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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...

Jim Shorthouse's private secretaryship was never clear to me. Mr. Jonas B. Sidebotham watched him narrowly and struck a match. The two men talked in low voices for another hour, and then the silent...

Tonomoli, a young warrior, joins a council to fight Osmadaan's invasion, facing battles and alliances in a fantasy world.

Two gentlemen tried to lift the man up, but a constable entered and took him by the other arm. The manager brought the constable to inspect the scene of the accident. Mr Kernan tasted tea and was...

Life's roughest jokes don't have punch-lines.

Jim Shorthouse was stranded high and dry in a large American city, and he went to find living quarters. One night he came home tired after a long day's work, and heard someone unlock his door and...

A woman was looking at Chikwado. She went to night-vigil services often with the theme Finding Your God-Given Mate. Yewande was courtly, had a glowing ego, and did things for people. He gave them...

Dick Boyle approached the waiting stage coach, but the young lady was already walking towards it. Miss Julia Cantire was getting down from the coach, and Dick Boyle quietly slipped from the back to...

Matt first met Rourke when he was laying the foundation for a small dynamo in the engine-room of the repair shop at Spike. Rourke was the foreman-mason for minor tasks for all that part of the...

Mary Boyne and her husband, requiring a country home in England after a business windfall, acquire a reputedly haunted house.

This time he is a race car driver who struggles with recurrent sing-song strings of rhyming words that run through his mind. He can't access the mythology of race car drivers in television shows.

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