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In Andrew Lang's 'The Brown Fairy Book,' readers are invited to delve into a mesmerizing collection of lesser-known fairy tales from around the world. Known for his colorful storytelling and distinctive...

Andrew Lang's 'Letters to Dead Authors' is a collection of thought-provoking and insightful letters written to deceased literary figures. Through his letters, Lang delves into a variety of themes such...

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights,...

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections...

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition,...

The stories in the Fairy Books have generally been such as old women in country places tell to their grandchildren. Nobody knows how old they are, or who told them first. The children of Ham, Shem and...

ONCE upon a time there was a King in the North who had won many wars, but now he was old. Yet he took a new wife, and then another Prince, who wanted to have married her, came up against him with a great...

Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional sailor and the hero of a story-cycle of Middle Eastern origin; he is described as living in Baghdad, during the Abbasid Caliphate. During his voyages throughout the seas...

Table of Contents Preface TheArabian Nights The Story Of The Merchant And The Genius The Story Of The First Old Man And Of The Hind The Story Of The Second Old Man, And Of The Two Black Dogs The Story...

The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of “Shakespeare’s plays,” has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason...

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition,...

Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden. But, though the gardeners were many and the soil was good, this garden yielded neither flowers...

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia. These collections...

"The Arabian Nights" is the title which encompasses all of the Persian, Arabian and Indian folk tales which have made their way into western culture over hundreds of years. This collection was edited...

The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a...

The Animal Story Book  edited by Andrew Lang who  was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor. This book was published in 1896. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work...

TThere is something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness, and it has business opportunists, biological scientists and...

Bologna, 1575.A talented seamstressA powerful merchantA fierce battle of willsElena Morandi has gained a fragile foothold in the workshop of a master tailor, despite the profession being officially barred...

When gods war...Death is everywhere, Hopelessness. Despair. Dark Days.Fate has chosen her champions, and no one will expect what two children can do against the might of the Last God.They don't know it...

Summer and Ruari were the perfect childhood sweethearts. They did everything together, from book festivals to escape rooms, coastal walks to paintballing, and their love was the stuff of fairy tales....

Ette Durand's plans for the summer of 1964 take a surprising turn when Olympic swimming hopeful Dieter Norden comes to work at her parents' inn. Dieter draws crowds to him, but his relationship with Ette...

It was Fern Honeycutt's eyes that gave her away. Not witch. All demon.Her coven saw her as an abomination, handing her over to pure evil.She escaped, but a lone female is an easy target. When breeder...

April, 1941. At the former Whitechapel Road Underground station, repurposed as an air raid shelter since the onset of the Blitz, the body of a woman has been discovered, stabbed and eviscerated. With...

'Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell's novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row'' Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post'Grady is a master...

Lights, camera... action?Ainsley Beckett might be television's sweetheart, star of a dozen romantic movies and known the world over for her sweet-as-pie schoolmarm on hit historical TV show As The Heart...

When a blizzard strands Colby halfway up a mountain, the timing could hardly be worse. He's supposed to spend Christmas with his family—not trapped in a cabin with his best friend, snowed in without electricity...

Truth makes traitors out of even the most dutiful.Zanteera Island has a secret: it has two prisons. Vana, the one the world knows and fears, and an unnamed compound lined with comforts. Serving her National...

We know the truths men have forgotten… ‘Visceral, twisting, propulsive – Black Wood Women begs to be devoured’ Stacey Halls 'Grim and glorious' Daily Mail 'Visceral and unswerving’...

A gripping crime thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Cara Hunter. 'An atmospheric whodunnit you'll devour' Woman & Home 'A gripping and atmospheric...

It's not easy being the tallest woman in Ho Chi Minh City…just ask Kimmie Pham aka 'Kimmie Coconut Tree'. The staring. The not-so-clever names. The reluctance of eligible bachelors to ask her out. She...

A poignant, heart-wrenching, heart-filling celebration of, and testimony to, an Australia that has changed so much in a lifetime. Yet the raw emotions, loves, tragedies, every day-ness and splendid wonder...

Every cause has an effect. If you're walking with your eyes closed you'll eventually trip or walk into something. In life we have to live with the effects caused by our decisions or the decisions others...

Whoever wins the heart of the most eligible gentleman in London will need to be an extraordinary catch indeed. London, 1813—fae and humans alike are abuzz whenever Torquil's Tribune drops a juicy new...

Marco Serrano was raised to become the head of a crime family, but while his father prepared him to lead the Serrano family, he never knew that his son was gay. Marco has only ever entrusted two people...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern...

Working with high schoolers is hard, but harder still when they hide body parts under their beds. Nana's responsibility in supervising magical teens who need to hide their supernatural nature for the...

What would you do if you blinked and in that split second, the world changed?That's what happened to Jenna Robinson. The world was about to end. The bombs that exploded around Jenna ensured a global apocalypse....

Sparks fly between a half-cybernetic warrior and the no-nonsense pilot…ScytheQ, once a fierce warrior now living in a sleek half-cybernetic body, has spent years battling her own emotions. She was forced...

A LUXURY ISLAND RETREAT. A SERIAL KILLER ON THE PROWL. A RACE AGAINST DEATH. In a remote island hotel off the wild Oregon Coast, seven strangers gather for a writers' retreat. Among them is Asha Kade,...

An urban fantasy in three parts  featuring very unique triplets.The Grae Sisters is a three book collection of the following previously release titles. • Warden and the Assassin ~ I'm the sister you don't...

Jackson Kane is an unassuming figure as he pushes his mop across the scuffed floors of Eastbrook High School. A former military man, his sturdy frame and calloused hands hint at a life of discipline and...

A cozy fantasy tale of friendship, work, and going out into the world. Oh, and snow cones! When the Ice Elf Elbriarien Itamar—or just El, for short—fails to get her Mage Mark after her apprenticeship,...

A Christmas wedding at Edelweiss Inn may sound like the romantic ending of a fairy tale; but for Sandra and her lifelong friends it becomes a sequence of uncomfortable and often hilarious incidents which...

EJ inherited a royal treasure…but who will wear the crown?My specialty is guest lists and cocktails, not casting spells and hawking houseplants–but when I became heir to faery portal along with a plant...

Chris was a young man full of life, ready to seize every moment. But one fateful night at a party by the river, everything changed. When the enigmatic Angie is found dead the next morning, Chris becomes...

From Britney King, the bestselling author of HER and The Social Affair, comes a dark psychological thriller that will make you question the boundaries of trust and the depths of deception.They say love...