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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...
Quest of the Golden Ape - Randall Garrett
Quest of the Golden Ape - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
How could this man awaken with no past—no childhood—no recollection except of a vague world of terror from which his mother cried out for vengeance and the slaughter of his own people stood as a monument of infamy? - Summary by Gutenberg text Image...
The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris
The Wood Beyond the World - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. His use of...
Living Alone - Stella Benson
Living Alone - Stella Benson
- Author: Stella Benson
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
This is not a real book. It does not deal with real people, nor should it be read by real people. But there are in the world so many real books already written for the benefit of real people, and there are still so many to be written, that I cannot...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 1 - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel by Eugène Sue which was published serially in Journal des débats from June 19, 1842 until October 15, 1843. Les Mystères de Paris singlehandedly increased the circulation of Journal...
The Fearsome Island - Albert Kinross
The Fearsome Island - Albert Kinross
- Author: Albert Kinross
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipwreck on an uncharted island and his supernatural adventures there with a witch, a hairy man, and various...
The Palace in the Garden - Mary Louisa Molesworth
The Palace in the Garden - Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
The Palace in the Garden is the engaging story of three orphans sent to live in the mysterious country cottage of ROSEBUDS. The inquisitive children piece together the unexpected mystery of the Palace in the garden & all that goes with it. The...
The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit
The Enchanted Castle - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of a fairy tale, complete with an enchanted princess at the center of a maze. Or is it? The castle turns out to...
Visions - Coulson Kernahan
Visions - Coulson Kernahan
- Author: Coulson Kernahan
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
Deeper questions of life and death, and of God’s relationship to man, are explored in this collection of “dreams” by a noted English novelist and literary critic. A man takes an uncertain step into the next world as his life ends – Defendants at the...
Key Out of Time (version 2) - Andre Norton
Key Out of Time (version 2) - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
Time Agents Ross Murdock and Gordon Ashe return for another assignment, this time to the tropical island paradise planet of Hawaika. Something apocalyptic has occurred in this planet’s history, altering its topography and cleansing it of all...
The New Swiss Family Robinson - Owen Wister
The New Swiss Family Robinson - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets...
Astounding Stories 03, March 1930 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 03, March 1930 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
This is the third issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the opening chapters of a 4 part serialized novel by Ray Cummings, and stories by the prolific Capt. S. P. Meek, Will Smith and R. J. Robbins, Sewell Peaslee...
Red Nails - Robert E. Howard
Red Nails - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Conan the Cimmerian pursues the beautiful and deadly pirate Valeria after she kills a Stygian only to find himself cornered by a dragon. Apparently this dragon doesn’t know who he’s messing with. The pair then encounters the city of Xuchotl with its...
The Pursuit of the House-Boat - John Kendrick Bangs
The Pursuit of the House-Boat - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
This sequel to Bangs' A House-Boat on the Styx continues the "thought-experiment" of bringing various historical and fictional figures together, detailing the adventures of the ladies of Hades after they are kidnapped by pirates and the attempts of...
Glinda of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Glinda of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth Land of Oz book and is the last one written by the original author L. Frank Baum, although the series was continued after his death by several other authors. Dorothy and Ozma discover that a war is brewing in a distant...
The War of the Worlds (Version 4) - H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds (Version 4) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialized in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was in 1898 from publisher...
The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow - Adelbert von CHAMISSO
The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow - Adelbert von CHAMISSO
- Author: Adelbert von CHAMISSO
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
Peter Schlemihl is an ordinary man until one day he bargains with the devil: He trades his shadow for a bottomless purse. While this sounds like a good idea at first, it turns out that having no shadow is considered to be so strange by society, that...
Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany
Fifty-One Tales - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)...
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Rudolf Erich RASPE
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen - Rudolf Erich RASPE
- Author: Rudolf Erich RASPE
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, as Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in...
Off on a Comet - Jules Verne
Off on a Comet - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. Some forty people of various nations and ages are condemned to a two-year-long journey on the comet. They form a mini-society and cope with the...
