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The Strange High House In The Mist by H. P. Lovecraft "The Strange High House in the Mist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926. Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by...

The Worship of The Generative Powers by Thomas Wright "This work first appeared as the second half of the 1865 printing of A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus. Wright's extended essay on Phallic worship is distinguished by much better scholarship and writing than some of the other works...

The Hanged Poems Translated by F.E. Johnson and Sheikh Faiz-ullah-bhai Translations of the earliest (pre-Islamic) Arabic poetry known, poems originally displayed ("hanged") in the Kaaba, the holiest shrine of Mecca. THE Arabs are one of the most ancient races known to history....

THE SECOND HELVETIC CONFESSION "The Second Helvetic Confession Latin: Confessio Helvetica posterior gained a favourable hold on the Swiss churches, who had found the First Confession too short and too Lutheran. It was adopted by the Reformed Church not only throughout Switzerland but in...

Original Hebrew of a Portion of Ecclesiasticus by A.E. Cowley and A. Neubauer Includes the Alphabet of Ben Sira. "This is a scholarly monograph from the late 19th century on one of the Jewish non-canonical Biblical books, Sirach, also known as 'Ecclesiasticus,' not to be confused...

The Yacht Club by Oliver Optic "The Yacht Club" is the second volume of the Yacht Club Series, to which it gives a name; and like its predecessor, is an independent story. The hero has not before appeared, though some of the characters of "Little Bobtail" take part in the...

The Seven Tablets of Creation By Leonard William King "This is L.W. Kings' authoritative work on the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth. This text includes the complete introduction, and the English text of the Enuma Elish and other related texts, with selected footnotes. The Enuma...

The Trial of Christ by David K. Breed "The great fact, and the Eternal Fact, in the life of Jesus was his death, because of our sins, upon the Cross. This was the fact which St. Paul declared he preached to the Corinthians "first of all"; not that they were the first to hear...

The War Terror by Arthur B. Reeve This book "The War Terror" is part of series of 12 books of "Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective Series" The title story is anteresting as an adventure, in which a beautiful anarchist recruits Kenned to save the life of a German financier/spy...

The Sacred Fire by B.Z. Goldberg "There is a huge amount of academic 19th century literature relating to sacred sexuality. However, there are not many books which cover this subject matter for the general reader: this book is one of the few. Goldberg approaches the culturally sensitive...

Devil Worship in France by A.E. Waite Waite debunks the notorious Taxil hoax which falsely accused Freemasons of worshipping the Devil. In the late 1800's, Leo Taxil gained considerable fame with his stories and claimed "proof" of the "evils" of Freemasonry. Taxil...

The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg Vol. II J. Williams Ab Ithel (editor) "The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg is a collection of writings, largely forged, about ancient Welsh Bardic and Druidic beliefs. Although the author of this work is cited as J. Williams Ab Ithel, he was actually the editor, who...

The Gododdin Poems from The Four Ancient Books of Wales by William F. Skene The Gododdin Poems was first published in 1869 under the authorship of William F. Skene. The Gododdin (pronounced [go'doðin]) were a Brythonic people of north-eastern Britain (modern north-east England and south-east...

Novel Notes by Jerome K. Jerome When, on returning home one evening, after a pipe party at my friend Jephson's, I informed my wife that I was going to write a novel, she expressed herself as pleased with the idea. She said she had often wondered I had never thought of doing so before. " About...