The Glamour of the Snow Algernon Blackwood http://feedbooks.com/book/1070 en 1912 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1070.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1070.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1070.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1070.mobi The Wendigo Algernon Blackwood http://feedbooks.com/book/1063 urn:isbn:1587155443 en 1910 Short Fiction This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1063.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1063.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1063.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1063.mobi The Willows Algernon Blackwood http://feedbooks.com/book/1065 urn:isbn:1419188046 en 1907 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1065.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1065.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1065.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1065.mobi The Centaur Algernon Blackwood http://feedbooks.com/book/1059 urn:isbn:1557424624 en 1911 Novels Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/1059.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1059.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1059.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1059.mobi The Road Jack London http://feedbooks.com/book/3248 en 1907 Non-Fiction Biography Travel Tales of London's days as a hobo. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3248.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3248.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3248.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3248.mobi Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott http://feedbooks.com/book/1596 urn:isbn:048627263X en 1884 Novels Philosophy Science Humor/Satire Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/1596.png http://feedbooks.com/book/1596.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/1596.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/1596.mobi The Arabian Nights Andrew Lang http://feedbooks.com/book/208 urn:isbn:1605896403 en 1898 Novels Young Readers One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient Arabia and Yemen, ancient Indian literature and Persian literature, ancient Egyptian literature and Mesopotamian mythology, ancient Syria and Asia Minor, and medieval Arabic folk stories from the Caliphate era. Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the fourteenth century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800–900. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/208.png http://feedbooks.com/book/208.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/208.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/208.mobi Fifty-One Tales Lord Dunsany http://feedbooks.com/book/3356 urn:isbn:1592240062 en 1915 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections Fifty-One Tales is a collection of fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. The first editions, in hardcover, were published simultaneously in London and New York by Elkin Mathews and Mitchell Kennerly, respectively, in April, 1915. The British and American editions differ in that they arrange the material slightly differently and that each includes a story the other omits; "The Poet Speaks with Earth" in the British version, and "The Mist" in the American version. The collection's significance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication (as The Food of Death: Fifty-One Tales) by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the third volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1974. The Newcastle edition used the American version of the text. The book collects fifty-one short stories by the author. Source: Wikipedia This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3356.mobi The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson http://feedbooks.com/book/211 en 1882 Short Fiction Collections New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories previously published in magazines between 1877 and 1880. The collection contains Stevenson's first published fiction, and a few of the stories are considered by some critics to be his best work, as well as pioneering works in the English short story tradition. http://feedbooks.com/book/211.png http://feedbooks.com/book/211.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/211.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/211.mobi Just so Stories Rudyard Kipling http://feedbooks.com/book/865 urn:isbn:0517266555 en 1902 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book (1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his stripes. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/865.png http://feedbooks.com/book/865.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/865.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/865.mobi The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame http://feedbooks.com/book/3645 urn:isbn:0451530144 en 1908 Novels Young Readers Fantasy The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3645.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3645.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3645.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3645.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 Whisperer in Darkness Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/25 urn:isbn:1931082723 en 1930 Novels Horror The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/25.png http://feedbooks.com/book/25.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/25.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/25.mobi The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/24 urn:isbn:0345354907 en 1927 Novels Horror Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in a quiet town near Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a supernatural force so twisted that it kills without offering the mercy of death! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/24.png http://feedbooks.com/book/24.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/24.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/24.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 The Outsider Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://feedbooks.com/book/30 urn:isbn:034542204X en 1926 Short Fiction Horror "The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. It is about a mysterious individual who awakens to find himself completely alone and what happens when he attempts to make contact with others. "The Outsider" combines fantasy and horror into an atmospheric, surrealistic, and nightmarish tale. It is one of Lovecraft's few tales that uses human emotion as an important part of the story. