Fantasy

IT was Christmas Eve. I remember it just as if it was yesterday. The Colonel had been pretending not to notice it, but when Drinkwater Torm knocked over both the great candlesticks, and in his attempt to pick them up lurched over himself.

It was the third week in September when the Fairfields left the seashore and returned to their Vernondale home. “Now, my child,” said Mr. Fairfield, as they sat on the veranda after dinner, “I will unfold to you my plans for the coming winter

Have you ever found yourself in a no-win situation? A young Greg encountered a mysterious stranger who urged him to steal a Vatican relic on display at his friend’s church. If he refused, he would endanger the lives of his loved ones.

The stories are set in and around the Chinatown that was then centred on Limehouse in the East End of London. It was a popular success and features several of Burke's best-known stories such as The Chink and the Child and Beryl and the Croucher.

She winked quickly. Accidents were awful things. She winked again. The mast was straight; the waves were regular; the lighthouse was upright; but the blot had spread. "… nothing for it but to leave," she read. "Well, if Jacob doesn't want to play"

When he inherits a country house after the Great War, a folklorist discovers that the old stories are real, and so is the fairy’s son wandering about his woods…

Tales of the Boundaries is a series of fantasy stories about what happens where this and the otherworld meet, including fairy tale retellings and original stories. This collection contains the first three tales.

There is something exasperatingly something-or-otherish about girls. And they know it—which makes them more something-or-otherish still:—there is no other word for it. * * *

I can just remember one day when Mary and Auntie Gertie were giving me my bath, I thought they were looking at my little spout, as I said saucily: "What are you looking at, Papa has got such a big one."

This highly educational book comprises a series of essays by the intellectual and scientist Grant Allen, author and novelist, and a successful upholder of many scientific theories. As a scientist Allen was an evolutionist..

The speaker had just pushed his horse over the brow of a slope which he and his servant had for some time been mounting, through the steamy warmth of a foggy May morning. The thick haze which lay heavy in this region of marshy ground had hidden the sur

Glassion is a fantasy series created by MYK2CO and is the first book detailing the gods as they exist on Laytome. It is a short story as an opener before the main stories of Glassion.

"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize" So Big is a 1924 novel written by Edna Ferber. The book was inspired by the life of Antje Paarlberg in the Dutch community of South Holland, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1925.

"A Novel of the Wilderness" A Gentleman of Courage, A novel of love and adventure in a French-Canadian pioneer village on Lake Superior in the 1890s.

Short stories about sexual encounters

The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels. It was his fourth novel.

Although Kate Chopin lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for most of her life, the few years that she spent in Louisiana profoundly influenced her writing career, which lasted from about 1888 to 1902. Her best-known work, The Awakening (1899).

scouts plan their camping trip, where they decide a theme around the classic role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Their journey takes an unexpected turn when they discovers a hidden portal to a world of magic, they find the games are all too real

Lady Chatterley's Lover is the final novel by the English author D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928, in Florence, Italy, and in 1929, in Paris, France. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960.

Kirin, a treasure hunter for magical gemstones, finds himself betrayed, made into a villain, entangled in the political schemes, and pitted against the slavers of old. Will he open his eyes to the truth, survive, and emerge victorious?

Sabiri and Iskrila are preparing for war, which is the only way to save their village from financial ruin. Bacara and Maria are going on an adventure to find magical artifacts to protect their own village from mysterious attackers. Are their stories con

Hell 1666 Amsterdam unfolds the story beyond the mystery of the first book. Here, Hell is a real place: a dark double of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, built from unknown matter and inhabited by beings with altered bodies.

A Dutch lab creates a program that reveals past lives. A couple’s memories expose incarnations from prehistory to the Third Reich. Cussel blends history, fantasy and psychology into a tale of identity, time and the mystery of existence.

This is about a donkey stealing some apples and then getting arrested and been seen by cctv

At the center is a remarkable golden ring, forged centuries ago in Byzantium. According to legend, it carries a timeless energy, guarded by the mysterious “Pale Ones,” beings who command the secrets of time and space.

The Metamorphosis, also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915.

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.

"The Silent Tide" is a romantasy about a young woman bound to the sea by a secret. When her truth is revealed, she faces a struggle between destiny and desire, navigating love, betrayal, and a deadly curse.

After surviving an impossible plane crash, Alex Mercer is hunted by a god-like being. He must master his new reality-bending powers to fight a conspiracy stretching back millennia and save a world he never knew was in danger.

The Eighth Pawn is a political fantasy epic blending military intrigue with family-driven treachery and relentless pacing. A gripping tale of political intrigue, deception, and a reluctant hero caught in the storm of a dying empire.