First published in 1485, during England's War of the Roses, "Le Morte d'Arthur" or "The Death of Arthur" combines all of the known legends of King Arthur into one creative text. Beginning with the birth of Arthur and telling the tale of his rise to become the head of the Knights of the Round Table and the husband of Guinevere, we also learn of Lancelot, Arthur's most venerated knight. Many of the other knights' stories are told with varying degrees...

Seit drei Jahren ist Sherlock Holmes verschwunden. Doch sein Assistent Dr. Watson hat die Hoffnung, ihn lebend wieder zu sehen, nicht aufgegeben. Den rätselhaften Mord an Baron Adare muss er zunächst alleine aufklären.

George MacDonald's first major fiction work, in MacDonald's words "a sort of fairy tale for grown people," Phantastes was published in 1858. This unusual fantasy, subtitled a "fairie romance," is one of MacDonald's most mysterious and esoteric titles. The book's narrator, Anodos, enters Fairy Land through a mysterious old wooden secretary. From that beginning, he embarks on a dream-like series of encounters that follow the form of an epic quest, though...

"Myths and Legends of Japan", written in 1913, was an immediate best-seller when it was first released. With the Meiji Restoration, Japan began a period of modernization in the late 19th century that would open up the country to the rest of the world for the first time. This allowed historians like F. Hadland Davis, the author of "Myths and Legends of Japan", an unprecedented opportunity to study and introduce Japanese culture to Western audiences....

The Popol Vuh (Book of the Community) is a Mayan sacred text compiled around the middle of the 16th century by the K'iche' people in what is now Guatemala. This text gives an account of the creation of the universe and all living things, including humans and the K'iche' themselves.

Long ago, before Earth was a contender for life, Eastrea was home to a variety of beings and creatures. Gods created vast landscapes, monsters roamed and formed armies, and people gained power from the planet to fight back. The meddilings of the god, Ration, created a war that set about the events that tore the planet apart, forcing the Eastreans to rebuild. The Castaways have made a home on Earth and face creatures they could have only imagined. This...

First told orally by unknown generations of Welsh storytellers, "The Mabinogion" was subsequently written down in the 13th century in the form of a collection of prose tales. These stories draw on pre-Christian Celtic myth, folklore, and Welsh history and tradition to tell a magical set of stories that reach back to the Iron Age and Arthurian romance. These eleven tales are set in both the land of Wales and a dim otherworld, with a wide cast of vibrant...

Il porte son village comme une attache. De naissance. Saint-Élie de Caxton l'habite, autant que l'inverse, et se transvide dans sa tête en fables et légendes. Son village est vaste malgré sa petite taille et chargé d'un monde qui dépasse l'idée que l'on s'en fait. Aussi, son histoire, depuis les débuts jusqu'à demain, s'invente sur des personnages que la rumeur nourrit d'incroyable. Sur la route des oreilles, Fred Pellerin en transmet la...

Au recensement du Saint-Elie-de-Caxton légendaire, le barbier figure en tête de liste... Le barbier, Méo. Lui qui tint chignon sur rue principale pendant de nombreuses années et qui marqua l'histoire de son fer à friser. Au village, Méo veilla pendant longtemps sur la capillarité générale. À décoiffer juste à point, il su prendre de front tous les tenants de la raie droite et monotone. Le génie frisait la folie. Ou l'inverse. Et peu importe....

Un village en trois dés, c'est une nouvelle incursion de Fred Pellerin dans le dédale parlant de son village Saint-Élie-de-Caxton. On y retrouve la faune légendaire préservée : Méo le barbier décoiffeur, Toussaint le marchand généreux, Lurette la belle, et encore. Aussi, sur ce sixième voyage conté, on a la chance de faire la rencontre d'Alice, la première postière de l'histoire locale, elle qui savait licher les enveloppes dans les...