Coming from the darker side of J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination, "The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" is an important non Middle-earth work to set alongside his other retellings of existing myth and legend, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, The Fall of Arthur a...

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are probably dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends may have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends have been chopped down and turned into stylish-yet-affordable end tables. Each page of this la...

In 1970, Stephen King embarked on what would become the crowning achievement in his literary career-the Dark Tower. The seven-volume series, written and published over a period of 30 years, was inspired by Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the...

When Kate Watts abandoned her law career to open a food pantry in Northeast Minneapolis, she never dreamed it would be this difficult. Facing the heartbreaking prospect of turning hungry people away, she is grateful for the anonymous donations that b...

In our Fairy Cabinet (...) we have aimed at pleasing children, not 'grown-ups', at whom the old French writers directed their romances, but have hunted for fairy tales in all quarters, not in Europe alone. In this volume we open, thanks to Dr. Ignaz...

In "Gunmen, Gallants and Ghosts" there is a series of stories generally entitled The Ghost hunter, which have the same central character. In addition to these four stories, there are four other stories of the occult, eight stories about crooks or spi...