William Morris - The House of the Wolfings

William Morris - The House of the Wolfings

His fascination with ancient Germanic and Norse people dominated his writings, the first to be set in an entirely invented fantasy world and which helped to establish the fantasy genre. 

The House of Wolfings, it tells the story of how Thiodolf and his clan - the Wolfings - fight and vanquish the Roman invaders. The book is built with Morris' knowledge of the historical period and his own idealistic views, which allow him to combine facts and mythical elements. Thiodolf is protected by a dwarfish coat of mail, given to him by his lover Wood Sun, herself one of the Vala, the immortals. But things are not what they seem and what is meant to protect him, is also a curse... 

In a letter, Tolkien referred to The Lord of the Rings when he wrote, “The Dead Marshes and the approaches to the Morannon owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans, as in The House of the Wolfings or The Roots of the Mountains.”

Pages: 260
ISBN: 9781365205101

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Arthur Morrison - The Shadows Around Us

The Shadows Around Us - Authentic Tales of the Supernatural

The incidents set forth in the ensuing pages are as completely testified to as written facts well may be—that is to say, infinitely more care has been taken to verify and substantiate them than is taken to authenticate the matter-of-fact news published in a daily newspaper and accepted by everybody without question. For several of the cases the compiler is indebted to the investigations of the Society for Psychical Research.

THE VAULT AT AHRENSBURG,
THE LICHWAKE AT MONIFIETH,
THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF MR. ROBERT BRUCE,
THE WRAITH OF FRANCIS TANTUM,
THE APPARITION OF LIEUTENANT COLT,
THE STRANGE CASE OF ESTHER T——,
THE POLTERGEIST OF LEIGNITZ CASTLE,
THE BINSTEAD MYSTERY,
THE TRANSLATION OF MAURICE TULLING,
THE HAUNTED HOUSE AT WILLINGTON,
NO. 15 ST. SWITHIN'S LANE, T
HE STRANGE CASE OF EMÉLIE SAGÉE,
THE HAUNTING OF WILLIAM MOIR,
CURIOUS INCIDENT AT BEAUMARIS,
A DOUBLE CASE

Pages: 116
ISBN: 9781365205255

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Charles Williams - Shadows of Ecstasy

SHADOWS OF ECSTASY
Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making them believable and profoundly suggestive of spiritual truths. Shadows of Ecstasy tells of a mysterious invasion that threatens Europe from Africa. United in a fanatic crusade against death, the spiritual powers of the "Dark Continent" rise up with exultant paganism.

A humanistic adept has discovered that by focusing his energies inward he can extend his life almost indefinitely. He undertakes an experiment using African lore to die and resurrect his own body thereby assuring his immortality. His followers begin a revolutionary movement to supplant European civilization.

Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781365205170

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Charles Williams - Descent into Hell

Charles Williams - Descent into Hell

In a town preparing to put on a play by the celebrated Mr Stanhope, several people wrestle with inner and possibly outer demons. A poor loser of a man hangs himself, but his ghost still wanders the streets. A young girl fears what will happen when she meets her doppelganger, the one who comes closer and closer each time she sees her. A man jilted in love meets a succubus. And a grandmother hovers between life and death.

Generally thought to be Williams's best novel, Descent into Hell deals with various forms of selfishness, and how the cycle of sin brings about the necessity for redemptive acts.

Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781329979925

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Charles W Diffin - Dark Moon – The Complete Trilogy

Charles W Diffin - Dark Moon – The Complete Trilogy

Dark Moon - Mysterious, dark, out of the unknown deep comes a new satellite to lure three courageous Earthlings on to strange adventures.

Brood of the Dark Moon - Once more Chet, Walt and Diane are united in a wild ride to the Dark Moon - but this time they go as prisoners of their deadly enemy Schwartzmann.

The Finding of Haldgren - Chet Ballard answers the pinpoint of light that from the craggy desolation of the moon stabs out man's old call for help.

Pages: 420
ISBN: 9781329979888

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Edith Nesbit - Harding's Luck

Harding's Luck is sequel to E. Nesbit's "The House of Arden". It tells the story of Dickie Harding, a disabled boy, who one day accidentally discovers an old magic, that allows him to travel into his own past. There he meets Elfrida and Edred Arden (as told in "The House of Arden") and together they seek for a long lost treasure.

