"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy" (1842), is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquera...
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes...
I have seen men become Gods and I have seen Gods become dust... Magic pieces of armor rain from Lenova's skies, granting men God-like powers. Mountains move, lightning bends to command, and a man's future can be written in a book before it has even happened. In all this emerging chaos, teenage Finn SunRider holds...
*STOP! This is the 2nd book in the series! If you have not read Spears of U'u'kata, you might want to do so or some details of this book may not make sense.* Willow Mayfield believed she'd lost everything after her husband and unborn child were killed in an accident. That is until aliens abducted her nephew and she st...
This story starts with an anonymous letter: "Rookwood is back." Sunan Saelee is not like other sixth-years at Hogwarts. He's a late-bloomer and only started at Hogwarts a year ago, but he has already earned a reputation by defeating the notorious second-in-command of Victor Rookwood's criminal enterprise. But little...
Seraphina Bloggs (nickname Phina) grew up in an orphanage before in 1890, at the age of 15, a professor named Eleazar Fig took her with him and she started school as the "new fifth-year" in Hogwarts. Her special ability to see traces of ancient magic and even partially use that magic proved to be both a blessing and a...
The story about the mysterious twin brother to Ominis Gaunt and why you've never heard of him. Insidious was stricken from the family tree not long after receiving his magical abilities, due to tragic events. Born just minutes before Ominis, this is the story of Insidious Gaunt. Every story has a beginning after all...
Charlotte is a mech pilot fighting a seemingly endless war against the Uu'k'asht over planetary dominance throughout the galaxy. She's always been sure of her abilities and her unit, until the day the enemy takes her mech down. Now, a prisoner of the Uu'k'asht, her future is unknown and she doesn't know what the next...
Revin Henrir is a telepathic beastspeaker who dreams of leaving his monastic island home to tame the world's fiercest beasts. When he saves the life of an adventuring monk, he discovers Narazoth, an exiled monk who plans to conquer the world with an army of sorcery-fueled machines. Revin joins forces with Omrai, the m...