Fear
We went up on deck after dinner. Before us the Mediterranean lay without a ripple…
Ghosts
Just at the time when the Concordat was in its most flourishing condition, a young…
ONE OF THE THIRTY PIECES.
I. GRUYÈRE’S. In the spring of the year 1870 the premium on gold had fallen…
My Wife’s Tempter
Fitz James O’Brien I A PREDESTINED MARRIAGE Elsie and I were to be married in…
The Golden Ingot
Fitzjames O’Brien I had just retired to rest, with my eyes almost blind with the…
THE DIAMOND LENS
By Fitz-James O’brien I FROM a very early period of my life the entire bent…
The Oblong Box
Edgar Allan Poe Some years ago, I engaged passage from Charleston, S. C, to the…
THE ANIMUS FURANDI
Melville Davisson Post I. IAM tired of your devilish hints, why can’t you come out…
THE SHERIFF OF GULLMORE
Melville Davisson Post I. IT is hard luck, Colonel,” said the broker, “but you are…
THE MEN OF THE JIMMY
Melville Davisson Post I. PARKS,” said Randolph Mason, “has Leslie Wilder a country place on…