The Forlorn Press: 11 books

In this follow up anthology to the popular Naughty Victoriana, The Forlorn Press delivers five more novels of vintage erotic fiction. As is to be expected of the erotica from that era, there is plenty of spanking, bondage, and much more. This collection is spiced up with a selection of period erotic...

"WAR is a racket. It always has been. "It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." Thus begins one of the most important...

Clarence "Tod" Robbins is best known for his short tales of the bizarre. However, his talent was not confined solely to human oddities and deranged criminals. This collection attempts to give the reader a full overview of his work. This book contains the most complete biography of Tod Robbins...

Most do not realize that women played a pivotal role in the development of science fiction. Even fewer know that feminist science fiction became popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection comprises a broad spectrum from this genre. Ten novels and short stories and two appendices...

This anthology contains eight tales of the bizarre by the French author, Guy de Maupassant. These eight stories are the strangest and most disturbing written by Maupassant. Also included is the essay, The Demise of Maupassant, which explores the author's descent into madness, internment into an asylum...

When one thinks of the late 19th century, images of prim and proper women and stiff-upper-lipped gentlemen strolling down the street cane in hand comes to mind. What one does not realize is that while things may have been so in public, in private it was another story. The Victorians produced tons...

This collection contains the bulk of Alma Newton’s work, as well as the only biography available for the obscure author. Newton wrote mystic fiction, with a touch of romanticism. Her style is particularly unique; all of her strange stories have dream-like quality that treads the borderlands between...

The aim of this anthology is to offer a variety of literature dealing with women, feminism, and religion. Some of the books are of a historical perspective of goddess worship, others of an more of a woman’s point of view, and a few deal with the occult. All are unabridged, include original illustrations...

This collection consists of thirteen stories by some of the best authors of speculative fiction. While they all feature ghosts, these are not traditional ghost stories. These tales are all unique and will stay with you long after you read them.   The anthology contains a biography...

This anthology contains the strangest nautical tales. These are not your typical ghost stories; rather, they walk the line between science, the supernatural, and the bizarre. These stories have everything from invisible sea monsters to rabies-infected crews turning the ship into a blood bath, odd...

“The Green Book,” a small, unassuming diary of a young girl; an unheard of book of the Talmud known as the “Tractate Middoth”; “The King in Yellow,” a play that drives people to insanity; two mysterious grey stone plaques from the sands of Chaldea known as the “Tablets of The Gods”;...