Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Tomorrow the World!

For a long while I walked alone with my cold rage. It was, well, most curious is a mild way to describe it. I had never been a man of violence and fury. Only in my adventure yarns had I spread gore and destruction abroad. I thought back over my twenty-eight years of life. I di...

Chapters

10. CHAPTER XI

The house was old but well-kept, upreared in the heart of the great green swampland. It was such a house as a troll might have built--a troll with a Gothic imagination. Rambling...

8. CHAPTER IX

The hounds bayed on my trail, and the voice in my head called me forward. I picked up the Gladstone and hastened on, following an invisible path between oozing stretches of swam...

7. CHAPTER VIII

I stopped on the crest of a knoll and got out of the car. Off to the right lay the beginnings of a vast swampy tract of wilderness, green and steaming in the early morning air....

6. CHAPTER VII

I pulled my Gladstone from below the bed, strapped and locked it. Then for a moment I stared at my typewriter. It was doubtful that I would ever use her again, and she'd make an...

1. CHAPTER II

For a long while I walked alone with my cold rage. It was, well, most curious is a mild way to describe it. I had never been a man of violence and fury. Only in my adventure yar...

3. CHAPTER IV

A cryptic statement, that, and one which requires explanation; yet how can I say just what it was like, this metamorphosis? At first I was the same creature that had crouched be...

4. CHAPTER V

I caught the five A.M. train for another big city--never mind which. I had about two hundred dollars in my wallet, a fair selection of clothes and essentials in my Gladstone, an...

5. CHAPTER VI

I threw the last of my stuff into the Gladstone and shoved it under the bed. Putting my ear to the panel of the door, I listened for their breathing. There were two of them, and...

2. CHAPTER III

I could hear no sounds of pursuit as yet. I thought back over the past half hour. I still experienced no shred of remorse. The man had deserved to die. He had laid hands on me w...

9. CHAPTER X

They came along the pathway, holding in the leashed dogs, for evidently they did not trust to their own powers to keep up with free-running beasts. There were eight or ten men,...

11. CHAPTER XII

I tell you plain that we will rise and slay you, that there will be no quarter in this war which is to come to you. Forget your hostilities between nation and nation--they have...