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Poetry & Literature

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Salome

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

Poetry & Literature

Satan as a Moral Philosopher

Caleb Sprague Henry

Poetry & Literature

Secret Shakespearean Seals

Fratres Roseae Crucis

Esoteric Traditions

Selected Letters

H. P. Lovecraft

Poetry & Literature

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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

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Published stories and additions from the archive.

New discoveries. Forty-two additions. ↗

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Follow a voice through the archive.

A Highland Seer ↗
A Student ↗
A. B. Mitford ↗
A. C. Michael ↗
A. Farnese ↗
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A. Gould ↗
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A. P. Morton ↗
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Consciousness & Psychic Phenomena82

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Mental Training & Concentration7
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Psychical Research28
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Subtle Bodies17
Telepathy3

Spirits & the Afterlife78

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

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Astrology16
Cartomancy1
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Scrying1
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Philosophy & Mysticism79

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Fiction & Imagined Worlds138

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Poetry & Literature73

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Drama7
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Poetry51
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Songs of Innocence and Other Poems

William Blake

Poetry & Literature

Stanzas of Dzyan Theogenesis

Attributed Stanzas of Dzyan; commentary by A. S. Raleigh

Esoteric Traditions

Tannhäuser

Richard Wagner; T. W. Rolleston; Willy Pogany

Poetry & Literature

The Argonauts

Aleister Crowley

Poetry & Literature

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde; drawings by Latimer J. Wilson

Poetry & Literature

The Bells and Other Poems

Edgar Allan Poe; illustrated by Edmund Dulac

Poetry & Literature

The Blue Bird

Maurice Maeterlinck; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Poetry & Literature

The Book of Fairy Poetry

Edited by Dora Owen; illustrated by Warwick Goble

Poetry & Literature

The Book of Thel

William Blake

Poetry & Literature

The Book of Urizen

William Blake

Poetry & Literature

The Chalice of Ecstasy

Frater Achad

Esoteric Traditions

The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems

Vachel Lindsay

Poetry & Literature

The City of Dreadful Night

James Thomson; introduction by E. Cavazza

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 Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats

Poetry & Literature

The Crucible of Dreams

Constantine Marrast Perkins

Poetry & Literature

The Decameron, Volume I

Giovanni Boccaccio; translated by J. M. Rigg; illustrated by Louis Chalon

Fiction & Imagined Worlds

The Dream of Ravan

Anonymous

Poetry & Literature

The Golden Threshold

Sarojini Naidu; introduction by Arthur Symons

Poetry & Literature

The Harlot’s House and Other Poems

Oscar Wilde; John Vassos

Poetry & Literature

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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