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- [12 Chilling Horror Tales to Haunt You This Halloween](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Chilling-Horror-Tales-to-Haunt-You-This-Halloween/): Every year before Halloween, we find ourselves in sweet anticipation of some chilling horror. Wether you are a thrill-seeker planning a midnight stroll through the graveyard or a stay-at-home reader who enjoys one hair-raising tale before bed, we have got you covered. 
- [12 Young Adult Mysteries and Thrillers You Can Read at Any Age](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Young-Adult-Mysteries-and-Thrillers-You-Can-Read-at-Any-Age/): The end of Summer brings that familiar feeling of nostalgia when we begin to reminisce about our school days no matter how old we are. In our attempt to reviveour childhood memories, we turn to young adult fiction for some inspiration.
- [The 12 Summer Reads for Your Secret Getaway](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/The-12-Summer-Reads-for-Your-Secret-Getaway/): There is no denying that summer has a special hold on us. Some of us look forward to enjoying that sun-kissed glow and holiday hair, while others seek escape in the books that have the power to whisk us on an exciting adventure around the globe. To help you travel in style, we have rounded up 12 immersive reads you will want take with you no matter what plans you have for this summer. 
- [12 Queer Classics to Read this Pride Month](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Queer-Classics-to-Read-this-Pride-Month/): This June, we mark Pride Month by rediscovering classic LGBT books that were once banned, but are now considered ground-breaking landmarks that have shaped queer literature as we know it today. From heartbreaking stories of first love to scandalous tales of sexual awakening, these twelve LGBT novels may appeal to anyone seeking to explore queer art. 
- [12 Last-minute Valentine’s Day Gifts for Book Lovers](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Last-minute-Valentines-Day-Gifts-for-Book-Lovers/): This Valentine’s Day, some gifts will touch the hearts of your loved ones and will be treasured for years to come, while others might be consumed and forgotten faster than you can say “Cupid”. So if you are looking for a last-minute unique gift that is bound to leave a lasting impression on your favourite book lover, then you have come to the right place. Our selection of Valentine’s Day gift ideas -ranging from quirky apparel to personalised book accessories-will delight any bookworm looking to celebrate the joy of reading in style. 
- [12 Books Being Made into Movies in 2024](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Books-Being-Made-into-Movies-in-2024/): Since 1900, literature has been an abundant source of inspiration for film directors and screenplay writers alike. 
- [12 Chilling Murder Mysteries to Read by The Fire This Christmas](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Chilling-Murder-Mysteries-to-Read-by-The-Fire-This-Christmas/): When the cold winter nights creep in, there’s nothing quite like a good old whodunit to keep us entertained during the darkest hours.
- [12 Thanksgiving Books for Adults](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Thanksgiving-Books-for-Adults/): Thanksgiving season has officially arrived and we are counting down the days until the holiday break when we can curl up with a gripping book and a pumpkin spice latte.
- [12 Books about Monsters, Witches and Ghosts](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Books-about-Monsters-Witches-and-Ghosts/): This year, as the excitement and anticipation of Halloween builds, some of us will be eagerly waiting to go trick-or-treating, some- to hone their skills in costume-making while others- to entertain themselves with spooky tales. To help you conjure up the Halloween spirit, we have prepared twelve chilling stories that will whisk you away on a frightful ride accompanied by ghosts, vampires, witches and other creatures of the night.
- [12 Novels Set in Boarding Schools](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Novels-Set-in-Boarding-Schools/): For many children and young adults, September marks the start of a new academic year, but for the rest of us- a season of new beginnings and new adventures. As we watch young scholars embark on transformative odyssey, we become inevitably drawn to the stories set in boarding schools fuelling our fantasies of student life in an exclusive community.
- [12 Sizzling Books to Read Before The End of Summer ](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Sizzling-Books-to-Read-Before-The-End-of-Summer/): As summer draws to a close and chilly nights settle in, we can’t help but reminisce about carefree sunny days spent at the seaside. Fond memories of spontaneous trips to the beach, long walks along the coast and melting ice-cream wash over us leaving us longing for that last celebration of eternal sunshine.
- [12 Best Beach Reads for Your Summer Escape](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Best-Beach-Reads-for-Your-Summer-Escape/): Nothing spells summer like a trip to a beach with a gripping book. There’s something about the gentle crush of a wave caressing the sandy shore, the smell of the sea or the feeling of the sand between our toes that that make us crave escapism. If you are looking for an atmospheric read to indulge in while on vacation, then you have come to the right place. From sun-soaked, coming-of-age dramas to heart-stopping thrillers, we have rounded up twelve perfect page-turners you can breeze through this summer.
- [12 Brilliant Gay Fiction Books You Should Read This Pride Month](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Brilliant-Gay-Fiction-Books-You-Should-Read-This-Pride-Month/): This June, as the world comes together for a celebration of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender love, we invite you to mark Pride Month by exploring the struggles and triumphs of queer people in their pursuit of freedom of expression in literature. From timid forays into queer fiction to sensational bestsellers, we have rounded up twelve LGBTQ novels that may appeal to gay readers and anyone who wants to broaden their literary horizons.
- [12 Sizzling Romance Novels to Devour This Summer](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Sizzling-Romance-Novels-to-Devour-This-Summer/): From morning walks through dewy English fields to stargazing in the Texan desert, we have rounded up 12 romance novels that will awaken all your senses, making even the most cynical of us believe in true love.
- [12 Earth Day Books for Adults](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Earth-Day-Books-for-Adults/): Nowadays you will be hard-pressed to find anyone who has not heard of climate change. But long before Greta Thunberg’s ardent pleas, Green Peace campaigns and Earth Day protests became the driving force behind the modern environmental movement, concerns for our natural world first appeared in fiction. 
- [12 Empowering Books for Women](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Empowering-Books-for-Women/): Spanning centuries, continents and cultures, these twelve empowering novels represent a testament to the strength of women in their ultimate pursuit of happiness. From gripping tales of survival to emotional accounts, these stories examine women in the midst of war, political persecution, pandemic, migration and social discrimination.
- [12 Thoughtful Valentine’s Day Gifts for Your Book Lover](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Thoughtful-Valentines-Day-Gifts-for-Your-Book-Lover/): Whether you will be spending this Valentine’s Day with your beloved bookworm or enjoying a blind date with a book, a small token of affection would not go amiss. 
- [12 Best-selling Books to Read Before They Hit The Big Screen](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Best-selling-Books-Read-Before-They-Hit-The-Big-Screen/): For over a century, the eternal question of whether a movie can achieve the same depth as the book it is based upon has sparked many heated debates among book lovers. And this year is no exception. 
- [12 Murder Mysteries to Cosy Up with this Winter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Murder-Mysteries-Cosy-This-Winter/): This winter, raging storms and monstrous blizzards might have forced many of us to spend holidays being cooped up at home Yet, in spite of it all, every cloud has a silver lining. Perhaps, it’s the perfect time to curl up with a hot cocoa and a cosy mystery and indulge in that guilt-free binge-reading you have always dreamt of. From beloved old classics to brand new releases, we have hand-picked twelve remarkably chilling tales of murder you will enjoy solving on a cold winter’s day. 
- [12 Multi-generational Family Dramas to Read Over Thanksgiving](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Multi-generational-Family-Dramas-to-Read-Over-Thanksgiving/): For many people, Thanksgiving represents a family celebration of life’s abundance and unity. While for others, this holiday season might turn out to be anything but peaceful. Old grudges, family dramas and long-buried secrets might bubble to the surface turning any lavish dinner into an unsavoury battlefield. One socially acceptable way to avoid this confrontation would be starting a new book. Our selection of multi-generational dramas might offer some insights on navigating family gatherings at Thanksgiving.
- [12 Creepy Stories To Terrify You This Halloween](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Creepy-Stories-To-Terrify-You-This-Halloween/): In the deep dark forest lies a secret so grave that no living being would dare speak of it.
- [12 Historical Fiction Novels About British Monarchs](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Historical-Fiction-Novels-About-British-Monarchs/): We explore the books that commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s illustrious predecessors, who laid out a path for her glorious reign.
- [12 Coming of Age Books to Read at The End of Summer](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Coming-of-Age-Books-to-Read-at-The-End-of-Summer/): With the end of summer fast approaching, we reflect on times of wild nights and carefree days, midnight escapades and daring new ventures- the times when anything was possible. Like summer, adolescence leaves a mark on our lives through the happiest memories and deepest regrets. These past experiences shape us as adults, with some to learn from, some to bury and some to treasure forever. 
- [12 Books For A Summer Escape](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-Books-For-A-Summer-Escape/): As temperatures soar and sunsets seamlessly melt into sunrises, summer awakens our thirst for adventure. To satisfy your travel cravings, we have selected twelve tales that offer the ultimate summer escapes.
