Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2013-11-17

Total Pages: 3007

ISBN-13: 1909496049

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This eBook presents the complete fictional works of H. P. Lovecraft, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lovecraft's life and works * Brief introduction to master short story writer * Over 100 short stories, including rare collaborations * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the tales you want to read * A selection of some of Lovecrafts greatest poetry * Includes Lovecraft's memoirs a range of autobiographical writings collected form the authors letters and journals * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: due to copyright restrictions, the short stories that Lovecraft wrote with C. M. Eddy, Jr. cannot appear in this collection. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: H. P. Lovecraft: Brief Introduction The Short Stories The Little Glass Bottle The Secret Cave The Mystery of the Grave-Yard The Mysterious Ship The Beast in the Cave The Alchemist The Tomb Dagon A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson Sweet Ermengarde Polaris The Green Meadow Beyond the Wall of Sleep Memory Old Bugs The Transition of Juan Romero The White Ship The Doom That Came to Sarnath The Statement of Randolph Carter The Terrible Old Man The Tree The Cats of Ulthar The Temple Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The Street Poetry and the Gods Celephaïs From Beyond Nyarlathotep The Picture in the House The Crawling Chaos Ex Oblivione The Nameless City The Quest of Iranon The Moon-Bog The Outsider The Other Gods The Music of Erich Zann Herbert West Reanimator Hypnos What the Moon Brings Azathoth The Horror at Martins Beach The Hound The Lurking Fear The Rats in the Walls The Unnamable The Festival Under the Pyramids The Shunned House The Horror at Red Hook He In the Vault The Descendant Cool Air The Call of Cthulhu Two Black Bottles Pickmans Model The Silver Key The Strange High House in the Mist The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Colour Out of Space The Very Old Folk The Thing in the Moonlight The Last Test The History of the Necronomicon The Curse of Yig Ibid The Dunwich Horror The Electric Executioner The Mound Medusas Coil The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Draft) The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Trap The Dreams in the Witch House The Man of Stone The Horror in the Museum Through the Gates of the Silver Key Winged Death Out of the Aeons The Thing on the Doorstep The Evil Clergyman The Horror in the Burying-Ground The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast The Slaying of the Monster The Book The Tree on the Hill The Battle that Ended the Century The Shadow out of Time Till A the Seas Collapsing Cosmoses The Challenge from Beyond The Disinterment The Diary of Alonzo Typer The Haunter of the Dark In the Walls of Eryx The Night Ocean LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Poetry LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Memoirs LIST OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS Please click here to browse our other titles


Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)

Author: Confucius

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2016-08-29

Total Pages: 3298

ISBN-13: 1786560526

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The philosophy of Confucius emphasises personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity, which were developed into a system known as Confucianism. Confucius is traditionally credited with having authored or edited many of the Chinese classic texts including all of the Five Classics. This comprehensive eBook presents the Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Confucius and the Chinese Classics * Concise introductions to the texts * Features James Legge's seminal translations * All Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism * Includes multiple translations of the ANALECTS, including a special dual text * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes the legendary I CHING divination text * Features three biographies - discover Confucius’ ancient world * Scholarly ordering of texts into literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Four Books GREAT LEARNING DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN ANALECTS MENCIUS The Five Classics CLASSIC OF POETRY BOOK OF DOCUMENTS BOOK OF RITES I CHING SPRING AND AUTUMN ANNALS The Biographies THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF CONFUCIUS by James Legge THE LIFE, LABOURS AND DOCTRINES OF CONFUCIUS by Edward Harper Parker BRIEF BIOGRAPHY: CONFUCIUS Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks


Frankenstein (1831 version) by Mary Shelley - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Frankenstein (1831 version) by Mary Shelley - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)

Author: Mary Shelley

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2017-07-17

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1788773845

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This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Mary Shelley’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Shelley includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to Shelley’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles


Delphi Complete Works of Sheridan Le Fanu (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Sheridan Le Fanu (Illustrated)

