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• "The Ghost" (1942) by A. E. van Vogt

  22 May 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  This rare excursion of van Vogt into the realm of fantasy first appeared in the August 1942 issue of the highly regarded Unknown Worlds bi-monthly magazine.
  This unusual 12,500-word ghost novelette with whodunit and time-conundrum elements, written during van Vogt’s Canadian days when he was (...)

• "The Witch" (1943) by A. E. van Vogt

  21 May 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  One of van Vogt’s few ventures into the fantasy realm (if witch stories can be so described that is, sometimes one wonders. . .), this solid, nicely-developed novelette about a very old – but not for long if she gets her way with the lovely body of the hero’s wife – and particularly tricky one (...)

• "Ride In, Killer!" (1951) - a golden-age Western story by A. E. van Vogt

  7 April 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  This dramatic tale of a struggle in a remote valley between a group of cowherds and a professional killer bent on stealing their cattle – and killing them all in the process – was only ever previously published in the February 1951 issue of the “pulp-western” magazine Famous Western.
  It was A. E. (...)

• "Rogue Ship" (1950) by A. E. van Vogt

  3 January 2018 by A. E. van Vogt

  This rousing space-opera extravaganza starts off with a bang when the very wealthy and scientifically-minded hero learns that the spaceship that he had built to ship a colony to the far-away Alpha Centauri star system six years ago – to escape a forthcoming nova-explosion of the sun which only (...)

• "The Ultra Man" (1966) by A. E. van Vogt

  13 November 2017 by A. E. van Vogt

  On a large and very cosmopolitan United Nations space-station on the moon, a gifted psychologist is explaining to a colleague what people way down on the street below are thinking and saying just by studying the expressions on their faces through field-glasses, when all of a sudden he declares (...)