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  The Age of Innocence

  Edith Wharton

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  Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence is set against an exclusive society background in which she reveals how Newland Archer is often the victim of, rather than the key player in, the events. The plot is constructed on a pattern of ironic misunderstandings: for example, Newland is unaware that Ellen's decision not to sue for divorce was for his and May's sake rather than to conceal her past. Furthermore, Newland remains largely blind to the manipulations of a wife he persists in seeing as innocent and naive.

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  The New Catacomb

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories, a suppressed uneasiness gradually builds up and evolves into sheer horror; in others, the story line unexpectedly changes and comes to an unexpected conclusion. In "The New Catacomb," deceit and terror are buried in the deep recesses of an Roman archeological find.

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  Absolute Evil

  Julian Hawthorne

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  Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies and histories.Absolute Evil is an extraordinary werewolf story. A young spinster goes on an adventurous summer vacation on a remote island which is rumoured to be haunted. The island is inhabited only by an old woman and a small child. Or so they think...but strange and sinister events, bizarre footprints on the beach and a strange howling at night suggest otherwise....

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  The Complete Tales & Novels of...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Complete Tales & Novels of Edgar Allan Poe includes the 66 tales and 2 full-length novels of Edgar Allan Poe.Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story. He is also generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Poe was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.Included in this collection:1. Metzengerstein (1832)2. The Duc de L'Omelette (1832)3. A Tale of Jerusalem (1832)4. Loss of Breath (1832)5. Bon-Bon (1832)6. MS. Found in a Bottle (1833)7. The Assignation (1834)8. Berenice (1835)9. Morella (1835)10. Lionizing (1835)11. The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall (1835)12. King Pest (1835)13. Shadow (1835)14. Four Beasts in One (1836)15. Mystification (1837)16. Silence (1838)17. Ligeia (1838)18. How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838)19. A Predicament (1838)20. The Devil in the Belfry (1839)21. The Man That Was Used Up (1839)22. The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)23. William Wilson (1839)24. The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839)25. Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1840)26. The Business Man (1840)27. The Man of the Crowd (1840)28. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)29. A Descent into the Maelström (1841)30. The Island of the Fay (1841)31. The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841)32. Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841)33. Eleonora (1841)34. Three Sundays in a Week (1841)35. The Oval Portrait (1842)36. The Masque of the Red Death (1842)37. The Landscape Garden (1842)38. The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842/43)39. The Pit and the Pendulum (1842/43)40. The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)41. The Gold-Bug (1843)42. The Black Cat (1843)43. Diddling (1843)44. The Spectacles (1844)45. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844)46. The Premature Burial (1844)47. Mesmeric Revelation (1844)48. The Oblong Box (1844)49. The Angel of the Odd (1844)50. Thou Art the Man (1844)51. The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844)52. The Purloined Letter (1844/45)53. The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1845)54. Some Words with a Mummy (1845)55. The Power of Words (1845)56. The Imp of the Perverse (1845)57. The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1845)58. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845)59. The Sphinx (1846)60. The Cask of Amontillado (1846)61. The Domain of Arnheim (1847)62. Mellonta Tauta (1849)63. Hop-Frog (1849)64. Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849)65. X-ing a Paragrab (1849)66. Landor's Cottage (1849)67. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1837)68. The Journal of Julius Rodman (1840)

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  Vampyre The - A Tale

  John William Polidori

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  John William Polidori was born on 7th September 1795 in London to Gaetano Polidori, an Italian political émigré scholar, and Anna Maria Pierce, an English governess. He was the eldest of 8 children. 
   
  From 1804 Polidori was a pupil at the recently formed Ampleforth College. In 1810 he proceeded to the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote a thesis on sleepwalking and received his degree as a doctor of medicine on 1st August 1815. He was 19. 
   
  In 1816, Dr. Polidori was given the job of Byron’s personal physician and accompanied him on a trip through Europe. The publisher John Murray offered Polidori £500 to keep a diary of their travels. At the Villa Diodati, Byron’s rented villa at Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the pair met with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary's stepsister, Claire Clairmont. 
   
  One night in June, after the company had read aloud from a French collection of German horror tales, Byron suggested they each write a ghost story. There were to be two outstanding works from that evening; ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Shelley and Polidori’s ‘The Vampyre’ which would be the first published modern vampire story in English. 
   
  Dismissed by Byron, Polidori traveled in Italy and then returned to England. His story, ‘The Vampyre’, was published in the April 1819 issue of New Monthly Magazine without his permission. Much to the annoyance of both Polidori and Byron it was the latter who was credited as author.   
   
  Polidori also had published ‘Ximenes, The Wreath & Other Poems’ in 1819 and his long theological and sacred poem ‘The Fall of the Angels’ in 1821 as well as two plays, essays and his diary.  
   
  Despite his youth Polidori was increasingly worn down by gambling debts and depression.   
   
  John William Polidori died on 24th August 1821 at the age of only 25 in London.  Although his death was recorded as death by natural causes, strong evidence asserts that it was suicide by means of cyanide.

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  Life Triumphant The - Mastering...

  James Allen

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  Every being lives in his own mental world. His joys and sorrows are the creations of his own mind, and are dependent upon the mind for their existence. In the midst of the world, darkened with many sins and sorrows, in which the majority live, there abides another world, lighted up with shining virtues and unpolluted joy, in which the perfect ones live. This world can be found and entered, and the way to it is by self-control and moral excellence. It is the world of the perfect life, and it rightly belongs to man, who is not complete until crowned with perfection. The perfect life is not the faraway, impossible thing that men who are in darkness imagine it to be; it is supremely possible, and very near and real. Man remains a craving, weeping, sinning, repenting creature just so long as he wills to do so by clinging to those weak conditions. But when he wills to shake off his dark dreams and to rise, he arises and achieves.

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