The Fever
A man who despises gambling becomes obsessed with a Las Vegas slot machine and loses everything as he comes to believe the machine itself is calling and pursuing him.
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A man who despises gambling becomes obsessed with a Las Vegas slot machine and loses everything as he comes to believe the machine itself is calling and pursuing him.
A criminal able to reshape his face impersonates other men for money and romance until one borrowed identity brings him face to face with a past he cannot simply change…
A kindly old man who delights neighborhood children is revealed to be a fugitive ruler from another planet and must decide what to do when his pursuers finally find him.
A wounded visitor from space reaches a suspicious village carrying a gift that could benefit humanity, but fear and violence prevent the people from understanding it in time.
A gunfighter accepts a taunting challenge to visit the grave of a dead outlaw who swore revenge, and the trip turns bravado into a deadly supernatural test.
A woman on a cross-country drive keeps seeing the same mysterious hitchhiker impossibly far ahead of her until she learns the journey began with a death she has not accepted.
Professor Magnus persuades his friend Dick Young to test an experimental mind-altering drug. Each dose seems to place Dick inside the violent world of medieval Cornwall while his body remains…
A traveler shelters at a strange monastery and frees a prisoner he believes has been cruelly confined, only to discover that the monks were holding the Devil himself.
An old hunter and his faithful dog die together and walk toward the afterlife, where the man's refusal to enter any paradise that excludes his companion saves them from a…
A nostalgic toy designer returns to the neighborhood of his childhood and slips back into the past, where reliving the reality of those supposedly perfect years cures his obsession.
A lone woman in an isolated farmhouse fights tiny intruders from a miniature spacecraft, until the final revelation shows that the supposed aliens are human astronauts on a world of…
An engineer dismisses a curse connected to his work in Africa, then returns to the city and finds the sounds and dangers of the jungle following him all the way…
A mystery installment of the 1979–1985 radio series The Stories of Sherlock Holmes titled “The Kraut End Mystery.”
A World War I pilot flies through a strange cloud into a modern air base and realizes he has been given a chance to return to his own time and…
A disgraced jockey awaiting judgment for fixing races is granted the physical stature he always wanted, only to learn that getting his wish cannot erase the choices that ruined him.
A young man suddenly rises from his coffin during his own funeral, and his neighbors become convinced that whatever returned to life may not be entirely Jeff anymore.
A young woman rebels against her inventor father's household of perfectly obedient robot servants and uncovers a devastating secret about her own place in the family.
One of two stranded astronauts discovers a civilization of microscopic beings and makes himself their cruel god, until visitors on an even larger scale abruptly teach him humility.
An abusive stepfather becomes the only person who hears his daughter's talking doll threaten him, and his attempts to destroy it turn their private feud deadly.
A prisoner serving a sentence alone on an asteroid falls in love with an android companion given to him by a sympathetic captain, making eventual release painfully complicated.
An astronaut accepts suspended animation for a decades-long mission to preserve his youth, while the woman he loves makes the opposite sacrifice in hopes they can share a future.
A struggling pawnbroker releases a genie and receives wishes that repeatedly twist into disasters, teaching him and his wife to value the imperfect life they already had.
A dying patriarch makes his selfish relatives wear grotesque Mardi Gras masks until midnight to qualify for their inheritance, and the masks ultimately reveal more than costumes.
Two women endure unbearable heat as Earth seems to spiral toward the sun, until a feverish awakening reveals an equally terrifying catastrophe in the opposite direction.
The village of Midwich is mysteriously sealed off and every living thing inside falls unconscious. Months after the event, the village's women give birth on the same day to golden-eyed…
The manager of a hopeless baseball team finds success with a remarkable robot pitcher, but an attempt to give the machine a human heart changes the qualities that made him…
A misanthropic man learns to reshape reality through concentration and eliminates everyone who annoys him, then discovers that a world populated only according to his wishes is no paradise.
A revolutionary dictator is given a mirror that shows him the faces of his future assassins, and the visions feed a paranoia that destroys the people closest to him.
A working-class couple receives a strange talisman said to grant wishes. Their desire for money is answered through the death of their son, and a second desperate wish threatens to…
A mysterious power failure turns neighbors on Maple Street against one another as fear of an alien infiltrator grows, while outsiders watch how easily humans can be made to destroy…
A washed-up reporter investigating nanotechnology discovers microscopic machines designed to clean oil spills, only to learn that the nanobots can consume almost anything in their path.
A wax-museum employee brings a collection of murderer figures into his home when the exhibit closes, and a series of killings blurs whether the figures—or his obsession—have come to life.
A totalitarian state condemns a librarian as obsolete, but his chosen execution plan exposes the supposedly fearless Chancellor and the fragility of a regime that denies faith and individuality.
A commercial airliner hits an impossible burst of speed and slips through different eras of Earth's past and future while the crew struggles to return to the correct time before…
Post-apocalyptic survivors stay alive by obeying the advice of a mysterious unseen protector until occupying soldiers persuade them to reject its warnings—with catastrophic results.
An astronaut returns from orbit to a world almost identical to his own but filled with unsettling differences, convincing him that he has landed in a parallel reality.
Near the end of the Civil War, a wounded soldier and a grieving widow watch an endless procession of troops traveling a lonely road and gradually understand where all the…
In a future society where almost everyone stays indoors watching screens, two men take the unusual risk of walking outside at night. Their conversation gradually reveals how suspicious ordinary walking…
A gambler discovers that his friend can move objects with his mind and exploits the power to win in Las Vegas, risking both the man's health and their friendship.
An American officer fighting in the Pacific discovers he can see a strange glow on soldiers who are about to die, a gift that becomes terrifying when the sign appears…
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