The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations is an episodic horror novel by British writer Arthur Machen, first published in 1895 in The Bodley Head's ...

Synopsis The Consul Duilius was entertaining Rome in triumph after his celebrated defeat of the Carthaginian fleet at Mylæ. He had won a great ...

The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book describes a future Earth ...

Dr. Richard Austin Freeman MRCS LSA (11 April 1862 – 28 September 1943) was a British writer of detective stories, mostly featuring the medico-legal ...

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. ...

Great Pirate Stories is a collection of extracts of tales of pirates (whether fictional or not - there is no clear indication which are and aren't, you ...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála 'Emmuska' Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born ...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála 'Emmuska' Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born ...

"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in the 1894 anthology The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian grey mongoose. ...