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Table of Contents:

• The Star Mouse - novelette
• Arena - novelette
• Hall of Mirrors - short story
• The Last Martian - short story
• Honeymoon in Hell - novelette
• Me and Flapjack and the Martians (with Mack Reynolds) - short story
• The Weapon - short story
• Abominable - short story
• Expedition - short story
• Keep Out - short story
• Mouse - short story
• Too Far - short story
• Nasty - short story
• Rebound - short story
• Nightmare in Gray - short story
• Nightmare in Green - short story
• Nightmare in White - short story
• Nightmare in Blue - short story
• Nightmare in Yellow - short story
• Nightmare in Red - short story
• Unfortunately - short story
• Granny's Birthday - short story
• Cat Burglar - short story
• The House - short story
• Second Chance - short story
• Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility - short story
• Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability - short story
• Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality - short story
• Dead Letter - short story
• Recessional - short story
• Hobbyist - short story
• The Ring of Hans Carvel - short story
• Vengeance Fleet - short story
• Rope Trick - short story
• Fatal Error - short story
• The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I - short story
• The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver II - short story
• The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver III - short story
• Bright Beard - short story
• Jaycee - short story
• Contact - short story
• Horse Race - short story
• Death on the Mountain - short story
• Bear Possibility - short story
• Not Yet the End - short story
• Fish Story - short story
• Three Little Owls (A Fable) - short story
• Runaround - short story
• Murder in Ten Easy Lessons - short story
• Entity Trap - short story
• The Little Lamb - short story
• The Joke - short story
• The Geezenstacks - short story
• The End - short story
• Cartoonist (with Mack Reynolds) - short story
• Man of Distinction - short story
• Millennium - short story
• The Dome - short story
• Blood - short story
• Experiment - short story
• Sentry - short story
• Naturally - short story
• Voodoo - short story
• First Time Machine - short story
• And the Gods Laughed - short story
• A Word from Our Sponsor - short story
• Rustle of Wings - short story
• Imagine (poem) - short story
• Mitkey Rides Again - short story
• Six-Legged Svengali (with Mack Reynolds) - short story
• The Switcheroo (with Mack Reynolds) - short story
• Dark Interlude (with Mack Reynolds) - short story
• The Gamblers (with Mack Reynolds) - novelette
• Honeymoons and Geezenstacks and Fredric William Brown (essay) by Richard A. Lupoff - short story

