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"The Black Fables" is the first collection of short stories by Ursula Coppolaro. As can be deduced from the title, the correct term would probably be "fable" instead of stories. Because this is Ursula...

The fog made the clothes of the men of the column in the roadway seem of a luminous quality. It imparted to the heavy infantry overcoats a new colour, a kind of blue which was so pale that a regiment...

There is a place uplifted nine thousand feet in purest air where one of the most ancient tracks in the world runs from India into Tibet. It leaves Simla of the Imperial councils by a stately road; it...

OVER the grim stone archway was carved the words: PARCERE SUBJECTIS In cold weather, and employing the argot of his companions Johnny Gray translated this as "Parky Subjects"—it certainly had no significance...

Elsewhere I have set down, for whatever interest they have in this, the 25th Century, my personal recollections of the 20th Century. Now it occurs to me that my memories of the 25th Century may have an...

In a previous record of my adventures in the early part of the Second War of Independence I explained how I, Anthony Rogers, was overcome by radioactive gases in an abandoned mine near Scranton in the...

I, Captain Daniel J. Hanley, chief meteorologist of the General Rocket Corporation, had no intention of going to Mars when I stepped into the new space car and pressed gently but with finality on the...

Strange apparitions, sound of chains and mournful cries: is it really ghosts? Some believe that in certain places the spirits of those who suffered a violent death still reside while and others think...

It is a good read that flows well and makes you dream. I believe that Demetrio’s goal is to take the readers to when they were teenagers, their first friendships, their first loves. And then persuade...

FIRST and foremost, my name, age, description, and occupation, as they say in the Police Gazette. Richard Hatteras, at your service, commonly called Dick, of Thursday Island, North Queensland, pearler,...

Sherlock Holmes Easy-English 3-in-1 Box Set is the first of the Easy-English box sets featuring the following Sherlock Holmes short stories The Blue Carbuncle Silver Blaze The Red-Headed League each...

The leader of the new breed, Robert James, is missing. The few remaining vampires are being picked off, one by one. Vampiress Elaine Sullivan is keeping her head down, working as a barmaid and trying...

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble...

Edith Wharton was one of the most famous American authors of the early 20th century. Wharton’s writings were known for their witty presentation on upper class society in America. This edition of The...

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by the Irish-born English author Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765 Laurence Sterne travelled...

Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy, in Somerset in England's West Country. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted,...

“I think I could be a good woman, if I had five thousand a year,” observes beautiful and clever Becky Sharp, one of the wickedest—and most appealing—women in all of literature. Becky is just one of the...

"A Singular Life" is a novel published in 1895 by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. It was the fourth highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. The book was published in a period when Americans...

Miss Minerva Winterslip was a Bostonian in good standing, and long past the romantic age. Yet beauty thrilled her still, even the semi-barbaric beauty of a Pacific island. As she walked slowly along the...

A mysterious disappearance......and the cat who must solve it. Tanzy has vanished outside their new home. With few clues, Scottie, a Tabby, must find and rescue the Calico before it's too late.  Out on...

Riverside, Ohio isn't your average small town. If I can be candid for a moment, (and I will be, because I like turtles) it's a weird fucking place. I've lived here since 1982 and I'll probably die here...

Fate And Destiny Will Bring Us Together...After learning about the beginning, we have to see this through. We ended up taking a side trip, met up with Little Dawn and got mixed up in a battle of epic...

Gothic novel, dark fantasy “Damned Beings. The Origin” is a coral novel which presents a gallery of supernatural characters in an urban, cruel and chaotic world. A tormented vampire, necromancers, demons...

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states,...

Prophet Nu? ibn Lamech ibn Methuselah known as Prophet Noah in the Old Testament, is recognized in Islam as a prophet and apostle of Allah (God). He is a highly important figure in Islamic tradition,...

The King in Yellow is a classic collection of short stories which has been described by critics such as E. F. Bleiler as a highly influential work in the field of the supernatural. The first four tales...

The cliffs rose sheer from the jungle, towering ramparts of stone that glinted jade–blue and dull crimson in the rising sun, and curved away and away to east and west above the waving emerald ocean of...

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal....

Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and their...

In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius;...