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Legends of Norseland

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Mara L. Pratt

Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…

Chapter 27

In Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England

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Robert Smith Surtees

Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…

In Undying Loneliness

In Wisdom's Daughter

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H. Rider Haggard

A strange manuscript in an unknown language is found among the effects of the late Professor Horace Holly. Its translator discovers that whi…

Chapter XVIII The "Coke" Fiend

In The Dream Doctor

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Arthur B. Reeve

The Dream Doctor is a compilation of detective stories featuring Professor Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock-like character who uses his scientific …

The Death of Rustem

In The Epic of Kings: Stories Retold from Firdusi

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Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi

The Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) is a monumental poem composed around 1000 C.E. by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. It narrates the exploits of m…

Letter IX

In Letters from Hell

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Valdemar Adolph Thisted

"Letters from Hell" is a didactic Christian fantasy novel, with a faint resemblance to C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters.&qu…

A Party in a Parlour

In For Love and Life Vol. 1

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Margaret O. Oliphant

“The device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.” The novel…

CHAPTER IV. The Naiad-Part One

In The Naiad

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George Sand

The Naiad: A Ghost Story is a supernatural novella by George Sand, the pseudonym of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant, née Dupin. - Sum…

Preface & JOSEPH CAST INTO THE PIT,

In Joseph and his Brethren

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W. K. Tweedie

"The story of Joseph is at once so simple that childhood is arrested and rivetted by it, and so profound that sages may deepen their wi…