John Kendrick: 133 books

Christmas classics short stories are a collection of renowned Christmas tales which are admired throughout the world. Start reading to unlock the Christmas magic.

Tales of spooks and spirits that have taught generations of readers what it means to be afraid of the dark—by authors from H. G. Wells to Willa Cather.   Before movies, television, and teams of high-tech “ghost hunters” running around darkened houses, there was only one sure-fire way to scare...

Charon, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and as he paddled idly on he chuckled mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly in ferriage which in the course of years he had managed to build up.

I. THE CULINARY GUILD II. A SUGGESTION FOR THE CABLE-CARS III. THE TRANSATLANTIC TROLLEY COMPANY IV. THE INCORPORATION OF THE IDIOT V. UNIVERSITY EXTENSION VI. SOCIAL EXPANSION VII. A BEGGAR'S HAND-BOOK VIII. PROGRESSIVE WAFFLES IX. A CLEARING-HOUSE FOR POETS X. SOME ELECTRICAL SUGGESTIONS XI. CONCERNING CHILDREN XII. DREAMALINE

By the American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy, the school of fantasy writing that sets the plot wholly or partially in the afterlife.

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The middle-aged denizens of a boarding house engage in a futile battle of wits with the younger lodger at their meals.  

What would happen if master detective Sherlock Holmes sired a son with the daughter of one of his archenemies? That's the supposition at the center of R. Holmes & Co., which pits criminal mastermind Raffles against Holmes and goes on to tell the story of how Holmes fell for Raffles' daughter Marjorie, with whom he later had a child, the Raffles Holmes of the book's title.

It is a strange fact, for which I do not expect ever satisfactorily to account, and which will receive little credence even among those who know that I am not given to romancing— it is a strange fact, I say, that the substance of the following pages has evolved itself during a period of six months,...

It was a blistering night in August. All day long the mercury in the thermometer had been flirting with the figures at the top of the tube, and the promised shower at night which a mendacious Weather Bureau had been prophesying as a slight mitigation of our sufferings was conspicuous wholly by its absence....

Having recently passed into what my great-grandson Shem calls my Anecdotage, it has occurred to me that perhaps some of the recollections of a more or less extended existence upon this globular[1] mass of dust and water that we are pleased to call the earth, may prove of interest to posterity, and...

The work brilliantly depicts the creative phase of a writer. It spans the completion of a book and the great array of characters that remain around the author during the course of writing. The author takes the reader with him on a cruise rich in imagination. Intriguing!