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| | The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
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 | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe
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 | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | Hobnail by Crystal Arbogast
Scary bedtime story about a mother and daughter's night-time journey home. |
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 5 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
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 | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The Return by Fernando Sorrentino
A man is the only witness to an accidental killing and the bizarre series of events that follow. |
- Date Added: February 2001
- Length: 6 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - view comments - mark for later |
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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. |
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 7 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - mark for later |
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| | The Night Doings At 'Deadman's' by Ambrose Bierce
Holed up in an isolated mountain shanty, the emaciated Mr. Hiram Beeson receives a visit from a dark stranger. |
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
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 | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
A man's mother is brutally murdered but, except for the finger marks around her neck, no trace of the killer can be found. |
- Date Added: October 2001
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - view comments - mark for later |
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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. |
- Date Added: October 2002
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
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 | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The Haunted Valley by Ambrose Bierce
A man uncovers the dark secret of a mysterious valley owned by a xenophobic drunkard. |
- Date Added: December 2001
- Length: 11 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle
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 | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
Intended as a short companion for Stoker's 'Dracula' we join the narrator as he begins a coach trip on the mysterious 'Walpurgis' night. |
- Date Added: March 2001
- Length: 13 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The Japanned Box by Arthur Conan Doyle
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 | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | No. 1 Branch Line: The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens
A frightened railway signal-man is plagued by premonitions of distasters. |
- Date Added: September 2001
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
Markeim arrives at an antique dealer's on Christmas day, ostensibly to buy a present for a lady. A tale of evil and its nature. |
- Date Added: July 2000
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | The One That Got Away by Denny Johnson
A journalist tracks down the man who escaped being the twelfth victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Contains adult material. |
- Date Added: January 2001
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 18 | - view comments - mark for later |
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| | Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
The narrator describes what he remembers of his beautiful, intelligent wife, Ligeia. |
- Date Added: April 2010
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: PG | - mark for later |
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| | The Brass Teapot by Tim Macy
When Alice and John buy an antique teapot they get more than they bargained for. |
- Date Added: October 2006
- Length: 16 pages
- Age Rating: 15 | - view comments - mark for later |
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