The Mind Thing

The Mind Thing

Fredric Brown

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers

He was incapable of love or mercy.. or hate. And he certainly never felt the lack. He was almost pure thought. He was just doing what he had to do—looking for the right body to play host to him. Once he found it and moved in, he would execute one of the most incredible plans ever conceived. He would be hailed as a hero on his own planet and Earth would never know what hit it!
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Compliments of a Fiend

Compliments of a Fiend

Fredric Brown

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers

Uncle Am is kidnapped! Ed Hunter's partner-in-crime was just out on a routine case, a man who'd skipped out on some car payments, when the old fellow vanishes. There's also a fortuneteller who claims to know how to pick the daily "number," a gangster who'd like more info about same, a love interest for young Ed, and a Fortean collector of Ambroses, who might just be responsible for Uncle Am's disappearance.
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The Screaming Mimi

The Screaming Mimi

Fredric Brown

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers

A hard-drinking reporter, a schizophrenic stripper, a disgraced psychoanalyst, and a mysterious serial killer who razors his female victims to death, collide with deadly and shocking reverberations in Fredric Brown's masterful crime classic THE SCREAMING MIMI, filmed in 1958 by Gerd Oswald, and the inspiration for Dario Argento's legendary 1970 giallo production "The Bird With The Crystal Plumage". This special ebook edition of THE SCREAMING MIMI also includes the bonus of Fredric Brown's 1942 short story "Satan's Search Warrant", another hard-boiled crime classic with typical violence, murder and twisting plot convolutions.
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Night of the Jabberwock

Night of the Jabberwock

Fredric Brown

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers

In the small town of Carmel City, it's just another Thursday night for longstanding editor and Lewis Carroll aficionado Doc Stoeger as he puts his weekly newspaper to bed. Of course there isn't any real news in the Carmel City Clarion, but then there never is, and Doc wishes that for once something would happen on a Thursday evening to give him a hot story to break. Before the night is through, Doc's wishes come true and he gets tangled up in a bizarre series of events that would make for sensational reading the next morning. But will he survive to put it into print?
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