Halcyon Press Ltd : 195 books

THE GOLDEN AGE OF PULP FICTION features 101 stories and novels popular during the heyday of the "pulps" during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This anthology includes science fiction, horror, ghost stories, weird fiction, action and adventures, mysteries, and humorous tales from...

The stories feature a man who searches for lost species -- animals not seen for centuries -- and as we follow him on these journeys we're introduced to a variety of amazing creatures including the half-man, half-amphibian called "the harbor master".

THE CLOUDS is revised version of a comedy first performed at the Dionysia in 423 BC, and revised by Aristophanes several years later.  The play satirizes intellectual fashions in classical Athens.  The original version has not survived. Aristophanes (c.446 BC - c.386 BC) was a...

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION STORIES is a collection of 350 scifi stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction.  Here you'll find stories by more than 100 authors, including works by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ben Bova, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Phillip K. Dick, Randall Garrett, Edmond Hamilton, Paul Ernst, Algis Budrys, Lester del Rey, and many others.  

THE COLLECTED WESTERNS OF G.W. OGDEN includes six westerns by journalist and western writer George Washington Ogburn.  This collection includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. THE RUSTLER OF WIND RIVER is an exciting tale of the attempts of the unscrupulous cattlemen...

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON AND OTHER STORIES includes twenty short stories by Jazz Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of THE GREAT GATSBY.  This collection is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. • The Jelly-Bean • The Camel's Back...

THE GOLDEN AGE OF PULP FICTION Volume 2 features 101 stories and novels popular during the heyday of the "pulps" during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This anthology includes science fiction, horror, ghost stories, weird fiction, action and adventures, mysteries, and humorous tales...

When a man has reached middle-age he generally feels with tenfold force the truth of those "sayings of the wise" which he learned in his early years, and has cause to regret, as well as wonder, that he had not all along followed their wholesome teaching. For it is to the young, who are about...

During Prince Pompadore of Pumperdink's birthday celebration a magic scroll is found inside his birthday cake. It warns him that if he doesn't wed a "proper princess" within seven days, his entire kingdom will disappear. The prince, along with the old, wise elephant Kabumpo, the Elegant...

Io, the daughter of Inachus, King of Argos, was beloved of Zeus. But Hera was jealous of that love, and by her ill will was Io given over to frenzy, and her body took the semblance of a heifer: and Argus, a many-eyed herdsman, was set by Hera to watch Io whithersoever she strayed. Yet, in despite...

SEVEN AGAINST THEBES tells of two brothers, Eteocles and Polynices, who agree to share the throne of Thebes.  After a year this arrangement breaks down, leading to fratricide and civil war. Aeschylus (c. 524 BC – c. 455 BC) was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose...

THE WASPS, dating to 422 BC, lampoons the law courts and the demagogue Cleon of ancient Athens. Aristophanes (c.446 BC - c.386 BC) was a comic playwright of ancient Athens.  Eleven of his approximately forty plays survive, providing modern understanding of the Old Comedy genre.  Little is known of his personal life.

THE BIRDS differs markedly from all the other Comedies of Aristophanes which have come down to us in subject and general conception. It is just an extravaganza pure and simple--a graceful, whimsical theme chosen expressly for the sake of the opportunities it afforded of bright, amusing dialogue,...

Chremylus, a poor but just man, accompanied by his body-servant Cario—the redeeming feature, by the by, of an otherwise dull play, the original type of the comic valet of the stage of all subsequent periods—consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed...