Classic and Contemporary Stories
We had dined at sunset on the broad roof of the old tower, because it was cooler there during the great heat of summer. Besides, the little kitchen was built at one corner of the great square
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A wealthy American couple buys an old English manor rumored to be haunted, but they’re told they won’t realize it’s haunted until “afterward.”
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Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquar tulum fore levatas.—Ebn Zaiat.
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow,
Continue readingThe Judge’s House by Bram Stoker When the time for his examination drew near Malcolm Malcolmson made up his mind
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The Phantom ‘Rickshaw THE PHANTOM ‘RICKSHAW May no ill dreams disturb my rest, Nor Powers of Darkness me molest. —Evening
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“My Own True Ghost Story” is a short story by Rudyard Kipling that blends elements of humor, suspense, and the supernatural. The story is narrated
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‘My toast is too dry; it’s scratching my lips, Daddy!’
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He woke up in a white room. It was white for only a second before he felt something brush against his legs, blinked, and beheld
Continue readingLet me call myself, for the present, William Wilson. The fair page now lying before me need not be sullied with my real appellation. This has been already
Continue readingEvery night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham—the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself.
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