Fantasy Literature

High up, crowning the grassy summit of a swelling mound whose sides are wooded near the base with the gnarled trees of the primeval forest, stands the old chateau of my ancestors. For centuries its l …

Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis – William Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H. D. (1843-1928) was an American orientalist, author and Congregational preacher. In September 1870 Griffis …

The full title of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story known as ‘King Pest’ is King Pest: A Tale Containing an Allegory. One of Poe’s most bizarre short stories. …

Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy’s novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the …

Through the Magic Door (1907) is an essay by Arthur Conan Doyle: his subject is the charisma and charm of books. Doyle invites readers to enjoy the greatest minds of all times through what they have …

A friend of mine, who is a man of letters and a philosopher, said to me one day, as if between jest and earnest, ‘Fancy! since we last met I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London.’ ‘ …

‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ Stevenson’s famous exploration of humanity’s basest capacity for evil, has become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a moral tale …

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be ‘the earliest of the modern Dystopian, ‘ it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic …

‘It was a dark, chilly night in September, 1884. A heavy gloom had descended over the streets of A., a small town on the Rhine, and was hanging like a black funeral-pall over the dull factory burgh. …

A book of fiction of a scientific trend, which seeks to prove immortality by the fact that communications are received from disembodied spirits, and their presence made visible to those mortals who h …