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The Lurking Fear by H. P. Lovecraft "The Lurking Fear" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft in the horror fiction genre. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. Comparing it to Lovecraft's earlier story in Home...

The Duties Of The Heart by Rabbi Bachye, Tr. by Edwin Collins This slim volume translates from the Rabbi Bachye, who wrote one of the first systematic treatments of philosophical Ethics in 12th century Spain. This was during a period of Jewish intellectual cross-fertilization with Islamic culture....

How I Found the Lost Atlantis, The Source of All Civilization by Dr. Paul Schliemann "On October 20th, 1912, readers of the New York American were regaled with a startling and perhaps history-making story in a lavish two-page spread. Paul Schliemann, grandson of Heinrich Schliemann, the...

A Wanderer In The Spirit Lands by Franchezzo (A. Farnese) A classic true story of the afterlife, and of a love that flourishes beyond the grave. Written through the psychic medium A. Farnese in 1896, Wanderer is the true autobiography of Franchezzo, an Italian socialite who squanders his life...

Letter to Menoeceus by Epicurus Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and...

Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer by Angelus Silesius "It is the dream of every publisher to hit upon a project that will win praise for contributing to the intellectual and cultural life." John B. Breslin, Theology Today In one series, the original writings of the universally...

The Crocodile by Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Crocodile" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story relates the events that befall one Ivan Matveich when he, his wife Elena Ivanovna, and the narrator visit the Arcade to see a crocodile that has been put on display by a German entrepreneur....

"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. About The Author :- Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is...

The Science of Right by Immanual Kant translated by W. Hastie The Science of Right has for its object the principles of all the laws which it is possible to promulgate by external legislation. Where there is such a legislation, it becomes, in actual application to it, a system of positive right...

Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. III by J. F. Campbell This is the third of four volumes of Campbell's collection of Scottish folklore. This volume is less 'fairy tale' oriented than the previous two volumes, and includes several significant pieces of poetry, including the The Lay...

Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory by Duncan B. MacDonald A survey of the history of Islamic thought, by a sympathetic Western scholar. IN human progress unity and complexity are the two correlatives forming together the great paradox. Life is manifold,...

Jesus, The Last Great Initiate by Edouard Schuré Contents: Condition of the World at the Birth of Jesus; Mary-First Development of Jesus; The Essenes-John the Baptist-The Temptation; The Public Life of Jesus-Popular and Esoteric Instruction-Miracles-Apostles-Women; Struggle with the Pharisees-Flight...

In The Seven Woods by W. B. Yeats A short book of poetry and a play by Yeats on Irish mythological themes. "In the Seven Woods is a volume of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1904. This is the first book of Yeats' "middle period," in which he eschewed...

Drums and Shadows by Mary Granger The African Negro, introduced as a slave into Virginia in 1619, had been a part of the plantation life of the older colonies of America for more than a century before the Colony of Georgia was founded in 1733. Almost two decades passed before the Trustees of...