Fantastic fiction has existed since man's earliest days of telling tales around a fire. It deals with our most powerful emotions: fear, love and hope. Throughout its history, the short story has always been its most vital form. In short fiction, the boundaries of genre have been established, broken and re-established; the field has become differentiated and complex. The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction displays the evolution of the genre, filled with significant and powerful works by some of the greatest masters of storytelling.

Fantastic fiction has had an impact on all types of literature, and we can trace its effects via the generations of writers who have contributed to the field, from Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Herbert, Franz Kafka, H Beam Piper, Herman Melville, HG Wells, HP Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov, Jack London, Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut, Marion Zimmer Bradley, MR James, O Henry, Philip K Dick, Richard Connell, Robert A Heinlein, Robert E Howard, William Hope Hodgson, WF Harvey to WW Jacobs, whose bestelling and award-winning collections of short fiction have proved the durability of the form.

The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction is a mammoth of a book, containing over 800 pages featuring 46 of the greatest short stories ever told in horror, fantasy and science fiction. It is a book to last the ages.

The Nameless City by H.P. Lovecraft
2 B R O 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut
The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
A Dream Of Armageddon by H.G. Wells
Lost Hearts by M.R. James
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Ancient Lights by Algernon Blackwood
Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
The Voice In The Night by William Hope Hodgson
The Gun by Philip K. Dick
The Beast With Five Fingers by W.F. Harvey
Youth by Isaac Asimov
The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
In The Year 2889 by Jules Verne
The Vampyre by John William Polidori
Beyond The Door by Philip K. Dick
The Pit And The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe
The Valley Of Spiders by H.G. Wells
A Wicked Woman by Jack London
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
The Missing Link by Frank Herbert
Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft
The Last Days Of The United States by Robert A. Heinlein
The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Pigeons From H