Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

In Invasion of the Super-Ants a new strain of super-intelligent, venomous ants invade Fleet Street, devouring all in their path including a bus-load of passengers. Watching horrified, Henry Mayence, Mr. Vidal douse themselves in gasoline as a deterrent—but how long can they hold out against...

Speke’s Journal is the classic travelogue by the British Army officer John Hanning Speke, that describes the daily trials and tribulations of his safari in search of the source of Africa’s Nile River. Despite being temporarily blinded and deafened, he returned with a memoir that describes...

First published in Top-Notch Magazine, December 1919, When Super-Apes Plot may just have been the very first, the original, of the humanoid ape tale to appear in media, decades before King Kong was a twinkle in Merian C. Cooper’s eye. The dystopian fantasy of apes taking on the status and...

The Untamed is the pioneering novel set in the Wild West by American author Max Brand, as he joined the ranks of the legendary Zane Grey, Owen Wister, and Louis L'Amour. First published in 1919, The Untamed helped create the familiar archetypes of character, setting, and action that dominate...

Alcestis is the oldest surviving play of Euripides and the closest thing we have to an extant example of a satyr play. It is the story of a woman who agrees to save her husband's life by dying in his place. Though the story appears relatively simple it too has been the object of study and...

Often described as "the lost book" of the Bible, The Book of Enoch is one of the most well-known apocalyptic works in existence. Biblical scholars believe it to have been written in Palestine by Enoch the Patriarch and several different authors in the first and second centuries B.C. For...

ALEXANDER KUPRIN (1870-1938) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the last exponents of the great tradition of Russian social realism. His best-known novel, The Pit (Yama), is an overwhelming indictment of the timeless evil of prostitution. It is not without cause that YAMA...

"You wish to be called righteous rather than act right…" Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, The Eumenides, one of Aeschylus’ earliest surviving tragedies, is one of the most enduring dramas ever written. After the murder of his mother, Orestes wanders as an outcast....

A Master of Mysteries is a collection of six seemingly impossible (supernatural?) cases narrated by Mr. John Bell, the well-known ghost-hunter who seeks to debunk and expose the truth behind ghosts and haunting. In his own words, Bell “proposes to relate the histories of certain queer events,...

Smith College Stories is Josephine Daskam Bacon’s timeless collection of short stories set at Smith College, the author's alma mater, written in 1900. A stunning tour de force, it reveals the artistry and depth of a major feminist master. It has not been out of print since 1900. It...

The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling's beloved story of Mowgli, the jungle boy rescued and raised by tigers in the heart of the jungle. His tales feature such unforgettable creatures such as Baloo, the kindly brown bear; Bagheera, the graceful black panther; and Kaa, the snake with the hypnotic stare....

The Night Operator follows a panorama of brave railroad men responsible for the safety of others, who meet their obligations with abounding courage: "Toodles," the spunky night operator; Royal Carlton, the big superintendent; Regan, the master-mechanic, and Tim O'Toole, the valorous Everyman. Superbly...

“Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all..." In Memoriam A.H.H. is a poem by the British poet Lord Alfred Tennyson, completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet's beloved Cambridge friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage...

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, (the companion volume to Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination), is an exquisite collection of prototypical works by the master, whose extravagantly macabre tales have inspired such latter-day disciples as H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. Poe is most...