Category The Crypt

The Boarded Window

By Ambrose Bierce Originally published in The San Francisco Examiner 1891 In 1830, only a few miles away from what is now the great city of Cincinnati, lay an immense and almost unbroken forest. The whole region was sparsely settled…

The Magic Shop (1903)

By H.G. Wells I had seen the Magic Shop from afar several times; I had passed it once or twice, a shop window of alluring little objects, magic balls, magic hens, wonderful cones, ventriloquist dolls, the material of the basket…

The Squaw (1893)

By Bram Stoker Nurnberg at the time was not so much exploited as it has been since then. Irving had not been playing Faust, and the very name of the old town was hardly known to the great bulk of the…

The Sea Raiders (1896)

By H.G. Wells I. Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle obtained near the Azores, and a decaying body pecked by birds and nibbled by…

The Key to Grief (1897)

By Robert W. Chambers The moving finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. Fitzgerald

The Moth (1895)

By H.G. Wells Probably you have heard of Hapley–not W. T. Hapley, the son, but the celebrated Hapley, the Hapley of _Periplaneta Hapliia_, Hapley the entomologist. If so you know at least of the great feud between Hapley and Professor…