Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

"My legal name where I currently reside in the city of Liege, Belgium, in the year 2010 A.D., is Gaspar Valessi, but that is not my real name. The name I was given some 30,000 years ago, when I was born in a Paleolithic...

In 1892, Oscar Zoroaster Diggs turned up in Topeka with a suitcase full of high quality emeralds. Instantly the richest man in Kansas, his winning smile and keen mind launched him into a meteoric political career. As Secretary of War under Teddy Roosevelt, Diggs...

Why rob the poor creature of life and liberty, when it would be so easy a thing to restore both to it He was sure from the fact that the panther moved all its limbs in its futile struggle for freedom that its spine...

Bulwer-Lytton is legend nowadays for the qualities of his prose: but we find his prose attractive, in its languid way; and certainly the man was a profound thinker. "Vril" is a mysterious energy used by Lytton's subterranean race -- refugees from the deluge that...

"Vril" is a mysterious energy used by Lytton's subterranean race -- refugees from the deluge that submerged Atlantis -- to power their advanced civilization. Generations of occultists have mistaken this bit of business for something other than fiction; and still more generations of science...

Disturbed By Her Song collects the work of Esther Garber and her half-brother Judas Garbah, the mysterious family of writers that Tanith Lee has been channeling for the past few years. Possibly autobiographical, frequently erotic and darkly surreal, their fiction takes place in a...

An Agocii warrior seizes the chance to escape his outcast status and begin a new life... Vsevold, outcast warrior of the Agocii, finds hope in the defeat of his people at the devastating siege of Parne. Determined to begin a new life, he turns...

THE JOURNEY is an epic fantasy adventure by bestselling authors Piers Anthony and J.R. Rain. When a village's coming-of-age tradition sends Floyd into the wilderness, he encounters a fantasy world rife with mythical creatures and magical danger. Temptations abound on land and at sea,...

Wall Street Journal bestselling author Charlie N. Holmberg returns to the enchanting world of The Paper Magician. Alvie Brechenmacher has arrived in London to begin her training in Polymaking--the magical discipline of bespelling plastic. Polymaking is the newest form of magic, and in a...

The Cat of Bubastes, A Tale of Ancient Egypt (1889) is a historical novel for young people by British author G.A. Henty. It is the story of a young prince who becomes a slave when the Egyptians conquer his people, then is made a...

"In the unwritten history of the universe, there is no known beginning. The realm of Euxinus simply was."Transported to the supernatural world of Euxinus, the Trickster Stingy Jack is uneasy and unprepared to stand witness in the trial of his beloved. Allied only with...

John Martin Leahy is best known for his 1920s Lost World adventures, set in both the Antarctic and a subterranean world beneath the Pacific Northwest. This volume collects his two serial novels, "The Living Death" and "Drome," as well as the short story "In...

Kip Penfold's apprenticeship as the first non-human sorcerer begins with exploring the ruins left by the vicious attack on Prince George's College of Sorcery some months before. This gruesome task results in a clue that takes him to London, but the closer he gets...

Kadar, Ahsan and their group of comrades, thrown together primarily through chance and circumstance, have no one to rely on now but one another. The difficult alliance is frought with disagreements on how best to survive their time on the run, and what sacrifices...

The Bronze God of Rhodes is written as the memoirs of Chares of Lindos. **** Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. A pupil of Lysippos, Chares eventually built the Colossus of Rhodes, now considered to be one...

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin), the scholarly Sostratos, are back in a new adventure. xxx Soon after their successful return to Rhodes the two cousins find that Greece is a dangerous place after the death of Alexander. Various...

Maurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose...

November 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte is mere weeks away from being crowned Emperor, when a great evil from his past returns to Paris. The leader of France knows he is engaged in a race against time. To fail would cause the whole of Europe to...

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn is a terrifically funny novel written in a rambling style. The vote has come to women in Australia and in the small town of Noonoon two male candidates have posited themselves, one as the "women's" candidate, the other as...

The world is woven of secrets. I was born with lightning in one hand and mercy in the other, but what I need is the pattern to my tapestry of power. Danger drove me from the primeval American wilderness to Windward Academy, where the...

"...we are all Death's pupils, we practitioners-students of the great healer." When magic broke free in my blood, I chose to follow our ancient family path and become a practitioner. I'm learning to heal, and to protect innocents. I dip into minds, stalk vampires,...

Author: George MacDonaldISBN-10: 1604506717ISBN-13: 9781604506716Publisher: Serenity Publishers, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/17/2009Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

In a land where two countries have been torn by war for generations, Princess Jessa is sent as a peace offering to the country of Arravan, understanding all too well that she is being sacrificed upon the altar of her father's ambitions--and condemned to...

Rider Haggard's fantastic tales out of Africa have few peers. His first novel of She is possibly one of the best known and has become one of the most popular novels ever. Yet She is just the first of four exciting adventures of mysticism,...

All four classic novels of She-who must be obeyed-in two special volumes Rider Haggard's fantastic tales out of Africa have few peers. His first novel of She is possibly one of the best known and has become one of the most popular novels ever....

The great man of Africa strides out with two more adventures This is the third volume of the collected adventures of Allan Quatermain-hunter, trader, explorer and adventurer-set once again in the exotic landscape of nineteenth century South East Africa at a time when the...

In ancient Egypt during the magnificent eighteenth dynasty the Pharaoh Akhenaten and his queen, the strong and beautiful Nefertiti, are engaged in a dramatic battle against the wealthy, corrupt and dangerously powerful priests of Amun. Haunting and full of surprises, Akhenaten: Son of the...

