The Vampire Maid Hume Nisbet http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326 en 1900 Short Fiction Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1326.mobi The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories Algernon Blackwood http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1066 urn:isbn:1592241891 en 1916 Short Fiction Horror Collections Ghost Stories This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1066.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1066.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1066.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1066.mobi The House of the Vampire George Sylvester Viereck http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837 urn:isbn:0982046707 en 1907 Novels Horror Sexuality Gothic The first known gay vampire novel and one of the first psychic vampire stories. This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3837.mobi Astoria Washington Irving http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2961 en 1835 Novels Western Astoria by Washington Irving examines the history of the Rocky Mountain Fur trade with a look at John Jacob Astor's American Fur Trade company. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2961.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2961.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2961.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2961.mobi The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Francis Scott Fitzgerald http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431 en 1922 Short Fiction This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3431.mobi Varney the Vampire James Malcom Rymer http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1585 urn:isbn:1587153688 en 1847 Novels Horror Gothic http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1585.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1585.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1585.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1585.mobi The Dualitists Bram Stoker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2963 en 1887 Short Fiction Horror Twins and their strange taste for destruction. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2963.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2963.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2963.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2963.mobi Crooken Sands Bram Stoker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2957 en 1914 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2957.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2957.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2957.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2957.mobi Coriolanus William Shakespeare http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2950 urn:isbn:0199535809 en 1623 Plays Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, based on the life of the legendary Roman leader, Gaius Martius Coriolanus. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2950.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2950.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2950.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2950.mobi Timon of Athens William Shakespeare http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2951 urn:isbn:0192814974 en 1623 Plays The Life of Timon of Athens is a play by William Shakespeare about the legendary Athenian misanthrope Timon (and probably influenced by the eponymous philosopher, as well), generally regarded as one of his most obscure and difficult works. Originally grouped with the tragedies, it is generally considered such, but some scholars group it with the problem comedies. (From Wikipedia) http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2951.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2951.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2951.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2951.mobi Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2952 urn:isbn:0192836102 en 1590 Plays Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written sometime between 1584 and the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far Shakespeare's bloodiest work. It lost popularity during the Victorian era because of its gore, and has only recently begun to revive its fortunes. (From Wikipedia) http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2952.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2952.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2952.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2952.mobi Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/462 en 1914 Short Fiction Horror Gothic This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/462.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/462.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/462.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/462.mobi Carmilla Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1506 urn:isbn:1587155958 en 1871 Short Fiction Horror Sexuality Gothic "Carmilla" is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. "Carmilla" predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years and has been adapted many times for cinema. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1506.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1506.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1506.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1506.mobi Dracula Bram Stoker http://www.feedbooks.com/book/88 urn:isbn:0743477367 en 1897 Novels Horror Gothic Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role of women in Victorian culture, conventional and conservative sexuality, immigration, colonialism, postcolonialism and folklore. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, the novel's influence on the popularity of vampires has been singularly responsible for many theatrical and film interpretations throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/88.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/88.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/88.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/88.mobi Adventure Jack London http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2953 en 1911 Novels Located in the Solomon Islands, this devastating portrayal of copra plantation slavery has scholars arguing whether London was criticizing the racism of the colonialists or approving of it. (From http://london.sonoma.edu/) This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2953.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2953.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2953.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2953.mobi Antony and Cleopatra William Shakespeare http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2943 urn:isbn:1904271014 en 1623 Plays Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Parthian War to Cleopatra's suicide. The major antagonist is Octavius Caesar, one of Antony's fellow triumvirs and the future first emperor of Rome. The tragedy is a Roman play characterized by swift, panoramic shifts in geographical locations and in registers, alternating between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and the more pragmatic, austere Rome. Many consider the role of Cleopatra in this play one of the most complex female roles in Shakespeare's work. She is frequently vain and histrionic, provoking an audience almost to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare's efforts invest both her and Antony with tragic grandeur. These contradictory features have led to famously divided critical responses. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2943.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2943.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2943.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2943.mobi Blindsight Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976 urn:isbn:0765312182 en 2006 Novels Science Fiction Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and the fainter one she'll do any good if she is. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge. You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. But you'd give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976.mobi The Descendant Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://www.feedbooks.com/book/244 en 1938 Short Fiction Horror This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/244.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/244.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/244.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/244.mobi Password Incorrect Nick Name http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127 en 2008 Short Fiction Collections 25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day lives: fights with the less and less comprehensible equipment, pursuit of the latest technological news, pitfalls of our modern lifestyle, useless inventions and issues racing in all directions at a breakneck speed. A lot of entertainment and a little food for thought. Just perfect for the moment when you're finally bored with exploring the alarm settings on your new iPhone. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.mobi Frankenstein Mary Shelley http://www.feedbooks.com/book/91 urn:isbn:0743487583 en 1818 Novels Science Fiction Horror Gothic Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended to refer to the Creature as "Frankenstein", despite this being the name of the scientist. Frankenstein is a novel infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the "over-reaching" of modern man and the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is arguably considered the first fully realized science fiction novel. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/91.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/91.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/91.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/91.mobi