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The Lair of the White Worm

Bram Stoker

1860, I am close on eighty years of age, and though we have beena long-lived race, the span of life ...

Nightmare Abbey

Thomas Love Peacock

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Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are

William Godwin

utal and tyrannical squire.MISS EMILY MELVILLE, his cousin and dependent, whom he cruelly maltrea...

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

have to wait. We waited in fact till two nightslater; but that same evening, before we scattered, h...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

erof the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of animperfect medium. No artis...

Unhappy Far-Off Things

Lord Dunsany

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The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations

James Branch Cabell

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The Jewel Merchants: A Comedy in One Act

James Branch Cabell

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The Mabinogion Vol. 2

r”—the two tales that form the first volume of the original edition.  The oldest of the tales�...

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

William Morris

CHRISTOPHER. CHAPTER XX. OF THE WEDDING OF CHRISTOPHER AND GOLDILIND. CHAPTER XXI. OF...

The Eagle's Shadow

James Branch Cabell

cation of the Impecunious, Margaret's almoner in furthering thecause of charity and philanthropy. Ka...

A Dreamer's Tales

Lord Dunsany

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The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

Lord Dunsany

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The Master Key

L. Frank Baum

not seem to their children likea fairy tale at all.Perhaps one, perhaps two—perhaps several of the...

Time and the Gods

Lord Dunsany

cles the dreams arose and stood upproudly between the river and the sky, all shimmering white to the...

The Golden Scorpion

Sax Rohmer

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Brood of the Witch-Queen

Sax Rohmer

exceed those which are claimed for a fully equipped Adept.S. R.BROOD OF THE WITCH-QUEEN[1]CHAPTER IA...

An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

Grant Allen

emunerative post of secretary;in which capacity I have ever since been his constant and attachedcomp...

The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Sax Rohmer

NIGHT OF THE RAID CHAPTER XXVIII.     THE SAMURAI’S SWORD CHAPTER XXIX.   THE S...

The Crystal Stopper

Maurice Leblanc

    138 The sight which she beheld struck her with stupefaction.       214 Daubrecq ran up t...

Arsène Lupin

Maurice Leblanc

olden light warmedthe panelled walls and old furniture to a dull lustre, and gave back to thefading ...

Taxonomic Notes on Mexican Bats of the Genus Rhogeëssa

E. Raymond Hall

eys collection) where there are approximately the samenumber of Mexican specimens of Rhogeëssa as a...

A New Subspecies of Bat (Myotis velifer) from Southeastern California and Arizona

Terry A. Vaughan

r, Jour. Mamm.,20:226, May 14, 1939). West of the Rocky Mountains the species is knownto occur also ...

Two New Pocket Gophers from Wyoming and Colorado

E. Raymond Hall and H. Gordon Montague

ng accumulated in thepast two seasons of field work in Wyoming were examined byHall. A result of the...

Taxonomy and Distribution of Some American Shrews

James S. Findley

nited States National Museum, No. 19434, respectively, both of whichare alcoholics, reveals that the...

Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas

Dwight R. Platt

ture. Kalmbach (1918, 1920, 1939) continued these studies byanalyzing stomach contents from various ...

Extensions of Known Ranges of Mexican Bats

Sydney Anderson

extend the known geographic ranges to the northwardon either the east or the west coast of Mexico. C...

An Annotated Checklist of Nebraskan Bats

J. Knox Jones and Olin L. Webb

none of the bats collected by Cooper now existsin the United States National Museum and that no dat...

Descriptions of Two Species of Frogs, Genus Ptychohyla

William Edward Duellman

erning their relationships.Taylor (1944) proposed the generic name Ptychohyla for a newspecies of fr...

British Butterflies: Figures and Descriptions of Every Native Species

W. S. Coleman

P R E F A C E.A desire to extend the knowledge of, and by so doing to extend the love for, th...