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The Thing in the Attic - James B. Blish


The Thing in the Attic - James B. Blish
- Author: James B. Blish
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Honath the Pursemaker is a heretic. He doesn’t believe the stories in the Book of Laws which claims giants created his tree-dwelling race. He makes his opinion known and is banished with his infidel friends to the floor of the jungle where dangers...
Doctor Ox's Experiment - Jules Verne


Doctor Ox's Experiment - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
An early, light-hearted short story, published in 1872 by Jules Verne. It takes place in the Flemish town of Quiquendone, where life moves at an extraordinarily tranquil pace. Doctor Ox has offered to light the town with a new gas, but actually has...
The People of the Black Circle - Robert E. Howard


The People of the Black Circle - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues....
Adventures of a Brownie as Told to my Child - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik


Adventures of a Brownie as Told to my Child - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Adventures of a Brownie follows the life of a brownie who lives in a family's coal cellar and the adventures he gets into with the members of the household. Written by Ancilla...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain


A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
Come and hear the strange tail of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title of the book implies). Hank, or...
A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli


A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Religious Fiction
The book starts with a young heroine telling her story of coping with a debilitating illness that includes depression and thoughts of suicide. Her doctor is unable to help her and sends her off on a holiday where she meets a mystical character by...
A House-Boat on the Styx - John Kendrick Bangs


A House-Boat on the Styx - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its publication) has gone to Styx. This does not appear to be the conventional Hell described by Dante in The...
Mr Munchausen - John Kendrick Bangs


Mr Munchausen - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymous Carl Friederich, sometime Baron Munchausen, and he transmits to us some further adventures of this...
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version) - Oscar Wilde


The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised this edition, making several...
Candide - Voltaire


Candide - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never openly admitted to having written the controversial Candide; the work is signed with a pseudonym: “Monsieur le...
The Book of Wonder - Lord Dunsany


The Book of Wonder - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
"Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here." - Lord Dunsany, the preface to "The Book of Wonder"...
The World Beyond - Ray Cummings


The World Beyond - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Lee Anthony finds himself and two of his friends kidnapped and taken on a strange voyage. (Summary by Richard Kilmer )...
Amadis of Gaul - Vasco de Lobeira


Amadis of Gaul - Vasco de Lobeira
- Author: Vasco de Lobeira
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Sagas
Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was first written - Portuguese or...
Five Children and It - E. Nesbit


Five Children and It - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to...
The World's Desire - Andrew Lang


The World's Desire - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines the Allan Quatermain Series, and many more) and Andrew Lang (author of, among others, the rainbow coloured fairytale books) collaborate to lend their talent to one of the most fascinating and well...
Jimbo - Algernon Blackwood


Jimbo - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kids and adults, though parts may be too scary for younger children (who'd probably be bored anyway). (Summary...
The Shaving of Shagpat - George Meredith


The Shaving of Shagpat - George Meredith
- Author: George Meredith
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The novel is a humorous oriental romance and allegory written in the style of the Arabian Nights. Like its model, it includes a number of stories within the story, along with poetic asides. (Summary by Wikipedia.) “The variety of scenes and images,...
Space Platform - Murray Leinster


Space Platform - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
SPACE PLATFORM tells the exciting story of a young man helping to build this first station. With scientific accuracy and imagination Murray Leinster, one of the world's top science-fiction writers, describes the building and launching of the...
At the Earth's Core (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs


At the Earth's Core (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
David Innes is a mining heir who finances the experimental "iron mole," an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. In a test run, they discover the vehicle cannot be turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the Earth's...
The House of the Wolfings - William Morris


The House of the Wolfings - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time such as Dante Rossetti. His fascination with ancient Germanic and Norse people dominated his writings, the first...