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José Maria de Eça de Queirós - Our Lady of the Pillar

A ghost story and love story all at once, set in medieval portugal. Don Ruy is in love with Dona Leonor, but her husband has guessed his feelings and hatches a plan. Don Ruy rides right into a trap, but on the way, a...

Leni 1 hour 23 minutes

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Edgar Allan Poe - Conqueror Worm

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of...

Antonio Soto Patiño and 10 more 27 minutes

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Henry James - Way It Came

Best known under the title «The Friends Of The Friends» and chosen under that title for his classic fantasy anthology «Black Water» by Alberto Manguel as one of the best ghost stories ever written, this «ghost» story...

Tony Addison 1 hour 29 minutes

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W. F. Harvey - Beast With Five Fingers

A well off English bachelor receives a legacy from his uncle. This includes the uncle's very large library and a box containing something that used to belong to his uncle. The box has air holes in it. It is not a rat...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 8 minutes

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Algernon Blackwood - Man Who Found Out (A Nightmare)

A researcher goes on an expedition to find «The Tablets of the Gods» which have plagued his dreams since his boyhood. He finds them, and the horrible truth of humanity's true purpose in the universe. This story, The...

Phil Chenevert 45 minutes

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Washington Irving - Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Version 2)

«The Legend of Sleepy Hollow» is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, England, and first published in...

Bob Neufeld 1 hour 21 minutes

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Henry James - Last of the Valerii

An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prince Marco Valerio. The young bride is eager to use some of her American...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 15 minutes

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Henry James - Sir Edmund Orme

Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories — The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of his contemporaries? It's generally possible to find earthly interpretations,...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 8 minutes

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Lloyd Eshbach - Gray Plague

End of the world sci-fi tale borrows heavily from H.G. Wells' WOTW and In The Days of the Comet — looks like fun! ( Summary by BellonaTimes )

Bellona Times 1 hour 22 minutes

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Luigi Capuana - Vampire

A suspenseful vampire tale. Translated from the original Italian text by Erin O'Rourke. (Summary by Erin O'Rourke)

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Jerome K. Jerome - Told after Supper

It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of whisky punch and telling ghost stories until bedtime, when... But...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 17 minutes

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Théophile Gautier - Clarimonde (or La Morte Amoreuse)

This is the story of a priest named Romauld, and his all-consuming love for the beautiful courtesan, Clarimonde. (Summary by Joy Chan)

Joy Chan 1 hour 23 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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