Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

In a world of sorcery and sand, a slave rebellion is out of control and an army of undead is approaching. Does Horace have the power and strength to save what he fought so hard to win? In a setting reminiscent of ancient Egypt...

In 1814, the Congress of Vienna has just begun. Diplomats battle over a new map of Europe, actors vie for a chance at glory, and aristocrats and royals from across the continent come together to celebrate the downfall of Napoleon...among them Lady Caroline Wyndham,...

The year is 1779, and Carlo Morelli, the most renowned castrato singer in Europe, has been invited as an honored guest to Eszterh za Palace. With Carlo in Prince Nikolaus Esterh zy's carriage, ride a Prussian spy and one of the most notorious alchemists...

Shona McMonagle may look bookish and harmless, but her education at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls has left her with a deadly expertise in everything from martial arts to quantum physics. It has also left her with a bone-deep loathing for The Prime...

Zana, Wild Woman of the Caucasus is loosely based on history. The novel documents the discovery of an ape-like woman found in the Caucasus region in the late 19th century. The story takes place in Circassia (present day Georgia, Europe), where two teenage boys...

On the Road to Adventure... In 13th-century Japan, one can meet some wondrous characters. Ken'ishi is a master swordsman who walks with one foot in the realm of the supernatural. For the first time in his life, he has been offered service with a...

Ken'ishi's dream just became a nightmare...He finds service with a powerful samurai lord... only to discover his lord is married to the only woman Ken'ishi has ever loved.And the underworld crime boss known as Green Tiger threatens to expose all their secrets.In a world...

Praise for Ysabeau S. Wilce's previous books: "This fresh and funky setting is rich with glorious costumes, innovative language, and tantalizing glimpses of history."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewThese inter-connected stories are set in an opulent quasi-historical world of magick and high manners called the Republic...

Sailor Singapore Sammy Shay roamed the South Seas, desperate to find the father he neither knew nor loved. For reckless old Bill Shay had absconded with the only copy of a will that left all of his own father's worldly riches to Sammy alone....

When the Singularity arrives and computers possess superhuman intelligence, will there be an ecstatic merging of machine and mind?or an instantaneous techno-apocalypse? Will there be the enslavement of humanity or ?the Rapture of the Nerds"? The post-human future is here in its wildest science-fictional...

An epic novel of the Crusades. Joanna Plantagenet accompanies her brother Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade--the only woman to visit Saracen-held Jerusalem. When she returns to France, Joanna learns that her renowned brother has been captured and held hostage, and with Richard's...

"I am Orpheus, the maker of songs. Great Apollo came to me often and instructed me in the art of melody so that what came from my lyre could touch the heart even of a stone, and when I went to my mother Calliope...

Bessas of Zariaspa is a young officer in the Immortals regiment, sworn to protect and obey his King at all costs. The King wishes immortality and to that end tasks Bessas to find items that make an immortality potion, including the blood of a...

Paul Furneret returns to Paris after a four-year interval. He again contacts Camille Flammarion, Jane de La Vaud re and Madame Zosima;, who now runs a women's refuge and employs hypnosis to enable women to "remember" their alleged past incarnations.One night, he is intercepted...

The novel is set in the 1480s, during the war in which the French annexed Bretagne. At the Benedictine Abbey in Paimpol, a scholarly monk named Ollivier, reputed to have practiced necromancy, is buried under the watchful eyes of two Dominican heresy hunters, the...

In The Mysterious Hermit of the Tomb (1816), the evil Arembert consigns his father to a dark dungeon, and has his brother assassinated in order to get his hands on the vast family estate of Saint-Felix. But unbeknownst to him, his brother has survived...

This volume is the ninth of a series of twelve dedicated to Magre's works. In The Albigensian Treasure (1938), we follow the adventures of Michel de Bramevaque, who launched himself in search of the Holy Grail after receiving a supernatural injunction. Magre, with elegant...

JUDEX He whose name means "Judge" Created in 1917 by writer Arthur Bern de and filmmaker Louis Feuillade, Judex is the first of the dark knights, predating both The Shadow and Batman. To avenge the death of his father, young Jacques de Tr meuse...

It is 1861, and Albertian Britain is in the grip of conflicting forces. Engineers transform the landscape with bigger, faster, noisier and dirtier technological wonders; Eugenicists develop specialist animals to provide unpaid labour; Libertines oppose restrictive and unjust laws and flood the country with...

"Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf" the former a travelling mountebank, the latter his faithful companion. Gwynplaine was abducted as an infant, and cruelly mutilated so that his face shows the permanent smile of a clown. Abandoned by his abductors some years later,...

Author: George MacDonaldISBN-10: 1849029229ISBN-13: 9781849029223Publisher: Benediction BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2009Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

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....

Quatermain and Umslopogaas embark on more adventures This is volume seven, the final book of the Leonaur complete adventures of Allan Quatermain, H. Rider Haggard's famous adventurer, guide, trader and big game hunter-the consummate white man on the Dark Continent of the nineteenth century....

Quatermain and Umslopogaas embark on more adventures This is volume seven, the final book of the Leonaur complete adventures of Allan Quatermain, H. Rider Haggard's famous adventurer, guide, trader and big game hunter-the consummate white man on the Dark Continent of the nineteenth century....

Allan Quatermain set out on more breathtaking adventures Leonaur have set out to create the definitive collection of the stories of Allan Quatermain-H. Rider-Haggard's famous white man of Africa-the ultimate hunter, trader, guide and adventurer. The quality of these tales of nineteenth century Africa...

Quatermain loads his elephant gun and embarks on more adventures This is the fifth volume of Leonaur's seven volume complete coordinated collection of the epic adventure stories of Allan Quatermain, Rider-Haggard's consummate nineteenth century white man in Africa. The Quatermain tales include many that...

Caught between the red and the black-Quatermain at war In this, the fourth volume of Allan Quatermain's adventures in the turbulent world of nineteenth century Africa, our hero once again finds it impossible to lead the simple outdoor life of a hunter and trader...

Two more fabulous adventures from the dark heart of Africa These are the third, fourth and fifth adventures featuring H. Rider Haggard's famous character--Allan Quatermain. Quatermain is the ultimate white man in Africa--the Great White Hunter, adventurer and guide. These are stories brim full...

54 B.C. - Rome - Tros treads in the streets of his sworn enemies As Tros of Samothrace continues in his attempts to confound Caesar's plans for the invasion of Britain, he journeys to the Eternal City to seek the aid of its great...

55 B.C. - Caesar is poised to invade Britain - only a grand strategy can foil him Following their last clash, Tros, his allies and the forces of Rome have drawn apart to prepare for the conflict to come. King Caswallan of the Trinobantes...

55 B.C. - Caesar plots, Britons war among themselves and the Vikings are coming Tros of Samothrace burns for vengeance and has declared himself the implacable enemy of Rome. Caesar has vowed to hunt Tros down and crucify him after Tros humiliates him by...

Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life -- not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun. Daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and the fabled Nefertiti, and married at one time to her father, she is forced to marry Tutankhamun by...

From beyond time and space they come to walk the earth once more: the Guardians of the Tall Stones, the Lords of the Sun...Deva is the beautiful and headstrong daughter of the High Priest of the greatest of the mighty stone circles. She seeks...

The novels and short stories of William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918), though almost entirely unknown during his lifetime, have become some of the most influential early works in fields of literature as diverse as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Among his small body of longer...

God. The Devil.It doesn't matter who sent this plague of madness.All that matters is returning to his wife.A mysterious plague descends upon 14th century England, ravaging the country and trapping the souls of the afflicted in eternal madness. The feudal hierarchy--and even the church...

The journey north ended with The Scourge.The journey for a cure has just begun...Sir Edward Dallingridge survived his journey through the anarchy that is now England, leaving in his wake the bodies of mad lords, foul invaders, friends, and the risen dead. There was...

When you have the Gift, your life is not your own. I was born to a family that harnessed the winds and could read futures in fire and water. Yet my mother kept her secrets. Then the werewolf came, sharing his madness. Now it's...

The Smoky God tells the allegedly true tale of a Norwegian sailor Olaf Jansen's discovery of an entrance to the hollow Earth. After discovering the entrance at the North Pole, Jansen remained with the inhabitants of the underground world for two years. First published...

From the author of Mansfield Park and Mummies... NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS Dragons in the skies of Regency England Gothic horrors collide with high satire in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic supernatural parody of Jane Austen's classic novel. Young...

"May I trouble you to open that cupboard near the foot of the bed, and to give me the pile of writing that you will find in it. A thousand thanks. Here, ser, in these pages, if you care to take the trouble to...

Edgar Rice Burroughs created one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture, Tarzan of the Apes, and it is impossible to overstate his influence on entire genres of popular literature in the decades after his enormously winning pulp novels stormed the public's...

In Lilith the aptly named protagonist Mr. Vane follows a specter through a mirror in his haunted library into a fantasy land of the past where he meets Lilith, Adam and Eve, and a host of others. He explores the nature of original sin...

Well-bred, well-dressed, and well-read, Henrietta, Harriet, and Hero are best friends who have bonded over good books since their schooldays. Now these cultured ladies are ready to make their own happy endings--each in her own way . . . Lady Henrietta Parker, daughter of...

On the third day he asked Zweete how it was that his left hand was white and shriveled, and who were Umslopogaas and Nada, of whom he had let fall some words. Then the old man told him the tale that is set out...

Veil of the Deserters is the second book of Bloodsounder's Arc, which picks up as Captain Braylar Killcoin and his army continue to sow chaos among the political elite of Alespell. Braylar is still poisoned by the memories of those slain by his unholy...

Dev is a smuggler with the perfect cover. He's in high demand as a guide for the caravans that carry legitimate goods from the city of Ninavel into the country of Alathia. The route through the Whitefire Mountains is treacherous, and Dev is one...

A decade ago, college student Laura Harker was saved from a fate worse than death at the hands (and fangs) of a centuries-old vampire priestess and her Satanic minions. Her rescuer, an awkward, geeky folklore student named Teddy, single-handedly slew the undead occupants of...

They had passed but a short distance to the rear of Numa when the boy caught the unpleasant odor of the carnivore. His face lighted with a smile. Something told him that he would have known that scent among a myriad of others even...

The novel Salammbo (published in 1862) interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place before and during the Mercenary Revolt, an uprising of mercenaries in the employ of Carthage in the 3rd century BC. --- An unfinished opera by Modest Mussorgsky, a silent...

Raised in a swamp by a mad witch, poor Louisa grew up with one goal in mind: to marry a wealthy man, then inherit his lands and money by whatever means it takes. And Louisa may well succeed, for she is a stunning beauty...