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'Please, speak softly, we might be overheard,'Two college friends run into each other in Paris and one tells the other of a mysterious woman he’s been seeing. She sets appointments ...

The famous Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, served as the major influence for this collection of essays and sketches by Washington Irving. Blending history, myth, and natural des ...

There are graves that should have never been opened... The narrator and his friend learn this only after they have robbed several graves and started an exhibition on the artifacts ...

More than 10 000 years ago something terrible happened in the land of Mnar. Shepherd people built a new city called Sarnath. But the land they took to themselves was not uninhabite ...

"The total number of legs belonging to the manufacturing population of one great town in Yorkshire was, in round numbers, forty thousand, while the total number of chair and stool ...

"Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed."Hughie, a charming young man with no money, wants to marry a girl named Laura. But Laura’s father is co ...

The narrator has gone out to a garden in the middle of the night. But the garden, under the light of the moon, doesn’t seem like a usual garden. Everything seems a little weird and ...

When Harry Houdini travels all the way to Egypt, he doesn’t know yet that this trip will take him to one of his greatest – and most terrifying – adventures. During the trip he is k ...

Kalos and Musides are two Greek sculptors who are asked to sculpt statues for a competition. But while they are preparing their statues, something terrible happens – Kalos becomes ...

When captain James P. Orne and his crew kill a strange and enormous animal in the sea, they are confused. They have never seen anything like this before – the animal looks like a g ...

It is the time to celebrate Yuletide – a festival that ancient Germanic people celebrated during the darkest times of the year. A man returns to his home town to share this special ...

"Minerva House ... was ‘a finishing establishment for young ladies,’ where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything an ...

"He is a regular dare-devil, you know: a gambler, a duellist, a seducer, but a jewel of an hussar - a real jewel."A handsome young hussar rides through a small town, seduces a youn ...

"Everybody knows it's our business to score. You don't get a chance to get a bite of any thing, and you don't get to bed till two o'clock o' nights, but you're always being screame ...

'An Editor's Tales' describes a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tale ...

"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself. Ambrose Bierce ( ...

Tilitoimiston pikkujoulut muuttuvat selittämättömästi orgioiksi. Osallistujat käyvät läpi, mikä kimpassa oikein meni pieleen. Ihmiskauppaa harjoittava yritys selvittää eettisiä per ...

Kun kirjailija päättää jättää tyttöystävänsä halveksuttavalla tavalla, tyttöystävä järjestää koston. Koston, joka vetäisi maton alta jokaiselta kirjailijalta. Toisaalla rikosjurist ...

Moni Lontoon seurapiireissä tiesi, että kirurgi Douglas Stone tapaili lady Sannoxia, varattua naista. Suhde ei olisi luultavasti muuten herättänyt sen enempää kiinnostusta, jollei ...

Ljudmila Ulitskajan uusi kertomuskokoelma koostuu kahdesta sikermästä. Runokavalkadilla alkava Ystävättäriä-osasto tutkii sitä, miten ihminen valitsee tietyn elämäntien ja omat usk ...

Ibland tar ensamheten över och längtan blir för stark. I sådana stunder kan man råka hamna i situationer man egentligen borde undvika. Relationer som är dödsdömda redan från början ...

Sonja hade inte räknat med ett vittne till olyckan. Det där som utspelade sig på Skansen, mellan Lasse och den stackars galna isbjörnen, det vill hon helst att alla ska glömma. Men ...

Ett kärleksprojekt. En storm, en viskning och ett skrik: Alla har gett allt och lite till. Om man heter Barbro Lindgren, Bob Hansson, Sara Schwardt, Suzanne Osten eller Zara Ragnva ...

En spelskuld, en begravning och ett knapphändigt arv. Det är tuffa tider för Arne när det plötsligt dyker upp en man som utger sig för att vara hans halvbror. Kan det verkligen var ...