Fantasy
The Mystery Message. A Story of South American Adventure
T.C. Bridges
The early summer morning was warm and very quiet, and the only sound in the bare, barn-like room was the slow sucking of waves at the foot of the granite cliff on which it was built. On the table in the center of the room was a wireless device with five valves, the wires through which passed through the roof. Two thin cords dangled near the wires, the lower ends of which were within the reach of Jim Selvin, a tall, slender boy with a sharp face, who was sitting with headphones in his ears.
Stanley G. Weinbaum
Edmund Hall, born a mutant with too many joints in his fingers and a double mind, tries to find a purpose in a society of humans. This superman is no caped crusader fighting for justice though. Rather, he is a dual-brained super-intellect with an IQ so far off the charts that normal human beings appear as Neanderthals next to him. In this story, our evolved human is born into modern society without anyone knowing his nature. While pondering whether hes a superman or the devil, he explores pleasure, power, and passion. Slowly he realizes the differences between himself and contemporary humans, and therein lies a fascinating story.
Thorne Smith
In Night Life of the Gods, we meet Hunter Hawk, wealthy eccentric scientist in 1920s America, who, after numerous explosions, manages to invent an atomic ray that turns living beings into statues, and a second ray that restores them to their original state. With the help of Megaera, a fetching nine-hundred-year-old lady leprechaun he meets one night in the woods, he masters the art of transforming statues into people. Together, the two are invincible, especially when they get to New York City, where there are museums full of statues of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, waiting to come back to life... Author Thorne Smith puts his seemingly boundless imagination to good work in The Night Life of the Gods, a rip-roaring novel that postulates about what would happen if ancient deities were revived and allowed to run wild in the streets of Depression-era New York City.
J.U. Giesy, Junius B Smith
Abdul Omar was a psychologist, mystic and astrologer who worked as a private detective. He believed that astrology would help predict the exact actions of a person. Based on the time of birth, he can accurately predict what and when a person will do. He was devoted to protecting women and their honor. He fell in love with and married Lotis, a former assassin of the Black Brotherhood who was sent to kill him.
Elizabeth Louisa Moresby
A collection of ten short stories of supernatural phenomena, psychic events and the occult. These stories are founded on the deepest and highest range of Asiatic thought though the scenes of some are in the West. That thought is as vital for the West as for the East. The background is fictional but the stories are all true. In this connection I draw attention especially to the two entitled respectively Hell and The Man Who Saw L. Adams Beck (E. Barrington). E. Barrington started writing her novels, which commonly had an oriental setting, at the age of sixty. She was also a distinguished writer of esoteric works such as The Story of Oriental Philosophy and The Splendor of Asia, and on Theosophy.
The People of the Black Circle
Robert E. Howard
The king of vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold- domed chamber where Bhunda Chand struggled on the velvet-cushioned dais. Beads of sweat glistened on his dark skin; his fingers twisted the gold-worked fabric beneath him. He was young; no spear had touched him, no poison lurked in his wine.
T.C. Bridges
As the great plane roared through the upper air, young Monty Vince sat with his eyes glued to the thick glass window of her enclosed body, and watched the sea of clouds lying like a pearly floor far below. Every nerve in his body tingled with excitement and triumph, for even he, small as was his experience, knew that this first flight of his brothers new machine was a magnificent success.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The People That Time Forgot“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. The People That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel, the second of his Caspak trilogy. The trilogy includes “The Land That Time Forgot”, “The People That Time Forgot” and “Out of Time's Abyss”.
Gaston Leroux
The fascinating story about a young Swede Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is brought up in the Paris Opera House. After a while in the opera house, she begins to hear a voice that, in the end, teaches her how to sing beautifully. The ghost is in love with the main character and is jealous of her friend, but it can only spell disaster.
