Bran's Island
Welcome to Bran's Island, Immaginative Writing from Humble Folklore Origins to the Golden Age of Fantasy with a long lingering excursion through Gothic Horror, along the: Road to Great Cthulhu.You will find here A Mystical Paradise of High quality value added archives of EBooks from manuscript to novella, some profusely illustrated with art. From Myth and History to Adventure, Romance, Fantasy and Horror, Journey with us to a place of never ending dreams on Bran's Magickal Island in Cyber Space.  Amadis De Gaul Vasco LobeiraFoundation Realism Honoré de Balzac The Devil and Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent Benét Chaotic Visions William Blake Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came Robert Browning Manfred Lord Byron Fleurs du mal Charles Baudelaire Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Translated by John Ormsby. The Transcendental Poetry of Lake Samuel Taylor Coleridge Selected Short Stories Wilkie Collins Yarns of the Dark Sea Joseph Conrad The Divine Comedy: The Inferno Dante Alighieri Historical High Adventure Alexandre Dumas [Pere] Romance of Medieval Chivalry Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué The Temptation of St. Anthony Gustave Flaubert Symbolic Decadence Théophile Gautier Tales of Trail and Town Bret Harte Natural Decadent J.K. Huysmans Men Who Go Down To the Sea WW Jacobs Impressionist Realism Henry James Lamia John Keats The Curse of Capistrano, aka The Mark of Zorro Johnston McCulley The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe Erin Isle Poetry Thomas Moore Brandywine River Collection Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle. Confessions Reconcilled Thomas De Quincey The House of Life And Others Dante Gabriel Rossetti Historical Romance and Adventure Rafael Sabatini. The Ghostly Bard William Shakespeare What a Tangled Web Sir Walter Scott Vagrants and Others of Aran J. M. Synge A Satirical Panorama William Makepeace Thackeray Wit and Wisdom Mark Twain Aesthetic and Decadent Oscar Wilde Daemon Est Deus Inversus W.B. Yeats The Adventures of Peter Pan J. M. Barrie The History of the Caliph Vathek William Beckford Door to the Unreal Gerald Bliss The Last Victorian John Buchan Fishhead Irvin S. Cobb Dunsany Fantastic Works Lord Dunsany. The Celestial Omnibus E. M. Forster The Yellow Wallpaper Charlotte Perkins Gilman She H. Rider Haggard Swashbuckling Adventure and Darkling Horror Robert E Howard. A Sampler From the Master of Terror by William Hope Hodgson Hans of Iceland Victor Hugo The Lost Continent C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne Cosmic Pattern Works Henry Kuttner A Voyage to Arcturus David Lindsay Long Sampler Frank Belknap Long. Supernatural and Cosmic Horror H. P. Lovecraft. Fantasy Works of the Kailyard School George MacDonald Master of MysteryArthur Machen The Shaving of Shagpat George Meredith Forgotten Fantasy by William Morris Yellow Peril Sax Rohmer The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom Tobias Smollett A Celebration Clark Ashton Smith The Jaunty Scott Abroad Robert Louis Stevenson. Romantic Phantasus Johann Ludwig Tieck Startling Horror Manly Wade Wellman The Father of Science Fiction H.G. Wells Darkside Fiction Edward Lucas White Beowulf Anonymous The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius Translated by William Adlington Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall William Bottrell Tam O' Shanter Robert Burns Popular Mysticism Sabine Baring-Gould The Hedge School William Carleton Tom Tit Tot Edward Clodd The King of Ireland's Son Padraic Colum The Trooping Fairies and Others T. Crofton Croker Tales of the Tuatha De Danann Cross and Slover. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries W. Y. Evans-Wentz The Arabian Nights Entertainments Antoine Galland Cultural Nationalism and the Irish Literary Revival Lady Gregory Hanes Taliesin Uncle Remus New Stories of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris Legends of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn The Ettrick Shepherd James Hogg Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic Thomas Wentworth Higginson Leabhar Sgeulaigheachta Dr Douglas Hyde The Mabinogion Jones and Jones. The Daemonologie King James Le Morte d'Arthur Sir Thomas Malory Ossian James Macpherson Celtic Folklore Welsh and Manx Sir John Rhys. Vita Merlini The Life of Merlin Geoffrey of Monmouth The Lay of the Cid Translated by R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon. Nibelungenlied Translated by Daniel Shumway The Four Ancient Books of Wales William F. Skene. British Goblins Wirt Sikes. Folklore Legends Lewis Spence The Faerie Qveene. Edmund Spenser Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens. Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde The Eerie and the Gruesome William Harrison Ainsworth Northanger Abbey Jane Austen Sir Bertrand Anna Barbauld Ghostly Stories E. F. Benson Tales of the Macabre Ambrose Bierce. Stories of Supernatural and Gothic Horror Algernon Blackwood. