Mad Scientists
The Not-So-Crazy Work of Amazing Scientists

This is a wonderful collection of stories. To be honest, not all are about "mad" scientists, though most do have scientists (some mad, some not) as protagonists. But it's a fun read with some classic and some little known stories. Some of the best names in the science fiction and horror field are re......more

I've always loved the "literary pulp" era from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, when authors like Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King wrote increasingly challenging and ambitious, literary but "genre" based, short stories for the men's magazines and anthologies of their era. As a teenager and......more

Summary: A niche collection of stories, but you'll find something to like if science fantasy is your thing. I can't speak for a veteran fan of the genre, but as a novice to horror, I found some of these tales to be chilling. The best aspect about this anthology is the variety, which Schiff details in......more

The pieces in this collection are mainly from the early- to mid-1900s, which is perhaps my favorite era of science fiction prose. No two 'mad scientists' are alike in these stories - some you laugh at, some you recoil from. To my jaded, 21st-century mind the science-based plots weren't particularly......more