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Excerpt from I Will MaintainThe ideals OF M. DE witt here is one subject that we seldom touch upon, said Sir William. And that is one upon which I am curious to hear you speak. John de Witt looked up quickly. Ah, sir, he smiled faintly. You are of a probing disposition - what is this subject? The Prince.The Prince repeated M. De Witt, and an intent ex pression that might have been trouble came into his full brown eyes. What is there to say of ...

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Black Magic begins with this ominous first line: 'In the large room of a house in a certain quiet city in Flanders, a man was guilding a devil'. That person is Dirk Renswoude, a craftsman and loner of noble birth who has been mistreated in some unspecified way by his family. He meets Thierry, a young scholar on his way to study at the university at Basle and they soon discover that they have a shared fascination with the black arts. However, T...

Excerpt from God and the King The speaker was standing by an open window that looked on to one Of the courts of Whitehall Palace, listening to the unusual and tumultuous noises that filled the sweet summer air noises of bells, of shouting, the crack of fireworks, and the report of joyous mock artillery. It was late afternoon, and the small apartment was already left by the departing daylight and obscured with a dusky shade, but no candles we...

Excerpt from Prince and Heretic Magister Gustave Vanderlinde, astrologer and alchemist to that great Protestant Prince, His Highness Augustus, Elector of Saxony, sat somewhat gloomily in the laboratory of his house at Leipsic. It was August, and the sun fell merrily through the diamond panes of the casements on to the dusty and mysterious objects which filled the high and narrow chamber. In one corner stood a large furnace with two ovens, a...

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Seth's newly illustrated version of a classic Christmas Ghost Story by horror master M.R. James.

Excerpt from The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy IT is a day in early summer, as beautiful as such days were in the Southern lands of 500 years ago. It is Italy steeped in golden sunlight which lies like a haze over the spreading View the year 1360, when cities were beautiful and nature all-pervading. Here is Lombardy, spread like a garden in the hollow of the hills, ringed about with the purple Apennines, covered with ¿owers, white, ye...

Excerpt from The Master of StairThe men strained their eyes to pierce the drifting mist, and drew closer the damp tartans that showed they were Of the Clan Of Macdonald, they were all on foot: some led shaggy ponies on whose rough backs were strapped packages and what appeared to be the plunder of some great house, for the Objects included silver and gilt cups and goblets tied together by the handles, and, slung across the saddle, handsome gar...

Excerpt from Kings-at-Arms About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, suc...

Excerpt from The Quest of Glory The Austrian guns had ceased with the early sunset, and the desolate city of Prague was silent, encompassed by the enemy and the hard, continuous cold of a Bohemian December: in the hall of Vladislav in the Hradcany, that ancient palace of ancient kings that rose above the town, several French officers wrapped in heavy cloaks were walking up and down, as they had done night after night since the dragging siege ...

Excerpt from God's Playthings My Lord, Having had some proof of your kindness when I was last at Whitehall, makes me hope now that you will not refuse interceding for me with the King, being I know, though too late, how I have been misled, were I not clearly convinced of that, I would rather die a thousand deaths than say what I do. I writ yesterday to the King, and the chief business of my letter was to desire to speak to him, or I have th...

Excerpt from Because of These ThingsWith exclamations, complaints, and much reluctance, the passengers opened the now slanting door and descended into the circle of lantern light that revealed the broken wheel.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolog...

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