- [12 Must-Read Bisexual and Lesbian Books](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-must-read-bisexual-lesbian-books/): Over the course of history, the world has invented many labels for women who dared to love despite social constraints. Amazons and tommies were often misunderstood human souls, pushed to the fringes of society. These struggles inspired many novels, which, once considered radical, are now widely celebrated masterpieces. From sappists in Victorian England to lesbians in 20th century Nigeria, these twelve tales portray queer female characters on their thorny path to sexual liberation and social acceptance. 
- [10 Remarkable Novels Set in South America](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-remarkable-novels-set-in-south-america/): The recent bicentennial celebration of Ecuadorian independence inspired us to sail off on a scintillating bookish adventure to one of the most diverse continents on the planet. Set in South America, our selection of books will offer any armchair explorer a chance to climb snow-capped mountains, roam the Amazon rainforest, retrace the steps of the ancient Inca civilisation and witness human drama unfolding against a stunning tropical backdrop.
- [10 Best Courtroom Drama Books](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-best-courtroom-drama-books/): The recent surge of public interest in courtroom dramas has sent us on a mission to dust off the most shocking court cases in fiction. So if you are looking to immerse yourself in the world of legal jousting, then look no further. From legal thrillers to courtroom mysteries, you can fully expect a melange of secrets, intrigue and scandalous revelations that will stay with you long after you have turned the last page. 
- [12 Great Reads about Invasion](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-great-reads-about-invasion/): Today, you will be hard pressed to find a man who has not heard or read about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In times of such a political crisis, we begin to wonder whether we have missed the signs of a changing world and how this unprovoked war might redefine our future. 
- [15 Best Valentine’s Day Gifts for Book Lovers](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/15-best-valentines-day-gifts-for-book-lovers/): With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s time to go on a hunt for presents for your book-loving sweethearts. From quirky mugs and reading gadgets to literary pampering sets, you will find everything you need to surprise that special person in your life who is obsessed with books.
- [12 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Look Forward to in 2020](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-book-to-screen-adaptations-to-look-forward-to-in-2022/): Nothing brings more joy to book lovers than seeing their favourite fictional characters coming alive on screen. However, any deviation from the source-from minor alterations to wild improvisations- can spark some heated discussions among readers. So buckle up for an exciting year of brand new TV series and big splashes on silver screens inspired by our favourite novels. 
- [12 Best Winter Romance Novels](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-best-winter-romance-novels/): It is a truth universally acknowledged, that no Christmas is complete without a glass of mulled wine and a slice of winter romance. For those of you, who fancy an escape into a magical world, where sparks fly faster than the snowflakes in a blizzard, we have selected twelve festive romance novels. From contemporary holiday romps to classic regency romance, these tales of love will sweep you off your feet, thawing the most cynical of hearts. 
- [12 Books We Are Thankful For](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-books-we-are-thankful-for/): On the days of joy, they are your trusted friends, on the days of sorrow, they are your secret allies. And in the true spirit of Thanksgiving, we would like to give thanks for these twelve fascinating books that will become our companions during this festive season.
- [13 Witches to Scare You This Halloween](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/13-witches-to-scare-you-this-halloween/): As Halloween creeps upon us, the veil between the worlds of the living and the spirit gets thinner unleashing paranormal power that no witch can ignore. This chilling season of horror allows witches to experiment with magic and draw strength from the supernatural.
- [Celebrating 155 Years of H. G. Wells](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/celebrating-155-years-of-h-g-wells/): “Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s theory of evolution, which H. G. Wells stoutly believed. The story centers on the depraved Dr. Moreau, who conducts unspeakable animal experiments on a remote tropical island, with hideous, humanlike results. Edward Prendick, an English-man whose misfortunes bring him to the island, is witness to the Beast Folk’s strange civilization and their eventual terrifying regression. While gene-splicing and bioengineering are common practices today, readers are still astounded at Wells’s haunting vision and the ethical questions he raised a century before our time.” - Penguin Random
- [12 Books Set on Islands](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-books-set-on-islands/): As we inch towards the end of summer, the dreams of a last-minute escape become increasingly persistent during the bright crisp mornings. White sandy beaches, turquoise waters and unspoilt nature lure us to remote islands with a promise of a thrilling adventure. For those of you enjoying a staycation, we have picked twelve books set on fictional islands you can dive into at your own convenience. From South America to Iceland to Pacific Ocean, these stories will whisk you on a round-the-world quest to discover the secrets buried on seemingly peaceful islands. 
- [12 Books to Heat Up Your Summer](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-books-to-heat-up-your-summer/): There is something irresistibly alluring about summer. For some, it’s a chance to explore the wild side of the faraway lands, for others- an opportunity to enjoy sunny days on the beach, while for the rest of us- it’s a time to indulge in some summer reading. From brand new novels making a splash this season to our beloved classics, we have selected twelve sizzling reads you can dive into for a great escape. 
- [12 Must-Read Books During LGBT month](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-must-read-books-during-lgbt-month/): This June we are proudly celebrating the diversity of gender, sexuality and identity around the world. To mark Pride Month, we have compiled a list of the most prominent LGBT books that will appeal to fans of Western adventure, romance, young adult fiction and even magical realism. 
- [Napoleonic War Books](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/napoleonic-war-books/): This month marks the bicentenary of the death of the French emperor and military leader in exile on the remote island of Saint Helena. One of the most famous and most controversial historical figures, Napoleon Bonaparte demonstrated how human ambition could turn into a wicked obsession. This maniacal desire to conquer the world, which impacted the lives of millions of people around Europe, inspired many works of fiction portraying the disastrous events during the Napoleonic wars.
- [The Best Crime Novels You Should Read This Spring](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/the-best-crime-novels-you-should-read-this-spring/): This spring we decided to venture into the world of crime fiction with an open mind and find killer reads that defy the canons of the genre. So forget everything you know about murder mysteries and pick one of these twelve unique whodunnits that will surprise you with dark humour, multi-layered characters and end-of-chapter cliffhangers, keeping you guessing to the very end. 
- [15 Best Plays Ever Written](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/15-best-plays-ever-written/): Celebrate World Theatre Day with our collection of fifteen plays that have taken the stage by storm and even made their way to the silver screen.
- [10 Romance Novels to Get You in the Mood this Valentine’s Day](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/romance-novels-for-valentines-day-2021/): With Valentine’s Day inching closer, that sweet anticipation of romance begins to spread like a wildfire tantalising every inch of our bodies. And even though we are all wired differently from each other, subconsciously we all long for that fuzzy feeling inside, that fills our entire universe with excitement of the known. If you are stuck in a love triangle, isolated from your loved one or hopelessly infatuated with a fictional character, you might find a much-needed “fix” in these swoon-worthy romance novels that will spice up your Valentine’s night in. 
- [12 Books to Read before they Hit the Screen](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-books-to-read-before-they-hit-the-screen/): For those readers, who have been secretly dreaming of their favourite books falling into the hands of screenwriters, the moment of truth has finally arrived. We have compiled a list of twelve most anticipated book adaptations that will grace both big and small screens in 2021. From gripping thrillers and dark comedies to heart-wrenching dramas, these scintillating adaptations will offer a fully immersive experience to film buffs and book lovers alike.
- [The 12 Best Winter Books for The Holiday Season](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/the-12-best-winter-books-for-the-holiday-season/): The first signs of winter chills tend to elicit the sweet anticipation of a yuletide season. Some of you will be sipping hot cocoa by the roaring fire, while others will be watching snowflakes dancing to the rhythm of a blizzard. But whatever your idea of a winter bliss is, it would not be complete without a secret detour into a snowbound fictional world. From bone-chilling thrillers to feel-good holiday romance novels, we have selected twelve books that will transport you to faraway lands of shimmering white beauty.
- [13 Books We Are Thankful For](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/13-books-we-are-thankful-for/): This Thanksgiving will be different for all of us. Some people might even be forced to celebrate this holiday in isolation away from their families. But the good news is that we will always have books to reach out for in times of need. And in the true spirit of Thanksgiving, we would like to give thanks for thirteen fascinating books that will become our trusted friends during this festive season.
- [13 Creepy Tales of Halloween](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/13-creepy-tales-of-halloween/): October showers us with many gifts — the satisfying crunch of bright foliage underfoot, a memorable pumpkin patch trip and a licence to unleash your wicked side at Halloween. Those of you, who prefer to celebrate the night of fright from the comfort of an armchair, are invited to take a step into the world of the uncanny in our selection of thirteen creepy tales that are guaranteed to make your blood curdle. So hold onto your black cat and enjoy the ride into the darkness.
