Aegypan

The Lady with the Dog: the story of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker and a young lady he meets while vacationing in Yalta. The story comprises four parts: part I describes the initial...

A hundred years ago, churchmen in Lancashire set upon one another -- one sold his soul to the devil, and used his unfathomable power to send his rival to the gallows. The man he condemned died...

Included in this volume: "A Tale of London""Thirteen at Table""The City on Mallington Moor""Why the Milkman Shudders When He Perceives the Dawn" (also published in a chapbook)"The Bad Old Woman in...

They are nearly 18 miles from Fort Henry and they worry for their lives. Fortunately, for them, Jonathan Zane and his companion were dispatched by Colonel Zane to search for them and they reach Fort...

. . . . They are nearly 18 miles from Fort Henry and they worry for their lives. Fortunately, for them, Jonathan Zane and his companion were dispatched by Colonel Zane to search for them and they...

So it must also come from those members of the Blakeney family in whose veins runs the blood of that Sir Percy Blakeney -- who is known to history as the Scarlet Pimpernel -- for they in a manner are...

Citizen Chauvelin, of the Committee of Public Safety, presents citizen Fouquier-Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, with the most extraordinary claim: "The dangerous English spy known to the world as...

Citizen Chauvelin, of the Committee of Public Safety, presents citizen Fouquier-Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, with the most extraordinary claim: "The dangerous English spy known to the world as...

"It isn't so bad," says one of the men who are with you inside this ultimate room. "Fifty years from now, the rest of us will all be old, or dead."And then you're waking again, and you think, Fifty...

Long ago, a human infant was abandoned in a bewitched woodland. Taking up the boy, the nymph Necile raised him among her fellow immortals -- beginning the strange and wondrous tale of one who would...

Long ago, a human infant was abandoned in a bewitched woodland. Taking up the boy, the nymph Necile raised him among her fellow immortals -- beginning the strange and wondrous tale of one who would...

THE LIGHT PRINCESS When the Light Princess was born, somebody screwed up an invitation to her christening and left out her evil aunt. Who was a witch! That evil aunt vented her spleen by casting a...

THE LIGHT PRINCESS When the Light Princess was born, somebody screwed up an invitation to her christening and left out her evil aunt. Who was a witch! That evil aunt vented her spleen by casting a...

Nobody really wrote most of the stories. People told them in all parts of the world long before Egyptian hieroglyphics or Cretan signs or Cyprian syllabaries, or alphabets were invented. They are...

Nobody really wrote most of the stories. People told them in all parts of the world long before Egyptian hieroglyphics or Cretan signs or Cyprian syllabaries, or alphabets were invented. They are...

Having bested Higg and forced him to post bond of fifty thousand pounds as a promise of good behavior, "Jimgrim" must now help Higg if he wants him to hold to the agreement. He must take his force of...

This book tells the tale of Eric, an orphan forced to work long hours in a cannery until one morning he decides to explore the woods behind the factory. That morning began no differently from any...

This book tells the tale of Eric, an orphan forced to work long hours in a cannery until one morning he decides to explore the woods behind the factory. There he finds refuge and love at the home of...

Marco and his father Stefan come to London where Marco becomes friends with The Rat. Stefan, realizing that two boys are less likely to be noticed, entrusts them with a secret mission to travel...

Marco and his father Stefan come to London where Marco becomes friends with The Rat. Stefan, realizing that two boys are less likely to be noticed, entrusts them with a secret mission to travel...

Cayke the Cookie Cook has lost the Diamond Dishpan! And Toto has lost his growl! But the Magical Kingdom of Oz suffers a more staggering loss: for Ozma is gone. Dorothy rushes to the Magic Picture,...

Cayke the Cookie Cook has lost the Diamond Dishpan! And Toto has lost his growl! But the Magical Kingdom of Oz suffers a more staggering loss: for Ozma is gone. Dorothy rushes to the Magic Picture,...

Throughout his adult life, Blackwood was an occasional essayist for various periodicals. During his late thirties, he relocated back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He...

Throughout his adult life, Blackwood was an occasional essayist for various periodicals. During his late thirties, he relocated back to England and started to write stories of the supernatural. He...

In 1868, Bret Harte published "The Luck of Roaring Camp" in the Overland Monthly, a new publication from San Francisco of which Harte himself was the first editor. Intended to be a competitor to the...

Day after day Philip goes on with his building, putting into it almost everything you can think of.He makes steps of the dominoes, and a terrace of the domino-box. He gets bits of wood from the...

"Though Aleister Crowley served as the model for Oliver Haddo, it is by no means a portrait of him. I made my character more striking in appearance, more sinister and more ruthless than Crowley ever...

"Though Aleister Crowley served, as I have said, as the model for Oliver Haddo, it is by no means a portrait of him. I made my character more striking in appearance, more sinister and more ruthless...

There is a man who has lost his wife and daughter. He is the sole survivor in the accident and feels great guilt. And in this guilt, he begins to drink more and more each day. Then one day as the man...

The papers which form this autobiography were originally published in The Outlook, the chapter telling of my going "home to mother" in The Churchman, and parts of one or two others in The Century...