The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle 

By: J. Manson Valentine

There is a section of the Western Atlantic, off the southeast coast of the United States, forming what has been termed a triangle, extending from Bermuda in the north to southern Florida, and then east to a point through the Bahamas past Puerto Rico to about 400 west longitude and then back again to Bermuda. This area occupies a disturbing and almost unbelievable place in the world’s catalogue  of unexplained mysteries. This is usually referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, where more than 100 planes and ships have literally vanished into thin air, most of them since 1945, and where more than 1,000 lives have been lost in the past twenty six years, without a single body or even a piece of wreckage from the vanishing planes or ships having been found. [download]

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The Singing Loch

The Singing Loch 

By: Michael Graeme

As the hurtled its weary way through the darkness, I took a long, hard look at the reflection of a man, in the window, opposite. He was was nearing thirty, pale with a lanky sort of build and a thick mop of dark hair that looked a fortnight overdue for a good cut. He wore a Mark and Spencer’s suit which he didn’t fill out very well and on his lap was a battered, black briefcase. He wore spectacles, with round wire frames like the ones you used to get on the National Helath, forty years ago, only they were fashionable. The tatty briefcase lent him an air of bruised sophistication. What was inside? Business papers? An earth shattering thesis? Or perhaps more likely it was a sham and his case was empty but for a copy of New Scientist and a Tupperware carton containing his hastily prepared lunch. [download]

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Nada, Die Lilie

Nada, Die Lilie 

By: Henry Rider Hagard

Vor einigen Jahren -es war während des Winters vor dem Zulu Krieg reiste ein Weißer Mann durch Natal. Sein Name ist ohne Belang, da er in dieser Geschichte keine Rolle spielt. Er hatte zwei beladene Wagen bei sich, die er nach Pretoria bringen mußte. Es war kalt, und es gab nur wenig oder gar kein Gras für die Ochsen, was die Reise sehr erschwerte; aber er hatte sie auf sich genommen, weil die hohen Preise, die zu dieser Jahreszeit bezahlt wurden, ihn für jeden möglichen Verlust an Zugtieren reich entschädigen würden. Also zog er weiter und weiter, und alles ging gut, bis er die kleine Stadt Stanger hinter sich gelassen hatte, einstmals der Sitz Duguzas, der Kraal Chakas, des ersten Zulu-Königs und Onkels von Cetywayo. In der Nacht, nachdem er Stanger verlassen hatte, wurde die Luft eisig, schwere, graue Wolken verdunkelten den Himmel und verdeckten die Sterne. [download]

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100 Strangest Mysteries

100 Strangest Mysteries 

By: Matt Lamy

100 Strangest Mysteries is an amazing compendium of the weird and the wonderful. The range of entries is extraordinary, from the bizarre to the horrific, and from the spooky to the just plain confounding. The book includes some of history’s most astounding tales of the strange and supernatural, and tells in vivid detail the story of both events and the people involved, the impact of particular myths and beliefs, and the latest investigations being undertaken in an attempt to find answers to the world’s most bewildering phenomena. The text is complemented by 100 photographs and illustrations. 100 Strangest Mysteries is a gripping and compelling account of some of the most baffling and astonishing events and is sure to shock and amaze in equal measure. [download]

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Troja-Metamorphosen Eines Mythos

Troja-Metamorphosen Eines Mythos

By: Kordula Wolf

Viel wird gegenwärtig über Mythen gesprochen, geschrieben, geforscht. Der schillernde Begriff des Mythos vereint die drei Zeitebenen Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft, verkörpert Identitäten und Kontinuitäten, verweist auf die sich verwischenden Grenzen zwischen Realität und Fiktion. Troja ist der wohl bekannteste und am meisten untersuchte mittelalterliche Geschichtsmythos. Zugleich gehören der zehnjährige Trojanische Krieg, die Kämpfe der Heroen und die Wanderungen trojanischer Flüchtlinge nach dem Fall liions zu den historiographisch, literarisch und künstlerisch am häufigsten verarbeiteten antiken Erzählstoffen in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte. Dass die Geschehnisse um Trojas Untergang allgemein bekannt seien, stand nicht nur in der «Aeneis» zu lesen, sondern noch bei Augustinus (354-430) und Orosius (ca. 380/385 bis nach 418). [download]

