Ray Cummings: 53 books

The first of the new meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 11th. Astronomically, the event was recorded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently...

In "Tarrano the Conqueror" is presented a tale of the year 2430 A.D.—a time somewhat farther beyond our present-day era than we are beyond Columbus' discovery of America. My desire has been to create for you the impression that you have suddenly been plunged forward into that time—to...

What the farmer saw was a huge fire burning near the center of his field. It was circular in form and about thirty feet in diameter. He was astonished to see it there but what surprised him more was its peculiar aspect.

Red Sensua's knife came up drippingand the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom of the fourth dimension.

Poppy is waiting for a proposal… it is just not the one she was expecting!

Out of their unknown fourth dimensional realm materializes a horde of White Invaders with power invincible.

Dr. Feather Tries to Prove You Can Set a Thief to Catch a Thief

When a young boy tells Don that he's seen a ghost, Don only laughs. There's no such thing as ghosts - and the little boy probably saw a reflection. But to prove the boy wrong, Don and his friend go to the hill where the boy says that the ghost floated towards him and through a rock. Don, however,...

But for Randolph it was also a world aglow with danger. Somewhere in its tiny vastness were the friends he had to rescue. Captives of a madman, they had been reduced to native Orena size; to return to Earth they needed the growth capsules Randolph was bringing them. It was up to Randolph to find them...

An ingenious detective finds the fatal chord in a fugue of death!

The dead man laughs as a scientific sleuth tackles the riddle of a mysterious fire!

Nice, tight little story of a doctor who gets recruited for a strange midnight duty.

A tiny spot of blood was the only positive clue to the identity of Clark Douglas' murderer -- but Dr. Feather knew how to make that bloodspot talk!

Our customer was supposed to be dead when we arrived to take her picture at her employer's behest. But there were bizarre things happening in the old house on Breakneck Hill - grim schemes of murder and profit. And though a camera isn't much of a weapon, Dot and I had to turn into detectives, goaded as we were by