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories
Rudyard Kipling
The world of Kiplings stories is complex and rich, representing essentially an encyclopedia of the plot experience of the best English and American storytellers of the XIX century. They are characterized by psychology, innovation, which consists in introducing new layers of life into the fabric of narration, and a kind of naturalism. The lazy tourists demanding communication with people have already somewhat dulled this feeling of complacency and wide hospitality.
Robert E. Howard
Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs before dawn. Into a dim alley, one of a veritable labyrinth of mysterious winding ways, four masked figures came hurriedly from a door which a dusky hand furtively opened. They spoke not but went swiftly into the gloom, cloaks wrapped closely about them; as silently as the ghosts of murdered men they disappeared in the darkness.
Charles Williams
Charles Williams is able to create wonderful ghostly episodes powerful moments of disclosure. In the novel The Place of the Lion, the world of feelings is depicted as an illusion simply a reflection of the real world from which it originates. This makes some absolutely fascinating scenes, as people suddenly face a reality that they cannot understand. The book raises some interesting questions about good and evil.
T.C. Bridges
Short and stout as he was, Pip could handle a boat with any man, and the speed with which he got the sail up and tied down the reef points was worth watching. As he finished, the great arch of cloud swept over the sun, wiping, out its bright light. Then with a roar the wind was on them.
Robert E. Howard
The Pool of the Black One is one of the original short stories starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming the captain of a pirate vessel and encountering a remote island with a mysterious pool that has powers of transmutation.
The Prison Healer. Próby żywiołów
Lynette Noni
Napisane po mistrzowsku powieści Lynette Noni to lektura obowiązkowa dla wszystkich wielbicieli fantasy! Sarah J. Maas Siedemnastoletnia Kiva Meridan od dziesięciu lat walczy o przetrwanie w owianym złą sławą ciężkim więzieniu Zalindov, gdzie pracuje jako uzdrowicielka. Kiva podtrzymuje przy życiu umierającą Zbuntowaną Królową, która musi wziąć udział w próbie przetrwania przeznaczonej dla najbardziej niebezpiecznych przestępców serii wyzwań związanych z czterema żywiołami: powietrzem, ogniem, wodą i ziemią. Pewnego dnia Kiva otrzymuje zaszyfrowaną wiadomość od bliskich, a w niej krótkie polecenie: Nie daj jej umrzeć. Przybywamy. Kiva wie, że śmiertelnie chora królowa nie ma szansy sprostać wyzwaniom, więc zgłasza się na jej miejsce. Jeśli jej się powiedzie, obie odzyskają wolność. Problem w tym, że nikt jeszcze nie przeżył próby przetrwania.
The Prison Healer. Tom 2. Złota klatka
Lynette Noni
Lynette Noni to mistrzyni opowieści. Must read dla wszystkich, którzy kochają fantasy! Sarah J. Maas Mroczny i zagadkowy drugi tom trylogii The Prison Healer. Kiva Meridan zamienia jedną klatkę na drugą, gdy z ciężkiego więzienia trafia do najeżonego niebezpieczeństwami pałacu. Wyszła z opresji obronną ręką. Przetrwała pobyt w Zalindovie, a do tego sprostała wyzwaniom, którym nie miała prawa podołać. Teraz musi nie tylko przeżyć, ale i dokonać zemsty. Przez dziesięć lat pragnęła tylko wrócić do rodziny i ukarać ludzi odpowiedzialnych za jej nieszczęście. Gdy jednak uciekła z Zalindovu, jej misja ogromnie się skomplikowała. Kiva rozpoczyna nowe życie w stolicy, gdzie się dowiaduje, ilu cierpień doświadczyli jej bliscy i jak bardzo zmieniły się ich przekonania. Wkrótce wychodzi na jaw, że nie tylko wrogowie, ale i członkowie rodziny mają przed nią tajemnice.
