Canon Alberic’s Scrap-Book
by M.R. James St Bertrand de Comminges is a decayed town on the spurs of…
An Episode of Cathedral History
by M.R. James There was once a learned gentleman who was deputed to examine and…
A Warning to the Curious
by M. R. James The place on the east coast which the reader is asked…
A School Story
by M.R. James Two men in a smoking-room were talking of their private-school days. ‘At…
A Ghost Story
By Mark Twain A Ghost Story, alternate title A Ghost’s Tale (1870), is Twain’s unique twist of…
WICKED CAPTAIN WALSHAWE OF WAULING
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu CHAPTER I. Peg O’Neill Pays the Captain’s Debts A very odd…
WHAT WAS IT?
Joseph Sheridan LeFanu IT is, I confess, with considerable diffidence that I approached the strange…
Ultor De Lacy: A Legend of Cappercullen
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu CHAPTER I The Jacobite’s Legacy In my youth I heard…
The White Cat of Drumgunniol,
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu There is a famous story of a white cat, with which…
THE WATCHER
By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu It is now more than fifty years since the occurrences…