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The Fey have been with us since the beginning, sometimes to our great joy but often to our detriment. Usually divided (at least by us silly humans) into two courts, the first volume of A Chimerical World focuses on the Seelie Court: the court we humans seem to view as the “good” faeries. But “good”...

Issue #128 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by David Tallerman and Henry Szabranski.

Ten of the best Kipling stories, specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Adam Roberts, who also provides a critical analysis of the form and style of Kipling's work. This edition is part of the new Comma Classics series, launched to celebrate past masters of the short story with...

Ten of the best Mansfield stories specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Alison MacLeod who also provides a critical essay. This edition is part of the new Comma Classics series, launched to celebrate past masters of the short story with structural appreciations by contemporary practitioners. MacLeod’s...

From the age of steam and the heirs of Dr. Frankenstein to the asteroid belt to the halls of Miskatonic University, the writers at Book View Café have concocted a beakerful of quaint, dangerous, sexy, clueless, genius, insane scientists, their assistants (sometimes equally if not even more...

‘Tis the season of romance… Book View Café’s masters of romance offer a new selection of delectable tidbits to tantalize your taste for passion. Lovingly gathered into one convenient ebook, this array of samples from current romance and romantic novels by award-winning and bestselling...

In this new edition, Sean O'Brien introduces a selection of stories from the master of the American Gothic short story, as well as providing a critical analysis of the form and style of Poe's work. Featuring: 'Ms. Found In A Bottle', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Man of the Crowd The Oval...

Amidst the colourful backdrop of the roaring twenties, where money talked sweetly and seductively, a man of means and an appetite to match will pursue his sexual proclivities to true libertine proportions.  Our 30 something narrator recounts his sexual history, from naive youth to rakish gentleman,...

"being the experiences of Cecil Prendergast, undergraduate of the University of Oxford, shewing how he was led through the pleaseant paths of masochism to the supreme joys of Sadism"  Cecil meets Mrs Harcourt. Cecil finds he has a problem: Mrs Harcourt likes beating Cecil's bottom...

The Loves of a Musical Student is an amorous tale of unrequited love and emboldened passions. Skilled of finger, our young protagonist finds himself intimately involved with a number of naive but willing woman in his social circle, enough to partake in a spot of gamahuching and other delicious...

When I had got into bed or rather lain down upon my mattress on the ground, in my shift and drawers, for modesty’s sake, I asked Tania what had caused those weals. She laughed and said: “You are green! Olga’s little cane did that, and you’ll get the same if you don’t mind.”...

This classic of Victorian erotic flagellatory fiction recounts the wonderful ways in which Miss Sinclaire, headmistress of one of the most fashionable and expensive ladies schools in England, maintains discipline and order among its 50 curious and unruly students. By application of rod, birch, and...

At each fragment of flesh revealed, the men's ardour redoubled and soon amounted to blind, bestial rage. At last, having had everything torn from her with the exception of her chemise, she contrived by a supreme effort to free her quivering body, and got on her feet for a moment. Seized again, the...

As a young but precocious lady, Therese always suspected that there were pleasures to be had of the flesh. So when she espies her teacher Father Dirrag manipulating fellow student Eradice's buttocks with the 'Holy Rod', before copulating with the devout girl in the most lascivious of ways, Therese's...