The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics

By Arthur Conan Doyle, Ambrose Bierce, Harold W. Kuebler, Edgar Allan Poe

Subjects: inquests, coroners, Science fiction, mountain lions, short stories, horror tales, horror

Description: The Treasury of Science Fiction Classics is an anthology of science fiction stories, edited by Harold E. Kuebler, published in hardcover by Hanover House in 1954 with dust jacket art by Richard Powers. A Science Fiction Book Club edition followed later that year, but the volume has not otherwise been reprinted. J. Francis McComas, writing in The New York Times, panned the anthology as "the most routine of scissors-and-paste jobs, done without any editorial skill whatsoever." P. Schuyler Miller similarly declared "I don't, for the life of me, know who this anthology is for", faulting its editor's selection of "overly familiar," sometimes "archaic" stories. The Conversation of Eiros & Charmion (1839) story by E.A. Poe The Star (1897) story by H.G. Wells When Worlds Collide (1933) excerpt by Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer The Maracot Deep (1929) novel by Arthur Conan Doyle Round the Moon excerpt by Jules Verne The Last Terrestrials (1930) excerpt by Olaf Stapledon The Machine Stops (1909) novelette by E.M. Forster R.U.R. (1921) shortfiction by Karel Capek Brave New World) (1932) excerpt by Aldous Huxley Invasion from Mars (1938) shortfiction by Howard Koch Edison's Conquest of Mars (1898) story by Garrett P. Serviss The Martians (1930) excerpt by Olaf Stapledon The Time Machine (1895) novel by H.G. Wells The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922) novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Rat (1929) story by S. Fowler Wright [Damned Thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W) (1893) story by Ambrose Bierce Mr Strenberry's Tale (1930) story by J.B. Priestley