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Thornton Waldo Burgess (1874-1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories." Lightfoot the Deer is one of Burgess's Green Forest Series of books for children. lightfoot, a young deer, has adventures with many of his forest friends, including Danny Meadow Mouse, Peter Rabbit, Jumper the Hare, and many others.

Few know at this day the terrible story of Melmoth the Wanderer -- half man, half devil -- who has bartered away his soul for the glory of power and knowledge, and, repenting of his bargain, tries again and again to persuade some desperate human to change places with him-penetrates to the refuge of misery, the death chamber, even the madhouse, seeking one in such utter agony as to accept his help, and take his curse...but ever fails. That original story by Charles Robert Maturin is included here, along with the later sequel penned by no less a literary figure than Honore de Balzac.

The seventh issue of ADVENTURE TALES presents more classic tales from the pulp magazines -- this time focusing on Mack Reynolds (with 6 stories and 2 essays), plus stories by Frank Belknap Long, Rafael Sabatini, Greye La Spina, David H. Keller, M.D., and many more!

Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916) was an American writer who used the pseudonym Jean Webster, best known for Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers. When Patty Went to College is Webster's first novel, published in 1903, a humorous look at life in an all-girls college at the turn of the 20th century. [Webster is an alumna of Vassar College.]

Darrell Schweitzer assembles another massive collection of monstrously fun interviews with the stars of modern horror fiction, including:Joe R. LansdaleCarrie VaughnLisa TuttleKim NewmanFred ChappellElizabeth MassieBrian A. HopkinsHarry O. MorrisSephera GironS.P. SomtowHugh B. CaveRobert WeinbergGahan WilsonRamsey CampbellDavid J. SchowGraham JoyceBrian LumleyPeter Straub

Robert William Chambers (1865-1933) was an American artist and writer. The Maker of Moons is an 1896 short story collection that followed his most famous work, The King in Yellow and duplicates two stories from it, "The Yellow Sign" and "The Demoiselle d'Ys."

Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), an early American novelist, historian, and editor, generally regarded as the most ambitious and accomplished U.S. novelist before James Fenimore Cooper. Wieland is the first, and most famous, American Gothic novel.

Best described on its title page as the "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, his private secretary, to which are added an account of the important events of the Hundred Days, of Napoleon's surrender to the English, and of his residence and death at St. Helena, with anecdotes and illustrative extracts from all the most authentic sources, edited by R. W. Phipps. Colonel, late Royal Artillery."

Best described on its title page as the "Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, his private secretary, to which are added an account of the important events of the Hundred Days, of Napoleon's surrender to the English, and of his residence and death at St. Helena, with anecdotes and illustrative extracts from all the most authentic sources, edited by R. W. Phipps. Colonel, late Royal Artillery."

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and prolific novelist. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed," "pursuit of the almighty dollar," "the pen is mightier than the sword," and the famous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night."

Mangasar Magurditch Mangasarian (1859-1943) was an American rationalist and secularist born in Turkey under the Ottoman Empire, and became a lecturer on "independent religion" in New York, a leader of the Ethical Culture Society of Chicago, and organized the Independent Religious Society of Chicago, a rationalist group. This is a collection of lectures delivered to that society.