- [10 Chilling Thrillers to Read This September](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-Chilling-Thrillers-to-Read-This-September/): September occupies a special place in our hearts. As the last drops of summer give way to the first autumnal chills, we begin our search for that thrilling adventure to plunge into on a cold fall night. To help you find your next big read, we have selected ten of the best thrillers, ranging from psychological mind-benders to disturbing tales of horror, that will send chills down your spine.
- [Summer Romance Novels](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/summer-romance-novels/): August has a special hold on those of us who are incurable romantics. Somewhere between daydreaming in the sun and gazing at the Perseid meteor shower at night, we chase the last glimpse of summer in swoon worthy romance novels. 
- [12 Summer Books Set on a Lake](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-summer-books-set-on-a-lake/): With summer in full swing, our thoughts turn inevitably to outdoor activities and communing with mother nature. 
- [12 Books Your Dad Will Enjoy on Father’s Day](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-books-your-dad-will-enjoy-on-farthers-day/): Looking for a last-minute gift to treat your Dad on Father’s Day? Why not present them with a book- an ultimate ticket into a different world with no expiry date that only gets better with age.
- [Top 12 Time Travel Books](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/top-12-time-travel-books/): For all escapists at heart, we have selected twelve delightful literary romps to quench your wanderlust in the time of pandemic. So hold onto your bean bags, as you are about to embark on a white-knuckle ride through time and space.
- [12 Sci-fi Novels to Escape To While in Lockdown](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-sci-fi-novels-to-escape-to-while-in-lockdown/): Science fiction novels have long bewitched the minds of readers around the world. They have transcended generations. They have inspired myriad adaptations. They have conjured the worlds you could only dream of. They have predicted the future… 
- [Ten Writers who Thrived in Self-isolation](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/ten-writers-who-thrived-in-self-isolation/): From little-known gems to iconic masterpieces, some great stories where conceived in solitary retreats. A choice for some, a necessity for others, these hideaways were frequently visited by a muse of inspiration, leaving a trail of new ideas in its wake. Attics, huts and remote country lodges became a sanctuary for many writers, who were able to tap into their talent away from distractions of the outer world.
- [Ten Male Characters Who Would Make a Perfect Valentine](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/ten-male-characters-who-would-make-a-perfect-valentine/): Are you looking to be swept off your feet this Valentine’s Day? Then crack open a bottle of bubbly and get ready to plunge into a fictional world of romance with no shortage of handsome strangers to swoon over.
- [12 Books Being Made into Movies in 2020](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-books-being-made-into-movies-in-2020/): Since the dawn of cinematography, the library has been the hub of inspiration for many screenplay writers and film directors alike. However, this year is set to treat readers to a record number of book adaptations, with some of them already making a splash. Reinvented, rehashed and embellished, these twelve mind-blowing takes on familiar stories will either raise some eyebrows or receive standing ovation as they hit the big screen in 2020.
- [12 Winter Books That Set the Scene for a White Christmas](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-winter-books-to-set-the-scene-for-a-white-christmas/): Dreaming of a white Christmas? Then look no further! From chilling thrillers to winter romances, these twelve gripping tales capture the splendour of frozen lands so realistically that you will soon feel the snowflakes on your eyelashes. So pick a book and let your imagination run wild with a cup of cocoa by the roaring fire. 
- [10 Literary Guests We’d Invite for Thanksgiving Dinner](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-literary-guests-wed-invite-to-thanksgiving-dinner/): Have you ever imagined what your Thanksgiving would be like if your favourite book character joined you for dinner? If you are as excited as we are about the prospect of hosting a party with a bookish twist, then we have ten excellent candidates to join you at the table. With so many tricks up their sleeves, they will deliver first-class entertainment to you on a silver platter. 
- [13 Horror Tales to Read this Halloween](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/halloween-2019/): If you can't shake off that chilling feeling of something sinister lurking in the shadows as you crunch through the autumn leaves on a midnight stroll, make no mistake —Halloween is just around the corner. For those of you, who hunger for dark venture into the heart of the supernatural, we have concocted one scrumptious Halloween treat. Bristling with witches, vampires and ghostly apparitions, this frightful selection of thirteen horror tales will take you to places beyond your wildest screams. 
- [11 Books Set in College](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/11-books-set-in-college/): There is something undeniably bewitching about autumn. The season of pensive beauty and glorious metamorphosis, it fills our lungs with the smell of fallen leaves and a promise of new beginnings. Some of us will embark on the journey of self-discovery as they start a new school year, while others will succumb to nostalgia about good old college days when the lines between adolescence and adulthood became blurred. Whether you are looking for a distracting read set in college or full immersion into an alternative life on campus, we have eleven book recommendations that cover every genre under the sun. 
- [12 Thrilling Books to Read this Summer](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-thriling-reads-to-read-this-summer/): Can you think of anything more refreshing than plunging into a riveting thriller that sends chills down your spine on a hot summer’s day? Neither can we! Having spent some time among the library stacks, we have compiled a list of twelve thrilling books, that will enhance your long summer days in the sun. Brimming with unexpected twists and turns, secret obsessions and shocking revelations, these little devils are guaranteed to keep you at the edge of your seat!
- [20 Books Set on the Moon](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/20-books-set-on-the-moon/): A mysterious celestial body, which has fascinated many cultures around the globe, has been sparking controversies, inspiring myths and tantalising the imagination of the world’s great thinkers for thousands of years. But only technological advances of the 1960s made lunar exploration a reality. 
- [12 Hot Summer Reads](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/summer-reads-2019/): The season of long days and star-lit nights has finally arrived. Some will be soaking up the sun by the ocean, some - sipping away iced tea on a porch, while others- backpacking in Europe. Whatever your plans for this summer, make sure to include a killer read in them. To help you choose your next companion, we have selected twelve summer stories that will stay with you long after you turn the last page. 
- [12 Irresistible First Lines from Books](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-irresistible-first-lines-from-books/): Anyone on the lookout for their next big readventure can think of a few episodes of analysis paralysis in a bookshop. With so many book lovers who are lured into a store by the shiny new titles only to discover that they don’t quite match their expectations, it’s easy to see why some readers tend to judge a book by its opening line. After all, no amount of blurb can compete with the authenticity and intrigue of the first few sentences. Here is the list of our favourite opening lines that make these books so irresistible.
- [10 Banned Books](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-banned-books/): The freedom of expression in literature has been challenged ever since the dawn of the written word. Many classics that are considered an integral part of literary heritage, have long suffered rigorous censorship, influenced by cultural values and political climate. Some books were banned, some perished in sacrificial bonfires, while others saw their authors persecuted, put on trial and even killed. But when forbidden fruit tastes so sweet, who can blame you for reaching out for one?
- [12 Emotionally Charged Novels That All Make You Cry](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-emotionally-charged-novels/): From darkly wondrous tales of love to heartbreaking accounts of survival, these twelve emotionally charged novels will elicit the tears of joy and sorrow, leaving no heart untouched. 
- [15 Romantic Quotes for Your Valentine’s Day Card](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/15-romantic-quotes-for-your-valentines-day-card/): With Valentine’s Day around the corner, expressing your love in writing can be a tall order. Luckily, we have compiled a list of romantic quotes offering last-minute inspiration to those of you who would like to add a personal touch to their Valentine’s Day message. Borrowed from the ultimate love stories in literature, these fifteen quotes will help you make your feelings known in the most eloquent way.
- [10 Book Adaptations for 2019](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-book-adaptations-2019/): 2019 has many surprises in store for those who enjoy savouring the crème de la crème of literary world on silver screens. From heart-pounding thrillers and classic tales to sweeping romance, these ten book adaptations will appeal to both film fanatics and book addicts, who can’t wait to devour the stories before they hit theatres in 2019. 
- [12 Villains of Christmas](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-villains-of-christmas/): It’s that magical time of the year when families and friends get together to spread festive cheer, which sometimes provokes the most unsavoury characters to rebel against the goodness of the season. If you have ever come across a grumpy hater prone to sudden outbursts of anger aimed at anyone who ‘dares’ to enjoy Christmas, then you have probably met one of our twelve villains, who can potentially turn any holiday feast into a night you would rather forget.
- [10 Cozy Autumn Reads](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-cozy-autumn-reads/): As the crisp cool air whirls the yellow leaves against the autumn blue sky, our thoughts turn to all those cozy reads you can curl up with by a crackling fire. To help you savour this splendid season of blankets, pies and pumpkin lattes, we have narrowed down ten autumn books that you will be too happy to fall into as the nights draw in.
