Civitas Media Llc: 56 books

WEIRD TALES Volume 7 contains 101 stories of horror, hauntings, the occult, the supernatural, the strange, and the outlandish.  May of these stories are from the pages of Weird Tales and other classic magazines which brought the work of masters like H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Robert...

The six novels of Palliser series follow the wealthy aristocrat and politician Plantagenet Palliser and his wife Lady Glencora.  Palliser is the heir to the Dukedom of Omnium, and his main ambition in life is to become the Chancellor of the Exchequer.  He later is asked to become Prime...

WEIRD TALES NOVELS Vol. 3 contains 20 complete novels of horror, hauntings, the occult, the Gothic, the supernatural, the strange, and the outlandish.  Ranging from classic to obscure, works from William Hope Hodgson, Mary Shelley, H.P. Lovecraft, Bram Stoker, Percy Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, and...

WEIRD TALES Volume 5 contains 101 stories of horror, hauntings, the occult, the supernatural, the strange, and the outlandish.  May of these stories are from the pages of Weird Tales and other classic magazines which brought the work of masters like H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Robert...

WEIRD TALES contains 101 stories of horror, hauntings, the occult, the supernatural, the strange, and the outlandish.  May of these stories are from the pages of Weird Tales and other classic magazines which brought the work of masters like H.P. Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn, Clark Ashton Smith,...

WEIRD TALES Volume 2 contains 101 stories of horror, hauntings, the occult, the supernatural, the strange, and the outlandish.  May of these stories are from the pages of Weird Tales and other classic magazines which brought the work of masters like H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Robert...

THE HEIMSKRINGLA (Old Norse, 'the Circle of the World') is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas, recounting the lives of famous Scandinavian kings.  First written about 1230 by Icelandic scholar and poet Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241), the HEIMSKRINGLA contains the sagas of 16 Norse...

Dick Haldane, the narrator of this story, although only just seventeen, had been appointed fourth officer of the S.S. 'Star of the North,' Captain Applegarth, from Liverpool to New York, the day before she sailed. One grand but stormy-looking evening, when the stearmer is rapidly nearing the Fastnet...

WEIRD SCIENCE FICTION TALES Volume 3 contains 101 classic stories of outer space, aliens, invasions, bizarre happenings and much more.  May of these stories are from the pages of Galaxy, If, and other classic magazines which brought the work of masters like Randall Garrett, H. Beam Piper, Philip...

THE COLLECTED NOVELS OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE Vol. II includes 18 novels by Victorian writer Anthony Trollope (1815-1882).  This volume includes the complete 'Palliser' series, and twelve other Trollope novels, written between 1865 and 1878.  Set in Victorian England, the novels follow the lives...

THE COLLECTED NOVELS OF ANTHONY TROLLOPE Vol. I includes 18 novels by Victorian writer Anthony Trollope (1815-1882).  This volume includes the complete 'Chronicles of Barsetshire' series, and twelve other early novels, written between 1847 and 1867.  Set in Victorian England, the novels...

VOICES OUT OF SLAVERY is a collection of twenty-three slave narratives dating from the early 1700s to the 1860s.  All of these first-hand accounts of slavery provide valuable insight into the everyday lives of slaves, as well as incredible and disturbing descriptions of kidnappings, torture,...

THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIES OF ELIZABETH GASKELL includes 26 short stories published by Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865).  While well known for novels such as MARY BARTON and NORTH AND SOUTH, Gaskell was also an accomplished short story writer, particularly of gothic ghost stories. ...

THE WEIRD FICTION OF CLARK ASHTON SMITH is a collection of twelve weird fiction tales by acclaimed short story writer Clark Ashton Smith.  Smith published extensively in WEIRD TALES magazine in the 1920s and 1930s, earning a lasting reputation as a writer of unusual fiction in the mode of H.P....