The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710 urn:isbn:0192834401 en 1764 Novels Gothic The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, and it was indeed the first novel to describe itself by that term. Castle is thus generally credited with initiating the Gothic literary genre, one that would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole is arguably the forerunner of such authors as Charles Robert Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, and Daphne du Maurier. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/710.mobi Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183 urn:isbn:B001AAWVRY en 1615 Novels Humor/Satire Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.mobi 2 B R O 2 B Kurt Vonnegut http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Humor/Satire 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story that imagines life (and death) in a future world where aging has been “cured” and population control is mandated and administered by the government. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/912.mobi The Call of Cthulhu Howard Phillips Lovecraft http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18 urn:isbn:0786926392 en 1926 Short Fiction Horror "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/18.mobi Kai Lung's Golden Hours Ernest Bramah Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906 en 1922 Novels Fantasy Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards Ltd. in October, 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition included a preface by Hilaire Belloc, which has also been a feature of every edition since. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its reissuing by Ballantine Books as the forty-fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April, 1972. As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. In Kai Lung's Golden Hours he is brought before the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien on treasonable charges by the Mandarin's confidential agent Ming-shu. In a unique defense, Kai Lung recites his beguiling tales to the Mandarin, successfully postponing his conviction time after time until he is finally set free. In the process he attains the love and hand of the maiden Hwa-Mei. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3906.mobi The Valley of the Flame Henry Kuttner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2319 en 1946 Novels Science Fiction They warped Time itself to keep their secrets... This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2319.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2319.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2319.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2319.mobi The Dark World Henry Kuttner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317 urn:isbn:B000GCFFZW en 1946 Novels Science Fiction Fantasy World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and swordplay at once terribly new and hauntingly familiar. In the Dark World, Bond opposes the machinations of the dread lord Ganelon and his terrible retinue of werewolves, wizards, and witches, but all is not as it seems in this shadowy mirror of the real world, and Bond discovers that a part of him feels more at home here than he ever has on Earth. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2317.mobi The Wallet of Kai Lung Ernest Bramah Smith http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643 urn:isbn:1438504497 en 1900 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. It was first published in hardcover in London by Grant Richards in 1900, and there have been numerous editions since. Its initial tale, The Transmutation of Ling, was also issued by the same publisher as a separate chapbook in 1911. The collection's importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by the anthologization of two of its tales in the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series, edited by Lin Carter and published by Ballantine Books; "The Vision of Yin" in Discoveries in Fantasy (March, 1972), and "The Transmutation of Ling" in Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II (March, 1973). Although the collection is presented in the fashion of a novel, with each of its component stories designated chapters, there is no overall plot aside from each of the first eight tales being presented as narratives told by Kai Lung at various points in his itinerant career. The final tale is represented as being from a manuscript left by its own separate first-person narrator, Kin Yen. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923). http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3643.mobi Pagan Passions Randall Garrett Laurence Mark Janifer http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963 urn:isbn:1434492435 en 1959 Novels Science Fiction Sexuality The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome had returned to Earth -- with all their awesome powers intact. Overnight, Earth was transformed. War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery. No change was more startling than the face of New York, where the Empire State Building became the Tower of Zeus. In this totally altered world, William Forrester is an acolyte of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and a teacher of history. Only Maya Wilson, one of his students and a worshipper of Venus, Goddess of Love, had a different sort of grading in mind. Maya is the first of the many Trials of Forrester, every bit as mighty and perilous as the Labors of Hercules. In love with Gerda Symes (like him, a devotee of Athena and a frequenter of the great Temple of Pallas Athena -- formerly known as the 42nd Street Library) and dedicated to the pleasures of the mind -- Forrester falls under the soft, compelling pressure of soft, compelling devotees of Venus and Bacchus. He's going to be in need of all the strength that he and his Goddess, the beautiful and intellectual Athena, can muster! Into this sensuous strife stride the Temple Myrmidons -- religious cops sworn to obey orders without question or hesitation -- with a pickup order for William Forrester. Where he is taken, what happens to him, and the truly fantastic discoveries he makes about himself and the Gods and Goddesses ... here are the ingredients that make up this science fiction novel of suspense, intrigue, mystery and danger! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1963.mobi Doctor Who: The Sands of Time Justin Richards http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2666 urn:isbn:0426204727 en 1996 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire An ancient Egyptian god is reborn through Nyssa. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2666.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2666.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2666.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2666.mobi Doctor Who: Human Nature Paul Cornell http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934 urn:isbn:0426204433 en 1995 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire "On the eve of the First World War, John Smith teaches at an English public school. But is he all that he seems?" Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2934.mobi Project Mastodon Clifford Donald Simak http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2511 en 1955 Short Fiction Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2511.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2511.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2511.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2511.mobi Doctor Who and the Empire of Glass Andy Lane http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664 urn:isbn:0426204573 en 1995 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2664.mobi Doctor Who: Nightshade Mark Gatiss http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937 urn:isbn:0426203763 en 1992 Novels Science Fiction Humor/Satire Monsters of the mind kill all in their path. