“The satire is so gentle, the philosophy so devoid of bitterness, the whole story so charmingly poetical, that it is a joy to read it.”—The Literary Digest, 1922“It is a good deal more than classical;...

He is not dead; but there are worse things than death...When his father goes missing on the mystical isle of Aea, Amphion knows something must be done. Convinced that the island’s mistress—the vindictive...

Sulky and obstinate, Typhon is not the son his well-to-do Athenian parents think he should be. Not knowing what else to do, they reach out to their friends Epicurus and Menander, the great Hellenic philosophers...

When the tall, dark, handsome young millionaire Maurice Courlander closes the grounds of his sprawling estate for a full year his friends in London and neighbors in Bedfordshire were confused. But when...

In the first days of spring in ancient Greece, the faun Coix falls for the most terribly beautiful creature he’s ever beheld: the shepherd’s daughter Iole. Despite Coix’s best efforts, she chooses a mere...

An Amoral Mad Scientist and His Quest for Scientific JusticeDr. Faraday Heron: brilliant academic, nuclear research pioneer, loner, envious younger son . . . murderer.He may have grown up in his brother’s...

A Cornerstone of Early British Sci-FiIt arrived in the wee hours of the morning. Had an express train derailed? Were the Germans bombing the British countryside again? The truth was beyond Professor Toddleben’s...

The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts, published in 1921, is a gothic mystery novel centered around a haunted room in an old English manor. The novel blends suspense, supernatural elements, and psychological...