"The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man." Thus begins one of the characteristically hypnotic fantasy tales by the unique Lord Dunsany, often considered the founder... More > of modern fantasy fiction. Another addition to the Litrix Library series of great books, this volume contains three of Dunsany's original collections.< Less
Sold into captivity, brutally disfigured to become an object of amusement for the English nobility, the child Gwynplaine grows into manhood as a travelling entertainer, in love with the blind girl... More > Dea, who is incapable of comprehending his monstrous appearance. But his true past arises to change his life completely, and open to him a world far uglier than any mere external appearance can display. A searing indictment of social injustice, by a master novelist with few peers at rendering into fictional form political satire and moral outrage.< Less
Nobody really knows Dan Barry, not even Old Joe Cumberland, who found him as a boy wandering alone in the desert and raised him as a son. Slight of build, mild of manner and voice, the only man who... More > can ride his wild stallion or tame his fearsome wolf-dog, Whistling Dan is known to be deadly with a gun and with his hands. And it's definitely a bad idea to make him angry, no matter how many of you there are. The first volume of the Dan Barry trilogy, one of the earliest works of the prolific writer known as Max Brand.< Less
Mark Twain's own favorite among his works, the product of a life-long obsession with the history of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc was in reality, a much more lively book than its reputation would... More > indicate, and no reader can claim to understand Twain's canon without having read this novel.< Less
A Pilgrim's Progress dressed up in the garb of a science-fiction adventure, this novel has become a legend of SF history, and is certainly one of the most strangely hypnotic of such works from the... More > early days of the genre. An examination of human morality and mortality, love and passion, good and evil, A Voyage to Arcturus looks at human qualities in their extreme form, and doesn't much like what it sees. It presages the great space trilogy of C. S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength), and clearly influenced it.< Less
It is a book such virulent evil that even a glance leads one down a path of madness and death. That book's title is The King in Yellow, as is this one, Robert W. Chambers's collection of semi-related... More > tales about a spectral being who can control individual destinies from a distant and monstrously cursed planet. It is an odd amalgam of two books, really, the initial stories centering on the spectral horror theme, the later ones being more or less conventional romances set in the Bohemian Quarter of Paris in wartime in the late 19th Century. These stories exercised major influence on later writers in the Horror genre, in particular H. P. Lovecraft.< Less
A Pilgrim's Progress dressed up in the garb of a science-fiction adventure, this novel has become a legend of SF history, and is certainly one
of the most strangely hypnotic of such works from the... More > early days of
the genre. An examination of human morality and mortality, love and
passion, good and evil, A Voyage to Arcturus looks at human qualities
in their extreme form, and doesn't much like what it sees. It presages
the great space trilogy of C. S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength), and clearly influenced it.< Less
Sold into captivity, brutally disfigured to become an object of amusement for the English nobility, the child Gwynplaine grows into manhood as a travelling entertainer, in love with the blind girl... More > Dea, who is incapable of comprehending his monstrous appearance. But his true past arises to change his life completely, and open to him a world far uglier than any mere external appearance can display. A searing indictment of social injustice, by a master novelist with few peers at
rendering into fictional form political satire and moral outrage.< Less
Whistling Dan Barry, along with his wild stallion and fearsome wolf-dog, saved Vic Gregg's life. Now Vic must betray him, but ultimately it is up to someone much closer to Dan Barry to face him, with... More > death on the line. The final volume of Max Brand's Dan Barry trilogy.< Less
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