Books in English Language

The Hand In The Dark

  [english | 1920]  

Arthur John Rees

Summary: [Excerpt:Seen in the sad glamour of an English twilight the old moat-house emerging from the thin mists which veiled the green flats in which it stood conveyed the impression of a habitation falling into senility tired with centuries of existence. Houses grow old like the race of men the process is not less inevitable though slower in both decay is hastened by events as well as by the passage of ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 32

The Moon Rock

  [english | 1922]  

Arthur John Rees

Summary: [Excerpt:The voice of the clergyman intoned the last sad hope of humanity the final prayer was said and the mourners turned away leaving Mrs. Turold to take her rest in a bleak Cornish churchyard among strangers far from the place of her birth and kindred.The fact would not have troubled her if she had known. In life she had been a nonentity in death she was not less. At least she could now mix ...]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 40

The Shrieking Pit

  [english | 1918]  

Arthur John Rees

Summary: [Murder mystery set in a remote country inn at Norfolk England.]
Genres: [fiction | mystery detective] Downloads: 92

Interplanetary Hunter

  [english | 1959]  

Arthur Barnes

Summary: [Interplanetary Hunter is a 1956 collection of science fiction short stories by Arthur K. Barnes. It was first published by Gnome Press in 1956 in an edition of 4000 copies. The collections contains stories about Barnes character Gerry Carlyle. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories under different titles.]
Genres: [science fiction | short story collection | post 1930] Downloads: 319

Trouble On Titan

  [english | 1941]  

Arthur Barnes

Summary: [When the Queen of the Spaceways meets the King of the Interplanetary Wilds theres a checkmate in the stalking of Saturns most dangerous game!]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction] Downloads: 24

Children Of Tomorrow

  [english | 1939]  

Arthur Leo Zagat

Summary: [They roamed the vanished world that yesterday was America.]
Genres: [science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 338

Seven Out Of Time

  [english | 1939]  

Arthur Leo Zagat

Summary: [Once On A Time is a fairy tale created by A. A. Milne. Written in 1917 Milnes own introduction begins This is an odd book and indeed it is very difficult to classify. Ostensibly a typical fairytale it tells the story of the war between the kingdoms of Euralia and Barodia and the political shenanigans which take place in Euralia in the kings absence all supposedly rewritten by Milne from the ...]
Genres: [science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 399

The Great Dome On Mercury

  [english | 1932]  

Arthur Leo Zagat

Summary: [Trapped in the great dome Darl valiantly defends Earths outpost against the bird-man of Mars and his horde of pigmy henchmen.]
Genres: [science fiction | post 1930 | short story] Downloads: 219

The Lanson Screen

  [english | 1936]  

Arthur Leo Zagat

Summary: [Cut off a whole city might get some serious breathing problems.]
Genres: [short story | science fiction | post 1930] Downloads: 100

Tomorrow

  [english | 1939]  

Arthur Leo Zagat

Summary: [Reach for Tomorrow is a collection of short stories by science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. The stories all originally appeared in a number of different publications.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 99

When The Sleepers Woke

  [english | 1932]  

Arthur Leo Zagat

Summary: [Only two small groups of people--enemies--survive the vast desolation of the Final War.]
Genres: [fiction | science fiction | short stories] Downloads: 153

A Fragment Of Life

  [english | 1906]  

Arthur Machen

Summary: [Bibliographical note: v. 9 1 leaf at end.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 335

Holy Terrors

  [english | 1946]  

Arthur Machen

Excerpts: [... at which their two circles touched, or so it seemed. The tutor, wishing to be agreeable, began one night to talk about the origins of King Lear. ...... he had a feeling that, like a lady of the Doctor's own day, she had a bottom of good sense. Evidently she did not trust Mr. Marsh overmuch. Yet, what ...... in such a manner that their scandal was shamefully increased. The ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 403

Out Of The Earth

  [english | 1923]  

Arthur Machen

Summary: [Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit is a 1992 book written by Al Gore published in June 1992 shortly before he was elected Vice President in the 1992 presidential election. Known by the short title Earth in the Balance the book explains the worlds ecological predicament and describes a range of policies to deal with the most pressing problems. It includes a proposed Global Marshall ...]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 282

The Bowmen

  [english | 1914]  

Arthur Machen

Summary: [The willows / by Algernon Blackwood -- The shadows on the wall / by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- The messenger / by Robert W. Chambers -- Lazarus / by Leonid Andreyev -- The beast with five fingers / by W.F. Harvey -- The mass of shadows / by Anatole France -- What was it? / by Fitz James OBrien -- The middle toe of the right foot / by Ambrose Bierce -- The shell of sense / by Olivia Howard Dunbar]
Genres: [fiction | short stories | war military] Downloads: 215

The Children Of The Pool

  [english | 1936]  

Arthur Machen

Summary: [LC copy formerly owned by Bruce Rogers.]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 3

The Great God Pan

  [english | 1894]  

Arthur Machen

Summary: [The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression is a book by Amity Shlaes and published by HarperCollins. The book is a re-analysis of the events of the Great Depression generally from a free-market perspective. The book criticizes Herbert Hoover and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff for their role in exacerbating the Depression through government intervention. It criticizes Franklin D. Roosevelt ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | gothic | horror] Downloads: 398

The Hill Of Dreams

  [english | 1907]  

Arthur Machen

Summary: [This is Machens masterpiece. Not a word I use lightly. Machens descriptive powers are at their height here and his ability to decribe physical and psychological landscapes is nowhere more evident than in this book. The writing builds as the story progresses and the ending is the strongest I have ever read it makes The Turn of the Screw look like a damp squib. If you never read anything else by ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature] Downloads: 378

The Inmost Light

  [english | 1894]  

Arthur Machen

Summary: [Bibliographical note: v. 9 1 leaf at end.]
Genres: [fiction | horror | short stories] Downloads: 422

The Monstrance

  [english | 1915]  

Arthur Machen

Excerpts: [... it fell out in the sacring of the Mass that right as the priest heaved up the Host there came a beam redder than any rose and smote upon it, ...... there they could establish themselves comfortably and securely during what remained of the night and at dawn the English left would be hopelessly enfiladed-and ...... were keeping up the very devil's racket the flares and illuminating ...]
Genres: [fiction | short stories] Downloads: 484