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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 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 adventure of the mazarin stone
Watson arrives at 221B Baker Street to find Holmes in bed at seven in the evening while Billy the page explains that Holmes has been hot on the trail of a missing jewel, a Crown …
The haunted house
"Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the …
A tryst at an ancient earthwork
"At one’s every step forward it rises higher against the south sky, with an obtrusive personality that compels the senses to regard it and consider. The eyes may bend in another …
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 waiting supper
"Whoever had perceived the yeoman standing on Squire Everard's lawn in the dusk of that October evening fifty years ago, might have said at first sight that he was loitering there …
A mere interlude
"The traveller in school-books, who vouched in dryest tones for the fidelity to fact of the following narrative, used to add a ring of truth to it by opening with a nicety of …