Pavanaz wants to become the new champion of the Big Game and win a million creds, but he’s stuck on rainy planet trying to raise the money just to travel to earth for the chance. In the short story “Gaddy’s Gloves”, he will stop at nothing to get there and win. After all, he is the best or is he?  In “Snarker’s Son”, a lost boy leads a policeman into a parallel universe where the lights go out at 10:30 and everyone is supposed to be off the streets. On the planet Ophiuchus members of the crew Starspike Explorer discover a tree fern that sings and wails when hurt but that doesn’t stop the experiments and two shuttle pilots disappear when investigating an alien craft. In Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space by Brian Lumley, these three stories appear plus many others published between 1970 and 2004. Each story has a brief introduction by Lumley that add insight to the reading. Some are pure fun while others are thought provoking and disturbing; these are stories that are enjoyable and hard to forget.