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Heart of darkness
The story opens with an unnamed narrator on board the Nellie, a cruising yawl (boat) anchored in the Thames Estuary downstream from London and near Gravesend. He is with four …
The star-child
Once upon a time two poor Woodcutters were making their way home through a great pine-forest. It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. The snow lay thick upon the ground, and …
The mystery of Marie Rogêt
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story written in 1842. It's known as the first murder …
The murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" was published in Graham's Magazine in 1841 and has been recognized as the worlds first detective story.
The sealed room
"A solicitor of an active habit and athletic tastes who is compelled by his hopes of business to remain within the four walls of his office from ten till five must take what …
The end of the tether
"For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt …
The fall of the house of Usher
"The Fall of the House of Usher" was first published in September 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his …
The grave by the handpost
"It was on a dark, yet mild and exceptionally dry evening at Christmas-time (according to the testimony of William Dewy of Mellstock, Michael Mail, and others), that the choir of …
The Bloomsbury christening
"Mr. Nicodemus Dumps, or, as his acquaintance called him, 'long Dumps,' was a bachelor, six feet high, and fifty years old: cross, cadaverous, odd, and ill-natured. He was never …
The body snatcher
The short story The Body Snatcher was first published in the Pall Mall Christmas "Extra", December 1884. The story is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the …
The baron of Grogzwig
"The Baron Von Koëldwethout, of Grogzwig in Germany, was as likely a young baron as you would wish to see. I needn't say that he lived in a castle, because that's of course; …
Svarte krefter
Cassie Winslow er seksten år. Hun har nettopp mistet moren sin i en forferdelig ulykke. Nå, ensom og redd, har hun kommet for å bo hos faren hun knapt kjenner og hans nye familie i …