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The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
epub |eng | 2014-04-04 | Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Part II Chapter I The Dream of Pride Lukerya has just announced that she can’t go on living here and that she is going away as soon as her lady ...
( Category: Russian March 8,2020 )
A Sportman's Sketches by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
epub |eng | 1852-11-15 | Author:Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev [Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich]

TATYANA BORISSOVNA AND HER NEPHEW Give me your hand, gentle reader, and come along with me. It is glorious weather; there is a tender blue in the May sky; the ...
( Category: Short Stories March 8,2020 )
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories by Ambrose Bierce
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Ambrose Bierce

AT OLD MAN ECKERT’S Philip Eckert lived for many years in an old, weather-stained wooden house about three miles from the little town of Marion, in Vermont. There must be ...
( Category: Ghosts March 8,2020 )
Herbert West by H.P. Lovecraft
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:H.P. Lovecraft [Lovecraft, H.P.]

IV. The Scream of the Dead The scream of a dead man gave to me that acute and added horror of Dr. Herbert West which harassed the latter years of ...
( Category: Occult March 8,2020 )
THE TRUTH OF MASKS by Oscar Wilde
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Oscar Wilde [Wilde, Oscar]

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined ...
( Category: Shakespeare March 8,2020 )
Bruce Holland Rogers by Wind Over Heaven
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Wind Over Heaven

The dinner rush had begun, and Gero had the makings for three white sauces started in three different pans. In a fourth saucepan was an inch or so of mud-colored ...
( Category: Short Stories March 8,2020 )
The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. Reeve
epub |eng | 2018-01-29 | Author:Arthur B. Reeve [Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)]

My next step was to drop into the office of a Spanish-America paper whose editor was especially well informed on South American affairs. “Do I know Mrs. Ralston?” he repeated, ...
( Category: Short Stories March 7,2020 )
Ross Macdonald by Tom Nolan
epub |eng | | Author:Tom Nolan

* * * * * * * * * February 16, 1966 Editor, News-Press: Ever since my service as a naval officer in far Pacific waters in the forties, I ...
( Category: Murder March 7,2020 )
The Outsider by Howard Phillips Lovecraft
epub |eng | 1926-03-15 | Author:Howard Phillips Lovecraft [Lovecraft, Howard Phillips]

( Category: Short Stories March 7,2020 )
Maid in Lace by R. Roe
epub |eng | 2017-07-06 | Author:R. Roe [Roe, R.]

Chapter 39 Xander I let out a sigh, watching my house in silence. Was it a clever idea to actually come back? Probably not but whatever. My phone buzzed in ...
( Category: Urban Life March 7,2020 )
THE ATTACK ON THE MILL by Emile Zola
epub |eng | 2013-12-04 | Author:Emile Zola [Zola, Emile]

— —”Father,” she said, “you are wanted.” And at last she wept, telling him what she had just heard. Old Merlier shook his head. You didn’t shoot people that way. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 7,2020 )
Uncle's Dream And The Permanent Husband by Fyodor Dostoevsky
epub |eng | 2016-03-17 | Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky [Dostoevsky, Fyodor]

CHAPTER III. The crape-man stood rooted to the spot dumb with astonishment. Both men stood opposite one another on the landing, and both stared in each other's eyes, silent and ...
( Category: Short Stories March 7,2020 )
To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts by Caitlin Hamilton Summie
epub |eng | | Author:Caitlin Hamilton Summie [Summie, Caitlin Hamilton]

6 SONS When I was eight, my father woke me in the middle of the night to watch a calf being born. I woke to the rolling, rich sound of ...
( Category: Short Stories March 6,2020 )
The Calvary Road by Roy Hession
epub |eng | 2017-04-12 | Author:Roy Hession [Hession, Roy]

7 The Speck and the Log There’s something in our friend’s eye! Though it is only something tiny—what Jesus called a speck—how painful it is and how helpless our friend ...
( Category: Spiritual Growth March 6,2020 )
Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Antonya Nelson

Happy Hour When she went to her lover’s house, she carried a little feather pillow she’d slept on for twenty years. It was small, so she could stuff it in ...
( Category: Short Stories March 5,2020 )

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