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32 books

Burma: Painted and Described

R. Talbot Kelly

History, Travel & Cultures

Celtic Wonder Tales

Retold by Ella Young; illustrated and decorated by Maud Gonne

Mythology & Folklore

Children's Books and Their Illustrators

Gleeson White

Art & Illustration

Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross

Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

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Phobia

John Vassos

Art & Illustration

The Dark Brotherhood

August Derleth; a story in the Lovecraft tradition

Fiction & Imagined Worlds

The Dunwich Horror and Others

H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction & Imagined Worlds

The Outsider and Others

H. P. Lovecraft

Fiction & Imagined Worlds

Library notes

Published stories and additions from the archive.

New discoveries. Forty-two additions. ↗

Meet the authors

Follow a voice through the archive.

A Highland Seer ↗
A Student ↗
A. B. Mitford ↗
A. C. Michael ↗
A. Farnese ↗
A. G. Peck ↗
A. Gould ↗
A. H. Sayce ↗
A. L. Rawson ↗
A. Merritt ↗
A. P. Morton ↗
A. P. Sinnett ↗

Consciousness & Psychic Phenomena82

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Astral Projection4
Auras3
Clairvoyance14
Consciousness28
Dreams2
Hypnosis8
Mental Training & Concentration7
Personal Magnetism & Suggestion2
Psychic Healing5
Psychical Research28
Psychology5
Psychometry4
Subtle Bodies17
Telepathy3

Spirits & the Afterlife78

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Consolation & Bereavement4
Ghosts8
Life After Death35
Mediumship37
Psychic Photography1
Reincarnation6
Spirit Realms31
Spiritualism34

Astrology & Divination26

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Astrology16
Cartomancy1
Geomancy1
Numerology4
Oracles5
Palmistry4
Scrying1
Tarot2

Mythology & Folklore76

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Arthurian & Grail Legends2
Celtic Mythology7
Chinese Folklore3
Egyptian Mythology1
Fairies6
Folktales37
Greek Mythology2
Indian Mythology4
Japanese Folklore8
Legendary Beings10
Mesopotamian Mythology1
Norse Mythology4
Polynesian Mythology3
Superstitions15
Traditional Fairy Tales11
World Mythology17
Yokai6

Religions & Sacred Traditions92

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Ancient Religions24
Biblical Interpretation8
Buddhism7
Christian Devotion3
Christian Mysticism10
Christianity30
Comparative Religion17
Gnosticism4
Hinduism12
Religious Criticism5
Religious Symbolism14
Sacred Texts11
Shinto2
Tantra2
Zoroastrianism1

Philosophy & Mysticism79

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Eastern Philosophy14
Ethics12
Metaphysics21
Mystical Experience12
New Thought6
Nonduality1
Spiritual Development20
Taoism7
Western Philosophy3
Yoga11

Lost Worlds & Ancient Mysteries16

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Ancient Mysteries3
Atlantis6
Hollow Earth1
Lemuria3
Mu1
Speculative History14

Science, Nature & the Cosmos34

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Anomalous Phenomena2
Astronomy4
Cosmology2
Geometry2
Historical Scientific Theories20
History of Medicine9
Natural History2

Fiction & Imagined Worlds138

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Adventure Fiction20
Cosmic Catastrophe2
Fantasy52
Ghost Stories5
Gothic Horror35
Literary Fiction21
Lost World Fiction7
Occult Fiction36
Original Fairy Tales18
Philosophical Fiction7
Political Fiction4
Reincarnation Fiction5
Satire7
Science Fiction15
Utopian Fiction3
Weird Fiction30
Wordless Novels2

Art & Illustration76

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Art History8
Book Illustration32
Colour Theory2
Conjuring & Performance6
Decorative Arts4
Design8
Drawing & Artistic Anatomy1
Graphic Art13
Photography2
Posters & Print Design2
Printmaking3
Symbolism9
Visionary Art17
Watercolour1

Poetry & Literature73

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Drama7
Letters & Correspondence2
Literary Classics26
Literary Criticism6
Literary Essays8
Literary Periodicals4
Mythic Poetry1
Philosophical Poetry5
Poetry51
Religious Poetry4

History, Travel & Cultures68

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Ancient History8
Biography8
Cultural History36
Historical Accounts8
Institutional History13
Peoples & Places10
Travel in Asia8
Travel Writing12

Art & Illustration

Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath

Ben Hecht; drawings by Wallace Smith

Fiction & Imagined Worlds

Irish Fairy Tales

James Stephens; Arthur Rackham

Mythology & Folklore

Paradise Lost: Illustrated by Gustave Doré

John Milton; illustrated by Gustave Doré; edited by Henry C. Walsh

Poetry & Literature

Parsifal

T. W. Rolleston; illustrated by Willy Pogány

Poetry & Literature

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

J. M. Barrie; drawings by Arthur Rackham

Fiction & Imagined Worlds

Purgatory and Paradise: The Vision of Dante

Dante Alighieri; translated by Henry Francis Cary; illustrated by Gustave Doré

Poetry & Literature

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam; translated by Edward FitzGerald; illustrated by Willy Pogány

Poetry & Literature

Salome

Oscar Wilde; English translation from the French, with sixteen drawings by Aubrey Beardsley

Poetry & Literature

Tannhäuser

Richard Wagner; T. W. Rolleston; Willy Pogany

Poetry & Literature

Te Tohunga: The Ancient Legends and Traditions of the Maoris

Orally collected and pictured by W. Dittmer

Mythology & Folklore

The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book

Arthur Rackham; illustrator and compiler

Mythology & Folklore

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde; drawings by Latimer J. Wilson

Poetry & Literature

The Bible Gallery

Gustave Dore; Talbot W. Chambers

Art & Illustration

The Book of Fairy Poetry

Edited by Dora Owen; illustrated by Warwick Goble

Poetry & Literature

The Closed Door

Jean de Bosschère; illustrated by the author; with a translation by F. S. Flint and an introduction by May Sinclair

Poetry & Literature

The Dreamer of Dreams

Marie, Queen of Romania; illustrated by Edmund Dulac

Fiction & Imagined Worlds

The Harlot’s House and Other Poems

Oscar Wilde; John Vassos

Poetry & Literature

The Rape of the Lock

Alexander Pope; illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley

Poetry & Literature

The Ring of the Niblung

Richard Wagner; Margaret Armour; Arthur Rackham

Poetry & Literature

The Ship That Sailed to Mars

Told and pictured by William M. Timlin

Fiction & Imagined Worlds

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Fairies I Have Met

Mrs. Rodolph Stawell; Edmund Dulac

Fiction & Imagined Worlds

The Magic World

E. Nesbit; illustrations by H. R. Millar and Spencer Pryse

Fiction & Imagined Worlds