The Damned Thing (1893)
Author: Ambrose Bierce I By THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written in a book. It was an old account book, greatly worn; and…
Category The Crypt
Ancient Lights (1912)
Author: Algernon Blackwood From Southwater, where he left the train, the road led due west. That he knew; for the rest he trusted to luck, being one of those born walkers who dislike asking the way. He had that instinct,…
The Monkey’s paw (1902)
by W. W. Jacobs I WITHOUT, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas…
