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  C
  Chambers, Robert W.
The Repairer Of Reputations
A former mental patient and a deformed eccentric conspire in a fantastic plot.
- Date Added: October 2002
- Length: 33 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Yellow Sign
An artist and his model are disturbed by the appearence of a pale-faced man in the graveyard below their studio window.
- Date Added: October 2002
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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  Collins, Wilkie
Mrs. Zant and the Ghost
A man and his daughter come accross an apparently mad, ill woman in a London park.
- Date Added: October 2001
- Length: 38 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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  D
  Dickens, Charles
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man
A frightened railway signal-man is plagued by premonitions of distasters.
- Date Added: September 2001
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Haunted House
A gentleman moves into a reputedly haunted country house; soon the servants are scared witless but the master is not convinced. Plays with different attitudes to paranormal activity.
- Date Added: September 2001
- Length: 28 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Trial For Murder
A banker is disturbed by visions of a murdered man and his killer. Then he is called for jury duty.
- Date Added: September 2001
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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  Doyle, Arthur Conan
The Case of Lady Sannox
A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.
- Date Added: February 2000
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Japanned Box
While in the service of a widower with a dark past, a young tutor begins to wonder about his master's regular visits to a room nobody else is allowed to enter.
- Date Added: February 2000
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Leather Funnel
Spending a night in the library of an old friend and scholar of the black arts, the narrator becomes curious about the object in question.
- Date Added: January 2000
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The New Catacomb
In this homage to Poe, two rival scholars are brought together when one discovers an important early Christian burial ground.
- Date Added: February 2000
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Terror of Blue John Gap
A scientific city-man encounters the legend of a terrifying monster when he retires to Derbyshire.
- Date Added: February 2000
- Length: 18 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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  Dunbar, Olivia Howard
The Shell of Sense
There is a presence in Theresa's room, watching her ...
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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  E
  Edwards, Amelia
The Phantom Coach
A man becomes lost on a moor in heavy snow and is rescued by a strange, reclusive academic.
- Date Added: October 2002
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:1 stars
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  F
  France, Anatol
The Mass Of Shadows
A man who is familiar with the behavior of ghosts tells the story of a woman who comes across a spectral church service.
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:2 stars
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  Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
The Lost Ghost
Late one night a little girl appears at a woman's door: "I can't find my mother".
- Date Added: October 2001
- Length: 21 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Shadows On The Wall
Following the sudden death of their brother Edward, Caroline, Rebecca Ann and Henry are left in the family home.
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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  G
  Gallienne, Richard Le
The Haunted Orchard
While summering in the country, a New Yorker comes across an apparently abandoned farm house.
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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  H
  Harvey, W. F.
The Beast With Five Fingers
Just before his death, Adrian Borlsover develops the power of automatic writing, which creates some unexpected issues for one of his heirs.
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 28 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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  Hawthorne, Julian
Ken's Mystery
An artist returns from Europe a changed man after a frightening experience involving a mysterious woman and a rotting banjo.
- Date Added: October 2002
- Length: 23 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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  Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Young Goodman Brown
Goodman Brown keeps a midnight appointment in the woods near Salem Village.
- Date Added: July 1999
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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