This haunting tale begins with two immortals, George and Tuffron, who make a wager over the truth or falsity of Tuffron’s insistence that “human beings are stupid and willful.”

Young and handsome Lieutenant Mertz Komroff thinks he has left his past behind when he enlists in the Chinese army...

Dr. Henry Mudge undergoes a striking personality change when he discovers a mathematical formula—“Equation C”—that defines a mysterious negative dimension.

Edward Lanson has been drifting in a lifeboat far below the Cape of Good Hope for weeks and seems destined for the watery depths until an ancient clipper ship rescues him.

Pokey McKay is the last living resident of Pioneer, an old deserted mining town. Trouble starts when a stranger arrives, with a murderous sheriff hot on his trail.

The story revolves around a meek and mousy U.S. civil servant named Jacob Findley...

A humorous tale about a New York bartender who receives mysteriously special potions from Borneo which can make people grow or shrink depending on which one they drink.

American captain Smoke Engel loses his ship, the Witch, to a corrupt Chinese money lender and must then embark on a deadly errand to regain his rightful property...

In a tale set against the color of the legendary American west, Howdy Johnson relieves the town of it’s murderous sheriff...

A young adventurer searches for precious ancient amber in the Western Hills of Peking under the guise of an archeological expedition.