The Prison Healer. Tom 3. Zdrada krwi
Lynette Noni
Lynette Noni to mistrzyni opowieści. Must read dla wszystkich, którzy kochają fantasy! Sarah J. Maas Fenomenalny finał trylogii The Prison Healer. Zawiodła ich. Wszystkich. I teraz za to zapłaci. Kiva sądziła, że wie, czego chce. Pragnęła zemsty, lecz uczucia się zmieniają, podobnie jak ludzie... i wszystko inne. Po zajściachw pałacu Kiva rozpaczliwie próbuje się dowiedzieć, czy jej rodzina i przyjaciele są bezpieczni i czy ci, których skrzywdziła, kiedykolwiek jej wybaczą. Tyle tylko, że wojna wisi na włosku, Kiva znajduje się daleko od centrum wydarzeń, a gra toczy się o stawkę wyższą niż jej złamane serce. Nowy rozdział w jej życiu zaczyna się od niebezpiecznej wyprawy, podczas której śmiertelni wrogowie i niechętni sojusznicy zmuszeni są do pośpiesznego zjednoczenia sił, by ocalić nie tylko Evalon, ale i cały Wenderall. Kiva już wie, o co walczy: nie tylko o swoje przetrwanie, ale i o to, w co wierzy, o tych, w których wierzy. Z każdej strony jednak zagraża im śmiertelne niebezpieczeństwo. Czy Kiva zdoła stawić czoło złu, czy poniesie porażkę?
J.U. Giesy, Junius B Smith
Semi Dual was an embodied mind rather than a human in the usual sense. He was a man of outstanding mental abilities, who applied his knowledge to straighten out the excesses and confusions of mortal life on earth. Many people would call him a mystic; in fact, he was a representative of the highest universal laws that few recognize. Another impressive story about Semi Dual, which reveals the new features of the main character.
T.C. Bridges
Winter closed early over the great desert of the Northwest, and the first dense snow lay on the banks and covered dark trees with a white mantle. Ice formed under the river banks, and its huge layers crumbled under the sound of a choking stern wheel and rattled like broken glass on a track. In the snowy forest thickets, neither human dwellings nor living creatures were visible. The still air was bitter from the frost, and a dull red sun fell behind the distant hills.
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the sword and sorcery genre. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fictions most enduring heroes. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howards greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes, and the richly evocative blend of history and mythology. Kull is an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize. This collection gathers together three stories plus one poem featuring Kull The Shadow Kingdom, The Mirrors Of Tuzun Thune, Kings of the Night and The King And The Oak.
Robert E. Howard
The roar of battle had died away; the shout of victory mingled with the cries of the dying. Like gay-hued leaves after an autumn storm, the fallen littered the plain; the sinking sun shimmered on burnished helmets, gilt-worked mail, silver breastplates, broken swords and the heavy regal folds of silken standards, overthrown in pools of curdling crimson. In silent heaps lay war- horses and their steel-clad riders, flowing manes and blowing plumes stained alike in the red tide.
Garrett P. Serviss
The protagonist is a rich scientist who predicts the onset of a new flood due to the passage of the Earth through a nebula. Instead of panic, people had laughter, because no one believed in his words. They thought he was crazy. While everyone was laughing, the mad scientist built the ark. The rains did not stop. The world is sinking, but will the main character survive?
T.C. Bridges
Set against a Florida background, this story tells of the adventures of Bill Picton and his young companions who trail a gang of moonshiners through the steaming, sluggish swamp-lands. Fitzgordon had never in his life before been in a tropical swamp, and the very first thing he did was to get both feet tangled in a coil of tough bamboo vine, and come down flat on his face on the wet black muck. The stuff was like rotten sponge, and just as full of water as it would hold. When he gained his feet again he was soaked from his knees to his neck.
Robert E. Howard
The blare of the trumpets grew louder, like a deep golden tide surge, like the soft booming of the evening tides against the silver beaches of Valusia. The throng shouted, women flung roses from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of silver hosts came clearer and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad, white street that curved round the golden-spired Tower of Splendor.