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The legendary 14th-century Arthurian poem SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT is presented here for the modern reader in a newly laid out and edited pocket paperback format. The 1912 Ernest J.B. Kirtlan translation is decorated with dropcaps and embellishments by Frederic Lawrence. Fox Editing Classics, 143 pages. Sir Gawain & the Green Knight. From the Pearl Manuscript, ca. AD 1380. British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x/2, ff. 94v-130r.

Five alchemical works from around the world, published together in England in 1651, describe the method of creation of the Philosopher's Stone, or the Elixir of Life. Freshly designed for the 21st century, including a biographical appendix, Fox Editing's Classic Reprint edition of this collection is newly researched, edited and typeset (not a photographic reprint), maintaining the look and feel of the 17th-century original while providing incr...

Fox Editing Classics presents this newlly edited and designed publication of Elizabeth Gaskell's short story collection.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865), while better known for her 1857 biography of Charlotte Brontë and her still-popular novels, such as Cranford (1851-1853) and Wives and Daughters (1864-1866), her literary works also included several Gothic ghost stories. Curious, if True, originally published in 1861, collects five of t...

... Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences. ..."The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, a Fancy for Christmas-Time, bookends the series of five Christmas stories by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) that began in 1843 with A Christmas Carol.Originally published in 1848, this dark yet redempti...

This volume was produced by Thomas Olman Todd in 1905 at the request of Spiritualist author Emma Hardinge Britten in order to make a "splendid pamphlet" on the origins of Spiritualism available to a wider reading audience. It is drawn from materials found in her own comprehensive book on the subject, Modern American Spiritualism (1869), as well as the first-hand accounts of events found in A Report of the Mysterious Noises heard in the house o...

A pioneer of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) holds a place with Poe and King in the vanguard of great American horror writers. This anthology collects five of H.P. Lovecraft's creepiest short stories of the undead: "Herbert West: Reanimator" was written over the period of October 1921-June 1922 and serialized in the February-July 1922 issues of amateur publication Home Brew. "Pickman's Model" was written in September of 1926 and ori...

Long before the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 or Boris Karloff's film portrayal of "Imhotep" ten years later, legends of the Mummy enthralled readers of the Western world. The Gothic horror tales collected in this anthology reflect the Victorian fascination with Egypt's oldest inhabitants. In Curse of the Mummy, four master storytellers of the nineteenth century share gripping tales of cursed plunder and injudicious flirtations with el...

MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD: OR THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD DISPLAYED IN FIVE PARTS." Originally published in 1700 and rarely found in print, Robert Calef's "More Wonders of the Invisible World" provides a more readable and empathetic view of the events of 1692 Salem than the better-known Increase & Cotton Mather book from which its title is adapted. This unabridged edition has been newly typeset and edited, retaining some of th...

Using light humor and sarcasm to make the case for a naturalistic worldview, this little book examines contemporary issues regarding religion. Dr. Fox's training as a natural scientist and interest in religion have predisposed him to examine the evolutionary, cultural and psychological roots of religious belief and human morality. Contemporary claims that religious persons are happier, healthier, and more honest and charitable than nonbeliever...

Spiritualism: The Open Door to the Unseen Universe, Being Thirty Years of Personal Observation and Experience concerning Intercourse between the Material and Spiritual Worlds, offers a unique insider's perspective on the growing Spiritualist movement in Scotland and England from the late Victorian era through to the dawn of the 20th century. Originally published in The Two Worlds magazine over the course of 30 years, Scottish author James Robe...