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Tea-Table Talk by Jerome K Jerome As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glittering sort Mr. Jerome employs in some of his other books." It takes the form of imaginary conversations between...

Gisli the Outlaw by George Webbe Dasent FROM THE ICELANDIC WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. E. ST. JOHN MILDMAY --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

THE BURIAL OF THE RATS by Bram Stoker The Burial of the Rats is a short story by Bram Stoker. About The Author:- Bram Stoker was born Abraham Stoker on November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland, to father Abraham Stoker and mother Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker. He was one...

A Book Of Saints And Wonders by Lady Gregory "The volume is divided into 'books', one each allotted to the doings and lives of Saints Brigit, Columcille, Patrick, and Brendan the Navigator (who voyaged to the promised land). The last two books are more mythical, one dealing with the fabulous...

The Scouts Of The Valley by Joseph A. Altsheler A light canoe of bark, containing a single human figure, moved swiftly up one of the twin streams that form the Ohio. The water, clear and deep, coming through rocky soil, babbled gently at the edges, where it lapped the land, but in the center...

The Cloud of Unknowing ed. by Evelyn Underhill "The Cloud of Unknowing is a practical spiritual guidebook thought to have been written in the 14th century by an anonymous English monk who counsels a young student to seek God not through knowledge but through love. The book, which...

THE CHAIN OF DESTINY by Bram Stoker While Frank is boarding at Mrs. Trevor’s home, she decides to play matchmaker between him and another boarder, Diana Fothering. While Frank has not yet met the young lady, he is assured of her beauty by means of a painting in his room that she strongly...

PRIAPEIA-sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus translation by Leonard C. Smithers and Sir Richard Burton The Priapeia, now for the first time literally and completely translated into English verse and prose, is a collection of short Latin poems in the shape of jocose epigrams affixed to...

"From Beyond" is a short story by science fiction and horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920. The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates...

CROOKEN SANDS by Bram Stoker "Crooken Sands" is a short story by Bram Stoker. About The Author:- Bram Stoker was born Abraham Stoker on November 8, 1847, in Dublin, Ireland, to father Abraham Stoker and mother Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker. He was one of seven...

The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg Vol. I by J. Williams Ab Ithel This is the master page for the two volumes of the Barddas of Iolo Morganwg located at this site. "The Barddas of Iolo Morganwg is a collection of writings, largely forged, about ancient Welsh Bardic and Druidic beliefs....

Greek Popular Religion by Martin P. Nilsson "This is a short survey of Greek religious practice and beliefs from ground level. The texts of Homer, Hesiod, and the Greek dramatists and philosophers, who defined Greek beliefs, have long been known and understood. There is a conventional...

The Cost Of Kindnessby Jerome K. Jerome The Cost of Kindness is a short story by Jerome K. Jerome. About The Author :- Jerome K. Jerome, born on May 2, 1859, in Staffordshire, England, was an actor and teacher before becoming a popular novelist with The Idle Thoughts of an Idle...

"Hypnos" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, penned in March 1922. Hypnos is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved...