Lion Loose

James H. Schmitz

Originally published as A TALE OF TWO CLOCKS An ACE Book _Cover art by Bob Adragna_ First Ace printing: May 1979 Printed in U.S.A * * * * * This book is...

James H. Schmitz

Illustrated by Brotman Gefty Rammer came along the narrow passages between the _Silver Queen's_ control compartment and the staterooms, trying to exchange the haggard look on his face for one of ...

James H. Schmitz

_There is no predictable correlation between intelligence and ethics, nor is ruthlessness necessarily an evil thing.

James H. Schmitz

_The most dangerous of animals is not the biggest and fiercest--but the one that's hardest to stop.

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.