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3 Stories with Delusions and Dreams in Ancient Egypt

by H P Lovecraft, Theophile Gautier, Ernest R Stuffing ...

There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture ... Read more

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There is something about the number 3.The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois. It seems good things usually come in threes. Whatever history and culture
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Dark Masters, The - Volume 6

Tod Robbins to Israel Zangwill

by Tod Robbins, Phil Robinson, Sax Rohmer, Saki, Marcel Schwob, Walter Scott, M P Shiel, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Ernest R Stuffing, E G Swain, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Allen Upward, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, H G Wells, Oscar Wilde, W J Wintle, Israel Zangwill ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, David Shaw-Parker, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

Unabridged

12 hours 1 min

Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy, ... Read more

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Life is to be lived. Experiences gained, pleasures sampled. But, troublingly, when you are a classic author your thoughts sometimes lean towards darker thoughts. Within the space of a few paragraphs these literary masters shape a new world; more difficult experiences, darker pleasures. Life becomes uneasy, a queasy feeling, perhaps a repulsion here, a disgust there and very soon what was cosy,
... Read more
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Forgotten Authors, The - Volume 10

Gertrude Barrows Bennett to Francis Brett Young

by Josephine Tey, Hesba Stretton, Karl Hans Strohl, Ernest R Stuffing, E G Swain, Nikolai Teleshov, Allen Upward, Michael Vincent, Anna Wahlenburg, Ethel Lina White, Edward Lucas White, Leonara Wodehouse ...

Narrated by Christopher Ragland, David Shaw-Parker, Robert Maskell ...

Unabridged

13 hours 53 min

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.
... Read more
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Egypt - A Short Story Collection

Stories set in the fabled land of Egypt, modern and ancient times

by Harry Houdini, H P Lovecraft, Louisa May Alcott, Boleslaw Prus, Tennessee Williams, Guy Boothby, Fergus Hume, Theophile Gautier, Grant Allen, Kate Chopin, Sax Rohmer, Ernest R Stuffing ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Michael Lyons, Laurel Lefkow ...

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6 hours 43 min

In the history of humanity there is perhaps one civilisation that everyone feels both drawn to and be a part of: Egypt.Its history in measured in millenniums and its culture has dominated others before being woven into the fabric of others. Its legacy and its accomplishments are legion.In this volume our many classic authors explore their own understanding, exploration and connection with ... Read more

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In the history of humanity there is perhaps one civilisation that everyone feels both drawn to and be a part of: Egypt.Its history in measured in millenniums and its culture has dominated others before being woven into the fabric of others. Its legacy and its accomplishments are legion.In this volume our many classic authors explore their own understanding, exploration and connection with
... Read more
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Stories From The Shadows - Volume 10

Embrace the darkness

by Hesba Stretton, Ernest R Stuffing, E G Swain, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Allen Upward, Emma Vane, Clara Venn, Edgar Wallace, Hugh Walpole, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, H G Wells, Edith Wharton, Ethel Lina White, Oscar Wilde, W J Wintle, Mrs Ellen Wood, Virginia Woolf, Israel Zangwill ...

Narrated by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, David Shaw-Parker ...

Unabridged

11 hours 30 min

An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into ... Read more

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An author’s talents may seem obvious and indisputable as they move words and ideas into gathered phrases and stories.But where do these ideas and stories come from? A lonely thought that suddenly gathers form? An inspiration from a Muse? A suggestion from an everyday event?Perhaps in the case of their darker, more malevolent stories, other forces are at work. They help to nourish single words into
... Read more

The Mummy MEGAPACK®

20 Modern and Classic Tales

by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Gregory Betancourt, Louisa May Alcott, Lafcadio Hearn ...

Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned horror and dark fantasy authors! Explore the uncanny world of mummies, ancient egypt, and dark sorcery, with these 20 stories:SYMPATHY FOR MUMMIES, by John Gregory BetancourtSOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY, by Edgar Allan PoeTHE POWER OF WAKING, by Nina Kiriki HoffmanTHE MUMMY’S FOOT, by Jessie Adelaide ... Read more

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Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned horror and dark fantasy authors! Explore the uncanny world of mummies, ancient egypt, and dark sorcery, with these 20 stories:SYMPATHY FOR MUMMIES, by John Gregory BetancourtSOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY, by Edgar Allan PoeTHE POWER OF WAKING, by Nina Kiriki HoffmanTHE MUMMY’S FOOT, by Jessie Adelaide
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Arabian Nights and Days

by Naguib Mahfouz ...

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs ... Read more

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The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbinding style. Here are genies and flying carpets, Aladdin and Sinbad, Ali Baba, and many other familiar stories from the tradition of The One Thousand and One Nights, made new by the magical pen of the acknowledged dean of Arabic letters, who plumbs
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The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

by H. P. Lovecraft ...

Six timeless stories of supernatural terror and macabre imagination by "the 20th century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale" (Stephen King).H. P. Lovecraft's unique literary vision has influenced generations of authors whose work comprises its own subgenre: Lovecraftian horror. His legacy can be seen everywhere, from the HBO drama series Lovecraft Country to the enduring Cthulhu ... Read more

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Six timeless stories of supernatural terror and macabre imagination by "the 20th century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale" (Stephen King).H. P. Lovecraft's unique literary vision has influenced generations of authors whose work comprises its own subgenre: Lovecraftian horror. His legacy can be seen everywhere, from the HBO drama series Lovecraft Country to the enduring Cthulhu
... Read more
The Maker of Gargoyles and Other Stories

by Clark Ashton Smith ...

Clark Ashton Smith was a prodigy, who wrote Arabian Nights novels in his mid-teens and was heralded as a major voice in American poetry by the time he was nineteen. In one frantic burst in the middle 1930s, he wrote nearly a hundred strange, wondrous, and grotesque stories, most of which were published in Weird Tales, Strange Tales, Wonder Stories, and other pulps, but he was by no means a ... Read more

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Clark Ashton Smith was a prodigy, who wrote Arabian Nights novels in his mid-teens and was heralded as a major voice in American poetry by the time he was nineteen. In one frantic burst in the middle 1930s, he wrote nearly a hundred strange, wondrous, and grotesque stories, most of which were published in Weird Tales, Strange Tales, Wonder Stories, and other pulps, but he was by no means a
... Read more
Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

by Baroness Orczy ...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic,
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Th Hill of Dreams

by Arthur Machen ...

Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. The portrait of a doomed artist: ... Read more

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Lucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. The portrait of a doomed artist:
... Read more
Voices from the Other World

Ancient Egyptian Tales

by Naguib Mahfouz ...

Translated by Raymond Stock ...

Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times.From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulers banish virtue in jealous defense of their status, to the Fifth Dynasty, where a Pharaoh returns from an extended leave to find that ... Read more

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Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times.From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulers banish virtue in jealous defense of their status, to the Fifth Dynasty, where a Pharaoh returns from an extended leave to find that
... Read more

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