- [13 Creepy Halloween Stories](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/13-creepy-halloween-stories/): With Halloween fast approaching, a host of frightful creatures are rubbing their hands in anticipation of the grizzliest feast of the year. From powerful witches and immortal beauties to vengeful ghosts, they emerge from the fires of the underworld to torment their victims in the world of the living. For those fans of the supernatural, who would much rather keep their necks and hearts intact, we have narrowed down thirteen blood-curdling stories to fuel your ghastly nightmares long past midnight.
- [12 Fictional Worlds to Get Lost in This Fall](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-fictional-worlds-to-get-lost-in-this-fall/): For those book lovers, who spend their days dreaming of the literary wonderlands they could be living in, we have selected twelve of the finest products of the human imagination the book world has to offer. From spellbinding fantasies and fairy tales to dark dystopian tales, these captivating reads will appeal to any escapist at heart in need of a new venture. Here are some of the wildest and most wickedly haunting fictional worlds you will enjoy exploring on a chilly fall day.
- [12 Great Sea Adventure Stories](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-great-sea-adventure-stories/): For those of you, who prefer to travel from the comfort of your armchair, we have selected twelve nautical tales that will whisk you away on a few vicarious journeys around the world. From swashbuckling escapades and treasure hunting to suspenseful battles for survival, these thrilling adventures will keep you turning pages well into the night.
- [Summer Reads 2018](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/summer-reads-2018/): With summer break fast approaching, you have probably been frequenting the bookstores in search of that perfect companion to quench your thirst for escapism. If that’s the case, then look no further! From gripping adventure and blood-curdling thrillers to sweeping romance, these juicy summer reads will lure you into different parts of the world turning any vacation into an exotic getaway.
- [10 Must Read Books About Royalty](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-must-read-books-about-royalty/): The most majestic wedding of the year may be over, but it’s never too late to immerse yourself in the regal splendour and serenity in these tales about the most prominent monarchs in history. From engrossing accounts to fictional delights, these books unveil the intrigue simmering behind closed doors of royal courts around the world offering a much-needed fix for your post-wedding blues.
- [The Best of the Brontës’ Books](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/the-best-of-the-brontes-books/): One of the most prolific families in English literature, The Brontës made their mark in the world with their poignant novels and poems that have been enchanting readers with insight and lucidity for almost two centuries. From provocative social chronicles to gothic romance, the Brontës’ novels will pull you into the innermost workings of their beautiful minds and keep you a prisoner until the last page.
- [16 World Book Day costume ideas for teachers and adults](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/16-world-book-day-costume-ideas-for-teachers-and-adults/): If the thought of joining the army of Harry Potter lookalikes this World Book Day makes you cringe, worry not. There are still plenty of quirky characters to choose from. From mysterious explorers and blood-thirsty creatures to eccentric millionaires, these classic tales offer a wide range of costume ideas for both teachers and adults, that have the power to turn heads and spark interests.
- [12 Books Being Made into Movies in 2018](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-books-being-made-into-movies-in-2018/): 2018 is finally here and it’s brimming with utterly brilliant book adaptations. From sweeping fantasies and classic tales to edge-of-your-seat thrillers, these books-turned-movies will appeal to both film buffs and book addicts alike. 
- [The Best Winter Reads](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/best-winter-reads/): If the mere sight of shimmering snow makes you tremble with excitement, then we’ve got just the stories for you. From bone-chilling murders to Arctic adventures, these ten gripping tales offer full immersion into a sub-zero climate. So curl up by a roaring fire and let these winter delights conjure up that perfect white Christmas.
- [12 Books We Are Most Thankful For](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-books-we-are-most-thankful-for/): On the days of joy- they are your trusted friends, on the days of sorrow- they are your secret allies. This Thanksgiving, we give thanks for these 12 classic books that profoundly impacted our life journey with its ups and downs. So buckle up and enjoy a rollercoaster ride with your new fearless companions that will usher you through the days of doom and glory.
- [Young Adult Classic Books](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/Young-Adult/): These young adult novels fascinated generations of teenage readers and navigated them on their journey of self-discovery.
- [13 Creepy Halloween Stories for Adults](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/13_creepy_halloween_stories_for_adults/): As Halloween creeping upon us, supernatural forces gather together unleash calamity upon the world of the living. From wicked witches and vengeful ghosts to blood-thirsty vampires, the monstrous creatures lurk in the flickering shadows waiting to satisfy their gruesome desires. For those of you, who would much rather watch all hell break loose from the comfort of their own home, we have selected 13 nightmare-inducing Halloween stories that will haunt you for days!
- [10 Books To Take You Back To Your School Days](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-books-set-in-school/): In the age of The Hunger Games, Twilight and Harry Potter phenomena, it’s not surprising that more adults turn to children’s books to immerse themselves into an alternate reality. And what better time to resurrect your childhood memories than at the start of the school year? From candid memoirs to spellbinding fantasies, these ten tales of innocence are guaranteed to take you back to your school days.
- [Late Summer Short Stories](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/late-summer-short-stories/): The long, hot summer might be coming to an end, but there is still enough time to squeeze in some late summer reads before fall. For those binge readers, who prefer to devour a book in one sitting, we have selected ten short story collections that will offer a much-needed fix for your literary cravings.
- [10 Books to Bring to The Beach This Summer](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/10-books-to-bring-to-the-beach-this-summer/): Summer has finally arrived and it is time to plan your perfect vacation. No matter where you are headed, all you need is a pair of sunglasses, a straw hat and a gripping book to complete the look. From psychological thrillers and classic adventures to a sweeping romance, these ten juicy beach reads are guaranteed to whisk you away on a dizzying trip round the world!
- [8 True Stories behind Famous Novels and Movies](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/8-True-Stories-behind-Famous-Novels-and-Movies/): The latest return of the 1990s drama series “Twin Peaks” to small screens has ruffled some feathers and has sparked our interest in little-known true stories behind famous novels and movies. From terrifying horror to endearing romance, these 8 baffling stories are far stranger than fiction.
- [Spring Romance Books](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/spring-romance-books/): Anyone who has ever experienced an all-consuming love remembers that feeling of euphoria that can only be compared to nature, which awakens from long lethargic sleep and suddenly springs to life. The true magic of this season lies in its ability to rejuvenate our hearts and fill our souls with joyful anticipation of a new chapter in our lives. 
- [12 Brilliant Books That Will Change Your Life](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-brilliant-books-that-will-change-your-life/): Anyone who has ever held a brand new book for the first time remembers that sweet anticipation of getting lost in a story. And as the allure of the unknown takes the better of us, we sink our teeth into a compelling plot sometimes overlooking those hidden messages left for us to decipher. These 12 thought-provoking stories have all the potential to shake your core beliefs, making you question the meaning of life. You will never look at these books the same way ever again.
- [15 Valentines Day Gifts for Book Lovers](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/15-valentines-day-gifts-for-booklovers/): "To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love."- Oscar Wilde
- [12 Books to Read before They Become Movies in 2017](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/books-as-movies-2017/): Having earned their reputation long before they caught the eye of screenwriters, these critically acclaimed stories are finally hitting the big screen. From classic tales to taut thrillers, these books-turned-movies will satisfy both book lovers and avid moviegoers alike.
- [12 Books of Christmas](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/12-books-of-christmas/): "But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
- [10 Fictional Characters That Will Keep You Entertained This Christmas](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/christmas-2016/): From feisty and exuberant to outright peculiar, these ten book characters jump off the pages of your favourite books to provide you with the first-class entertainment during this festive season.
- [13 Scary Stories to haunt you this Halloween](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/halloween-2016/): It is that time of the year again, when the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead become blurred. With Halloween looming, restless ghosts, insatiable immortals and other creatures of the night transcend from another world to roam freely among us. For those of you who would rather chase the shadows in books, we have selected 13 spine-chilling stories to fuel your imagination. Best read in the candle-lit room past midnight.
- [Roald Dahl at 100: The Greatest 10 Books of All Time](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/roald-dahl-100/): This month, book lovers around the world come together to celebrate 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl- the world’s number one storyteller, whose trademark sense of humour has captivated generations of readers. And to mark the occasion, we would like to welcome you to revisit these ten timeless classics ranging from amusing tales for children to morbid adult stories.
- [12 High School Books You Should Re-read as an Adult](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/high-school-books-adults/): Did reading High School books feel more like a chore rather than a thrilling past time? Or maybe you were too young or too impatient to fully appreciate the humour and the drama of an adult life? Then perhaps you should consider giving these 12 books a second chance. After all, some books only improve with age- the older you get, the more enjoyable they become.
- [150 Years of Beatrix Potter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/beatrix-150/): This month marks 150 years since the birth of Beatrix Potter, an English writer, a skilful illustrator and the creator of the most beloved children's books of all time. And today we invite you to celebrate the occasion by indulging in these charming Edwardian tales that have fascinated generations of young readers around the world!