A collection of all 118 short science fiction and fantasy stories of one of the masters of the vignette, all his short works except two which were rewritten into parts of a novel. Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg. Dustjacket art by Bob Eggleton.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (2001) - essay by Barry N. Malzberg
• Armageddon (1941) - short story
• Not Yet the End (1941) - short story
• Etaoin Shrdlu (1942) - short story
• Star Mouse (1951) - novelette
• Runaround (1942) - short story
• The New One (1942) - short story
• The Angelic Angleworm (1943) - novelette
• The Hat Trick (1943) - short story
• The Geezenstacks (1943) - short story
• Daymare (1943) - novelette
• Paradox Lost (1943) - short story
• And the Gods Laughed (1944) - short story
• Nothing Sirius (1944) - short story
• The Yehudi Principle (1944) - short story
• Arena (1944) - novelette
• The Waveries (1945) - short story
• Murder in Ten Easy Lessons (1945) - short story
• Pi in the Sky (1945) - novelette
• Placet Is a Crazy Place (1946) - short story
• Knock (1948) - short story
• All Good BEMs (1949) - short story
• Mouse (1949) - short story
• Come and Go Mad (1949) - novelette
• Crisis, 1999 (1949) - short story
• Letter to a Phoenix (1949) - short story
• Vengeance Fleet (1950) - short story
• The Last Train (1950) - short story
• Entity Trap (1950) - short story
• Obedience (1950) - short story
• The Frownzly Florgels (1950) - short story
• The Last Martian (1950) - short story
• Honeymoon in Hell (1950) - novelette
• Mitkey Rides Again (1950) - short story
• Six-Legged Svengali (1950) - short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• Dark Interlude (1951) - short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• Man of Distinction (1951) - short story
• The Switcheroo (1951) - short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• The Weapon (1951) - short story
• Cartoonist (1951) - short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• The Dome (1951) - short story
• A Word from Our Sponsor (1951) - short story
• The Gamblers (1951) - novelette by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• The Hatchetman (1951) - novelette by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• Something Green (1951) - short story
• Me and Flapjack and the Martians (1952) - short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• The Little Lamb (1953) - short story
• Rustle of Wings (1953) - short story
• Hall of Mirrors (1953) - short story
• Experiment (1954) - short story
• Sentry (1954) - short story
• Keep Out (1954) - short story
• Naturally (1954) - short story
• Voodoo (1954) - short story
• Answer (1954) - short story
• Daisies (1954) - short story
• Pattern (1954) - short story
• Politeness (1954) - short story
• Preposterous (1954) - short story
• Reconciliation (1954) - short story
• Search (1954) - short story
• Sentence (1954) - short story
• Solipsist (1954) - short story
• Blood (1955) - short story
• Imagine (1955) - short story
• First Time Machine (1955) - short story
• Too Far (1955) - short story
• Millennium (1955) - short story
• Expedition (1956) - short story
• Happy Ending (1957) - short story by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• Jaycee (1955) - short story
• Unfortunately (1958) - short story
• Nasty (1959) - short story
• Rope Trick (1959) - short story
• Abominable (1960) - short story
• Bear Possibility (1960) - short story
• Recessional (1961) - short story
• Contact (1960) - short story
• Rebound (1960) - short story
• Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility (1961) - short story
• Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability (1961) - short story
• Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality (1961) - short story
• Hobbyist (1961) - short story
• The End (1961) - short story
• Nightmare in Blue (1961) - short story
• Nightmare in Gray (1961) - short story
• Nightmare in Red (1961) - short story
• Nightmare in Yellow (1961) - short story
• Nightmare in Green (1961) - short story
• Nightmare in White (1961) - short story
• The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I (1961) - short story
• The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver II (1961) - short story
• The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver III (1961) - short story
• Bright Beard (1961) - short story
• Cat Burglar (1961) - short story
• Dead Letter (1961) - short story
• Death on the Mountain (1961) - short story
• Fatal Error (1961) - short story
• Fish Story (1961) - short story
• Horse Race (1961) - short story
• The House (1960) - short story
• The Joke (1948) - short story
• The Ring of Hans Carvel (1961) - short story
• Second Chance (1961) - short story
• Three Little Owls (A Fable) (1961) - short story
• Granny's Birthday (1960) - short story
• Aelurophobe (1962) - short story
• Puppet Show (1962) - short story
• Double Standard (1963) - short story
• It Didn't Happen (1963) - short story
• Ten Percenter (1963) - short story
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1965) - short story by Fredric Brown and Carl Onspaugh
• Editor's Notes and Acknowledgements (2002) - essay by Ben Yalow

This short story was originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1953. It was later anthologized in Assignment in Tomorrow, edited by Frederik Pohl (1954), The Great SF Stories #15, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg (1986), and The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time, edited by Barry N. Malzberg (2003), and collected in Honeymoon in Hell (1958), The Best of Fredric Brown (1977), And the Gods Laughed (1987), and From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown (2001).

Read this story for free at Project Gutenberg.

A collection of stories from a master of the form. Imagine... Ghosts, gods, and devils – heavens and hells – cities in the sky and cities beneath the sea. Time machines, spaceships – certainly you can imagine Martians, but what about interplanetary vampires? Or a mouse that isnt a mouse?

Honeymoon in Hell proves that Fredric Brown has a special vision, a sight beyond our wildest nightmares, a perception of things we couldn't even begin to imagine.

Table of Contents:

• Honeymoon in Hell - novelette
• Too Far - short story
• Man of Distinction - short story
• Millennium - short story
• The Dome - short story
• Blood - short story
• Hall of Mirrors - short story - short story
• Experiment - [Two Timer - 1] - short story
• The Last Martian - short story
• Sentry - [Two Timer - 2] - short story
• Mouse - short story
• Naturally - short story
• Voodoo - short story
• Arena - novelette
• Keep Out - short story
• First Time Machine - short story
• And the Gods Laughed - short story
• The Weapon - short story
• A Word from Our Sponsor - short story
• Rustle of Wings - short story
• Imagine - poem

Includes the novels:

Gateway to Darkness (1949)

Gateway to Glory (1950)

Martians Go Home (1955)

Rogue in Space (1957)

The Lights in the Sky Are Stars (1953)

The Mind Thing (1951)

What Mad Universe (1949)

THEY WERE GREEN, THEY WERE LITTLE, THEY WERE BALD AS BILLIARD BALLS AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE!

Luke Devereaux was a science fiction writer, holed up in a desert shack waiting for inspiration. He was the first to see a Martian - but he certainly wasn't the last. It was estimated that one billion of them had arrived - one to every three human beings on Earth. Obnoxious green creatures who could be seen and heard (but not harmed) and who probed private sex lives as shamelessly as they exposed government secrets.

