We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.

It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.

From the text: This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published.

The social philosopher Richard B. Gregg is credited with coining the term voluntary simplicity.

Darkness and Dawn is a science fiction trilogy by George Allan England.

The Second Deluge is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss.

Collected here are a number of short stories by the popular American writer.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.

Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination.

This book is written with the object of laying before the public a cookery book.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.

The horror novel The Lair of the White Worm, also titled The Garden of Evil.

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments.

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft.

Sacred Books of the East includes selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta.

Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863.

The most popular novel by Gothic mystery and thriller writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

A founding member of the Theosophical Society, and perhaps the first well-known European.

Wylder's Hand is a novel from Gothic and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

The spirit of simplicity is a great magician.