The Apparition of Mrs. Veal
Account of a ghostly visitation said to have occurred in Canterbury in 1705.
Humpty Dumpty
One of the best-known English nursery rhymes, about an egg, and almost certainly intended as a riddle.
Roy of the Rovers
British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers.
Cheshire cat
Fictional character that appears in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
The Man in the Moone
Book by the English divine and Church of England bishop Francis Godwin (1562–1633), describing a “voyage of utopian discovery”.
The Coral Island
Novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. one of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes.
A Christmas Carol
Novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech.
Athenodoros and the ghost
Athenenodorus (c. 74 BCE – 7 AD) was a Stoic philosopher and the subject of the first recorded ghost story.
The Princess and the Pea
Fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her physical sensitivity.
Galehaut
Perhaps the most overlooked of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table, who makes his appearance in the series of anonymous 13th-century French romances known as the Lancelot-Grail, or the Vulgate Cycle, in which he is portrayed as a rival to Queen Guinevere for the love of Sir Lancelot.