Edith Nesbit is best known as the author of The Railway Children, but she was also a great writer of terror and ghost stories. Do not read this book at bedtime or you may be haunted in the night! Nesbit spins chilling tales, where we meet the undead, love...
My name is Stumps, and my mistress is rather a nice little girl; but she has her faults, like most people. I myself, as it happens, am wonderfully free from faults. Among my mistresss faults is what I may call a lack of dignity, joined to a desire to make...
Edith Nesbit is possibly most well known as a celebrated childrenâs author, but she also wrote fantastic ghost and horror short stories, here we have collected five of these scary and bone chilling tales. Some of the stories included...
From the beloved author of the classic novel, The Railway Children , comes this magical collection of short stories featuring eight fantastical dragon tales.
During a family trip to the seaside, four young siblings inadvertently summon a mermaid who tells the children about her sister, taken prisoner by a circus and made to perform against her will. The children set out to liberate the incarcerated mermaid,...
The third issue of FORGOTTEN FANTASY featured part 3 of "The Goddess of Atvatabar," by William R. Bradshaw -- a rare fantasy novel reprinted for the first time. Plus short works by H.G. Wells ("The Valley of Spiders"), Nathaniel Hawthorne...
Edith Nesbit (1858 - 1924) was an English poet and author. She is perhaps best remembered for her childrenâs literature, publishing more than 60 such books under the name E. Nesbit. She was also a political activist and co-founded the...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
When Jerry, Jimmy and Cathy discover a tunnel that leads to a castle, they pretend that it is enchanted. But when they discover a Sleeping Princess at the centre of a maze, astonishing things begin to happen. Amongst a horde of jewels they discover a ring...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
PICTURE BOOKS. When their father is wrongly accused of spying, Bobbie, Peter and Phylis move out of London and experience new exciting adventures in the countryside. But will their father ever return.
Twenty stories from Shakespeare retold in lively prose. The author makes the complex language of Shakespeare's greatest plays accessible to young children by relating the stories that form the core of the plays. Her graceful, vivid retellings are the...