- [13 Books for Your Summer Vacation](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/summer-2016/): Nothing says ‘summer’ quite like enjoying the sunshine with an ice-cold lemonade in one hand and a gripping book in other. Whether you are planning on hitting the beach with friends or soaking up Vitamin D at the back of your garden, a good page-turner will become your perfect companion this summer.
- [Shakespeare 400: 10 Best Plays of All Time](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/shakespeare/): 2016 has been proclaimed by many as the Year of Language and Literature for marking some important literary milestones in history and 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare crowns them all! People from around the world unite in their celebrations of the Bard’s eventful life and his enduring legacy.
- [Spring Break 2016](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/spring-break-2016/): With spring break in full swing, some will head to the lake parties, some will rave at Coachella, while others will escape the city grip to the Hamptons. But wherever you go, nothing will enhance your spring vacation like a good seasonal page-turner!
- [12 Must-Read Books for Black History Month](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/black-history/): This month the world celebrates Black History with its dark chapters and glory days. For those of you who crave insight and escapism, we have selected 12 books ranging from brutally candid memoirs to award-winning fiction based on actual events that bring history alive!
- [10 Inspirational Women who Broke the Rules](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/ten-inspirational-women/): One of the most inspirational autobiographies ever written, The story of My Life represents a timeless tribute to human courage and will power. Having lost her vision and hearing in infancy, Miss Keller describes in vivid details her struggle to overcome her disabilities. The story is enhanced by Helen's letters to her friends and relatives as well as third party accounts. The author redefines perception of the physical world in an effortlessly poetic way remaining "serene and happy in the shadow cast by deprivation.” 
- [The 12 Most Anticipated Books to Movies Adaptations of 2016](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/reading-lists/books-as-movies-2016/): Whether you are a hardcore fan of breathtaking adventure, or just can’t get enough of all-consuming drama with its shocking twists and turns, the year 2016 holds something for everyone. From dystopian trilogies like The 5th Wave and Allegiant, to classic tales and thrillers like Alice Through the Looking Glass and The Girl on The

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## Books
- [An Oldfashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/An-Old-Fashioned-Thanksgiving-by-Louisa-M--Alcott/): "No need of my starvin' beforehand. I always have room enough, and I'd like to have Thanksgiving every day," answered Solomon, gloating like a young ogre over the little pig that lay near by, ready for roasting.
- [Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O. Henry](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/two-thanksgiving-day-gentlemen-by-o-henry/): Every Thanksgiving Day for nine years the Old Gentleman had come there and found Stuffy Pete on his bench. That was a thing that the Old Gentleman was trying to make a tradition of.
- [Oldtown Folks by Harriet Beecher Stowe](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Oldtown-Folks-by-Harriet-Beecher/): "Yes," said Bill; "the Oldtown folks call their minister's wife Lady yet." "Well, that 's a little comfort," said Miss Mehitable; "one don't want life an entire dead level. Do let us have one titled lady among us."
- [The Picture Alphabet by Oliver Spafford](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Picture-Alphabet/): "There is no word in the English language beginning with this letter."
- [The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Great-Gatsby/): Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.
- [Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/captain-blood-by-rafael-sabatini/): “There is no more to be said, gentlemen. My name is Blood—Captain Blood, if you please, of this ship the Cinco Llagas, taken as a prize of war from Don Diego de Espinosa y Valdez, who is my prisoner aboard.
- [In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/in-the-shadow-of-young-girls-in-flower/): …I saw coming towards me five or six young girls, as different in appearance and manner from all the people whom one was accustomed to see at Balbec as could have been…
- [A Marriage Below Zero by Alan Dale](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/A-Marriage-Below-Zero-by-Alan-Dale/): My marriage was not a particularly interesting event from an anecdotal standpoint. My mother was far too precisely conventional to allow anything to interfere in the slightest with the rule laid down by that terrible tyrant in petticoats, Mrs. Grundy.
- [Death in Venice by Thomas Mann](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/death-in-venice/): Denied and glossed over, death was eating its way along the narrow streets, and its dissemination was especially favoured by the premature summer heat which made the water of the canals lukewarm.
- [Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/cecil-dreeme/): “Mr. Cecil Dreeme,” I said to myself, “is some confident genius, willing to have his name remain in diminutive letters on a visiting-card until the world writes it in big capitals in Valhalla.
- [Dangerous Connections by Choderlos de Laclos](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/dangerous-connections-by-choderlos-de-laclos/): God forbid I should ever intend making a general apology for all novels! that would be the idea of a Demoniac; I only mean to justify useful novels. If any one makes a bad use of this kind of writing, I most willingly acquiesce in their condemnation. Let us now examine whether the author of Dangerous Connections deserves to suffer.
- [Villette by Charlotte Brontë](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/villette-by-charlotte-bronte/): Breakfast over, I must again move—in what direction? “Go to Villette,” said an inward voice; prompted doubtless by the recollection of this slight sentence uttered carelessly and at random by Miss Fanshawe, as she bid me good-by: “I wish you would come to Madame Beck’s; she has some marmots whom you might look after; she wants an English gouvernante, or was wanting one two months ago.”
- [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Wagner-the-Wehr-Wolf/): “’Tis said that at sunset on the last day of every month the mortal, to whom belongs the destiny of the Wehr-Wolf, must exchange his natural form for that of the savage animal; in which horrible shape he must remain until the moment when the morrow’s sun dawns upon the earth.”
- [The Viy](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Viy/): “There he is!” exclaimed the Viy, pointing an iron finger at him; and all the monsters rushed on him at once.
- [The Secret Adversary](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/-The-Secret-Adversary/): TO ALL THOSE WHO LEADMONOTONOUS LIVESIN THE HOPE THAT THEY MAY EXPERIENCEAT SECOND HANDTHE DELIGHTS AND DANGERS OFADVENTURE
- [The Maid of Orleans](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/-the-maid-of-orleans/): Translated by Anna Swanwick
- [Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol 2 by Andrew Lang](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Myth-Ritual-and-Religion-Vol-2/): Longmans, Green, And Co.39 Paternoster Row, LondonNew York And Bombay
- [Jacobs Room](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/-jacobs-room/): CHAPTER ONE
- [A King Robert of Sicily by Sara Cone Bryant](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/-A-King-Robert-of-Sicily-by-Sara-Cone-Bryant/): The king on the throne looked at him. "Who art thou, and what dost thou here?" he asked. And though his voice was just like Robert's own, it had something in it sweet and deep, like the sound of bells.
- [Tour Du Mond 80 Jours](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/tour-du-mond-80-jours/): Sommaire
- [Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Personal-Memoirs-of-U-S-Grant--Volume-Two/): The reply (to my telegram of October 16, 1863, from Cairo, announcing my arrival at that point) came on the morning of the 17th, directing me to proceed immediately to the Galt House, Louisville, where I would meet an officer of the War Department with my instructions. I left Cairo within an hour or two after the receipt of this dispatch, going by rail via Indianapolis. Just as the train I was on was starting out of the depot at Indianapolis a messenger came running up to stop it, saying the Secretary of War was coming into the station and wanted to see me.
- [Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume One](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Personal-Memoirs-of-U-S-Grant--Volume-One/): Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined never to do so, nor to write anything for publication. At the age of nearly sixty-two I received an injury from a fall, which confined me closely to the house while it did not apparently affect my general health. This made study a pleasant pastime. Shortly after, the rascality of a business partner developed itself by the announcement of a failure. This was followed soon after by universal depression of all securities, which seemed to threaten the extinction of a good part of the income still retained, and for which I am indebted to the kindly act of friends.
- [Notes & Queries, No. 22., Saturday, March 30, 1850 by Various](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Notes--Queries-No-22--Saturday-March-30/): In two former communications on a subject incidental to that to which I now beg leave to call your attention, I hinted at a result far more important than the discovery of the author of the Taming of a Shrew. That result I lay before your readers, in stating that I think I can show grounds for the assertion that the Taming of the Shrew, by Shakspeare, is the original play; and that the Taming of a Shrew, by Marlowe or what other writer soever, is a later work, and an imitation.
- [Notes & Queries, No. 31., Saturday, June 1, 1850 by Various](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Notes--Queries-No-31--Saturday-June-1/): We cannot resist the opportunity which the commencement of our Second Volume affords us, of addressing a few words of acknowledgment to our friends, both contributors and readers. In the short space of seven months, we have been enabled by their support to win for "NOTES AND QUERIES" no unimportant position among the literary journals of this country.
- [Two Old Men by Leo Tolstoy](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/-Two-Old-Men-by-Leo-Tolstoy/): THERE were once two old men who decided to go on a pilgrimage to worship God at Jerusalem. One of them was a well-to-do peasant named Efím Tarásitch Shevélef. The other, Elisha Bódrof, was not so well off.