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://feedbooks.com/book/30.png http://feedbooks.com/book/30.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/30.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/30.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 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 The Enchanted Island of Yew Lyman Frank Baum http://feedbooks.com/book/360 en 1903 Novels Fantasy Sesely, daughter of Baron Merd of Heg, and two companions are enjoying a picnic in the Forest of Lurla when they are accosted by a fairy. The fairy, bored with centuries of insipid fairy life, amazes the girls by pleading to be changed into a mortal. Though the girls are surprised that they might have the power to do such a thing, the fairy explains how it can be done. The girls agree to transform the fairy into a human boy for the space of one year. The newly-minted male is dubbed Prince Marvel, and, furnished with fairy arms and armor and an enchanted horse (a deer transformed), sets out to have adventures. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/360.png http://feedbooks.com/book/360.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/360.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/360.mobi The Princess and Curdie George MacDonald http://feedbooks.com/book/3418 en 1883 Novels Young Readers Fantasy A sequel to The Princess and the Goblin: Princess Irene and Curdie are a year or two older, and must overthrow a set of corrupt ministers who are poisoning Irene's father, the king. http://feedbooks.com/book/3418.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3418.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3418.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3418.mobi The Portrait of a Lady Henry James http://feedbooks.com/book/413 urn:isbn:0375759190 en 1881 Novels Romance One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establish—and then protect—her independence. But Isabel’s pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. “James’s formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved,” writes Hortense Calisher, “make him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot.” This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/413.png http://feedbooks.com/book/413.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/413.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/413.mobi A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare http://feedbooks.com/book/2990 urn:isbn:1903436605 en 1596 Romance Plays A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke and Duchess of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. http://feedbooks.com/book/2990.png http://feedbooks.com/book/2990.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/2990.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/2990.mobi Phantastes George MacDonald http://feedbooks.com/book/3437 en 1858 Novels Fantasy Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fourteenth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1970. This was the first prose work published by MacDonald. Because of its limited financial success, MacDonald saw himself forced to turn to writing realistic novels. Phantastes, however, exerted a strong influence on fantasy authors of later generations: for example, C. S. Lewis in his book Suprised by Joy claimed that his imagination had been "baptized" by reading it. The story centers on the character Anodos ("pathless" or "ascent" in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. The story concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals. In its themes and overall storyline, Phantastes is a kind of dry run for MacDonald's later novel Lilith. http://feedbooks.com/book/3437.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3437.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3437.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3437.mobi The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri http://feedbooks.com/book/206 urn:isbn:0451208633 en 1306 Poetry Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation. http://feedbooks.com/book/206.png http://feedbooks.com/book/206.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/206.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/206.mobi Whirligigs O. Henry http://feedbooks.com/book/3621 urn:isbn:1419126164 en 1910 Short Fiction Collections A collectior of 24 short stories: The World and the Door; The Theory and the Hound; The Hypotheses of Failure; Calloway's Code; A Matter of Mean Elevation; Girl; Sociology in Serge and Straw; The Ransom of Red Chief; The Marry Month of May; A Technical Error; Suite Homes and Their Romance; The Whirligig of Life; A Sacrifice Hit; The Roads We Take; A Blackjack Bargainer; The Song and the Sergeant; One Dollar's Worth; A Newspaper Story; Tommy's Burglar; A Chaparral Christmas Gift; A Little Local Colour; Georgia's Ruling; Blind Man's Holiday; and Madame Bo Peep of the Ranches. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3621.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3621.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3621.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3621.mobi Lilith George MacDonald http://feedbooks.com/book/3414 en 1895 Novels Fantasy Lilith is a fantasy novel written by Scottish writer George MacDonald and first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death and salvation. Many believe MacDonald is arguing for Christian universalism, or the idea that all will eventually be saved. Mr. Vane, the protagonist of Lilith, owns a library that seems to be haunted by the former librarian, who looks much like a raven from the brief glimpses he catches of the wraith. After finally encountering the supposed ghost, the mysterious Mr. Raven, Vane learns that Raven had known his father; indeed, Vane's father had visited the strange parallel universe from which Raven comes and goes and now resides therein. Vane follows Raven into the world through a mirror (this symbolistic realm is described as "the region of the seven dimensions", a term taken from Jacob Boehme). Source: Wikipedia http://feedbooks.com/book/3414.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3414.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3414.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3414.mobi When God Laughs & Other Stories Jack London http://feedbooks.com/book/3233 en 1911 Short Fiction Collections This outstanding collection includes "The Apostate," "Just Meat," "A Piece of Steak," and "Chinago." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://feedbooks.com/book/3233.png http://feedbooks.com/book/3233.pdf http://feedbooks.com/book/3233.epub http://feedbooks.com/book/3233.mobi