George Griffith

William the Norman (Conqueror), Edward of the Long Legs, Francis Drake, "The Queen's little Pirate", Oliver Cromwell, William of Orange, James Cook, Lord Clive, Warren Hastings, Lords Nelson and Wellington, "Chinese" Gordon, and Cecil Rhodes are the powerful men of empire celebrated in this overtly patriotic 1897 collection of celebratory biographical sketches.

These three sci-fi novels from the dawn of the twentieth century are among the first works of fiction to imagine visiting other planets. A Honeymoon in Space: Lenox, the Earl of Redgrave, has invented a flying ship with the power to break free of Earth's gravity. But before taking to the stars, he has some personal business to attend to-namely, wooing an old flame. The lady in question is Zaidie, a woman about to be forced into a loveless marriage....

"Olga Romanoff" is a 1894 science fiction novel by George Griffith... A sequel to "The Angel of the Revolution", It continues the story of the global group of anarchists who fight the government with incredible airships. George Griffith (1857–1906) was a popular British science fiction writer and explorer during the late Victorian and Edwardian age. In England his works enjoyed great success, although his fame did not spread to America in part due...

The book predicts a world war in Europe caused primarily by class struggles, albeit about a decade earlier than what actually happened, and with England allied with Germany and France allied with Russia. The heroes of the book are socialists lead by a mysterious figure known as Natas (was it deliberate that this is Satan spelled backwards?) who is driven by an obsession to return control of the world to Anglo-Saxons. Griffith seemed to think that...

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post's Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla's affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. What do you get when you mix a nutty professor, Egyptian mythology, time-travel,...