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  The Great God Pan

  Arthur Machen

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  A forbidden experiment. A woman transformed. A horror that slips quietly into the world—and never leaves.
  When a scientist conducts a dangerous ritual meant to lift the veil between worlds, he unleashes something ancient, wild, and terrifying. Years later, strange deaths, dark rumors, and a mysterious young woman begin to weave together into a truth too monstrous to comprehend. As the shadows deepen, those who seek answers find themselves staring into the face of a myth that was never meant for human eyes.
  
  Celebrated as "one of the most disturbing works of supernatural fiction ever written," Machen's novella influenced writers like H. P. Lovecraft and remains a cornerstone of cosmic and psychological horror. Its unsettling atmosphere and slow, creeping dread continue to haunt readers over a century later.
  
  If you love eerie mysteries, gothic tension, and stories that linger in the mind long after the final page, this classic will grip you with its quiet, devastating power.
  
  Open the book—if you dare—and glimpse the terror behind the world you think you know.

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  Armenian Legends and Poems

  Zabelle C. Boyajian

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  Part of a Social Enterprise project. 33% is donated to organisations that specialise in educational scholarships for the underprivileged. Over the plains of Armenia towers Mount Ararat, on which, the Bible states, Noah's Ark rested after the flood. Here also is the traditional site of the Garden of Eden, and the four rivers that Genesis describes as rising in the Garden still flow through the land. Sitting astride an arm of the Silk Route, Armenia has been invaded and occupied at various times by Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and the Seljuk Turks, to name but a few. In the fifth century, Armenia became the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as its national religion. Therefore, even a short outline of Armenian folklore and poetry must acknowledge the influences that have served to shape Armenian literature. These influences reflect the interwoven remnants of an intricate tapestry of ancient and modern cultures, legends, songs, and fragments of epics, creating a unique cultural and linguistic identity. Severed for many centuries from Western Europe by a flood of invasions, Armenian literature has not had the recognition that it deserves. In this volume, which is a mere sampler of Armenian literature, you will find poetry and laments that equal those of Shakespeare in their zeal and fervour. You will also find folk-songs that weep tears for the fate of Armenia, that cry out for freedom and liberty, that burst with the love of a woman for her man and of nightingales singing to babes in cradles. You will also find the key legends of Armenia-of Vahagn, King of Armenia, deified on account of his valour, of Princess Santoukhd, martyred by her father King Sanadroug for becoming a Christian, of Semiramis' love for Ara, so strong that she thought she could will him back to life. So curl up with this unique and exquisite piece of literature and be swept away by the passion of fourteen hundred years of Armenian poetry. A percentage of the net sale from this book will be donated to help the underprivileged in Armenia.

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  Blackbeard - Buccaneer

  Ralph D. Paine

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  Charles Town, 1718: young Jack Cockrell watches Stede Bonnet, the gentleman pirate, swagger ashore, and is soon a hostage when Blackbeard blockades the harbour — then adrift on a raft, lost in a Carolina swamp, and at last a witness to the great fight of Captain Teach. Ralph D. Paine had been a war correspondent and wrote of the old sailing trade from logbooks and records, and the real blockade and the real pirates stand behind the adventure. Fifty-two plates range from Turner and Aivazovsky to the lesser-known Dutch and Italian masters, gathering four centuries of storm, wreck and night sea to match the perils Jack Cockrell faces.

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  Beyond The Great South Wall

  Frank Savile

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  Beyond The Great South Wall: The Secret of the Antarctic By Frank SavileThe purr and throb of London was quivering in stuffily through the open windows. The squeals of the "special" newsboys and the hansom-whistles of the early diners-out splashed across the blur and din, standing out against the immeasurable roar as against a silence. The heat of a London summer lay heavily over us; the undying rattle of wheels beat up to us wearily, the mid-season blare and hurry of town echoing irritatingly in their jingle and clatter as they streamed ceaselessly by. The stew and hubbub of the afternoon enclosed us as with a pall of depression.

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  The Road to Oz - A Road That...

  L. Frank Baum

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  A signpost outside the farm sends Dorothy down a road that does not go where roads go, with the shaggy man, a lost little boy called Button-Bright and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter. They arrive in the Emerald City in time for Ozma's birthday, and every character Baum had invented so far comes to the party. The road is the plot, and the party is the point. Its 105 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

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  The Certainty of a Future Life...

  L. P. Gratacap

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  A New York man dies and wakes on Mars, where the dead of Earth go on living — and sends his notebooks home through a medium, describing the planet's cities, its canals and its arrangements for the newly arrived. L. P. Gratacap was a mineralogist at the American Museum of Natural History, and the geology of his Mars is worked out with a curator's patience. Spiritualism and hard science share the same book without embarrassment. Fifty-eight plates by painters including John Martin and Frederic Edwin Church carry the book's own current of moonlight, cloud and ruined stone.

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