In 1780s London, brilliant anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone must investigate his rival, Dr. John Hunter, who, going to any lengths to obtain the body of the "Irish Giant" for his research, has been implicated in the murder of a young castrato.

Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals.

Poet Christopher Snow, a man who cannot stand daylight, teams up with his genetically engineered dog, Orson, to investigate the abduction of children in Moonlight Bay, California. The children are believed to be prisoners in an army base populated by intelligent animals, produced by scientific experiments. Snow and Orson penetrate the base to search for them. A sequel to Fear Nothing.

A couple with financial problems decides to undergo the procedure of shrinking their bodies to a height of five inches to be able to live an easy and care-free life but the wife changes her mind after her husband has already been downsized and now he has to build his new life alone.

Charlene 'Charlie' McGee is a child who has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency, 'The Shop, ' that wants her destroyed?

Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.

After a motorcycle accident, Tetsuo is taken away to a military lab, and when his friend Kaneda tries to rescue him, he discovers that Tetsuo has been the victim of an extreme experiment.

A comic tribute to Frankenstein films, in which young Dr. Frankenstein is summoned to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, where he finds a step-by-step manual on how to bring a corpse to life.

It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...

Consists primarily of edited translations of articles which originally appeared in German in the journal: