Myths
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions
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Wirt Sikes
The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appo…
The Mysterious Stranger
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story…
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he ex…
Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The sea has always been, by the mystery of its horizon, the fury of its storms, and the variableness of the atmosphere above it, the foreord…
The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse
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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…
Stories from Virgil
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Alfred John Church
Alfred J. Church created 26 stories from the original Greek version of Virgil's Aeneid. He included well-known ones, such as "The Horse…
Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys)
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Howard R. Garis
The adventures of two little pig boys and their mom and dad. "Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, in the days when there wer…
Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories
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P. H. Emerson
A collection of Welsh Fairy tales. These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception …
The Scottish Fairy Book
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Elizabeth W. Grierson
This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious r…
The Flint Heart
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Eden Phillpotts
The flint heart is a stone of heart shape, forged in prehistoric times, that changes whoever owns it into a wicked person. The story of the …
St Andrews Ghost Stories
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William Thomas Linskill
Seventeen ghost stories (fourth edition published 1921) centered around the ruined medieval cathedral of Saint Andrew in the Scots city of t…
The Indian Story Book
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Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has re…
Dot and Tot of Merryland
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L. Frank Baum
Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the advent…
The Angels of Mons
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Arthur Machen
The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at…
The Royal Book of Oz (version 3)
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
"Of course, we all knew the Scarecrow was a very fine fellow, but surely we never guessed he ascended from an emperor. Most of us desce…
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Notorious pirates who are the scourge of the seven seas, and on land; ghost stories which scare voyagers in the jungles and the ice caps; tw…
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3)
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Johnny Gruelle
As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann!The same Raggedy Ann w…
The Fairy Ring
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…
Korean Fairy Tales
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William Elliot Griffis
Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tel…
Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse
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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…