3 Free Science Fiction Ebooks

3 Free Science Fiction Ebooks
by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Duncan Long

These ebooks include:-

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Duncan Long
The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Duncan Long
Poe’s Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Duncan Long

The Raven

by Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Duncan Long

The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal – the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.

The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.

But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his castellated abbeys.

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The Raven – 24 pages, 5.47 MB (PDF)

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The Masque of the Red Death

by Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Duncan Long

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore – For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore – Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, ’tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door – Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; This it is, and nothing more.

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The Masque of the Red Death – 24 pages, 3.24 MB (PDF)

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Poe’s Eleonora

by Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated by Duncan Long

I am come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether much that is glorious- whether all that is profound – does not spring from disease of thought – from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in awakening, to learn that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil.