Ever since we (Bard and Long) took over, each issue of the zine included a tale of transformative fiction from the honored past -- the TSAT Classic. Here is an index of every Classic we presented, complete with links to each Classic and to the issue in which it appears.
| 19 | City of the Singing Flame |
| by Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961): A close encounter with the Unknown -- and what lies beyond. | |
| 20 | The Shadow and the Flash |
| by Jack London (1876-1916): Two implacable competitors with one common goal; can either one triumph? | |
| 21 | In the Days of the Comet [excerpt] [entire book] |
| by H.G. Wells (1866-1946): What happened when a comet's tail enveloped the Earth -- and after. | |
| 22 | The Shadow Over Innsmouth |
| by H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937): Not all the secrets revealed by genealogical research are pleasant ones. | |
| 23 | The New Accelerator |
| by H.G. Wells (1866-1946): Suppose you could make Time stand still? | |
| 24 | Laura |
| by Saki (1870-1916): The lengths to which some people will go -- why, it's absolutely beastly! | |
| 25 | The Light Princess |
| by George MacDonald (1824-1905): Paradox though it be, 'tis a serious thing indeed to lose one's gravity. | |
| 26 | The Parasite |
| by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle (1859-1930): "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." | |
| 27 | The Mark of the Beast |
| by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): In which a drunk's disrespectful jest has unusual consequences. | |
| 28 | The Haunted Author |
| by Marcus Clarke (1846-1881): Every walk of life, fictionmongering included, has its occupational hazards... | |
| 29 | Dr. Heidegger's Experiment |
| by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864): The young aren't the only ones youth is wasted on. | |
| 30 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [excerpt] [entire book] |
| by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898): One oughtn't pursue rabbits -- except, of course, those with waistcoats and pockets! | |
| 31 | A Christmas Carol |
| by Charles Dickens (1812-1870): If you've only seen the movie, you don't really know this tale of redemption. | |
| 32 | A Victim of Higher Space |
| by Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951): Knowledge can be dangerous, true, but ignorance isn't safe either... | |
| 33 | The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap |
| by Lord Dunsany (1878-1957): As the saying goes: "Neurotics build castles in the air..." | |
| 34 | The Six Swans |
| ed. by Andrew Lang (1844-1912): A story of love... and betrayal... and truly excellent timing. | |
| 35 | The Odyssey [excerpt] [entire book] |
| by Homer (? BC): In which Ulysses' homeward progress is delayed by a witch named Circe... | |
| 36 | The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar |
| by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): Piercing the veil of gossip that surrounds an attempt to pierce a rather different veil. | |
| 37 | Inferno [excerpt] [Inferno] [Purgatorio] [Paradiso] |
| by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): One more stop on the world's most famous guided tour of Hell. | |
| 38 | Lady Into Fox |
| by David Garnett (1892-1961): The marriage vows say "in sickness and in health", but never yet "in corpus inhuman"... | |
| 39 | The Shadow |
| by Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875): No good deed goes unpunished, as they say. | |
| 40 | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde |
| by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894): An exploration of the ineffable connection betwixt body and soul. | |
| 41 | The Magic of Oz [excerpt] [entire book] |
| by L. Frank Baum (1856-1919): Even in a magical fairyland, you can't escape politics or envy... | |
| 42 | The Man That Was Used Up |
| by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): Dear me! whatever could the Brevet Brigadier General's secret have been? | |
| 43 | The Golden Ass [excerpt] [entire book] |
| by Lucius Apuleius (approx. 123-170): Hard luck doesn't come any harder than the unwanted result of a miscast spell. | |
| 44 | The Mabinogion [excerpt] [entire book] |
| by an unknown bard or bards: Hark to the history of Pwyll Prince of Dyved... | |
| 45 | The Picture of Dorian Gray [excerpt] [entire book] |
| by Oscar Wilde (1800-1850): Sometimes, beauty is no deeper than a palette knife. | |
| 46 | The Tale of a Thousand Nights and a Night [excerpt] [entire book] |
| trans. by Cpt. Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-1890): Be it Allah's will, thee shall and must wear the rude form of an ape... | |
| 47 | Genesis |
| by H. Beam Piper (1904-1964): Be it Allah's will, thee shall and must wear the rude form of an ape... | |
| 48 | Metamorphoses [book 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15] |
| by Ovidius Naso (43 BC-17 AD): The world-renowned classic of transformational literature. | |