The Halfling

‘The Halfling’ (1943). A beautiful alien dancer joins John Greene’s circus. And then the murders start… ‘The Dancing Girl of Ganymede’ (1950). A Terran adventurer down on his luck rescues a strange dancing girl from her would be assassins; his native helper does not like this. Only when he meets her brothers does he realizes what a mistake he made… ‘The Citadel of Lost Ages’ (1950). A 20th-century man is resurrected in the far future, once the Earth has stopped revolving around its axis and the mutated people from the nightside reign ‘All the Colors of the Rainbow’ (1957). One of the better stories in the collection, a tale of two odd-colored aliens lost in an unreconstructed Southern town is not very subtle, but interesting. ‘The Shadows’ (1952). A small expedition lands on a newly discovered planet and finds the ruins of the once dominant intelligent species that lived there, but who killed them? And what does their disappearance have to do with the strange