Rothschild’s Fiddle
The town was a little one, worse than a village, and it was inhabited by scarcely any but old people who died with an infrequency…
Literature
Mesmeric Revelation
Whatever doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of this latter, those who doubt are your…
The Horror in Clay
The Horror in Clay by H. P. Lovecraft The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to…
The Tale of Inspector Legrasse
The Tale of Inspector Legrasse by H. P. Lovecraft The older matters which had made the sculptor’s vision and bas-relief so significant to my uncle…
On Official Duty
The deputy examining magistrate and the district doctor were going to an inquest in the village of Syrnya. On the road they were overtaken by…
The Madness from the Sea
The Madness from the Sea by H. P. Lovecraft If heaven ever wishes to grant me a boon, it will be a total effacing of…
The Inmost Light
I One evening in autumn, when the deformities of London were veiled in faint blue mist, and its vistas and far-reaching streets seemed splendid, Mr.…
The Lazy Princess
The Lazy Princess (A Tale From Ireland) Once a poor woman had a beautiful daughter, but the girl was as lazy as the day is…
The Game by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Game by Mary Roberts Rinehart I The Red Un was very red; even his freckles were red rather than copper-colored. And he was more…
Old Age
Uzelkov, an architect with the rank of civil councilor, arrived in his native town, to which he had been invited to restore the church in…
Not Wanted
Between six and seven o’clock on a July evening, a crowd of summer visitors mostly fathers of families burdened with parcels, portfolios, and ladies’ hat-boxes,…
In The Year 2889
Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this twenty-ninth century live continually in fairyland. Surfeited as they are with marvels, they…
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