Henry Carter Hull

A 23rd century "time thief" uses a time machine to steal the Holy Grail from King Arthur's knights, but not everything goes according to plan. With a plan like this, it never was.

Amazing Stories Volume 169 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five short stories by different authors: "I Bring Fresh Flowers", by Robert F. Young, "The Small Bears", by Gene L. Henderson, "Down To Earth", by Harry Harrison, "The Smart Ones" by Jack Sharkey and "War In Heaven" by Fletcher Pratt.

They were lovely and quick to learn—and their only faults were little ones!- from introduction

By what strange magic could an ordinary window reflect the beauty in the soul of a lonely girl!

Men have fought and died, sung and cried, stolen and lied for love. Christopher Stark did all of these-and more. Over his life loomed two gigantic images: that of the beautiful Priscilla, and that of the mysterious fisher-figure in the reaches of space. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post,...

The Tarks were attacking, the bosomy princess was clinging to him in terror, and Harold Smith realized he was at the end of his plot-line. What a dilemma! And what an opportunity!!

Every man’s mind is a universe with countless places in which he can hide—even from himself!

Three Science Fiction stories for the price of one from one of Science Fiction's classic writer, Robert F. Young. “The Forest of Unreason”— Mortby saw the hoof-marks first. It was the morning Reinman had come up missing, and he and the four other remaining members of the expedition had set out into the Kontawaba Forest in search of him. The hoof-marks were on the opposite bank. “Impressionist”— Radigan looked at the painting with a collector's...

For want of a better name, she called them “Obbly-Gobblies.” Thus for, the only evidence of their presence in the house had been an occasional flapping of their wings, but just the same she was certain that the term fitted them. Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Galaxy...

We've often wondered what would happen if Robert Young should cease to be a lyrically intense writer for a story or two, forsaking the bright, poetic worlds of miss katy three and the first sweet sleep of night to become dispassionately analytical on a cosmic scale. Now we know! He'd chill us to the bone by setting two squixes to brooding over a never-to-be born Earth, exactly as he has done here. And thrill us, too-with the liveliest kind of entertainment....