Aesop's Fables features more than 200 fables, specially selected for young readers and beautifully illustrated
with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. It includes all of the classic fables whose titles and morals have ...
First collected nearly a millennium ago, these folktales are presented as stories that the beautiful Scheherazade
tells her husband, King Shahryar, over 1001 consecutive nights. They include some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling: "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor," ...
Multi-eyed protoplasmic entities, flesh-eating ghouls, animate corpses, time-traveling body snatchers, and, yes, huge albino penguins.
These are some of the bizarre creatures that populate the universe created by American horror author H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft has influenced many of today’s ...
A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through
Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, ...
“The twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale” – Stephen King about H.
P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft’s fiction reveals a universe that is vaster, darker, and stranger than anything previously imagined. His “cosmic horror” reflects a peculiarly ...
Chinese culture is rich with marvelous folklore, and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that
magnificent historical repository. It features more than 200 fables and tales chosen from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums. Here are ...
Literary marvels and wonders await you in Classic Fantasy Stories, an anthology of the best
short fantasy fiction published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book’s thirty selections run the gamut from the humorous fantasy of Edgar Allan ...
Classic Ghost Stories is a treasure trove of tales of ghosts and hauntings with 36
stories published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book's distinguished lineup of writers includes Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, William ...