- [Our Lady’s Child by Brothers Grimm](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/-Our-Ladys-Child-by-Brothers-Grimm/): And when she was fourteen years of age, the Virgin Mary called her one day and said, “Dear child, I am about to make a long journey, so take into thy keeping the keys of the thirteen doors of heaven. Twelve of these thou mayest open, and behold the glory which is within them, but the thirteenth, to which this little key belongs, is forbidden thee. Beware of opening it, or thou wilt bring misery on thyself.”
- [THE CHINESE CLASSICS (PROLEGOMENA) Unicode Version by James Legge](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/the-chinese-classics-prolegomena-unicode/): A note from the digitizer
- [The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol 4 by Edward Gibbon](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-History-of-The-Decline-and-Fall-of-thex3119/): With notes by the Rev. H. H. Milman
- [The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol 3 by Edward Gibbon](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/the-history-of-the-decline-and-fall-of-thex3065/): The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- [The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol 6 by Edward Gibbon](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/-The-History-of-The-Decline-and-Fall-of-the/): The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- [The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Secret-Adversary/): It was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes in succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed.
- [The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Mysterious-Affair-at-Styles/): It was a slack time. The war was momentarily inactive, and the newspapers seized with avidity on this crime in fashionable life: “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” was the topic of the moment.
- [De la Terre à la Lune by Jules Verne](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/De-la-Terre--la-Lunex5358/): Pendant la guerre fédérale des États-Unis, un nouveau club très-influent s'établit dans la ville de Baltimore, en plein Maryland.
- [De Franse Pers by Heinrich Heine](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/De-Franse-Pers/): Tot op zekere hoogte is de Franse dagbladpers een oligarchie, zeker geen democratie. Dat komt, omdat een krant stichten in Frankrijk met zoveel kosten en moeite gepaard gaat, dat alleen mensen die in staat zijn zeer grote sommen op tafel te leggen een dagblad kunnen oprichten.
- [An Exhortation to Peace and Unity](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/An-Exhortation-to-Peace-and-Unity/): Where unity and peace is, there many mischiefs and inconveniences are prevented, which attend those people where peace and unity are wanting: and of those many that might be mentioned, I shall briefly insist upon these nine.
- [Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary – Second Hundred Pages](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/websters-unabridged-dictionary-second-hundred-pages/): At·tracÏtiv¶iÏty (?), n. The quality or degree of attractive power.
AtÏtract¶or (?), n. One who, or that which, attracts.
Sir T. Browne.
At¶traÏhent (?), a. Attracting; drawing; attractive.
At¶traÏhent, n. 1. That which attracts, as a magnet.
- [The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication Volume 2 by Charles Darwin](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Variation-of-Animals-and-Plants-underx2980/): The great principle of inheritance to be discussed in this chapter has been recognised by agriculturists and authors of various nations, as shown by the scientific term ATAVISM, derived from atavus, an ancestor; by the English terms of REVERSION, or THROWING-BACK; by the French PAS-EN-ARRIERE; and by the German RUCKSCHLAG, or RUCKSCHRITT.
- [The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Symbolism-of-Freemasonryx1318/): Much of the symbolism of Freemasonry is drawn from the art of architecture. While the improvements of Greek and Roman architecture are recognized in Freemasonry, the three ancient orders, the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian are alone symbolized.
- [The Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Survivors-of-the-Chancellorx9362/): Heaven, he said, he was sure would still spare the survivors of the Chancellor, and then he lavished on his son caresses which he deemed to be his last.
- [The Shagganappi by E. Pauline Johnson](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Shagganappix8969/): Lord Mortimer had called him Shagganappi in a half playful way, had said the name meant good and great things.
- [The Satyricon, Volume 7 (Marchena Notes) by Petronius Arbiter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Satyricon-Volume-7-Marchena-Notes/): The conquests of the French have resulted, during this war, in a boon to knowledge and to letters. Egypt has furnished us with monuments of its aboriginal inhabitants, which the ignorance and superstition of the Copts and Mussulmans kept concealed from civilized countries.
- [The Satyricon, Volume 6 (Editor’s Notes) by Petronius Arbiter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Satyricon-Volume-6-Editor-s-Notes/): There are two basic instincts in the character of the normal individual; the will to live, and the will to propagate the species.
- [The Satyricon, Volume 5 (Crotona Affairs) by Petronius Arbiter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Satyricon-Volume-5-Crotona-Affairs/): For a long time affairs at Crotona ran along in this manner and Eumolpus, flushed with success so far forgot the former state of his fortunes that he even bragged to his followers that no one could hold out against any wish of his, and that any member of his suite who committed a crime in that city would, through the influence of his friends, get off unpunished.
- [The Satyricon, Vol. 4 (Escape by Sea) by Petronius Arbiter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Satyricon-Vol-4-Escape-by-Sea-/): "I have always and everywhere lived such a life that each passing day was spent as though that light would never return; (that is, in tranquillity!
- [The Satyricon, Vol. 2 (The Dinner of Trimalchio) by Petronius Arbiter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Satyricon-Vol-2-The-Dinner-of-Trimalchio/): Having put on our clothes, in the meantime, we commenced to stroll around and soon, the better to amuse ourselves, approached the circle of players; all of a sudden we caught sight of a bald-headed old fellow, rigged out in a russet colored tunic, playing ball with some long haired boys.
- [The Satyricon, Vol. 1, Introduction by Petronius Arbiter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Satyricon-Vol-1-Introduction/): Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance and dictator of fashion.
- [The Satyricon, Complete by Petronius Arbiter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Satyricon-Completex8542/): Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance and dictator of fashion.
- [The Satyricon, Complete by Petronius Arbiter](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Satyricon-Complete/): Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this scintillating miscellany known as the Satyricon, ascribed by tradition to that Petronius who, at the court of Nero, acted as arbiter of elegance and dictator of fashion.
- [The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Return-of-Sherlock-Holmes-by-Arthurx8819/): IT was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances.
- [Reflections of the Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete by Constant](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Private-Life-of-Napoleon-Bonapartex8355/): The career of a man compelled to make his own way, who is not an artisan or in some trade, does not usually begin till he is about twenty years of age.
- [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation Vol 11 by Richard Hakluyt](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Principal-Navigations-Voyages-Traffiquesx2049/): In the thirteenth yeere of the reigne of King Richard the second, the Christians tooke in hand a iourney against the Saracens of Barbarie through sute of the Genouois, so that there went a great number of Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen of France and England, the Duke of Burbon being their Generall.
- [The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Picture-of-Dorian-Grayx6728/): The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
- [The Perils of Pauline by Charles Goddard](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Perils-of-Paulinex8673/): In one of the stateliest mansions on the lower Hudson, near New York, old Stanford Marvin, president of the Marvin Motors Company, dozed over his papers, while Owen, his confidential secretary, eyed him across the mahogany flat-topped desk.
- [The Oxford Movement by R.W. Church](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Oxford-Movementx1471/): What is called the Oxford or Tractarian movement began, without doubt, in a vigorous effort for the immediate defence of the Church against serious dangers, arising from the violent and threatening temper of the days of the Reform Bill.
- [The Odyssey by Homer](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Odyssey/): Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
- [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Volume 2 by Leonardo Da Vinci](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Notebooks-of-Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Volumex5322/): Compared with the mass of manuscript treating of Painting, a very small number of passages bearing on the practice and methods of Sculpture are to be found scattered through the note books; these are here given at the beginning of this section (Nos. 706-709).
- [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Notebooks-of-Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Completex5324/): Seeing that I can find no subject specially useful or pleasing--since the men who have come before me have taken for their own every useful or necessary theme--I must do like one who, being poor, comes last to the fair, and can find no other way of providing himself than by taking all the things already seen by other buyers, and not taken but refused by reason of their lesser value.
- [The Moscow Census – From “What to do?” by Lyof N. Tolstoi](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Moscow-Census--From-What-to-do-x9182/): He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise--LUKE iii. 10. 11.
- [The Moorland Cottage by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Moorland-Cottagex846/): If you take the turn to the left, after you pass the lyke-gate at Combehurst Church, you will come to the wooden bridge over the brook; keep along the field-path which mounts higher and higher, and, in half a mile or so, you will be in a breezy upland field, almost large enough to be called a down, where sheep pasture on the short, fine, elastic turf.
- [The Moccasin Maker by E. Pauline Johnson](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Moccasin-Makerx8060/): The inducement to be sympathetic in writing a preface to a book like this is naturally very great. The authoress was of Indian blood, and lived the life of the Indian on the Iroquois Reserve with her chieftain father and her white mother for many years; and though she had white blood in her veins was insistently and determinedly Indian to the end.