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island

By: Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about Treasure Island, from the beginning to the end, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is still treasure not yet lifted, I take up my pen in the year of grace 17 and go back to the time when my father kept the Admiral Benbow inn and the brown old seaman with the sabre cut first took up his lodging under our roof. I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. [download]

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The Seducer’s Diary

The Seducer’s Diary

By: Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard’s method, dictated by his volatile and provocative temperament resembles that of a fiction writer: he engages in multiple impersonations, assuming various poses and voices with an impartial vivacity. The method is, in one of his favorite words, mnieutic-ftom the Greek term for midwifery like that of his beloved model Socrates, who in his questioning style sought to elicit his auditors’ ideas rather than impose his own. Either/or, Kierkegaard’s fhst major work, was a bulky, two-volume collection of papers ostensibly found by the editor, “Victor Errmita” (“Victor Hermit”), in the secret comparbnent of a writing desk to which he had been mysteriously attracted in the shop of a secondhand dealer. Some time after its acquisitiory he tells us, he took a hatchet to a stuck drawer and discovered a trove of papers, evidently composed by two distinct authors. [download]

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Mystery of The Ages

Mystery of The Ages 

By: Herbert W. Armstrong

The world’s number one concern today is the question of human survival! Science and technology have produced the weapons of mass destruction that could blast all human life off this earth! So many nations now possess nuclear weapons that one madman could ignite the nuclear World War III that could erase all human life from this planet. Yet the truth of God, if known and acted on, could have saved humanity from this threat and all its evils! Stop a moment. Think on this. You live in a world seemingly far advanced in science, technology, higher education and diffusion of knowledge. People think it’s a world of great progress. We send men to cavort about on the moon and return them safely back to earth. [download]

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Astonishing Stories

Astonishing Stories 

Edited By: Michael Chabon

I SUPPOSE there is something appealing about a word that everyone uses with absolute confidence but on whose exact meaning no two people can agree. The word that I’m thinking of right now is genre, one of those French words, like crêpe, that no one can pronounce both correctly and without sounding pretentious. Among those of us who use the term genre to label regions on a map (sf, fantasy, nurse romance) and not sections of an atlas (epic, tragedy, comedy), there is a deep and abiding confusion. To some of us, “science fiction” is any book sold in the section of the bookstore so designated. The typeface and imagery on the cover of the very attractive Vintage International edition of Nabokov’s Ada would look distinctly out of place there, with the starships and the furryfaced aliens and the electronstarred vistas of cyberspace. [download]

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A Discovery of Witches

A Discovery of Witches

By: Deborah Harkness

The leather-bound volume was nothing remarkable. To an ordinary historian, it would have looked no different from hundreds of other manuscripts in Oxford’s Bodleian Library, ancient and worn. But I knew there was something odd about it from the moment I collected it. Duke Humfrey’s Reading Room was deserted on this late September afternoon, and requests for library materials were filled quickly now that the summer crush of visiting scholars was over and the madness of the fall term had not yet begun. Even so, I was surprised when Sean stopped me at the call desk. “Dr. Bishop, your manuscripts are up,” he whispered, voice tinged with a touch of mischief. The front of his argyle sweater was streaked with the rusty traces of old leather bindings, and he brushed at it self consciously. A lock of sandy hair tumbled over his forehead when he did. [download]

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the

University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as assistant surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy’s country. I followed, however, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties. [download]

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The Lost Book of Enki

The Lost Book of Enki

By: Zacharia Sitchin

Some 445,000 years ago, astronauts from another planet came to Earth in search of gold.Splashing down in one of Earth’s seas, they waded ashore and established Eridu, “Home in the Faraway.” In time the initial settlement expanded to a full-fledged Mission Earth-with a Mission Control Center, a spaceport, mining operations, and even a way station on Mars.Short of manpower, the astronauts employed genetic engineering to fashion Primitive Workers-Homo sapiens. The Deluge that catastrophically swept over the Earth required a fresh start; the astronauts became gods, granting Mankind civilization, teaching it to worship.Then, about four thousand years ago, all that had been achieved unraveled in a nuclear calamity, brought about by the visitors to Earth in the course of their own rivalries and wars. [download] 

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