The Variable Man

Philip K. Dick

ILLUSTRATED BY EBEL The claws were bad enough in the first place--nasty, crawling little death-robots.

Philip K. Dick

[Illustration] Ed had always been a practical man, when he saw something was wrong he tried to correct it.

Philip K. Dick

It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet.

Philip K. Dick

_The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools._ They had almost finished with the loading.

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.