That Hell-Bound Train (1958) [Short Story]
by Robert Bloch
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When the Devil offered Martin the usual deal, all Martin asked for was the ability to stop time when he found contentment. But Martin always felt that better times were just around the corner until his time ran out. Or had it?
First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Original title: That Hell-Bound Train
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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy→ Allegorical And Bangsian
This work is a subwork of the following works :
Pleasant Dreams (1960) [Collection]
Author: Robert Bloch
More Nightmares (1961) [Collection]
Author: Robert Bloch
Best of Robert Bloch, the (1977) [Collection]
Author: Robert Bloch
Treasury of Modern Fantasy, a (1981) [Anthology]
Authors: Roger Zelazny
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Ray Bradbury
, Robert A. Heinlein
, Shirley Jackson
, Harlan Ellison
, Thomas M. Disch
, Keith Roberts
, James Blish
, Jack Vance
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Clark Ashton Smith
, Robert Bloch
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Abraham Merritt
, Eric Frank Russell
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, Philip José Farmer
, Michael Bishop
, Manly Wade Wellman
, Joanna Russ
, John Collier
, Donald A. Wollheim
, Fredric Brown
, R. A. Lafferty
, Anthony Boucher
, Edgar Pangborn
, Horace. L. Gold
, Zenna Henderson
, Richard Cowper
Fantasy Hall of Fame, the (1983) [Anthology]
Authors: Edgar Allan Poe
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Ambrose Bierce
, Ray Bradbury
, Harlan Ellison
, Lord Dunsany
, Michael Moorcock
, L. Sprague de Camp
, Jack Vance
, Robert E. Howard
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Clark Ashton Smith
, Robert Bloch
, Cyril M. Kornbluth
, Abraham Merritt
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, Manly Wade Wellman
Devils (1987) [Anthology]
Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
, Leo Tolstoy
, Charles Beaumont
, Robert Bloch
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Philip José Farmer
, Rick Hautala
, Fredric Brown
, Bruce Elliott
, Jerome Bixby
, Ray Russell
, Robert F. Young
, Theodore R. Cogswell
, Cornell Woolrich
, Brian Cleeve
, Stephen Vincent Benét
, Ruth Sawyer
, Winston K. Marks
Early Fears, the (1994) [Collection]
Author: Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch: Appreciations of the Master (1995) [Collection]
Author: Robert Bloch
Fantasy Hall of Fame, the (1998) [Anthology]
Authors: Ursula K. Le Guin
, Roger Zelazny
, Ray Bradbury
, Philip K. Dick
, Robert A. Heinlein
, Shirley Jackson
, Harlan Ellison
, Tanith Lee
, Lucius Shepard
, Peter S. Beagle
, Poul Anderson
, James Blish
, L. Sprague de Camp
, Jack Vance
, Clifford D. Simak
, Fritz Leiber
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Robert Bloch
, Robert Silverberg
, Theodore Sturgeon
, Avram Davidson
, J. G. Ballard
, Gene Wolfe
, Jorge Luis Borges
, R. A. Lafferty
, Anthony Boucher
, Horace. L. Gold
, Terry Bisson
, Margaret St. Clair
, Ted Chiang
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