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• Man in the Cane (New York: Vantage Press, c1956), by Mentis Carrere (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 100 Years of Lynchings (New York: Lancer Books, c1962), by Ralph Ginzburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Feeling is Tense": 1937 Lynchings 8, Prevented Lynchings, 56 (Bulletin #8; 1938), by Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Black Man's Burden, or, The Horrors of Southern Lynchings: The Most Thrilling Exposé of Southern Lawlessness Ever Presented to the American People (Olean, NY: Olean Evening Spirit, 1902), by Irenas J. Palmer, contrib. by Julius Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South, In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1918), by Winfield H. Collins
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Men and Violence: Gender, Honor, and Rituals in Modern Europe and America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), ed. by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State

• Lynch Law in Georgia (Chicago: Chicago Colored Citizens, 1899), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Louis P. Le Vin
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at NIU
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Mob Rule in New Orleans: Robert Charles and His Fight to Death; The Story of His Life; Burning Human Beings Alive; Other Lynching Statistics (1900), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (third edition, c2017), by Equal Justice Initiative (illustrated HTML and PDF at eji.org)

• Shelby County's Shame: Story of Big Creek Lynching and Trial (ca. 1895) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Lynching and Rape: An Exchange of Views (occasional paper #25, revised; New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies, c1982), ed. by Bettina Aptheker, contrib. by Jane Addams and Ida B. Wells-Barnett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Changing Character of Lynching: Review of Lynching, 1931-1941, With a Discussion of Recent Developments in This Field (Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1942), by Jessie Daniel Ames, contrib. by Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Judge Lynch: His First Hundred Years (New York: I. Washburn, c1938), by Frank Shay (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lynch-Law: An Investigation into the History of Lynching in the United States (New York et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1905), by James Elbert Cutler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States (reprint of 1895 pamphlet), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894, Respectfully Submitted to the Nineteenth Century Civilization in 'the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' (Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1895), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML at NIU)
• Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (originally published 1892), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918 (New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1919), by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (multiple formats at archive.org)
• We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People (third edition; New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1952), by Civil Rights Congress (U.S.), ed. by William L. Patterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anti-Lynching Crusaders: "A Million Women United to Suppress Lynching" (ca. 1922), by Anti-Lynching Crusaders, contrib. by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (third edition, c2017), by Equal Justice Initiative (illustrated HTML and PDF at eji.org)
• A Statement From Governor Hugh M. Dorsey as to the Negro in Georgia (ca. 1921), by Hugh Manson Dorsey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Jim Crow Car: or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race (Toronto: Hill Printing Co., 1898), by J. C. Coleman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States (reprint of 1895 pamphlet), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894, Respectfully Submitted to the Nineteenth Century Civilization in 'the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave' (Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1895), by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, contrib. by Frederick Douglass (illustrated HTML at NIU)

• 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)

• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• 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)
• Checklist: A Complete, Cumulative Checklist of Lesbian, Variant and Homosexual Fiction, in English or Available in English Translation, With Supplements of Related Material, for the Use of Collectors, Students and Librarians (Rochester, TX: M. Z. Bradley, c1960), ed. by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Gene Damon (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, c1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google

• An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

• Real Mysteries: Narrative and the Unknowable (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by H. Porter Abbott (PDF at Ohio State)
• Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF at parlormultimedia.com)
• The Reader as Peeping Tom: Nonreciprocal Gazing in Narrative Fiction and Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jeremy Hawthorn (PDF with commentary at Ohio State)
• Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stephen Gilman (HTML at UC Press)
• The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1916), by James Branch Cabell (Gutenberg text)
• The Responsibilities of the Novelist, and Other Literary Essays (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of its Criticism and a Guide for its Study, With an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages From 1700 to 1800 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), by Philip Babcock Gove (page images at HathiTrust)

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