The Colour Out of Space Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/19 urn:isbn:1590170261 en 1927 Short Fiction Horror "The Colour Out of Space" is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed surveyor from Boston. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys a rural area that is to be flooded near Lovecraft's fictional town of Arkham. He comes across a mysterious patch of land, an abandoned five-acre farmstead, which is completely devoid of all life. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/19.png http://feedbooks.com/book/19.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/19.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/19.mobi The Shadow Over Innsmouth Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/28 urn:isbn:0345444078 en 1931 Short Fiction Horror The story describes of a strange hybrid race, half-human and half an unknown creature that resembles a cross between a fish and frog, that dwells in the seaside village of Innsmouth (formerly a large town, but lately fallen into disrepair). The townspeople worship Cthulhu and Dagon, a Philistine deity incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/28.png http://feedbooks.com/book/28.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/28.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/28.mobi The Shadow out of Time Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/29 urn:isbn:0967321530 en 1934 Short Fiction Science Fiction Horror "The Shadow Out of Time" indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to spiritual possession. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/29.png http://feedbooks.com/book/29.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/29.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/29.mobi The Dunwich Horror Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/20 urn:isbn:0447745026 en 1928 Short Fiction Horror In H.P. Lovecraft’s, "The Dunwich Horror", we are told the story of Wilbur Whateley, the son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by the mad Old Whateley as "Yog-Sothoth"), and the strange events surrounding his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade. All the while, his sorcerer grandfather indoctrinates him into certain dark rituals and the study of witchcraft. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/20.png http://feedbooks.com/book/20.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/20.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/20.mobi At the Mountains of Madness Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/26 urn:isbn:0345329457 en 1931 Novels Horror At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi describes the novella as representing the decisive "demythology" of the Cthulhu Mythos by reinterpreting Lovecraft's earlier supernatural stories in a science fiction paradigm. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/26.png http://feedbooks.com/book/26.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/26.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/26.mobi Les Trois mousquetaires Alexandre Dumas http://feedbooks.com/book/502 urn:isbn:2253008885 fr 1844 Novels Adventure Le roman raconte les aventures d'un Gascon désargenté de 18 ans, d'Artagnan, monté à Paris faire carrière. Il se lie d'amitié avec Athos, Porthos et Aramis, mousquetaires du roi Louis XIII. Ces quatre hommes vont s'opposer au premier ministre, le Cardinal de Richelieu et à ses agents, dont la belle et mystérieuse Milady de Winter, pour sauver l'honneur de la reine de France Anne d'Autriche. Avec ses nombreux combats et ses rebondissements romanesques, Les Trois mousquetaires est l'exemple type du roman de cape et d'épée. http://feedbooks.com/book/502.png http://feedbooks.com/book/502.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/502.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/502.mobi The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Emma Orczy http://feedbooks.com/book/3568 urn:isbn:014037454X en 1905 Novels History Adventure In this historical adventure set during the French Revolution, the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel sets out to rescue men, women and children facing the horrors of the guillotine, while evading the relentless pursuit of his arch enemy, Chauvelin. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3568.mobi 20000 lieues sous les mers Jules Verne http://feedbooks.com/book/1495 urn:isbn:2013217854 fr 1871 Novels Science Fiction Adventure Ce roman, parmi les plus célèbres et des plus traduits de notre littérature, apparaît sans conteste comme une des oeuvres les plus puissantes, les plus originales et les plus représentatives de Jules Verne. Tout commence en 1866: la peur règne sur les océans. Plusieurs navires prétendent avoir rencontré un monstre effrayant. Et quand certains rentrent gravement avariés après avoir heurté la créature, la rumeur devient certitude. L'Abraham Lincoln, frégate américaine, se met en chasse pour débarrasser les mers de ce terrible danger. Elle emporte notamment le professeur Aronnax, fameux ichthyologue du Muséum de Paris, son domestique, le dévoué Conseil, et le Canadien Ned Land, «roi des harponneurs». Après six mois de recherches infructueuses, le 5 novembre 1867, on repère ce que l'on croit être un «narwal gigantesque». Mais sa vitesse rend le monstre insaisissable et lorsqu'enfin on réussit à l'approcher pour le harponner, il aborde violemment le vaisseau et le laisse désemparé. Aronnax, Conseil et Ned Land trouvent refuge sur le dos du narwal. Ils s'aperçoivent alors qu'il s'agit d'un navire sous-marin... http://feedbooks.com/book/1495.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1495.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1495.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1495.mobi The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas http://feedbooks.com/book/398 urn:isbn:0670037796 en 1844 Novels History Romance Adventure The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to become a musketeer. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—inseparable friends who live by the motto, "One for all, and all for one". The story of d'Artagnan is continued in Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. Those three novels by Dumas are together known as the D'Artagnan Romances. The Three Musketeers was first published in serial form in the magazine Le Siècle between March and July 1844. http://feedbooks.com/book/398.png http://feedbooks.com/book/398.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/398.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/398.mobi The Call of Cthulhu Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/18 urn:isbn:0786926392 en 1926 Short Fiction Horror "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/18.png http://feedbooks.com/book/18.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/18.