short stories

“The Piebald Hippogriff” by Karen Anderson

Originally published in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, May 1962.

The sky is their playground. Flying creatures of mythical proportions and their intrepid riders search the stars for the next frontier.

A fantasy short story by Robert E. Howard, originally published in The Fantasy Fan, Marrch 1934.

“She drew away from him, dwindling in the witch-fire of the skies, until she was a figure no bigger than a child.”

A sci-fi short story by Joseph Slotkin, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, Aug 1954.

“Helen LaTour had the best hip wriggle in galactic Burleyque. In fact, it was so good she hipped herself smack into another dimension!…”

A sci-fi short story by Norman Arkawy, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1955.

“A new industry blossomed when U.S. Robot Company put their perfected models on the market. Perfected? Nobody had considered the one defect!”

A sci-fi short story by Poul Anderson, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1951.

“Langdon had found immortality on the planet Tanith. Naturally he wanted his wife to share it—if he could prevent her from going insane first….”

A sci-fi short story by Randall Garrett, originally published in Analog 1961.

“The basic trouble with McGuire was that, though ‘he’ was a robot spaceship, nevertheless ‘he’ had a definite weakness that a man might understand….”

A sci-fi short story by William Bender, Jr, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1954.

“Narant’s personal problem seemed of more importance than his mission as an interstellar investigator. But they combined when he met—”

A sci-fi short story by Milton Lesser, originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1955.

“Sam had sold life insurance to every race in the galaxy. But on Halcyon he found a people who not only didn’t want it—but didn’t need it!”

A sci-fi short story by Ivar Jorgensen originally published in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy 1956.

“A small desert town didn’t seem a likely place to encounter murder—especially one that had been planned on a world light years away!”

A sci-fi short story by Rosel George Brown, originally published in Galaxy Magazine 1958.

“You can’t beat my Uncle Isadore—he’s dead but he’s quick—yet that is just what he was daring me to try and do!”