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First published in The Howard Collector, Spring 1967, "The Curse of the Golden Skull" , by Robert E. Howard, resembles a prose ...

In Jon Del Arroz's novella,  Gravity of the Game ,  Commissioner Hideki Ichiro is growing frustrated as his attempts to bring baseball...

Ambrose Bierce wrote horror short stories that were later mined by Clark Ashton Smith and H. P. Lovecraft for their own stories. In this one...

(A part of the ongoing look through the short fiction of Manly Made Wellman's collection, Sin's Doorway. This tale was found online...

A Christmas story from Weird Tales author Manly Wade Wellman , as told by John the Balladeer: *** "John, the children have opened ...

The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The bleak pale sun t...

"So you think a man can cheat death and outwit doom?" said the small, pale man, whose bulging forehead was shadowed by a black c...

I awoke from profound sleep to find two black-swathed forms standing silently beside me, their faces pale blurs in the gloom. As I blinked ...

I swear I'm licked before I start, trying to tell you all what Mr. Onselm looked like. Words give out sometimes. The way you're pu...

It was not very large, as asteroids go, but about it clung a silvery mist of atmosphere. Deeper flashes through the mist betokened water, ...

While I enjoy the holiday week, unearth my Harlan Ellison collection from my old room, and mull over the thoughts of the past week or so on...

Summary: In the middle of Germany's Black Forest, Solomon Kane meets Gaston l'Armon inside the Cleft Skull Tavern. The two men strug...

"I sold my soul that I might paint a living picture." - "The Golgotha Dancers", Manly Wade Wellman Summary: A man to...