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Champneys Carter had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure. Dolly Ingram fell deeply in love with Champneys Carter and he with her, but Carter left him without speaking, and Dolly...

Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, a venerable structure was crowned by a triangular roof, and a painting represented a cat playing rackets. The young man had his peculiarities, including white...

A boy is influenced by his father's unusual explanations.

Certain houses manage to proclaim at once their character for evil. Shorthouse agreed to go to visit his Aunt Julia. A few minutes later they stopped before a tall, narrow house that rose before...

The last place I locked wheels with Mike Butters was in Idaho, and we bedded down a savage Injun in Mike's dental stable. I pedaled a sewing machine while Mike dug into that Injun's hangin' wall...

A man is told by a palm reader that he will commit a murder. A satirical crime story that cleverly reverses the conventions of the genre.

William's lapse into ingratedom began when he brought me oysters, and I was taken aback by his manner. A girl saw William and nodded three times to him, and William's face grew white as a...

King Francis was taken to Madrid by Emperor Charles V and kept there until Queen Marguerite was sent to him. Adrian VI found himself harder pressed by unsatisfied desire than he had ever been...

A Princess is turned into a monkey called Babiole by a wicked fairy's spell.

Bachmann sat on a bench in the shade that smelled sickly with blossom and watched as the sergeant took command and the little company moved forward. Bachmann mounted the small, quick-hurrying tram...

What do an horrific dream and the name 'Catharine Larue' have to do with a man found dead in the hills around the Nappa Valley?

Life's road recedes in our rearview mirror. Backward glance, but can't reverse.