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë An American Gothic Charles Brockden Brown Cosmic Fear Robert W. Chambers Mediævalist Horror Ralph Adams Cram Classics of the Horror Genre F. Marion Crawford A Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal Daniel Defoe Masters of the Supernatural Short Story Walter De La Mare Victorian Ghost Stories Charles Dickens Lost Horror Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Spectral Fancies Erckmann-Chatrian and Bjorstjerne Bjorson Death Mask Henrietta D. Everett. The Spider Hans Heinz Ewers Caleb Williams William Godwin Weimar Classicism Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Feet Foremost L. P. Hartley American Gothic HorrorNathaniel Hawthorne The Mellowing of Grotesque Gothic Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The Werewolf Clemence Housman Tales of the Traveler Washington Irving A Torture by Hope Villiers De L'isle-Adam Ghost Stories of an Antiquary M.R. James Supernatural Horror Sampler Rudyard Kipling Chilling Supernatural and Gothic Horror J. Sheridan Le Fanu Grand-Guignol Theatre of Horror Jeanne Mareteux-Level Far Edge Gothicism Matthew Lewis Master at Sea Captain Marryat Mystery and Suspense Richard Marsh Roots of Gothic Horror Charles Robert Maturin Spectral Visions Guy de Maupassant Dark Sorceries and the Witch Prosecution Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold La Vénus d'Ille Prosper Mérimée The Bad Lands John Metcalf Fantastic Horror Fitz-James O'Brien American Romantic Mystery and the Macabre Edgar Allan Poe The Vampyre John Polidori Popular Gothic Supernaturalism Ann Radcliffe The Old English Baron Clara Reeve Wagner the Wehr-Wolf George W. M. Reynolds Unknown Horror M. P. Shiel Uncanny Stories May Sinclair European Folklore and the Vampire Bram Stoker The City of Dreadful Night James Thomson A Place on the River H. Russell Wakefield The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole Romantic Macabre Hugh Walpole Gruesome Horror John Webster The Wind in the Rose-Bushand Other Stories of the Supernatural Mary Wilkins Of Occult Philosophy Or Of Magical Ceremonies The Fourth Book Henry Cornelius Agrippa "Pseudo" Al Azif Abdul Alhazred The Magus Francis Barrett Stanzas of Dzyan Helena Petrovna Blavatsky The Book of Enoch Translated by R H Charles A Blizzard in the Sahara Aleister Crowley Liber Loagaeth John Dee Lives of the Necromancers William Godwin The Rosicrucians Hargrave Jennings Necromancy Ex Ipsis Mors Eliphas Levi Rosicrucian Light Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Greater Key of Solomon S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers Clavicula Salomonis Regis Goetia S.L. MacGregor Mathers & Aleister Crowley On the Kabbalah Arthur Machen Rosicrucian DoctrineAnonymous The Discovery of Witchcraft Reginald Scot  The Road to Great Cthulhu  Swashbuckling Adventure and Darkling Horror stories by Robert E. Howard the creator of Conan Supernatural and Cosmic Horror by the Master of Horror H. P. Lovecraft A Celebration, 127 Works of Dark Horror and Science Fiction by Clark Ashton SmithWhat's new? Edgar Allan Poe, Gerorge Meredith, The Shaving of Shagpat, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, and Champions of the Round Table by Howard Pyle. Please note in an ongoing work in progress several stand alone works have been moved into collections. Most noteable are collections of the work of Robert Louis Stevenson and Howard Pyle. Everything is still there including several new additions. So please check out Sampler by Robert Louis Stevenson and the Brandywine River Collection by Howard Pyle and Cosmic Fear by Robert W. Chambers. This month we are experiencing a revival of Gothic Horror as J. Sheridan Le Fanu, William Hope Hodgson, Robert W. Chambers, Ambrose Bierce, and Algernon Blackwood join Lovecraft, Smith, and Howard, while travelling along the Road to Great Cthulhu. Previously we have enjoyed lost and forgotten realms of folklore. As we traveled to Ancient Ireland and Wales we discovered the world of Faeries, Sacred Wells, and Treasure Caves with Sir John Rhys' Celtic Folklore Welsh and Manx. Also a new rework of Skene's Four Ancient Books of Wales. Finally turning to Teutonic realms we enjoyed the Story of the Volsungs, said to be the inspiration for Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. Amoungst other new EBooks are works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, David Lindsay, George MacDonald and Alexandre Dumas, the ever popular Howard Pyle, William Morris, and Rafael Sabatini. Now available The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countriesby W. Y. Evans-Wentz and Selected Works by Celebrated Folklorist Lewis Spence. Many other new works are currently in preparation (Amadis de Gaul) and soon will be added. Some works will be remodelled or moved to their own collections so bear with us as this is a constant Work in Progress. As you know the continued use of a valuable resource requires your help. Many of these titles are used courtesy of the Project Gutenberg others have been personally scanned, OCR'd Edited, Proofed, and Marked Up into HTML. All textual works are in the Public Domain. A 'Collector CD' of the first year of Bran's Island featuring over 5k of Stories, Books, Text and Art is available for $25 plus $5 Postage. Email meIf you would like to report a broken link, or just chat I am always happy to hear from you.© Donald Correll 2008 All Rights Reserved. 
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