The Baitâl Pachchisi; Or, The Twenty-Five Tales of a Sprite is an enthralling anthology that captures the timeless allure of Indian folklore through its rich tapestry of narrative styles and enchanting themes. This collection is steeped in the vibrant tradition of oral storytelling, highlighting its enduring cultural significance. Each tale is a unique fusion of fantastical elements and moral inquiries, weaving together the cultural fabric of ancient and medieval India. The anthology stand...

Creatures of the Dark: 10 Vampire Horror Novels surveys the vampire's evolution from folkloric revenant to modern Gothic predator. Moving among sensational romance, penny-dreadful extravagance, decadent fantasy, travel-inflected tale, and the psychologically charged Gothic novel, the volume places canonical narratives such as Dracula and Carmilla beside less frequently encountered works. Its transnational range also recalls that vampiric figures emerge not only from Victorian anxieties abo...

The Beasts of Nightmares: 40 Monster Books surveys the protean figure of the monster across Gothic romance, supernatural terror, scientific fantasy, imperial adventure, detective fiction, and folkloric tale. Its capacious selection places revenants, vampires, uncanny doubles, prehistoric survivals, artificial beings, and exoticized creatures in productive proximity. From claustrophobic castle narratives to expeditionary romances and speculative visions, the volume reveals how monstrousness...

The Book of Monsters: 40 Timeless Horror Novels surveys the monster as a uniquely flexible figure of dread: scientific transgression, revenance, vampiric contagion, colonial encounter, occult mystery, and evolutionary anxiety all assume compelling form here. Moving from Gothic romance and sensation fiction to adventure tale, proto-science fiction, detective narrative, and cosmic horror, the volume situates such landmarks as Frankenstein, Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde's...

10 Vampire Classics surveys the vampire's transformation from folkloric revenant to urbane Gothic predator across the nineteenth century and beyond. Its varied forms—novella, sensational romance, penny dreadful, travel-inflected tale, and translation-mediated narrative—demonstrate how vampirism absorbed anxieties about sexuality, empire, medicine, class, and the unstable boundary between life and death. Alongside canonical Gothic encounters, the volume's popular serial fiction and cross-cu...

"Penny Dreadfuls" were a type of British publication in the 19th century that featured lurid serial stories appearing in parts over a number of weeks, each part costing one penny. The term, however, soon came to encompass a variety of publications that featured cheap sensational fiction. The penny dreadfuls were printed on cheap pulp paper and were aimed at young working class males. Two of the most famous were "Varney the Vampire" (which popularized vampires) and "The String of Pearls" (S...

Kojiki ("Record of Ancient Matters") is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711-2) and composed by O no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Gemmei. The Kojiki is a collection of myths concerning the origin of the four home islands of Japan, and the Kami. Along with the Nihon Shoki, the myths contained in the Kojiki are part of the inspiration behind Shinto practices and myths.O no Yasumaro (died August 15, 723) was a Japanese nobleman, bureaucrat...

Classic Horror Collection. Incl. Dracula, Present at a Hanging, Tales of Terror and Mystery, The Phantom of the Opera, The Cask of Amontillado, Varney the Vampire, Frankenstein, The Raven & MORE. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Jane Austen: Northanger AbbeyAmbrose Bierce: The Parenticide Club Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost StoriesAlgernon Blackwood: The Garden of SurvivalCharles Brockden Brown: Arthur Mervyn or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Wieland or, The T...

Get ready for the new Showtime series 'Penny Dreadful' with these three Penny Dreadful classics remastered for eReaders: 'Wagner The Wehr-Wolf,' 'Varney The Vampire' and 'The Mysteries of London.''Wagner the Wehr-Wolf'Published in 1847, 'Wagner' is one of the first werewolf novels in English Literature. It is set in the sixteenth century and begins with a recently abandoned old man waiting in vain for his granddaughter to return and care for him as a storm rages in the anci...

The Vedas are a large body of texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism. 4 VEDAS: The Rigveda The Yajurveda The Samaveda The Atharvaveda

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names The Damned Thing [Ambrose Bierce] A Prisoner in Fairyland, The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, The Willows [Algernon Blackwood] Wieland: or, The Transformation [Charles Brockden Brown] The Keeper of Cademuir, No-man's-land, The Grove of Ashtaroth, The Watcher by the Threshold [John Buchan] The King in Yellow [Robert William Chambers] The Signal-Man [Charles Dickens] Trilby [George du Maurier] The Lost...

I Laud Agni, the chosen Priest, God, minister of sacrifice, The hotar, lavishest of wealth. 2 Worthy is Agni to be praised by living as by ancient seers. He shall bring hitherward the Gods. 3 Through Agni man obtaineth wealth, yea, plenty waxing day by day, Most rich in heroes, glorious. 4 Agni, the perfect sacrifice which thou encompassest about Verily goeth to the Gods. 5 May Agni, sapient-minded Priest, truthful, most gloriously great, The God, come hither with the Gods. 6 Whatever bles...