The Horsham House Press: 322 books

Set in ancient Egypt, this is a tale of a dynastic line of priests, fighting for survival in a changing world. So she rose, and passing hand in hand through that chamber, we found ourselves face to face with a mighty door of granite, let down from the roof in grooves. Once more I took counsel...

A description of the rugged life in Alaska at the turn of the twentieth century. 'If the idea that Alaska is the "land of ice and snow" is gradually disappearing another idea just as erroneous seems likely to take its place. This is that Alaska is the "land of gold." While it is...

The ancient book recited by Buddhist monks over a dying or recently deceased person. When the cast of the dice of my life hath become exhausted, The relatives in this world avail me not; When I wander alone by myself in the Bardo, O ye Conquerors, Peaceful and Wrathful, exercising the power...

With that crash the floor shot from under their feet. Stumbling and clutching, the three, Marian, Rod, and the captain, pitched across the deck and landed in a heap against the rail. The lighted cabin seemed to rear straight up from the deck and lunge toward them. There was an uproar of shouts, a hideous pounding of machinery. Marian shut her eyes.

This is the story of Buck the dog, stolen from his home in California, and made to work in the brutal conditions of the Yukon as a sled dog.

A series of eleven Sherlock Holmes adventures including: Silver Blaze, The Yellow Face, The Stock-Broker's Clerk, The "Gloria Scott", The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Puzzle, The Crooked Man, The Resident Patient, The Greek Interpreter, The Naval Treaty, and The Final Problem.

A collection of twelve Sherlock Holmes stories, including: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the...

Six tales of terror, and six tales of mystery, including: The Horror of the Heights, The Leather Funnel, The New Catacomb, The Case of Lady Sannox, The Terror of Blue John Gap, The Brazilian Cat, The Lost Special, The Beetle-Hunter, The Man with the Watches, The Japanned Box, The Black Doctor, and The Jew's Breastplate.

A Sci Fi short story. 'The tremendous speed of the dive brought them so close that they could see the skeletons of wrecked ships piled up at the base of the precipice.' Written in the 1930s but set in the distant future, The Moon Destroyers tells the story of Holden and Erickson and humanity's struggle against a dangerous invader.

A novella about Allan Quatermain, adventurer extraordinaire. Instantly the whole place became alive with alarming sounds. In every direction troops of snorting buffaloes charged through the forest, wild with fright, while the injured bull on the further side of the bush began to bellow like...

Excerpt: “How many minutes he lay there Mr. Trimm didn't know. It may have been the shrieks of the victims or the glare from the fire that brought him out of the daze. He wriggled his body to a sitting posture, got on his feet, holding his head between his coupled hands, and gazed full-face into the crowning railroad horror of the year.”

A novella by adventure novelist H Rider Haggard, first published in 1911. What am I to look at? A small, white-haired man with a thin and rather plaintive face in which are set two large, dark eyes that continually seem to soften and develop. That is my picture. And what am I in the world?...

An historical sketch of life in the New York ghetto at the turn of the twentieth century. This volume looks at the people, places and rituals of the Jews within the context of social change and rapid industrialization.

A collection of six short stories first published in 1856, and includes: The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed, The Lawyer's Story of a Stolen Letter, The French Governess's Story of Sister Rose, The Angler's Story of The Lady of Glenwith Grange, The Nun's Story of Gabriel's Marriage, and The Professor's Story of The Yellow Mask.