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The Coming Race - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
The Coming Race - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day, who coined such phrases as "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the...
Dracula (version 4) - Bram Stoker
Dracula (version 4) - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so...
The Magic World - E. Nesbit
The Magic World - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of stories for children of all ages. The Magic World is an influential collection of twelve short stories by E....
Storm Over Warlock, Version 2 - Andre Norton
Storm Over Warlock, Version 2 - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and...
The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales - Frank R. Stockton
The Bee-Man of Orn and Other Fanciful Tales - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of nine enchanting short stories filled with curious beasts and unexpected endings. Included are The Bee-Man of Orn; The Griffin and the Minor Canon; Old Pipes and the Dryad; The Queen's Museum; Christmas Before Last: Or, The Fruit of...
Master Flea - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Master Flea - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann's...
Tourmalin’s Time Cheques - F. Anstey
Tourmalin’s Time Cheques - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
Peter Tourmalin is on a sea voyage back home to England from Australia, to return to his fiancee, and he is very bored. The fact that the time difference adds on extra hours to his boredom only makes it worse. So when he gets a unique opportunity to...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
In this children's classic, a girl named Alice follows falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm full of talking creatures. She attends a never-ending tea party and plays croquet at the court of the anthropomorphic playing cards. (Summary...
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an...
The Flying Inn - G. K. Chesterton
The Flying Inn - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Religious Fiction / Satire
The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressive" Islam has triumphed and largely dominates the political and social life of the country. Because of this,...
Parables from Nature - Margaret GATTY
Parables from Nature - Margaret GATTY
- Author: Margaret GATTY
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / *Non-fiction
Parables From Nature is a collection of short stories which were originally published as 4 separate volumes. They are inspired from Nature and written for children. Nevertheless, Gatty uses children's literature because she knows that in doing so,...
Tarzan the Terrible - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Terrible - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for...
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3) - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and...
The First Book of Urizen - William Blake
The First Book of Urizen - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Poetry
The Book of Urizen is one of the major prophetic books of the English poet William Blake, illustrated by Blake's own plates. It was originally published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the word "first".The book takes its...
Trips to the Moon - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
Trips to the Moon - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Author: LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Epistolary Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
The endeavour of small Greek historians to add interest to their work by magnifying the exploits of their countrymen, and piling wonder upon wonder, Lucian first condemned in his Instructions for Writing History, and then caricatured in his True...
Völsungasaga - William Morris
Völsungasaga - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
The 13th century Icelandic Völsungasaga is usually read by people studying the Poetic Edda or Wagner's Ring - which obscures the fact it is a much better story than practically everything derived from it. A riddle-telling dragon, a broken sword, a...
Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World - Castello Newton HOLFORD
Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World - Castello Newton HOLFORD
- Author: Castello Newton HOLFORD
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction
Aristopia (published 1895) is truly an alternative history. It is an imagination of how the continent of North America might have developed if one man with the vision, altruism and determination to build a state for the benefit of all its people had...
Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass - Lucius APULEIUS
Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass - Lucius APULEIUS
- Author: Lucius APULEIUS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Fantastic Fiction
The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the two novels of Roman Literature that we can still read; and the only one preserved in its entirety (the other...
The Snow Queen and Other Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
The Snow Queen and Other Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This project features four longer stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to...
Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - A. A. MILNE
Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part. When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle...
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Gothic Fiction
The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, Gothic novel, and travel guide. In the spring of...
After London, or Wild England - Richard JEFFERIES
After London, or Wild England - Richard JEFFERIES
- Author: Richard JEFFERIES
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The...
Subspace Survivors - Lee Hawkins GARBY
Subspace Survivors - Lee Hawkins GARBY
- Author: Lee Hawkins GARBY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
A team of space travelers are caught in a subspace accident which, up to now, no one has ever survived. But some of the survivors of the Procyon are not ordinary travelers. Their psi abilities allow them to see things before they happen. But will it...
Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading) - Frances BROWNE
Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading) - Frances BROWNE
- Author: Frances BROWNE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book of fairy stories and has been translated into many languages. This work, read as a child by Frances Hodgson...
On Passing Deadman’s Island - Thomas Moore
On Passing Deadman’s Island - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 22, 2012. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. In 1803 he was appointed...
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People - L. Frank Baum
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny, dealing with topics as absurd as a man losing his temper who then tries to find it, an evil midget who...
The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a house on a mountain, it is here that she meets her mysterious great-great-grandmother, and her friend the minor...
The Midnight Queen - May Agnes FLEMING
The Midnight Queen - May Agnes FLEMING
- Author: May Agnes FLEMING
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumously.The Midnight Queen is set in London, in the year of the plague 1665. Sir Norman Kingsley visits the...
Astounding Stories 14, February 1931 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 14, February 1931 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
This issue includes "Werewolves of War" by D. W. Hall, "The Tentacles from Below" by Anthony Gilmore, "The Black Lamp" by Captain S. P. Meek, "Phalanxes of Atlans" by F. V. W. Mason, and contues with "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, -...
The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Author: LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that there are up to 30 people writing together, instead of one toiling alone. Each writer signed up to do one...
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely...
Undine - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
Undine - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Author: Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / Romance
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. The novel...
The Brushwood Boy - Rudyard Kipling
The Brushwood Boy - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Historical Fiction
The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream world he discovers and frequents. (Summary by Liam Neely)...
Gawayne and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
Gawayne and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / Poetry
Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance between Sir Gawayne and Lady...
The Wonderful Garden - E. Nesbit
The Wonderful Garden - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Do you believe in magic? Caroline, Charles and Charlotte do, and nothing that happens during their summer holiday at their great uncle's house does anything to diminish that belief. There the Three C.'s find a wonderful garden and some very old...
The Metamorphosis (version 3) - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (version 3) - Franz Kafka
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in...
New Adventures of Alice - John RAE
New Adventures of Alice - John RAE
- Author: John RAE
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book, John Rae began imagining what that girl would have gotten up to if he had done so. Telling these stories to...
Rastignac The Devil - Philip Jose FARMER
Rastignac The Devil - Philip Jose FARMER
- Author: Philip Jose FARMER
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
French colonists on a planet ruled by reptiles and amphibians are forced to wear living “skins” that subdue aggression and enforce vegetarianism. As children, Rastignac and his reptile friend Mapfarity force themselves to become carnivores and begin...
The World Set Free (version 2) - H. G. Wells
The World Set Free (version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
Radioactive decay is a major theme in the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914. Wells explores what might happen if the rate of decay could be sped up. The book may have encouraged scientists to explore theories of nuclear chain reaction. It...
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth - Jules Verne
A Journey to the Interior of the Earth - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to...
