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The playboy

Helen R. Hull

Helen R. Hull’s *The playboy* follows Gregory, a young man who lives at home, oversleeps, borrows money from his mother, and resents the practical demands around him. His morning is crowded with family interruptions, while he keeps thinking about Mina, who is coming back that day and seems to be the one woman who truly matters to him. The opening also shows Gregory uneasy about bills, money, and the way others see his flirtatious, self-indulgent habits.

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Blight

Helen R. Hull

Adele accepts a canoe outing with David, a reserved young man whom other students call the Monk. She approaches their time together as a flirtation, while he takes their growing intimacy seriously. As they move upriver, the difference between their expectations turns an apparently carefree afternoon into an uncomfortable encounter.

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The yellow danger

M. P. Shiel

John Hardy becomes caught in a widening conflict as Dr. Yen How organizes a campaign of conquest against Europe. Naval battles and threatened cities turn personal rivalries into a war between nations. This invasion novel presents its imagined conflict through the racial fears and imperial rivalries of its period.

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Many cities

Hilaire Belloc

This book reflects on Spain as a sharply bounded country, shaped by the Pyrenees as much as by history and regional difference. It treats the frontier as a defining wall with only a few practical crossings, and contrasts ordinary travel routes with the more solitary experience of entering through mountain valleys. One remembered passage into Aragon is described in detail, with the writer moving from the last village into high, remote terrain at night.

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The man who was two men

Ray Cummings

A young man wakes in an unfamiliar Connecticut city with no memory of his name or past. Frightened but coherent, he takes stock of his clothes, pockets, and surroundings, learns where he is, and realizes that his condition seems to be amnesia rather than insanity. The story follows his effort to understand the stranger reflected back at him and decide what to do next.

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Emptiness

Helen R. Hull

With her youngest son away at war, Mary sits in his empty room and wonders what remains of the years she has devoted to her family. Farm work and resentment have worn down her relationship with her husband. A visit from her daughter Alice brings another generation into a household struggling with absence and change.

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Realmah

Sir Arthur Helps

Conversations among Milverton and his companions frame the tale of Realmah, a leader of the Sheviri in a lake-dwelling society. Love, rivalry and the threat of invasion test his ideas about leadership. The story and the surrounding discussions explore government, social change and the responsibilities of those who hold power.

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The temple

H. P. Lovecraft

The story is framed as a German submarine commander’s account from the Atlantic during World War I, written while his boat lies disabled. After sinking a British freighter, the U-29 crew recover a strange ivory carving from a dead sailor, and soon the men begin to suffer disturbing visions, sickness, and fear. As tension builds aboard the submarine, the commander keeps watch for another target while the crew’s discipline and confidence break down.

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Married in haste

Ann S. Stephens

Constance Hudson secretly marries William Sterling, but debts, ambition and the interference of Mr. Church put their future in doubt. Alongside their story, Rhoda Weeks and her brother Luke struggle to support themselves through work and music. The novel follows these connected lives from city households toward the western frontier.

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The return

Helen R. Hull

The Rodman family gathers after the war, discussing work, business and a coming marriage as they await Stephen's return. His experience of service clashes with the comfort and ambitions he finds at home. His grandfather's memories of an earlier war complicate a reunion shaped by different ideas of sacrifice and duty.

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The preparation

Helen R. Hull

An elderly widow prepares her cottage for the family who will rent it for the summer. Their arrival promises both income and relief from her loneliness, and she puts care into every room and meal. As the expected boat fails to bring her visitors, her preparations give way to an increasingly anxious wait.

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Nothing but terror

Jesse F. Bone

Edward Falkland survives in a deserted city after plague and war, sheltering in a hospital while hungry dogs gather outside. Fear and isolation have made him hostile to the animals around him. An encounter with a wary Great Dane challenges that hostility and the habits on which his survival has come to depend.

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Faith killer

Winston K. Marks

Dr. Reed Fassin visits a mountain town where a healer uses wax figures and ritual to treat patients. Convinced that the practice exploits their suffering, he challenges the healer and the gathered crowd. His intervention draws him into a conflict that tests his certainty about belief, suggestion and physical harm.

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Asteroid 745: Mauritia

Donald A. Wollheim

A junior prospector describes a survey expedition to the asteroid Mauritia under the bullying Captain Braun. Braun’s admiration for Hitler and claims about his ancestry unsettle the crew. When he becomes convinced that an unseen visitor has entered their ship, the expedition takes a frightening turn.

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Double take

Ken Winney

A Hollywood technical director hires physicist Paul Conrad to help develop a film system that gives men and women different views of the same story. The invention brings Paul attention and draws him toward starlet Gloria Breen. For the man who recruited him, professional success becomes entangled with jealousy and personal ambition.

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