The Chasm

Bryce Walton

I was suddenly wide awake and listening.

Bryce Walton

We, Sam Lewis thought as he lay in the dark trying to sober up, are the living dead.

Bryce Walton

As a Watchman in a man-made kind of observational meteor floating millions of miles from nowhere out among the planets, Barton had two main duties.

Bryce Walton

The Minister of Peace asked the United States President if he had heard from the Secretary of State.

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.