- [The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume IV](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Miscellaneous-Writings-and-Speeches-ofx3129/): It was most reluctantly that I determined to suspend, during the last autumn, a work which is the business and the pleasure of my life, in order to prepare these Speeches for publication; and it is most reluctantly that I now give them to the world.
- [The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume III](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Miscellaneous-Writings-and-Speeches-ofx3080/): Francis Atterbury, a man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of England, was born in the year 1662, at Middleton in Buckinghamshire, a parish of which his father was rector.
- [The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Volume II](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Miscellaneous-Writings-and-Speeches-ofx2954/): The public voice has assigned to Dryden the first place in the second rank of our poets,--no mean station in a table of intellectual precedency so rich in illustrious names.
- [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Vol 13 No 355 by Various](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Mirror-of-Literature-Amusement-andx443/): The definition of the word _villa_ is a country seat; but the reader will ask, how can a country seat be in the midst of a metropolis, or in its brick and mortar confines?
- [The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Merchant-of-Venice-liberally-edited-by/): SCENE.--Partly at VENICE; and partly at BELMONT, the Seat of PORTIA, on the Continent.
- [The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, entire by Madame La Marquise De Montespan](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Memoirs-of-Madame-de-Montespan-entire/): The reign of the King who now so happily and so gloriously rules over France will one day exercise the talent of the most skilful historians.
- [The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, entire by Duc de Saint-Simon](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Memoirs-of-Louis-XIV--His-Court-and-Thex6495/): No library of Court documents could pretend to be representative which ignored the famous "Memoirs" of the Duc de Saint-Simon.
- [The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete by William T. Sherman](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Memoirs-of-General-W-T-Sherman-Completex3110/): Nearly ten years have passed since the close of the civil war in America, and yet no satisfactory history thereof is accessible to the public; nor should any be attempted until the Government has published, and placed within the reach of students, the abundant materials that are buried in the War Department at Washington.
- [The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Vol. 2 by General Philip Henry Sheridan](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Memoirs-of-General-P-H-Sheridan-Volx2905/): While occupying the ground between Clifton and Berryville, referred to in the last chapter of the preceding volume, I felt the need of an efficient body of scouts to collect information regarding the enemy, for the defective intelligence-establishment with which I started out from Harper's Ferry early in August had not proved satisfactory.
- [The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Vol. 1 by General Philip Henry Sheridan](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Memoirs-of-General-P-H-Sheridan-Vol/): My parents, John and Mary Sheridan, came to America in 1830, having been induced by the representations of my father's uncle, Thomas Gainor, then living in Albany, N. Y., to try their fortunes in the New World: They were born and reared in the County Cavan, Ireland, where from early manhood my father had tilled a leasehold on the estate of Cherrymoult; and the sale of this leasehold provided him with means to seek a new home across the sea.
- [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth – Vol 2](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-vol-2/): We went on to the valley of Grindelwald, where we saw, as we thought two fields off, a glacier to which we wished to go;
- [The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth – Vol 1](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/the-life-and-letters-of-maria-edgeworth-vol-1/): In her later years Maria Edgeworth was often asked to write a biographical preface to her novels. She refused. "As a woman," she said, "my life, wholly domestic, can offer nothing of interest to the public."
- [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, v3 by Charles James Lever](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Confessions-of-Harry-Lorrequer-v3/): I thought it better to keep my own secret also; and it was therefore with a feeling of any thing but regret, that I received an order which, under other circumstances, would have rendered me miserable--to march on detachment duty.
- [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, v1 by Charles James Lever](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Confessions-of-Harry-Lorrequer-v1/): If a feather will show how the wind blows, perhaps my dedicating to you even as light matter as these Confessions may in some measure prove how grateful I feel
- [Normandy, Complete by Gordon Home](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Normandy-Complete/): This book is not a guide. It is an attempt to convey by pictures and
description a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.
- [The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 02 by Richard F. Burton](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Book-of-the-Thousand-Nights-and-a-Nightx2887/): It hath reached me, O auspicious King of intelligence penetrating, that there was, amongst the Kings of Bassorah, a King who loved the poor and needy and cherished his lieges, and gave of his wealth to all who believed in Mohammed (whom Allah bless and assain!), and he was even as one of the poets described him.
- [Much adoe about Nothing](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Much-adoe-about-Nothing/): A victorie is twice it selfe, when the atchieuer
brings home full numbers: I finde heere, that Don Peter
hath bestowed much honor on a yong Florentine, called
Claudio
- [Jeanne d’Arc by Mrs. Oliphant](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Jeanne-d-Arc/): The original book for this text was published as a volume in a series "Heroes of the Nations," edited by Evelyn Abbot, M.H., Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
- [De la Terre à la Lune by Jules Verne](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/de-la-terre-la-lune/): Quant à l'intensité de sa lumière, il n'y avait plus rien à apprendre à cet égard; on savait qu'elle est trois cent mille fois plus faible que celle du Soleil, et que sa chaleur n'a pas d'action appréciable sur les thermomètres; quant au phénomène connu sous le nom de lumière cendrée, il s'explique naturellement par l'effet des rayons du Soleil renvoyés de la Terre à la Lune, et qui semblent compléter le disque lunaire, lorsque celui-ci se présente sous la forme d'un croissant dans ses première et dernière phases.
- [Charles O’Malley, Volume 2 by Charles Lever](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/charles-o-malley-vol-2/): CHARLES O'MALLEY.
- [Charles O’Malley, Volume 1 by Charles Lever](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/charles-o-malley-vol-1/): The success of Harry Lorrequer was the reason for writing Charles O'Malley. That I myself was in no wise prepared for the favor the public bestowed on, my first attempt is easily enough understood. The ease with which I strung my stories together,--and in reality the Confessions of Harry Lorrequer are little other than a note-book of absurd and laughable incidents,--led me to believe that I could draw on this vein of composition without any limit whatever. I felt, or thought I felt, an inexhaustible store of fun and buoyancy within me, and I began to have a misty, half-confused impression that Englishmen generally labored under a sad-colored temperament, took depressing views of life, and were proportionately grateful to any one who would rally them even passingly out of their despondency, and give them a laugh without much trouble for going in search of it.
- [Chita A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Chita-A-Memory-of-Last-Island-/): It was a feverish sleep, nevertheless, shattered at brief intervals by terrible sounds, sounds magnified by her nervous condition--a sleep visited by dreams that mingled in a strange way with the impressions of the storm, and more than once made her heart stop, and start again at its own stopping. One of these fancies she never could forget--a dream about little Concha,--Conchita, her firstborn, who now slept far away in the old churchyard at Barcelona. She had tried to become resigned,--not to think. But the child would come back night after night, though the earth lay heavy upon her--night after night, through long distances of Time and Space. Oh! the fancied clinging of infant-lips!--the thrilling touch of little ghostly hands!--those phantom-caresses that torture mothers' hearts! ... Night after night, through many a month of pain. Then for a time the gentle presence ceased to haunt her,--seemed to have lain down to sleep forever under the high bright grass and yellow flowers. Why did it return, that night of all nights, to kiss her, to cling to her, to nestle in her arms?
- [Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 by Various](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/atlantic-monthly-vol-6-no-33-july-1860/): THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
- [Winged Death By H. P. Lovecraft with Hazel Heald](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Winged-Death-By-H-P-Lovecraft-with-Hazel-Heald/): The Orange Hotel stands in High Street near the railway station in Bloemfontein, South Africa. On Sunday, January 24, 1932, four men sat shivering from terror in a room on its third floor. One was George C. Titteridge, proprietor of the hotel; another was police constable Ian De Witt of the Central Station; a third was Johannes Bogaert, the local coroner; the fourth, and apparently the least disorganised of the group, was Dr. Cornelius Van Keulen, the coroner’s physician.
- [The White Ship By H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-White-Ship-By-H-P-Lovecraft/): I am Basil Elton, keeper of the North Point light that my father and grandfather kept before me. Far from the shore stands the grey lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen when the tide is low, but unseen when the tide is high. Past that beacon for a century have swept the majestic barques of the seven seas. In the days of my grandfather there were many; in the days of my father not so many; and now there are so few that I sometimes feel strangely alone, as though I were the last man on our planet.
