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  April 2010
Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
The narrator describes what he remembers of his beautiful, intelligent wife, Ligeia.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Woman at Seven Brothers by Wilber Daniel Steele
An assistant lighthouse keeper arrives at his first appointment - on an island with the lighthouse keeper and his strange young wife.
- Length: 22 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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What Was It? by Fitz James O'Brien
A gentleman moves into a reputedly haunted apartment block. Initially amused by the idea, he soon has reason to take it seriously.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers
On the rugged Brittany coast, thirty-eight skulls are found buried.
- Length: 49 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev
When Lazarus comes back from the grave, something's not quite right.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:3 stars
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The Beast With Five Fingers by W. F. Harvey
Just before his death, Adrian Borlsover develops the power of automatic writing, which creates some unexpected issues for one of his heirs.
- Length: 28 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Shell of Sense by Olivia Howard Dunbar
There is a presence in Theresa's room, watching her ...
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne
While summering in the country, a New Yorker comes across an apparently abandoned farm house.
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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The Shadows On The Wall by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Following the sudden death of their brother Edward, Caroline, Rebecca Ann and Henry are left in the family home.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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Fear by Guy de Maupassant
A man describes the most frightening night of his life.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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A Ghost by Guy de Maupassant
A man is asked to collect some items from a house where the lover of an old acquaintance recently died.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:3 stars
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The Bowmen by Arthur Machen
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.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:2 stars
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The Mass Of Shadows by Anatol France
A man who is familiar with the behavior of ghosts tells the story of a woman who comes across a spectral church service.
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:2 stars
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  March 2010
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
While on a canoe trip down the Danube River, two friends encounter some mysterious, hostile entities.
- Length: 51 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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  October 2009
Habits of the Artichoke by Fernando Sorrentino
A tutor is given an artichoke plant and soon learns that taking care of it is not going to be easy.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:3 stars
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  December 2007
Starving Makes It Fat by Kay Sexton
Size isn’t everything, but it can mean life or death when Matthew and Liz come to town.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: 18
- Rating:4 stars
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  October 2006
The Brass Teapot by Tim Macy
When Alice and John buy an antique teapot they get more than they bargained for.
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 15
- Rating:5 stars
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  October 2002
The Bell In The Fog by Gertrude Atherton
A writer becomes obsessed with a portrait of a young girl.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton
After his life-long friend goes missing near the legendary river Strid, Weigall sets out to look for him.
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:4 stars
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The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs
An unsually wet ghost soaks the master of Harrowby Hall every Christmas eve.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
- Rating:5 stars
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