Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | 1894-01-15 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

VIII George Gravener didn’t follow her, for late in September, after the House had risen, I met him in a railway carriage. He was coming up from Scotland and I ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1907-01-02 | Author:Zweig, Stefan [Zweig, Stefan]

Something else, however, happened at this time in Esther’s life, nothing in itself strange or unlikely, but it affected the depths of her being like a rising storm and left ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1877-12-17 | Author:James, Henry [James, Henry]

Chapter XV. Valentin de Bellegarde’s announcement of the secession of Mademoiselle Nioche from her father’s domicile, and his irreverent reflections upon the attitude of this anxious parent in so grave ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1954-01-01 | Author:Thompson, Jim [Thompson, Jim]

…She was in her nightgown. She was all prettied up like I hadn’t seen her since I don’t know when; and she wasn’t more than a dozen feet away. Standing ...
( Category: Mystery November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1907-11-01 | Author:Chesterton, G. K. [Chesterton, G. K.]

CHAPTER NINE THE MAN IN SPECTACLES “BURGUNDY IS A JOLLY THING,” SAID THE PROFESSOR SADLY, AS HE SET his glass down. “You don’t look as if it were,” said Syme; ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Rolt, L. T. C. [Rolt, L. T. C.]

World’s End I NEVER LIKE SHARING A ROOM with a stranger, but there are occasions when one must accept such a contingency with good grace. I was on a walking ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1843-01-15 | Author:Dickens, Charles [Dickens, Charles]

He was pretty certain as he slipped out quietly into the street that he should find it shut and locked, for he knew the door well, and had so rarely ...
( Category: Classics November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-16 | Author:Lansdale, Joe R. [Lansdale, Joe R.]

ISLAND “He’s really a very nice boy,” the father said, shifting in his chair, adding, “when he’s asleep.” The man behind the desk laughed. “Yes, we have a lot of ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 1915-01-02 | Author:Maugham, William Somerset [Maugham, William Somerset]

LXIV But about three in the morning Philip awoke and could not sleep again. He began to think of Mildred. He tried not to, but could not help himself. He ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2004-03-28 | Author:Hodgson, William Hope [Hodgson, William Hope]

The Haunted Jarvee SEEN ANYTHING OF CARNACKI lately?” I asked Arkright when we met in the City. “No,” he replied. “He’s probably off on one of his jaunts. We’ll be ...
( Category: Fantasy November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Barker, Clive [Barker, Clive]

13 Being in the fog had very little impression on Norma. The Hell Priest had done as she had asked him, and whatever protection he was using to seal himself ...
( Category: Genre Fiction November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1975-01-01 | Author:Highsmith, Patricia [Highsmith, Patricia]

The Day of Reckoning John took a taxi from the station, as his uncle had told him to do in case they weren’t there to meet him. It was less ...
( Category: Mystery November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:Oates, Joyce Carol [Oates, Joyce Carol]

Big Momma “Damn you, Violet—you are a shameless liar.” Her mother was disgusted with her, again. But how could her mother even guess that Violet hadn’t been telling the truth? ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1855-01-18 | Author:Bulfinch, Thomas [Bulfinch, Thomas]

Spenser introduces Sir Tristram in his Faery Queene. In Book VI., Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he thus describes:—“Him steadfastly he marked, and ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales November 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 1990-01-09 | Author:Tiptree Jr., James [Tiptree Jr., James]

A MOMENTARY TASTE OF BEING . . . A momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste— —KHAYYÁM/FITZGERALD IT FLOATS THERE visibly engorged, blue-green against the blackness. He ...
( Category: Science Fiction November 11,2018 )