Science fiction, and our own experiments, had prepared us for visits from monsters — or something — in space ships. But we never expected these devastating beings who operated outside the laws of Nature.

Ginny sobbed, “You’re making a prisoner out of me!” Maybe you’d have solved the crisis better, but three people tried.

He was four thousand dollars short, and the cops had it figured out. They said he’d wrapped the bills and shoved them across the counter to the girl.

The exciting story of two worlds — Earth, where Bard Lane and Sharan Inly are battling to help Man reach the stars, and a strange dying planet out in space where the inhabitants are fighting to keep Man from ever leaving the soil of Earth. Known as the Dreamers, these men and women of another planet believe Earth to be only a product of their dreams and the struggle to be only an interesting game of their dreams. Possessing the power to guide Man’s destiny, they believe it to be only a toy. But then two of the Dreamers fall in love with Bard Lane and Sharan Inly, and the fate of the two worlds hung on that love.

THEY LIVED ALL THE WAY

Clint Sewell was a rising young career man on the loose in a strange town when he slammed into trouble in the shape of a restless secretary, his boss’ blonde wife, and the town’s easy-loving belle.

Clint couldn’t resist playing around with all three. But one of them was raw dynamite. And when the explosion came, it shattered the smug peace of the town, and re-shaped the lives of his women.

For the first time, the novel was published in the abbreviated version in Cosmopolitan, April 1955 called the “Deadly Victim”.

The writer who has been called “the John O’Hara of the suspense story” spins a weird and frightening tale of modern voodoo in the Congo that’ll raise the hair on your scalp.