61 min read stories

Back in the time of which I am speaking, due to our Coördinators had mandated us, we had all seen that educational video of "It's Yours to Do With What You...

Two friends are separated by a Snow Queen and an icy heart.

Often cited as the first detective story. The genre arrives pretty much fully formed: a brilliant detective, the bumbing police officer and

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

Morality tale based on an elderly uncle's promise of his fortune to a thrifty couple.

A classic satirical look at consumerism. On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt wakes up screaming.

A love story in two voices: Martin Green, an English teacher in China in the 1980s, and MingMing, his young Chinese 'minder'

A man and his daughter come accross an apparently mad, ill woman in a London park.

The story of the poor, downtrodden clerk Akaky - and his overcoat.

As a man pursues the affections of beautiful young girl, he begins to experience a strange phenomenon that up till that point only affected

A student rents an apartment that looks onto the meticulously kept garden of the strange Dr Rappaccini and his beautiful daughter.

A family with an unusual method of transporting large quantities of money cause problems for a young man holidaying in Italy.