The 40 Most Gruesome Deaths In Literature - Entertainment - ShortList Magazine

  | Nov 19, 2012

List of Oz books - Wikipedia

  | Nov 6, 2012

Sky Island (novel) - Wikipedia

a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, and published in 1912 by the Reilly & Britton Company- the same group that produced the Oz books in the first decades of the twentieth century.

  | Nov 6, 2012

Death, Be Not Proud by John Donne

  | Mar 7, 2012

In 1963, Ray Bradbury sent this letter to explain symbolism in his work

These quotes from Ray Bradbury are amazing!

  | Dec 6, 2011

Kahlil Gibran The Complete Prophet Poems

  | Sep 8, 2010

Short Stories: The Horla by Guy de Maupassant

  | Jan 7, 2009

The Literary Gothic - the premier webguide to pre-1950 Gothic literature

  | Aug 16, 2008

Household Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Grimm's Fairy Tales translated by Margaret Hunt (1884)

  | Jun 27, 2008

Slaughterhouse-Five - Wikipedia

One of the most popular works by Kurt Vonnegut

  | Apr 13, 2007

Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

"Jabberwocky" is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, and found as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).

  | Apr 10, 2007

Charles Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal

with English translations

  | Mar 12, 2007

MacGuffin - Wikipedia

A plot device in a story. The glowing briefcase in Pulp Fiction was the MacGuffin.

  | Dec 12, 2006

Sherlock Holmes - Wikipedia

A popular misconception is that the Sherlock Holmes stories gave rise to the entire genre of detective fiction. In fact, the Holmes character and his modus operandi were inspired by two predecessors, C. Auguste Dupin and Monsieur Lecoq...

  | Nov 22, 2006

"H. P. Lovecraft: Tales"

"The darkside of the dreamlife, reminiscent of the "Black" paintings of Goya, are conjured on the page with an obsessive richness that one would have to go back to Poe to find the equal."

  | Aug 15, 2006

"The Prophet", Kahlil Gibran (1923)

This is an amazing book! So many things he wrote can be applied today.

  | Jul 4, 2006

Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, tales, and poems

A well organized site with summaries, quotes, and full text of Poe's short stories, a Poe timeline, and image gallery. Stories have linked vocabulary words and definitions for educational reading. Recognized by Wikipedia and the W3C.

  | Jun 7, 2006

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

There are some words and thoughts here which I admire

  | May 4, 2006