"Science and Sorcery: A Collection of Alarming Tales," by Jeffery Scott Sims, is a new volume of short stories in the vein of the fantastic and the terrifying. It contains fifteen imaginative works--eerie, grotesque, nightmarish--among them adventures of the popular characters Professor Anton Vorchek and Jacob Bleek, the latter the hero of the author's recent novel, "The Journey of Jacob Bleek."