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  • Elizabethan England

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by William Harrison ...
    William Harrison's Elizabethan England offers a vivid, unsparing portrait of sixteenth-century English life, from royal palaces and university halls to cottages, markets, and parish houses. Drawing on chronicles, letters, maps, and his own observation, Harrison ranges across social ranks, law, poverty, clothing, food, religion, education, housing, crime, punishment, shipping, and the navy, ... Read more

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  • The Lancashire Witches

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    The classic Victorian novel of romance and an unholy feud reaching across generations, based on the Lancashire witch trials of 1612.Widely considered to be a masterpiece of nineteenth–century gothic literature, William Ainsworth's The Lancashire Witches begins in 1536 with a fateful confrontation atop the notorious Pendle Hill. Falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned to death, Nicholas Demdike ... Read more

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  • HALLOWEEN COLLECTION TREAT

    600+ Chilling Macabre Classics, Supernatural Mysteries, Gothic Novels & Horror Thrillers

    by Théophile Gautier, Bram Stoker, Richard Marsh, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James, Wilkie Collins, E. F. Benson, Nathaniel Hawthorne0, Ambrose Bierce1, Arthur Machen2, William Hope Hodgson3, M. P. Shiel4, Arthur Conan Doyle5, Ralph Adams Cram6, Grant Allen7, Horace Walpole8, William Thomas Beckford9, Matthew Gregory Lewis0, Ann Radcliffe1, Jane Austen2, Charlotte Brontë3, Emily Brontë4, Charles Dickens5, Oscar Wilde6, Gaston Leroux7, Marjorie Bowen8, Percy Bysshe Shelley9, Theodor Storm0, Thomas Love Peacock1, Charles Maturin2, Charles Brockden Brown3, Mary Shelley4, John William Polidori5, Guy Boothby6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, George W. M. Reynolds8, Thomas Hardy9, Rudyard Kipling0, Guy de Maupassant1, Elizabeth Gaskell2, Lafcadio Hearn3, Jerome K. Jerome5, Fitz-James O'Brien6, Catherine Crowe7, Émile Erckmann8, Alexandre Chatrian9, Pedro De Alarçon0, Walter Hubbell1, Amelia B. Edwards2, Washington Irving3, John Meade Falkner4, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman5, Louisa M. Alcott6, Edith Nesbit7, Mary Louisa Molesworth8, Francis Marion Crawford9, Gertrude Atherton0, John Kendrick Bangs1, J. K. Huysmans2, John Buchan3, Sabine Baring-Gould4, Sax Rohmer5, Cleveland Moffett6, Louis Tracy7, Nikolai Gogol8, James Malcolm Rymer9, Thomas Peckett Prest0, Frederick Marryat1, Robert Louis Stevenson2, H. G. Wells3, Charlotte Perkins Gilman4, W. W. Jacobs5, H. H. Munro6, Wilhelm Hauff7, Adelbert von Chamisso8, Mary Elizabeth Braddon9, Robert W. Chambers0, Edward Bulwer-Lytton1, Thomas De Quincey2, William Makepeace Thackeray3, E. T. A. Hoffmann4, Robert E. Howard5, David Lindsay6, Marie Belloc Lowndes7, Edward Bellamy8, Eleanor M. Ingram9, Marie Corelli0, J. Meade Falkner1, Thomas Mayne Reid2, George Sylvester Viereck3, William Harrison Ainsworth4, John R. Musick5, Fred M. White6, Harriet Beecher Stowe7, Daniel Defoe8, Jack London9, George MacDonald00, Mark Twain01, Pliny the Younger02, Mrs. Margaret Oliphant03, Helena Blavatsky04, Fergus Hume05, Florence Marryat06, Villiers de l'Isle Adam07, William Archer08, William F. Harvey09, Katherine Rickford10, Leopold Kompert11, Vincent O'Sullivan12, Ellis Parker Butler13, A. T. Quiller-Couch14, Fiona Macleod15, William T. Stead16, Gambier Bolton17, Andrew Jackson Davis18, Nizida19, Walter F. Prince20, Chester Bailey Fernald21, Brander Matthews22, Leonard Kip23, Frank R. Stockton24, Bithia Mary Croker25, Catherine L. Pirkis26, Anatole France27, Richard Le Gallienne28, Olivia Howard Dunbar29, S. Mukerji30 ...
    Translated by Lafcadio Hearn4, J. T. Bealby31, Keene Wallace32, Samuel Henley33, Isabel F. Hapgood34, C. J. Hogarth35, Margarete Münsterberg36 ...
    This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: H. P. Lovecraft: The Tomb The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House Bram Stoker: Dracula The Dualists Edgar Allan Poe: The Cask of Amontillado The Mystery of Marie Rogêt The Premature Burial Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Evil Eye Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror William ... Read more

