Books by Francis Stevens

Classic Tales of Horror - 500+ Stories

by Ambrose Bierce

(1,655 review)

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives... See More

The Science Fiction Omnibus #2 (Serapis Classics)

by Mark Clifton

(134 reviews)

The second volume of the Science Fiction Omnibus! Featuring the following masterpieces of sci-fi: WE'RE CIVILIZED!, by Mark Clifton & Alex Apostolides WITH THESE HANDS, by C.M. Kornbluth WHERE THERE'S HOPE, by Jerome... See More

The Heads of Cerberus: "These heads, with savage, snarling jaws, all emerged from one collar, set with five small but brilliant rubies"

by Francis Stevens

A pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett Gertrude Barrows Bennett was born in Minneapolis on 18th September 1884. She completed school up to the eighth grade, then switched to night school to study illustration... See More

The Heads of Cerberus

by Francis Stevens

(19 reviews)

Capped by a silver figure of Cerberus, the three-headed hound that guards the gates of Hell, an ancient glass vial contains ordinary-looking dust. Once inhaled, however, the dust exhibits extraordinary powers, transporting a... See More

The Citadel of Fear (Mint Editions (Fantasy and Fairytale))

by Francis Stevens

(17 reviews)

The Citadel of Fear (1918) is a science fiction novel by Francis Stevens. Using her well-known pseudonym, Gertrude Barrows Bennett published some of the twentieth century's greatest science fiction stories and novels. The... See More

Serapion: "Chaos will swallow the world, and the race of men be superseded by the race of madmen!"

by Francis Stevens

A pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett Gertrude Barrows Bennett was born in Minneapolis on 18th September 1884. She completed school up to the eighth grade, then switched to night school to study illustration... See More

The Heads of Cerberus (Modern Library Torchbearers)

by Francis Stevens

(19 reviews)

A rediscovered classic of science fiction, set in a dystopian twenty-second-century society where the winner takes all, a precursor to The Hunger Games by one of the genre's first major female writers -- with an introduction... See More

Claimed!

by Francis Stevens

(14 reviews)

LOST HORROR CLASSIC OFAN ANCIENT GOD'S VENGENCE! When a young woman's grasping billionaire uncle unearths a centuries old box from Atlantis containing the magical secrets of the ancient God of the Sea, she finds herself a... See More

THE CITADEL OF FEAR: The Complete Pulp Magazine Terror Classic

by Francis Stevens

(17 reviews)

"Wonderful and tragic allegory... amazing and thrilling scenes... masterful... huge mystery, gigantic tragedy, and original and extraordinary situations... " so raved H. P. Lovecraft when The Citadel of Fear first appeared... See More

Weird Tales Vol. 2 No. 1, July/August 1923: Pulp Fiction Classics

by Various

(8 reviews)

This is the readers' edition of Weird Tales Vol. 2, No. 1. Weird Tales is the hugely influential Pulp Magazine that went on to define many ideas of modern fantasy and supernatural horror. It spawned the careers of writers... See More

Classic Tales of Horror - 500+ Stories

by Ambrose Bierce

(3 reviews)

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives... See More

Nightmare! (Essential Classics)

by Francis Stevens

(1 review)

First published in 1916, this debut novel of terror launched the career of Francis Stevens (aka Gertrude Barrows Bennett), the grandmistress of horror, author of Possessed! Citadel of Fear, Claimed!, and other classic novels... See More

Citadel of Fear (Essential Classics)

by Francis Stevens

(17 reviews)

During a gold-finding expedition to South America, and American and an Irishman stumble upon the entrance to the lost Aztec city of Tiapallan. There they find not only the remains of an ancient Aztec race, but a black stone... See More

Box Set - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written:: Volumes 1 to 7 (100+ authors & 200+ stories)

by Arthur Machen

(95 reviews)

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives... See More

Nightmare

by Francis Stevens

(1 review)

The story is set on an island separated from the rest of the world, on which evolution has taken a different course. "The Nightmare" resembles Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot, which was published a year... See More

Unseen - Unfeared

by Francis Stevens

(1 review)

Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883-1948) was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. She completed school through the eighth... See More

Elf Trap

by Francis Stevens

(1 review)

"The Elf Trap" is only further evidence that Francis Stevens was a teller of bright rather than dark tales. It was first published in Argosy, July 5, 1919, and reprinted in Fantastic Novels Magazine for November 1949. It's a... See More

Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales (Masterworks of Adventure Book 3)

by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne

(2 reviews)

"Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, but there occurred violent earthquakes and floods, and in a single day and night it disappeared... See More

Aiming for the Stars: A Collection of Science Fiction by Women, 1918-1959 (Early Science Fiction by Women: A Dangerous Words Collection Book 3)

by Francis Stevens

A collection of early science fiction stories written by women before and during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Get your copy now! See More

Citadel of Fear: "And under the stars cool night-winds roved, like stealthy, invisible prowlers"

by Francis Stevens

A pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett Gertrude Barrows Bennett was born in Minneapolis on 18th September 1884. She completed school up to the eighth grade, then switched to night school to study illustration... See More

Dark Hour is Near - Dystopian Anthology: Iron Heel, Anthem, Lord of the World, The Time Machine, City of Endless Night, The Machine Stops…

by Jack London

"The hour before the dawn is the darkest" goes a popular saying, but is it actually the dawn we were waiting for? Or is it the dark hour before the apocalypse of human hopes? This edition brings to you the dystopian novels... See More

Unseen—Unfeared and Other Stories: "A man has no right to trifle with the superstitions of ignorant people. Sooner or later, it spells trouble"

by Francis Stevens

(1 review)

A pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett Gertrude Barrows Bennett was born in Minneapolis on 18th September 1884. She completed school up to the eighth grade, then switched to night school to study illustration... See More

Claimed!: "The hint of fear in his face, however, yielded to a sudden, savage irritation"

by Francis Stevens

A pseudonym of Gertrude Barrows Bennett Gertrude Barrows Bennett was born in Minneapolis on 18th September 1884. She completed school up to the eighth grade, then switched to night school to study illustration... See More

City of Endless Night: 8 Classical Dystopian Novels (Anthology)

by Milo Hastings

This anthology includes 8 classical sci-fi novels written in the first half of the 20th century and set in dystopian future: THE TIME MACHINE BY HERBERT GEORGE WELLS WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES BY HERBERT GEORGE WELLS THE HEADS... See More

8 Classical Dystopian Novels: Boxed Set

by H.G. Wells

(1 review)

This boxed set includes the following novels: THE TIME MACHINE BY HERBERT GEORGE WELLS WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES BY HERBERT GEORGE WELLS THE HEADS OF CERBERUS BY FRANCIS STEVENS LORD OF THE WORLD BY ROBERT HUGH BENSON THE... See More

Weird Fiction: A Collection of Early Speculative Horror

by Osie Turner

(5 reviews)

This anthology contains a selection of early weird or speculative fiction; mostly with a slant towards the supernatural or horrific. The stories were all originally published between the 1850s and 1920s; biographical... See More

8 Dystopian Novels: Boxed Set

by Herbert George Wells

(1 review)

This book includes 8 novels, which describe different dystopian worlds: THE TIME MACHINE BY HERBERT GEORGE WELLS WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES BY HERBERT GEORGE WELLS THE HEADS OF CERBERUS BY FRANCIS STEVENS LORD OF THE WORLD BY... See More

Collected Works of Francis Stevens

by Francis Stevens

(4 reviews)

"Collected Works of Francis Stevens" Contains: ?An aesthetic cover page. ?A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles. ?Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple... See More

Feminist Sci-Fi: An Anthology

by Osie Turner

(5 reviews)

Few realize that women played a pivotal role in the development of science fiction. Even fewer know that feminist science fiction became popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection contains a broad... See More

Nightmare and Other Stories

by Francis Stevens

"Nightmare and Other Stories" by Francis Stevens (pen name of Gertrude Barrows Bennett, 1883-1948), a pioneer female fantasy and science fiction writer, is a collection containing novella Nightmare, set on separated island... See More