El convector Toynbee

Most of these twenty-three stories begin in the familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives and almost immediately transport us to the most extreme dimensions of the imagination: a man invents an impossible and effective time machine; a World War I veteran conjures up a ghostly army of paratroopers; a man returns to his childhood home and stumbles upon the chilling cause of his fear of the dark; a lonely Martian seeks music and company where he may find his death; Two residents of Green Town, Illinois discover that a mummy can end boredom forever...