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/18.mobi His Last Bow Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/65 urn:isbn:0755334434 en 1917 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections His Last Bow is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Originally published in 1917, it contains the various Holmes stories published between 1908 and 1913, as well as the one-off title story from 1917. The collection was originally called Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes and did not contain the actual story His Last Bow, which appeared later, after the full-length The Valley of Fear was published. However later editions added it and changed the title. Some recent complete editions have restored the earlier title. When the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes were published in the USA for the first time, the publishers believed "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" was too scandalous for the American public, since it dealt with the theme of adultery. As a result, this story was not published in the USA until many years later, when it was added to His Last Bow. Even today, most American editions of the canon include it with His Last Bow, while most British editions keep the story in its original place in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/65.png http://feedbooks.com/book/65.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/65.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/65.mobi The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/64 urn:isbn:0330244248 en 1915 Novels Crime/Mystery The plot of the novel is based very loosely on the real-life activities of the Molly Maguires and, particularly, of Pinkerton agent James McParland. The novel is divided into two parts: in the first, Holmes investigates an apparent murder and discovers that the body belongs to another man; and in the second, the story of the man originally thought to have been the victim is told. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/64.png http://feedbooks.com/book/64.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/64.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/64.mobi The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/1 urn:isbn:068983571X en 1902 Novels Crime/Mystery The rich landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the park of his manor surrounded by the grim moor of Dartmoor, in the county of Devon. His death seems to have been caused by a heart attack, but the victim's best friend, Dr. Mortimer, is convinced that the strike was due to a supernatural creature, which haunts the moor in the shape of an enormous hound, with blazing eyes and jaws. In order to protect Baskerville's heir, Sir Henry, who's arriving to London from Canada, Dr. Mortimer asks for Sherlock Holmes' help, telling him also of the so-called Baskervilles' curse, according to which a monstrous hound has been haunting and killing the family males for centuries, in revenge for the misdeeds of one Sir Hugo Baskerville, who lived at the time of Oliver Cromwell. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1.mobi The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/1421 urn:isbn:0199536953 en 1892 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on October 14, 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on October 15 by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1421.mobi The Return of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/63 urn:isbn:078581325X en 1905 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The book was first published on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd and in a Colonial edition by Longmans. 30,000 copies were made of the initial print run. The US edition by McClure, Phillips & Co. added another 28,000 to the run. This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in "The Adventure of the Final Problem". Having published The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902 (although setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous character. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/63.png http://feedbooks.com/book/63.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/63.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/63.mobi The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/66 urn:isbn:1905432585 en 1923 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The last twelve stories written about Holmes and Watson, these tales reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written. Some of the sharpest turns of wit in English literature are contrasted by dark images of psychological tragedy, suicide, and incest in a collection of tales that have haunted generations of readers. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/66.png http://feedbooks.com/book/66.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/66.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/66.mobi The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/58 urn:isbn:0517174960 en 1893 Short Fiction Crime/Mystery Collections The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/58.png http://feedbooks.com/book/58.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/58.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/58.mobi The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/2 urn:isbn:1605200492 en 1890 Novels Crime/Mystery First published in 1890, The Sign of Four is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second book starring legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. The story is complex, involving a secret between four ex-cons from India and a hidden treasure. More complex than the first Holmes novel, The Sign of Four also introduces the detective's drug habit and leaves breadcrumbs for the reader that lead toward the final resolution. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/2.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2.mobi A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle http://feedbooks.com/book/57 urn:isbn:1840224118 en 1887 Novels Crime/Mystery A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later become one of the most famous and iconic literary detective characters, with long-lasting interest and appeal. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to his companion Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/57.png http://feedbooks.com/book/57.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/57.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/57.mobi A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs http://feedbooks.com/book/80 urn:isbn:0345331389 en 1912 Novels Science Fiction A Princess of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the first of his famous Barsoom series. It is also Burroughs' first novel, predating his Tarzan stories. He wrote it between July and September 28, 1911, going through four working titles; initially, he was going to call it My First Adventure on Mars, then The Green Martians, Dejah Thoris, Martian Princess, and finally Under the Moons of Mars. The finished story was first published under the last of these titles in All-Story as a six-part serial in the issues for February-July 1912. For the serial publication, the author's name was given as "Norman Bean"; Burroughs had chosen the pseudonym of "Normal Bean" as a type of pun stressing that he was in his right mind, being concerned he might suffer ridicule for writing such a fantastic story. The effect was spoiled when a typesetter changed "Normal" to "Norman" on the assumption that the former was a typographical error. The story was later published as a complete novel under the present title by A. C. McClurg in October 1917. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the story is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/80.png http://feedbooks.com/book/80.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/80.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/80.mobi