A Bad Day for Vermin

Keith Laumer

PROLOGUE He awoke and lay for a moment looking up at a low ceiling, dimly visible in a faint red glow, feeling the hard mat under his back.

Keith Laumer

They came In friendship and love.

Keith Laumer

it could be ANYTHING _Keith Laumer, well-known for his tales of adventure and action, shows us a different side of his talent in this original, exciting and thought-prov...

Keith Laumer

Illustrated by GAUGHAN I Retief paused before a tall mirror to check the overlap of the four sets of lapels that ornamented the vermilion cutaway of a First Secretary and Consul.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everything was perfectly swell.

Edgar Allan Poe

The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.

Heinrich Hoffmann

[Transcriber's Note: This book was first published in German in 1844, and in English translation in 1848.

Edgar Allan Poe

The "Red Death" had long devastated the country.