Science-Fiction & Fantasy

The Willows

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows is a short horror tale that begins with a vivid, almost cinematic…

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

George MacDonald

George MacDonald’s Phantastes presents itself as a “faerie romance” that invites both men and women into a…

The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald

The story is a fairy‑tale fantasy aimed at younger readers, introducing Princess Irene, an eight‑year‑old…

Man Overboard!

F. Marion Crawford

The opening of Man Overboard! sets the tone for a gritty seafaring yarn that blends the ordinary hazards of…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson

Lewis Carroll

This edition presents Lewis Carroll’s whimsical fantasy for children, a tale that begins with a very ordinary…

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6)

This volume is the third of a six‑part supplement to the classic Arabian Nights, gathering together a dozen…

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H. Rider Haggard

The novel is a Victorian‑era adventure that blends fantasy, romance and a hint of speculative immortality.

The eternal moment, and other stories

E. M. Forster

The volume gathers a handful of early‑twentieth‑century short pieces by E. M.

The Marvelous Land of Oz

L. Frank Baum

The Marvelous Land of Oz is a juvenile fantasy adventure that begins in the northern Gillikin region with a…

Ten From Infinity

Paul W. Fairman

Ten From Infinity is a science‑fiction novella that opens on a bustling Manhattan street, where a pedestrian…

Lilith: A Romance

George MacDonald

George MacDonald’s Lilith: A Romance opens with a lyrical wander through a sun‑drenched pine wood on…

Varney the vampyre; Or, the Feast of Blood

Prest, Thomas Peckett; Rymer, James Malcolm

The Eyes Have It

Philip K. Dick

The piece is a short, humor‑laden science‑fiction story that opens with a narrator’s accidental discovery of…

The iron heel

Jack London

The Iron Heel is a speculative political novel that blends science‑fiction vision with a sharply observed…

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Lang, Andrew; Pollock, Walter Herries

The work is a comic parody of Victorian adventure tales, written by Andrew Lang and Walter Herries Pollock as…

Talents, Incorporated

Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster’s Talents, Incorporated is a science‑fiction tale that opens in the smoky heart of a…

Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch

Mary E. Bradley Lane

Mizora: A Prophecy presents itself as a speculative utopian narrative framed by a first‑person account that…

Five Children and It

E. Nesbit

The Game of Rat and Dragon

Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

The piece is a science‑fiction short story that plunges the reader into a future where interstellar travel…

Can Such Things Be?

Ambrose Bierce

The work is a short‑story collection by Ambrose Bier Bierce that opens with a dense, almost sermon‑like…

Adaptation

Mack Reynolds

Adaptation is a science‑fiction exploration of humanity’s grand experiment in galactic colonization.

The Best Made Plans

Everett B. Cole

The opening of The Best Made Plans drops the reader into a single, breath‑holding scene that feels more like…

News from Nowhere; Or, An Epoch of Rest Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance

William Morris

The work is a speculative utopian romance framed as a series of “chapters” that recount a single…

Alice's Adventures Under Ground Being a facsimile of the original Ms. book afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Lewis Carroll

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground is a whimsical fantasy that begins with a very ordinary garden scene, quickly…