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• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The History of Magic: Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of its Procedure, its Rites and its Mysteries (second edition; London: W. Rider and Son, 1922), by Eliphas Lévi, trans. by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Paradoxes of the Highest Science (second edition, 1922), by Eliphas Lévi (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Book of Ceremonial Magic (second edition, 1913), by Arthur Edward Waite (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought, by H. Stanley Redgrove
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
• The History of Magic: Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of its Procedure, its Rites and its Mysteries (London: W. Rider and Son, 1913), by Eliphas Lévi, trans. by Arthur Edward Waite (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Lesser Key of Solomon: Goetia (1904), ed. by S. L. MacGregor Mathers and Aleister Crowley (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Magic of the Middle Ages (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1879), by Viktor Rydberg, trans. by August Hjalmar Edgren (Gutenberg text)
• Magick in Theory and Practice, by Aleister Crowley (HTML at hermetic.com)
• Magick Without Tears, by Aleister Crowley (HTML at hermetic.com)
• The Mysteries of Magic: A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Lévi (London: G. Redway, 1886), by Eliphas Lévi, ed. by Arthur Edward Waite (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Romance of Sorcery (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by Sax Rohmer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual, by Eliphas Lévi, trans. by Arthur Edward Waite (PDF files at holybooks.com)
• Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual (London: G. Redway, 1896), by Eliphas Lévi, trans. by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Treatise on White Magic, by Alice Bailey (HTML at archive.org)
• Opera Omnia (in Latin; Amsterdam: P. van den Berge, 1660), by Johann Weyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged edition: New York: Macmillan, 1922), by James George Frazer, ed. by Lady Frazer (HTML at Bartleby)
• 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)
• The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (first edition reprint, 2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1894), by James George Frazer
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (second edition, 3 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1900), by James George Frazer
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (third edition, 12 volumes; Macmillan, c1906-1915), by James George Frazer (multiple formats at Google, archive.org, and HathiTrust)
• The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged edition), by James George Frazer, ed. by Lady Frazer (Gutenberg text)
• The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer: Being A Complete System of Occult Philosophy (London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co., 1801), by Francis Barrett, contrib. by Johannes Trithemius
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Ohio Memory
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com
• Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul; New York: E. P. Dutton, c1922), by Bronislaw Malinowski (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Lives of the Necromancers: or, An account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power (London: Frederick J. Mason, 1834), by William Godwin (Gutenberg text)

• Dictionnaire Infernal: ou, Recherches et Anecdotes (2 volumes in 1, in French; Paris: P. Mongie Ainé, 1818), by J.-A.-S. Collin de Plancy (page images at HathiTrust)

• De la Démonomanie des Sorciers (in French; Paris: J. du Puys, 1587), by Jean Bodin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Three Books of Occult Philosophy (London: Printed by R. w. for G. Moule, 1651), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (PDF at MSU; 400+ MB)
• Daemonologie (1597), by King James I of England (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Pys-Mantia the Mag-Astro-Mancer: or, The Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner Posed, and Puzzled (London: Printed for J. Kirton, 1652), by John Gaule
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • at name.umdl.umich.edu HTML at EEBO TCP
• Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft (London: Printed by R.C. and are to be sold by Giles Cavert, 1651), by Reginald Scot (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (London: John M. Watkins, 1900), by Abraham ben Simeon of Worms, ed. by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Key of Solomon The King (Clavicula Salomonis) (1888 edition), trans. by S. L. MacGregor Mathers (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, or, The Lesser Key of Solomon, ed. by Joseph H. Peterson (illustrated HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, by Abraham ben Simeon of Worms, ed. by S. L. MacGregor Mathers and Joseph H. Peterson (HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• Three Books of Occult Philosophy, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
  • Book I: PDF at Wayback Machine
  • Book II: PDF at Wayback Machine
  • Book III: PDF at Wayback Machine
• Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic, by the Famous Mystic Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Counselor to Charles the Fifth, Emperor of Germany and Judge of the Prerogative Court, Book One: Natural Magic (no further books published in this edition; Chicago: Hahn and Whitehead, 1898), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, ed. by Willis F. Whitehead, contrib. by Henry Morley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes (1919), by Thomas Vaughan, ed. by Arthur Edward Waite (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bezauberte Welt (3 volumes in German; Leipzig: Weygand, 1781-1782), by Balthasar Bekker, ed. by Joh. Salomo Semler, trans. by Johann Moritz Schwager
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Apology (Latin and English, with commentary), by Apuleius, trans. by Harold Edgeworth Butler (frame-dependent HTML at Georgetown)
• Daemonologie; and Newes From Scotland, ed. by G. B. Harrison, contrib. by King James I of England (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Hieroglyphic Monad, by John Dee (illustrated HTML at esotericarchives.com)
• The Philosophy of Natural Magic (Chicago: De Laurence, Scott and Co., 1913), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, ed. by L. W. De Laurence, contrib. by Henry Morley (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

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