- [The Whisperer in Darkness By H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Whisperer-in-Darkness-By-H-P-Lovecraft/): Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end. To say that a mental shock was the cause of what I inferred—that last straw which sent me racing out of the lonely Akeley farmhouse and through the wild domed hills of Vermont in a commandeered motor at night—is to ignore the plainest facts of my final experience. Notwithstanding the deep extent to which I shared the information and speculations of Henry Akeley, the things I saw and heard, and the admitted vividness of the impression produced on me by these things, I cannot prove even now whether I was right or wrong in my hideous inference. For after all, Akeley’s disappearance establishes nothing. People found nothing amiss in his house despite the bullet-marks on the outside and inside. It was just as though he had walked out casually for a ramble in the hills and failed to return. There was not even a sign that a guest had been there, or that those horrible cylinders and machines had been stored in the study. That he had mortally feared the crowded green hills and endless trickle of brooks among which he had been born and reared, means nothing at all, either; for thousands are subject to just such morbid fears. Eccentricity, moreover, could easily account for his strange acts and apprehensions toward the last.
- [What the Moon Brings By H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/What-the-Moon-Brings-By-H-P-Lovecraft/): I hate the moon—I am afraid of it—for when it shines on certain scenes familiar and loved it sometimes makes them unfamiliar and hideous.
- [The Very Old Folk By H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Very-Old-Folk-By-H-P-Lovecraft/): Thursday
- [The Unnamable By H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Unnamable-By-H-P-Lovecraft/): We were sitting on a dilapidated seventeenth-century tomb in the late afternoon of an autumn day at the old burying-ground in Arkham, and speculating about the unnamable. Looking toward the giant willow in the centre of the cemetery, whose trunk has nearly engulfed an ancient, illegible slab, I had made a fantastic remark about the spectral and unmentionable nourishment which the colossal roots must be sucking in from that hoary, charnel earth; when my friend chided me for such nonsense and told me that since no interments had occurred there for over a century, nothing could possibly exist to nourish the tree in other than an ordinary manner. Besides, he added, my constant talk about “unnamable” and “unmentionable” things was a very puerile device, quite in keeping with my lowly standing as an author. I was too fond of ending my stories with sights or sounds which paralysed my heroes’ faculties and left them without courage, words, or associations to tell what they had experienced. We know things, he said, only through our five senses or our religious intuitions; wherefore it is quite impossible to refer to any object or spectacle which cannot be clearly depicted by the solid definitions of fact or the correct doctrines of theology—preferably those of the Congregationalists, with whatever modifications tradition and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle may supply.
- [Under the Pyramids By H. P. Lovecraft for Harry Houdini](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Under-the-Pyramids-By-H-P-Lovecraft-for-Harry-Houdini/): Mystery attracts mystery. Ever since the wide appearance of my name as a performer of unexplained feats, I have encountered strange narratives and events which my calling has led people to link with my interests and activities. Some of these have been trivial and irrelevant, some deeply dramatic and absorbing, some productive of weird and perilous experiences, and some involving me in extensive scientific and historical research. Many of these matters I have told and shall continue to tell freely; but there is one of which I speak with great reluctance, and which I am now relating only after a session of grilling persuasion from the publishers of this magazine, who had heard vague rumours of it from other members of my family.
- [Two Black Bottles By Wilfred Blanch Talman with H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Two-Black-Bottles-By-Wilfred-Blanch-Talman-with-H-P-Lovecraft/): Not all of the few remaining inhabitants of Daalbergen, that dismal little village in the Ramapo Mountains, believe that my uncle, old Dominie Vanderhoof, is really dead. Some of them believe he is suspended somewhere between heaven and hell because of the old sexton’s curse. If it had not been for that old magician, he might still be preaching in the little damp church across the moor.
- [The Tree on the Hill By Duane W. Rimel and H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Tree-on-the-Hill-By-Duane-W-Rimel-and-H-P-Lovecraft/): Southeast of Hampden, near the tortuous Salmon River gorge, is a range of steep, rocky hills which have defied all efforts of sturdy homesteaders. The canyons are too deep and the slopes too precipitous to encourage anything save seasonal livestock grazing. The last time I visited Hampden the region—known as Hell’s Acres—was part of the Blue Mountain Forest Reserve. There are no roads linking this inaccessible locality with the outside world, and the hillfolk will tell you that it is indeed a spot transplanted from his Satanic Majesty’s front yard. There is a local superstition that the area is haunted—but by what or by whom no one seems to know. Natives will not venture within its mysterious depths, for they believe the stories handed down to them by the Nez Perce Indians, who have shunned the region for untold generations, because, according to them, it is a playground of certain giant devils from the Outside. These suggestive tales made me very curious.
- [The Tree by H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Tree-by-H-P-Lovecraft/): “Fata viam invenient.”
- [The Trap By H. P. Lovecraft with Henry S. Whitehead](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Trap-By-H-P-Lovecraft-with-Henry-S-Whitehead/): It was on a certain Thursday morning in December that the whole thing began with that unaccountable motion I thought I saw in my antique Copenhagen mirror. Something, it seemed to me, stirred—something reflected in the glass, though I was alone in my quarters. I paused and looked intently, then, deciding that the effect must be a pure illusion, resumed the interrupted brushing of my hair.
- [The Transition of Juan Romero By H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Transition-of-Juan-Romero-By-H-P-Lovecraft/): Of the events which took place at the Norton Mine on October 18th and 19th, 1894, I have no desire to speak. A sense of duty to science is all that impels me to recall, in these last years of my life, scenes and happenings fraught with a terror doubly acute because I cannot wholly define it. But I believe that before I die I should tell what I know of the—shall I say transition—of Juan Romero.
- [The Tomb By H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Tomb-By-H-P-Lovecraft/): The vault to which I refer is of ancient granite, weathered and discoloured by the mists and dampness of generations. Excavated back into the hillside, the structure is visible only at the entrance. The door, a ponderous and forbidding slab of stone, hangs upon rusted iron hinges, and is fastened ajar in a queerly sinister way by means of heavy iron chains and padlocks, according to a gruesome fashion of half a century ago. The abode of the race whose scions are here inurned had once crowned the declivity which holds the tomb, but had long since fallen victim to the flames which sprang up from a disastrous stroke of lightning. Of the midnight storm which destroyed this gloomy mansion, the older inhabitants of the region sometimes speak in hushed and uneasy voices; alluding to what they call “divine wrath” in a manner that in later years vaguely increased the always strong fascination which I felt for the forest-darkened sepulchre. One man only had perished in the fire. When the last of the Hydes was buried in this place of shade and stillness, the sad urnful of ashes had come from a distant land; to which the family had repaired when the mansion burned down. No one remains to lay flowers before the granite portal, and few care to brave the depressing shadows which seem to linger strangely about the water-worn stones.
- [Till A’ the Seas By R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Till-A-the-Seas-By-R-H-Barlow-and-H-P-Lovecraft/): Upon an eroded cliff-top rested the man, gazing far across the valley. Lying thus, he could see a great distance, but in all the sere expanse there was no visible motion. Nothing stirred the dusty plain, the disintegrated sand of long-dry river-beds, where once coursed the gushing streams of Earth’s youth. There was little greenery in this ultimate world, this final stage of mankind’s prolonged presence upon the planet. For unnumbered aeons the drought and sandstorms had ravaged all the lands. The trees and bushes had given way to small, twisted shrubs that persisted long through their sturdiness; but these, in turn, perished before the onslaught of coarse grasses and stringy, tough vegetation of strange evolution.
- [Through the Gates of the Silver Key By H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/Through-the-Gates-of-the-Silver-Key-By-H-P-Lovecraft-and-E-Hoffmann-Price/): In a vast room hung with strangely figured arras and carpeted with Bokhara rugs of impressive age and workmanship four men were sitting around a document-strown table. From the far corners, where odd tripods of wrought-iron were now and then replenished by an incredibly aged negro in sombre livery, came the hypnotic fumes of olibanum; while in a deep niche on one side there ticked a curious coffin-shaped clock whose dial bore baffling hieroglyphs and whose four hands did not move in consonance with any time system known on this planet. It was a singular and disturbing room, but well fitted to the business now at hand. For here, in the New Orleans home of this continent’s greatest mystic, mathematician, and orientalist, there was being settled at last the estate of a scarcely less great mystic, scholar, author, and dreamer who had vanished from the face of the earth four years before.
- [The Thing on the Doorstep By H. P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Thing-on-the-Doorstep-By-H-P-Lovecraft/): It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman—madder than the man I shot in his cell at the Arkham Sanitarium. Later some of my readers will weigh each statement, correlate it with the known facts, and ask themselves how I could have believed otherwise than as I did after facing the evidence of that horror—that thing on the doorstep.
- [The Thing in the Moonlight by H.P. Lovecraft](https://www.fulltextarchive.com/book/The-Thing-in-the-Moonlight-by-H-P-Lovecraft/): “The Thing in the Moonlight” is based on a letter that Lovecraft wrote to Donald Wandrei on 24 November 1927. The story surrounding Lovecraft’s description of his dream was written by J. Chapman Miske and published in the January 1941 issue of Bizarre.