No one knew why they had come. No one knew how to make them go away - except perhaps, Luke Devereaux. Unfortunately he was going slightly bananas, so it wouldn't be easy. But for a science fiction writer nothing was impossible.

One of the great pulp writers, Fredric Brown (1906-1972) combined a flair for the horrific, a quirky sense of humor, and a wild imagination, and published many classic novels in the mystery and science fiction genres.

But he was also a master of the "short-short story," tales only a page or two in length, but hard-hitting and with a wicked twist at the end. Nightmares and Geezenstacks (1961) collects 47 short gems by Brown, ranging from science fiction to noir crime to horror, including the chilling and unforgettable "The Geezenstacks".

Long unobtainable, Brown's classic collection returns to print for the first time in almost 40 years and is sure to please both longtime fans and those who are discovering this brilliant writer for the first time.

Contents:

• 1 - Nasty - (1959) - short story
• 3 - Abominable - (1960) - short story
• 6 - Rebound - (1960) - short story
• 9 - Nightmare in Gray - (1961) - short story
• 11 - Nightmare in Green - (1961) - short story
• 12 - Nightmare in White - (1961) - short story
• 14 - Nightmare in Blue - (1961) - short story
• 16 - Nightmare in Yellow - (1961) - short story
• 19 - Nightmare in Red - (1961) - short story
• 20 - Unfortunately - (1958) - short story
• 22 - Granny's Birthday - (1960) - short story
• 25 - Cat Burglar - (1961) - short story
• 27 - The House - (1960) - short story
• 30 - Second Chance - (1961) - short story
• 33 - Great Lost Discoveries I - Invisibility - [Great Lost Discoveries - 1] - (1961) - short story
• 35 - Great Lost Discoveries II - Invulnerability - [Great Lost Discoveries - 2] - (1961) - short story
• 37 - Great Lost Discoveries III - Immortality - [Great Lost Discoveries - 3] - (1961) - short story
• 39 - Dead Letter - (1961) - short story
• 40 - Recessional - (1961) - short story
• 42 - Hobbyist - non-genre - (1961) - short story
• 45 - The Ring of Hans Carvel - (1961) - short story
• 46 - Vengeance Fleet - (1950) - short story (variant of Vengeance, Unlimited)
• 49 - Rope Trick - (1959) - short story
• 51 - Fatal Error - (1961) - short story
• 53 - The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I - [The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver - 1] - (1961) - short story
• 55 - The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver II - [The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver - 2] - (1961) - short story
• 56 - The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver III - [The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver - 3] - (1961) - short story
• 59 - Expedition - (1956) - short story
• 61 - Bright Beard - (1961) - short story
• 63 - Jaycee - (1955) - short story
• 65 - Contact - (1960) - short story (variant of Earthmen Bearing Gifts)
• 68 - Horse Race - (1961) - short story
• 70 - Death on the Mountain - (1961) - short story
• 74 - Bear Possibility - (1960) - short story
• 76 - Not Yet the End - (1941) - short story
• 79 - Fish Story - (1961) - short story
• 82 - Three Little Owls (A Fable) - (1961) - short story
• 85 - Runaround - (1942) - short story
• 90 - Murder in Ten Easy Lessons - (1945) - short story
• 100 - Dark Interlude - (1951) - short story and Mack Reynolds
• 109 - Entity Trap - (1950) - short story (variant of From These Ashes ...)
• 128 - The Little Lamb - (1953) - short story
• 142 - Me and Flapjack and the Martians - (1952) - short story and Mack Reynolds
• 151 - The Joke - (1948) - short story
• 162 - Cartoonist - (1951) - short story and Mack Reynolds
• 171 - The Geezenstacks - (1943) - short story
• 182 - The End - (1961) - short story

The Roamers of the Cosmos Sought Intelligent Life - But They Found That Earth's Bipeds Didn't Make Sense!

This short story is included in the collections:

• Nightmares and Geezenstacks (1962), Fredric Brown
• The Best Short Stories of Fredric Brown (1982), Fredric Brown

It first appeared in the Winter, 1941 Issue of Captain Future magazine, available free on Internet Archives.

He had no name, no language, no friends. He had not been born and he could not multiply. He had just 'Happened' - an accidental combination of atoms that could think and learn and do a lot of incredible things. He had floated free in space for billions of years, for all he knew he was the only living thing in the Universe. So when he met three human beings wrangling and bickering in their funny-looking space ship, his whole life changed. Because he suddenly knew that he could make them do anything he wanted.

Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (Science-Fiction Carnival) - essay by Fredric Brown
• 12 - Preface (Science-Fiction Carnival) - essay by Mack Reynolds
• 15 - The Wheel of Time - (1950) - short story by Robert Arthur
• 37 - SRL Ad - (1952) - short story by Richard Matheson
• 49 - A Logic Named Joe - (1946) - short story by Murray Leinster
• 71 - Simworthy's Circus - (1950) - short story by Larry T. Shaw
• 89 - The Well-Oiled Machine - (1950) - short story by H. B. Fyfe
• 109 - Venus and the Seven Sexes - (1949) - novella by William Tenn
• 163 - The Swordsmen of Varnis - (1950) - short story by Clive Jackson
• 167 - Paradox Lost - (1943) - short story by Fredric Brown
• 189 - Muten - (1948) - short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 211 - The Martians and the Coys - (1951) - short story by Mack Reynolds
• 227 - The Ego Machine - (1952) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
• 283 - The Cosmic Jackpot - (1948) - short story by George O. Smith
• 301 - The Abduction of Abner Greer - (1941) - short story by Nelson S. Bond

Nine startling adventures of humans and other beings, by the first master of science fiction and fantasy, Fredric Brown.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Introduction (Space on My Hands)
• 3 - Something Green
• 15 - Crisis, 1999
• 36 - Pi in the Sky
• 69 - Knock
• 82 - All Good BEMs
• 95 - Daymare
• 144 - Nothing Sirius
• 165 - Star Mouse
• 191 - Come and Go Mad

Starduster Yes, I'm Max Andrews. I'm one of the guys who fought and bled and worked to get to Mars. I figure what I gave up in those early years gave me the right to pilot the next big jump. I've lied and stolen for that right. I'd have killed, too, but I didn't have top. Instead, I let a woman give her life so I could have my chance, my door to space. You think I'd stop at anything, now? I'll be on that rocket, blasting away on America's biggest adventure, the hop out into the stars themselves Only Fred Brown could have written this deeply moving science fiction novel about one man's epic, life-long struggle to open mankind's pathway to the star

The Mind Thing is an alien who was unfortunately transported from its own planet to Earth as punishment for a crime that it committed on its own planet. The mind thing is nothing more than a brain in a turtle like shell, but it has the power to take over another mind (human or animal) while that person is asleep. However, it can only leave that mind upon the person or animal's death. It thus can only leave a human's mind by forcing the person to commit suicide. It wants to go home and needs a human to build it a "projector" to get it back home. It takes over many animal and human minds in order to accomplish its goal.

BUG-EYED MONSTERS ON BROADWAY Pulp SF magazine editor Keith Winton was answering a letter from a teenage fan when the first moon rocket fell back to Earth and blew him away. But where to? Greenville, New York, looked the same, but Bems (Bug-Eyed Monsters) just like the ones on the cover of Startling Stories walked the streets without attracting undue comment. And when he brought out a half-dollar coin in a drugstore, the cops wanted to shoot him on sight as an Arcturian spy. Wait a minute. Seven-foot purple moon-monsters? Earth at war with Arcturus? General Dwight D. Eisenhower in command of Venus Sector? What mad universe was this? One thing was for sure: Keith Winton had to find out fast - or he'd be good and dead, in this universe or any other.

Twenty-nine of the best-loved stories by the man some critics call the O. Henry of science fiction... stories that range from the wryly humorous to the deadly serious, but are always unforgettable.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: A Brown Study (1977) - essay by Robert Bloch
• Arena (1944) - novelette
• Imagine (1955) - poem
• It Didn't Happen (1963) - short story
• Recessional (1961) - short story
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (1965) - short story by Fredric Brown and Carl Onspaugh
• Puppet Show (1962) - short story
• Nightmare in Yellow (1961) - short story
• Earthmen Bearing Gifts (1960) - short story
• Jaycee (1955) - short story
• Pi in the Sky (1945) - novelette
• Answer (1954) - short story
• The Geezenstacks (1943) - short story
• Hall of Mirrors (1953) - short story
• Knock (1948) - short story
• Rebound (1960) - short story
• Star Mouse (1942) - novelette
• Abominable (1960) - short story
• Letter to a Phoenix (1949) - short story
• Not Yet the End (1941) - short story
• Etaoin Shrdlu (1942) - short story
• Armageddon (1941) - short story
• Experiment (1954) - short story
• The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver I (1961) - short story
• The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver II (1961) - short story
• The Short Happy Lives of Eustace Weaver III (1961) - short story
• Reconciliation (1954) - short story
• Nothing Sirius (1944) - short story
• Pattern (1954) - short story
• The Yehudi Principle (1944) - short story
• Come and Go Mad (1949) - novelette
• The End (1961) - short story