Victor Frankenstein has no idea the horrors he is to unleash when at the University Town of Ingolstadt he create a living being from dead tissue. This begins a cycle of death,...

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in...

"What was it that you heard about my brother's journey at Bamangwato?" asked Sir Henry, as I paused to fill my pipe before replying to Captain Good. "I heard this," I answered,...

First published in 1894, the Jungle Book is perhaps Rudyard Kiplings most well regarded and beloved book.Containing not just the adventures of Mowgli, but also that of...

First published in the December 1904 edition of The Delineator, two years after Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, this short parable tells the tale of Santa Claus...

The first of five novels by Buchan featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations, the 39...

Possibly the most widely known tale written by gothic horror writer H.P Lovecraft; the Call of Cthulhu is a short story published in 1928 about a young man who inherits a strange...

One of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature, the Secret Garden is a story of regrowth and regeneration. This classic tale centers...

An original fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen; The Snow Queen centres on the struggle between good and evil as experienced by Gerda and her friend, Kay.The...

An english comic novel, The Diary of a Nobody, reproduces the diary entries of one Charles Pooter, a city clerk, his scrapes, his attempts to reach high society, his despair of...