Ray Cummings: 53 books

An Ingenious Detective Finds the Fatal Chord in a Fugue of Death! A Dr. Feather story.

Retired and rusticating Pete McLean, former policeman, sees something new in crime-fighting in a rural setting!

Finding the body was enough evidence to show just how the killer had worked in cold-blooded wickedness.

A scientific sleuth tackles the riddle of a mysterious fire.

A doctor is not supposed to use his knowledge to slay. Yet there came a time when this small-town medico had to operate with… note: short story

Retired and rusticating Pete McLean, former policeman, sees something new in crime-fighting in a rural setting! Note: short story

Doesn't quite live up to the promise of the title, but does pay off with a famous-last-words finish.

The old woman was dying. There could be no doubt of it now. Surely she would not last through the night. In the dim quiet bedroom he sat watching her, his young face grim and awed. Pathetic business, this ending of earthly life, this passing on. In the silence, from the living room downstairs the...

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

What are "astounding" stories? Well, if you lived in Europe in 1490, and someone told you the earth was round and moved around the sun—that would have been an "astounding" story. Or if you lived in 1840, and were told that some day men a thousand miles apart would be able to...

The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring. Under a microscope, he sees within the ring a beautiful young woman sitting before a cave. Enchanted by her, he shrinks himself so that he can join her world.

A UNIVERSE IN AN ATOM "Then you mean to say there is no such thing as the smallest particle of matter?" asked the Doctor. "You can put it that way if you like," the Chemist replied. "In other words, what I believe is that things can be infinitely small just as well as they...

Out of nowhere came the grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will.

When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of miniature perfection -an infinitely tiny universe...