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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
3 Stars
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At night, in the autumn of 1861, a brave but sensitive Federal officer sits alone in the heart of a forest in western Virginia.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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Mary Boyne and her husband, requiring a country home in England after a business windfall, acquire a reputedly haunted house.
- Length: 32 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A man explains to his doctor how he came to believe in ghosts.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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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
5 Stars
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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
4 Stars
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A writer becomes obsessed with a portrait of a young girl.
- Length: 24 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A student doctor becomes suspicious of the methods being used to supply dead bodies for his professor's dissection table.
- Length: 19 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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An apparently gentle man becomes increasingly less so as he sinks deeper into an obsession with a mysterious black cat.
- Length: 10 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A visit on an old school friend finds a man plagued both by bad health and a gentle tapping from beyond his wall.....
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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by Saki
When Emma Ladbruk's husband inherits a farm, it comes with an old woman who soon starts to get in the way.
- Length: 4 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.
- Length: 12 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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A man takes his enemy to taste a rare wine - which he happens to keep at the far end of a vast, damp cellar.
- Length: 8 pages
- Age Rating: PG
5 Stars
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What do an horrific dream and the name 'Catharine Larue' have to do with a man found dead in the hills around the Nappa Valley?
- Length: 15 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars
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A man is called to give evidence at the coroner's inquiry into the violent death of a hunter.
- Length: 9 pages
- Age Rating: PG
4 Stars