Download or read book Willing to Die, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint) written by J. Sheridan le Fanu and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Willing to Die, Vol. 1 of 3 It was evening now, with a stormy, red sky in the west. Rebecca and we two children were seated round the table, sip ping our tea, eating hot cake, and listening to her oft-told tale, entitled the Knight of the Black Castle. This knight, habited in black, lived in his black castle, in the centre of a dark wood, and being a giant, and an ogre, and something of a magician besides, he used to ride out at nightfall with a couple of great black bags, to stow his prey in, at his saddle bow, for the purpose of visiting such houses as had their nurseries well-stocked with children. His tall black horse, when he dismounted, waited at the hall-door, which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.