He turned and looked at her with a benevolent smile. "Come hither, my child," said he. "You would speak with the emperor. I am he." The girl uttered a ...

Published in 1928 by Rupert Gould, the first of two books featuring strange facts about natural history, animals, and lore, Oddities: A Book of Unexplained ...

Telepathy: Its Theory, Facts, and Proof discusses the theme of telepathy and its existence. Focusing on proving that telepathy is real, author W.W. Atkinson ...

In this volume, originally published in English in 1900-it was translated by HENRI DE VRIES (1847-1932)-Abraham Kuyper addresses what he feels is a scarcely ...

"I want to know, whether you consider the time is ripe for summoning King Leopold before the bar of an international tribunal to answer for the crimes ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose original profession and calling was as a Unitarian minister, left the ministry to pursue a career in writing and public speaking. ...

"Kwaidan" means "weird tales." Lafcadio Hearn has taken kwaidan and written some amazing, hair-raising tales of long ago--delicate, transparent, ghostly ...

"Si vis pacem, para bellum." -Flavius Vegetius Renatus, The Military Institutions of the Romans , (390 A.D.) The Military Institutions of the ...

Gathering together in one volume the later exploits of the saga of Sherlock Holmes, the world's first consulting detective, His Last Bow includes tales ...

Four-dimensional beings. Telekinesis. A future that is latent in the present. Coincidence and precognition. The tantalizing possibilities of such marvels ...