The first point which it is necessary to make clear in describing the astral plane.

The object of this book is to suggest certain lines of thought as to the deep truths.

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) is the archetypal Gothic novel.

Agrave rebours, Against the Grain or Against Nature in English.

The Ancient Greek Euripides wrote the play Hippolytus, a tragedy based on the myth.

Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled.

The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.

Maugham wrote The Magician after meeting the famous magician and occultist Aleister Crowly in Paris.

Sacred Books of the East includes selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta.

The horror novel The Lair of the White Worm, also titled The Garden of Evil.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.

We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.

Life is a Dream is a play about free will and fate.

The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.

At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.

This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.

Anticipations: Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought.

The Bible is one of the two or three oldest books in the world, but unlike most of the ancient books.

Compliance with, and deference to, the wishes of others is the finest breeding.