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WERWOLVES AND VAMPIRES AND GHOULS
WERWOLVES AND VAMPIRES AND GHOULS
from Werwolves (1912)
by Elliott O'Donnell
THROUGHOUT the Middle Ages, and even in the seventeenth century, trials for lycanthropy were of common occurrence in France. Among the most ...
When I Met Oscar Oscar Wilde by W. B. Yeats
When I Met Oscar Oscar Wilde
by W. B. Yeats
My first meeting with Oscar Wilde was an astonishment. I never before heard a man talking with perfect sentences, as if he ...
THE WRITER HIMSELF by Robert Saunders Dowst
THE WRITER HIMSELF
by Robert Saunders Dowst
Critical Faculty—Cultivation of Genius—Observation and Information—Open-mindedness—Attitude Toward Life—Prejudice and Provincialism—The Social Question—Reading—Imagination.
Accessible as are the data of the fiction writer, the facts and possibilities of ...
Talking About Realism by Robert Louis Stevenson
Talking About Realism
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Style is the invariable mark of any master; and for the student who does not aspire so high as to be numbered with the giants, ...
Top 10 Hottest Female Poets of the 19th Century
Top 10 Hottest Poets of the 19th Century
This list is for fun, and it is meant to be to tongue-in-cheek. We hope to honor the women on this list, and ...
Book, Authors, and Hats by Mark Twain
BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND HATS
by Mark Twain
ADDRESS AT THE PILGRIMS' CLUB LUNCHEON, GIVEN IN HONOR OF Mr.
CLEMENS AT THE SAVOY HOTEL, LONDON, JUNE 25, 1907.
Mr. Birrell, M.P., Chief-Secretary ...
Fox-women by Elliott O’Donnell
Fox-women
an excerpt from Byways of Ghost-Land 1911
by Elliott O'Donnell
Very different from this were-wolf, though also belonging to the great family of elementals, are the fox-women of Japan and China, about ...
The Beginning of My Youth by Leo Tolstoy
WHAT I CONSIDER TO HAVE BEEN THE BEGINNING OF MY YOUTH
by Leo Tolstoy
I have said that my friendship with Dimitri opened up for me a new view of my life ...
Why The Blind Man in Ancient Times was Made a Poet by William B. Yeats
Why The Blind Man in Ancient Times was Made a Poet
by William B. Yeats
A description in the Iliad or the Odyssey, unlike one in the Æneid or in most modern ...
About Books that Might Be Written by H. G. Wells
OF A BOOK UNWRITTEN
by H. G. Wells
Accomplished literature is all very well in its way, no doubt, but much more fascinating to the contemplative man are the books that have ...
How Shakspere Came to Write the ‘Tempest’ by Rudyard Kipling
How Shakspere Came to Write the ‘Tempest’
by Rudyard Kipling
To the Editor of the Spectator.
SIR:—Your article on ‘Landscape and Literature’ in the Spectator of June 18th has the following, among other ...
How to Become a Werewolf by Elliott O’Donnell
How to Become a Werewolf
by Elliott O'Donnell
AS I have already stated, in some people lycanthropy is hereditary; and when it is not hereditary it may be acquired through the performance ...
Fenimore Cooper Sucks at Writing by Mark Twain
Fenimore Cooper Sucks at Writing
by Mark Twain
It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English Literature in ...
The Devils of Loudun by H. Addington Bruce
The Devils of Loudun
by H. Addington Bruce
Loudun is a small town in France about midway between the ancient and romantic cities of Tours and Poitiers. To-day it is an exceedingly ...