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The Red Fairy Book, Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books or Andrew Lang’s “Coloured” Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral...
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The Blue Fairy Book, Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books or Andrew Lang’s “Coloured” Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral...
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The Second Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of...
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The Book of Wonder, Lord Dunsany
The Book of Wonder is the seventh book and fifth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft,...
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Porcelain and Pink, Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Porcelain and Pink is a comic one-act play from the 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. The plot involves a young woman in a bathtub and a case of mistaken identity. It was first...
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Just so Stories, Rudyard Kipling
The Just so Stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of these stories is “How Fear Came” in The Second Jungle Book...
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Fifty-One Tales, Lord Dunsany
Fifty-One Tales is a collection of 51 fantasy short stories by Irish writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others. The...
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The Devil’s Disciple, George Bernard Shaw
Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play The Devil’s Disciple tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed “Devil’s disciple”. In a twist characteristic...
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The Phoenix on the Sword, Robert Ervin Howard
The Phoenix on the Sword begins with a middle-aged Conan of Cimmeria attempting to govern the turbulent kingdom of Aquilonia.Conan has recently seized the bloody crown of Aquilonia from King Numedides...
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The Abbot’s Ghost, Louisa May Alcott
The novel Abbot’s Ghost, also known as The Abbot’s Ghost; or, Maurice Treherne’s Temptation, is a Christmas story from the writer of Little Women. Wrongly accused of gambling and fraud Maurice Traherne...
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