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Menace of the Monster: Classic Tales of the Creatures from Beyond
| Author: | Mike Ashley |
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British Library, 2019 |
| Series: | British Library Science Fiction Classics: Book 8 |
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1. Lost Mars |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
The fact that humanity is not alone in the universe has long preoccupied our thoughts.
In this compelling new collection of short stories from SF's classic age our visions of 'other' are shown in a myriad of forms - beings from other worlds, corrupted lifeforms from our own planet and entities from unimaginable dimensions.
Amongst these tales, the humble ant becomes humanity's greatest foe, a sailor awakes in a hellish landscape terrified by a monstrous creature from the deep, an extra-terrestrial apocalypse devastates our world but also brings us together, and our race becomes the unwitting agent of another species' survival. Be prepared to face your greatest fears and relinquish your hold on reality as you confront the menace of the monster.
Contents:
- The War of the Worlds (abridgement) - [The War of the Worlds] - (1920) - short story by H. G. Wells
- The Cloud Men - (1911) - short story by Owen Oliver (variant of The Cloud-Men, Being a Foreprint from the London News Sheet of March 9, 1915)
- The Dragon of St. Pauls - (1899) - short fiction by Reginald Bacchus and C. Ranger Gull
- De Profundis - (1914) - short fiction by Coutts Brisbane
- Dagon - (1919) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft
- In Amundsen's Tent - (1928) - novelette by John Martin Leahy
- King Kong - [King Kong] - (1933) - short story by Draycot M. Dell and Edgar Wallace
- The Monster from Nowhere - (1939) - short story by Nelson S. Bond
- Discord in Scarlet - [Space Beagle] - (1939) - novelette by A. E. van Vogt
- Monster - (1950) - short story by John Christopher
- Resident Physician - [Sector General] - (1961) - novelette by James White
- Personal Monster - (1955) - short story by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright]
- Alien Invasion - (1954) - short story by Marcia Kamien
- The Witness - (1951) - novelette by Eric Frank Russell
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