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| | Sir Edmund Orme
As a man pursues the affections of beautiful young girl, he begins to experience a strange phenomenon that up till that point only affected her mother. |
- Date Added: October 2002
- Length: 25 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Bowmen
In the heat of battle, with tens of thousands of Germans descending on the British trenches and all hope lost, a man prays to Saint George. |
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | A Ghost
A man is asked to collect some items from a house where the lover of an old acquaintance recently died. |
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | Fear
A man describes the most frightening night of his life. |
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Horla
Creeping paranoia becomes something altogether more sinister, but is it madness or has he discovered a plot that threatens humanity. |
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 27 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Inn
When one of the winter caretakers of an isolated mountain inn goes missing, loneliness beings to take its toll on the other. |
- Date Added: June 2001
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | What Was It?
A gentleman moves into a reputedly haunted apartment block. Initially amused by the idea, he soon has reason to take it seriously. |
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | Ligeia
The narrator describes what he remembers of his beautiful, intelligent wife, Ligeia. |
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | Manuscript Found in a Bottle
While on a voyage to a remote archipelago, the narrator is overcome by a premonition of evil. But the ship's captain pays no attention. |
- Date Added: August 1999
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Black Cat
An apparently gentle man becomes increasingly less so as he sinks deeper into an obsession with a mysterious black cat. |
- Date Added: January 2000
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Cask of Amontillado
A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar. |
- Date Added: May 1999
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Fall of the House of Usher
The original gothic tale of madness, death and the atmospheric possibilities of an old house. |
- Date Added: May 1999
- Length: 17 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Masque of the Red Death
As a hideous pestilence sweeps his lands, Prince Prospero seals himself in his castle and prepares a fabulous party. |
- Date Added: July 1999
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Oval Portrait
Seeking shelter for the night, a wounded man breaks into a bizarre, abandoned chateau decorated by an unusually large number of paintings. |
- Date Added: August 1999
- Length: 2 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Pit and the Pendulum
A first person account of a man's torture at the hands of The Spanish Inquisition. |
- Date Added: May 1999
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Premature Burial
A short history of and a personal tale concerning the phenomenon of being buried alive. |
- Date Added: October 2002
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Tell Tale Heart
So you think he's mad? Nervous? True! - but you should see how wisely he carries out his plan. |
- Date Added: May 1999
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Vampyre
A young man becomes involved with the mysterious, mirthless Lord Ruthven. |
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 14 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Cobweb
When Emma Ladbruk's husband inherits a farm, it comes with an old woman who soon starts to get in the way. |
- Date Added: October 2002
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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| | The Music on the Hill
A couple apparently run into some ancient forces when they make the move to the country. |
- Date Added: January 2000
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
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