in his bed, gasping out a hoarse cry, and the sound of his own voice completed the awakening. He opened his eyes to a murky darkness that was barely relieved by the little night-light.

A room in the down-stairs of a summer cottage. High around the wall runs an art frieze of a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean, a fisherman with a pile of nets at his feet and a ship on a crimson ocean.

IT was Christmas Eve. I remember it just as if it was yesterday. The Colonel had been pretending not to notice it, but when Drinkwater Torm knocked over both the great candlesticks, and in his attempt to pick them up lurched over himself.

It was a small world, a tiny spinning globe, placed in the universe to weather and age by itself until the end of things. But because its air was good and its earth was fertile, Daniel Loveral had placed a finger upon a map and said, "This is the planet.

Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. In a notable crossover event between Burroughs' series, there is a Tarzan story in which the Ape Man travels.

It was the third week in September when the Fairfields left the seashore and returned to their Vernondale home. “Now, my child,” said Mr. Fairfield, as they sat on the veranda after dinner, “I will unfold to you my plans for the coming winter

The figures in this boat were those of a strong man with ragged grizzled hair and a sun-browned face, and a dark girl of nineteen or twenty, sufficiently like him to be recognizable as his daughter.

Yet, though the world's life then was so wicked and black, there yet remained a few good men and women here and there (mostly in peaceful and quiet monasteries, far from the thunder and the glare of the world's bloody battle).

The joyous, exhilarating call of the wilderness and the forest camp is surely and steadily penetrating through the barriers of brick, stone, and concrete; through the more or less artificial life of town and city; and the American girl is listening eagerl

"So foul a sky clears not without a storm." —SHAKESPEARE "Nostromo" is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the "Typhoon" volume of short stories.

MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering among the pots and dods. He is an old man, well past the prime of life, no longer young, From the fact that there is a burr in his speech.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod..

The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges..

A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him. His infantile countenance was livid with fury. His small body

The story continues in this 14th part of the series

It seemed only fitting and proper that the greatest of all leaps into space should start from Roosevelt Field, where so many great flights had begun and ended. Fliers whose names had rung—for a space—around the world, had landed here and been received

In a dark universe of psychology and cynicism, Elin emerges. Using intense manipulation and bodily temptation she lures her prey into her web, where the boundaries between pleasure and power are utterly blurred.

On November 11 at 11:11, humanity pauses for 0.8 seconds. No invasion. No warning. Only synchronisation. In this science fiction thriller from 11.11 – The Cosmic Library by Karin DragonBean, a farmer, a scientist, and an AI system uncover a cosmic mirro