THE 83 VAN VOGT STORIES ON THIS SITE

Two very rich and very adventurous adventurers get mixed up in a violent intrigue involving huge mining rights on a faraway planet, and try to survive the complications that ensue with the aid of a new-fangled invisibility suit.
A golden-age space-opera kind of story with good pace and a neat twist at the end, that was initially published under the name of van Vogt’s wife E. Mayne Hull in the April 1943 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction , but that was credited to both A. E. van Vogt and (…)

First published in the November 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, this well-written wartime story, only ever republished in the sixties in a little anthology of van Vogt stories bizarrely and off-puttingly entitled Monsters (and Bug-Eyed Monsters — even worse ! — in the UK edition at the time), tells of confrontation and — yes ! — (eventual) cooperation between a group of isolated whale-fishermen in the northern seas and strange aliens desperately fighting a ferocious enemy that has (…)

An aircraft pilot on a critical war-time mission across the Atlantic is suddenly warned by a mysterious passenger that the flight is in mortal danger from enemy warcraft that have been informed of the flight’s secret contents and of its flight plan. The passenger turns out to possess extraordinary powers that are turned to good use to save the ship and the whole Allied war effort from catastrophe.
The Flight That Failed was credited to E. Mayne Hull (A. E. van Vogt’s wife) in the December (…)

A further selection of the master’s best stories from the post-golden-age part of his career.
With all of the original magazine illustrations. 1. RESEARCH ALPHA (1965) A ruthless doctor in a research lab secretly tries out his new serum for accelerating evolutionary development on two unsuspecting office workers, with variable but amazing results, astounding even the superiorly-intelligent aliens who are monitoring the lab’s results — and mankind’s progress in general — from behind the (…)

Our selection of the three most outstanding stories by the master after taking up writing new science-fiction stories again in 1963 after a 14-year hiatus.
1. ITSELF ! (1963) A militarised surveillance robot in the depths of the Pacific discovers an alien warship lurking in its vicinity and reacts violently to their presence. (1,000 words)
2. LOST : FIFTY SUNS (1972) A gigantic Earth battleship has appeared in the Greater Magellanic Cloud galaxy to search out the rebels from the Milky (…)

1. THE EXPENDABLES (1963) A spaceship on an exploration mission encounters crafty and powerful aliens who threaten to take over after they are brought on board – and a ferocious struggle breaks out in parallel among the ship’s leading officers for control of the ship. . (11,400 words)
2. THE REPLICATORS (1965) Steve Matlin is a particularly ornery farmer who comes across a very big alien monster on a back road near his farm, and as he was out on a hunting expedition he shot the thing. So (…)

1. JUGGERNAUT (1944) A wartime story inspired by the immense possibilities for both war and peace of new technological discoveries that were so rapidly reshaping the world in that crucial decade. (3,700 words)
2. THE SHIP OF DARKNESS (1948) When you do a time-travel jump into 3,000,000 A.D. you are going to have problems ! But things might just work out in the end . . . (6,600 words)
3. ROGUE SHIP (1950) IThe very wealthy and scientifically-minded hero learns that the spaceship that he (…)

An unusual ghost story with whodunit and time-conundrum elements, written during van Vogt’s Canadian days.
It was first published in the August 1942 issue of the bi-monthly magazine Unknown Worlds.
With the original Unknown Worlds illustrations by Orban.]]
(12,500 words)
An e-book is available for downloading below. 1. THE GHOST
One of the most unusual tales of haunting and ghosts we’ve seen—and one that might explain what ghosts really are— "Four miles," Kent thought, "four (…)

A young teacher comes to the seaside town where his great-grandmother was supposed buried, only to find the lady in good health although apparently capable of being in two places at the same time. The more he observes her, the more he begins to understand the mortal danger she represents for his young wife, whose body the old witch would like to be rejuvenated in at midnight on a certain day.
The Witch was first published in the February 1943 issue of Unknown Worlds.
With the original (…)

If you have ever wondered what strange, mysterious thoughts are lurking behind your cat’s impenetrable gaze, then you will be interested by the particularly remarkable cat in this quite brilliant golden-age van Vogt story.
It was initially published in the July 1947 issue of the magazine Fantasy Book.
(5,700 words) When an alien arrives on an inhabited planet, there is usually only one way that he can pass among the intelligent beings on that planet without being recognized… THE (…)