Lynch Mob! — Robert James Warner

The Lynch Mob is a collection of what Mr. Warner calls mini-novels, because they are too short to be called novels and too long to be called short stories. Some people call them novelettes. Mr. Warner prefers mini-novel as more accurate a description.The first story is 'CALBOT.' It's a story about a robot. Its name comes from: CALculator plus roBOT = Calbot. One of the first crime fighting robots.The second story is 'LYNCH MOB.' It is a science-fiction-fantasy story set in the old west of the 1870's in Southern California. The people in Creekville lynch a young man for robbing a store in town and shooting the proprietor. A short while later a nearby farmer comes to town and finds some fiend or fiends have lynched the entire town, men, women, and children. Who is responsible for such a brutal slaughter?! No one knows! Until later when the truth comes out!The third story is, 'THE TRUTH WILL OUT.' This is another of Mr. Warner's popular Krong the Watcher stories. A young man, trying to help his friend, who is accused of murdering his girl friend, goes to Krong and asks if he can get a truth serum which will prove the innocence of his friend. Krong agrees and makes a truth gas instead of a truth serum, which is easier to give to a person and then the trouble starts. Can the truth gas prove the man's innocence or guilt?The forth story is 'TOILETSEATITIS,' another popular Krong the Watcher story. It is a brilliantly humorous satire about whether a toilet seat should be up or down! A young man, fed up with all of the braindead screaming about toilet seats by fanatical females with nothing to do but keep their heads on the toilet, goes to Krong and asks him if he can build a devise which will enable women to stand up and go potty like a man? Krong says yes and agrees to make the devise, which he does then the hero of the story, Charley Downs, puts the devise on the market and the trouble starts, 'BIG BIG TROUBLE,' and from many many unexpected places!The fifth story is 'THE