Author: Sheridan Le Fanu

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2013-11-17

Total Pages: 3491

ISBN-13: 1909496510

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For the first time in publishing history readers can enjoy the complete works of Sheridan Le Fanu, the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century, whose groundbreaking works were central to the development of the Gothic genre in the Victorian era. This comprehensive eBook is complemented with numerous illustrations, informative introductions, scarce texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Le Fanu's life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 14 novels, with individual contents tables * Rare novels like THE FORTUNES OF COLONEL TORLOGH O’BRIEN appearing for the first time in digital publishing history * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Several novels are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Rare novellas from CHRONICLES OF GOLDEN FRIARS, available nowhere else * The complete 54 short stories – with many supernatural tales appearing here for the first time * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Includes Le Fanu's poetry and memoir - spend hours exploring the author’s diverse works * Special criticism section, with two detailed essays evaluating Le Fanu’s contribution to literature * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with 8 rare uncollected short stories, appearing in digital print for the first time Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels THE COCK AND ANCHOR THE FORTUNES OF COLONEL TORLOGH O’BRIEN THE HOUSE BY THE CHURCH-YARD WYLDER’S HAND UNCLE SILAS GUY DEVERELL ALL IN THE DARK THE TENANTS OF MALORY A LOST NAME HAUNTED LIVES THE WYVERN MYSTERY CHECKMATE THE ROSE AND THE KEY WILLING TO DIE The Shorter Fiction THE PURCELL PAPERS GHOST STORIES AND TALES OF MYSTERY GHOSTLY TALES CHRONICLES OF GOLDEN FRIARS IN A GLASS DARKLY SPALATRO A STABLE FOR NIGHTMARES UNCOLLECTED TALES The Tales LIST OF TALES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF TALES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Poems THE POETRY OF SHERIDAN LE FANU The Criticism A FORGOTTEN CREATOR OF GHOSTS: JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU by Edna Kenton SHERIDAN LE FANU by E. F. Benson The Memoir MEMOIR OF JOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles


The Great Old Ones

The Great Old Ones

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 770

ISBN-13: 9781979588157

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Read the collected works of H. P. Lovecraft, one of modern horror's founding fathers, the original master of the supernatural and macabre! This wonderfully composed book contains the complete fiction collection of H. P. Lovecraft's writings. Also included are H. P. Lovecraft's collaborations with other writers of weird fiction. Read The Great Old Ones and see why Lovecraft's writings have influenced almost every writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. His work inspired such later luminaries as Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Thomas Ligotti, Caitlín R. Kiernan, William S. Burroughs, and Neil Gaiman. In his own time, Lovecraft also influenced a wide range of his peers including Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian series). Once you read his works, you will see why Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." The following novellas, stories, and works of short fiction are included in this massive ebook: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction The Alchemist The Beast in the Cave The Tomb Dagon Polaris Beyond the Wall of Sleep Memory Old Bugs The Little Glass Bottle The Transition of Juan Romero The White Ship The Doom That Came to Sarnath The Statement of Randolph Carter The Terrible Old Man The Tree The Cats of Ulthar The Temple Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The Street Celephaïs From Beyond Nyarlathotep The Picture in the House Ex Oblivione The Mysterious Ship The Mystery of the Grave-Yard or "A Dead Man's Revenge" The Nameless City The Quest of Iranon The Moon-Bog The Outsider The Other Gods Pickman's Model The Music of Erich Zann Herbert West - Reanimator Hypnos What the Moon Brings Azathoth The Hound The Lurking Fear The Rats in the Walls A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure Sweet Ermengarde Or, the Heart of a Country Girl The Unnamable The Festival The Shunned House The Horror at Red Hook He In the Vault The Descendant Cool Air The Call of Cthulhu The Silver Key The Strange High House in the Mist The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Colour Out of Space The Very Old Folk The Thing in the Moonlight Ibid The Dunwich Horror The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Dreams in the Witch House The Thing on the Doorstep The Evil Clergyman The Book The Shadow Out of Time The Haunter of the Dark The History of the Necronomicon The Battle That Ended the Century The Challenge from Beyond Collapsing Cosmoses The Crawling Chaos The Curse of Yig The Diary of Alonzo Typer The Disinterment The Electric Executioner The Green Meadow The Hoard of The Wizarrd-Beast The Horror at Martin's Beach The Horror in the Burying-Ground The Horror in the Museum In the Walls of Eryx The Last Test The Man of Stone Medusa's Coil The Mound The Night Ocean Out of the Aeons Poetry and the Gods The Slaying of the Monster Through the Gates of the Silver Key Till A' the Seas The Trap The Tree on the Hill Two Black Bottles Imprisoned with the Pharaohs Winged Death As an added bonus, this edition contains an illuminating introduction on weird fiction by the master himself entitled Notes on Writing Weird Fiction.


