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Follow the horror of the career of Herbert West, as in medical school he seeks and fails with terrifying consequences to animate the "Graveyard's Cold Clay", to return the dead to life, continuing through his private practice as a physician where he finally learns to reanimate not only entire dead bodies, but parts, with horrendous consequences.

When his ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat during World War I, a man is taken prisoner by the Germans. Later, he escapes from the U-Boat to the sea, where he discovers a vast body of land, previously submersed on the Pacific Ocean floor, recently ripped from it through some geological upheaval, and bearing evidence that a highly intelligent, monstrous, race shares dominion of the Earth with humanity, and for the moment exercising it's rule only on the ocean floor.

A man accepts an invitation from his best friend - Crawford Tillinghast - after a rift in their friendship regarding Crawford's scientific and metaphysical research, to discover Tillinghast has created a device that awakens sensory abilities long dormant in humans after millions, perhaps billions, of years of evolution, allowing us to see and experience all the worlds around us, previously separated from us by our five senses, and he further discovers that Crawford's invitation has an ulterior motive - revenge.

When the U.S. Supreme Court determines the fate of genetically engineered beings - whether they're humans or animals - humanity learns that the law is truly a double edged sword. Delisa provides a first glimpse of a problem that does not yet exist, but one day will. we infuse plants with animal DNA, animals with plant DNA. When we start doing it to humans, what do they become?

On the day of his execution for the murder of his wife - a nanogeneticist ithe midst of developing a medical system that could cure nearly every disease and make death a thing of fables - a man confesses that he did not kill her because he was jealous of her accomplishments, but because her system was not the greatest gift humanity could ever have, but the greatest curse.

Locked in a vast and hopeless intergalactic war with a militarily superior species determined to turn all of humanity into their cattle, a military commander forges an alliance with the creatures' oldest enemy and learns that revenge is a dish best shared.

A woman learns that she is too close to the truth when she hypothesizes that the Earth is a super organism determined to either purge itself of humanity or pare it down substantially.