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  • Guy Fawkes or the Gunpowder Treason

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    The tyrannical measures adopted against the Roman Catholics in the early part of the reign of James the First, when the severe penal enactments against recusants were revived, and with additional rigour, and which led to the remarkable conspiracy about to be related, have been so forcibly and faithfully described by Doctor Lingard,[1] that the following extract from his history will form a fitting ... Read more

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  • The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    The Last Abbot of Whalley. CHAPTER I.—THE BEACON ON PENDLE HILL. There were eight watchers by the beacon on Pendle Hill in Lancashire. Two were stationed on either side of the north-eastern extremity of the mountain. One looked over the castled heights of Clithero; the woody eminences of Bowland; the bleak ridges of Thornley; the broad moors of Bleasdale; the Trough of Bolland, and Wolf Crag; and ... Read more

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  • Windsor Castle

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    In the twentieth year of the reign of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, namely, in 1529, on the 21st of April, and on one of the loveliest evenings that ever fell on the loveliest district in England, a fair youth, having somewhat the appearance of a page, was leaning over the terrace wall on the north side of Windsor Castle, and gazing at the magnificent scene before him. On his ... Read more

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  • Cardinal Pole Or the Days of Philip and Mary

    Historical Romance

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    No sooner was Mary, eldest daughter of Henry VIII., securely seated on the throne left vacant by the premature death of her brother, Edward VI., than the Emperor Charles V., already related to her through his aunt, Katherine of Aragon, determined to bring about a marriage between the Queen of England and his son Philip. By the accomplishment of this project, which had been conceived by the Emperor ... Read more

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  • The Spectre Bride

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    The castle bells rung out a merry peal at the approach of a winter twilight, and the warder was stationed with his retinue on the battlements, to announce the arrival of the company who were invited to share the amusements that reigned within the walls. The Lady Clotilda, the baron’s only daughter, had but just attained her seventeenth year, and a brilliant assembly was invited to celebrate the ... Read more

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  • The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '45

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    About midnight, in the autumn of 1724, two persons cautiously approached an old moated mansion, situated in Cheshire, though close to the borders of Lancashire. The night being almost pitch-dark, very little of the ancient fabric could be distinguished; but the irregular outline of its numerous gables showed that it was of considerable size. It was, in fact, a large picturesque hall, built in the ... Read more

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  • The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance (Complete)

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    May the dark neck of Siva, which the god of love has, so to speak, surrounded with nooses in the form of the alluring looks of Párvatí reclining on his bosom, assign to you prosperity. May that victor of obstacles,1 who after sweeping away the stars with his trunk in the delirious joy of the evening dance, seems to create others with the spray issuing from his hissing2 mouth, protect you. After ... Read more

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  • Auriol: The Elixir of Life

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    The Sixteenth Century drew to a close. It was the last day of the last year, and two hours only were wanting to the birth of another year and of another century. The night was solemn and beautiful. Myriads of stars paved the deep vault of heaven; the crescent moon hung like a silver lamp in the midst of them; a stream of rosy and quivering light, issuing from the north, traversed the sky, like the ... Read more

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  • Rookwood

    by William Harrison Ainsworth ...
    Within a sepulchral vault, and at midnight, two persons were seated. The chamber was of singular construction and considerable extent. The roof was of solid stone masonry, and rose in a wide semicircular arch to the height of about seventeen feet, measured from the centre of the ceiling to the ground floor, while the sides were divided by slight partition-walls into ranges of low, narrow catacombs ... Read more

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