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**Asimov's Ghosts**
Ghosts - essay by Isaac Asimov
Lost Hearts - short story by M. R. James
On the Brighton Road - short story by Richard Middleton
Poor Little Saturday - short story by Madeleine L'Engle
The Lake - short story by Ray Bradbury
A Pair of Hands - short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
An Uncommon Sort of Spectre - short story by Edward Page Mitchell
The House of the Nightmare - short story by Edward Lucas White
The Shadowy Third - novelette by Ellen Glasgow
The Twilight Road - short story by H. F. Brinsmead
The Voices of El Dorado - short story by Howard Goldsmith
The Changing of the Guard - short story by Anne Serling and Rod Serling (variant of Changing of the Guard 1985) [as by Anne Serling]
**Asimov's Monsters**
The Power of Evil - essay by Isaac Asimov
Homecoming - short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming 1946)
Good-by, Miss Patterson - short story by Phyllis MacLennan
The Wheelbarrow Boy - short story by Richard Parker
The Cabbage Patch - short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
The Thing Waiting Outside - short story by Barbara Williamson
Red As Blood - short story by Tanith Lee
Gabriel-Ernest - short story by Saki
Fritzchen - short story by Charles Beaumont
The Young One - novelette by Jerome Bixby
Optical Illusion - short story by Mack Reynolds
Idiot's Crusade - short story by Clifford D. Simak
One for the Road - short story by Stephen King
Angelica - short story by Jane Yolen
About the Author
Isaac Asimov
Asimov was born sometime between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in Smolensk Oblast, RSFSR (now Russia), the son of a Jewish family of millers. Although his exact date of birth is uncertain, Asimov himself celebrated it on January 2. His family emigrated to Brooklyn, New York and opened a candy store when he was three years old. He taught himself to read at the age of five. He began reading the science fiction pulp magazines that his family's store carried. Around the age of eleven, he began to write his own stories, and by age nineteen, he was selling them to the science fiction magazines. He graduated from Columbia University in 1939. He married Gertrude Blugerman in 1942. During World War II he worked as a civilian at the Philadelphia Navy Yard's Naval Air Experimental Station. After the war, he returned to Columbia University and earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1948. He then joined the faculty of the Boston University School of Medicine until 1958, when he became a full-time writer. His first novel, [Pebble in the Sky](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46402W), was published in 1950. He and his wife divorced in 1973, and he married Janet O. Jeppson the same year. He was a highly prolific writer, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 9,000 letters and postcards.
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