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2937.mobi The Time Axis Henry Kuttner http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318 urn:isbn:B000GCFFZM en 1948 Novels Science Fiction Called to the end of time by a being known as The Face of Ea, four adventurers face a power that not even the science of that era could meet -- the nekron, negative matter, negative force, ultimate desctruction for everything it touched! This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2318.mobi The Time Traders Andre Alice Norton http://www.feedbooks.com/book/859 urn:isbn:1406835617 en 1958 Novels Science Fiction Intelligence agents have uncovered something beyond belief, but the evidence is incontrovertible: the USA’s greatest adversary is sending its own agents back through time! And someone (or something) is presenting them with technologies and weapons far beyond our most advanced science. We have only one option: create time-transfer technology ourselves, find the opposition's ancient source...and take it down! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/859.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/859.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/859.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/859.mobi The Sundering Flood William Morris http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908 urn:isbn:1587154994 en 1897 Novels Fantasy The Sundering Flood, among the last of Morris's works, was published in 1897, after his death. The beautiful prose and rich use of language are typical of Morris and fill the reader with a sense of awe and wonder. The "flood" of the title is nothing less than a river, metaphorically as well as literally dividing two lovers. And there is the fantastic, too: dwarf folk, a magic sword, and an ageless warrior to mentor the hero. All told, a delightful story certain to appeal to all lovers of classic fantasy. "C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien both acknowledged the influence of William Morris." http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2908.mobi The Wood Beyond the World William Morris http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626 urn:isbn:0345237307 en 1894 Novels Fantasy The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus the precursor of much of present-day fantasy literature. When the wife of Golden Walter betrays him for another man, he leaves home on a trading voyage to avoid the necessity of a feud with her family. His efforts are fruitless, as word comes to him enroute that his wife's clan has killed his father. As a storm then carries him to a faraway country, the effect of this news is merely to sunder his last ties to his homeland. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3626.mobi The Well at the World's End William Morris http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628 urn:isbn:1598182986 en 1892 Novels Romance Fantasy Using language with elements of the medieval tales which were his models, Morris tells the story of Ralph of Upmeads, the fourth and youngest son of a minor king, who sets out, contrary to his parents' wishes, to find knightly adventure and seek the Well at the World's End, a magic well which will confer a near-immortality and strengthened destiny on those who drink from it. Although the novel is relatively obscure by today's standards it has had a significant influence on many notable fantasy authors. C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien both seem to have found inspiration in The Well at the World's End: ancient tables of stone, a "King Peter", a quick, white horse named "Silverfax", and a character named "Gandalf" are only a few, to say nothing of Ralph's journey home as denouement, anticipating the Hobbits' return and battle for the Shire. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3628.mobi The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646 urn:isbn:0805008020 en 1898 Short Fiction Young Readers Fantasy The Reluctant Dragon is an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame (originally published as a chapter in his book Dream Days), which served as the key element to the 1941 feature film with the same name from Walt Disney Productions. The story has also been set to music as a children's operetta by John Rutter, with words by David Grant. The story takes place in the Berkshire Downs in Oxfordshire (where the author lived and where, according to legend, St George did fight a dragon). It is Grahame's most famous short story. It is arguably much more well-known than Dream Days itself or the related The Golden Age. It can be seen as a prototype to most modern stories in which the dragon is a sympathetic character rather than a threat. In Grahame's story, a young boy discovers an erudite, mushroom-loving dragon living in the Downs above his home. The two become friends, but soon afterwards the dragon is discovered by the townsfolk, who send for St George to rid them of it. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3646.mobi Dream Days Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650 urn:isbn:143783597X en 1898 Short Fiction Fantasy Collections The further adventures of five brothers and sisters growing up in the English countryside in the late nineteenth century. Sequel to "The Golden Age.". This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3650.mobi The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651 urn:isbn:1585790192 en 1895 Novels Young Readers Fantasy Biography Grahame’s reminiscences are notable for their conception “of a world where children are locked in perpetual warfare with the adult ‘Olympians’ who have wholly forgotten how it feels to be young”--a theme later explored by J. M. Barrie and other authors. This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3651.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 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 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 Vampire Jan Neruda http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2956 en 1920 Short Fiction Horror Early vampire short story with an interesting twist to the tradition. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2956.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2956.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2956.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2956.mobi The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573 urn:isbn:0548548641 en 1904 Novels Science Fiction A novel about time travel. Excerpt: "Don't have to keep count," he replied. "See that indicator?" he continued, pointing to a dial in the ceiling which had not been noticed before. "That reads May 3, 1898, now, don't it? Well, it's fixed to keep always tellin' the right date. It counts the whirls we make an' keeps tabs on every day we go backward. Any time all ye hev to do is to read that thing an' it'll tell ye jest what day 'tis." This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+70 and in the USA. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3573.mobi The Day of the Boomer Dukes Frederik Pohl http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557 urn:isbn:B0015S9Q9M en 1956 Short Fiction Science Fiction Just as medicine is not a science, but rather an art--a device, practised in a scientific manner, in its best manifestations--time-travel stories are not science fiction. Time-travel, however, has become acceptable to science fiction readers as a traditional device in stories than are otherwise admissible in the genre. Here, Frederik Pohl employs it to portray the amusingly catastrophic meeting of three societies. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2557.mobi