Why We Read Fiction

Why We Read Fiction

Author: Lisa Zunshine

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0814210287

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Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as "Theory of Mind" and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson s Clarissa, Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment, and Austen s Pride and Prejudice to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's Lolita, and Hammett s The Maltese Falcon. Zunshine's surprising new interpretations of well-known literary texts and popular cultural representations constantly prod her readers to rethink their own interest in fictional narrative. Written for a general audience, this study provides a jargon-free introduction to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field known as cognitive approaches to literature and culture.


The Statement of Randolph Carter

The Statement of Randolph Carter

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2020-09-02

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 8726597144

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Randolph Carter is not sure what has happened to his closest friend Harley Warren. The two of them decided to visit an old cemetery in a swamp, but something did not go as planned. Carter was found dazed on the edge of the swamp the next morning. His memory is uncertain and indistinct – but he does remember some of the awful happenings. ‘The Statement of Randolph Carter’ is a horror short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American horror writer. His best known works include ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ and ‘the Mountains of Madness’. Most of his work was originally published in pulp magazines, and Lovecraft rose into fame only after his death at the age of 46. He has had a great influence in both horror and science fiction genres.


The Mandaean Book of John

The Mandaean Book of John

Author: Charles G. Häberl

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-11-18

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 3110487861

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Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.


The Vampire

The Vampire

Author: Thomas M. Bohn

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2019-09-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1789202930

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Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the world—became so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment, embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life For a broad contemporary public, the vampire has become a star, a media sensation from Hollywood. Bestselling authors such as Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer continue to fire the imaginations of young and old alike, and bloodsuckers have achieved immortality through films like Dracula, Interview with a Vampireand Twilight. It is no wonder that, in the teenage bedrooms of our globalized world, vampires even steal the show from Harry Potter. They have long since been assigned individual personalities and treated with sympathy. They may possess superhuman powers, but they are also burdened by their immortality and have to learn to come to terms with their craving for blood. Whereas the Southeast European vampire, discovered in the 1730s, underwent an Americanization and domestication in the media landscape of the twentieth century, the creole zombies that first became known through the cheap novels and horror films of the 1920s still continue to serve as brainless horror figures. Do bloodsuckers really exist and should we really be afraid of the dead? These are the questions that I seek to tackle, following the wishes of my daughter, who was ten when I started this project.


Delphi Complete Works of Francis Stevens (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Francis Stevens (Illustrated)

Author: Francis Stevens

Publisher: Delphi Classics

Published: 2023-03-17

Total Pages: 2178

ISBN-13: 1801701083

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Gertrude Barrows Bennett, known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. In spite of a short career of seven years between 1917 and 1923, which ended suddenly for unknown reasons, Stevens produced original and startling fantasies, leading many to name her the creator of dark fantasy. Her highly imaginative tales went on to inform the works of prominent weird and horror writers, including H. P. Lovecraft and A. Merritt. For this first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Stevens’ complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Stevens’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 5 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the stories were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes special bonus texts of the science fiction and fantasy works that inspired Stevens’ tales * Rare short stories available in no other collection * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novels The Citadel of Fear (1918) The Labyrinth (1918) The Heads of Cerberus (1919) Avalon (1919) Claimed (1920) The Short Stories The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar (1904) The Nightmare (1917) Friend Island (1918) Behind the Curtain (1918) Unseen — Unfeared (1919) The Elf-Trap (1919) Serapion (1920) Sunfire (1923)