Asimov's Ghosts / Asimov's Monsters [24 stories]
**Asimov's Ghosts**
Ghosts - essay by Isaac Asimov
Lost Hearts - short story by M. R. James
On the Brighton Road - short story by Richard Middleton
Poor Little Saturday - short story by Madeleine L'Engle
The Lake - short story by Ray Bradbury
A Pair of Hands - short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
An Uncommon Sort of Spectre - short story by Edward Page Mitchell
The House of the Nightmare - short story by Edward Lucas White
The Shadowy Third - novelette by Ellen Glasgow
The Twilight Road - short story by H. F. Brinsmead
The Voices of El Dorado - short story by Howard Goldsmith
The Changing of the Guard - short story by Anne Serling and Rod Serling (variant of Changing of the Guard 1985) [as by Anne Serling]

**Asimov's Monsters**
The Power of Evil - essay by Isaac Asimov
Homecoming - short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming 1946)
Good-by, Miss Patterson - short story by Phyllis MacLennan
The Wheelbarrow Boy - short story by Richard Parker
The Cabbage Patch - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
The Thing Waiting Outside - short story by Barbara Williamson
Red As Blood - short story by Tanith Lee
Gabriel-Ernest - short story by Saki
Fritzchen - short story by Charles Beaumont
The Young One - novelette by Jerome Bixby
Optical Illusion - short story by Mack Reynolds
Idiot's Crusade - short story by Clifford D. Simak
One for the Road - short story by Stephen King
Angelica - short story by Jane Yolen
Ghost stories, Juvenile literature, Monsters, Juvenile fiction, Monstres
Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles G. Waugh, Montague Rhodes James, Richard Middleton, Madeleine L'Engle, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Edward Page Mitchell, Edward Lucas White, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, H. F. Brinsmead, Anne Serling, Rod Serling, Phyllis MacLennan, Richard Parker, Theodore Cogswell, Barbara Williamson, Tanith Lee, Saki, Charles Beaumont, Jerome Bixby, Mack Reynolds, Clifford D. Simak, Stephen King, Jane Yolen
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers.  Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2.  His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old.  He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942.  During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station.  After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948.  He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards. || Martin Harry Greenberg (March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011) was an American academic and anthologist in many genres, including mysteries and horror, but especially in speculative fiction. In all, he compiled 1,298 anthologies and commissioned over 8,200 original short stories. He founded Tekno Books, a packager of more than 2000 published books. He was also a co-founder of the Sci-Fi Channel. Greenberg was also an expert in terrorism and the Middle East. He was a longtime friend, colleague and business partner of Isaac Asimov. || Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–18), and of Eton College (1918–36). He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15).

Though James's work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some regard as among the best in the genre. James redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. However, James's protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story".

**Source**: [M. R. James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James) on Wikipedia. || American writer || Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. 

Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best-known and most beloved books, *The Martian Chronicles*, *The Illustrated Man*, *Fahrenheit 451* and *Something Wicked This Way Comes*, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st. 

In recognition of his stature in the world of literature and the impact he has had on so many for so many years, Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, an the National Medal of Arts in 2004. 

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  [1]: http://www.raybradbury.com/about.html || British writer who published under the pen name of Q (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Quiller-Couch>Wikipedia</a>). || Theodore Rose Cogswell (March 10, 1918 – February 3, 1987) was an American science fiction author. || Tanith Lee was a British writer of science fiction, horror, and fantasy. She was the author of over 90 novels and 300 short stories, a children's picture book (Animal Castle), and many poems. She also wrote two episodes of the BBC science fiction series Blake's 7. She was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award best novel award (also known as the August Derleth Award), for her book Death's Master (1980).
Source: Wikipedia || Saki was the pen name of Hector Hugh Munro, also known as H. H. Munro, a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. || Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby || Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds was an American science fiction writer. || Clifford Donald Simak (August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award.The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master,[4] and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.[5] He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre. || Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, and many have been adapted into films, television series, miniseries, and comic books. King has published 63 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and five non-fiction books. He has also written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections.

King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He has also received awards for his contribution to literature for his entire bibliography, such as the 2004 World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement and the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. In 2015, he was awarded with a National Medal of Arts from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts for his contributions to literature. He has been described as the "King of Horror", a play on his surname and a reference to his high standing in pop culture. || "Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. She is the author or editor of more than 280 books. Her  short story Sister Emily's Lightship won the Nebula Award." - Wikipedia