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L'Pine's the Legend of Croquemitaine, and the Chivalric Times of Charlemagne

L'Pine, Ernest / Dor, Gustave

Before King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, there was Charlemagne and his knights, chief of whom was Roland. L'Épine's story (with humor verging on satire) offers an often fantastical glimpse of the age of chivalry, full of love, honour, betrayal, and battles. The story is well-illustrate...

The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 2

Chesterton, G. K.

This volume includes three classic G. K. Chesterton stories and collections. The Club of Queer Trades unravels a society that honors strange and mysterious occupations. The Man Who Was Thursday is a religio-political fantasy, as a detective infiltrates a strange group of anarchists. The Man Who Knew...

Bordercrossings

Hope Hodgson, William

This collection of William Hope Hodgson's supernatural fantasy novels includes The Boats of the "Glen Carrig," The House on the Borderland, The Ghost Pirates, and The Night Land. Hodgson was a true pioneer in supernatural fantasy/horror, and his impact on contemporary writers is clearly seen.

The Wit, Whimsy, and Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton, Volume 3

Chesterton, G. K.

This volume includes two classic G. K. Chesterton novels, and his play, Magic. The Ball and the Cross is a religio-political fantasy, as a Catholic and an atheist try to keep ahead of the law in order to fight a duel. Manalive brings a man on trial, where nothing is as it seems. (It is a brilliant c...

The Adventures of Darby O'Gill and Other Tales of Supernatural Ireland

Kavanagh, Herminie Templeton

The Adventures of Darby O'Gill brings together the short stories originally published in Kavanagh's two books, Darby O'Gill and the Good People, and Ashes of Old Wishes. These stories, filled with humor and adventure, bring Irish fairy mythology to life, as Darby and other characters meet fairies, l...

The Dwarfs of Mount Atlas

Haliburton, Robert Grant

Robert Grant Haliburton spent his last years proposing the existence of a distinctive tribal group of small stature within the Atlas Mountains and vicinity. He collected local stories and eyewitness accounts of this "dwarf people," debated critics, and published theories. These curious tales disappe...

The Boat-House Riddle

Connington, J. J.

In this Golden Age mystery classic the famous Sir Clinton Driffield reappears. A young land owner, Colin Keith-Westerton, has just brought home his bride, who is accompanied by her confessor, a French priest. They settle down temporarily at the Dower House of the estate, pending the modernizing of t...

The Adventures of Madame Storey

Footner, Hulbert

"She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips. . . ." So we are intro...

Tales of Fright and Fantasy by E. F. Benson

Benson, E. F.

Ghosts and demons haunt the stories of E. F. Benson (1867-1940), but darker still can be what lurks in the depths of the human soul. Hidden murders cry for justice, remorse creeps from the grave, and evil manifests itself to collect the fallen. Benson's tales are a buffet of uneasy delight for the l...

Golf

Briggs, Clare

Clare Briggs (1875-1930) was a popular early cartoonist, well known for both his slice-of-life panel comics and his daily comic strips ("Mr and Mrs," etc.). This comic art reprint (first published 1916) depicts both the pleasures and frustrations of the game of golf.More comic art titles a...

Ancient Haunts

Swain, E. G. / Gray, Arthur

Ancestral Haunts collects two rare volumes of classic ghost stories: The Stoneground Ghost Tales (1912) by E. G. Swain, and Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye (1919) by Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College (Cambridge). These stories show the influence of M. R. James, but each author retains...

The Death of a Celebrity (an Amos Lee Mappin Mystery)

Footner, Hulbert

At least five people wished Gavin Dordress, the playwright, dead the night of his ill-starred party. It was that night Gail Garrett and Bea Townley quarreled openly for the leading role in his new play-which no one had read. The next morning he was found shot to death, a chessman imprinted on his fo...