Once upon a scorching summer day, a clever and thirsty crow found itself flying across the arid landscape in search…
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He was dead–the head of a high tribunal, the upright magistrate whose irreproachable life was a proverb in all the…
Pitcher, confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild interest and surprise to visit…
It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this…
“Rip Van Winkle” is a short story written by Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It is one of Irving’s…
About three miles from the little town of Norton, in Missouri, on the road leading to Maysville, stands an old…
It was the design of Angelo Ricci and Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva to call on the Terrible Old Man.…
ONE fine evening, a no less fine government clerk called Ivan Dmitritch Tchervyakov was sitting in the second row of…
The Story of the Great Weep It was in the second decade of the Twentieth Century, after the Great Plague…
Long, long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged, widowed mother. They…