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• The Printer's Devil (c1995), by Chico Kidd (PDF with commentary in the UK)

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• Doktor Johannes Faust's Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis, oder, Driefacher Höllenzwang, Letztes Testament und Siegelkunst (attributed to Faust, but authorship uncertain; in German; Stuttgart: J. Scheible, 1849), ed. by J. Scheible, contrib. by Faust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Evil Eye: An Account of this Ancient and Widespread Superstition (London: J. Murray, 1895), by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Danmarks Trylleformler (2 volumes in Danish; Copenhagen and Oslo: Gyldendal, Nordisk Forlag, 1917-1921), by F. Ohrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Magic of Jewels and Charms (first edition; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1915), by George Frederick Kunz (illustrated HTML pages at farlang.com)

• The Enchanted Castle (London: T. F. Unwin, 1907), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice (New York: R.M. McBride and Company, 1922), by James Branch Cabell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Reign of the Evil One (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1922), by C. F. Ramuz, trans. by James Whitall, contrib. by Ernest Augustus Boyd
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Devil on Two Sticks (translated ca. 1841), by Alain René Le Sage, trans. by Joseph Thomas (HTML at Ex-Classics)
• Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice, by James Branch Cabell, illust. by Frank Cheyne Papé (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Conflict (copyright edition, 2 volumes; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1903), by M. E. Braddon
  • both volumes bound together: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Sorrows of Satan: or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire, by Marie Corelli (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Damned: The Intimate Story of a Girl (this edition published anonymously; New York: The Macaulay Co., c1923), by Ethel Smith Dorrance (page images at HathiTrust)

• Union of Renegades (c2006), by Tracy Falbe (multiple formats with commentary at falbepublishing.com)
• Much Fall of Blood (included on a Baen CD image; c2010), by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 347 MB
• Draw One in the Dark (2006), by Sarah A. Hoyt (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free Library)
• Señora Rodríguez and Other Worlds (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1997), by Martha Cerda, trans. by Sylvia Jiménez-Andersen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Printer's Devil (c1995), by Chico Kidd (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Sky is Falling (New York: Ace Books, c1963), by Lester Del Rey
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org
• The Patriot Witch (prepublication version, 2009), by Charles Coleman Finlay (PDF with commentary at ccfinlay.com)
• Warbreaker (free online edition, c2009), by Brandon Sanderson (HTML with commentary at brandonsanderson.com)
• The Bottle Imp, by Robert Louis Stevenson (HTML at Gutenberg-DE)
• A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That "Uncle Paul" Wrote), by Algernon Blackwood (Gutenberg text)
• Spell of Catastrophe (with other work from the same series), by Mayer Alan Brenner (multiple formats at mayerbrenner.com)
• Spell of Intrigue (with other work from the same series), by Mayer Alan Brenner (multiple formats at mayerbrenner.com)
• Thrice Bound (included on a Baen CD image), by Roberta Gellis
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 65 MB
• The Witch's Head: A Novel (New York: M.J. Ivers, 1887), by H. Rider Haggard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sorcerer's Stone (Philadelphia: J. C. Winston Co., c1914), by Beatrice Grimshaw, illust. by Charles N. Sarka (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Magic Skin (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1915), by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Magic Skin, by Honoré de Balzac, trans. by Ellen Marriage (Gutenberg text)

• Ralestone Luck (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938), by Andre Norton, illust. by James Reid
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at durendal.org
• The Filigree Ball (New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903), by Anna Katharine Green
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text

• Tales of Superstition and Chivalry, by Anne Bannerman (HTML at cdlib.org)

• The Mystery of the Sea (London: W. Heinemann, 1902), by Bram Stoker
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • PDF with commentary at bramstoker.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at Google; US access only
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Manual of Ready Reference to Classic Fiction: Containing Brief Analyses of the World's Great Stories, and Analytical Indexes of the Chief Elements Found Therein (New York, Authors Press, c1909), by Marion Mills Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

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