With the assistance of the magical Mouldiwarp, they travel back in time to earlier periods of English history, searching for clues.

A great favorite of Nesbit fans; it's a story of injustice, poverty, deformity, magic, romance, suspense, sacrifice, and triumph over adversity that comes to its point with a fateful twist.

Pages: 236
ISBN: 9781329979970

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Robert E Howard - Conan the Conqueror

Conan the Conqueror – The Hour of the Dragon by Robert E Howard

Conan the Cimmerian: he rose from boy-thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the barbarian warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legendary Hyborian Age. Collected together for the first time anywhere in the world, in chronological order, are all Robert E. Howard's definitive stories of Conan, exactly as he wrote them, as fresh, atmospheric and vibrant today as when they were first published in the pulp magazines more than sixty years ago.

Conan is besieged by enemies! Xaltotun, an ancient sorcerer attacks the Kingdom of Aquilonia! The only way to defeat him is to retrieve the Heart of Ahriman!

This is the only novel by Howard featuring his Conan character.

Pages: 244
ISBN: 9781329980037

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Caspak

Caspak by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Land that Time Forgot - In the South Pacific is a mountainous island called Caspak. Winged humanoid creatures, dinosaurs, ferocious beasts of prey, Neanderthals, "wild ape-men," and monstrous reptiles terrorize each other, and the mixed crew of WW 1 adventurers fight across the island. 

The People that Time Forgot - Ex-cowboy Tom Billings leads a rescue mission to save Bowen Tyler, the protagonist of The Land That Time Forgot. In the midst of hair-raising adventures, he has more trouble keeping his own skin intact than in finding his friend. 

Out of Time’s Abyss - The Lost world saga continues. It connects the previous two installments, bringing in characters introduced in each. Burroughs completes the revelation of his lost world's unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system forms a thematic element serving to unite the three Caspak stories

Pages: 316
ISBN: 9781329979802

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Walter de la Mare - The Return

The Return by Walter de la Mare is an occult tale of possession. It is an interesting gothic psychological thriller, nebulous and dark, in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe.

Gripping and poignant tale of psychic possession concerns Arthur Lawford, who appears to have been possessed by the spirit of a long-dead French 18th-century pirate. One of de la Mare's finest occult stories, the novel also deals with domestic trauma, unrequited love and philosophical reflection.

Insidiously horrific, unrelentingly disturbing…

Pages: 248
ISBN: 9781329903081

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Francis Stevens - Nightmares!

Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948) was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy".

Her most famous books include Claimed (which Augustus T. Swift, in a letter to The Argosy called "One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read") and the lost world novel The Citadel of Fear.

Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, The Heads of Cerberus (1919).

Nighmares! And other stories – is a nice collection of her short stories and novelettes.

Pages: 308
ISBN: 9781329903005

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Charles Williams - All Hallows Eve

All Hallows' Eve is the story of a man and woman whose love was so great it could bridge the gap of death; of evil so terrible as to be unmentionable, of a vision so beautiful it must be true.

Opens with a discussion between the ghosts of two dead women wandering about London. Ultimately explores the meaning of human suffering and empathy by dissolving the barrier between the living and the dead through both black magic and divine love.

A young woman dies to discover a London that looks right out of Dante. A painter does a portrait of a minister and discovers he has painted beetles, and the minister thanks him for it! A magician sends someone to the future.

All Hallow's Eve is an amazing book in that it explores both the question of 'what happens when you die?' as well as 'what is the relationship between the dead and the living?'. Charles Williams at his best.

Pages: 228
ISBN: 9781329902923

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Howard Pyle - The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur

The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur by Howard Pyle 

Time honored retelling of the Arthurian legends, including the adventures of Sir Galahad and the pursuit of the Holy Grail, as well as the last days of King Arthur — his attack on Sir Launcelot, fatal battle with Sir Mordred, and final journey to Avalon.

Follows the adventures of Sir Gerwaint, Galahad's quest for the holy Grail, the battle between Launcelot and Gawaine, and the slaying of Mordred.

This is the final book in a set of four books on Arthur by Howard Pyle, covering the last parts of the reign of King Arthur and how Sir Galahad achieved the Grail.

Pages: 292
ISBN: 9781329902749

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