In an uncanny nineteenth-century world of artists and doomed expeditions, a nervous husband secretly witnesses the terrifying, miraculous birth of his daughter.
In 1933, everyone thought machines would eventually replace people, with one exception. Today, we’re not so sure if there are any exceptions….
“You loved me because you thought I was someone else — someone special, someone magical. You couldn’t see the truth, hidden behind my shimmer of illusions.”
On a planet plagued by deadly “accidents,” engineer Cyril Night and his biomechanical falcon must outwit a rogue terraforming intelligence before an abandoned colony becomes uninhabitable.
Written in 1958, Robert Bloch’s This Crowded Earth imagines an exhausted president risking his life and legacy to reveal humanity’s only—and most horrifying—answer to catastrophic overpopulation.
You held the door for Alon Preiss, and he didn’t even say “Thank you.” What an asshole, right?
A forgotten painting at the Met sends an ageing man into a reverie about the mysterious woman in it, all the lives she might have lived and all the ways he might have been smitten with her.
In the second chapter of this dystopian nightmare from 1958, Harry’s idyllic recovery turns sinister in the year 1998, when he discovers that his luxurious treatment center may actually be a secret human-breeding laboratory.
Another old New Yorker cartoon from the 1920s, reimagined with mermaids, because we think mermaids are funny.
In this eerily prophetic 1880 story, a lone survivor enters a silent London where toxic fog has killed millions and the city’s ordinary pollution has become an apocalypse.
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