Dr. Montague, a scientific investigator of ghostly phenomena, has chosen to live for several weeks at Hill House, by repute a place of horror that will brook no human habitation. To check and contribute to his observations, he selects three companions previously unknown to him; two girls, Theo and Eleanor, and Luke, a young man, who is heir to...

The novel "Hero of Our Time" was first published in 1840. Then no one could have imagined that the author’s life would end so soon, and many contemporaries predicted Mikhail Yuryevich a great future precisely as a prose writer. Gogol, in particular, remarked: "Lermontov the prose writer will be higher than Lermontov the poet." With his novel “The...

The satirical science fiction novel by Jonathan Swift, in which human and social vices are vividly and wittily ridiculed. The book has become a classic of moral and political satire, although its abridged alterations (and film adaptations) for children are especially popular. Shipwrecked, Lemuel Gulliver woke up thrown to an island inhabited by...

From the very beginning, the author was striving to study the human soul, phenomena and conditions that arise in moments of deep nervous tension and frustration. He was very interested (including, apparently, for personal reasons) the phenomenon of deviant behavior, its forms, origins and hidden causes. This is probably why his stories are so...

It is the story of a young woman who impulsively marries an idealistic but impractical writer and becomes a novelist and playwright herself. Its humor and witty dialogue quickly made it a readers' favorite and commercial success, with the first edition selling out two weeks before publication....

Miss Susan Cushing, a secluded lifestyle, received a small bag wrapped in paper — a cardboard box with coarse salt. After pouring out salt, Miss Cushing, in horror, discovered two unpaired human ears, male and female. They are cut off recently. Inspector Lestrade invites Holmes to investigate. Starting by examining the twine, packaging, and...

Is there anything completely beyond human comprehension? Gradually, we can gain a certain understanding of what it is by comparing it with what is understandable. There may exist and perhaps there is a vast realm of reality coexisting with the reality that we know, right around us; but he is "protected" from us. It is possible that we know less...

The story captures numerous small colonies based on unusual perceptions of family unit and social group. Most of them failed in practice, but usually because they were based on idealistic ideas that had little to do with the economic or social needs of their time. But what can such a group face when a new member, a person who does not understand...

Successful colonies among stars require interstellar ships - but they also require a special kind of person. The kind you might not think to be looking ......

Have you ever written science fiction? Have your stories been rejected? Herein may lie the reason......