The dramatic and passionate story of Hatshepsut, Queen of Egypt during the Eighteenth dynasty. Ambitious, ruthless and worldly, Hatshepsut established Amun as the chief god of Egypt, bestowing his Priesthood with unprecedented riches and power. This is a story of vision and obsession, of...

When Lukas stumbles into a hidden tunnel under Glastonbury Tor, he is unprepared for the events that follow. He meets the hermit Collen and assists in the struggle against the mighty Gwyn ap Nudd, a confrontation involving the Earth Goddess and, ultimately, the highest...

Note--This is not a box set. This is a single 675 page book. You've been misled. Lewis Carroll didn't reveal the whole story...Alice never left Wonderland. She's trapped. She's angry. And she wants revenge. The truth is not what you were led to believe....

Spring has turned to summer, the hottest and most abundant summer ever remembered in the Mabden lands. But in the mists lurks an insidious coldness--the icy presence of the Fhoi Myore. Despite being slowly decayed by the warmth of the world, these harbingers of...

A land in chaos. A city in ruins. Finn must reach the place where it all began, her peaceful meadow in Greenswallow, hoping to set right the wrongs of her past. Traveling forward blindly, she only wants to retrieve her memories and help Iseult,...

A Crown for Two Islands begins with the war in Ulster. Thomas Radcliffe, the English Lord Deputy of Ireland, invades Armagh and threatens Ulster's most powerful chieftain. As a result, Ireland becomes a central point of concern for Pope Pius IV when Catholic land...

In Book III, Amadis travels throughout Europe gaining fame as the Knight of the Green Sword. Among his feats, he challenges the devilish beast called the Endriago and wins the gratitude of the Emperor of Constantinople. But back in Great Britain, his beloved Princess...

Eric Brighteyes By H. Rider Haggard You have graciously conveyed to me the intelligence that during the weary weeks spent far from his home-in alternate hope and fear, in suffering and mortal trial-a Prince whose memory all men must reverence, the Emperor Frederick, found...

Step into the enchanting world of Hant Hollow from the imaginative mind of D.F. Jones, the USA Today bestselling author. The Doanhart Coven, a spirited group of witches, embarks on an extraordinary quest to restore the delicate balance between dark and light magic. But...

Meg had thought that taking a commuter flight from Pasco, Washington to Boise, Idaho would be a simple matter. But nothing is simple for Meg when it comes to travel, and especially not when she finds herself in the Middle Ages again instead of...

A Celtic warrior princess is torn between her forbidden love for the enemy and duty to her people.AWARD-WINNING APOLLO'S RAVEN sweeps you into an epic Celtic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Britannia. In 24 AD British...

The year is 1882 Scotland, and the auld alliance betwixt king and fey has long been forgotten. Men of science, backed by barons of industry, push the boundaries of technology. When Sir Walter Conrad discovers a new energy source, one that could topple nations...

Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy," Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11th century Ireland, where the forces of evil have launched an assault on the monastery of Clonmacnoise. Their task...

Hailed by critic E. F. Bleiler as a "landmark book in the history of fantasy," Mervyn Wall's classic The Unfortunate Fursey (1946) is set in 11th century Ireland, where the forces of evil have launched an assault on the monastery of Clonmacnoise. Their task...

She is a woman without a name. Chosen by men for her beauty, she refused to bend to their desires. Beaten and sold to a slave trader, she is left to die in a putrid dungeon. Everything changes when she's purchased by the thane...

Deliverance will come... But that is another story. What makes a legend but the stories told about him? Interviewing Gorias La Gaul, the biggest legend of them all, is a dream come true for young scribe Jessica. Where other girls her age would swoon...

"Leake weaves together a beautifully rendered historical setting, magic and romance in this stunning debut." --Elizabeth May, author of The Falconer Amid the sumptuous backdrop of the London season in 1905, headstrong Katherine Sinclair must join the ranks of debutantes vying for suitors. Unfortunately...

An arctic prison and a convict colony at the end of the world await disgraced Lord Blaine "Mick" McFadden. Spared execution for murdering his abusive father, Blaine doubts that being sent to Velant Prison and the Edgeland colony is really a mercy. Not when...

HIDDEN MICKEY 3: Wolf The Legend of Tom Sawyer's Island Volume 3 in a series of action-adventure mysteries about Walt Disney and Disneyland written for Adults, Teens, & Tweens (age 10 & up). Flesch-Kincaid Grade 5.0 - Flesch Reading Ease 81.4 WOULD YOU TO...

Porter Gibson 'Digit' -- the baseball-playing, finger-flicking rabble-rouser and writer -- returns in this darkly funny, haunting prequel to Tales from the moe.Republic. It's Halloween, 1932. The weight of the Great Depression is crushing the country. An anxious, weary nation looks ahead to the...

Through a life cloaked in mystery, Edwardian polymath Hannibal G. Fogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexterity. Hailing from a landed family, Fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor,...

Through a life cloaked in mystery, Edwardian polymath Hannibal G. Fogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivaled cerebral dexterity. Hailing from a landed family, Fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor,...

The third in NewCon Press' 'Strange Tales' series: four standalone novellas that step outside the norm.Lost in Venice in the aftermath of the war, Cherenkov just wants to put his head down somewhere and sleep, but her copper hair snares his eye. Beguiled and...