'She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.' Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the...
'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty...
'They didn't seem to take much interest in my private parts which to tell the truth were nothing to write home about, I...
The celebrated master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe brought his nightmare imaginings to life in classic stories told in a signature style. This volume...
From the acclaimed author of The Old Ways and Landmarks -- an essay on the beauty and joy of reading, for anyone who has ever...
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For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient...
In December 1827, a French newspaper ran a story about a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. The article fired...
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between...
A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be...
'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire?' Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are...
'Everything was dead, everything unreal, the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures' One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence,...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater...
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the...
They are the fearful images that have stalked humanity's nightmares for centuries, supernatural creatures that feast on flesh and haunt the soul, macabre and uncanny...
Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience.In 1845, Thoreau moved to a...
'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in...
Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris, his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a...